The Baby Bargain by Jennifer Apodaca (Guest Post/Giveaway)

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What's it like to write using different pen names?
By Jennifer Apodaca

Last Valentine’s Day, my husband and I walked into a nice restaurant ready to have a great dinner together. The hostess smiled her welcome and asked what name the reservation was under.

Since I’d made the reservation, I answered, “It’s under Jennifer…” I trailed off unable to remember which name I’d used to make the reservation, Apodaca or Lyon.

My husband helped by breaking out into laughter. Once he recovered, he grinned at me and said, “Try Apodaca. You know the name I gave you when I put that ring on your finger and knew then that the rest of my life would be anything but boring.”


For the rest of the evening, he kept asking me which woman he was with; his wife, Jen Apodaca or his girlfriend, Jen Lyon.

And that’s what it’s like to write two series under two different names. It’s two times the work in maintaining two social media presences, including having two domain names for my websites and maintaining two Facebook Fan pages. For Twitter, I just use one account and label it Jennifer Lyon/Apodaca and no one seems to have trouble figuring it out.

So why am I doing it if it’s more work? That’s an easy answer: It’s out of respect for my readers. My Apodaca books are romantic and sexy, maybe even steamy. But my Lyon books are edgier and grittier. Readers have the right to choose what they wish to read. Many of my readers cross over between both names; some prefer one or the other. Using two different names just means I respect their choices and try to keep the two voices separate.

If you like sexy romances, hunky Marine heroes, and a compelling love story with a happily-ever-after, I hope you’ll give THE BABY BARGAIN by Jennifer Apodaca a try!

Now I just have to decide who I’ll be for my husband tonight; his wife, Jennifer Apodaca, or his girlfriend, Jennifer Lyon? Okay, maybe two names are twice the work, but I’m also having twice the fun!

Title: The Baby Bargain
Author: Jennifer Apodaca
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: 184 pages
Release Date: March 2013
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-62266-073-5
Imprint: Indulgence

Seeing Adam Waters is the last thing veterinarian Megan Young expects. Ex-Marine. Ex-boyfriend. And still extremely dangerous territory. But Adam doesn’t know the secret Megan has been keeping from him. The secret that was created three years ago, after their last night together…
Adam returns to Raven’s Cove to sell his home in a final break with the town and memories that haunt him. The problem is that his attraction to Megan is as blazing hot as it ever was. But when a vicious smear campaign against Megan turns ugly, Adam learns the truth he never knew—he has a son.
Now the only way Megan can protect her child is to strike a bargain with Adam. And it’s a bargain that looks a lot like blackmail…

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About Jennifer:

Award winning author Jennifer Apodaca grew up in Southern California and met her very own hero at the dog pound. She worked there, he came in on a business, and it was puppy love. They married and had three wonderful sons.
While her husband worked on his master’s degree, Jen did the mom thing by day and went to college at night with the intention of perusing a marketing degree. But her true passion was writing. With time at a premium, she had to make a choice.
Choosing writing, and with the full support of her husband, she poured herself into her dream. A mere eight years later, she published her first book DATING CAN BE MURDER. In her career, Jen has written a fun and sexy mystery series and a variety of contemporary romances. Taking the pen name of Jennifer Lyon, she also created a dark, sizzling paranormal series, and most recently, The Plus One Chronicles, an emotional and sexy adult contemporary series.
Jen has achieved many of her dreams except for attaining a self-cleaning house, a latte delivery service, and finding the holy grail of nonfattening wine and chocolate. She can live with those disappointments as long as she can keep writing the stories she loves to share with readers.

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