Monday, May 25, 2015
Insert awesome title here!
More memes will come. I'm busy working on finishing up A Broken Howl to get it to my editor. I've also had some things accepted for anthologies with different publishers. So stay tuned for news on that.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
13 Release Party Highlights Day 2!
So I have a little surprise. There will be a blog post every day this week!
On day two we had Brooke as a co-host!
Brooke lives in Louisiana with her five girls and wonderful husband.
When she is not working on finishing her current degree, she can be
found fishing, coloring, or blowing bubbles with her kids. Just over a
year ago, Brooke decided she wasn’t going to back down from her dreams,
and started writing full time. With the encouragement of her family she
is proud to be publishing her books for the world to read.
Brooke started reading later in life. Unlike many authors who have always had a special love for reading, Brooke didn’t pick up a book until she was in her late teens. She remembers wanting to find something to do with her mom, who has always been her best friend. One day her mom was talking about a romance novel that she just read. Not being interested in it all, Brooke gave in and read the book. She’s been her mom’s reading partner ever since. They can now sit and talk, laugh and even cry about all the books they have read over the years.
So, with great pride and honor, Brooke is happy to thank her mother for encouraging her to not only read, but to follow her heart, and write her own books. What started as simple poetry on scrap paper, at the age of seven, is now a dream come true. Brooke started writing but felt something was missing. When she started writing with Natalya , everything seemed to fall into place, and now here they are. Launching books, and writing more. This may be the first you see of them, but Brooke is determined that this won’t be last. Brooke is excited for you to meet their characters, and fall in love with the men that they have spent many hours with over the last year, just for you!!
Links:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V6IVRHU/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=QQ8OZY31U5MO&coliid=I32H1REUEWNNNR
http://brookejohnsonbooks.weebly.com/
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/530375
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-theneedtotouch-1768207-145.html
https://www.facebook.com/BrookeJBreaux.Natalyaparks
Brooke started reading later in life. Unlike many authors who have always had a special love for reading, Brooke didn’t pick up a book until she was in her late teens. She remembers wanting to find something to do with her mom, who has always been her best friend. One day her mom was talking about a romance novel that she just read. Not being interested in it all, Brooke gave in and read the book. She’s been her mom’s reading partner ever since. They can now sit and talk, laugh and even cry about all the books they have read over the years.
So, with great pride and honor, Brooke is happy to thank her mother for encouraging her to not only read, but to follow her heart, and write her own books. What started as simple poetry on scrap paper, at the age of seven, is now a dream come true. Brooke started writing but felt something was missing. When she started writing with Natalya , everything seemed to fall into place, and now here they are. Launching books, and writing more. This may be the first you see of them, but Brooke is determined that this won’t be last. Brooke is excited for you to meet their characters, and fall in love with the men that they have spent many hours with over the last year, just for you!!
Links:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V6IVRHU/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=QQ8OZY31U5MO&coliid=I32H1REUEWNNNR
http://brookejohnsonbooks.weebly.com/
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/530375
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-theneedtotouch-1768207-145.html
https://www.facebook.com/BrookeJBreaux.Natalyaparks
Things we learned today:
Brooke writes MM romance in memory of her friend, a young gay man who took his own life due to harsh treatment he received just being who he is.
I'm bi. (GASP! Yeah, I know. Surprised me too. lol)
Brooke likes to write by candlelight.
I have to have loud music.
There are a lot of sexy cowboy pictures on the internet.
Brooke cannot eat green candy.
Roz cannot eat green veggies.
Amanda showed us that it's possible to put a lot of geeky SF references into just one caption.
And Jennifer demanded that there be another story after "Enforcing Christmas." :) God thing A Broken Howl will be out soon.
Memes from the Caption This games
And because it was already Wednesday where she is, our next co-host dropped it!
Bio:
Rachel Tsoumbakos is a stay home mother of two.
Her main passions are writing, reading and organ
While she has had several articles published through mainstream magazines, she has also written extensively for True Blood Net and The Inquisitr.
The party isn't over, so come on by!
The party isn't over, so come on by!
Monday, May 18, 2015
13 Release Party Highlights Day 1!
So 13 is out! You can is on Amazon and Smashwords!
For day one Our Co-host was Roz! If you missed it, here is a little about Roz!
This image is from a show called the 10th Kingdom. A show I had never heard of before, but it is now my latest Hulu addiction.
Roz knows here werewolf movies.
Both Roz and I wrote when we were young.
My pen name was made with variations of my parent's middle name. Because I love them bunches.
While Roz loves all the girls in her book The Sisterhood, she has a soft spot for Cathy, and she sees herself as a mix between Cathy and Naomi.
Roz might have a thing for space-travelling dinos!
I had a thing for horror even as a kid.
The first story I ever sold is one of the short stories in 13.
Now it's time from memes made from our caption this games!
As we can see from the memes, my party guests like killer unicorns! lol
For day one Our Co-host was Roz! If you missed it, here is a little about Roz!
Bio:
I’ve been writing stories since my earliest memories: my first
masterpiece was two pages of foolscap – with illustrations – about a
television programme of the time, and contained more uses of the word
“then” than any other. I’d like to think I’ve improved just a little
since then; after all, I was only about five.
My English teacher in secondary school didn’t care for the dark, gritty
science-fiction I regularly turned in for class assignments either, yet
I persisted. I was teaching myself more than she ever did! As an aside,
she also ruined both Shakespeare and Dickens for me, but that’s for
another time.
So, where to really begin? I’m already in my fifties, although I’ve no
idea when that happened! I’m British, English by birth and currently
Scottish by residence: I’ve been here for over ten years now, on a
remote island that requires me to commute by ferry for the day job – one
of the best journeys to and from work in the world, surely! In the
summer at least... this provides my core writing time, and with a
favourable wind I can turn out a fair amount in that time. My output
over the last twenty years or so has included almost a dozen novels and a
handful of non-fiction texts, the latter being well-known in their
academic field – something of a boasting point, I’m afraid! There have
also been short stories scattered here and there.
However... if you look for all these other books under my name, you
won’t find them, and here we come to the part of this biography that,
for all my years of dealing with it, I still don’t seem to have any
proper sort of handle on.
I am transgendered. There, I said it! I am biologically male,
psychologically feeling more and more female (whatever that means, but
it feels that way to me) as the years go by. My writing allows me a
useful window to explore this side of me, and undoubtedly helps keep me
close to some semblance of sanity. My family (I’m married with
children)are aware of this side of me, and have accepted it without
question since the Great Secret coming out – for which I am incredibly,
totally, grateful.
I love sharing what I do: I have taken to FaceBook like a duck to
water, and I regularly post updates, snippets and recent news about
whatever it is I’m doing. I also have a blog, after many years of
Luddite resistance, and similarly I am finding this to be a fantastic
way of getting this gender-related business out there into places where
it will hopefully do a bit of good and promote some understanding – not
least in me!
Links:
Links:
http://www.lulu.com/…/the-s…/paperback/product-22083095.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sisterhood-Roz-White-…/…/ref=sr_1_2…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sisterhood-Roz-White-…/…/ref=sr_1_2…
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roz-White/1567046250194474?fref=ts
Stuff that we learned today!
This image is from a show called the 10th Kingdom. A show I had never heard of before, but it is now my latest Hulu addiction.
Roz knows here werewolf movies.
Both Roz and I wrote when we were young.
My pen name was made with variations of my parent's middle name. Because I love them bunches.
While Roz loves all the girls in her book The Sisterhood, she has a soft spot for Cathy, and she sees herself as a mix between Cathy and Naomi.
Roz might have a thing for space-travelling dinos!
I had a thing for horror even as a kid.
The first story I ever sold is one of the short stories in 13.
Now it's time from memes made from our caption this games!
As we can see from the memes, my party guests like killer unicorns! lol
And now it's time to meet our new co-host! A huge thanks to her for stepping in when someone else had to drop out last minute.
Brooke lives in Louisiana with her five girls and wonderful husband. When she is not working on finishing her current degree, she can be found fishing, coloring, or blowing bubbles with her kids. Just over a year ago, Brooke decided she wasn’t going to back down from her dreams, and started writing full time. With the encouragement of her family she is proud to be publishing her books for the world to read.
Brooke started reading later in life. Unlike many authors who have always had a special love for reading, Brooke didn’t pick up a book until she was in her late teens. She remembers wanting to find something to do with her mom, who has always been her best friend. One day her mom was talking about a romance novel that she just read. Not being interested in it all, Brooke gave in and read the book. She’s been her mom’s reading partner ever since. They can now sit and talk, laugh and even cry about all the books they have read over the years.
So, with great pride and honor, Brooke is happy to thank her mother for encouraging her to not only read, but to follow her heart, and write her own books. What started as simple poetry on scrap paper, at the age of seven, is now a dream come true. Brooke started writing but felt something was missing. When she started writing with Natalya , everything seemed to fall into place, and now here they are. Launching books, and writing more. This may be the first you see of them, but Brooke is determined that this won’t be last. Brooke is excited for you to meet their characters, and fall in love with the men that they have spent many hours with over the last year, just for you!!
Links:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V6IVRHU/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=QQ8OZY31U5MO&coliid=I32H1REUEWNNNR
http://brookejohnsonbooks.weebly.com/
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/530375
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-theneedtotouch-1768207-145.html
https://www.facebook.com/BrookeJBreaux.Natalyaparks
It's not too late to join in on the fun! Follow the link to the party!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1388791204776955/
Brooke started reading later in life. Unlike many authors who have always had a special love for reading, Brooke didn’t pick up a book until she was in her late teens. She remembers wanting to find something to do with her mom, who has always been her best friend. One day her mom was talking about a romance novel that she just read. Not being interested in it all, Brooke gave in and read the book. She’s been her mom’s reading partner ever since. They can now sit and talk, laugh and even cry about all the books they have read over the years.
So, with great pride and honor, Brooke is happy to thank her mother for encouraging her to not only read, but to follow her heart, and write her own books. What started as simple poetry on scrap paper, at the age of seven, is now a dream come true. Brooke started writing but felt something was missing. When she started writing with Natalya , everything seemed to fall into place, and now here they are. Launching books, and writing more. This may be the first you see of them, but Brooke is determined that this won’t be last. Brooke is excited for you to meet their characters, and fall in love with the men that they have spent many hours with over the last year, just for you!!
Links:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V6IVRHU/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=QQ8OZY31U5MO&coliid=I32H1REUEWNNNR
http://brookejohnsonbooks.weebly.com/
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/530375
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-theneedtotouch-1768207-145.html
https://www.facebook.com/BrookeJBreaux.Natalyaparks
It's not too late to join in on the fun! Follow the link to the party!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1388791204776955/
Friday, May 15, 2015
Meet the co-hosts!
So the release party for 13 is Monday! The event is 5 days long (because I'm insane), and each day we'll have a different co-host. Let's meet them now in order of when they'll be at the party.
Bio:
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UNREMEMBERED THINGS
Katerina's Hope
Blood Oath
Bio:
Kira Johns was born and raised in the south, where she works as a paralegal. When she's not working or writing, Kira spends her free with her husband, children and pets. She enjoys spending time outdoors, whether on a boat or on the back of a bike. Kira, her husband and children are all avid competition shooters.
Her first book, Destroyed, was released in August 2014. The second book in the series, Destined, was released September 12, 2014. Deserved, book 3 in the series, will be released October 10, 2014.
Kira looks forward to any feedback you may have.
Email: AuthorKiraJohns@gmail.com
Links:
Become friends on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKiraJohns
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/SatansRebelsMC
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8431509.Kira_Johns
Website: www.authorkirajohns.com
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Kira-Johns/e/B00MG508F4
To join in on all of the fun, click the image below. There is still a pre-party contest going on until Monday for a free copy of 13!
Bio:
I’ve
been writing stories since my earliest memories: my first masterpiece
was two pages of foolscap – with illustrations – about a television
programme of the time, and contained more uses of the word “then” than
any other. I’d like to think I’ve improved just a little since then;
after all, I was only about five.
My
English teacher in secondary school didn’t care for the dark, gritty
science-fiction I regularly turned in for class assignments either, yet I
persisted. I was teaching myself more than she ever did! As an aside,
she also ruined both Shakespeare and Dickens for me, but that’s for
another time.
So,
where to really begin? I’m already in my fifties, although I’ve no idea
when that happened! I’m British, English by birth and currently
Scottish by residence: I’ve been here for over ten years now, on a
remote island that requires me to commute by ferry for the day job – one
of the best journeys to and from work in the world, surely! In the
summer at least... this provides my core writing time, and with a
favourable wind I can turn out a fair amount in that time. My output
over the last twenty years or so has included almost a dozen novels and a
handful of non-fiction texts, the latter being well-known in their
academic field – something of a boasting point, I’m afraid! There have
also been short stories scattered here and there.
However...
if you look for all these other books under my name, you won’t find
them, and here we come to the part of this biography that, for all my
years of dealing with it, I still don’t seem to have any proper sort of
handle on.
I
am transgendered. There, I said it! I am biologically male,
psychologically feeling more and more female (whatever that means, but
it feels that way to me) as the years go by. My writing allows me a
useful window to explore this side of me, and undoubtedly helps keep me
close to some semblance of sanity. My family (I’m married with
children)are aware of this side of me, and have accepted it without
question since the Great Secret coming out – for which I am incredibly,
totally, grateful.
I
love sharing what I do: I have taken to FaceBook like a duck to water,
and I regularly post updates, snippets and recent news about whatever it
is I’m doing. I also have a blog, after many years of Luddite
resistance, and similarly I am finding this to be a fantastic way of
getting this gender-related business out there into places where it will
hopefully do a bit of good and promote some understanding – not least
in me!
Links:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/roz-white/the-sisterhood/ebook/product-22083158.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/roz-white/the-sisterhood/paperback/product-22083095.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sisterhood-Roz-White-ebook/dp/B00VGAB4PS/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427836054&sr=1-2&keywords=roz+white
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sisterhood-Roz-White-ebook/dp/B00VGAB4PS/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427836054&sr=1-2&keywords=roz+white
Meet Rachel Tsoumbakos
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Bio:
Rachel Tsoumbakos is a stay home mother of two.
Her main passions are writing, reading and organ
While she has had several articles published through mainstream magazines, she has also written extensively for True Blood Net and The Inquisitr.
Author of:
UNREMEMBERED THINGS
(Wood Nymph Chronicles Book #1)
Available here:
Blurb
One woman, two worlds and nothing but UNREMEMBERED THINGS separating them.Indiana Shamira has a dark secret that could shatter her version of reality and get her killed in the process. Now if only she could remember what it is…When Indiana wakes with no memory of her past life and a vampire called Sam hanging from the rafters in her cellar, she knows things are about to get nasty. Not only does Sam know all about her previous life, but he seems intent on seducing her as well. Of course her boyfriend, Kurt, has different ideas – like making her open the portal to hell!
And then there is the nagging suspicion that Indiana is not entirely human, now she can see ghostly images from the Otherworld. Or could it be from the life she can no longer remember? They include the flickering effigy of Kurt and a redwood forest that conjures up deeply repressed magic.Not only will Indiana have to risk everything to keep the door to another dimension closed, she will have to decide whether she is ready to lose her heart to someone who has more secrets than herself.Set in the lush Australian bush, UNREMEMBERED THINGS is a fusion of fantasy, paranormal and forbidden romance.
Genre/s
Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, New Adult
Sub-Categories/Tags
Trilogy, Nymphs, Wood Nymphs, Vampires, Satyrs, Australia, Australian Author
Links:
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
Bio:
Sabrina
is a cancer survivor who recently published works with Survivor’s
Review and Titan InKorp Online eMag. She has published two novels
within a New Adult Urban Fantasy series called A Novel of four Realms
and a new Contemporary Romance Suspense Novel series
called An Eagle Operatives Novel. She enjoys life happily married to
a supportive husband. You can always find her reading a book or
cooking a meal for her multitude of children.
Links:
Briksanna's Sacrifice
Amazon US http://tinyurl.com/pkybgs9
Amazon UK http://tinyurl.com/opmjjmb
Amazon CAN http://tinyurl.com/oj6lruf
Amazon AU http://tinyurl.com/oukaomc
Barnes&Noble http://tinyurl.com/pwj68mu
Katerina's Hope
Amazon US http://tinyurl.com/lp2h3xa
Amazon UK http://tinyurl.com/nlur2qd
Amazon US http://tinyurl.com/omt2rcq
Amazon AU http://tinyurl.com/oompbpb
Barnes & Noble http://tinyurl.com/p84lotv
iTunes http://tinyurl.com/pfzj3jbBlood Oath
US Amazon http://tinyurl.com/nt7a98w
UK Amazon http://tinyurl.com/p2xqlnl
Good Reads https://www.goodreads.com/
Kira Johns was born and raised in the south, where she works as a paralegal. When she's not working or writing, Kira spends her free with her husband, children and pets. She enjoys spending time outdoors, whether on a boat or on the back of a bike. Kira, her husband and children are all avid competition shooters.
Her first book, Destroyed, was released in August 2014. The second book in the series, Destined, was released September 12, 2014. Deserved, book 3 in the series, will be released October 10, 2014.
Kira looks forward to any feedback you may have.
Email: AuthorKiraJohns@gmail.com
Links:
Become friends on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKiraJohns
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/SatansRebelsMC
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8431509.Kira_Johns
Website: www.authorkirajohns.com
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Kira-Johns/e/B00MG508F4
To join in on all of the fun, click the image below. There is still a pre-party contest going on until Monday for a free copy of 13!
Monday, May 11, 2015
Cold meds and blogging do not mix
So I wrote Fridays post Thursday night, and I scheduled. Or at least I thought I did. It seems I deleted the post instead of scheduling. We're blaming this on the cold meds I'm taking. So uh. . . . sorry?
What I thought I posted was a poem I did for Poem in my Pocket celebration the college I work at had.
So yeah, I'm dyslexic. Or well, that's what they told me growing up. Being over 30, things have changed a bit, and if I was tested as a kid today, it would likely be dysgraphia or dyscalculia. My brain is just dysfunctional. I do use a non-standard font for most things, even my ebooks if it lets me change the font. It's one of the reasons Amazon books annoy me. What good is an ebook that I only have the choice of a handful of fonts and like three colors? It's why I prefer Smashwords. I can read their books using the FBReader app on my tablet, which lets me use textured backgrounds (I can even add my own), font in every color there is, and I can use Open Source Dyslexia (The Alta version because it doesn't have the damn a with a little hood thing.) as my font. Both the app and the font are free. I use the font to write and edit with as well. In fact, this blog is written in that font. At least for me it is.
Also, happy belated Mother's day to everyone. I surprised my
momma, and made her take a selfie with me without her makeup.
Yep, I look nothing like my mom.
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My daughter, however, looks just like me.
And my son inherited my love of Star Wars.
Now, please meet my lovely friend Jillian. Click on her picture to like her photo for the contest she's in.
And don't forget about my contest! Click the picture!
Before we go, don't forget you can sample the first story in 13 now! The full anthology will be available on Smashwords Monday!
What I thought I posted was a poem I did for Poem in my Pocket celebration the college I work at had.
So yeah, I'm dyslexic. Or well, that's what they told me growing up. Being over 30, things have changed a bit, and if I was tested as a kid today, it would likely be dysgraphia or dyscalculia. My brain is just dysfunctional. I do use a non-standard font for most things, even my ebooks if it lets me change the font. It's one of the reasons Amazon books annoy me. What good is an ebook that I only have the choice of a handful of fonts and like three colors? It's why I prefer Smashwords. I can read their books using the FBReader app on my tablet, which lets me use textured backgrounds (I can even add my own), font in every color there is, and I can use Open Source Dyslexia (The Alta version because it doesn't have the damn a with a little hood thing.) as my font. Both the app and the font are free. I use the font to write and edit with as well. In fact, this blog is written in that font. At least for me it is.
Also, happy belated Mother's day to everyone. I surprised my
momma, and made her take a selfie with me without her makeup.
Yep, I look nothing like my mom.
.jpg)
My daughter, however, looks just like me.
And my son inherited my love of Star Wars.
Now, please meet my lovely friend Jillian. Click on her picture to like her photo for the contest she's in.
And don't forget about my contest! Click the picture!
Before we go, don't forget you can sample the first story in 13 now! The full anthology will be available on Smashwords Monday!
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