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Blog Tour, Day 9

Today I’m over at Amberkatze’s Book Blog answering questions. Stop by and say hi, plus enter to win a copy of Sharp!

Blog Tour, Day 8

I’ve been remiss the last few days with posting my tour stops. Sorry about that.

Here are the stops I’ve missed + today’s stop.

Fantasy Book Addict – Check out my interview + enter to win a copy of Clean!

Anna’s Book Blog – Another fun interview and giveaway.

Dark Faerie Tales – I’m hanging out with the ladies during their Fantastic Fables event. I’m sharing a story about Adam with a Wizard of Oz twist. So much fun to write!

Book Lover’s Inc – Stop by as I share a special behind the scenes revelation you won’t want to miss.

 

Blog Tour, Day 4

Today I am over at Chuck Wendig’s blog, Terrible Minds and I’m answering 10 questions about Sharp. I hope you stop by.

Blog Tour, Day 3

Today on the Sharp blog tour I’m visiting Smexy Books. Head over and check out my interview as well as enter to win some books.

Geek Magazine

I’m very excited! Geek Magazine listed Sharp in its April book drop. Geeks are my people, so I’m thrilled

Check it out here:

http://www.geekexchange.com/book-drop-for-april-2013-49513.html

Blog Tour, Day 2

Hey everyone. Today on the Sharp blog tour I’m making a stop over at Dangerous Romance and I’m chatting about the 10 Ways the Tech Wars Changed the World. Plus you can enter to win a copy of Clean.

See you there!

Blog Tour Kick-off

Today kicks off the Sharp Blog Tour. All throughout April I will be appearing all over the blogosphere chatting about any and everything and I do hope you join me for the fun!

Today I am stopping by 2 blogs.

Follow me over to Tez Says where I’m talking all about Storylines.

I’m also hanging out over at Wicked Lil’ Pixie and sharing some insight into Michael.

I hope you stop by and chat.

Spring Challenge

 

So lately I’ve been reading this book, wherein the author tells you to do the biggest, scariest, most important thing in your day or in your life first. No matter how much it hurts or how hard it is. Not only will the rest of the day be easier as a result, but you won’t get bogged down in procrastination and fear because you will have already done the thing, or at least a significant portion of it.

Well, a friend of mine and I have decided to do exactly that, to tackle the big scary thing in front of us. For us, as writers, that’s a difficult stage in writing. For me, writing a complete first draft (the scariest part of the process) and for her, rewriting her novel according to the new outline she’s made. 90k and 80k, respectively. In about 4 weeks.

So, in the spirit of tackling the thing in front of us, we’ve set up a challenge and somehow convinced the rest of our writer’s group (and a few friends) to join us. Starting Sunday and going for 28 days (until midnight on Sunday the 7th), we’re each working towards goals that seem just a little too big and scary to accomplish. The thing in front of us. And, like NaNo, we’ll report in to each other every day and cheer one another on to victory.

I’ll report in periodically on my progress, and share things I’ve learned along the way. Here’s to tackling the big thing — and hopefully getting it done!

How about you? What’s the biggest, scariest, most important thing you need to do and want to do in your life? Can you start tackling it this month? This week? Today?

We can do it. We CAN.

ENovella Live Today

I’m thrilled to announced that Payoff, the Mindspace Investigations novella between books 1 and 2, goes live today in electronic format only.

Still recovering from a mind-injury, Adam agrees to help a judge find a college kid–but there are strings attached.

Check out Payoff here.

New Short Story Enters the Interwebs

Very excited to announce that this week a new short story of mine has been published over at Monster Corral. 

Check it out here:

http://bit.ly/TaFlb7

Be warned, though, it’s a flash piece – less than 400 words of goodness. Hope you enjoy!

Alex