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February 10, 2013
INDIE-versary Giveaway!
Wow. One year ago, on February 11, 2012, I published my first book, Nocturnal. Little did I know that my dream of writing full time was less than a year away. I can't believe how blessed I am to get to do what I love. I keep having these moments where I just sit and think about how lucky I am and it makes my heart hurt. I can't thank you all enough for making this dream a reality, and so to thank you, I'm doing a giveaway! You can win a $50 giftcard, paperbacks and ebooks, so there's something for everyone and it's international! Just scroll down to the Rafflecopter :)
*Don't forget you can STILL enter to win a Kindle or a Nook here*
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February 5, 2013
INDIE-Kissing blogfest!
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January 26, 2013
Deeper We Fall links!
Deeper We Fall is live on Amazon and Barnes and Noble! I'm still waiting on Kobo. I had to send them a nasty email when I tried to publish My Favorite Mistake, and a few hours after that email went through the book was live :) So, if it isn't up by Monday, they're going to get another one.So far I've been BLOWN AWAY by the response it's been getting, so THANK YOU.
Also, don't forget to enter the Kindle/Nook Giveaway!
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Also, don't forget to enter the Kindle/Nook Giveaway!
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January 24, 2013
Deeper We Fall is on its way (plus an EPIC giveaway)!
I just hit the publish buttons on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo for Deeper We Fall! *happy victory dance* It usually takes at least a day or so for them to be up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Kobo is unpredictable, or at least it was for My Favorite Mistake. We'll see....
Anywho, I will post links as soon as I have them. I'm still working on the paperback formatting, so that will be out in the next few weeks or so.
I've also decided that to celebrate Deeper We Fall, I'm going to give away a Kindle Paperwhite OR a Nook Simple Touch. How cool is that? The contest will start on the *real* release day, and go for a month. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment with your favorite inspirational quote. Zan Parker quotes the poet Rumi quite a bit when he's in need of a little inspiration. And then you can tweet or write a review for a few extra entries :)
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Anywho, I will post links as soon as I have them. I'm still working on the paperback formatting, so that will be out in the next few weeks or so.
I've also decided that to celebrate Deeper We Fall, I'm going to give away a Kindle Paperwhite OR a Nook Simple Touch. How cool is that? The contest will start on the *real* release day, and go for a month. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment with your favorite inspirational quote. Zan Parker quotes the poet Rumi quite a bit when he's in need of a little inspiration. And then you can tweet or write a review for a few extra entries :)
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January 23, 2013
Hunter's POV from My Favorite Mistake...
I did this for the blog tour back in October, but I never posted it here, so I figured I would, since people have been asking for it :) So, I give you Chapter One of My Favorite Mistake from Hunter's POV...
Author's Note: This is a rough draft, and has not been edited. This scene also contains adult language.
The first time I met Taylor Caldwell, I thought my heart stopped. When I'd gotten my room assignment the week before and I saw that there were three female names on the list, I thought I'd won the jackpot. I had no idea the apartments were coed, but I wasn't going to alert anyone in case it was a mix-up. I’d made my cousin, Mase, swear on his sister’s life that he wouldn’t say anything to his mother, Hope. She’d have my hide if she knew I was going to be living with a group of girls and trying to take advantage of the situation.
She knew me far too well.
I had my fingers crossed that when I opened the door, there would be a hot girl behind it. Turned out I underestimated the hotness on the other side.
There she was, shiny brown hair all sort of pulled back with a few pieces hanging out, shorts that hugged her in just the right way and everything else in just the right places. Her gorgeous eyes were wide with shock. They were the most amazing sort of blue, sort of green. It reminded me of the ocean, or some sort of beautiful exotic gemstone.
Those eyes assessed me as I tried to think of what to say.
“Are you Darah, Renee or Taylor? You look like a Taylor to me.” She totally did. Cute and sexy Taylor. I couldn’t stop myself from looking her up and down two more times. Damn. What I wouldn’t give to have those legs wrapped around me.
“There must be a mistake,” she finally said. Her voice was deeper than I would have thought. God, I wanted to hear her say my name. Over and over. I smiled, thinking about it.
“That’s a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?” I congratulated myself in my brilliant, spur-of-the-moment comeback. I wasn’t at my best, since a lot of blood from my brain was going to other areas.
Her eyes narrowed.
“That’s not what I meant,” she said. I smiled, because she was staring at me too. She must have seen something she liked. I would have been content to stare and be stared at all day, but another voice interrupted us.
“Is that her?” It was another female voice. I’d completely forgotten about the other roommates. Actually, I kind of wished there weren’t other roommates. I wanted Taylor to myself.
“I’m Hunter by the way. Hunter Zaccadelli,” I said, so maybe she’d say my name back to me. She looked like she wanted to roll her eyes when I said my name. “So, should I bring my stuff in, or…?” She opened her mouth like she was going to say something, but didn’t.
“Who’s that?” said a dark-haired girl who came from one of the bedrooms. She had long bangs that hung over her eyes, and she was tall. She was sexy too. Not as sexy as little Taylor, but still. I counted to five in my head and rubbed my tattoo for luck.
“New roommate, hey,” I said, raising my hand like a moron.
“You’re the new roommate?” Instead of being stunned like Taylor, this one was skeptical. Yeah, well, I had been to when I got the list of names of people I’d be living with.
“Yeah, my housing plans fell through at the last minute. My cousin was going to let me live at his place, but that didn’t work out, so here I am. Do you mind if I come in now?” I nearly stumbled on my words, but I somehow managed to be coherent.
“You can’t live here,” Taylor said.
“Why? This is a co-ed living facility, last time I checked.” I walked into the room, mostly so I would have a reason to brush by her. A smell like candy or cake or something else sugary and delicious. This was not going to be easy.
To distract myself from Taylor, I looked around the apartment. It was small, but it wasn’t a shithole. I’d looked the rooms up online, but there weren’t any pictures. It was going to be tight. Really tight.
“Well, it’s better than sleeping on my cousin’s couch.” It was ten million times better.
“Can I see some identification?” The girl with the bangs said. I still didn’t know her name. “How do we know you’re not some random creep?” That made me want to laugh.
“Do I look like some random creep?” I wasn’t sure if I wanted her to answer that.
“How are we supposed to know?” She stepped closer to me, pulling herself up so we were almost nose to nose. She was feisty this one. Also, there was no way she was kicking me out of this place.
“Look, all I know is that I submitted an application and they sent me an email with a room number and your names. Here, I printed it out. Do you treat all your guests like criminals?” I got out the paper and handed it to her, and then she handed it to Taylor.
“Why wouldn’t they have notified us?” Taylor said. Her face fell when she read my name.
“Who knows?” The other girl was still looking at me like I was going to pull out a knife, kill them and then cut them up into little pieces.
“Oh my God, I swear I’m never moving again,” yet another voice said behind me. We all turned and I caught a glimpse of a set of tan legs and armfuls of boxes. “Who left their crap in the hallway?” She somehow stepped around my footlocker and guitar and somehow got through the doorway. “Has our new roommate showed up – oh, hello.” She turned so I could finally see her. She was a tiny bit taller than Taylor, and had a total baby face. Round, with big blue eyes. Some guys went for that, but it wasn’t my thing. Still, all three of them were crazy sexy.
Some more than others. Actually one more than the others.
“I’m guessing that’s your guitar in the hallway,” she said, dropping the boxes and giving me a come-hither smile. Five minutes ago, I would have been on that like white on rice. But that smile had nothing on Taylor’s gorgeous eyes.
“This,” Taylor said, pointing to me, “is our new roommate, according to housing.” Please say my name, baby. Please.
“No way.” New girl’s eyes got even wider. “Are you shitting me?” Cute as a button with a mouth like a sailor.
“What a reception,” I said. Usually girls didn’t speak to me with so much disdain and disbelief until after I’d slept with them. But, there was a first time for everything.
“Shut up,” Taylor snapped. God, she was adorable.
“I should probably get my junk out of the hall,” I said, so I’d stop grinning at her like an idiot. I got my footlocker in and set it down in the living room. “So, who am I sleeping with?” I leaned against the door to one of the bedrooms. I hoped beyond hope that it was Taylor’s.
“Did you seriously just say that?” Taylor said as the girl with the bangs said, “the only free bed is in Taylor’s room.”
Jackpot.
“There’s no way he’s staying with me,” Taylor said. She crossed her arms again, covering her chest. Such a shame. “No, we’re calling housing right now and straightening this out.” She pulled out her phone.
“Tay, they’re not open on Monday,” the cute blonde said.
“I don’t care. There must be someone there. It’s move-in day.” She somehow found a campus phonebook and started frantically flipping through it.
“Aw, c’mon Missy, you don’t want to live with me?” Her cheeks flushed as she poked the buttons on her phone.
“Call me that one more time…” she didn’t get to finish as the phone rang on the other end.
“I’m Renee,” the little blonde one said as I shook her hand. Taylor had turned her back, so I got a full view of her ass. I wanted my hands on it.
“Darah,” the dark-haired one said.
“Hunter,” I said again. We all turned and watched Taylor.
“It’s best to let her go when she gets like this,” Renee whispered, but not quiet enough that Taylor wouldn’t hear.
“I wouldn’t mess with her,” I stage-whispered.
It looked like she’d gotten through to a message machine. She left a short and angry message and then dialed every other number she could find, leaving messages on every one. I was both shocked and impressed. She smashed her phone on the counter, and I thought it was going to break, but it didn’t.
“Feel better?” I said.
“No.” She grabbed the phonebook and threw that as well. “If you were a gentleman, you’d offer to sleep on the couch.” No way in hell.
“Well, Missy, you’ll come to find out that I’m not a gentleman. I plan to take full advantage of this situation.” She had no idea. Her mouth dropped open.
“Is it hot in here? I think I’ll open the window,” Renee said. I was a little warm, but that had nothing to do with the temperature in the room.
“Well, there’s nothing we can do right now. Let’s get his stuff in and then maybe we can go down and see if anyone is at housing,” Darah said.
“Sounds good to me,” I said. If I only got one night with Taylor, that would be enough. I went back into the bedroom and took stock of it.
Damn. There was peacock crap everywhere. My phone rang with Mase’s ringtone.
“Hey Man.”
“Hey, you moved in?”
“No, I just got here.”
“Sweet. Which one are you again?”
“Room 203.”
“You want me to come up?” I thought for a second about how much Mase would love Darah’s dark hair and long legs.
“Yeah, that would be great.” I wanted to tell him more, but the girls were all listening. I shut the door so I could have some privacy.
“Dude, you have no idea what I’ve walked into,” I said.
“They’re all ugly, aren’t they?”
“Complete opposite. Every single one of them is sexy co-ed material.”
“No shit.”
“I swear, I am not screwing with you.”
“Any one in particular hotter than the others?” He was fishing. He hadn’t had a girl in a few months, and he was ready for some action. I’d told him he could just find a girl and get her drunk and there you go, but his mother had instilled her Texas values in him.
“You could say that.”
“Which one in particular?”
“Taylor.”
“I shoulda known. Any one you think I might like?”
“Yeah, Darah.”
“Oh, so it’s like Sarah with a D?” We’d had a discussion about how to pronounce her name. You never wanted to say a girl’s name wrong. They were less likely to get into bed with you.
“Yeah.”
“I’ll be over in five.”
“See yah.” I heard the girls having a discussion outside, so I went to investigate.
“You weren’t talking about me, were you?” Taylor rolled her eyes and Renee was writing something on little slips of paper, folding them up and then putting them in a UMaine baseball cap.
“Pick one,” she said, holding it out to me.
“Okay,” I said, reaching in. I had no idea what was going on, but each girl was watching me like I was about to diffuse a bomb and save the world from disaster. I pulled out one of the folded slips of paper and handed it back to Renee. She unfolded it slowly, like she was working on a bomb.
“Taylor,” she said, holding the paper up so we could all see it.
“Shit,” Taylor said, closing her eyes.
Author's Note: This is a rough draft, and has not been edited. This scene also contains adult language.
The first time I met Taylor Caldwell, I thought my heart stopped. When I'd gotten my room assignment the week before and I saw that there were three female names on the list, I thought I'd won the jackpot. I had no idea the apartments were coed, but I wasn't going to alert anyone in case it was a mix-up. I’d made my cousin, Mase, swear on his sister’s life that he wouldn’t say anything to his mother, Hope. She’d have my hide if she knew I was going to be living with a group of girls and trying to take advantage of the situation.
She knew me far too well.
I had my fingers crossed that when I opened the door, there would be a hot girl behind it. Turned out I underestimated the hotness on the other side.
There she was, shiny brown hair all sort of pulled back with a few pieces hanging out, shorts that hugged her in just the right way and everything else in just the right places. Her gorgeous eyes were wide with shock. They were the most amazing sort of blue, sort of green. It reminded me of the ocean, or some sort of beautiful exotic gemstone.
Those eyes assessed me as I tried to think of what to say.
“Are you Darah, Renee or Taylor? You look like a Taylor to me.” She totally did. Cute and sexy Taylor. I couldn’t stop myself from looking her up and down two more times. Damn. What I wouldn’t give to have those legs wrapped around me.
“There must be a mistake,” she finally said. Her voice was deeper than I would have thought. God, I wanted to hear her say my name. Over and over. I smiled, thinking about it.
“That’s a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?” I congratulated myself in my brilliant, spur-of-the-moment comeback. I wasn’t at my best, since a lot of blood from my brain was going to other areas.
Her eyes narrowed.
“That’s not what I meant,” she said. I smiled, because she was staring at me too. She must have seen something she liked. I would have been content to stare and be stared at all day, but another voice interrupted us.
“Is that her?” It was another female voice. I’d completely forgotten about the other roommates. Actually, I kind of wished there weren’t other roommates. I wanted Taylor to myself.
“I’m Hunter by the way. Hunter Zaccadelli,” I said, so maybe she’d say my name back to me. She looked like she wanted to roll her eyes when I said my name. “So, should I bring my stuff in, or…?” She opened her mouth like she was going to say something, but didn’t.
“Who’s that?” said a dark-haired girl who came from one of the bedrooms. She had long bangs that hung over her eyes, and she was tall. She was sexy too. Not as sexy as little Taylor, but still. I counted to five in my head and rubbed my tattoo for luck.
“New roommate, hey,” I said, raising my hand like a moron.
“You’re the new roommate?” Instead of being stunned like Taylor, this one was skeptical. Yeah, well, I had been to when I got the list of names of people I’d be living with.
“Yeah, my housing plans fell through at the last minute. My cousin was going to let me live at his place, but that didn’t work out, so here I am. Do you mind if I come in now?” I nearly stumbled on my words, but I somehow managed to be coherent.
“You can’t live here,” Taylor said.
“Why? This is a co-ed living facility, last time I checked.” I walked into the room, mostly so I would have a reason to brush by her. A smell like candy or cake or something else sugary and delicious. This was not going to be easy.
To distract myself from Taylor, I looked around the apartment. It was small, but it wasn’t a shithole. I’d looked the rooms up online, but there weren’t any pictures. It was going to be tight. Really tight.
“Well, it’s better than sleeping on my cousin’s couch.” It was ten million times better.
“Can I see some identification?” The girl with the bangs said. I still didn’t know her name. “How do we know you’re not some random creep?” That made me want to laugh.
“Do I look like some random creep?” I wasn’t sure if I wanted her to answer that.
“How are we supposed to know?” She stepped closer to me, pulling herself up so we were almost nose to nose. She was feisty this one. Also, there was no way she was kicking me out of this place.
“Look, all I know is that I submitted an application and they sent me an email with a room number and your names. Here, I printed it out. Do you treat all your guests like criminals?” I got out the paper and handed it to her, and then she handed it to Taylor.
“Why wouldn’t they have notified us?” Taylor said. Her face fell when she read my name.
“Who knows?” The other girl was still looking at me like I was going to pull out a knife, kill them and then cut them up into little pieces.
“Oh my God, I swear I’m never moving again,” yet another voice said behind me. We all turned and I caught a glimpse of a set of tan legs and armfuls of boxes. “Who left their crap in the hallway?” She somehow stepped around my footlocker and guitar and somehow got through the doorway. “Has our new roommate showed up – oh, hello.” She turned so I could finally see her. She was a tiny bit taller than Taylor, and had a total baby face. Round, with big blue eyes. Some guys went for that, but it wasn’t my thing. Still, all three of them were crazy sexy.
Some more than others. Actually one more than the others.
“I’m guessing that’s your guitar in the hallway,” she said, dropping the boxes and giving me a come-hither smile. Five minutes ago, I would have been on that like white on rice. But that smile had nothing on Taylor’s gorgeous eyes.
“This,” Taylor said, pointing to me, “is our new roommate, according to housing.” Please say my name, baby. Please.
“No way.” New girl’s eyes got even wider. “Are you shitting me?” Cute as a button with a mouth like a sailor.
“What a reception,” I said. Usually girls didn’t speak to me with so much disdain and disbelief until after I’d slept with them. But, there was a first time for everything.
“Shut up,” Taylor snapped. God, she was adorable.
“I should probably get my junk out of the hall,” I said, so I’d stop grinning at her like an idiot. I got my footlocker in and set it down in the living room. “So, who am I sleeping with?” I leaned against the door to one of the bedrooms. I hoped beyond hope that it was Taylor’s.
“Did you seriously just say that?” Taylor said as the girl with the bangs said, “the only free bed is in Taylor’s room.”
Jackpot.
“There’s no way he’s staying with me,” Taylor said. She crossed her arms again, covering her chest. Such a shame. “No, we’re calling housing right now and straightening this out.” She pulled out her phone.
“Tay, they’re not open on Monday,” the cute blonde said.
“I don’t care. There must be someone there. It’s move-in day.” She somehow found a campus phonebook and started frantically flipping through it.
“Aw, c’mon Missy, you don’t want to live with me?” Her cheeks flushed as she poked the buttons on her phone.
“Call me that one more time…” she didn’t get to finish as the phone rang on the other end.
“I’m Renee,” the little blonde one said as I shook her hand. Taylor had turned her back, so I got a full view of her ass. I wanted my hands on it.
“Darah,” the dark-haired one said.
“Hunter,” I said again. We all turned and watched Taylor.
“It’s best to let her go when she gets like this,” Renee whispered, but not quiet enough that Taylor wouldn’t hear.
“I wouldn’t mess with her,” I stage-whispered.
It looked like she’d gotten through to a message machine. She left a short and angry message and then dialed every other number she could find, leaving messages on every one. I was both shocked and impressed. She smashed her phone on the counter, and I thought it was going to break, but it didn’t.
“Feel better?” I said.
“No.” She grabbed the phonebook and threw that as well. “If you were a gentleman, you’d offer to sleep on the couch.” No way in hell.
“Well, Missy, you’ll come to find out that I’m not a gentleman. I plan to take full advantage of this situation.” She had no idea. Her mouth dropped open.
“Is it hot in here? I think I’ll open the window,” Renee said. I was a little warm, but that had nothing to do with the temperature in the room.
“Well, there’s nothing we can do right now. Let’s get his stuff in and then maybe we can go down and see if anyone is at housing,” Darah said.
“Sounds good to me,” I said. If I only got one night with Taylor, that would be enough. I went back into the bedroom and took stock of it.
Damn. There was peacock crap everywhere. My phone rang with Mase’s ringtone.
“Hey Man.”
“Hey, you moved in?”
“No, I just got here.”
“Sweet. Which one are you again?”
“Room 203.”
“You want me to come up?” I thought for a second about how much Mase would love Darah’s dark hair and long legs.
“Yeah, that would be great.” I wanted to tell him more, but the girls were all listening. I shut the door so I could have some privacy.
“Dude, you have no idea what I’ve walked into,” I said.
“They’re all ugly, aren’t they?”
“Complete opposite. Every single one of them is sexy co-ed material.”
“No shit.”
“I swear, I am not screwing with you.”
“Any one in particular hotter than the others?” He was fishing. He hadn’t had a girl in a few months, and he was ready for some action. I’d told him he could just find a girl and get her drunk and there you go, but his mother had instilled her Texas values in him.
“You could say that.”
“Which one in particular?”
“Taylor.”
“I shoulda known. Any one you think I might like?”
“Yeah, Darah.”
“Oh, so it’s like Sarah with a D?” We’d had a discussion about how to pronounce her name. You never wanted to say a girl’s name wrong. They were less likely to get into bed with you.
“Yeah.”
“I’ll be over in five.”
“See yah.” I heard the girls having a discussion outside, so I went to investigate.
“You weren’t talking about me, were you?” Taylor rolled her eyes and Renee was writing something on little slips of paper, folding them up and then putting them in a UMaine baseball cap.
“Pick one,” she said, holding it out to me.
“Okay,” I said, reaching in. I had no idea what was going on, but each girl was watching me like I was about to diffuse a bomb and save the world from disaster. I pulled out one of the folded slips of paper and handed it back to Renee. She unfolded it slowly, like she was working on a bomb.
“Taylor,” she said, holding the paper up so we could all see it.
“Shit,” Taylor said, closing her eyes.
January 22, 2013
A long overdue update...
I've been a blog neglector :( This is partially because I've been busy and partially because I was stressed out of my mind and blogging is one of the first things to go when I'm stressed. BUT. I am de-stressed (for the moment), so I'm blogging again!
First things first: Deeper We Fall is currently with the formatter (a few days early), which means it *might* come out before the 26th. I've got my fingers crossed :) My beta readers and my editor loved it, so I hope that you will too. It's different from My Favorite Mistake, but in a good way (I hope).
Speaking of My Favorite Mistake... I am just starting work on the sequel, which does not have a title. I can't share any details about it YET, but as soon as I can, I'll post them here or on Facebook, or I'll tweet them or yell them from the rooftops or buy a billboard. Something like that. I will also let you know when I have a date for the Harlequin edition of the paperback.
Third, I posted a tentative release date schedule on Facebook, so I'll re-post it here:
*These are only tentative dates and are subject to change due to a number of circumstances, including, but not limited to: illness, shiny new ideas, writer's block and/or zombie apocalypse*
*My Favorite Mistake #2 is not on this list because I don't have a date from my publisher as to when it will be out. I will be working on it starting soon, so you'll get updates as far as writing it goes, but I don't have a firm release date. As soon as I do, you'll be the first to know*
Deeper We Fall (January 26, 2013)Secret New Adult Contemporary Romance (March/April 2013)Silence (Book Two in The Whisper Trilogy) (April 2013)Neverend (Book Four in The Noctalis Chronicles) (June/July 2013)Second Secret New Adult Contemporary Romance (August 2013)Listen (Book Three in The Whisper Trilogy) (October 2013)EAB, YA Contemporary Romance (November 2013)
Fourth, I've become obsessed with The Vampire Diaries. Again. I got totally into it Season One, and then my television stopped getting the CW, so I got behind and I couldn't watch the episodes online with my old computer and I just sort of lost it. But I bought the first three seasons on Amazon and I got through all three in about a week. I was up late EVERY night because I just couldn't stop. I'm all caught up, and I will be doing (probably several) posts about my love for the show, especially my love for Ian Somerhalder. Or as I like to call him, The Smolderholder. Stay tuned....
Fifth, I am doing a photo shoot on Friday for my official author photo and I'm freaking out. I am NOT a photogenic person, and I'm not being modest or whatever. My face just doesn't photograph well. But, I have to have a picture, so I'm doing it. I'll share the results and maybe let you vote on which one I pick.
Sixth, I LOVE YOU GUYS. SO FREAKING MUCH. I sent checks to pay off some of my student loans and my car yesterday. THAT IS BECAUSE OF YOU. It's astounding to see how far I've come in such a short time. February 11 is my indieversary. I made a (somewhat ridiculous at the time) goal of being able to quit my job within a year of publishing, and I was able to accomplish that. There are so many other people out there who don't get this opportunity, and I am truly thankful that I get to live my dream every day.
Seventh (because things should come in sevens), I have become obsessed with biscotti. Seriously, I have four boxes of the stuff right now. It's the perfect companion to the massive amounts of tea I've been drinking while I finish Deeper We Fall. My favorite kind is lemon anise. So. Freaking. Good.
First things first: Deeper We Fall is currently with the formatter (a few days early), which means it *might* come out before the 26th. I've got my fingers crossed :) My beta readers and my editor loved it, so I hope that you will too. It's different from My Favorite Mistake, but in a good way (I hope).
Speaking of My Favorite Mistake... I am just starting work on the sequel, which does not have a title. I can't share any details about it YET, but as soon as I can, I'll post them here or on Facebook, or I'll tweet them or yell them from the rooftops or buy a billboard. Something like that. I will also let you know when I have a date for the Harlequin edition of the paperback.
Third, I posted a tentative release date schedule on Facebook, so I'll re-post it here:
*These are only tentative dates and are subject to change due to a number of circumstances, including, but not limited to: illness, shiny new ideas, writer's block and/or zombie apocalypse*
*My Favorite Mistake #2 is not on this list because I don't have a date from my publisher as to when it will be out. I will be working on it starting soon, so you'll get updates as far as writing it goes, but I don't have a firm release date. As soon as I do, you'll be the first to know*
Deeper We Fall (January 26, 2013)Secret New Adult Contemporary Romance (March/April 2013)Silence (Book Two in The Whisper Trilogy) (April 2013)Neverend (Book Four in The Noctalis Chronicles) (June/July 2013)Second Secret New Adult Contemporary Romance (August 2013)Listen (Book Three in The Whisper Trilogy) (October 2013)EAB, YA Contemporary Romance (November 2013)
Fourth, I've become obsessed with The Vampire Diaries. Again. I got totally into it Season One, and then my television stopped getting the CW, so I got behind and I couldn't watch the episodes online with my old computer and I just sort of lost it. But I bought the first three seasons on Amazon and I got through all three in about a week. I was up late EVERY night because I just couldn't stop. I'm all caught up, and I will be doing (probably several) posts about my love for the show, especially my love for Ian Somerhalder. Or as I like to call him, The Smolderholder. Stay tuned....
Fifth, I am doing a photo shoot on Friday for my official author photo and I'm freaking out. I am NOT a photogenic person, and I'm not being modest or whatever. My face just doesn't photograph well. But, I have to have a picture, so I'm doing it. I'll share the results and maybe let you vote on which one I pick.
Sixth, I LOVE YOU GUYS. SO FREAKING MUCH. I sent checks to pay off some of my student loans and my car yesterday. THAT IS BECAUSE OF YOU. It's astounding to see how far I've come in such a short time. February 11 is my indieversary. I made a (somewhat ridiculous at the time) goal of being able to quit my job within a year of publishing, and I was able to accomplish that. There are so many other people out there who don't get this opportunity, and I am truly thankful that I get to live my dream every day.
Seventh (because things should come in sevens), I have become obsessed with biscotti. Seriously, I have four boxes of the stuff right now. It's the perfect companion to the massive amounts of tea I've been drinking while I finish Deeper We Fall. My favorite kind is lemon anise. So. Freaking. Good.
December 23, 2012
The Next Big Thing!
Yay, I'm part of a meme! I don't know who started it, but the gist is this: you answer a few questions about your next writing project and then tag five writers who then answer the questions, they tag five more, etc. It's all very "six degrees of separation." Hugh Howey tagged Sarra Cannon who tagged my Twitter wife Magan Vernon who tagged me! This is the closest I've ever been to Hugh Howey, which is pretty freaking cool. He's sort of the Bono of indie publishing. *sigh* Okay, onto the questions!
What is the title of your next book?Deeper We Fall.Where did the idea come from for the book?After writing My Favorite Mistake, I really wanted to write another New Adult book, but I didn't have any ideas. It's terrible, but I have no idea what the trigger was for this one. I just knew I wanted it to be a story about family and love and friendship and what you would do if you fell in love with the person who had ruined your life. It also has a girl who talks too much, lots of references to music, especially older music, Boo Radley, Yoda, What genre does your book fall under?This is a New Adult/ Mature Young Adult book. It has language and drinking, drugs and scenes of sensuality that aren't really appropriate for the younger teen set :)What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie?I'm still on the lookout for my perfect Lottie, but AnnaSophia Robb is close. For Zack and Zan Parker, the search has been trickier. They're both half middle eastern (don't know exactly which country yet), and I can't find anyone who really fits. Maybe I'll try some models. I've pinned a few on the Deeper We Fall Pinterest board. As far as the other characters go, I picture Lottie's brother Will as a less-good-looking Alex Pettyfer. Mostly because of the hair :) I still need visual inspiration for Katie, Trish, Stryker, and, of course, Lexie.What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?When Lottie Anders finds out the truth about the accident that broke her best friend, she'll have to decide who she can trust and what she believes.Ugh, I suck at this stuff. Please forgive me.Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?Self-published :)How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?I'm still writing it. *curls up in a corner and cries* This book has not been easy to write. I tossed out 45,000 words and started over. I'm hoping to finish it next week. Of course, it's completely changed from my original idea, which is why I've had to re-write it so many times.What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?Probably Easy and Losing It. I like to try and walk the fine line between dark and serious and light and sweet. I hope it works out.Who or what inspired you to write this book?I think it all comes down to love. For me anyway. I love to write about love, especially if it's not traditional boy-meets-girl kind of love. I'm also a bigger fan of internal conflict than external because I think it's so much more powerful and hard to overcome. The first scene I envisioned is Lottie and Zan's first kiss. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?If you don't like sibling banter, random pop culture references, records, steamy kisses, silent mysterious boys with secrets, powerful friendships, scenes about learning to drive a stick shift, pink, or awkwardness, this is not the book for you.
Tagging time! Check out the tagee's blogs to see if they responded to the questions:Tiffany KingVictoria SmithRachel HigginsonChelsea FinePatricia Lynne
What is the title of your next book?Deeper We Fall.Where did the idea come from for the book?After writing My Favorite Mistake, I really wanted to write another New Adult book, but I didn't have any ideas. It's terrible, but I have no idea what the trigger was for this one. I just knew I wanted it to be a story about family and love and friendship and what you would do if you fell in love with the person who had ruined your life. It also has a girl who talks too much, lots of references to music, especially older music, Boo Radley, Yoda, What genre does your book fall under?This is a New Adult/ Mature Young Adult book. It has language and drinking, drugs and scenes of sensuality that aren't really appropriate for the younger teen set :)What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie?I'm still on the lookout for my perfect Lottie, but AnnaSophia Robb is close. For Zack and Zan Parker, the search has been trickier. They're both half middle eastern (don't know exactly which country yet), and I can't find anyone who really fits. Maybe I'll try some models. I've pinned a few on the Deeper We Fall Pinterest board. As far as the other characters go, I picture Lottie's brother Will as a less-good-looking Alex Pettyfer. Mostly because of the hair :) I still need visual inspiration for Katie, Trish, Stryker, and, of course, Lexie.What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?When Lottie Anders finds out the truth about the accident that broke her best friend, she'll have to decide who she can trust and what she believes.Ugh, I suck at this stuff. Please forgive me.Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?Self-published :)How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?I'm still writing it. *curls up in a corner and cries* This book has not been easy to write. I tossed out 45,000 words and started over. I'm hoping to finish it next week. Of course, it's completely changed from my original idea, which is why I've had to re-write it so many times.What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?Probably Easy and Losing It. I like to try and walk the fine line between dark and serious and light and sweet. I hope it works out.Who or what inspired you to write this book?I think it all comes down to love. For me anyway. I love to write about love, especially if it's not traditional boy-meets-girl kind of love. I'm also a bigger fan of internal conflict than external because I think it's so much more powerful and hard to overcome. The first scene I envisioned is Lottie and Zan's first kiss. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?If you don't like sibling banter, random pop culture references, records, steamy kisses, silent mysterious boys with secrets, powerful friendships, scenes about learning to drive a stick shift, pink, or awkwardness, this is not the book for you.
Tagging time! Check out the tagee's blogs to see if they responded to the questions:Tiffany KingVictoria SmithRachel HigginsonChelsea FinePatricia Lynne
December 18, 2012
Release Date news for Deeper We Fall...
Ugh, I really didn't want to have to do this, but I'm pushing the release date of Deeper We Fall back two weeks to January 26. I know, I know. I suck. In all honesty, I could get it out on the 12th, if I wanted to get no sleep and be a crazy person and not spend any time with my family on Christmas. But this wouldn't be good for me, and it wouldn't be good for the book. I want to give you the best book I can, and to do that, I need more time. I'm knee-deep in copyedits for the Harlequin Ebook Edition of My Favorite Mistake, and then I have a proposal for MFM #2 due very soon as well.
BUT, as a little reward, I'll also be adding at least one chapter in the back of Deeper We Fall of something else I'll be working on this year. No, it's not going to be the first chapter of MFM #2, but I still think you're going to like it :) Also, to celebrate the release of Deeper We Fall, I'll be doing a giveaway for a HUGE prize.
ALSO, the re-done covers for The Noctalis Chronicles are DONE, and they're GORGEOUS. Sarah Hansen from Okay Creations is a goddess. I've told her so more than once :) I'll be doing a massive re-reveal for those probably at the end of January, beginning of February and there will be ANOTHER huge giveaway for that.
So, to recap: Deeper We Fall will be available on January 26, The Noctalis re-done covers will be revealed early next year, and I'm doing TWO epic giveaways. So 2013 is going to be EPIC.
Please don't hate me!
OH, also, I'm officially a full-time author!! I changed my Facebook "where you work" and everything! Thanks to everyone who helped make my dream career a possibility that I never thought would happen.
I LOVE YOU!!!
BUT, as a little reward, I'll also be adding at least one chapter in the back of Deeper We Fall of something else I'll be working on this year. No, it's not going to be the first chapter of MFM #2, but I still think you're going to like it :) Also, to celebrate the release of Deeper We Fall, I'll be doing a giveaway for a HUGE prize.
ALSO, the re-done covers for The Noctalis Chronicles are DONE, and they're GORGEOUS. Sarah Hansen from Okay Creations is a goddess. I've told her so more than once :) I'll be doing a massive re-reveal for those probably at the end of January, beginning of February and there will be ANOTHER huge giveaway for that.
So, to recap: Deeper We Fall will be available on January 26, The Noctalis re-done covers will be revealed early next year, and I'm doing TWO epic giveaways. So 2013 is going to be EPIC.
Please don't hate me!
OH, also, I'm officially a full-time author!! I changed my Facebook "where you work" and everything! Thanks to everyone who helped make my dream career a possibility that I never thought would happen.
I LOVE YOU!!!
December 12, 2012
Mating Game Blog Hop Winner!
I read through all the entries for The Mating Game Blog Hop, and I picked my winner of an ecopy of My Favorite Mistake!
Drum roll.....
Queensheena!
You're SUPER lucky, because you also won over at Victoria's blog!
Just email me at chel (dot) c (dot) cam (at) gmail (dot) com and let me know what format you would prefer!
Don't forget to check out the other blogs to see the other winners!
Victoria H. Smith | http://twentysomethingfictionwriter.blogspot.com/Jade Hart | http://www.dreamwritepublish.blogspot.com/Jaycee Delorenzo | http://blog.jayceedelorenzo.com/Magan Vernon | http://thepunchingbagfightsback.blogspot.com/
Mating Game Blog Hop Winner!
I read through all the entries for The Mating Game Blog Hop, and I picked my winner of an ecopy of My Favorite Mistake!
Drum roll.....
Queensheena!
You're SUPER lucky, because you also won over at Victoria's blog!
Just email me at chel (dot) c (dot) cam (at) gmail (dot) com and let me know what format you would prefer!
Don't forget to check out the other blogs to see the other winners!
Victoria H. Smith | http://twentysomethingfictionwriter.blogspot.com/Jade Hart | http://www.dreamwritepublish.blogspot.com/Jaycee Delorenzo | http://blog.jayceedelorenzo.com/Magan Vernon | http://thepunchingbagfightsback.blogspot.com/
