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January 1, 2013
Dominion #9 In Kindle Store - Free Paranormal Fantasy
Dominion is now #9 in Kindle Store Paranormal (free) and #15 Romance Paranormal! http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/... …
December 31, 2012
Dominion Promo New Year's Day
Dominion, Book 1 of the Dominion Series will be free for 24 hours starting on New Year's Day at 12:00 a.m. until midnight. Get Book 1 and meet gorgeous 800 YO identical twin vampire-hunting vampire brothers.
December 29, 2012
First 2 Chapters Up
First two chapters of my contemporary romance novel are up at my website selund.com for those interested in a sneak peek at my new novel. Take a read, leave a comment, send me an email with feedback. Expect to be published in July 2013.
Untitled:
When their worlds collide, threatening their comfortable, but lonely existences, a man and woman with reasons to avoid each other can't resist the attraction that pulls them together.
http://selund.com/2012/12/26/crowdsou...
Untitled:
When their worlds collide, threatening their comfortable, but lonely existences, a man and woman with reasons to avoid each other can't resist the attraction that pulls them together.
http://selund.com/2012/12/26/crowdsou...
December 26, 2012
Chapter 1 of my contemporary romance novel
I've posted the first chapter of my WIP contemporary romance novel, still untitled. Please read and let me know what you think!
http://selund.com/2012/12/26/crowdsou...
http://selund.com/2012/12/26/crowdsou...
December 13, 2012
On Writing
On why I became a writer.
When I was very young, I read voraciously - everything I could get my hands on -- books, texts, magazines, comics, graphic novels. I loved getting caught up in a world, living vicariously through other characters, seeing and doing and feeling things I might never get a chance to see, do and feel in real life.
The first books I remember reading were Charlotte's Web and Harriet the Spy. I went on to read adult novels before my time, picking up my parents books at too young an age -- Henry Miller, James Michener, and others. Doctor Zhivago was a bit above my head but I loved Russia as a result of reading it when I was 10.
The first time I actually got the idea of becoming a writer was when I was twelve and read The Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings. It was the first time I actually cried at the end of a novel. I cried at the end of Lord of the Rings -- cried for Frodo, cried for Sam, cried for Bilbo. Cried for myself because it was over and I had never felt so immersed in a strange and wonderous world as in that world created by J. R. R. Tolkien. I wanted to write a book like that.
I wanted to write books that would trap readers in a different world where they would feel strong emotions and be transported to another world the way I was in those books.
In terms of vampires, I cut my teeth on Dracula and that did it. I was hooked. I read Interiew with the Vampire by Anne Rice and the Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned and always knew I wanted to write my own vampire novels one day.
I was urged to go to university and study either art or literature and go into creative writing when I was in high school, but I was a stubborn thing and instead, wanted to study science. I did, and took a very long detour that included graduate school, marriage and motherhood before I finally decided that time was of the essence. I was now approaching middle age and while I felt I finally had enough life experience to say something of value, I wasn't sure how to start.
I spent some years in fandom, writing fanfiction and getting experience through writer's groups and crit groups in various fandoms -- I won't mention them to protect the innocent -- and my self-esteem -- but they were largely SF / F fandoms. The character of Julien in Ascension was written under the influence of another fandom that had nothing to do with vampires. Julien was a badboy soldier in a fantasy fandom I won't mention. He seemed a natural for a badass badboy vampire when I decided to write a vampire romance instead.
So, that is my writer's path to being a published author. From the very first book I owned (Charlotte's Web) to the most recent book I read through from cover to cover Angelology, my life until now has been filled with books. As Kafka wrote, "Books are like an axe to break the sea frozen inside us." or words to that effect. We feel things in books that we rarely get to feel in real life or that would be unacceptable in real life or that we would shy away from in real life.
"The man who reads a thousand books lives a thousand lives. The man who is not a reader lives only one."
When I was very young, I read voraciously - everything I could get my hands on -- books, texts, magazines, comics, graphic novels. I loved getting caught up in a world, living vicariously through other characters, seeing and doing and feeling things I might never get a chance to see, do and feel in real life.
The first books I remember reading were Charlotte's Web and Harriet the Spy. I went on to read adult novels before my time, picking up my parents books at too young an age -- Henry Miller, James Michener, and others. Doctor Zhivago was a bit above my head but I loved Russia as a result of reading it when I was 10.
The first time I actually got the idea of becoming a writer was when I was twelve and read The Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings. It was the first time I actually cried at the end of a novel. I cried at the end of Lord of the Rings -- cried for Frodo, cried for Sam, cried for Bilbo. Cried for myself because it was over and I had never felt so immersed in a strange and wonderous world as in that world created by J. R. R. Tolkien. I wanted to write a book like that.
I wanted to write books that would trap readers in a different world where they would feel strong emotions and be transported to another world the way I was in those books.
In terms of vampires, I cut my teeth on Dracula and that did it. I was hooked. I read Interiew with the Vampire by Anne Rice and the Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned and always knew I wanted to write my own vampire novels one day.
I was urged to go to university and study either art or literature and go into creative writing when I was in high school, but I was a stubborn thing and instead, wanted to study science. I did, and took a very long detour that included graduate school, marriage and motherhood before I finally decided that time was of the essence. I was now approaching middle age and while I felt I finally had enough life experience to say something of value, I wasn't sure how to start.
I spent some years in fandom, writing fanfiction and getting experience through writer's groups and crit groups in various fandoms -- I won't mention them to protect the innocent -- and my self-esteem -- but they were largely SF / F fandoms. The character of Julien in Ascension was written under the influence of another fandom that had nothing to do with vampires. Julien was a badboy soldier in a fantasy fandom I won't mention. He seemed a natural for a badass badboy vampire when I decided to write a vampire romance instead.
So, that is my writer's path to being a published author. From the very first book I owned (Charlotte's Web) to the most recent book I read through from cover to cover Angelology, my life until now has been filled with books. As Kafka wrote, "Books are like an axe to break the sea frozen inside us." or words to that effect. We feel things in books that we rarely get to feel in real life or that would be unacceptable in real life or that we would shy away from in real life.
"The man who reads a thousand books lives a thousand lives. The man who is not a reader lives only one."
December 10, 2012
Retribution Release
Retribution, Book 3 of the Dominion Series, will be live at Amazon in the next 12 hours! As a promo, Dominion will be free for 48 hours so if you haven't read the series yet, here's your chance to get a promo copy of Dominion!
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