Haley Rhoades's Blog, page 10
January 28, 2018
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Spring is in the Air - Spring Break Will Soon Be Upon Us
Don't Forget to Download Your eBooks or Purchase Your Paperbacks As You Pack.
Your spring vacation is planned, but did you plan your reading? Take a moment today to purchase your copies of The Surrogate Series. The Proposal, Book One, makes great reading on one and two hour rides to your destination. The Deed, Book Two, will help you pass your time on the beach, by the pool, or relaxing with family. The Confession, Book Three, is perfect for nighttime reading or a long car ride.
Purchase your copies on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited,Nook, Kobo, or iTunes.
Follow Author Haley Rhoades on Amazon, Goodreads, and Facebook for extra insight into The Surrogate Series as well as announcements of future books.
As always please remember the best gift you can give any author is a review on Amazon and Goodreads. As an author I consider reviews my tips. Also, sharing your thoughts on books allows your friends and others the opportunities to enjoy the book, too.
Your spring vacation is planned, but did you plan your reading? Take a moment today to purchase your copies of The Surrogate Series. The Proposal, Book One, makes great reading on one and two hour rides to your destination. The Deed, Book Two, will help you pass your time on the beach, by the pool, or relaxing with family. The Confession, Book Three, is perfect for nighttime reading or a long car ride.
Purchase your copies on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited,Nook, Kobo, or iTunes.
Follow Author Haley Rhoades on Amazon, Goodreads, and Facebook for extra insight into The Surrogate Series as well as announcements of future books.
As always please remember the best gift you can give any author is a review on Amazon and Goodreads. As an author I consider reviews my tips. Also, sharing your thoughts on books allows your friends and others the opportunities to enjoy the book, too.
Valentine's Day - Treat Yourself and Your Friends
As February is upon us, pamper yourself with three great reads. The Surrogate Series Trilogy completes, just in time for Valentine's Day. The journey began in high school for Jackson, Kennedy, and Taylor. In The Proposal, Jackson and Kennedy ask a monumental favor of their best friend, Taylor. In The Deed, the threesome create a baby with unconventional methods. In The Confession, releasing February 2018, Jackson, Kennedy, and Taylor continue the surrogacy journey of love, sacrifice, and loss. This trilogy follows the threesome for twelve months of excitement, fear, announcements, laughter, and tears.
Paperback and eBook available on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks. Grab your copy to enjoy in a candlelight bubblebath with a glass of wine. Pamper yourself. Then give the gift of a great read to your friends.
Whether you are the type of reader that waits for all books in the series to become available before starting a trilogy or, like me, you read books as they are released then reread the first two before starting the third—now is the time to visit the lives of Jackson, Kennedy, and Taylor in Kansas City, Missouri.-Haley Rhoades
January 27, 2018
Cover Reveal-The Surrogate Series-Book Three-The Confession by Haley Rhoades
Releasing in time for Valentine's Day 2018The ConfessionThe Final Book in The Surrogate SeriesbyHaley RhoadesNow is the time to read The Proposal and The Deed before The Confession Releases.Three lifelong friends experience a journey of friendship, favors, laughter, joy, love, sacrifice, and loss.
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January 5, 2018
I Can't Make This Stuff Up!
My son rolled his vehicle three times side-over-side—he walked away without a bump or scratch.
So, here is how our New Year's Eve weekend played out. On Friday, 12/29 my nineteen-year old son Facetime-d me to show me his car. He was driving in Ames, Iowa. He slid and bumped a curb in a residential area. He damaged the balljoint and upper arm on the front passenger side of his Impala. He called Roadside Assistance and towed the vehicle to his apartment complex as it was ten p.m. on a Friday night, in a town where he knew no service stations.On Saturday, I made several calls and found Friday, 1/5 at ten a.m. was the earliest we could get his Impala fixed. His roommates were home for break—he stayed in Ames to work.
My twenty-three-year old was visiting us in Kansas City. As I write from home, I arranged for him to drive my Mustang for the week and allow my younger son to drive his Pilot for the week to work. I would share a vehicle with my spouse if I needed to run errands.
On Sunday, 12/31, New Year's Eve at ten a.m., my oldest son drove his Pilot behind me in my Mustang from Kansas City, MO to Ames, Iowa to drop it off for my other son. In Des Moines, he slipped on ice, lost control, left the highway and rolled three times in the Honda Pilot. When he called me I circled back to pick him up.A witness stated he rolled three times. My son said the side airbags deployed and he landed right-side up in cattails of I-80 near the I-35 exit. He climbed from the deep ravine up to the highway. As there was no shoulder at this area, the highway patrol escorted us to a parking lot to fill out paperwork. Another patrolman came later, stated can't see the wreck from the road and it took him a while to locate it in the tall cattails. Due to the weather, there was a towing ban on the interstates during this time.
So we turned back for KC. My son in Ames was left until Friday without a vehicle. We contacted our insurance agent from home. I opted to relax on New Year's Day and call the towing company on Tuesday morning.The towing company called back on Tuesday evening stating they couldn't find his car. The HP stated it was red instead of burgundy. As there is no shoulder, it is very hard to see the Pilot in the cattails while driving by and it's top looked black. So they went back Wednesday night after dark with the HP stopping traffic. It took two tow trucks to pull it out and up.Looking at the photos of the Pilot, it seems a very safe vehicle in rollover accidents. We are very blessed that neither son was injured.I have spent my entire week on the phone with towing companies, repair companies, insurance companies,...#writerprobs No work for me this week. :-(
So, here is how our New Year's Eve weekend played out. On Friday, 12/29 my nineteen-year old son Facetime-d me to show me his car. He was driving in Ames, Iowa. He slid and bumped a curb in a residential area. He damaged the balljoint and upper arm on the front passenger side of his Impala. He called Roadside Assistance and towed the vehicle to his apartment complex as it was ten p.m. on a Friday night, in a town where he knew no service stations.On Saturday, I made several calls and found Friday, 1/5 at ten a.m. was the earliest we could get his Impala fixed. His roommates were home for break—he stayed in Ames to work.
My twenty-three-year old was visiting us in Kansas City. As I write from home, I arranged for him to drive my Mustang for the week and allow my younger son to drive his Pilot for the week to work. I would share a vehicle with my spouse if I needed to run errands.
On Sunday, 12/31, New Year's Eve at ten a.m., my oldest son drove his Pilot behind me in my Mustang from Kansas City, MO to Ames, Iowa to drop it off for my other son. In Des Moines, he slipped on ice, lost control, left the highway and rolled three times in the Honda Pilot. When he called me I circled back to pick him up.A witness stated he rolled three times. My son said the side airbags deployed and he landed right-side up in cattails of I-80 near the I-35 exit. He climbed from the deep ravine up to the highway. As there was no shoulder at this area, the highway patrol escorted us to a parking lot to fill out paperwork. Another patrolman came later, stated can't see the wreck from the road and it took him a while to locate it in the tall cattails. Due to the weather, there was a towing ban on the interstates during this time.
So we turned back for KC. My son in Ames was left until Friday without a vehicle. We contacted our insurance agent from home. I opted to relax on New Year's Day and call the towing company on Tuesday morning.The towing company called back on Tuesday evening stating they couldn't find his car. The HP stated it was red instead of burgundy. As there is no shoulder, it is very hard to see the Pilot in the cattails while driving by and it's top looked black. So they went back Wednesday night after dark with the HP stopping traffic. It took two tow trucks to pull it out and up.Looking at the photos of the Pilot, it seems a very safe vehicle in rollover accidents. We are very blessed that neither son was injured.I have spent my entire week on the phone with towing companies, repair companies, insurance companies,...#writerprobs No work for me this week. :-(December 29, 2017
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Can you say colder than Cersei Lannister's heart on Game of Thrones.
2018 will soon be upon us. Are you ready?
We tend to be a boring family when it comes to New Year's Eve, but with this year's weather forecast we are blessed to be boring. In Kansas City our windchill on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day will be -15 to -35 degrees. (Yes, below zero!)
Can you say colder than Cersei Lannister's heart on Game of Thrones. BRRRRR!
Have you set any goals/resolutions for your New Year 2018? My list includes both work and personal goals:
1. I hope to self-publish five books in 2018. It's not a typo. I am almost done with a book—so the first will be complete in January. I figured if I can write over 55,000 books in November during Nanowrimo, prepare for holiday guests, and take a week off for Thanksgiving, I should be able to do the same for a couple of months in 2018. I will need to average one book for every 2.4 months. (The math nerd in me felt a little thrill computing this.)
2. I want to write in two genres this year. I plan to write both Romance and Young Adult books in 2018.
3. I hope to set up a table at a 'Meet the Author', 'Indie Author', or another book signing event. This will force me to get out of my comfortable office and publicly promote my books. I have been looking for such events in the KC or Missouri area—thus far I have found none.
4. I hope to take better care of myself. It's time to focus more on me. Like nearly every other adult, I would like to lose weight, but my goal for the new year is not to diet and exercise to lose weight. My goal is to work on altering my diet to lower my cholesterol to approved levels. Unfortunately, I am allergic to statins so I must use diet, exercise, and other means to achieve this goal. Allow me to give you TMI: my total cholesterol is 302, HDL is 37, LDL is 207, and triglycerides are 291. So yes, I do have to work on these levels. My first step is to meet with a dietician, alter my daily diet, and start walking on the treadmill more in these cold months. This might be the toughest goal on my list for 2018.
5. Lastly, I plan to make more connections with fans and writers in my genres. I enjoy reading and am always willing to assist a new author in their craft. I enjoy actively participating in the Facebook Writers' Groups. I've met and friended an author and reader in Switzerland and Australia. I've enjoyed my communications with these ladies and others. I look forward to many new connections in the year to come.
I hope this post found you healthy and happy during the holiday season. I pray the 2018 is all you hope for and more. I am sending good thoughts for a safe transition as we enter 2018.
As one year ends and another begins, use this opportunity to reinvent or better yourself. You are special, needed, and loved by many—never forget this.
Sincerely,Haley RhoadesAuthor
