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August 3, 2016
Enter to Win a Signed Copy of Moonburner in this Huge YA Giveaway!
This month, Moonburner is a part of anamazing giveaway sponsored by Ripley’s Booklist, an awesome source for free and discount young adult books! There are twenty-seven YA books up for grabs, as well as an Amazon gift card!
Click HERE to enter!
Details:
How long does it run? From August 3-31.
How many winners will there be? There will be 1 Gift Card Winner, 15 Paperback Winners, and 1 ebook winner (who will get 12 ebooks), so a total of 17 winners. How will the winners be chosen?We will us...
July 25, 2016
My Top 10 Favorite Books and How they Influenced my Novel
I’ve been on a two-week Blog Tour through Chapter by Chapter, which means Moonburner is being featured all around the web! I had a lot of fun writing guest posts for the various blogs, but my favorite was this post on The Silver Dagger Scriptorium,which asked me to list my ten favorite books!
Any nerdy book-lover will know that it’s near impossible to narrow the favorites list down that far, so I did favorite books/series. As I was writing, I realized how each of these influenced my writing s...
July 18, 2016
Five Strategies for a Great Book Launch
Moonburner has been out for a little over a month now, and I thought it was time to do a round-up post summarizing a few of my book launch efforts. Over the last month, a lot of friends have asked me: “How do you get people to read your book?” That question makes me chuckle. Because you see, there’s the rub. It’s not easy!
There are a LOT of books out there. A lot of crappy ones, but a lot of great ones, too. People are busy. They may only have time to read one book in a month (many people do...
July 6, 2016
BOOK REVIEW: My Lady Jane
Check out my review of My Lady Jane on the YA Shelf! Reprinted below:
This is an unabashedly funny and playful book set in 16th century England. Part 1 (in which we revise a bit of history) focuses on the tragic life of historical figure Lady Jane Gray, who ruled the throne after the death of King Edward the VI for nine days before she was beheaded. But the narrators decided they couldn’t stand such an unfortunate ending for plucky Jane, so enter Part 2 (in which we throw history out the win...
June 25, 2016
Check out my Guest Author Post
Hi, I’m Claire. I like to color inside the lines. Writing my first young adult fantasy novel has one proverbial scribble across the page of life…and you know what? It feels pretty good!
I grew up in (and still live) the Pacific...
June 20, 2016
Moonburner Launch Party Success!
It has been a whirlwind of a week since Moonburner launched last Tuesday and I have been seriously overwhelmed and touched by the support of my friends, family, and colleagues!
Writing has been a largely solitary endeavor for me. For the first year or so only my close friends and family knew that I was even trying to write a novel. Since then, I have connected with a few other writers online, and I worked with an editor through my publisher, but for the most part, it’s just been me. On the on...
June 18, 2016
BOOK REVIEW: Red Queen, by Victoria Aveyard
I recently read the celebrated book Red Queen, and I definitely saw what all the fuss was about!
Mare Barrow is pickpocket with just a few months of freedom before she turns 18 and is drafted into the army. Mare is a red, meaning she has red blood, in a world where the members of the powerful ruling class have silver blood and remarkable super-hero-like abilities.
When Mare picks the pocket of the wrong handsome stranger, he takes pity on her and gets her a job in the nearby summer palace. He...
June 14, 2016
Celebrate Moonburner’s Launch Day with a FREE e-Novella!
Today’s the day! My debut novel Moonburner is officially live! I wanted to thank each and every one of you for your support and encouragement over the last two years. This is a big milestone, but it’s also the start of what I hope will be a lifetime of writing fiction.
If you’re interested in buying a print or ebook copy of Moonburner, you can do so at Soul Fire Press, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
But wait, there’s more! If you subscribe to my e-mail list to receive news and updates, I will...
June 9, 2016
Turn your Book into an Audiobook in Six Easy Steps!
Moonburner is becoming an audiobook!
I’ve always loved audiobooks (check out an old post on it here), but my love has only deepened as my life has become more hectic. These days, a week may pass before I can find time to actually sit down with a book, but there are lots of stolen moments where I canlisten toa book on my phone! Commuting, running, walking the dogs, making dinner, I can sneak a few minutes here, a few minutes there. Currently, I am listening to Siege and Storm, the second book...
May 31, 2016
Reviews for my Debut YA Fantasy Novel Moonburner are Rolling In!
Time flies, folks! In just two short weeks, my first novel, Moonburner, officially launches. I thought two and a half months would be plenty of time to ready a book to launch, but now I’m finding myself wishing I had more time! C’est la vie.
In the next few weeks, I’ll write a post summarizing all that I’ve done to ready Moonburner to launch, but suffice it to say that a big part of my launch strategy was getting Moonburner into the hands of advanced readers. I’m thrilled to say that the revi...
