Showing posts with label Maryland Renaissance Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maryland Renaissance Festival. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Aloha to Katrina Snow and FORBIDDEN - Book Review

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Off-limits has never been so irresistible ...


Lady Katherine Durant has perfected the art of hiding her Gifts—a valuable skill in a land where any hint of sorcery could lead to the burning stake. But, hiding her Gifts isn’t the same as not using them, and that troublesome difference has led to capture each time she’s run from her uncle.

Now, using a newly-discovered spell, she binds her powers and flees again—this time for her life. Unfortunately, her plan to hide as a maid in a distant kingdom goes awry when she unwittingly gets entered into a festival competition for the hand of a prince—a man with a wicked kiss and a sense of adventure that rivals her own.

All she’s ever hoped for is a quiet existence as a servant, never imagining she could find laughter and belonging and love. And now the mischievous prince has her dreaming of all those things.

With a bounty on her head, sorcerers closing in, and a prince threatening to steal her heart, could it finally be time to stop running? Time to trust? Time to love?


Learn more about Katrina and her books at katrinasnow.com

Caerlaverock Castle near Dumfries, Scotland
Public Domain (link)

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. - Mark Twain

Debut author Katrina Snow roars onto the publishing scene with her Renaissance Fantasy, FORBIDDEN. Snow creates a fairy tale styled for romance fans who appreciate an escape into a historical setting. Snow delivers a capable heroine and an honorable prince, evoking a sense of chivalry and enchantment throughout the plot.

Snow allows secondary characters to come into their own without distracting from the Lady and her Prince as they build a life together with enemies nipping at their heals. Snow wraps together magic, myth, and mirth for an epic adventure.

Recommended reads for fans of Renaissance Festivals
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I am giving away special swag from National Trust (link), the caretaker of England's historic buildings, to one randomly selected commenter.  To enter the giveaway.

1.  Leave a comment about Renaissance Festivals and Medieval Fairs - have you attended one?   My family is a fan of the Maryland Renaissance Festival.  Check out pictures here, here, here, here, and here.

2.  Comments are open through Saturday, February 6, 10 pm in Baltimore.

3.  I'll post the winner on Sunday, February 7.

Mahalo,

Kim in Baltimore
Aloha Spirit in Charm City

Friday, October 4, 2013

Aloha to Mia Marlowe and PLAID TIDINGS

Plaid Tidings

This weekend, I am meeting a friend at the Maryland Renaissance Festival (link) to see Cu Dubh:

Cu Dubh consists of musicians who have dedicated their lives to the study and performance of ancient music. David Macejka (2012 Grammy nominee), Mike McNutt and Elijah Woolcott have brought together their personal influences to create dark, orginal compositions played on the Great Highland Bagpipes and a barrage of drums from around the world. With influences from Scotland, Gaul, Galicia, Norway, Brittney, Ireland, Wales, German, India, Aradia, Africa and beyond, they call back to the ancient tribes in all of us.

It is music for the warrior in all of us. The long boat is here. The wolves are loose. The Ould Ways are back! 



Sigh.  Scotland.  


Mia Marlowe is feeding my appetite for Alba with her new Scottish Regency, PLAID TIDINGS:

Not any dashing English lord’s idea of a good time. But now that Lord Alexander Mallory has won a Scottish estate in a hand of cards, he is the unlikely laird of the wild, snowy Bonniebroch. Worse yet, the ancient pile of stones comes with a betrothal. To a fiery red-headed virgin. And a curse.

Alex will have his hands full honoring the first, seducing the second and breaking the third … all by Twelfth Night.


Read an excerpt at this link.

Mahalo,

Kim in Baltimore
Aloha Spirit in Charm City

To learn more about Mia, check out her website at miamarlowe.com.

Click to pre-order!


Sunday, September 1, 2013

Weekly Winners



My family is a winner - we joined the revelry at the Maryland Renaissance Festival.  I posted pictures on my travel blog, ALOHA ON MY MIND, at this link.


We have winners at SOS Aloha:


Amanda Scott's THE KNIGHT'S TEMPTRESS
- JMcGaugh is the winner!

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Christy English's LOVE ON A MIDSUMMER NIGHT
- Cathy P. is the winner!

Love on a Midsummer Night (Shakespeare in Love, #2)

Angie Fox's MY BIG FAT DEMON SLAYER WEDDING
- Elizabeth H. is the winner!


Winners - please claim your prizes by sending your mailing address to sos.aloha@yahoo.com.

Mahalo,

Kim in Baltimore
Aloha Spirit in Charm City




September sizzles in Romanceland


The Maryland Renaissance Festival is underway in Crownsville (link), bringing history to life to a legion of fans.   The crowd looks just like those at a romance convention ... 


9/1: Weekly Winners
9/2: Cathy Maxwell's CHATTAN CURSE bundle promo
9/3: Amanda Scott's THE SECRET CLAN: The Complete Series (ebook release date)

9/3: Sharon Sala's COLOR ME BAD
9/4: Codi Gary's THINGS GOOD GIRLS DON'T DO (Avon Impulse)
9/5: 
Mary Jo Putney's SOMETIMES A ROGUE
9/6: Elizabeth Chadwick's THE OUTLAW KNIGHT
9/7: Celebrate Little Victories
9/8: Weekly Winners
9/9: Joanne Fluke's CINNAMON ROLL MURDER
9/10: Angie Fox's IMMORTALLY EVER AFTER
9/11: Special tribute
9/12: Lee Hollis' DEATH OF A COUPON CLIPPER
9/13: Victoria Roberts' TO WED A WICKED HIGHLANDER
9/14: Celebrate Little Victories
9/15: Weekly Winners
9/16: Theresa Romain's IT TAKES TWO TO TANGLE
(Sourcebooks giveaway)
9/17: Eryn LaPlante's THE BLUE LUTE
9/18: 
Mia Marlowe's PLAID TO THE BONE
9/19: Ella Quinn's THE SEDUCTION OF LADY PHOEBE
9/20: Julie Ann Walker's BORN WILD (Sourcebooks giveaway)

9/21: Celebrate Little Victories - USAF's 66th birthday
9/22: Weekly Winners
9/23: Sarah Castille's AGAINST THE ROPES (Sourcebooks giveaway)
9/24: Linsay Sands' ONE LUCKY VAMPIRE - 10th Anniversary of the Argeneau Series

plus Lily Dalton's NEVER DESIRE A DUKE
9/25: Recap from Lora Leigh's RAW
9/26: Open
9/27: Shana Galen's TRUE SPIES (Sourcebooks giveaway)
9/28: Celebrate Little Victories
9/29: Weekly Winners
9/30: Jill Shalvis' ALWAYS ON MY MIND


10/1: Release Day Blitz for Rachel Van Dyken's THE WAGER
10/2: Jessica Lemmon's HARD TO HANDLE
10/3: Julia London's THE BRIDESMAID  (Sourcebooks giveaway)
10/4: Open
10/5: Celebrate Little Victories - 17 years with my personal hero
10/6: Weekly winners
10/7: Open
10/8: Open
10/9: Open
10/10: Open
10/11: Open
10/12: Celebrate Little Victories
10/13: Weekly winners and the US Navy's 238th Birthday
10/14: Fleet Week with Cathy Maxwell
10/15: Fleet Week with Heather Ashby
10/16: Fleet Week with Geri Krotow
10/17: Fleet Week with Diana Cosby
10/18: Fleet Week with Lindsay McKenna
10/19: Celebrate Little Victories 
10/20: Weekly winners
10/21: NJRW "Put Your Heart In A Book" Recap (Day 1)
10/22: NJRW "Put Your Heart In A Book" Recap (Day 2)
10/23: Michele Gorman's CHRISTMAS CAROL
10/24: Open
10/25: Tory Cate's HANDFUL OF SKY
10/26: Celebrate Little Victories
10/27: Weekly winners
10/28: Anne Barton's ONCE SHE WAS TEMPTED
10/29: Eileen Dreyer's ONCE A RAKE

10/30: Jennifer Echol's PLAYING DIRTY

11/1: Open

11/2: Celebrate Little Victories
11/3: Weekly winners
11/4: Anne Cleeland's DAUGHTER OF THE SUN-KING
11/5: Eden Carson's WIDOW SPY & LOVER
11/6: Jill Mansell's DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING
11/7: Open
11/8: Open
11/9: Celebrate Little Victories - USMC's 238th Birthday
11/10: Weekly winners
11/11:  Veterans Day
11/12:  Open
11/13:  Open
11/14:  Open
11/15:  Open
11/16:  Celebrate Little Victories
11/17:  Weekly winners
11/18:  Open
11/19:  Open
11/20:  Open
11/21:  Susana Ellis' A TWELFTH NIGHT TALE
11/22:  Open
11/23:  Celebrate Little Victories
11/24:  Weekly winners
11/25:  Open
11/26:  Megan Mulry's IN LOVE AGAIN
11/27:  Open
11/28:  Thanksgiving
11/29:  Black Friday
11/30:  Celebrate Little Victories

12/2:  CH Admirand's WELCOME BACK TO APPLE GROVE

12/3:  ML Buchman's TAKEOVER AT MIDNIGHT
12/4: Heather Ashby's FORGET ME NOT 

1/7:  Connie Mason and Mia Marlowe, BETWEEN A RAKE AND A HARD PLACE