Happy Monday!!!!
And today I'm not actually minding Monday. But it might have something to do with being on Summer Break so there was no rush out the door this morning, or dragging a kid kicking and screaming from bed.
We just got to relax. And I got to drink five cups of coffee.
Ok, it wasn't five, but it might be by the end of this morning.... So some things about Monday never change.
Anyway. Keeping with the theme of Announcement Monday.... I have another announcement!!!!!!
Are you ready?
I don't think you're ready.
For this jelly.
Just kidding!!! But now it's in everybody's head, right??? I don't think you're ready for this jelly, I don't think you're ready for this jelly....
Whoa. Focus.
The announcement:
The lovely Lila Felix and I have decided to co-author a book together!!!!!!!!
Ah! I'm so excited about this I could just scream!!!!!
We were texting some time last week and the idea was mentioned and quickly turned into one of the longest phone conversations I've ever had where we came up with a brilliant idea that has so much depth and backbone I just cannot wait to share it with you!!!!!
Lila is extremely talented and super easy to work with so I could not be more excited about this partnership.
The tentative release date is September 1st.
This is an important month for both of us!! It will mark Lila's first year of being an Indie Author and September is my favorite month to publish books because that is the month people actually started buying mine. :)
The genre is Contemporary YA.
I'm so thrilled for this! I just cannot even tell you.
This will not in any way interfere with our current or scheduled projects, it's just like a bonus!!
I'll share more details soon. Title, Cover, Teasers, they are all on their way!! So get excited people!!!
Happy Friday!!!
It's summer break for us, so Friday stopped holding any real value. The days are already running together. But I am hoping to have Bet in the Dark finished by the end of the weekend, so that is something to look forward to.
I'm working so obsessively on it, I've called my children by the characters names instead of their own.
The first fourth of the book is always the hardest for me. Well, Ok. I have this OBSESSION with writing first chapters. Like, I probably have four books right now with just first chapters and nothing else. I just love setting up a story.
But then it takes me a while to get into it. Which is understandable if you get my writing process. Which is to sit down at a computer and just see where things take me.
Not much of a planner. Lol!
Anyway, I used to be a night person. Used to be as in past tense.... Because now that I'm older and have a million kids and don't get to sleep in anymore, writing past 11pm for me is almost impossible!
I have a lot of author friends, ok almost all of them, who can do like all-nighters and stay up super late and write forever.
This used to be me.
Not anymore. I start falling asleep while writing if I'm up late at all, even just a little bit late, like 9pm late.... In fact, if I try to read my own writing it's a guaranteed sedative. I'm out in like three seconds flat. Which makes editing a real pain...
When I was finishing up The Rush, I tried to write my editor an email late at night, and I kept nodding off while composing it and what I sent her was COMPLETE nonsense. Like I wrote my dreams in the email. I even called her a boys name instead of her own... weird.
This happened to a friend of mine in college, where she actually wrote a midterm paper with all this nonsensical dream stuff in it. She wrote about hobags and hookers in a THEOLOGY paper!! And at the time I thought that was the craziest thing I had ever heard! We laughed so hard about it!!! I mean honestly. She was supposed to write about the influence of the church or something and she was writing about hobags!! She still got an A!!! That was the craziest thing of all!!
Now it's happening to ME!!!!! First the email. And now, last night I tried working late and eventually gave up after I wrote this sentence:
“I’ll buy it,” Britte volunteered. She was awake, appeared to be healthy and on a full fledged mission to make me love pastels.
What??? I don't even know what I was thinking. This makes no sense and has nothing to do with the book. Obviously I was bummed that she was awake and I was not, and also healthy. But why my sudden hatred for pastels???
So confusing.
Consider this an outtake because unfortunately and as great as that sentence is, it will not be making the final cut.
Bummer!!
Lol!
So did you all see the Bet in the Dark cover??????????? Isn't it fabulous!?!?
My husband did it!!!!! I couldn't believe his hidden talent!
Usually I have the amazingly talented Sarah Hansen from Okay Creations do my covers, but she is incredibly booked up and this book was one I just decided on the fly to write. So, Zach helped me out and I am so pleased with the final result.
I just think it's gorgeous.
And it's just another reason I love him.
Plus now that there's a cover, I just put it up on Goodreads. So you can scootch over there and add it to your To-Read pile!!! I'll even link it for you! :)
Goodreads Bet in the Dark.
Don't forget to go LIKE my Facebook page if you haven't already!!! I'll pick a winner at random once I get to 1500 likes for a signed copy of Reckless Magic AND I'll release a smexy scene from Kiran's POV!!! So worth it, right?? :)
Maybe the cabin scene???
Everyone's a winner!!!!
Finally, I'm going to leave you with another teaser from Bet in the Dark!! Just because I can. But mostly because I love you!!!
These sentences are actually going to make sense... I hope.
It's summer break for us, so Friday stopped holding any real value. The days are already running together. But I am hoping to have Bet in the Dark finished by the end of the weekend, so that is something to look forward to.
I'm working so obsessively on it, I've called my children by the characters names instead of their own.
The first fourth of the book is always the hardest for me. Well, Ok. I have this OBSESSION with writing first chapters. Like, I probably have four books right now with just first chapters and nothing else. I just love setting up a story.
But then it takes me a while to get into it. Which is understandable if you get my writing process. Which is to sit down at a computer and just see where things take me.
Not much of a planner. Lol!
Anyway, I used to be a night person. Used to be as in past tense.... Because now that I'm older and have a million kids and don't get to sleep in anymore, writing past 11pm for me is almost impossible!
I have a lot of author friends, ok almost all of them, who can do like all-nighters and stay up super late and write forever.
This used to be me.
Not anymore. I start falling asleep while writing if I'm up late at all, even just a little bit late, like 9pm late.... In fact, if I try to read my own writing it's a guaranteed sedative. I'm out in like three seconds flat. Which makes editing a real pain...
When I was finishing up The Rush, I tried to write my editor an email late at night, and I kept nodding off while composing it and what I sent her was COMPLETE nonsense. Like I wrote my dreams in the email. I even called her a boys name instead of her own... weird.
This happened to a friend of mine in college, where she actually wrote a midterm paper with all this nonsensical dream stuff in it. She wrote about hobags and hookers in a THEOLOGY paper!! And at the time I thought that was the craziest thing I had ever heard! We laughed so hard about it!!! I mean honestly. She was supposed to write about the influence of the church or something and she was writing about hobags!! She still got an A!!! That was the craziest thing of all!!
Now it's happening to ME!!!!! First the email. And now, last night I tried working late and eventually gave up after I wrote this sentence:
“I’ll buy it,” Britte volunteered. She was awake, appeared to be healthy and on a full fledged mission to make me love pastels.
What??? I don't even know what I was thinking. This makes no sense and has nothing to do with the book. Obviously I was bummed that she was awake and I was not, and also healthy. But why my sudden hatred for pastels???
So confusing.
Consider this an outtake because unfortunately and as great as that sentence is, it will not be making the final cut.
Bummer!!
Lol!
So did you all see the Bet in the Dark cover??????????? Isn't it fabulous!?!?
My husband did it!!!!! I couldn't believe his hidden talent!
Usually I have the amazingly talented Sarah Hansen from Okay Creations do my covers, but she is incredibly booked up and this book was one I just decided on the fly to write. So, Zach helped me out and I am so pleased with the final result.
I just think it's gorgeous.
And it's just another reason I love him.
Plus now that there's a cover, I just put it up on Goodreads. So you can scootch over there and add it to your To-Read pile!!! I'll even link it for you! :)
Goodreads Bet in the Dark.
Don't forget to go LIKE my Facebook page if you haven't already!!! I'll pick a winner at random once I get to 1500 likes for a signed copy of Reckless Magic AND I'll release a smexy scene from Kiran's POV!!! So worth it, right?? :)
Maybe the cabin scene???
Everyone's a winner!!!!
Finally, I'm going to leave you with another teaser from Bet in the Dark!! Just because I can. But mostly because I love you!!!
These sentences are actually going to make sense... I hope.
“Fin Hunter,
I-“
“Just Fin,” he reached for my
hand, clasping my fingers between his two much larger, much stronger ones. He
tugged on it just a little bit and I stumbled into him. He was ready, opening
his legs so that when I righted myself I came to a stop facing him, trapped
between his outstretched legs and the solid wall of his chest. “Just Fin,
Ellie. Or every time you say my name it sounds like I’m in trouble.”
He looked up at me from under
those dark eye lashes, and I forgot how to talk for a minute. Like all the way
forgot, like my mouth had no idea how to make sound come out of it. This wasn’t
fair. He was using all of his charm and wiliness on me and I was left to fumble
around confused and…. flustered.
“But usually you are in
trouble,” I somehow came up with a witty, if not true response, although I had
no idea how any kind of rational thought was getting past his body heat or
intensely heated eyes.
“Seems to me like you attract
trouble,” he rumbled in his deep voice that seemed to drop an octave with anticipation.
Goosebumps immediately rose all
over my skin and I felt myself lean toward him even though I knew he was just
messing with me. A chill shivered down my spine and I couldn’t stop myself, I
was going to kiss him. Inside my head, I was screaming at myself to stop this
madness, to wiggle away from him, but I couldn’t. He had this tractor beam
radiating from him, drawing me to him like a moth to the light, or more
accurately like a stupid mosquito to a deadly bug zapper.
I was helpless to fight this
pull, to struggle against the invisible line he had tied to me. And now in just
seconds I suddenly felt this overwhelming need to taste his lips, an obsession
to find out how they would feel against mine. My fingers literally itched with
a crazed need to run along his scruffy jawline and my heart was fluttering with
anticipation. I had to kiss him or I would die.
Ok, everyone... Here it is!!! The cover and synopsis for Bet in the Dark.
Due date is May 25th and it is a NA Contemporary!!!!!
Hope you like it.
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Due date is May 25th and it is a NA Contemporary!!!!!
Hope you like it.
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All Ellie Harris wanted was a life of her own.
In a shortsighted decision, she follows her high school boyfriend to
college, only to get cheated on and then dumped. And to add insult to injury
her overprotective family is suddenly clinging to her again, fighting to
control every part of her life.
Bad luck follows her hasty decision and when her roommate steals her
identity and leaves town, Ellie is left to clean up a gigantic mess.
Fin Hunter insists Ellie owes him seven thousand dollars from an online
poker game and he is determined to get it from her. Determined to keep her
family out of her life, Ellie agrees to work for Fin in his illegal online
poker operation. He’s given her six weeks to pay off the debt.
Soon sparks are flying between them and the only thing keeping her from
falling for him is the debt she still owes and the money she doesn’t have.
At the end either Ellie will have to pay the mistaken debt or bet in
the dark that her feelings for Fin will be worth more than the money.
It's glorious outside. Perfect weather. Sunny. Bright. Warm. Breezy. The sprinkler's on. The kid's are running through it.
Perfection.
And
I love it all!!
And it's put me in this euphoric mood.
I can't help it. Zach always says I either LOVE everything. Or I hate it. (Ignore the bi-polar insinuations here... lol)
Well, today I Love it all! :)
And not only that... But these last few weeks have seen some AMAZING books released. Like amazing.
There is so much talent to buy these days. I feel so blessed to not only be able to read these fantastic works, but know a lot of the authors too!
Yes, I am name-dropping. Don't roll your eyes!!! I can't help it! :)
So, here is a list of my favorite authors and their recent releases!!!!
Get ready. These are amazing books!!!
M. Leighton. So I adore her YA Paranormals. Madly and Wolfhardt is one of my all time YA books ever. But then she came out with the Wild Ones. And I fell deeper in love. And THEN she came out with Down to You and I was lost. Irrevocably, forever, eternally lost. Her latest book just released this week and it's already tearing up the charts.
Until I break. Go, get it. Right now. Like right now.
Angeline Kace. Oh lord, there are not enough words for how much I enjoyed Descended by Blood! For real. Gah. Mirko. That's all I can say!!!! That's all I NEED to say! Trust me. And you most definitely need to find out why!! So her second book in the Vampire Born Series just released at the end of April. You need to buy it. I promise.
Here is the link to Enemy Within, but if you haven't picked up Descended by Blood you better get that one too!!!
Quinn Loftis. So people are obsessed with her Grey Wolves Series. And rightly so!!!!! She is this serious pillar of YA Paranormal Romance. And I love her dearly. She is writing a Contemporary now and I'm not sure what the release date is, but I know it's soon! I've watched the book trailer, seen the cover and all I can say is that this book is going to do GREAT things!! It looks fantastic.
For now, pick up the first in her newest series Elfin.
Shelly Crane. Ok, this girl is my soul sister. She lives a million miles away but I swear sometimes we can read each others minds!!! She is such a lovely person. And if you haven't read Significance... probably you need to go right this minute and download it. There making a movie out of! A freaking movie!!!! Good grief, I'm so excited for her. Like most of us these days, she took a walk-about outside of YA for a minute and wrote an incredible book called Wide Awake. This story is so touching, so beautiful, it might just change you forever.
Get it here!!! Wide Awake
Amy Bartol. She might seriously be one of the funniest people ever to live!!! I heart her so much. And I heart her work even more!!! Intuition from her Premonition Series was one of the very first Indie YA Paranormals I ever read. At the time, in my newbie state of mind, I didn't even know she was Indie. Her story was so well put together, so intensely descriptive that I just fell in love and didn't bother designating a difference! Her latest came out in December.
Incendiary.
Lila Felix. I love some Lila. She is one of the two people I talk on the phone to. Fun fact. Well, other than my mom and Zach, the only other two people in my life that get phone calls from me are Lila and Lindsay. And Lila knows why more than anybody, since the last time I tried to talk to her I had to hang up on her TWICE to deal with naughty children!! Anyway, she published her first book in September and I swear to you she is a force of nature with how many books she's published since then!!! She blows my mind!!! Her latest in the Love and Skate Series just came out last month!! Plus it's about Roller Derby. I have an OBSESSION with Roller Derby!
Get Down N' Derby right this second. And if you haven't read the series yet, you need so start with Love and Skate probably even sooner than that.
Georgia Cates. I cannot say enough sweet things about Georgia!!! She is just fantastic. And an incredibly talented author!!!!! Her YA work, Going Under, Shallow and The Vampire Agape Series, was so, so, so good and then she took the world by storm with her Contemporary work Beauty from Pain!!! The second book in that series is set to release very, very soon and I am dying for it!!!! Plus Beauty from Pain is only .99 right now!!!!! You seriously don't have an excuse not to go read it!!!
Beauty from Pain.
And last but so not least... Samantha Young. I am in love with her books. For real. Blood Will Tell is another absolute favorite YA Paranormal of mine!!! That is such a fantastic series. And then On Dublin Street. Um. What more can I say?? If you haven't read it yet, I'm going to think you're crazy. (No, just kidding, it is mature.. lol) She just released the second in the On Dublin Street Series this month, Down London Road. The best part of Samantha's books?? She's Scottish. So she gets to say things like "my wee brother" and "cantankerously." Love it.
Down London Road.
Ok, those are my faves for now!!! Hope you find something you like!! Also, I just posted a brand new Teaser of Bet in the Dark on my Facebook Page!!!!! While you're there make sure you LIKE the page because as soon as I get to 1500 likes I'm going to post another Scene from Kiran's POV!!!
And I'm leaning towards the Cabin-Make-Out scene!!!
Perfection.
And
I love it all!!
And it's put me in this euphoric mood.
I can't help it. Zach always says I either LOVE everything. Or I hate it. (Ignore the bi-polar insinuations here... lol)
Well, today I Love it all! :)
And not only that... But these last few weeks have seen some AMAZING books released. Like amazing.
There is so much talent to buy these days. I feel so blessed to not only be able to read these fantastic works, but know a lot of the authors too!
Yes, I am name-dropping. Don't roll your eyes!!! I can't help it! :)
So, here is a list of my favorite authors and their recent releases!!!!
Get ready. These are amazing books!!!
M. Leighton. So I adore her YA Paranormals. Madly and Wolfhardt is one of my all time YA books ever. But then she came out with the Wild Ones. And I fell deeper in love. And THEN she came out with Down to You and I was lost. Irrevocably, forever, eternally lost. Her latest book just released this week and it's already tearing up the charts.
Until I break. Go, get it. Right now. Like right now.
Angeline Kace. Oh lord, there are not enough words for how much I enjoyed Descended by Blood! For real. Gah. Mirko. That's all I can say!!!! That's all I NEED to say! Trust me. And you most definitely need to find out why!! So her second book in the Vampire Born Series just released at the end of April. You need to buy it. I promise.
Here is the link to Enemy Within, but if you haven't picked up Descended by Blood you better get that one too!!!
Quinn Loftis. So people are obsessed with her Grey Wolves Series. And rightly so!!!!! She is this serious pillar of YA Paranormal Romance. And I love her dearly. She is writing a Contemporary now and I'm not sure what the release date is, but I know it's soon! I've watched the book trailer, seen the cover and all I can say is that this book is going to do GREAT things!! It looks fantastic.
For now, pick up the first in her newest series Elfin.
Shelly Crane. Ok, this girl is my soul sister. She lives a million miles away but I swear sometimes we can read each others minds!!! She is such a lovely person. And if you haven't read Significance... probably you need to go right this minute and download it. There making a movie out of! A freaking movie!!!! Good grief, I'm so excited for her. Like most of us these days, she took a walk-about outside of YA for a minute and wrote an incredible book called Wide Awake. This story is so touching, so beautiful, it might just change you forever.
Get it here!!! Wide Awake
Amy Bartol. She might seriously be one of the funniest people ever to live!!! I heart her so much. And I heart her work even more!!! Intuition from her Premonition Series was one of the very first Indie YA Paranormals I ever read. At the time, in my newbie state of mind, I didn't even know she was Indie. Her story was so well put together, so intensely descriptive that I just fell in love and didn't bother designating a difference! Her latest came out in December.
Incendiary.
Lila Felix. I love some Lila. She is one of the two people I talk on the phone to. Fun fact. Well, other than my mom and Zach, the only other two people in my life that get phone calls from me are Lila and Lindsay. And Lila knows why more than anybody, since the last time I tried to talk to her I had to hang up on her TWICE to deal with naughty children!! Anyway, she published her first book in September and I swear to you she is a force of nature with how many books she's published since then!!! She blows my mind!!! Her latest in the Love and Skate Series just came out last month!! Plus it's about Roller Derby. I have an OBSESSION with Roller Derby!
Get Down N' Derby right this second. And if you haven't read the series yet, you need so start with Love and Skate probably even sooner than that.
Georgia Cates. I cannot say enough sweet things about Georgia!!! She is just fantastic. And an incredibly talented author!!!!! Her YA work, Going Under, Shallow and The Vampire Agape Series, was so, so, so good and then she took the world by storm with her Contemporary work Beauty from Pain!!! The second book in that series is set to release very, very soon and I am dying for it!!!! Plus Beauty from Pain is only .99 right now!!!!! You seriously don't have an excuse not to go read it!!!
Beauty from Pain.
And last but so not least... Samantha Young. I am in love with her books. For real. Blood Will Tell is another absolute favorite YA Paranormal of mine!!! That is such a fantastic series. And then On Dublin Street. Um. What more can I say?? If you haven't read it yet, I'm going to think you're crazy. (No, just kidding, it is mature.. lol) She just released the second in the On Dublin Street Series this month, Down London Road. The best part of Samantha's books?? She's Scottish. So she gets to say things like "my wee brother" and "cantankerously." Love it.
Down London Road.
Ok, those are my faves for now!!! Hope you find something you like!! Also, I just posted a brand new Teaser of Bet in the Dark on my Facebook Page!!!!! While you're there make sure you LIKE the page because as soon as I get to 1500 likes I'm going to post another Scene from Kiran's POV!!!
And I'm leaning towards the Cabin-Make-Out scene!!!
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