Today at the YA Indie Carnival we’re talking about our experiences either reading, writing or reviewing sequels. I’m writing my first series now: The Teen Halloween Series & The Starjump Series. In the dozen or so years that I’ve been writing fiction, I’ve always written stand alone novels, so this is all very new to …
YA Indie Carnival Sequels: Challenges in writing 14 ON HALLOWEEN Read More »
I’m thrilled to help celebrate Every Last Kiss’s book birthday! Courtney Cole is an amazing author and if you love mythology and romance you need to buy her books TODAY! Courtney’s stopping by the blog today to share a little bit about her journey AND is dishing some AWESOME GIVEAWAYS! Welcome Courtney:) Hi everyone, Courtney …
High School senior, Sofia Black, has had a very hard life. Since her father’s death 7 years ago, she has had to look after her drug addicted, alcoholic mother. School isn’t any better for her either. The other kids constantly tease, and ridicule her. All she wants is to get out of her small hometown …
Cover Reveal : Redheads are Soulless by Heather M. White Read More »
Congrats to Candace Hawkins @canyco01, you won a signed paperback of Transfer Student! Yaysss! I’ll DM you on Twitter for your address:) I’m putting the finishing touches on the 14 on Halloween cover, because nothing says Halloween like April, right? LOL! this week will be a HUGE week in the life of the story. What …
Dude! Today at the carnival we’re posting 4/20 excerpts. Here’s one from TRANSFER STUDENT, an intergalactic tale of beauty and the geek. Here we meet Ashley, a surfer from Beverly Hills who’s always held a grudge against the yellow stars she never learned how to draw in kindergarten. While on The Field Trip from Hell …
YA Indie Carnival: A 4/20 excerpt from Transfer Student Read More »
Transfer Student is now available on Smashwords. To celebrate, I’ve decided to host a little giveaway that runs from now until Sunday, April 22! [open US, Canada, UK] Winner announced Monday, April 23:) To enter to win a TRANSFER STUDENT paperback! All you need to do is tweet: I want to win a signed paperback …
Who doesn’t like a good scare on Friday the 13th? And what’s scarier than waking up as someone else? Or, as you––only different? I love the movie BIG. There’s that scene where the little boy gets his fortune from ZOLTAR and it comes true in a very creepy/cool way. This same creepy/cool thing happens to …
YA INDIE CARNIVAL: Friday the 13th & A CREEEPPPPY/COOL Excerpt Read More »
So all of us have got our topics for tomorrow night’s local author showcase at The Oregon City Public Library at 7PM: using an authentic YA voice, life experience as research, finding the courage to write, inspiration & the writing process. I’ll be talking about inspiration. So authors, what’s the strangest/oddest/funniest thing to inspire your books? Readers, what …
Voice, Research, Courage & Inspiration what’s your take? Read More »
I’m heading up to Portland later today for the local author showcase at The Oregon City Public Library this Thursday night. I can’t wait to meet the teens there and also get to spend some great time with my friends and fellow authors Lisa Nowak, Stacey Wallace-Benefiel and Cidney Swanson. What’s that you say? But, you …
I hope you enjoy the TRANSFER STUDENT book trailer! I’m learning a little bit with every trailer I make. Producing book trailers is part of my writing process and I really enjoy creating them because I get to see my stories in new ways.
