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Motivation: The Reward System

Ah, how I wish I could bury it... (Source)
It's the end of the first term for the school year which means I've spent the past few days doing something I absolutely LOVE doing (<----sarcasm): marking exam papers!  This is something that gets boring quickly. Like, REALLY boring. I've tried many things to make it more exciting: listening to music, playing a movie in the background, munching on sweets, staring at the blank wall in front of my desk ... Nothing really helps.

This time I decided to mo...

Cover Reveal for LABYRINTH (CREEPY HOLLOW #2)

Today is a blog tour Rest Day, which means no one else's blog has to put up with my presense, but MY blog still has to! So I thought today I'd do a cover reveal for the next installment in the CREEPY HOLLOW series, LABYRINTH. For anyone who's bought and read GUARDIAN, this won't be a surprise, as you'll already have seen this cover at the end of the book. But for everyone else . . .  here it is!


LABYRINTH is now on Goodreads!

GUARDIAN Giveaway Winners Announced!

I know you're just going to scroll right past this to see if your name is down there, but AFTER you've done that, perhaps you could check out the last official stop for the blog tour. Bree from The Magic Attic (such a cool blog name. I totally wish I had a magic attic) is posting a book review of GUARDIAN tonight. Thanks for ending off the blog tour, Bree!




There were sooooo many entries for the giveaway on Some Like It Paranormal (294 entries) that instead of picking one winner for that giveaw...

A Chat with Violet and Ryn

Today the crazy-awesome Colene Murphy is sitting in between Violet and Ryn interviewing both of them. You should really (really!) check it out. (I had a ton of fun writing it!)
And there is one last author interview for the blog tour, this one by Jessica Therrien (who is currently finishing off her own blog tour!).
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Do You See Your Writing As A Career?

Another interview! You can get to know even more about me (like which fictional character I'd like to be, and whether I see writing as a career) at Laura Josephsen's blog, Everything you didn't want to know about writing.
The awesome Golden Eagle (looking regal up there) is posting a book review on The Eagle's Aerial Perspective (and there is ANOTHER giveaway!).
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Voting has now opened for the A to Z Video Challenge. You can view my entry here, and you can click here to vote on the A to Z ...

Book Boyfriends, Interviews and Creating Cover Love

Some Like it Paranormal is getting a double dose of me today. Jennifer is interviewing me and she's reviewing GUARDIAN. *Edit: And she made Nate her book boyfriend this week!
And, as if one interrogation isn't enough for the day, I'm also being interviewed by Heather at Buried in Books!
This isn't part of the blog tour BUT it is still super cool. Stina Lindenblatt posted an article today on the QueryTraker blog entitled Creating Cover Love, and GUARDIAN is at the top of the article!
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Fantasy Worldbuilding and Chatting with Characters

Today is Fantasy Tuesday over at Cherie Reich - Author, and I'm talking about The Fantasy World of Creepy Hollow.
Lindsay gets to chat with Nate for a character interview at Just Another Book Addict.
And Madeleine Maddocks asks me a few tough questions over at Scribble and Edit!
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Today's randomness: I visited to find out my Hunger Games name and which district I would have been from. Apparently my name is Chamomile Dundermifflin. I'm cool with the Chamomile part, not so much...

Easy Steps To Creating An eBook Cover

If you're at all interested in the steps involved in creating a book cover (I, for one, thought it was lots of fun!), you should visit Michael at In Time . . . 'cause that's what I'm talking about over there today. (PLUS there is a giveaway happening on his blog!)
As well as that, you can find a book review of GUARDIAN at Chapter by Chapter. Thanks, MaryAnn!
If you look over on the side there ---> you'll see that my blog follower count has reach the awesome round number 500! I wanted to link...

A to Z Video Challenge - My Entry

I'm aaaaalmost late, but not quite, since the closing time for submitting entries for the A to Z Video Challenge is tomorrow night. So ... here is my entry, featuring my attempts at stop motion animation!

The Glorious Torture of The Series

Happy weekend, everyone!
On this fine Saturday I am being interrogated interviewed by Melodie (the lovely purple flowers above) at Forever Rewrighting in a post she has entitled "How To Launch A Series".I'm back at Trisha's W O R D + S T U F F talking about my love of The Series (both the book and TV kind. Yay for series!).And Rachel (another Rachel! Awesome!) is featuring GUARDIAN on The~Rest~Is~Still~Unwritten by posting a super review and a fun excerpt.

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