Crunch time.
Life is playing hockey with me right now, and I spent the better part of Labor Day weekend shopping for a car, buying a car, finding a way to pick up my bought car (and return my rental car) which isn’t as easy as you think when you’re a single person with no family anywhere around you.
I also got the notes from my editor on my 2nd YA book – and a deadline for that which only turned the thumbscrews tighter. Continue reading
1 Line Wednesday
Topic: “School”
This is it, ladies and gentlemen! The end times! The apocalypse! Pastor Al Purifoy and his deacons have the inside scoop on the exact date that the world is coming to an end, and now they’re tasked with choosing who gets let in on the secret.
It turns out to be a little more difficult than they thought, weeding out the less-than-worthy of God’s grace, and with a spitfire named Lydia along for the ride, it’s going to get bumpy!
Check out my FREE short story, “Shall We Gather” at Smashwords and on Wattpad.
Book Marketing. What a pain.
Believe me, I know. I blog/Tweet/Facebook/Instagram on three different platforms (all while holding down a full time job to pay the bills and writing when I can find time around all that) and developing and executing a marketing strategy for each book can make you mental.
And make you feel like you’re out in the middle of a lake on a rowboat, screaming about your book only to hear it echo through the surrounding hills.
So here today are a few articles I found helpful when crafting my marketing strategies: Continue reading
“We shouldn’t do that again.”
Indar gave her a sideways smile. “Do you really think we’re not going to keep feeling this? The longer we’re near each other, the easier it’s going to be.”
1 Line Wednesday
Topic: Page 8, 31, 20 or 16
2 Bit Tuesday
Topic: “Reflection”
#LoveLines
Topic: Heart of Darkness
In my Once Upon A Time fanfic, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, I continue the story began in The Memory Keeper. Young Meriel Jones is the perfect combination – beautiful, with the cleverness and sword skills of her pirate father and the stubbornness and guts of her savior mother. On her 21st birthday, she’s visited with a terrible curse and to break it, she’ll enlist the aide of a mysterious protector to travel back in time on a mission: to ensure that her parents meet and fall in love (and yes, I wrote this before season three’s finale!).
In this story, you meet a very different Emma Swan – one who never knew her parents, a kingdom in the control of the malevolent Cora, and a pirate who’d payed a steep price for doing the right thing in front of the wrong person.
In this scene, Meriel has enlisted Emma and Killian’s help on a quest, hoping it’ll bring them closer together. Emma isn’t sure she’s ready to trust yet, and Killian has his eye on one thing… Continue reading
Guess what isn’t launching tomorrow?
Yep. No bookee for you!
Please be assured that this is NOT because you are undeserving of the third installment of my Elemental Series.
Wait – that’s not entirely true. You’re not deserving of a rushed out, might-have-forgotten-something version of that book. And the truth is, I just came off of a slammin’ good vacation and I really wasn’t in the headspace to finish this thing up. I had some major writer’s block centered around a certain plot point, and powering through it wasn’t working the way I wanted it to.
“I bury myself in my work and my beer and an amenable
girl and I keep repeating that cycle, over and over.”
1 Line Wednesday
Topic: “Work”
Britt DeLaney 