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Waiting on Wednesday: This Is What Happy Looks Like

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"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.


This week's pre-publication I "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:



This Is What Happy Looks LIke 

by Jennifer E. Smith

Publication date: April 2, 2013



From Goodreads:


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If fate sent you an email, would you answer?

When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O'Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-y...

Swoon Thursday

Swoon Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by YA Bound.












From a book you are reading or just read tell me what made you swoon, put butterflies in your stomach and goose bumps on your arms. Shout it out on Twitter with the hashtag #YABound, post it here in the comments, and grab the steamy button above and share it on your blog!





My swoon worthy moment is from Hopeless by Colleen Hoover. There were so many good swoon worthy moments, but this scene was one...

Lorrie Struiff Guest Post

I'm so happy to have Lorrie Struiff visinting today!




Hello, Michelle,




Thank you so much for hosting me today
on your blog. I’d like to tell the readers how authors find it difficult to
promote.



A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

I think of the
rock as my stories that I write, and the hard place is trying to roll that rock
before the eyes of my target readership.

I’m basically a
short story writer. I’ve sold shorts to publishers and then I’m done with them.
Forget it, nothing more to do. B...

Four months and counting...

Four months from today my debut young adult novel will release through the amazing Spencer Hill Press.



To celebrate I'm going to share a short teaser and a song that inspired me while writing...








PODs Teaser:

"I'll find you, Eva. I won't stop until I do," David whispered.




Happy Reading!

Michelle


PODs--Coming June, 4th

Cover Reveal: DK MOK

I'm so excited to share the cover for DK Mok's Novel, The Other Tree, published through the incredible Spence City of Spencer Hill Press.










It’s been four years since Chris Arlin graduated with a degree that most people think she made up, and she’s still no closer to scraping up funding for her research into rare plants. Instead, she’s stacking shelves at the campus library, until a suspiciously well-dressed man offers her a lucrative position on a scientific expedition.



For Chris, the...

My Dad...

In Memory of 

Michael Lewis Hayes

March 12, 1944 - January 28, 2013







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The world has lost a great man.

He was a loving husband, dad and grandpa.

He will always be loved and never forgotten.




I love you, Dad.  Rest well.

Swoon Thursday...

Swoon is a weekly meme hosted by YA Bound.












From a book you are reading or just read ell me what made you swoon, put butterflies in your stomach and goose bumps on your arms. Shout it out on Twitter with the hashtag #YABound, post it here in the comments, and grab the adorable button above and share it on your blog! 







I was a Total sucker for Graham in Tammara Webber's book "Between the Lines." He had a quiet sexiness about him that just drew me...

Reclaimed Cover Reveal!

Spencer Hill Contemporary has revealed the cover for Sarah Guillory's novel Reclaimed and it's fantastic.




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The book sounds awesome! Check it out...






Jenna Oliver doesn’t have time to get involved with one boy, let alone two.



All Jenna wants is to escape her evaporating small town and her alcoholic mother. She's determined she'll go to college and find a life that is wholly hers—one that isn't tainted by her family's past. But when the McAlister twins move to town and Jenna gets invo...

Come Visit Me...

Come visit me...


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I'll be at the Montgomery County Book Festival at Lone Star College in Conroe, Texas February 2nd beginning at 9:00am

I'll be moderating the "Things that go bump in the night" panel.



I'll also be signing my novels Concilium and Concilium: The Departure.

And I'll have some PODs and Milayna information and SWAG, too!



It's going to be a great day, full of Texas authors and book signings.



I hope to see you there!


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Guest Post: Daisy Between a Rock and a Hard Place

I'm so honored to welcome Janis Kearney to my blog today. She is the author of  Daisy Between a Rock and a Hard Place, among many other titles. She comes with an interesting and amazing life story. A native of Gould, Arkansas, she grew up as one of 19 children of cotton sharecroppers. In 1987, she went to work for Daisy Bates as her managing editor at the historical Arkansas State Press, and in 1988, purchased the newspaper from the civil rights icon. In 1995, Kearney was app...