Author Empi Baryeh's Blog

It is on, people! I'm talking about the 2017 edition of the COLOR OF LOVE Blog Hop co-hosted by Empi Baryeh (me), Kiru Taye , Nana Prah , and Love Bites and Silk .This year's hop is on from today 23 November to 3 December, 2017. As always, we're celebrating People of Color in romance and offering you a chance to discover new books and new authors, as well as giving you a chance to win prizes.We have 30 blogs participating this year, each featuring an interracial or multicultural romance book! This year, we're doing things a little differently. We've separated the cash and book prizes so more people can win: BOOK PRIZES First of all, we’re introducing daily book prizes. Be sure to comment on blog posts and join the conversation on our FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE for a chance to win one of our 24 book prizes. CASH PRIZES We're giving away the following grand prizes! 1st prize $50 GC 2nd prize $25 GC 3rd prize $15 GC 4th prize $10 GC HOW TO WIN:

Seasons greetings, one and all! Wow, that was an intense period of 10 days! I hope you all enjoyed the Color of Love Blog Hop as much as I did. I was able to hit all participating blog sites, which is a first for me, so I'd say the time was adequate, yes (?) As I mentioned in my original post, I am giving away the following: 1st Prize:   $10 gift card  (Amazon or PayPal)  2nd Prize:  a copy of my  debut novel,  MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR And the winners are...

It's my birthday month and I thought I should celebrate, so when my friends Mona Karel and Jami Gray asked if I'd like to join the Labors of Love Blog Hop, I said YEA! As always, celebration author style means you get the gifts. From today 4th - 6th September we're giving away awesome prizes. 

It's time once again for the COLOR OF LOVE Blog Hop! Hosted this year by Love Bites and Silk  in conjunction with Empi Baryeh (me), Kiru Taye , and Nana Prah , from today until Monday ( 4th - 8th December ) we are celebrating romance in colour and offering you a chance of discovering new books, new authors and new settings as well as winning prizes. It's bigger and better this year. We have 50 blogs participating, each featuring an interracial and multicultural romance book that you may not have read yet! This is your chance to let the blogging world know what you love about interracial or multicultural romance novels. Is it the diverse cultural setting of the stories, the exotic locations, the sexy accents or the hot bodies? For me, it's definitely the different cultures and settings. I love love love when the author uses non-English words and phrases. Throw in an interracial baby, and I'm in IR/MC heaven. LOL SOOOO, what do you like about IR/MC romance? Answer that q...

Hi folks! Happy 4th of April. Today, I'm taking part in a special cover reveal. Keeping Secrets by the fabulous Kiru Taye is coming out on 12th May, 2014, and I am helping her celebrate her brand spanking new cover! *drawing curtains* Tadaaa! Keeping Secrets By Kiru Taye Series: The Essien Trilogy, Book 1 Genre: Contemporary Romance, Multicultural Length: Full length novel Release date: May 12, 2014 The Essien Trilogy - Series Blurb Secrets, Scandals, and Seduction under the African skies. The Essiens are the kings of African finance. A close-knit family, their father is the patriarch of a finance dynasty that ranges from retail to investment banking spanning the African continent. Yet all is not as it seems as the three brothers—Felix, Mark and Tony—soon discover when their family is rocked by secrets and scandals. Blood ties or not, family is family. If you like your book boyfriends to be tall, dark and handsome billionaires, then say hello to the Essien b...

I’ve been enticed (read: harpooned) into participating in the ‘ My Writing Process Blog Hop ’, which seeks to introduce you to authors you may not know and gives a little insight into each author's writing process. For that reason, I’ll stick to author friends of mine (I'm pretty sure if I tagged Nora Roberts, she won't play). Author, Nana Prah, nominated me for this blog hop. I am currently reading her most recent release, Midwife to Destiny, which I’m thoroughly enjoying (don’t forget to drop by on Wednesday for an interview with Nana Prah and a sneak peek into her novel + a chance to win a cool prize). Okay, so back to the hop: I’m supposed to answer four (simple) questions about my writing, then pay it forward by tagging three authors and linking to their website and/or blog. The three authors will in turn put up a similar post on their blogs next Monday. Here goes: 1) What am I working on? I’m working actively on book 2 of the ‘From Ghana with Love’ series, i.e. the se...

  It's been a fun week, hasn't it? I am sure we all had a blast with the love scenes of various heat levels. I'm not going to ask about favourites since that would be hard to do for many of you. What I will say is, I hope you had a wonderful hop (I know I did) and that you had an even better Valentine's Day (creating your own love scenes). Anyway, enough beating about the bush. Time to announce my Rafflecopter winner....(drumroll) MELISSA C! Congrats to you, Melissa C., and thanks for participating in the blog hop. Your gift will be heading your way soon.

Hi Peeps! It occurred to me the other day that I hadn’t posted anything in 2014, and then I heard about the Evernight Love Scene Blog Hop and thought this would be a perfect way to start my blogging year. So I welcome you to the Love Scene Blog Hop where EP authors are sharing a love scenes from their books – as you know, Valentine's Day is only a week away. The  Grand Prize  is a $100 Visa gift card for a night out to be randomly chosen from all blog comments. Please include your email address in the comments. My Prize is   a $10 Evernight gift card (see rafflecopter link below). My love scene is from my Evernight novel Most Eligible Bachelor , which also happens to be a Valentine’s Day story. It's the beginning of the first love scene in the novel, and to give you context, here's the blurb: BLURB - MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR Heat level: 2 Magazine columnist Chantelle Sah doesn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day—not since her fiancé’s betrayal three years ago—and after botching her ...

First of all I want to say a huge thank you to all the authors and bloggers who made donations and signed up for the Color of Love blog hop, and then to all lovers or IR/MC romance who stopped by to take part in the hop by leaving comments and taking part in the rafflecopter promotion. This hop wouldn’t have been a success without all of you. A special shout out to everyone who stopped by my blog and left a comment or followed me on Facebook or Twitter. I don’t want to brag or anything, but I'm thrilled about the results, so THANK YOU. Please remember to check out my updates, especially since I am more than half way done on my current WIP. And  now, it’s time to announce winners of my blog prize! Okay, so I said my blog prize was a $10 gift card , right? Well, I have changed my mind (in a good way, so keep reading). In honour of US Thanksgiving Day, I've decided to give one additional prize! Since random(dot)org picked a winner from the rafflecopter, I decided to add an additi...

AND it's a go! The COLOR OF LOVE Blog Hop is being hosted by Empi Baryeh (me), Kiru Taye , and Nana Prah , from today until Monday ( 25th November ). That's five whole days of discovering new books and new authors and winning prizes. So here's the deal. You've got 5 days to hit 38 blogs, each featuring an interracial and multicultural romance book that you may not have read yet! As with all hops, you will have the chance to win various prizes on each site you visit as well as our grand prizes: Color of Love Blog Hop Prizes 1st prize: $50 Amazon gift card + 8 ebooks 2nd prize: $30 Amazon gift card+ 8 ebooks 3rd prize: $20 Amazon gift card + 8 ebooks 4th prize: $10 Amazon gift card + 8 ebooks ....unveiling the prizes... Don't forget to enter the rafflecopter (below) because that's how we will choose the winners for our grand prizes. FEATURED NOVEL If you love romance (of course, you do) then you probably love Valentine Themed stories. I know we're in ...

It's November! For many in writing world that means NaNoWriMo, but for me it also means the Color of Love Blog Hop is at hand. Bloggers/Writers, have you signed up yet? The Color of Love Blog Hop which runs from 21 – 25 November, is co-hosted by Empi Baryeh (moi), Kiru Taye and Nana Prah . As African romance authors, we've decided to celebrate romance books featuring characters of color either in multicultural or interracial settings/relationships. We hope you’ll join us and sign up using the linky link below. We’re offering overall hop Grand prizes of a Kindle Fire , gift cards and multi-ebook packs. Donation to the grand prizes is not required for the sign up. However, you are welcome to donate just $5 (or more) to the grand prizes and contribute an eBook to the multi-eBook pack. In return the cover to your eBook will be displayed on the blog hop sign up page from now to the end of November 2013. Also your ‘Follow-me’ details will be added to the overall Grand Prize raffl...

Bloggers/Writers, you may have already heard, but if not ... you're invited to participate in the Color of Love Blog Hop which runs from 21 - 25 November. This event is co-hosted by Empi Baryeh (me), Kiru Taye and Nana Prah . For this hop we are celebrating romance books featuring characters of color either in multicultural or interracial settings/relationships. We hope you'll join us and sign up using the linky list below. We're offering overall hop Grand prizes of a Kindle Fire, gift cards and multi-ebook packs. Details to be confirmed closer to the hop dates. Donation to the grand prizes is not required for the sign up. However, you can donate up to $5 to the grand prizes and contribute an eBook to the multi-eBook pack. In return the cover to your eBook will be displayed on the blog hop sign up page from now to the end of November 2013. Also your 'Follow-me' details will be added to the overall Grand Prize rafflecopter which will be posted in each blog. Please ...