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Regrets are the barricades of live - inspirational post.

2/16/2019

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"Regrets are the barricades of life, They will only stop your path to greatness." - Carlyle 💙

I regret not one single thing, not those who hurt me so , Nor the things that brought me down and threatened to swallow me whole. I dont regret the bad decisions or sometimes shameful behavior. I am me because of those things. I am wiser, stronger and life has so much more meaning because I overcame my failures. What is left in the ashes of the old me is to Rise and be defined by my truthful actions now ♡ 
Go live your life to experience all it has blessed you with.
Keep your intensions pure and share your heart and smile with the world even at times you think they dont deserve it. Because that's when they need it most. 
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First edition Paperback giveaway

2/16/2019

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Enter the Giveaway
Should the button not work, find the giveaway on instagram @carlylelab 
Signed paperback giveaway of my debut novel The Broken Destiny . I only have two of these in my possession and one is mine... the other can be yours. 
💜🌿💜The leaves used for spacers between paragraphs are my own drawings .And the purple planet with the trees inside on the back page were also my own creation. 💜🌿💜
It is the expanded version that still holds a very very dear party of myself between the pages. This book got me the top 3 YA debut spot on goodreads Listopia awards in 2012. 
This is where you can enter
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What the Ocean gave me - inspirational post

2/16/2019

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🌊What the ocean gave me.🌊


 "The only thing  you can control in life is your attitude toward life and how you handle  the challenges you face. " - me 

My New year goal is all #powerofthemindset 
Thinking back to my first surf in dec 2017 and this I must live by each day , and I quote 

"Today taught me to take every opportunity that comes my way, to cast my fear aside and let the ocean (literally ) knock me around, wave after wave, taking each head dunk and tumble as a blessing in learning how to fall, not fear the fall , and enjoy relinquishing our perception of control... 💜My faith in life restored💜 ♡ ☆ day one surfing lesson with my hubby was a wild blast 
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My readers and like minded - that makes you my friend!

1/25/2019

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When I opened up that 2 month sales report from my publisher the other day ... I cried ugly happy tears. You guys have bought in the last two months what I usually sell in a very busy international book tour year! 
This is more than money, it is a powerful reminder to stop doubting myself, because of you... I can take a breath because you have my back. Someone has been touched by my work so much they tell others and buy more of my other stories. that I'm not crazy because the worlds I create resonates with you too. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH and I hope to have many more crazy adventures with you ♡ #madlove When you read my books and love it it's because we are like minded... so yeah we are friend!! I love you friend
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PAPERBACK GIVEAWAY - DEAD OF NIGHT

12/18/2018

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This season for me is all about giving, nothing makes me happier than giving to people and watching them smile :) 
This festive season I am giving away a paperback copy of my multi-award nominated dystopian romance novel Dead of night!! 
xoxxo 
Thank you for all the support this year!! #madlove
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​In a dark and desolated After Earth, love still does exist, but the cost of bearing such a flaw is death. World War III has left Earth in utter turmoil. People’s beliefs are said to be the cause of the worldwide destruction. After The Clearing new laws are set about - to show certitude in anything besides the law is weak and chargeable as mutiny. 

To be illogical and have faith in religion is illegal, to be limitless is dangerous. And Illness is seen as a defect – all flaws that are inexcusable. But to love is the greatest betrayal of all man kind. It is a fault the world has long forgotten and punishable by death, a fatal risk Aecker and Opel are fully prepared to take - because in love there is freedom. But how far can they push back before it claims their lives and those they care about.
ENTER TO WIN

HAPPY HOLIDAYS 

Christmas shopping never looked so good! 

Mystery, secrets and a bloodline destined to stop an evil bent on unraveling time!
Blossom Blood out now - get if free on KU 
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Cover reveal Blossom blood - Time Magic Guardians + ARC giveaway

11/7/2018

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​Asher Blossom only lives for one thing - to honor the dying wish of those he has loved and lost. ​

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Blossom Blood (Guardians of Time Magic)
Returning home after nearly three years, he not only realizes how much his younger siblings have gown, but also how much they have grown apart. Despite his many long-distance conversations with his Uncle and siblings the household have many things they keep from him. 
Determined to fix his broken family, and bury the guilt he feels for not being able to stop the fatal accident that claimed the life of Amanda, the love of his life , and his parents - he gathers up the family for a nice dinner and a talk. Leaving the house he unexpectedly returns to grab something he left behind only to discover intruders have broken in. 
When he tries to stop them, things go horribly wrong and he is forced into a life he never knew existed. One that holds dark curses, time magic and artifacts that could destroy reality. 
When he learns about who, what and why the evil has come their way, he is suddenly faced with a dream he wanted for so long. 
Will he finally be the hero he wasn't on that fatal day? Can he go back in time and change it all , melting away the regrets that consume him everyday? 
Or can he break the Blossom Blood curse and destroy the evil that wants to use him?

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Get your hands on the ARC copy of Blossom Blood

Add the book, and recommend it on goodreads and follow on booksprout - Don't forget to leave a comment here should you want to grab your copy before it hits the shelves next week! 
( Blossom blood is s short story) 
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Infallible release week sale

11/7/2018

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If you looking for suspense, action romance and unexpected twists grab INFALLIBLE from USA Today bestselling author Carlyle Labuschagne for 99c on release week only! 



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Into The Night - excerpt + #shadowhunter themed giveaway

10/29/2018

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Dystopian, romance, thriller and action... Into the Night by USA Today Bestselling, and award winning  author Carlyle Labuschagne
Inspired by her daughter's fatal illness, Dr Prilla Greenhorn sets out to find a cure for Melo, instead discovers the secrets in saving humanity.
Set in a world after WW3 where the human condition is outlawed she is held hostage for her fatal flaw - love for her family.
The only way to save her daughter is to work side by side with the Government in finding ways to cure the world of humanity forever. Can Prilla cure her daughter and hide her miracle discoveries from those who will only use it for their own twisted purposes - or will she choose the life of many over saving the ones she loves?



READ EXCERPT OF INTO THE NIGHT - HANS AND GRETA BY CAMEO RENAE AND ENTER THE SHADOWHUNTER THEMED GIVEAWAY
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I love to write Villains - Connor from Infallible

10/22/2018

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Meet Conner 
from my romantic suspense novel 
INFALLIBLE 

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​​EXCERPT 

....his hardened heart easily melted by having his beautiful wife with him after all this time. His tattooed and scarred body represented everything he had gone through for her.
“Leave us,” he ordered with a jerk of his head toward his two body guards.
The guards gave each other pointed looks from across the room, uncomfortable with leaving a cop alone with the man they were assigned to take bullets for.
Impatiently, Connor looked down at his feet, fists clenched. Through a tight jaw, he repeated more forcefully, “Leave. Now!” His tone roiling with deadly warning.
Scarlet’s heart contracted further as he spoke. The reality of just how little she knew this man was sinking in fast and hard. With her face resting against the cold window, she quickly shifted her eyes back to the hectic streets below. It would be so easy to slip away, disappear amongst a sea of tourists. But she was brave—or perhaps stupid was the word.
Against every warning her body, mind and soul were sending her, Detective Scarlet Ann Martins had to know what his reasons were. The only way she would get Alaric out alive was by getting into Connor’s mind. That thought alone sent waves of repulsion into every nerve in her body. She tried to fight against the sickening feeling bleeding into her very core. This had been her doing, she’d had the power to see and put a stop to this ten years ago. How messed up was she to have let him use her that way?
The guards moved quickly after that last warning, leaving the room with a silent shut of the door.
“It’s good to see you again.” Connor slipped a shirt on over his tight body.
“I’ve held up my side of the bargain. You need to let the hostage go.” Pulling the curtains closed, she crossed her arms over her chest, and waited for an answer. She kept her eyes on his, terrified to look at his face to discover what she might feel.
“I can’t do that.” Connor looked away, his eyes hard, his face resigned and void of any apology or explanation she was waiting for.
Things were growing more complicated by the second. If she fought too much for Alaric and his sister, Connor would catch on, might just kill them out of spite. “At least let the pregnant woman go.” She was testing him to see just how much he really knew.
Conner sighed. “She’s free to go wherever.” He stepped around the white sofa.
Scarlet studied him carefully. “You are having her watched, aren’t you?’
“If you want them alive, this is how it’s gotta be.”
“You are not going to let me go, are you?” She leaned back into the windowsill.
Connor moved a step closer, knowing he was the one now testing her reaction to him.
 Scarlet willed herself to keep her cool under his scrutinizing gaze.
“I don’t blame you for falling for this guy.”
She smiled knowingly at him. “Sure.”
“Once this is over, you will understand why I did it.”
“No, I won’t.”
 Connor took another step forward, getting so close to her he could smell her. How he’d missed the sweet scent of an intoxicating woman like her.
Noticing the way he was looking at her, it was blatantly obvious what he was thinking. And if she could bank on anything, it was how men like him would do just about anything for a good lay. She had to admit that when he took yet another step in her direction, she wondered if he was capable of taking it from her. But the true question was, would he kill her if she fought him off?
“You don’t have to be scared of me, Sam.” Connor looked right into her eyes. He was a changed man and she had to see that. His sacrifice had bled him dry, there was no turning back, there was only the now. “To keep you alive, I had to disappear, then took on this persona and went to jail to infiltrate the syndicate,” he tried to explain. “I want you because you respect and adore me, as I do you.” He bit the inside of his lip, fighting his manly urges. He had waited so long, he could wait a while longer. It had to be perfect.
“You must be all kinds of insane if you think I will ever consider you in that light again.” Scarlet lifted her chin in deviance, this too was a ploy to play to the man she thought she married.
 “I gave up ten years of my life for this moment!”
“Yeah, and I gave five more than that.” Her voice was hollow as she said it.
“If there had been any way I could’ve told you what was going on, I would have.”
“Cut the shit, Connor. You tried to kill me, then had me framed. And that was after you took my life away from me, as your wife.” She thought of how deeply she’d grieved for him, and how badly grief had warped her. Then Scarlet thought of how in her life she’d actually never really had a real relationship. “Why in the hell am I still here?” Her hands flew out, unable to keep her anger contained. “What purpose do I serve in this scheme of yours? Haven’t you ruined me enough? Or am I just the spoils of war?”
“Don’t flatter yourself.”
“How is that flattering myself, you idiot? You are the one flattering yourself if you think you have that strong a hold on me, creep.”
“You’re mad, and that is good.”
“Go to hell!” Taking a deep breath, she reigned her temper in. “Please…just let me go, Connor. Take your shit and get the hell out of my life.”
“It’s not that simple.”
Scarlet had nothing to say, knowing it was horribly complicated. That she was so deeply weaved into this mess was beyond thought, and she had no idea where to even begin thinking of a way out. She needed answers. “Why?”
“The things we’ve seen.” He was referring to their time in the army, and suddenly all the history between filled in the reasons.
Connor took his last step, his shoulder resting on the wall next to her. He looked down at her. “Do you remember our last night together?” Then looking down noticed the chain around her neck.
“You kept it?”
Scarlet never answered. Yes of course she kept it, the chain meant so much to her then. Now it would serve as a reminder of a mistake she never wanted to forget.
Conner smiled gently. “Our last night,” Conner kept his gaze on her, continuing his audible thoughts.
She bit back at the dark memory, the night before the bombing that had supposedly killed her husband. She saw herself in his arms in a darkened room. It had been a lie, she thought with an aggrieved ache. She stared into his eyes while she thought it, because she was too cowardly to say it out loud. Or was it because she didn’t want him to know how much she had changed without him? How his death and fake heroic death made her stronger. He didn’t deserve the credit.
His voice was soft in the small space that separated them. “We spoke about how messed up things were, that corruption was a disease that would ruin the world, an infection that killed children, burned down villages of innocents. We spoke of running away…” His voice trailed off.
Thank the Lord, because his voice made her sick.
“Scarlet. Look at me,” he requested with some force, pulling her wrist as she tried to move away. “Our dreams were big and beautiful.”
She kept her heated stare true to his penetrating gaze, forcing her once forgotten emotions to the surface. A single, silent warm tear brimmed the edge of her eye and she broke loose from his grip. Stalking across the room to the mini bar, she yanked the bottle of whiskey from the glass shelf.
“Sam…” His voice was pleading.
She ignored him. He did not get to call her that anymore. Unscrewing the lid of the bottle, she took one giant swig, the liquid burning hot across her lips, igniting her chest and stomach with its potent numbing poison. She was going to need it if she was going to be stuck with him in the same room for the next few hours. Her eyes to his as he stood looking stupidly helpless, she took another swig from the bottle, feeling the stark edges starting to fray with each gulp.
But when he just stood there, the ever-building simmer she had held in began to boil over. “Shit!” She slammed the bottle down on the marble top, her eyes shooting up to his. “You let me believe my husband was dead! I’d rather have you dead than be a killer, because that is a reflection of who I am. I let you ruin me.” And as much as she wanted to hate and blame him for that, she shouldn’t.
Looking down, she poured whiskey into the nearest glass, making it half full and stared down at it as the amber liquid swirled around in the glass, the color reminding her of Alaric’s eyes. Her stomach pulled tight at the thought of him out there somewhere, alone and tied up. Was this really happening? Taking a sip and then another, she watched Connor over the rim of the glass as he walked toward her. Damn, with his every move in her direction, she wanted to scream, or hurt him.
Connor moved around the counter to stand behind her. He leaned forward, his body inches from hers.
All she could think of while his breath warmed the side of her face, was how sorry she was that she had dragged Alaric into her mess. All he’d ever done was look out for her, always putting her safety before his own.
His body pressed against hers from behind; she could smell him. She looked at her hands resting on the counter top before her…she had to do right by Alaric. With every last breath left in her she had find a way to get him out this mess alive, to tell him how deeply she appreciated what he had done for her. That she felt the same way he did. That their kiss and what followed after was the first time it just felt…real. And that she never wanted to get enough of.
During her silent thoughts, Connor’s hand moved to hers, his fingers gently taking the cup out of her hand. As if on auto-pilot, she brought up her foot, kicked him in the groin and slammed her head back into his, connecting with a bone crushing blow to his nose.
 But Connor didn’t go down easily, prison had physically numbed him. The blow was more unexpected than painful, causing him to take a step back.
Leaping forward as she tried to get away, he slammed Scarlet against the counter, one hand on her shoulder, the other dangerously close to her throat. He could feel the erratic beat of her heart inside her heaving chest. Resting his forehead against hers he whispered, “Why did you do that?” Then let her go.
“Because I can’t stand being around you.” She couldn’t pretend anymore, afraid she might just get caught up in past lies.
“I could have killed you.”
She snickered.
“Let’s make a deal. Their lives for mine and my brother’s.” Connor stood in his towel, shoulders rigid, looking right into her soul knowing that this had just become a trade-off. “If you promise to let us get away.” Pausing, he watched her eyes sparkle at the possibility. “With the gold, that is,” he added. “Then I will promise to let him go.”
She shook her head.
“I won’t harm his family, as long as they don’t try anything stupid.”
She studied him for a moment. He wasn’t going to let her go, was he? “I’m not going to get a happily ever after, am I?”
Connor rubbed the side of his face. “I will never concede to you.” Because he knew she’d never let it go, that as long as detective Martins was out there, she’d come for him.
 “You won’t kill me.” She raised her chin. She wanted to believe that she had some measure of influence over him, that somewhere deep inside Connor cared about what happened to her. And that she could use and manipulate that part of him.
“No, Samantha, he won’t. But I will.” Wyatt stood in the doorway, beaming in utter bliss.
Scarlet knew she would never know if Connor ever cared for her, and that she was perfectly okay with...
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Winner and next Into the Night giveaway revealed!

10/4/2018

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Into The Night cover reveal giveaway winner announced! 

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Next time in the Into the Night Pre-order build up campaign...

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Hans And Greta by USA Today bestselling author Cameo Renae
(this book will be a free gift as part of Into the Night pre-order deal - coming soon)
Excerpt of Into the Night 

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Ghosts of the Shadow Market series by Cassandra Clare and Infernal devices clock work angel necklace 


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In a dark and desolated After Earth, love still does exist, but the cost of bearing such a flaw is death. World War III has left Earth in utter turmoil. People’s beliefs are said to be the cause of the worldwide destruction. After The Clearing new laws are set about - to show certitude in anything besides the law is weak and chargeable as mutiny. 

To be illogical and have faith in religion is illegal, to be limitless is dangerous. And Illness is seen as a defect – all flaws that are inexcusable. But to love is the greatest betrayal of all man kind. It is a fault the world has long forgotten and punishable by death, a fatal risk Aecker and Opel are fully prepared to take - because in love there is freedom. But how far can they push back before it claims their lives and those they care about.
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