I’m SO in LOVE!!!

August 6th, 2010

I bet you’re all wondering where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing with myself this summer. This may come as a surprise to many of you, but there’s a new man in my life, and he’s positively YUMMY…

He’s got thick, jet-black curls, the biggest brightest eyes I’ve ever seen and the sweetest set of dimples. And, my husband is completely smitten with him to!!! In fact, my entire family is. I gave birth to our son, CHRISTIAN, on July 7th and to say I’m blissfully happy is an understatement. This time around I had a great team of doctors, was closely monitored, exercised and watched what I ate.  I am so thankful that God saw fit to bless us with another child, and every time I look at baby Christian (yes, even when I am nursing him in the dead of night) I give God thanks.

There’s not much happening on the writing front. I turned in, Promises We Make (Feb 2011), a few weeks ago, and since then I have been spending time with my family and getting to know my precious little son. I plan to relax and recuperate this summer, but come September I’ll be back at “work”, writing my most dramatic, most intriguing Kimani romance yet!

With love,

Pamela Yaye

Why MAY is my favorite month

May 25th, 2010

Women are caregivers, nurturers, the ones who keep family and home together. We are everything to everybody, and often put our needs and wants on the back burner. My mom and aunties were a great example of what to do to stay sane,  healthy, and passionate about life. They took “me time”. Time for themselves. They went out for dinner, went to get the spa, traveled together. My mom had no qualms about leaving my dad with us kids for the weekend, (or the occasional month). I grew up seeing that you could be happily married, but also independent.

Every year in May I spoil myself silly. And I don’t have to blow money, or party like a rock star to do it either.  I go for extra long walks, treat myself to mint chocolate chip ice cream, buy books/cds by my favorite artists, spend more time with my family and friends.  By the end of the month I feel rejuvenated,  and filled with gratitude to God for my wonderful  life. The month of May is special for other reasons: my birthday,  Mother’s Day, my anniversary, and although my girlfriends laugh at me for ‘treating myself like a queen for thirty days’ I’m not going to change. It’s like the old saying, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!’

Be blessed! (And take time to stop and smell the roses!)

Pamela

Love Is In the Air

April 18th, 2010

Spring has always been my favorite time of year. The sun is shinning, flowers are blooming and the air smells clean and fresh. I don’t know if it’s the heady scent of roses, or all the fresh fruit I’ve been eating, but I’m in the midst of writing my most romantic, most heartfelt story to date. Mind you, DAMIEN HUNTER and NIVEAH EVANS, came down with a serious case of lust of first sight when they met on New Years Eve, but they are falling so fast, and so hard for each other, I can hardly keep up! Look for PROMISES WE MAKE March of next year (2011), and as soon as I can, I’ll post an excerpt.

My husband was kind enough to make me a copy of both Monica (Still Standing) and Usher’s (Raymond vs Raymond) CDS, and I love them both! This is shaping into an awesome year for new music, and I have a whole stack of CDS to open from some of my favorite artists. I am in the middle of writing my proposal for book 10 (can you believe it? Ten books already???) and I find the words of Marvin Sapp’s smash hit, Never Would Have Made It, constantly running through my mind. Maybe that’s why my heroine can’t catch a break. Life is throwing her one curve ball after another, but Claudia Jefferies is a strong girl; she’ll find her way out of the mess she’s in (I hope)

Urban Reviews gave LOVE ON THE ROCKS, a four-star review. Here it is.

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Tangela Howard has a new outlook on life. Since coming back from Mexico, she is 80 pounds lighter, more confident, and knows what she wants out of life. She also knows what she doesn’t want and that would be her ex-fiance Warrick Carver! Tangela and Warrick dated for 7 years, and Warrick was her everything. She moved in with him, cooked for him, and cleaned for him. After they were engaged and Tangela realized that Warrick was not ready to get married, she left and went to Mexico for 2 years. Now that she is back, she has a new agenda. She wants a husband and children, but not with Warrick. After seeing Tangela, Warrick realizes that his life is nothing without her. He also realizes that he is going to have to make the hardest sell he has ever made if he wants Tangela back in his life permanently.

Love on the Rocks by Pamela Yaye is a good read. The plot is well developed and very easy to relate to. Yaye does a good job with character development. She also does a wonderful job with keeping the story flowing without having lagging moments. Love on the Rocks will either make you appreciate what you have or help you figure out whether or not what you got is worth holding on to. 
Reviewed by Tenecia for Urban Reviews

Until Next Time ya’ll,

Peace.

Drum roll, please…

March 3rd, 2010

The grand prize winner of my LOVE ON THE ROCKS Valentine’s Day contest is…

EVELYN MCKINNON!!!

This lucky reader has won:  a $100 American Airlines travel voucher, an autographed copy of Love On the Rocks, heart-shaped chocolates, Michael Jackson’s This Is It DVD, a satin robe, a Bath & Body Works gift set, this month’s issue of Essence magazine,  and if that isn’t enough–a bottle of designer perfume (Guess for Women) Congratulations Evelyn!!!

Pamela Yaye

 

The Pink Heart Society

February 23rd, 2010

Check out my MALE ON MONDAY blog post over at The Pink Heart Society. http://pinkheartsociety.blogspot.com/search/label/Male%20on%20Monday/

And, be sure to tune in to CBC’s Next Chapter with the lovely Shelagh Rogers. Kayla Perrin and I had a blast talking about men, romance, and the creative process. The link is down below. Enjoy!

http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/

Finally, be sure to enter my LOVE ON THE ROCKS contest. It ends on February 28th, so get those contest entries in.

Have a great Monday!

Pamela

Valentine’s Day Contest!

February 13th, 2010

This months release, LOVE ON THE ROCKS, is a reunion story featuring vivacious flight attendant, Tangela Howard, and her first love, Warrick Carver. One lucky reader will receive:

a $100 American Airlines travel voucher, an autographed copy of Love On the Rocks, heart-shaped chocolates, Michael Jackson’s This Is It DVD, a satin robe, a Bath & Body Works gift set, this month’s issue of Essence magazine,  and if that isn’t enough–a bottle of designer perfume (Guess for Women)

To enter, all you have to do is answer the following five questions:

1) What national magazine does Tangela Howard appear on?

2) What is Warrick Carver’s occupation?

3) What is the name of my November release and who are the characters?

4) Finish this sentence: The most romantic thing I have ever done (or had done for me) was

5) Bonus Question: How many points did the New Orleans Saints win the 2010 Superbowl by?

Send your contest entries to pamelayaye@aol.com 

The contest ends on February 28th, so enter today!

More GREAT reviews keep rolling in…

January 25th, 2010
Wayne Jordan, editor-in-chief, at Romance In Color (and fellow Kimani author) was kind enough to email this review to me last night. Needless to say, it made my day!
ROMANCE IN COLOR
(4++) Ashley Haney
 
Tangela Howard grew up with a drug addicted mother and absentee father until the age of nine when she was placed into the foster care system with a foster mother who wasn’t any better than her biological mother.  She learned at an early age to depend on herself.  Tangela fell in love with Warrick the day they met nine years ago but ran out on him two years ago after realizing he wasn’t going to set a wedding date.
 
Now she’s back with a new look and a new view on life.  She’s ready to get a promotion, find a husband and have some kids.  There’s only one problem with her plan…she’s still in love with Warrick.  Warrick Carver has spent the past two years going through the motions but not really living.  He’s been named interim president of his father’s architecture firm and loves being in charge.  His love life has taken a non-existent backseat.  When he realizes that Tangela is back in town, he soon realizes that he’s never gotten over her, and he never will.  Tangela and Warrrick must open the lines of communication if they are to ever have a chance at love and true happiness.
 
Pamela Yaye tells a story of destiny in LOVE ON THE ROCKS.  Tangela Howard is used to running from her problems and never looking back.  Warrick Carver is accustomed to seeing things through to the end.  It’s amazing how two people, who, to others, seem so wrong for each other, are so perfect for each other.  Pamela Yaye uses her unflappable ability as a writer to tell a story through Tangela and Warrick and to encourage readers to never give up on the one you love.
 
The main story takes place in Las Vegas, but a trip to New Orleans helps get Tangela and Warrick back on track.  The dialogue is witty and realistic and keeps the reader interested in the story.  The supporting characters provide humor while giving Warrick and Tangela their advice and opinions. 
 
Pamela Yaye has another hit on her hands.  She also allows us to revisit Sage and Marshall from GAMES OF THE HEART.  I think Tangela and Warrick’s story is a perfect example of how important communication and compromise are in any relationship.  I absolutely loved this novel. 
*****AN AMAZON REVIEWER
5 stars
Tangela Howard fell in love with Warrick Carver and they were a couple for seven years. She wanted marriage but he kept putting it off. She left him feeling like they had no future together. She takes another job as a flight attendent with another airline and moves to Mexico. She returns 2 years later a few pounds lighter and with a different attitude. Warrick has never stopped loving her but business always came first with him. After seeing her he knows that he still loves her and vows to win her back. They hit a few setbacks because both are still afraid of being hurt again and find that they need to be more open to one another which was something they didn’t do in the past. Love prevails in the end. Great story!

What Readers are Saying About: The Hollington Series

January 1st, 2010

Here are some reviews about the 4-book HOLLINGTON HOMECOMING SERIES that  readers have been nice enough to post on-line. It’s not too late to get the series. My copies just arrived in the mail yesterday, and since I am now deadline free, I am going to spend the next week reading about these 8 love-starved friends in Atlanta for their 10-year college reunion…

We are introduced to 4 men and 4 women with a connection that spans a decade and that connection is Hollington College the class of 2009. What these individuals don’t know is that their reunion is going to bring some feelings and some closure to parts of their lives that they never thought would come to.

RSVP WITH LOVE (SANDRA KITT RATING 5)

Chloe Jackson was the girl who no one knew in college because she prefers it like that she was always about getting her education and keeping to herself. She graduated as the class valedictorian and now ten years later, she owns her own event planning business and she has been handpicked to organize their ten-year reunion. However, there was one person she would never forget her classmate Kelvin Slayton.

Kevin Slayton is the owner of a large enterprise which consists of multiple restaurants and clubs and when she finds herself being position to persuade him to let her use the club to host the reunion she finds herself in a relationship that throws her off her balance. Kevin has been feeling like there is something in his life that has been missing and he realizes it when he meets Chloe Jackson. However, when Chloe past causes her to retreat she puts Kevin in the defense to get the women he loves back in his life.

Chloe was the girl no one in college knew but Kevin takes notice of her right away and finds it a mission of his life to get what got away from him in college because he didn’t pay attention.


TEACH ME TONIGHT (JACQUELINE THOMAS RATING 4)

Tamara Hodges never forgot her best friend and math tutor in college Micah Ross but when words are exchanged between her and some of her classmates and the situation from her past arises she finds herself passing judgment on Micah before she could really ask him questions. Micah had found the women he loved in Tamara but when she ends their relationship after rumors, he finds himself hurt and devastated never getting to express his love for her. Now ten years later he is out for revenge or so he thinks. Tamara now writes for a local Atlanta paper and he is a major producer. When Tamara gets the call that she has been offered the interview of a lifetime and the opportunity to apologize to her friend she, jumps at it but never with realization that the situation was actually a poly but the poly went for bust when the two realize that their feelings were deeper than they thought. Micah is the record producer and has found a way to get back at Tamara for the hurt that she had caused him. The revenge was going to come at the cost of her job but after thinking back to the fourteen years of friendship he finds himself falling all over in love with her but not before some more misunderstandings and secrets tear them apart.


PASSION OVERTIME (PAMELA YAYE RATING 4.5)

Kyra Dixon wasn’t sure she could ever forget her college sweetheart especially since she saw him every Sunday when his team played and he was a reminder of how life didn’t always work in one’s favor. They were engaged to get married until the Majors stepped in and took him away. Now that their college is in need of a football coach and Terrance Franklin her ex-fiancé is free to coach she finds herself spending more time then she would ever want to trying to recruit him.

Terrance Franklin has come to realize that he’s ready to settle down it has taken him ten years to figure this out but only one woman has ever made him think long term in the general idea of marriage and kids with the dog to complete it. However this was the woman who he walked away from to go after his fame and glory but now that they have been forced back together he’s determine to make things right.

Kyra and Terrance have their difficulties where the trust has to be built again but the passion brewing isn’t going to be so easy to make go away.

TENDER TO HIS TOUCH (ADRIANNE BYRD RATING 4)
Two broken marriages and a weekend of fun can turn into a tremendous situation or at least that what it became for Lucius & Beverly. Lucius was a workaholic while Beverly used work to get over all that has gone wrong in her life so when these two bumps heads before their college reunion they find their selves in a no strings attached weekend of fun till Lucius realizes that he’s not happy being apart from her. Beverly isn’t so excited about a relationship she has failed at one and life for her is hard but with a lot of persuasion and her friends throwing her out to dry, she realizes that moping won’t help.

Lucius is delight with the way his relationship is growing with Beverly but his life couldn’t have taken an even crazy turn with the budding relationship on shells and his ex-wife throwing things at him that has him dodging bullets on all sides. However, he will do anything to keep Beverly in his life but will it push her away?

 Overall, the series was fun and has me on edge to see what my ten-year anniversary will be like. Kudos to Adrianne, Jacqueline, Pamela, and Sandra for a job well done.

JAMES D. STEWART WRITES:

PASSION OVERTIME is truly a romance novel that displays how the bond of two people gets stronger and deeper overtime. Terrance and Kyra, the two main characters, were made for each other. Though Kyra has been heartbroken, she can’t deny the love that she feels for Terrance because her body will not allow her.  Sometimes all true love needs to be rekindled is a reminder. For Kyra and Terrance, that reminder is the atmosphere of their alma mater.  Love never dies when it is kept in your heart and never meant to be separated.

 
ROBIE POPE, on PASSION OVERTIME:
I can really relate to Kyra.  She was so hurt by Terrence.  That was only a crack in her life. She was afraid to love freely. Not only did the young lover betray her but so did her father.  She was Daddy’s little girl but that was not enough to keep him faithful to her and her mother.  She is afraid that if she lets him back into her life she’ll be accepting a life she doesn’t deserve.

It took a lot for Terrence to come back. He was young and listening to other people tell him how to live.  Now he is a man who wants a second chance at life.  He now has to realize that you can change your life but you must still pay for your mistakes.

When Kyra began to wake up she really woke up.  She has forgiven her father, her lover and even herself.  Now she can live fully.
I have read two other books that you have written.  Keep writing and I will keep reading.  God has blessed you with a talent.

4 0ut of 5 books from Tenecia at URBAN REVIEWS

NFL great Terrence Franklin is back at his alma mater, Hollington College. He has been offered the head football coaching position, now that he has retired from the NFL. Everyone is ecstatic about him being back and bending over backwards to make his stay enjoyable. All except the one person he came back to see, Kyra Dixon. Kyra is Terrence’s one true love, although it has taken him 10 years to realize what a mistake he made breaking up with her. He is now back to make things right. PR director of Hollington College and Terrence’s ex-fiancé, Kyra Dixon is stuck with the task of getting Terrence to agree to become the head coach. Kyra is all business because she is not about to get involved with Terrence again, no matter how sexy and charming he is.

PASSION OVERTIME is a great read by Pamela Yaye. Lots of people will be able to relate to and reminisce about their college days. Yaye does a good job of giving background information that ties the plot together. Because this is part of a series written by several different authors, there are several storylines happening simultaneously. Yaye does a great job keeping them all straight. Passion Overtime is a nostalgic read.

LOVE ON THE ROCKS

December 23rd, 2009

Thanks to friend and fellow Harlequin author, Donna Alward, I got to read the Romantic Times review for my February release, LOVE ON THE ROCKS.  I think a  4 star review is a great way to start off the year!

LOVE ON THE ROCKS (4) by Pamela Yaye: Commitment-phobic Warrick Carver waits too long to propose to Tangela Howard, who leaves and moves to Mexico for a year. The first time he sees her upon her return she’s on the cover of a magazine, looking thinner and totally different. Tangela is willing to settle for a good husband — even if it means missing out on a great love — but when Warrick makes an all-out effort to get her back she succumbs, believing that things will be different. But he hasn’t changed, and she breaks things off again leaving him devastated. Eventually, Tangela comes to realize that she hasn’t always handled their relationship the right way. Multilayered characters and a story that allows the reader to see their depth make this an entertaining story.

 

Be sure to enter my VALENTINE’S DAY CONTEST that begins on January 15!!!! More great prizes coming up!

 

Always,

 

Pamela Yaye

 

 

Black Butterfly HOLIDAY chat!

December 20th, 2009

Today, is the 3rd Annual Black Butterfly Review Chat and your truly will be on hand to talk about books, men, and anything else that comes up (I’m sure we’ll weigh in on the Tiger Woods mess, celebrity drama and all the yummy new music that’s our right now!) so stop by for a visit. Below is a copy of the chat scedule and link. I look forward to seeing you there!

 Chat Schedule

7-7:30pm Authors:  A C Arthur ~Cheris Hodges

7:30-8pm:  Celeste Norfleet~Sabrina McAfee ~Pamela

Samuels Young

8-8:30pm Authors:  Niobia Bryant ~Dara Girard

8:30-9pm:  Gwyneth Bolton~Barbara Keaton ~Pamela Yaye

http://www.blackbutterflyreview.com/index.htm