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December 11, 2013
Writing About Imperfect People: The inspiration behind The Mind’s Eye
If there was ever an embodiment of the idea of the ‘troubled teen’, then it was me, but probably not in the way you’d think.
I wasn’t, for example, a smoker or a boozer; I didn’t stay out late or smuggle anything (or anyone) untoward into my room at home. In fact, I stayed in. A lot. I would come home from high school aged 15 and find myself crawling straight into my bed at four o’clock, out cold until gone six and still in my uniform with Mum calling me down for dinner. My entire life was a pattern of eat, sleep, school, sleep, eat and so on; not a scrap of energy or enthusiasm for life, waiting desperately for the time when I could throw off the shackles of the 9-to-4 school day and finally use what little pep I had to do something better with my life. A myriad of doctors and therapists told me that I was depressed and filled me up with drugs, packing me back off to school like that was the answer to my problems.
It took me a further four years to work out what was really going on.
At age 13 I developed what I now know to be called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), a debilitating physical condition that attacks every major system in your body from the nervous and digestive systems to the musculoskeletal, hormonal and beyond. Between the ages of 13 and 16 (what some would call the best years of your life) I went from being a spritely, bright child to a surly, aching, exhausted teen who saw every morning as just one more day of pain coming her way. I dropped out of school and spent eighteen months trying to recover from what I was still being told was depression and anxiety, but no matter what I tried I just couldn’t get better. I knew that there had to be another explanation; I just had to find a way to prove it.
For my 18th birthday I was taken away for a week’s holiday. I deliberately didn’t pack my anti-depressants, suffering a week of cold-turkey withdrawal in order to flush them out of my system once and for all. This is not a practice recommended by doctors and I don’t advocate it, but it was the only thing I felt able to do at the time. Coming home from that holiday I had a fresh perspective on my physical health, realising that I was never mentally depressed, but that my body was the one letting me down. I had an illness and it took me another whole year before I met a doctor who could put the label M.E. to my symptoms.
Armed with this knowledge I returned to college and then went on to university, all the while making my way through different doctors and different treatments until I could find one who would push to get the diagnosis I so desperately needed. I was 22 years old when the letter finally came to tell me what I had been suffering from for the last nine years. It was a relief, but also a sadness, the final confirmation that I am living with a condition that has no known cure and will be likely to affect me for the rest of my life. At the point when I received that letter in November 2011, I felt as though the life I had been wading through suddenly needed a new purpose and a proper direction, something I would still be able to achieve if and when my condition worsened.
So I started to write.
I have written several self-published books in the last twelve months and it has been pointed out to me repeatedly that each one of them contains characters that are physically limited, pained and/or mentally scarred in some way. This is no co-incidence, but it is something that was creeping into my work without a definite conscious knowledge; I think I simply found it more engaging personally to write about imperfect people. That was until I sat down to write my first novel for Clean Teen Publishing, entitled The Mind’s Eye. In this book my central character suffers from Juvenile Systemic Arthritis, a severe and debilitating condition that presents many of the same musculoskeletal symptoms that I face every day. Whilst I am not always bound to a wheelchair, the immobility that my character Kit faces isn’t just about her legs not working. The Mind’s Eye is an exciting wartime adventure with paranormal fun, but at its heart it is also a story about a girl just like me, struggling to work out how to find a place in the world where she can feel valued and still be useful to the people she cares about.
Scenes within The Mind’s Eye are a mixture of Kit’s psychic visions of the Second World War interspersed with her own struggles in her home life. I have a feeling that some people might consider those latter scenes to be the ‘boring bits’, the ‘filler’ that has to happen between the tense, exciting action moments. To me, however, I could take or leave the incredible and heart breaking scenes of war, because the real struggle that touches my heart is that of a lonely young girl quite literally trying to stand on her own two feet in a world where all the odds are stacked against her. When you read The Mind’s Eye, spare a thought for Kit and the life she has to lead every day, because her fictional creation represents countless other people out there who face physical and emotional struggles that ordinary folk can barely comprehend.
The real story of The Mind’s Eye isn’t that of the glorious Allies beating back Jerry, but of Kit Cavendish beating back the sentence that life has handed her with the newfound love and support of the people around her. It is a story that is very important to me and I sincerely hope it will find a place in your hearts too.
The Mind's Eye will be released on April 1st 2014 by Clean Teen Publishing, followed by other books in the Synsk series.
Read the synopsis here.
For more information on the condition:
please visit Action For M.E.
I wasn’t, for example, a smoker or a boozer; I didn’t stay out late or smuggle anything (or anyone) untoward into my room at home. In fact, I stayed in. A lot. I would come home from high school aged 15 and find myself crawling straight into my bed at four o’clock, out cold until gone six and still in my uniform with Mum calling me down for dinner. My entire life was a pattern of eat, sleep, school, sleep, eat and so on; not a scrap of energy or enthusiasm for life, waiting desperately for the time when I could throw off the shackles of the 9-to-4 school day and finally use what little pep I had to do something better with my life. A myriad of doctors and therapists told me that I was depressed and filled me up with drugs, packing me back off to school like that was the answer to my problems.
It took me a further four years to work out what was really going on.
At age 13 I developed what I now know to be called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), a debilitating physical condition that attacks every major system in your body from the nervous and digestive systems to the musculoskeletal, hormonal and beyond. Between the ages of 13 and 16 (what some would call the best years of your life) I went from being a spritely, bright child to a surly, aching, exhausted teen who saw every morning as just one more day of pain coming her way. I dropped out of school and spent eighteen months trying to recover from what I was still being told was depression and anxiety, but no matter what I tried I just couldn’t get better. I knew that there had to be another explanation; I just had to find a way to prove it.
For my 18th birthday I was taken away for a week’s holiday. I deliberately didn’t pack my anti-depressants, suffering a week of cold-turkey withdrawal in order to flush them out of my system once and for all. This is not a practice recommended by doctors and I don’t advocate it, but it was the only thing I felt able to do at the time. Coming home from that holiday I had a fresh perspective on my physical health, realising that I was never mentally depressed, but that my body was the one letting me down. I had an illness and it took me another whole year before I met a doctor who could put the label M.E. to my symptoms.
Armed with this knowledge I returned to college and then went on to university, all the while making my way through different doctors and different treatments until I could find one who would push to get the diagnosis I so desperately needed. I was 22 years old when the letter finally came to tell me what I had been suffering from for the last nine years. It was a relief, but also a sadness, the final confirmation that I am living with a condition that has no known cure and will be likely to affect me for the rest of my life. At the point when I received that letter in November 2011, I felt as though the life I had been wading through suddenly needed a new purpose and a proper direction, something I would still be able to achieve if and when my condition worsened.
So I started to write.
I have written several self-published books in the last twelve months and it has been pointed out to me repeatedly that each one of them contains characters that are physically limited, pained and/or mentally scarred in some way. This is no co-incidence, but it is something that was creeping into my work without a definite conscious knowledge; I think I simply found it more engaging personally to write about imperfect people. That was until I sat down to write my first novel for Clean Teen Publishing, entitled The Mind’s Eye. In this book my central character suffers from Juvenile Systemic Arthritis, a severe and debilitating condition that presents many of the same musculoskeletal symptoms that I face every day. Whilst I am not always bound to a wheelchair, the immobility that my character Kit faces isn’t just about her legs not working. The Mind’s Eye is an exciting wartime adventure with paranormal fun, but at its heart it is also a story about a girl just like me, struggling to work out how to find a place in the world where she can feel valued and still be useful to the people she cares about.
Scenes within The Mind’s Eye are a mixture of Kit’s psychic visions of the Second World War interspersed with her own struggles in her home life. I have a feeling that some people might consider those latter scenes to be the ‘boring bits’, the ‘filler’ that has to happen between the tense, exciting action moments. To me, however, I could take or leave the incredible and heart breaking scenes of war, because the real struggle that touches my heart is that of a lonely young girl quite literally trying to stand on her own two feet in a world where all the odds are stacked against her. When you read The Mind’s Eye, spare a thought for Kit and the life she has to lead every day, because her fictional creation represents countless other people out there who face physical and emotional struggles that ordinary folk can barely comprehend.
The real story of The Mind’s Eye isn’t that of the glorious Allies beating back Jerry, but of Kit Cavendish beating back the sentence that life has handed her with the newfound love and support of the people around her. It is a story that is very important to me and I sincerely hope it will find a place in your hearts too.
The Mind's Eye will be released on April 1st 2014 by Clean Teen Publishing, followed by other books in the Synsk series.
Read the synopsis here.
For more information on the condition:
please visit Action For M.E.
December 9, 2013
Writing About Imperfect People
The inspiration behind The Mind’s Eye
If there was ever an embodiment of the idea of the ‘troubled teen’, then it was me, but probably not in the way you’d think.
I wasn’t, for example, a smoker or a boozer; I didn’t stay out late or smuggle anything (or anyone) untoward into my room at home. In fact, I stayed in. A lot. I would come home from high school aged 15 and find myself crawling straight into my bed at four o’clock, out cold until gone six and still in my uniform with Mum calling me down for dinner. My entire life was a pattern of eat, sleep, school, sleep, eat and so on; not a scrap of energy or enthusiasm for life, waiting desperately for the time when I could throw off the shackles of the 9-to-4 school day and finally use what little pep I had to do something better with my life. A myriad of doctors and therapists told me that I was depressed and filled me up with drugs, packing me back off to school like that was the answer to my problems.
It took me a further four years to work out what was really going on.
At age 13 I developed what I now know to be called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), a debilitating physical condition that attacks every major system in your body from the nervous and digestive systems to the musculoskeletal, hormonal and beyond. Between the ages of 13 and 16 (what some would call the best years of your life) I went from being a spritely, bright child to a surly, aching, exhausted teen who saw every morning as just one more day of pain coming her way. I dropped out of school and spent eighteen months trying to recover from what I was still being told was depression and anxiety, but no matter what I tried I just couldn’t get better. I knew that there had to be another explanation; I just had to find a way to prove it.
For my 18th birthday I was taken away for a week’s holiday. I deliberately didn’t pack my anti-depressants, suffering a week of cold-turkey withdrawal in order to flush them out of my system once and for all. This is not a practice recommended by doctors and I don’t advocate it, but it was the only thing I felt able to do at the time. Coming home from that holiday I had a fresh perspective on my physical health, realising that I was never mentally depressed, but that my body was the one letting me down. I had an illness and it took me another whole year before I met a doctor who could put the label M.E. to my symptoms.
Armed with this knowledge I returned to college and then went on to university, all the while making my way through different doctors and different treatments until I could find one who would push to get the diagnosis I so desperately needed. I was 22 years old when the letter finally came to tell me what I had been suffering from for the last nine years. It was a relief, but also a sadness, the final confirmation that I am living with a condition that has no known cure and will be likely to affect me for the rest of my life. At the point when I received that letter in November 2011, I felt as though the life I had been wading through suddenly needed a new purpose and a proper direction, something I would still be able to achieve if and when my condition worsened.
So I started to write.
I have written several self-published books in the last twelve months and it has been pointed out to me repeatedly that each one of them contains characters that are physically limited, pained and/or mentally scarred in some way. This is no co-incidence, but it is something that was creeping into my work without a definite conscious knowledge; I think I simply found it more engaging personally to write about imperfect people. That was until I sat down to write my first novel for Clean Teen Publishing, entitled The Mind’s Eye. In this book my central character suffers from Juvenile Systemic Arthritis, a severe and debilitating condition that presents many of the same musculoskeletal symptoms that I face every day. Whilst I am not always bound to a wheelchair, the immobility that my character Kit faces isn’t just about her legs not working. The Mind’s Eye is an exciting wartime adventure with paranormal fun, but at its heart it is also a story about a girl just like me, struggling to work out how to find a place in the world where she can feel valued and still be useful to the people she cares about.
Scenes within The Mind’s Eye are a mixture of Kit’s psychic visions of the Second World War interspersed with her own struggles in her home life. I have a feeling that some people might consider those latter scenes to be the ‘boring bits’, the ‘filler’ that has to happen between the tense, exciting action moments. To me, however, I could take or leave the incredible and heart breaking scenes of war, because the real struggle that touches my heart is that of a lonely young girl quite literally trying to stand on her own two feet in a world where all the odds are stacked against her. When you read The Mind’s Eye, spare a thought for Kit and the life she has to lead every day, because her fictional creation represents countless other people out there who face physical and emotional struggles that ordinary folk can barely comprehend.
The real story of The Mind’s Eye isn’t that of the glorious Allies beating back Jerry, but of Kit Cavendish beating back the sentence that life has handed her with the newfound love and support of the people around her. It is a story that is very important to me and I sincerely hope it will find a place in your hearts too.
The Mind's Eye will be released on April 1st 2014 by Clean Teen Publishing, followed by other books in the Synsk series.
Read the synopsis here.
For more information on the condition:
please visit Action For M.E.
If there was ever an embodiment of the idea of the ‘troubled teen’, then it was me, but probably not in the way you’d think.
I wasn’t, for example, a smoker or a boozer; I didn’t stay out late or smuggle anything (or anyone) untoward into my room at home. In fact, I stayed in. A lot. I would come home from high school aged 15 and find myself crawling straight into my bed at four o’clock, out cold until gone six and still in my uniform with Mum calling me down for dinner. My entire life was a pattern of eat, sleep, school, sleep, eat and so on; not a scrap of energy or enthusiasm for life, waiting desperately for the time when I could throw off the shackles of the 9-to-4 school day and finally use what little pep I had to do something better with my life. A myriad of doctors and therapists told me that I was depressed and filled me up with drugs, packing me back off to school like that was the answer to my problems.
It took me a further four years to work out what was really going on.
At age 13 I developed what I now know to be called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), a debilitating physical condition that attacks every major system in your body from the nervous and digestive systems to the musculoskeletal, hormonal and beyond. Between the ages of 13 and 16 (what some would call the best years of your life) I went from being a spritely, bright child to a surly, aching, exhausted teen who saw every morning as just one more day of pain coming her way. I dropped out of school and spent eighteen months trying to recover from what I was still being told was depression and anxiety, but no matter what I tried I just couldn’t get better. I knew that there had to be another explanation; I just had to find a way to prove it.
For my 18th birthday I was taken away for a week’s holiday. I deliberately didn’t pack my anti-depressants, suffering a week of cold-turkey withdrawal in order to flush them out of my system once and for all. This is not a practice recommended by doctors and I don’t advocate it, but it was the only thing I felt able to do at the time. Coming home from that holiday I had a fresh perspective on my physical health, realising that I was never mentally depressed, but that my body was the one letting me down. I had an illness and it took me another whole year before I met a doctor who could put the label M.E. to my symptoms.
Armed with this knowledge I returned to college and then went on to university, all the while making my way through different doctors and different treatments until I could find one who would push to get the diagnosis I so desperately needed. I was 22 years old when the letter finally came to tell me what I had been suffering from for the last nine years. It was a relief, but also a sadness, the final confirmation that I am living with a condition that has no known cure and will be likely to affect me for the rest of my life. At the point when I received that letter in November 2011, I felt as though the life I had been wading through suddenly needed a new purpose and a proper direction, something I would still be able to achieve if and when my condition worsened.
So I started to write.
I have written several self-published books in the last twelve months and it has been pointed out to me repeatedly that each one of them contains characters that are physically limited, pained and/or mentally scarred in some way. This is no co-incidence, but it is something that was creeping into my work without a definite conscious knowledge; I think I simply found it more engaging personally to write about imperfect people. That was until I sat down to write my first novel for Clean Teen Publishing, entitled The Mind’s Eye. In this book my central character suffers from Juvenile Systemic Arthritis, a severe and debilitating condition that presents many of the same musculoskeletal symptoms that I face every day. Whilst I am not always bound to a wheelchair, the immobility that my character Kit faces isn’t just about her legs not working. The Mind’s Eye is an exciting wartime adventure with paranormal fun, but at its heart it is also a story about a girl just like me, struggling to work out how to find a place in the world where she can feel valued and still be useful to the people she cares about.
Scenes within The Mind’s Eye are a mixture of Kit’s psychic visions of the Second World War interspersed with her own struggles in her home life. I have a feeling that some people might consider those latter scenes to be the ‘boring bits’, the ‘filler’ that has to happen between the tense, exciting action moments. To me, however, I could take or leave the incredible and heart breaking scenes of war, because the real struggle that touches my heart is that of a lonely young girl quite literally trying to stand on her own two feet in a world where all the odds are stacked against her. When you read The Mind’s Eye, spare a thought for Kit and the life she has to lead every day, because her fictional creation represents countless other people out there who face physical and emotional struggles that ordinary folk can barely comprehend.
The real story of The Mind’s Eye isn’t that of the glorious Allies beating back Jerry, but of Kit Cavendish beating back the sentence that life has handed her with the newfound love and support of the people around her. It is a story that is very important to me and I sincerely hope it will find a place in your hearts too.
The Mind's Eye will be released on April 1st 2014 by Clean Teen Publishing, followed by other books in the Synsk series. Read the synopsis here.
For more information on the condition:
please visit Action For M.E.
December 8, 2013
MY Cover Reveal: The Mind's Eye!
COVER REVEAL AND ARC GIVEAWAY:
THE MIND'S EYE by K.C. Finn
Release Date: April 1, 2014Genre: Young Adult (Paranormal, Historical, Adventure and Romance)Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
A girl with a telepathic gift finds a boy clinging to his last hope during the war-torn climate of Europe, 1940.
At fifteen, Kit Cavendish is one the oldest evacuees to escape London at the start of the Second World War due to a long term illness that sees her stuck in a wheelchair most of the time. But Kit has an extraordinary psychic power: she can put herself into the minds of others, see through their eyes, feel their emotions, even talk to them – though she dares not speak out for fear of her secret ability being exposed.
As Kit settles into her new life in the North Wales village of Bryn Eira Bach, solitude and curiosity encourage her to gain better control of her gift. Until one day her search for information on the developing war leads her to the mind of Henri, a seventeen-year-old Norwegian boy witnessing the German occupation of his beloved city, Oslo. As Henri discovers more about the English girl occupying his mind, the psychic and emotional bonds between them strengthen and Kit guides him through an oppressive and dangerous time.
There are secrets to be uncovered, both at home and abroad, and it’s up to Kit and Henri to come together and fight their own battles in the depths of the world’s greatest war.
GIVEAWAY:
Enter to win an Advance Release Copy of The Mind's Eye by K.C. Finn and a Clean Teen Publishing- Authors Are My Rockstars bracelet.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in South Wales to Raymond and Jennifer Finn, Kimberley Charlotte Elisabeth Finn (known to readers as K.C., otherwise it'd be too much of a mouthful) was one of those corny little kids who always wanted to be a writer. She was also incredibly stubborn, and so has finally achieved that dream in 2013 with the release of her first three novellas in the four-part Caecilius Rex saga, the time travel adventure The Secret Star and her new urban fantasy epic The Book Of Shade.
As a sufferer with the medical condition M.E./C.F.S., Kim works part time as a private tutor and a teacher of creative writing, devoting the remainder of her time to writing novels and studying for an MA in Education and Linguistics.
K.C. Finn signed with Clean Teen Publishing in late 2013. Her first book published with Clean Teen Publishing: The Mind's Eye, is scheduled to release on April 1, 2014.
Want to READ MORE from Clean Teen Publishing? Check out our huge selection of amazing reads! There's sure to be something for every reader!
THE MIND'S EYE by K.C. Finn
Release Date: April 1, 2014Genre: Young Adult (Paranormal, Historical, Adventure and Romance)Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
A girl with a telepathic gift finds a boy clinging to his last hope during the war-torn climate of Europe, 1940.
At fifteen, Kit Cavendish is one the oldest evacuees to escape London at the start of the Second World War due to a long term illness that sees her stuck in a wheelchair most of the time. But Kit has an extraordinary psychic power: she can put herself into the minds of others, see through their eyes, feel their emotions, even talk to them – though she dares not speak out for fear of her secret ability being exposed.
As Kit settles into her new life in the North Wales village of Bryn Eira Bach, solitude and curiosity encourage her to gain better control of her gift. Until one day her search for information on the developing war leads her to the mind of Henri, a seventeen-year-old Norwegian boy witnessing the German occupation of his beloved city, Oslo. As Henri discovers more about the English girl occupying his mind, the psychic and emotional bonds between them strengthen and Kit guides him through an oppressive and dangerous time.
There are secrets to be uncovered, both at home and abroad, and it’s up to Kit and Henri to come together and fight their own battles in the depths of the world’s greatest war.
GIVEAWAY:
Enter to win an Advance Release Copy of The Mind's Eye by K.C. Finn and a Clean Teen Publishing- Authors Are My Rockstars bracelet.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in South Wales to Raymond and Jennifer Finn, Kimberley Charlotte Elisabeth Finn (known to readers as K.C., otherwise it'd be too much of a mouthful) was one of those corny little kids who always wanted to be a writer. She was also incredibly stubborn, and so has finally achieved that dream in 2013 with the release of her first three novellas in the four-part Caecilius Rex saga, the time travel adventure The Secret Star and her new urban fantasy epic The Book Of Shade.
As a sufferer with the medical condition M.E./C.F.S., Kim works part time as a private tutor and a teacher of creative writing, devoting the remainder of her time to writing novels and studying for an MA in Education and Linguistics.
K.C. Finn signed with Clean Teen Publishing in late 2013. Her first book published with Clean Teen Publishing: The Mind's Eye, is scheduled to release on April 1, 2014.
Want to READ MORE from Clean Teen Publishing? Check out our huge selection of amazing reads! There's sure to be something for every reader!
November 18, 2013
The Book Of Shade - Romance Music Mix
The Book Of Shade Romance Mix
10 love songs that best describe the TBoS romance
1. E.T. - Katy Perry 2. Gravity - John Mayer 3. Everybody Talks - Neon Trees 4. Somewhere Only We Know - Keane 5. Butterflies - Lucy Spraggan 6. Safe and Sound - Me Vs Gravity 7. Kiss From A Rose - Seal 8. True Love - Pink 9. Still Into You - Paramore 10. Loved Me Back To Life - Celine Dion
The Book Of Shade - Romance Mix from kim.finn.986 on 8tracks Radio.
The key lines of lyrics:
1. You're so supersonic
Wanna feel your powers, stun me with your lasers
Your kiss is cosmic
Every move is magic
2. Oh I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away
3. It started with a whisper
And that was when I kissed her
And then she made my lips hurt
4. And if you have a minute, why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go somewhere only we know?
5. Cause there's nowhere else I'd rather be
No one else I'd rather see
Controlling every part of me
I love skipping a beat every time you speak
6. Don't you dare look out your window, darling,
Everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
Hold on to this lullaby
Even when music's gone
7. You remain,
My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?
8. Sometimes I hate every single stupid word you say,
Sometimes I wanna slap you in your whole face.
There's no one quite like you, you push all my buttons down,
I know life would suck without you.
9. It's not a walk in the park
To love each other
But when our fingers interlock,
Can't deny, can't deny you're worth it
10. Strong hands, thick skin, and an open heart
You saw through the pain, saw through the mask
You never gave up on me
There's still time to be part of the TBoS December release tour here
MAKE SURE YOU'RE PART OF THE TBOS RELEASE PARTY FOR GIVEAWAYS AND 50% OFF THE BOOK PRICE ON DEC 20TH
1. E.T. - Katy Perry 2. Gravity - John Mayer 3. Everybody Talks - Neon Trees 4. Somewhere Only We Know - Keane 5. Butterflies - Lucy Spraggan 6. Safe and Sound - Me Vs Gravity 7. Kiss From A Rose - Seal 8. True Love - Pink 9. Still Into You - Paramore 10. Loved Me Back To Life - Celine Dion
The Book Of Shade - Romance Mix from kim.finn.986 on 8tracks Radio.
The key lines of lyrics:
1. You're so supersonic
Wanna feel your powers, stun me with your lasers
Your kiss is cosmic
Every move is magic
2. Oh I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away
3. It started with a whisper
And that was when I kissed her
And then she made my lips hurt
4. And if you have a minute, why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go somewhere only we know?
5. Cause there's nowhere else I'd rather be
No one else I'd rather see
Controlling every part of me
I love skipping a beat every time you speak
6. Don't you dare look out your window, darling,
Everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
Hold on to this lullaby
Even when music's gone
7. You remain,
My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?
8. Sometimes I hate every single stupid word you say,
Sometimes I wanna slap you in your whole face.
There's no one quite like you, you push all my buttons down,
I know life would suck without you.
9. It's not a walk in the park
To love each other
But when our fingers interlock,
Can't deny, can't deny you're worth it
10. Strong hands, thick skin, and an open heart
You saw through the pain, saw through the mask
You never gave up on me
There's still time to be part of the TBoS December release tour here
MAKE SURE YOU'RE PART OF THE TBOS RELEASE PARTY FOR GIVEAWAYS AND 50% OFF THE BOOK PRICE ON DEC 20TH
November 1, 2013
November Goodies Giveaway
To celebrate my 5 STAR review from Reader's Favorite for The Atomic Circus, I am giving away some great goodies for the month of November. Win a free paperback at Goodreads and some of my digital works plus gorgeous bookmarks - winners will be announced at the Facebook Page at the end of the month!
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October 11, 2013
7 Things You Didn't Know About K.C. Finn
I was nominated by Michelle Abbot to do this, thanks mate!
How it works…
1. Display the Award Certificate on your blog
2. Announce your win with a post and thank the blogger who nominated you.
3. Post 7 interesting things about yourself.
4. Present 15 deserving bloggers with the award.
5. Link your nominees in the post and let them know of their nomination with a comment.
7 Things You Didn't Know About K.C. FinnI have 29 novels currently in progress.I am addicted to cheese and Jack Daniels (thought not usually together).I have a phobia of dogs.I have a soft toy hedgehog called Reginald D. Hedge that has been with me for as long as I can remember. He wears tartan dungarees and has afro hair.My favourite singers include such 50s greats as Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Elvis Presley and Frankie Valli.I am obsessed with British Sitcoms made in the 70s and 80s, especially those written by David Croft and/or Jimmy Perry.I just started working on a top-secret-NA-super-scary-gory-awesome dystopian thriller, but shh! Don't tell!15 Blogs I Think Also Deserve This Accolade:Veduny WriterClosed The CoverThis Girl Reads A LotGrown Up FangirlSRM Author RadioCrystal's Many ReviewsMary Had A Little Book BlogJust ThinkingThese Are But ShadowsRose and Beps BlogReader's CandyThe Indigo QuillBook Reviews By LexiDiane's Book BlogThe Book CoveGo check them out!
October 8, 2013
Read the whole Caecilius Rex Detective Series for FREE (including my new novella THE FACE!)
To celebrate the release of Caecilius Rex Volume 3: The Face, I have entered all 3 novellas so far into the Making Connections ARR Program at Goodreads. This means that so long as you agree to review the novellas, you can get your hands on a totally FREE copy of ALL 3 of them to enjoy the story of Cae and Kendra so far (the final book will be released early next year). Here's where to request them:
The Atomic CircusCounterclockwiseThe Face
Remember to join the Goodreads group before you request! There's also loads of other great books there that you can read for free in exchange for reviews!
Also here's the info for the latest instalment in the series - reading all 3 will now give you 99,000 words of mysterious criminal adventure!
The Face: SynopsisContinue your journey with detective Caecilius Rex following the events of The Atomic Circus and Counterclockwise!
In the wake of some startling discoveries about those closest to him, the life of young detective Caecilius Rex is about to get a whole lot more complicated. The dark, criminal world around Cae and Kendra is rapidly converging on them, putting them in danger once more and threatening to tear them apart.
Amazon UK Link // Amazon US Link // The Face on Goodreads // The Caecilius Rex Series on Goodreads
September 27, 2013
BlogFest 2013 GIVEAWAY
So in conjunction with A Journey of Books, here's my BlogFest 2013 post and giveaway!
PRIZE: The ebook of your choice! (up to a $5 value)
Last date for entries is the end of the day on Sept 29th so get cracking!
Special condition: Please be following my blog in some way to be eligible to enter, I will be checking, since that's the whole point of blogfest!
This is a COMMENTS giveaway, so to enter leave your comment here with the answer to this question:
What would you most want to see in a Paranormal Young Adult novel? What's most important in that kind of story?
Then when you've answered that, visit these other great blogs between the start of Sept 28th and the end of Sept 29th for more great giveaways and the Master Site and Tracking Site for another massive giveaway.
http://vedunywriter.blogspot.com/http://cuzinlogic.com/http://rubysreads.com/http://imbacceliasweblogfantasy.blogspot.comhttp://www.simplyali.com/
PRIZE: The ebook of your choice! (up to a $5 value)
Last date for entries is the end of the day on Sept 29th so get cracking!
Special condition: Please be following my blog in some way to be eligible to enter, I will be checking, since that's the whole point of blogfest!
This is a COMMENTS giveaway, so to enter leave your comment here with the answer to this question:
What would you most want to see in a Paranormal Young Adult novel? What's most important in that kind of story?
Then when you've answered that, visit these other great blogs between the start of Sept 28th and the end of Sept 29th for more great giveaways and the Master Site and Tracking Site for another massive giveaway.
http://vedunywriter.blogspot.com/http://cuzinlogic.com/http://rubysreads.com/http://imbacceliasweblogfantasy.blogspot.comhttp://www.simplyali.com/
September 15, 2013
The Book of Shade's MASSIVE December tour!
Sign up here!
Calling all bloggers, reviewers and urban fantasy fans, make sure you're part of the biggest tour I've ever done (and probably ever will do) this December!I have teamed up with the wonderful Amber from Grown Up Fan Girl to bring you a tidal wave of reviews, posts and a totally interactive experience from me to you during the month of December.
Look out for:Interviews with me and all the fabulous characters from The Book of ShadeA LIVE video chat where you can ask your burning questionsA HUGE Facebook party to celebrate the TBoS release day with flash giveaways and live interviews and chatMore exclusive TBoS content like playlists, videos and graphicsIt's going to be one serious urban fantasy party guys - we're taking over the internet this December!There's plenty of time to join up and be part of the experience by filling out this form, where you can also be an advanced reviewer and read The Book of Shade totally FREE before it gets released! We welcome all bloggers and reviewers, however large or small your following, and we hope that being a part of this tour will also increase your promotion and help you make new friends too!
So here's the burning question: What would you MOST like to see on this epic tour?Prizes? Videos? Music? Interviews?What would make TBoS's tour the best book tour ever for you?
September 8, 2013
The Book of Shade - Music Mix Preview
The Book of Shade Playlist 10 songs to get you in the mood for TBoS
Mirah - Light The Match3 Doors Down - KryptoniteThe Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I WantEmeli Sande - Read All About It (Pt. III)Ed Sheeran - Give Me LoveBeyonce - Sweet DreamsThe Avalanches - Frontier PsychiatristSavage Garden - Break Me Shake MeJasmine Thompson - Ain't NobodyRihanna - Russian Roulette
from on 8tracks Radio.
Some key lines to tease y'all:1: My glow; it will attract you, my smoke will push you back
Until you call again, please arsonist, attack.
2: You took for granted all the times
I never let you down
3: Haven't had a dream in a long time
see, the life I've had
can make a good man bad
4: Maybe we're a little different
There's no need to be ashamed
You've got the light to fight the shadows
So stop hiding it away
5: Give me love like never before,
'Cause lately I've been craving more,
And it's been a while but I still feel the same,
Maybe I should let you go,
6: You could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you
7: That boy needs therapy
8: I never thought I'd change my
opinion again
But you moved me in a way that I've
never known
9: I wait for night time to come
To bring you to me
I can't believe I'm the one
I was so lonely
10: Say a prayer to yourself
He says 'close your eyes, sometimes it helps'
And then I get a scary thought
That he's here - means he's never lost
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