S.J. Cairns creates paranormal romance fantasy from her hometown in Southern Ontario, Canada. When S.J is not plugging away at her laptop on her comfy couch, you can find her chasing around her four-year-old daughter alongside her husband of over twenty years or working in true chaos at local homeless shelters and anti-human trafficking safe house.

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Reading/Blogging Challenge

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I’ve heard you can’t be a writer without reading A LOT. Turning pages has never been an issue for me, I carry a book with me damn near everywhere I go, until my writing became more than a hobby and sucked up free time like a scavenging pug. In efforts to simultaneously read more and utilize my blog, I’ll be participating in the 2015 Goodreads Reading Challenge. Over the course of 2015 I pledged to read 35 books.     For some, that number laughable, they can speed read through book every two days and think I’m being lazy. Well,

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Journal For Life

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Quiet down peoples, I have a confession to make.  I have far too many journals. That’s right, you heard me. Taking a count of my collection, I’ll never need to buy another, but I can’t help myself. Friends even enable my habit by gifting them. (Not that they’re aware of my compulsion or I’d never get another. Shhhhh!) Can you blame me? Look at them all! Some wrapped in leather, others with nifty designs, some small enough to tuck in my purse, all with blank pages screaming out to be inked, open to take in my crazy thoughts without judgement.

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ACCEPTED!

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Me: “What does that say? Do they…” (I look at the Hubster) “Read this email and tell me what you think.” (I impatiently chew the inside of my cheek until I taste blood) Hubster: *Nods* “Yup, you did it. Holy shit. High fives, babe.” Cue the internal freak out as I force a high five and then read, and re-read, and re-re-read the email telling me my manuscript was accepted. ACCEPTED! By an impressive company like Booktrope Publishing no less. A company that strives for a “Team publishing” platform to put out the best work and assist authors the whole way

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Dapper Press Short Story Release

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On October 25th my short story “Sheltered” was featured in the Dapper Press Haunted Lounge (Woot woot! *handstand and jazz hands*) as part of their campaign to introduce the dapper-est of self-publishing alternatives. Stop by their website any time and take a look at other spooky stories and services they provide.  

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Halloween Sex Injection (NSFW)

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  Around this time of year everyone is in the planning stages of Halloween. Fake, sticky spiders web with fake, creepy spiders…check. Spray-painted gravestones painted with your in-laws names on the front lawn…check. Near pro jack-o-lanterns carved from a design found on Pinterest…check. Party favours you eat as you bake, bite-sized candy bars for breakfast bought and re-bought since October 1st, and doing the toe-touch test to see if your vajayjay peeks out to trick or treat. Wait. WHAT?!? I haven’t participated in Halloween in the traditional sense in near 15 years, so when a friend decided to throw a

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