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P is for Premiere

Good day to my fellow Saturnites and future Saturnites! As you all know, when there is an awesomely amazing boyband, there are awesomely amazing video premieres. Now imagine this: You are in said awesomely amazing boyband, and you have to miss your awesomely amazing video premiere because some idiot shot at you while you were on stage. That's exactly what happens to the poor guys of Spaceships Around Saturn.

That has to really suck, right? Yeah it does. Especially when rumors start to circulate that one of the guys is dead!

Find out which member is 'dead' and see how the Saturn boys cope with having to miss out on their big video premiere on August 29th!!

   The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom - but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of Canadian boyband, Spaceships Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys have to go into hiding ASAP. The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and media frenzy, their dad volunteered to hide the guys...in their house.
Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.

But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to come back to Earth.
 American Girl On Saturn on Goodreads  Nikki's Twitter  Nikki's Facebook Author Page  Nikki's Blog

S is for Saturnite!

Hello to all of my beautiful readers! My blog is being Saturnized from now until August 29th! Are you excited? I know I am! If you're not excited, you will be!



Now, I know you all know who One Direction is! I mean, how could you not? They're four beautiful British boys and one beautiful Irish boy who are taking over the world of music! Who you don't know, but definitely want to know!, is Spaceships Around Saturn. They're five amazingly gorgeous Canadian boys who will rock your world all the way to Saturn. Much like the Directioners, the SAS fans have declared themselves as Saturnites! I can proudly proclaim to the world that I, Emily Godwin, am a HUGE Saturnite. I squee like a thirteen year old anytime I read Nikki Godwin's book American Girl On Saturn, and I promise, you will too!

You can join me and the other Saturnites in our love for the Canadian boyband August 29th! Mark your calendars, add American Girl On Saturn to your 'to-read' list on Goodreads, and get ready because Spaceships Around Saturn is about to take off to planet Earth at super sonic speed! To get other SAS news you can follow Nikki's twitter and blog, or you can like her on Facebook!

 The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom - but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of Canadian boyband, Spaceships Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys have to go into hiding ASAP. The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and media frenzy, their dad volunteered to hide the guys...in their house.

Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.

But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to come back to Earth.
Goodreads   Nikki's Twitter   Nikki's Author Page   Nikki's Blog

Update: Mutilated Series, Formatting, and Saturn-ish Stuff

I haven't popped in here for a while, so I thought I'd swing by and wish you guys a great weekend and tell you what's up with me!

1) I was featured in the Happy Ever After section of USA Today regarding the release of my YA paranormal romance, Mutilate My Heart. You can read the article here . Super special thank you to ST Bende, who made me aware of this opportunity.

2) My sister is in the process of formatting MMH for paperbacks, and then she's moving on to Nook Press and outer e-book retailers so you non-Kindle users can get a hold of MMH as well as BTWD. Just bear with us a bit longer. If you don't want to wait for other e-formats, send me an e-mail (emilygodwin17 at gmail dot com), and I can get the file to you sooner!

3) Nikki has driven me crazy with One Direction's new single "Best Song Ever." She's obsessed. But it's okay because I really love the song (and 1D) too. #TeamZayn&Louis

4) I've started plotting MMH's sequel, which is being called Mutilated Time (for now and possibly for good). Nikki gave me a release date of February 1st, 2014 "at the latest", but she said it's not set in stone. But it's definitely in the works! :)

5) And speaking of Nikki and boybands... American Girl On Saturn is out next month! I'm so excited for it because I adore this book, and I adore the boyband Spaceships Around Saturn, and Milo is hottttt! If you want a sneak peek of this awesome book, go buy mine... and once you finish it, you'll find something awesome at the back of the book! ;)

Have a great weekend!!

Mutilate My Heart Week - Final Wrap Up!

As some of you know, I released my 2nd book, a YA paranormal romance, this past Tuesday. In honor of Mutilate My Heart , YA Confessional hosted MMH Week! If you missed any of the days, you can check them out by clicking the links below. The giveaway will run through July 19th, so if you haven't entered yet, you still have time. :)

Massive thanks to YA Confessional for hosting me all week, and even more thanks to my sister Nikki for doing all she's done to spread the word about MMH this week!! Thank you to everyone who has bought my book so far, marked it as "to read" on Goodreads, and helped spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, and everywhere else.

MMH will be available in paperback later this month, as well as epub for Nook. For now, you can grab the ebook for Kindle on Amazon , and if you can't wait for Nikki to figure out Nook Press's formatting system, e-mail either me (emilygodwin17 at gmail dot com) or Nikki (shadesofautumn73 at gmail dot com) and we can hook you up!

Mutilate My Heart Week at YA ConfessionalMonday - Interview with me about MMHTuesday - Release day + Favorite linesWednesday - Meet Sketch!Thursday - MMH's playlistFriday - Top 5's with me! 
Have a great weekend, everyone!

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Mutilate My Heart Week - Meet Nightmare!

In honor of Mutilate My Heart Week at YA Confessional, my sister Nikki & I are hosting character bios on our blogs as well.

Mutilate My Heart, a YA paranormal Romance, is currently available on Amazon for Kindle! Other formats will be released soon. Head over to YA Confessional to meet the bassist of Mutilated Arteries, Sketch, then venture over to Nikki's blog for a bio with rhythm guitarist, Corpse.

Personally, I chose Nightmare because I have a soft spot for him and his brother Banshee, who was pissed off and refused to do a bio.


Character bio with Nightmare

Name: Nightmare

Birthday: March 21st

Favorite color: Navy blue

Favorite band: Bleeding Sirens

Favorite article of clothing: A Bleeding Sirens hoodie. It's been worn to death.

Favorite movie: Any of the Saw movies (Yeah, I know, Banshee. I stole your answer.)

Favorite city to tour: Fairview, NC

Favorite thing to do while not touring: Just hanging with the guys. They've been my family for far longer than anyone would ever know.

Favorite MA song to perform live: Urban Evil

Best tour memory: Lying on a rooftop watching the sunrise with a really cool girl.

Best part of being famous: Getting to live my dream. I've always wanted to perform music, and now I feel like I'll be doing it forever.

Worst part of being famous: We hardly have any time to rest. We sleep every chance we get, but that isn't often.



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Fangirl Friday: My favorite fictional surfer! (Miles Garrett)

Fangirl Friday is simply that. It's your chance to completely fangirl (or fanboy) over anything you want! It can be a book, a movie, a band, a song, music in general, a tv show, your favorite type of coffee, your favorite earrings, or silver glitter! Have fun. Be creative. Share the things that make you happy!

There are few things hotter than a Friday in June in Mississippi. Miles Garrett, from my sister Nikki Godwin’s book Chasing Forever Down (which is 99 cents for the month of June. So hurry up and get it!), is amongst those few things.

Miles is gritty and rough and real. He hangs around with the real deal surfers of Horn Island and is one of the West Coast Hooligans <3. He’s got more heart than all the surfers hanging around Crescent Cove and the majority of the guys in Horn Island. (Topher Brooks is a close rival, though!) Miles is an underdog who’s had to fight for everything in his life, and deep down, he really needs a hug (which I would gladly give him! All day, every day!).

If you’re on Miles’s good side, he’d do anything for you. Get on his bad side or try to surf in his territory and he’ll beat the hell out of you without a second thought. And trust me…he’d win.

He is my absolute most favorite character out of any book ever written! You NEED to go buy Chasing Forever Down, so you can see how amazing he is for yourself! (And if that isn't enough awesome surfer-ness for you, check out Nikki's blog today for an awesome video of her favorite *real life* surfer!)

Happy reading!

Writing What's In Your Heart

There are always people who aren't going to like what you write. They could just not like a certain character, the plot, or some dramatic twist you put in. Should that change how you write? No.

You can write the most perfect character ever created, and there’s going to be that random person who has something bad to say about him/her. There are some people who like reading contemporary better than fantasy or paranormal, and somehow, they’ll stumble across your fantasy or paranormal novel every time and have something bad to say about it because they didn't take the time to read the blurb. If I gave my sister, Nikki, a fantasy novel, she’d more than likely hate it. She has to rationalize everything (which is okay! She helps me find all kinds of messed up stuff in my books because of it), but fantasy novels aren't her thing, and paranormal isn't really so much either.

The most recent book I wrote has a very big twist in it. Some people will think it’s genius. Others will be highly upset by it. I am thankful for every person who buys and reads my books, but at the end of the day, I write for me. I write because there are characters who talk to me and tell me things that I think the world should know. I write because it makes me happy.

I don’t write to please every single person who may read my book. I don’t write to get traditionally published. I write for me and that one person who is going to love the twist in my book and love my characters.

The very best stories you will ever write are the ones that are in your heart. Those stories will torment you until you have them on your computer in a finished manuscript. Write for you and for those characters because someone somewhere will find them and love them.

Fangirl Friday: Nightmare, from MUTILATE MY HEART

Fangirl Friday is simply that. It's your chance to completely fangirl (or fanboy) over anything you want! It can be a book, a movie, a band, a song, music in general, a tv show, your favorite type of coffee, your favorite earrings, or silver glitter! Have fun. Be creative. Share the things that make you happy! 

Every writer has been a fangirl/fanboy for one of their own characters. I am no exception. I was going to write all about this character of mine named Elijah. He’s this amazing fifteen-year-old violinist who happens to be a ghost, but I’ve been #TeamNightmare all day. It’s only fitting to right about him since my second book, Mutilate My Heart (that Nightmare’s in), comes out on July 9th!

Nightmare is the lead singer of punk-rock band Mutilated Arteries. He’s the oldest and most mature of the five guys. He often pisses people off because he has rules, and he expects his rules to be followed. He only makes exceptions for his brother Banshee. Nightmare truly thinks he’s doing what’s best for everyone when he tries to enforce the rules in his ‘Mutilated Arteries Handbook.’ He hides his own dark secrets and wants to make sure that no one else ends up hurt like he did. He really is a good guy. It’s his brother you need to watch out for. ;-) I can't wait for you guys to get to know him better in the sequel AND prequel!

I’ll save Elijah for another week! Who knows, you may get a short cameo from him in Mutilate My Heart! <3

Cover Reveal: AMERICAN GIRL ON SATURN by my sister Nikki (AND a snippet!)

If you're reading this, there's a good chance you already know my sister, Nikki. And there's also a chance that you've heard mention of a book called American Girl On Saturn, known on Twitter as #SAS (for Spaceships Around Saturn, if you're curious). This book will be is set for release on Thursday, August 29th, 2013, so MARK YOUR CALENDARS! You want this book. Trust me. You need to meet Spaceships Around Saturn, and you need to fall in love with Milo Grayson because this boy is hotttt! (If you scroll to the bottom, you get a special surprise...)

And, the purpose of this post... cover reveal!

American Girl On Saturn by Nikki GodwinRelease date: August 29th, 2013
The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom - but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of Canadian boyband, Spaceships Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys have to go into hiding ASAP. The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and media frenzy, their dad volunteered to hide the guys...in their house.
Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.
But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to come back to earth.
And because Nikki is my sister, my cover reveal has something that no one else's will... a small snippet from American Girl On Saturn!
He reaches toward the tray and grabs the lone Oreo. “Okay, this is my last one for the night,” he says. “Half it with me?”Seriously? If I wasn’t the envy of every Saturnite in the world just by sitting across the table from him, I’m definitely the envy of them now because the Milo Grayson wants to half his precious Oreo with me. And the thing that sucks the most is that no one knows about it to be jealous of me!He holds the cookie up and waits for a response. “Yeah, we can half it,” I say. I reach across the table for it, but he jerks his arm back. The sleeve of his T-shirt hugs his bicep tightly, and oh how I wish to be that fabric. “Not so fast,” he says. “Let’s make it interesting.”Could this be any more interesting? Hello – you’re gorgeous and famous and sharing cookies with me! Any more ‘interest’ and I might burst like a firework. “If you get the side with the cream, I’ll give you my honest male opinion about your checkout line drama today,” he says. “But if I get the cream side, you have to tell me, honestly, who you think the best looking guy is in Spaceships Around Saturn.”Oh God. He’s for real. Does he know? He totally knows. He knows I’m lusting for him from behind this glass of milk and tattoo magazine. He knows that his eyes make me melt and that I clearly watch him on Twitter because I know all about amazzzzzing. Now he wants to make me ‘fess up. “Deal.” I say it before I can chicken out.
You read it here first! Go hit up Nikki's blog, Twitter, and Facebook page for more updates and teasers from now until release date. And add this book as "to read" on Goodreads!

Fangirl Friday: Eyeshadow!

Fangirl Friday is simply that. It's your chance to completely fangirl (or fanboy) over anything you want! It can be a book, a movie, a band, a song, music in general, a tv show, your favorite type of coffee, your favorite earrings, or silver glitter! Have fun. Be creative. Share the things that make you happy!

I abso-freaking-lutely love eyeshadow. I could stand in front of a makeup counter all day and just stare at all the colors. I tend to gravitate toward Maybelline because the colors show up better and last all day. (I feel like I’m in a commercial… but seriously.)  I drive my best friend insane when I take her in a store with me because we’ll stand in the makeup department for me to debate over the little containers of colors for thirty minutes. I’ve had to buy shirts before because I didn’t have any to match my eyeshadow! (I know, I know. It’s supposed to be the other way around LOL) But there’s no way I’d ever just not wear perfectly good eyeshadow.