The Keep Release Announcement!!!
The Keep is going to be released on November 12th!!! I am so, so, so very excited to get this book in your hands!!! Ah, it seems so far away, but getting this ready will keep me busy. Here’s my writing/pre-release day checklist: Plotting: 100% DONE! First Draft: 100% DONE! Rewrite: 100% DONE! Beta Readers: 100% DONE! Re-plotting: 100% DONE! Edit for Content: 100% DONE! Cover: 100% DONE! Edit for Flow: 100% DONE! Edit for Grammar: 100% DONE! Advanced Copies Ready: 100% DONE! Promotional Stuff/Blog Tour Prep: (Thru 11/12) Book...
read moreReview Tuesday – Perception Series
I hesitated to review this because it has been so long since I read it. But–because it is a triology I remember in spite of time and tons of other reads–I decided I should share it. This trilogy also has one of the best and most satisfying endings I’ve found in a series. Yet another reason why this book has stuck with me! The series is called the Perception Trilogy and was written by Lee Strauss. Be prepared, this one is pretty intense. Perception is categorized as a Sci-Fi Mystery Dystopian Romance…and...
read more$.99 Countdown Deal!
Right now The Convergence is an Amazon Kindle Countdown deal!!! Thru Monday 8/16 in will be available for $.99, after that price will increase by a dollar a day until it is back to the original price on Friday. So get your copy asap! If you already have one, now is a great time to buy a copy for your reader friends! ‘The Convergence’ Countdown Deal
read moreReview – Lunar Chronicles
I have been so busy summering (thus a review on a Wednesday rather than a Tuesday) that I haven’t gotten a chance to review this series and I have been dying to!!! I finished this about six weeks ago. They are long books, but pretty easy reads. So, without further delay, here’s my favorite YA series as of right now, The Lunar Chronicles. There are four books in the series: Cinder Scarlet Cress and Winter. I actually rated Cinder fairly low and wasn’t extremely excited to read the rest. I thought they wouldn’t...
read moreAn End To Slacking
I hoped to fit some writing into my crazy July schedule, but it just didn’t happen. I’ve been away from it for long enough now that I’m starting to get antsy. It feels like ideas are piling up and crowding in my brain. They need to get out!!! After a meeting with a group of my beta readers, I’ve been working out all of their recommendations in my mind and now it’s implementation time! I had high (and fairly unrealistic) hopes of having this book out in six weeks. In all honesty, the story will be ready. My...
read moreReview Incentive #1 Continued – More Deleted Scenes
I promised some more deleted scenes for you and I found them!! **Spoilers ahead** These are from one of the first versions and take place right after graduation. Originally, I had Desiree so angry she refused to keep converting until….well, you’ll see. It was a temper tantrum, I’m glad I got rid of. However, I do like Nichole in this version (initially, she was a much bigger character). Knowing where book two is going, it made sense to lessen Nichole’s role when the time for ‘killing my darlings’...
read moreReview Incentive #1 – Deleted Scene
Between Amazon and Goodreads, we are really close to forty reviews (some people posted in both places, which is awesome!). I promised a deleted scene when we hit that magical forty. Since I’m running like crazy this summer, I’m going to give you the first deleted scene today before I take off on another trip. It does have spoilers, if you haven’t read the book you’ll probably want to do that first! I do have another deleted scene for you and will get it posted super soon. Before I hand over the goods, I wanted...
read moreJuly 4th
*I actually wrote and posted this a year ago when my blog was still pretty new. Since most of you didn’t see it, I’m going to repost. Hope you enjoy!!!* People say American’s problem is a sense of entitlement. I don’t think that this is true. It’s not that we feel entitled, it’s what we feel entitled to. We feel entitled to a nation that will provide for us. To a government who will make the tough decisions for us. To lifestyles we can’t afford. To absolute, unbiased fairness. To a right to force our feelings and opinions on...
read moreReview Tuesday – The Frog Prince
Reviews are back!! I have been doing a lot of reading while traveling and camping. I finally finished the Cinder series and think I will have to break from tradition and review a non-indie author next week to cover all of my feels and thoughts…there are just too many right now to order. So, this week I’m sticking with indie author’s and one who has a lot of books on Kindle Unlimited (in case you didn’t know my book is available on there now too!!). The book is the Frog Prince by Jenni James. With this book,...
read moreKindle Unlimited
I love Kindle Unlimited. I know a lot of people don’t, but I think it is fantastic. I signed up for kindle unlimited thinking that I would be a member for a few months, read all the unlimited books that interest me, and then cancel. That was probably almost two years ago….and I still have it. What is Kindle Unlimited? I look at it like a library for your kindle. You pay $9.99 a month to read books enrolled in the program for free. You can have ten Kindle Unlimited books at a time. It seems like the books fall into one of...
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