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Summer Giveaway Hop

I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in mine, the sun is gearing up to another triple digit August. For us this means, no more fun in the sun, we now have to stay indoors to keep from frying up! What better time to sit next to a fan and read a good book.For this reason I've joined I'm A Reader Not a Writer and Bookhounds in this second annual Summer Blog Giveaway, and I'm giving away a copy of one of my books.You choose!   "I have always existed, not just me but all of us, the un-embodied spirits who wait to live.”Tess is an unborn spirit, who is about to embark on a much awaited journey into mortality to a brand new planet called Earth. She is chosen by the Eternals for an important mission, and is put under a rigorous training by a half-human, half-lion Seraph.  This training exposes Tess to some of her darkest fears and insecurities.  These experiences force Tess to work on her gift as a discerner of thoughts and reader of auras—thus helping her become one of Heaven’s most powerful angels.  But even angels falter, and deep inside her a gnawing fear is growing. Will she meet her soul mate in life? Will their love be strong enough to overcome the forgetting effects of the Veil? And, is she prepared to take on the responsibility of keeping the most dangerous renegade and leader of the Fallen Angels at bay during mortality?


Or ...
Veiled from her previous existence as a gifted Angel, Tess is now a mere mortal growing up in foster care with her autistic foster brother, Dorian, and a twisted foster sister, Agatha—whose main goal in life is to torture them both. 


Tess’ life has been dull and average at best; but all that changes with one look.  When she inadvertently gazes into the eyes of the most popular guy in school—Alex Preston—Tess sees a glimpse of her previous existence. 


Uncomprehending, Tess, wonders what those memories are and why she now feels like she knows Alex better than anyone in this world.  More importantly, why is he haunting her dreams?  Dreams so vivid, that they blur the lines of reality, awakening a slew of inexplicable paranormal abilities she didn’t know she possessed.


Frustrated and confused, Tess lives a double life… one where Alex has a girlfriend and Tess is a normal high school girl.  And another, where spirits, visions, and dreams are true. 


Is she going crazy or is she secretly dating Alex in her dreams?
Just make sure you follow my blog and you let me know in a comment below which book you'd be interested in, should you win.Feel free to find me on Facebook and Twitter or visit my Website

Blog Tour of Living Soul

Join Tess on her very first blog interview on the Jennifer McMurrain Blog 


And if you'd like to be entered in my blog tour giveaway, make sure you follow my blog and leave me a message.

If you're still enough ... you might just hear them.

Sometimes I get an image in my head, and I write that image as best as I can, so I can convey my thoughts. And sometimes I'll stumble upon an image that describes the thought I had in my head so incredibly well, it's spooky. Like this one for instance. In Living Soul, Tess visits this room and listens to the voices of those who have inhabited this place before.
[image error] Source: designyoutrust.com via S.B. on PinterestHere are some more reviews along the Living Soul Blog tour that you might find interesting.

Author Airicka Phoenix Blog for a review of Veiled and Living Soul
Also, The Incredible Shrinking Woman. 
And because I'm on tour and I'm in the giving mood, if you leave a message and follow me, you'll be entered to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card.
 

Blog Tour Giveaway ----->This Way!

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Yes, I'm holding out a big carrot in hopes that you'll follow me! 

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I will be giving away a $50 Amazon gift card to one lucky blog follower who also comments while I go on tour! It's really easy and the more comments you leave me, the more your name will be entered into the pool. [image error] Source: 25.media.tumblr.com via S.B. on Pinterest

So get cozy and follow me along!

Killing Your Main Characters

What if your characters heard you writing about them? My mom said that I had to watch this movie, because I would find it appropriate. You have to be in the mood to watch it, its not Elf, but I found this particular scene so hilarious, I just had to share it! Now Harold is a character in a book, and a literature professor is telling him that he has to die or the novel will be ruined. Now they are totally straight faced here, and I don't know how they could even get through filming this scene so straight-faced, I was rolling on the floor laughing--because, well--he's a character! I feel sad now for all the characters I have killed and continue to kill in my stories. LOL!

Follow That Bunny!

Some Bunny has been busy!
It's Suzie Welker from The Bunny's Review, who is featuring Living Soul today and an informal interview of ... me! Hop on on over by clicking on the Bunny and read her interview, then, if you follow my blog and leave me a comment below, you'll be entered for in the big Living Soul Blog Tour giveaway of a

$50 Amazon Gift Card!!!! 

Yep. Follow me on tour, leave me a nice comment, below, and listo! You're in for the drawing! The more comments you make the more chances you have of winning. So what are you waiting for?
Say something...

Want To Win? Follow Me!

Hot summer's afternoons are for ... Reading ... Napping ... Dreaming and ... blogging! Yes. Blogging.

I would like to invite all of you as I tour this summer from blog to blog celebrating the release of Living Soul, the second book of the Veiled Series.

If you have LIKED my page on Facebook, please hop on over to my blog and click the FOLLOW BUTTON, because I can only do giveaways from my blog and I can't give YOU anything unless I see your face on my following box :-)

The Blog tour starts in July and I have several giveaways planned every week, so the chances of winning an Amazon gift-card or a paperback from me are very high!

The one and only requirement to win is that you follow my blog.
So hurry on over and become a follower! (for once ... in your life!)

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Giveaway ends July 14, 2012.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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Angel or Enchantress?

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There are pictures that are worth one thousand words.

This one, for instance saves me at least two days worth of writing, yet leaves me with the itch to write.

I wonder who she is and where she's going? What happened to her and why she fell from heaven, to walk among mere mortals?
Is she real or a mirage, is she good or is she evil?

Perhaps she's an enchantress like Circe, who's been banished and destined to roam her island until some unlucky man falls pray to her song.

I wonder ...

Angels ...

Why are we so obsessed with them? But most importantly why do we think them a different race? Why wings? Why the hauntings and the whole spookiness? Why can't they be more ... like us? Humans. Dead humans. Do you believe in Angels? If so? Who are they? What are they?