All This Time (39 page)

OMG! I love Sam’s story, and
all the crazy emotions that I suffered while writing this book came across in
this tragic romance. I hope you leave this story satisfied, but wanting more
from Willow Island. If you enjoyed reading this book, I hope you will consider
leaving a review (links to follow) or recommending it so others can enjoy it as
well. If you do post a review on Amazon
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or
Goodreads
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 please contact me via email at
[email protected]

Available:

Be All (Book #1,
All series/Breesan)
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All Is Lost
(Book #2, All series/Breesan)
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All This Time
(Sam) Order paperback copies
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Signed copies
can be ordered just by sending an email to
[email protected]
I accept
Paypal

Coming soon:

Worth It All
(Book #3,
All
series/Breesan)
     
           
    Summer 2014

Risking All
(Book #4, All series/Breesan)        
           
    Fall 2014

All Our Love
(Novel Grounds Anthology/No Details)    
 
March 2014 as a short.

No Details
                    
                       
                       
   Spring 2015 as a novel

About the Author

New Adult Author of the All Series, Marie Wathen is a wife,
mother of two and a Lola (her version of grandmother). When she isn’t writing,
her other career is on the nightshift. Marie is a fourteen year veteran
dispatcher at her local Sheriff’s Office. The SO is where she met her husband
Barry, patrolman. Born and currently living in Central Alabama, she enjoys a
serene life in the country, but lives for the excitement of traveling to large
cities.

Besides writing, some of Marie’s other passions include
reading, traveling, and family time that includes southern home-cooking and
Italian feasts. Although Marie has been a storyteller her entire life, 
Be
All
 is her first publication. Marie’s genre includes, but is not
limited to, Romantic Suspense. She is currently collaborating on a Romantic
Paranormal Thriller that will release in 2014. The journey on Willow Island
will continue next in Worth it All (All series, Book 3) expected release date
is mid spring. Also, look for No Details, releasing as a short story in
the Novel Grounds Anthology, All Our Love in March 2014, and then rereleasing
as a full length novel in spring 2015.

Marie loves connecting with readers who enjoy her books.

Facebook: Marie Wathen Author 
www.facebook.com/MarieWathenAuthor

Page For fans
of The All series only
www.facebook.com/WillowIslandMafia

Twitter: @
mariewathen

Email: 
[email protected]

Goodreads
:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7075309.Marie_Wathen

Acknowledgments

This
book wouldn’t have been possible without the support of certain individuals,
and it never would have made it to publication without some special people
reading it, giving me invaluable advice and great encouragement.

My
gratitude to the following:

Readers,
I am forever grateful that you gave my book a chance.

Barry,
Kayla, Kaitie, and the
Kyles
: I love you
Forover
(inside joke), more than all the words, and having
your support trumps everything <3

Auderia
DeStafino
, again thank you for keeping me sane when the
crazy shit surfaced,  for loving it, for dealing with me, for coffee time,
for great ideas, for blog takeover, for traveling because of my books and for
begin one amazing friend. I love you always!
And to
Devan
Rhayne
, for continuing to
think that I’m the coolest.
I again think you’re
fabu
too!

My
sistas
! Barbara Gonzalez, Loretta Barks, Paula Price, Lisa
Carr, Karen Martin, Debra Good,
Krystle
Foster, and
especially thank you Huldah J. Smith (for letting me use your name for Sam’s
cover job).

My
guys! D. Black, J. Forrest, M. Reebals, M. Bishop for your colorful additions
to my scenes. Stay safe fellas!

To my
big, loud Italian family: Thank you
DeStafinos
for
all the special moments and stories that will live on in my heart. Miss you
Uncle Phillip <3

MY
BETAS! Heather
Terranova
Armstrong, Laura
Barcenas
, Jennifer
Persianni
-Coates,
Merilyn
Dignum
, Venture Cecena, Angela Pratt, Simone
Nicole, Sara
Kinsella
. Thank you for tolerating the
horrible grammar, embarrassing spelling mistakes, the pain in the ass
revisions, letting me harass you with tons of questions and giving me the guts
to publish another book. Your friendship is priceless <3

My Kick
Ass
Pimpsistas
! Angela (I Feel the Need, the Need to
Read), Breezy (Breezy
BeautyandBooks
), Ty (Momma’s
Secret Book Obsession), Kim (Little Red’s Book Reviews), Tonya (
Turnthe
Page), Shawn (Dauntless Indies), Megan (Novell
Grounds), Raquel (For The Love of Books), Kathy (Panty Dropping Book Blog),
Jovana
(Rumpled Sheets Blog) Kirsten (Ramblings of a Book
Lunatic), Claudia (I love
booknerds
), Judith (One
More Chapter), Jaclyn (NWA Gossip Girl), Jackie (BookWhisper), Philomena (2
friends, promote your books Group), Stephanie (Headtripping Books) Kristin
Marie Author, Amanda (
Crazy Cajun Book Addicts),
Staphanie
(
Headtripping
Books), Angie’s Reading Dungeon,
Jennifer (Jen's Book Reviews), Amanda (
EReading
Made
Free), Laura
Barcenas
, Becky (
Pimpslapped
)
…Oh, I hope I didn’t forget anyone… I cannot tell you
enough times how important you all are to me–it is just so much more than two
little words like
Thank you
can cover. Without you supporting and
sharing, I would still be talking to myself on a lonely Facebook page. You all
have my highest respect and eternal friendship. I thank you! xo

To my
editor: Toby Joiner, thank you for doing a wonderful job and for loving the
series.

To my
cover artist:
Arijana
Karcic
,
with Cover It! Designs, thank you for another stunning book cover. You’re
marked as a badass in my book for eternity!

To my
teaser guru: Jacob with Design by Jacob Daniel Parish, I love the steamy
graphics for Sam & Blues

So many
Indie Authors inspire me daily through the
interwebs
that I can’t name each of you, but if we’ve ever had a conversation you should
count yourself in this form of appreciation. I do this because you did it first
and because of your words, both written and encouraging. Rachel Higginson,
again I thank you for inspiring my writing with the Star Crossed series–it
alone launched Breesan’s story.

To all
the Facebook & Twitter friends, thank you for liking,
retweeting
,
commenting, sharing, encouraging, buying and loving BE ALL, ALL IS LOST and
then begging for more adventures on Willow Island. I am beyond blessed because
of each of you and I adore you all. I read, laugh and sometimes cry reading
each of your Amazon and
Goodreads
reviews. Bless you
for taking time out to honor me.

Thank
you especially to my God for this life, these and all the other unmentioned
characters and storylines, both real and fictional, that you created and
brought into my life.