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What Deserted Lands Fans can expect in 2017…

Dear Deserted Lands readers,

Thank you so much for sticking with me through this fantastic journey. If you’ve been with me since the beginning, you’ve been waiting to hear more of Lizzie’s story for a long time! Good news? The last book in this section of Lizzie’s story—the end of the 1st Deserted Lands Trilogy is currently sitting at 49,632 [Update: Broke 50,0000 on January 20th] words. That’s pretty much 50%. Whoa-hoa, halfway there… Still aiming for a release in the first half of 2017.

I’v...

What Deserted Lands can expect in 2017…

Dear Deserted Lands readers,

Thank you so much for sticking with me through this fantastic journey. If you’ve been with since the beginning, you’ve been waiting to hear more of Lizzie’s story for a long time! Good news? The last book in this section of Lizzie’s story—the end of the 1st Deserted Lands Trilogy is currently sitting at 49,632 [Update: Broke 50,0000] words. That’s pretty much 50%. Whoa-hoa, halfway there… Still aiming for a release in the first half of 2017.

I’ve been chipping awa...

Path to Indie Publication: Part XIII – The Base of the Holy Grail?

Path to Indie Publication Series is a companion series to Marshall Ryan Maresca’sPath to Publication. I have been avidly reading Marshall’s posts since I discovered his blog. ReadPath to Indie Publication:Part I.Part II.Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI.Part VII. Part VIII.Part IX.Part X.Part XI.Part XIII.Part XIV.

Part XIII: Promotions II – The Base of the Holy Grail?

What isBookBub? It is a service that will send readers vetted book recommendations for books on sale or free. If you read a lot...

New Anthology of 42 FREE Young Adult stories…

My new apocalyptic short story, Drift Away, is outin the Young Adult Anthology THAT MOMENT WHEN… It’s FREE in all the following stores. Click the cover for Amazon. Kobo | B&N | iBooks |

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We’ve gathered thrilling stories from all of your favorite genres into an epic anthology of young adult fiction. Some of them are just the beginning of a unique adventure, while others are complete stories that will spark your imagination....

ALL IS SILENCE in the world…

ALL IS SILENCE in the world… on sale for the next several days. Under a dollar in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, under a pound in Great Britain, under a euro in countries of the European Union and various other extreme sales prices elsewhere. Links below:

Amazon local stores inU.S.,UK,IN,DE,FR,ES,IT,JP,BR,CA,MX, &AU.

KOBO.

Barnes & Noble.

GooglePlay.

If you want signed print copies, please click here for more information.

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December Smorgasblog

Welcome to my December Smorgasblog post:

Mynew Deserted Lands
short story DRIFT AWAY is published in a FREE Anthology THAT MOMENT WHEN… [Amazon link]. designed to introduce people to new YA authors. We’re currently #1 in three categories, but want to break the Kindle Top 100 Free List. Download it if you can. Also available on other ebooks formats:Kobo.Nook. iBooks. For NaNoWriMo this year I ended up with more than 15,000 new words on NO MAN’S LAND, book three in Lizzie’s Deserted Lands trilo...

November Smorgasblog: NaNoWriMo, FREE Anthology and more…

Welcome to my November Smorgasblog post:

Sometime in the next month, I willhave a new Deserted Lands
short story published in a FREE Anthology designed to introduce people to new YA authors. For NaNoWriMo this year I am planning on jump-starting Deserted Lands Book III – No Man’s Land. I’m currently sitting at 2500 words, short of where I want to be by about 4200 words, but certainly feeling good. Lots of ideas sparking in my head. Thinking a lot about plot, character arcs, conflict and antag...

Catch-up news… Smorgasblog, I suppose…

Hey folks,

This school year has been a bit crazy, so if I missed wishing you a Happy Birthday, or you noticed a significant decline in my posts/communication, I apologize. Happy birthday, condolences and congratulations. I hope to be coming out of the rain shadow of the self-indulged deluge really soon. Perhaps this will give you an idea of what I’m up to…

In order to have more time to write, I have taken a voluntary time/pay cut from my day job as teacher. I’ll be teaching 85% of full-time...

Kim Briggs – Young Adult Scavenger Hunt Bonus!

Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by authorColleen Houckas a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receiveone book from each author on the hunt in my team!But play fast: t...

Young Adult Scavenger Hunt coming soon…

Hey young adult readers, theYoung Adult Scavenger Hunt is starting soon. You can win FREE books, get free fiction for newsletter signups and prizes on almost every stop of the hunt. Ever stop has bonus materials related to one of the author’s novels. This might be a short story, playlist, deleted scenes, artwork, or something else.

If you haven’t participated before, don’t worry. It’s easy, fun and free to anyone on our planet. There are six teams:

RED,BLUE,GOLD,GREEN,ORANGE,&PURPLE–eachwith...