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UNGRATEFUL DEAD by Naomi Clark

PI Ethan Banning wouldn't normally touch a haunting case. Mostly because he doesn't believe in ghosts. But when Charlie Mullen asks him to spend the night at a supposedly haunted morgue, Ethan figures, why not? He's broke and Charlie's offering double his normal rate, and that's good enough for Ethan.
But when a troublesome ghost really does show up, Ethan realises he's going to need more than a good supply of alcohol to get through the night.
I have AFTERLIFE and DEMONIZED--which are both...

Hectic!

Yeah. That's exactly what this week's been like.
Well, remember the not-so-great incident from last week? My domain transfer was completed last night--on both ends. Now, that was great news because I no longer want to have anything to do with GoDaddy, but now comes setting up my website again. Except, I have no idea where to start because everything's different with my new provider.
In the end, for the moment, I've decided to re-direct my domain name here to this blog.

I'd rather if someone...

Guest blogging at Fang-tastic Books today...

I'm chatting a little about new covers. And while I'm there, I'm also revealing the cover for my upcoming Damnation Books novel, SINFUL.
You can check it out HERE.

Starting the week with a plan...

That's right! This is the last week of school before my daughter goes on two weeks holidays. Okay, I think that with all the Easter/Anzac Day public holidays, it actually ends up being more like two-and-a-half weeks. :/
So, I've decided to give myself the insane goal of getting the third/final draft of Sunny & Silver's story revised. I got started early this morning and actually revised the prologue. That takes me to page 8/209. Not a bad start, I think.
Unless I receive some edits, this is...

I DON'T WANT TO KILL YOU by Dan Wells

Sixteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver has always known he's different, but not because he only has one friend (and doesn't much like him) and not because he regularly helps out in his mother's mortuary. He's different because he recognizes the classic signs of an incipient serial killer in his own personality, and he's created a rigid set of rules to follow to keep his darker nature, the one he calls Mr Monster in check.
But John discovers it's the personality traits he so fears that put him in...

So...

[image error] Today should've been a happy day. 
Not just because I managed to get the second draft of the novella that helped me get out of my writing slump at the beginning of March done--yay, it ended up being 33,936 words. Not just because after all that self-doubt, I managed to get the first and second draft of this novella done--as well as the second draft of my NaNoWriMo novel--during March. And between all of that I read a lot, as well as kept a lot of real life appointments.
It should've been a...

Mid-week, huh?

Yeah, we're here again. And I'm so tired. *yawn*
Got up at 4am this morning. I also had a very tiring day yesterday. I spent most of it out and about, catching several trains to get to my destination. Nothing serious, I just had a doctor's appointment--check-up. I also bought two books and finished reading the book I reviewed below. So I did manage to get a few things done in the process. It just took a lot out of me, that's all.
It would've been really easy to just take the rest of the week o...

DESIRES OF THE DEAD by Kimberly Derting

Violet and Jay are finally dating, but adjusting to the new relationship is not as easy as Violet anticipated. Especially when she has to split Jay's time and attention with his new best friend, Mike, and Mike's pesky younger sister - who happens to be obsessed with Jay.
Meanwhile, when Violet's special abilities lead her to the body of a young boy, her tip to the police puts her on the radar of the FBI. Violet tries to fend off the FBI's questions while maintaining the semblance of a normal...

The start of another week...

...and it's also the last week of March. Yikes!
Well. today I've taken time away from my writing/revising and instead spent it doing other stuff. You know how it is, sometimes you just gotta tackle real life stuff. I've also snuck in as much reading as I can. It's been pretty good.
I'm only giving myself today and tomorrow. Tomorrow, because I have a doctor's appointment smack-bang in the middle of the day. It's also several suburbs away, which means I'll be taking the train there.
Yesterday ...

RED RIDING HOOD by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

A literary novelisation of the hit Warner Brothers film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Amanda Seyfried.
Valerie is in love with the dangerous and unlikable Peter (a woodcutter, of course) but is betrothed to the rich hot blacksmith in town, Henry.
Their town has been terrorized by a wolf a wolf that appears only at the full moon and when Valerie's sister is brutally murdered the message is clear: she's next.
I was looking forward to reading this book, because I've always loved...