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Volvo has updated its C40 and XC40 Recharge electric vehicles to provide longer ranges and faster charging rates, writes Brian Byrne. The company now rates the two cars’ ranges at up to 578km and 570km respectively, while the maximum charging rate has been increased from 150kW to 200kW where available. This cuts nine minutes of previous charging times. The changes were achieved by changing the FWD single-motor cars to RWD, and on the AWD versions providing larger batteries. Both cars are available to order now from €61,715, with deliveries expected from July. 

CONGRATS TO LUCKY WINNER – SUE!         Readers, please join me welcoming New York Times and USA Today bestseller Susan Sizemore , author of Dark Stranger who’s guest blogging here today! DARK STRANGER (Pocket Star, 384 pp, Isbn:978-1416562139) is a fun, fresh “extra” in the Vampire Primes romance series, featuring a vampire hero who rescues a captured human princess-in-disguise in a futuristic paranormal world. But don’t worry! This also makes a great stand-alone. Thanks to Sarah of Pocket Books, I was able to request Susan to write about how difficult or different it is to write a vampire into a futuristic romance and here is her great response! I’ve been asked to blog about how difficult it is to write a vampire into a futuristic romance. This is a fantastic topic! First off, I have to say that I do not believe in “real” vampires. It’s my job to make myself and readers believe in the fictional vampires I create. It’s not just the vampires that have to seem real, but the world the

Readers, please join me welcoming Gary Stelzer , author of The Cost of Dreams who’s guest blogging here today! In this book, Gary, a retired Midwest physician, draws upon an ordeal of one of his most memorable patients for a novel that’s both a powerful, compelling page-turner and a poignant illumination of a woman’s-and a people’s-struggle to survive. Flora Enriquez trusts that she has found safe haven for her young family in the remote U.S. Southwest, after fleeing the murderous environs of Central America where her parents were slain in a civil war. Only to find that all of her life’s greatest challenges, by far, still lie before her. DREAMS  A book reviewer asked me yesterday if the title of my first novel had always been THE COST OF DREAMS. I answered, “no.” I had called an earlier, much longer, and terribly flawed draft THE DISAPPEARED ONE. A potent and intriguing enough title I think, and not at all a bad fit for the later manuscript. But I made the change because I wanted