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Young Adult Scavenger Hunt: Melissa Giorgio

Young Adult Scavenger Hunt:Melissa Giorgio is theauthor of theYA paranormal Silver Moon Sagaand at least 81 other stories and novels. Today I’m giving you a sneak peek of the second book in herSmoke and MirrorsYA fantasy series, The Burning Chaos, which is coming outJuly 12th, 2016. This is anexcerpt from the first chapter.The book Melissa is giving away for YASH is the first book in the series, The Fading Dusk.[Go to the YA Scavenger Huntpage to find out all about the hunt. Read to the botto...

March SmorgasBlog: 11 more short updates…

2016YA Scavenger Hunt startsMarch 29th and runs through April 3rd, 10 winners will win 20 books! All you have to do is checkout YA websites and count up numbers for your free entry! I’m on the Green Team! Last weekend I uploaded ALL IS SILENCE to StreetLib. It is now available worldwide in many, many places besides Amazon, B&N and Kobo. Hope to have STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS up over Spring Break. A month or so ago, I submittedALL IS SILENCE to Fiberead for the possibility of getting it translate...

THE 2016 YOUNG ADULT SCAVENGER HUNT

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No, we’re not scavenging young adults. We are, however, offering Young Adult novels asprizes for finding and adding up series of numbers. I am on the GREEN TEAM with all the awesome authors whose books you see here.

The description of this three day event is hereon the Deserted Lands Home page. For details on the other EIGHT TEAMS, go here to the host/founderColleen Houck’s site. You can participate in ALL NINE TEAM hunts. But with 20 authors on each team… well, I’...

Future Deserted Lands Works – Part I

So, as part of the Murder in March promotion on Facebook, I got to talk about various stories I’ve got brewing in my head. I’m also reminding myself to create a series bible, so here is what I’ve got so far. I have a few more ideas under my hats, but here are eleven concepts to start with, [My lists almost always go to Elevensies.], I’ll share the first five today.

Setting: My world, THE DESERTED LANDS, is an alternate future with the crux point of separation occurred around 2008. Major diffe...

To Live and Die in the Deserted Lands…

Or other universes…

So you want to die in one of my stories? Here’s what you do:

Go to the Facebook Murder in March page.

Click See All Posts. Scroll down or search for Slater.

Read the descriptions of the stories I’m planning on writing. Make a comment or suggestion about how you would want to die in that particular story.

I will have a series of posts this evening, 5 p.m. P.S.T., to talk more about potential deaths!

Ever Want to Die in a Novel? Murder in March

We all deserve a role in a novel? What if that role involved dying? Would you be a good guy, a bad guy, the ex? The best friend? Or the random Red-shirt?

The next logical question is how? Is it a fantasy? Are you eaten by a dragon, stabbed in the kidneys by a halfling, or flambéed in andorian brandyby a wicked wizard? Is it horror? Sorry , I can’t help you there.

Is it science fiction? A quick painful implosion in vacuum outside a space station, atoms scattered by a transporter beam, or dying...

Author as Actor: Or how to get through public readings…

Author as Actor: Or how to get through public readings

with as little pain as possible…

[originally published on the Pubslush Blog.]

Reading at my hometown library in Hoquiam.

I spent the 30-something years of my life as an extrovertedactor, director, playwright. Over the last decade I’ve transformed into a mostly introverted author.

Recently as I attended other authors’ readings and heard about how much stress being the center of attention in public brings them, I realized those skills of...

February’s Smorgasblog

Here’s the latest eleven things for February.

1.On March 12th, Windward Boosters is teaming up with Barnes and Noble in Bellingham for a BookFair to benefit Windward High School programs. At 5 pm there will be five local YA writers:Royce Buckingham, Nick James, Jesikah Sundin, Tara Ellis and myself. We will each read a bit and then take questions and sign books!

2.GRAYS HARBOR RESIDENTS FREE FRIDAY at the brand new Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in Ocean Shores this November. You’ve g...

Reflecting on Two Years as a Print Published Novelist.

It seems like a pretty cool 49th birthday present to be writing a blog post about two years as a published author. I’ve completed my Sophomore Slump if I had one, and am moving on to whatever comes next. The graphic inserted to the left shows the last 8 weeks of sales on Neilsen BookScan, the Book rating system from the folks who bring you the TV ratings. As you can see at the beginning of November I had two weeks with no print books sold nationally. Since then I have sold two or more books e...

Columbia Crew R.I.P. 2/3/2003. A song…

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Five days ago I posted a poem I’d written for my daughter who was born on the fifth anniversary of the Challenger’s explosion on take-off. These are the lyrics to a song I wrote on the day the Columbia broke apart on re-entry.

My notes on the lyric sheet:Begun on the way home from work as I was sure we would enter into an Iraq war. Finished as I sat stunned with the news of the Columbia Shuttle.

Waiting for the Fall – Eve of War

Driving home on the eve of...