Auryn Hadley's Blog, page 8

Writing across genres or deal with a pseudonym?

The world has expectations. Readers do, too. As an author, I’m supposed to provide the type of books they expect from me. There’s only one problem… What do they expect?

In a world filled with so many rules, authors are people who prefer to break them. We test the boundaries of things in our stories, just to see how they will play out. We make the oddball into the hero. Our job is to embrace all the things that society is trying to quash. We’re the orange window frame in a black and white worl...

What’s in the works?

With the release of FLAWED, it’s time to start moving forward again. So what’s in the plans?

First off, the third book in “Rise of the Iliri” should come out this month. Defiance is right on track.

Then there’s the next book in the Eternal Combat series. “Virtual Reality” shows a new side to IceMan that many fans wouldn’t have expected. Then again, most of those geeky boys aren’t at all what you’d think. They never are.

And When We Were Crowned is still going. Unfortunately, the realities of...

Self Published Books SUCK!

At least, that is a lingering thought held by so many readers. Personally, I think it’s a holdover from the days of vanity publishing – when rejected authors poured their own money into printing their books, then tried to sell them any way possible.

Today, “self-publishing” and “independent-publishing” are mostly the same thing. The group contains both authors who struggled to control the production of their own product as well as those believe that once their great masterpiece hits the shelv...

The Art of Perfection

Recently, I have been struggling with the balance between grammar and flow. I want both, but I’m never going to get it. Never mind that when writing novels, there’s a level of leniency that is expected. A lot.

(See what I did there?)

I would love to be one of those rare individuals who can write a nearly perfect manuscript. I’m not. Commas pepper my work like germs in a hospital. I constantly fight to keep them at bay, use the good ones when I can, and purge the rest with the strongest cleans...

Flawed: Chapter 5

Release date: June 30, 2016. Read the Prologue HERE. Chapter 1 HERE. Chapter 2 HERE. Chapter 3 Here.or Chapter 4 HERE.

I hope you enjoy the first chapter. I will be releasing a chapter each day until release, so check back for the next installment. And of course, feel free to pre-order the book on amazon!

(Content warning: contains graphic language and situations, may be triggering for some.)

Chapter 5

Over the next week, Chance and Dez settled into a predictable routine. He went out most ni...

Flawed: Chapter 4

Release date: June 30, 2016. Read the Prologue HERE. Chapter 1 HERE. Chapter 2 HERE. Chapter 3 Here.

I hope you enjoy the first chapter. I will be releasing a chapter each day until release, so check back for the next installment. And of course, feel free to pre-order the book on amazon!

(Content warning: contains graphic language and situations, may be triggering for some.)

Chapter 4

Who knew a wifi password would be such a good bribe. Dez sucked back a whole pint of rocky road ice cream an...

Flawed: Chapter 3

Release date: June 30, 2016. Read the Prologue HERE. Chapter 1 HERE. Chapter 2 HERE.

I hope you enjoy the first chapter. I will be releasing a chapter each day until release, so check back for the next installment. And of course, feel free to pre-order the book on amazon!

(Content warning: contains graphic language and situations, may be triggering for some.)

Chapter 3

Chance left, not even giving her an idea of when he’d be back. It was just her and a massively large, empty warehouse. Of al...

Flawed: Chapter 2

Release date: June 30, 2016. Read the Prologue HERE. Chapter 1 HERE.

I hope you enjoy the first chapter. I will be releasing a chapter each day until release, so check back for the next installment. And of course, feel free to pre-order the book on amazon!

(Content warning: contains graphic language and situations, may be triggering for some.)

Chapter 2

Ten miles outside the city limits, the town faded away and pastures took the place of buildings. He loved it here. The rush of the modern w...

Flawed: Chapter 1

Release date: June 30, 2016. Read the Prologue HERE. I hope you enjoy the first chapter. I will be releasing a chapter each day until release, so check back for the next installment. And of course, feel free to pre-order the book on amazon!

(Content warning: contains graphic language and situations, may be triggering for some.)

Chapter 1

Three years later…

Dez swallowed two pills, washing them back with ice cold water from the fountain outside the break room, then headed back to the floor. P...

Flawed: a Sneak Peek

Games are a way of life. Men, women, children – we all love them, and some people make their living in virtual reality. Whether that’s playing games professionally like Riley Andrews (Challenge Accepted) or designing them, games have become a lot more than child’s play.

Destiny Pierce grew up online. Her best friends are virtual. Her gossip revolves around the next release. By age 17, she’s already made a name for herself blogging about the thing she loves most, and even picked up a few part-...