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Easier to Run: Blurb!

I just put together my first blurb, and I’m so excited to share it with everyone. I’m sure it’ll get a bit more tweaking as I move along, but I’m posting it here, so you can get an idea of what the book is about.

Easier to Run

Easier to Run is a full-length standalone novel.

Reunited “friends-to-lovers” Contemporary New Adult Romance

“He took my world by storm with four simple words  ‘I’m your new neighbor.’ I was only five at the time, but I couldn’t look away from the older boy staring at me through the hole in our back yard fence. In my mind, he was mine from that moment, but I knew that could never happen.

When I was fifteen, I learned that things that should never happen can sweep in and rip your entire life to shreds.

I lost everything.

I lost him….”

Six years after tragedy changed Cassie’s life forever, she continues to yearn for that one thing that will make her feel whole–the boy she was taken away from. The boy who had stood by her side and defended her at every turn. The boy whose shoulder she cried on when her parents died, after her sister committed suicide, during her testimony against her brother-in-law.

With her past a heavy burden that sits on her chest, threatening to suffocate her every night, she somehow finds the strength to go back and face it. To finally go back and find the man who might make her heart beat again and ease the dead pain she feels inside.

But six years can change people, and their relationship can never be the same.

Read the Prologue and TBR it on Goodreads! 

What do you think?

All about me, Silver Rain! #amwriting #author

Hello book world! I’m a new author and to introduce myself I asked my friends on Facebook and Twitter some of the things they’d like to know. What follows are the questions and my answers. :) I hope you enjoy. 

Silver Rain

What inspires you to write?

Life! I has always been an avid reader, and I love getting lost in fantasy worlds with new characters. That is a big part of my life and I find that even after I put down a book the fantasy world doesn’t stop. Over the years, I have scribbled down stories, but Easier to Run has really captured me and tugged at my heart, so it’s a very important project for me and I decided to share it with the world. It started with a dream about the main characters, and if you want to know more… you’ll just have to wait and read. ;)

How did you start writing?

I just picked up a pen and started scribbling. Half of my writing happens while I’m laying on the floor and staring at the ceiling while scenes play through my mind. Then I grab the nearest pen and a slip of paper and jot it all down before it fades away.

Does your family support you?

Unquestioningly!! Is that a word? My family has always been amazing at supporting what I want to do. I’m a lucky girl!

Do you belong to the RWA?

Nope. Maybe one day, but to be honest… I’m not even sure how to join.

What kind of books are you writing?

Romance! It’s like falling in love over, and over, and over…. And getting my heart ripped out every now and then. I love the rush of emotions and pull of inexplicable and unbreakable attraction between two people.

My first will be Easier to Run. And although I’m very excited to tell you all I can about it, I don’t have a blurb, and I’m keeping my cover a secret a bit longer. You can, however read the prologue in my first blog post ever!!

Easier to Run Prologue 

Why do you dislike certain genres?

Do I? Um, I don’t read Sci-Fi, but it’s just not my thing. I don’t really know how to explain why I like or don’t like certain genres. It’s just a gut reaction.

Does the fact that people tend to confuse point of view/perspective (ie Adult, YA, etc) with genre (Romance, Mystery, etc) drive you insane?

I could do an entire post on this, but yes!!! Every time someone calls New Adult or Young Adult a genre, I go a little insane in my head.

Okay, that’s it for this post!

If you have any more questions, leave them in the comments below and I’ll do another Q&A post to answer them. 

Prologue, Easier to Run by Silver Rain #FirstLook

For the last couple of days, I’ve been working with a cover artist, Kellie at Book Cover by Design. She’s amazingly talented and I can’t wait to show you all what she came up with for me. I thought about giving you a whole big run down of who I am for my very first post, but since the characters have been speaking to me, I figured I may as well just let them speak on my behalf.

So, without further ado, the prologue for my upcoming contemporary romance novel, Easier to Run.

Any and all feedback is appreciated! It hasn’t been edited or anything yet, but I hope you enjoy it.

Easier to Run

©Silver Rain, 2015

There are moments in life when you know you can’t go back and nothing will ever be the same. Sometimes, they replay on slow motion in your head, simultaneously reminding you of who you once were and how you came to be who you are now.

Sometimes, they eat away at you from the inside, like micro-crystals of poison growing in the back of your mind and seeping into your entire body.

Life can rob you of the things you hold dearest, and no matter how tightly you hold on, it leaves you helpless to watch as caskets are lowered, bridges are burned, and things you once held sacred, fade to ashes caught on the wind.

I keep running because there’s no way to get back the things I’ve lost. The people I’ve lost. But there’s still one person who might be worth clinging to. One boy who saved me from my own self-doubt more times than I can fathom. One man who was by my side, his support never faltering, even as life threw the worst at me.

But there’s one big problem.

I haven’t even spoken to him in six years. Life moved on, and I’m terrified to know where it took him. I’m terrified to tell him where it took me.

Now that I’m ready to go back, will there be anything left?

Will he push me away?

Will he even recognize who I am today?

It’s easier to run.

Maybe, just one more time, he’ll let me run away with him.

What do you think?

I’ve been told that I should give folks who are interested a way to keep up from day 1. So if you think this book will be something that you’re interested in reading (especially if you’d love to leave a review) I have a mailing list set up, and of course you can keep up on social media! Just check the sidebar for all the links and info.

And my friend was kind enough to hook me up on Goodreads, so you can find the book here, Easier to Run.

I Just Published my Book. Now What?

authorsilverrain:

I’m the new kid on the block and I found this post very useful.

Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:

First of all, congratulations! You’re now a published author – and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Second, you’d be amazed how often I hear that question in LinkedIn’s author groups. With some 3,000 new books published every day, I have serious doubts that you can just sit back and wait for readers to stumble on your book, or for word of mouth to work its magic. The chances of that happening are probably similar to that of winning the lottery, in which case you don’t even need the long hours and hard work that goes hand-in-hand with a career as an author (if you don’t believe me, you may want to check out this post by Pedro Barrento on Indies Unlimited).

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