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November 2, 2015

Mandatory Monday – The Essentials I Need in My Life This Week

In honor of Just the Essentials (which releases for Kindle on Friday!), I’m starting a new blog series that I’m naming…Mandatory Monday. I could have named it Essentials Monday, but that doesn’t flow nearly as well. Ah, synonyms. Gotta love ’em. What a weekend. After the little royalties hiccup over at Amazon and my car dying […]
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Published on November 02, 2015 07:00

October 26, 2015

Free Review Copy of Just the Essentials – Oct 26 & 27 ONLY

You know what’s fun? Free stuff. That’s why today and tomorrow only, I am giving away Kindle Advanced Review Copies of Just the Essentials to people who visit my blog. How it works: 1. Contact me here to let me know you’d like a review copy, and I will e-mail you a Kindle file with instructions […]
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Published on October 26, 2015 07:00

October 19, 2015

Guest Post on YA Rendezvous – How to Write a Basic Outline

Good morning! It’s finally happened; sometime overnight it decided to be autumn. We woke up to rainy skies, cool weather, and leaves scattered all over the ground. It’s about time. I’ve been impatiently waiting for cooler weather, and it’s taken its dear, sweet time to get here. When you live in Colorado, you do not […]
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Published on October 19, 2015 07:47

October 16, 2015

Eldentimber Book Three Announcement – Seirsha of Errinton

Now that Anwen is out, I’ve been getting lots of questions about the third book in the Eldentimber Series: When is the release date? Who in the world is Seirsha? Will we see more of the characters from the first books? But by far, the most popular question is: Who’s the guy? Today I’m going […]
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Published on October 16, 2015 10:31

October 10, 2015

Cover Reveal – Just the Essentials

Available 11.06.15 Click here to order your copy on Kindle After twenty-year-old Kinsley is dumped by her longtime boyfriend, she escapes to her grandparent’s Colorado cabin to rethink her future and focus on her writing. But when she arrives, she finds a patchy roof, a death-trap deck, and rosebushes that threaten to swallow her whole. […]
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Published on October 10, 2015 09:29

September 28, 2015

Charting the Waters – Chapter Three Added to Wattpad

I’ve added Chapter Three to Charting the Waters, my ongoing Wattpad Novel Project. You can read it here. I hope you enjoy it!
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Published on September 28, 2015 08:19

September 26, 2015

Author Interview at Awesome Gang

My interview over at Awesome Gang has been posted! Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written. I have been in love with reading since third grade when it really clicked for me. I read anything and everything, but I just adore a good love story. I’m especially partial to ones in […]
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Published on September 26, 2015 10:16

September 23, 2015

September Countdown Deals!

Good morning! I’m just dropping by for a quick post to let you know Anwen of Primewood is going to be on a Countdown Deal starting tomorrow! Readers in the US can pick it up for only $0.99! It will only be there a few days before it goes up, so if you haven’t picked […]
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Published on September 23, 2015 08:33

September 22, 2015

Paranormal Flash Fiction

I’ll be posting a few short stories as I get my Wattpad profile up and going. Today, I added one of my very first attempts at flash fiction, “Restless”. It’s been sitting on my computer, not doing anything at all, so I thought I would upload it. Writing “Restless” gave me a fabulous idea for […]
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Published on September 22, 2015 14:15

September 21, 2015

Wattpad Project – Charting the Waters

There’s a story I’ve been working on for years. Truly, years. It’s been completely rewritten four times, and it’s finally–finally–going where I want it to go. As an experiment, I’m posting it–chapter by chapter–on Wattpad. I uploaded the first two chapters today, and I will continue to add a new one every Monday until the […]
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Published on September 21, 2015 19:50