Happy 90th Birthday Mom! And a Free EBook in Your Honor

I'm getting ready for a BIG party on Saturday - my mom's 90th birthday celebration! All birthdays are reasons to celebrate, but reaching 90? Becoming a nonagenarian? Now that's something special, isn't it? Everyone is super-excited, but no one more than Mom, because she never dreamed she'd live this long. We are all blessed.

Here's Mom and me playing our favorite game.

To share this special day with my readers, I'm offering a free Kindle copy of my latest release Birthday Party, 2nd in my Daisy Hunter Series. 

Blurb: It's Suzanne's 13th birthday, and Daisy is shocked and saddened to learn that she's never had a birthday party. So she sets out to give her one, complete with a cake, ice cream, soda, and balloons. But when Suzanne's mother shows up, the party's over. A poignant coming of age story where good will and alcoholism collide.

Fantastic Young Adult Fiction Giveaway! Build that Summer TBR List

5 Lucky Winners Will Each Receive a $10 Gift Card!

For me, summer is all about reading: at the beach, in the pool, laid out in a hammock in my backyard. Of course, this requires lots of books. YA is one of my favorite genres, so I'm happy to offer you 30+ FREE titles for your e-reader along with a cool raffle to get your summer reading started.

You're going to love these FREE ebooks, so please enter our raffle so you get even more books from these great authors. 5 winners will each receive a $10 gift card from Amazon, iTunes, or Barnes & Noble.

Enter now!

 Good luck. I hope you win! 

What about you? Where do you like to read?

Sweep Me Away with Sweet Contemporary Romance Giveaway and Raffle!

I recently discovered something called subscriber magnets from My Book Cave and thought I'd give them a try. This is way for me to partner with other authors to share our books and find new readers. The bonus for readers is discovering new authors and books and a chance to win some great prizes.
This week's promotion, Sweep Me Away with Sweet Contemporary Romance, offers several great reads in a variety of romance genres. Some are samplings while others are free ebooks in their entirety. I added a sample of Blue Hydrangeas to the mix because so many people tell me it's  a true love story. 


One lucky reader will win a $50 gift card from our Amazon, iTunes, or Barnes and Noble raffle. To  enter the raffle and discover new books for your summer reading, follow this link.

Happy Reading!

Cozy Up to Reading! Clean Indie Reads Mid-Winter Sale

Here's the sale!

Looks like our extended autumn is over as winter roared into the Hudson Valley this past weekend, dropping loads of snow and wreaking its normal havoc. We were lucky - less than three inches covered our lawn, but others in my area had more than a foot, and New York City almost broke a record at 26.8 inches. Travel on city streets was banned on Saturday into Sunday and people were urged to stay in. I have no problem with that: a snow day is a perfect day to stay in and read. 

To prepare for the next storm take a look at the titles in Clean Indie Reads Cozy Up to Reading mid-winter book sale. CIR is the home of "flinch-free fiction," which means free of offensive language, graphic violence or gore, and erotica or sexually explicit scenes. It is the best ever data base for clean books written by independent authors.

You'll find a variety of genres including children's, YA, historical, humor, inspirational, mystery, suspense, legal thrillers, paranormal, fantasy, science fiction and romance. Some are free, others are discounted. Sale ends January 30th.

This is a great way to use up that Amazon gift card or fill your new Kindle. Happy reading!

 Clean Indie Reads "Cozy Up to Winter" book sale

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Blue Hydrangeas, an Alzheimer's love story.  
Value 2.99. Rated 4.7 stars on Amazon, 136 reviews.

New Release Spotlight: Judy Nickles' "Lethal Legacy in Dreamland," The Dreamland Series

Book 1 of The Dreamland Series: Lethal Legacy in Dreamland

FREE through Friday at Amazon!

What’s the ghost of Al Capone doing in Dreamland, Arkansas? Trixie’s willing to live and let live, but he doesn’t seem to be so tolerant! 

Trixie Blake barely remembers her small hometown or the grandfather who left her  the Quimby Building on the antiquated town square. Newly-widowed and at loose ends, she treks to Dreamland to look for a fresh start. It takes less than twenty-four hours to discover she’s in the path of a shadowy development company’s plans to take over all of Dreamland’s historic downtown. That is, if they can persuade the three hold-outs to sell and move on. When Trixie decides to become hold-out number four, her already precarious situation deteriorates rapidly.

She finds an odd assortment of allies: the Drummond sisters, two feisty senior citizens  who run the Sunshine Style Shoppe on the first floor of Trixie’s building;  Rudy James, a former high school classmate (now the proprietor of the Twilight Bar and Grill); Glen Ellard, the long-time mayor who owns the town’s only hardware store; Hetty Green, a retired teacher who keeps her fingers on the pulse of the town; Danny Jefferson, who doesn’t let his Down Syndrome define him; Mitch Langley, whose connection  to the development company is too close for comfort; and Candace King, self-appointed head of the Dreamland Historic Association, who knows the town’s dark secrets.

On top of everything else, Trixie’s great-grandfather’s buddy Al Capone seems to be still in residence on the Quimby Building’s second floor. Does he also get out and about to vandalize Trixie’s hotel room, slash her tires, and make threatening phone calls? And why does Police Chief Doug Everton want Trixie out of town sooner than later?

Has Al met his match in Trixie Blake, or is he just a bystander in a seedier plot?

Find Lethal Legacy in Dreamland at Amazon.

Follow Trixie’s saga with Desperate Deception in Dreamland and Ghostly Gambit in Dreamland.

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June is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month! Goodreads Giveaway: One Paperback of Blue Hydrangeas, an Alzheimer's Love Story

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Blue Hydrangeas

by Marianne Sciucco

Giveaway ends June 30, 2015.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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"Read it twice just to make sure I didn't miss anything." - Amazon reader

What if the person who knew you best and loved you most forgot your face, and couldn't remember your

name?  

A nursing facility is everyone's solution for what to do about Sara, but her husband, Jack, can't bear to live without her. He is committed to saving his marriage, his wife, and their life together from the devastation of Alzheimer's disease. He and Sara retired years ago to the house of their dreams, and operated it as a Cape Cod bed and breakfast named Blue Hydrangeas.  

Jack has made an impossible promise: He and Sara will stay together in their beautiful home no matter what the disease brings. However, after nine years of selfless caregiving, complicated by her progressing Alzheimer's and his own failing heart, he finally admits he can no longer care for her at home.  

With reluctance, he arranges to admit her to an assisted living facility. But, on the day of admission, Sara is having one of her few good days, and he is unable to follow through. Instead, he takes them on an impulsive journey to confront their past and reclaim their future. In the end, he realizes that staying together at any cost is what truly matters.

A Library Journal Self-e Selection

IndieReader Approved

IndieRecon Best Indie Novel, 2014

5-Star Reader's Favorite

Kindle Bestseller

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Clean Indie Reads March Madness Blog Hop, Sale & Giveaway - Find Your Next "Flinch Free" Read

Have you ever skipped over the parts of a book with too many graphic details about a violent act or bloody scene? Do you pass over paragraphs or pages that go beyond the bedroom door in a way that makes you uncomfortable? Do you cringe when you come upon excessive and pointless foul language in a story? I do, and too often. Sometimes in these days of "anything goes," I need to take a break from all the oversexed, obscenely violent, and filthy language that permeates popular culture, including  books. This is not always easy because the powers that be at the helms of pop culture think this is what everyone wants.  Well, not everyone, which is why I was thrilled to discover Clean Indie Reads, the home of "flinch-free fiction," and joined them not only as a reader but as an author.

Clean Indie Reads is a group of indie authors writing fiction that's clean, meaning  without gratuitous sex, violence or profanity. Home to more than 2000 (!) authors, CIR offers titles in just about every genre from children's books, to YA, new adult, romance, mystery, you name it. We not only help each other market and promote our work but also support one another through the writing process, publication, and sometimes personal difficulties. We also share our members' news and accomplishments on our website, Facebook page, and on Twitter using the hashtag #CR4U. This is a tight group, but open to others who'd like to join us. Readers are always welcome. Here's the link.

  

Over the next five days, we’re hosting a March Madness Blog Hop, Giveaway, and Sale. Please take a moment to visit our authors on the blog hop to find out what we're all about, then browse through our free and discounted titles on our sale page to try out a clean indie read. I guarantee you'll connect with someone offering just the book you need right now. 

But before you go, be sure to get in on our "Year of Reading Giveaway." Forty authors have contributed books to create an awesome year of reading for one lucky reader! All you need to do is visit as many of the blogs in the giveaway as you can by March 20th.  The books offered in the Grand Prize can be seen in the slide show on the right side of this page. Be sure to fill out the secure Google form at each blog you visit - each time you do, you'll earn another entry! And you can start right here! Good luck! And happy reading!

March Madness Book Bundle Grand Prize!