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My dream Cast for Broken Earth and Shattered Hearts

Every author has a dream cast for their characters so I thought I would share mine 
The first character I'd like to introduce you to is Jess: 
   Jess is a survivor. She buried her family when the plagues took them. To be alone in this world you have to be tough and Jess is. In my mind I saw her as a cross between this young girl sans the makeup and dog collar and Jennifer Lawrence.
Ian       Ian was always a younger version of Ian Somerhaulder. He is quietly strong and would do anything for Jess.
Lucie

 The story of Lucie is a very unique one. I see her as my daughter at five years old. She's precocious witty and an old soul. This little girl looks much like my daughter did back then she is the embodiment of Lucie.
Mollie

I have always been obsessed with the TV Show The Tribe. The character of Alice is my Mollie. She is also my favorite character in the book. She is strong willed, willing to fight for what she believes in. She's a shrewd trader and a loyal friend.
Ash/Rebel

Jake Abel has been my muse for Ash. He's got a tough exterior but inside he's a marshmallow. (Especially with Lucie) He leads the gang and goes by the moniker of Rebel. He and Jess were friends in school before the plagues came. 
Bullitt

This guy reminded me very much of Bullitttall, well built, tough, not very smart, and loyal to a fault. 

Max

Colin Morgan is my Max, he's got just that right bit of creeptasticness that brings his strange aura to life in the story. He's a strange person....but if you've lived your entire life in a mortuary what do you expect?
Angel

 Max's sister is Angel and when I saw the movie Twixt I decided that Elle Fanning was My Angel.   
Shattered Hearts introduces New Characters:
Duchess

 Duchess is a former child entertainer. Now she runs the resort with a fair but firm hand.She's elegant and definitely a girly girl.  AAron  
Aaron is Duchess' younger brother. He has his finger on the pulse of the resort. He's the strong silent type. He is a talented musician like his sister, but he's happier in the background. He's got a huge heart and is compassionate but extremely protective of his sisters. 
Belle

Belle is Aaron's twin sister and they are as different as night and day. Belle is very jealous and covets what other people have. She's selfish and self centered inside while acting like a selfless southern belle on the outside. What will she bring to the story......read and find out! 
Shattered Hearts is coming! Release day is just around the corner! 
  

Spotlight on Shari Richardson and her Awesome Book Mourning Sun

Shari Richardson just re-released her amazing new novel Mourning Sun. Have you met this amazing author?
I should have known when he walked into my life that things would never be the same. Hadn't I dreamed of him and the things he'd done before I was born? If only he weren't so fascinating, so beautiful, so much more than any other guy. Maybe then I could walk away. Mairin Cote is a magnet for weird. Her dreams come true, she can see auras and her mother is in love with an angel. Now the monsters are finding her too. Vampires, demigods and were-panthers have flocked to this small town girl who must find a way to keep her family safe, love the man of her dreams, and navigate the shark-infested waters of Highland Home High School.

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About The Author



Shari Richardson holds a master's degree in English Education and has spent much of her life teaching students the joy of reading and writing. Her love of writing began when she was in elementary school and has carried through her entire adult life.
Shari is the author of the Highland Home series which currently includes Mourning Sun, Captured Sun, Seven Days, Banished Sun and Nine Lives. Two Suns, the next book in the series, will be coming in late 2014.
Shari currently lives in North Carolina with her two Chihuahuas, Buster and Gracie.

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Tattooed Dots

Easton Crawford put his modeling career and good looks before his marriage until it was over. Years later, he is finally learning how to be the father his daughter needed him to be. He’s not looking for a new mom for his daughter—just nightly casual hook-ups. When his best friend, Avery, convinces him that a good way to meet a lot of single women is to go on a single’s cruise, Easton finds more than just a hook-up when he meets a fellow cruiser, Brooke. 

Brooke Bradley has taken care of her younger sister, Bailee, for most of their lives. While their mother was enjoying not being a mother, Brooke became the adult in the household at thirteen. She had always taken care of the people in her life, especially her boyfriend, Jared. If it wasn’t for Brooke, Jared wouldn’t know how to function throughout the day. 

When Brooke’s best friend, Nicole, gives her a gift of going on a cruise without telling her that it’s a single’s cruise, will Brooke find someone willing to be her constant and finally leave Jared? 

Brooke and Easton learn that people are brought into their lives for many reasons. Over time, they find out what those reasons are. Some are to be a temporary acquaintance while others are there for life.

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Kimberly Knight has just moved from the Bay Area in California to the mountains near a lake with her loving husband and spoiled cat, Precious. In her spare time, she enjoys watching her favorite reality TV shows, playing co-ed slow pitch softball in a few local leagues,rooting for her SF Giants and San Jose Sharks and playing computer games like World of Warcraft with Audrey Harte and online poker. Now that she is near a lake, she plans on working on her tan and doing more outdoor stuff like...watching hot guys ski. However, the bulk of her time is dedicated to writing and reading Romance and Erotic fiction.

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Learning to Let Go

Garrett Andrews has controlled every aspect of his life for as long as he can remember. Whatever he wanted, he took, especially when it came to Laurel Hart. She was the first person to make his heart skip a beat and capture his soul, allowing part of his control to slip, which uncovered his lie and destroyed her trust in him. 

Laurel now lays battered and broken thanks to Chase Peterson, a stalker from her college days, who won’t accept no for an answer. Garrett is determined to win her back, obsessing over her care in an attempt to heal both her body and her mind. He will go to any lengths to earn back her trust and teach her to let go of the past, but can he follow his own advice and let down his own walls? 

They struggle to overcome their issues and soon Chase is after her again, fixated on staking his “claim” with a startling revelation that links both the past and present. Can they find happiness with each other or is their too much to overcome? Only time will tell if they can learn to let go. 

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Good old uncle Walt.

I love Dead Poets society. Robin Williams quoting Walt Whitman in a picturesque school for privileged kids always got to me. How cool would it be going to that school. The truth is that Uncle Walt really inspired me. We read a lot of Whitman in High School and a lot of Frost. Today I'm going to share with you two poems that really touched me. The First one is by Whitman.

Aboard At A Ship's Helm
ABOARD, at a ship's helm,
A young steersman, steering with care.

A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,
An ocean-bell--O a warning bell, rock'd by the waves.

O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,
Ringing, ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck-place.

For, as on the alert, O steersman, you mind the bell's admonition,
The bows turn,--the freighted ship, tacking, speeds away under her
gray sails,
The beautiful and noble ship, with all her precious wealth, speeds
away gaily and safe.

But O the ship, the immortal ship! O ship aboard the ship! 10
O ship of the body--ship of the soul--voyaging, voyaging, voyaging.


Walt Whitman  The next poem we memorized. I have Walking By Woods on a Snowy Evening burned into my brain. It's a beautiful poem.

It's so true that I have miles to go before I sleep like everyone does. This is one of my favorite poems. Robert Frost was such a talented poet. 

The poetry section was always dreaded by the kids in my class. I actually loved it, it gave me a chance to see the work of other poets and I ate that up. It's a great outlet for me to put my feelings on paper. You don't have to rhyme to be a poet you just have to take and put pen to paper and spill your guts out.
I hope you enjoyed the poems of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost maybe it will inspire you to write your own.

Salute Saturday

 Sage Kotsenburg Earns first Olympic Gold Medal in Snowboarding

I'm a huge fan of the winter Olympics, I always have been. As a child we would watch them together as a family and cheer on the talented athletes. I wanted to take a moment to congratulate Sage Kotsenburg on his Olympic Gold Medal in Snowboarding. I love watching them do all those awesome tricks, but we have to take a step back and realize the strength and danger involved in this sport. It takes great skill and bravery to do this amazing sport. Way to go Sage! GO TEAM USA! 

Shattered Hearts Teaser

Shattered Hearts TeaserIt's coming..... On February 28 The next book in the Broken Series Shattered Hearts Broken Earth Trailer

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It's coming The White Door by the Amazing and Talented Christy Sloat Cover Reveal

[image error] The Brown House Book 1Brylee Branson begrudgingly made the excruciating move with her family from the warm sandy beaches of California to small town living in New Jersey. As if she wasn’t miserable enough, they’ve moved into a creepy old house that everyone in the area claims is haunted. Brylee dismisses the idea of ghosts and hauntings, untilshe begins to see and hear things that can’t be explained…

Brylee has no choice but to seek the help of new friends to unlock the secrets of this place she now calls home. But some secrets should never be revealed. Can the teens find a way to release the spirits imprisoned within the walls? Or will the curse claim them, too?   *Recipient of the Readers Favorite 5 Star Review*
The Crimson Key Book 2 [image error] Brylee Branson’s best friend and boyfriend have fallen victim to a horrible curse that haunts her home. With the witches who cast it dead she has no choice but to rely on the ghosts inside the Brown house to help her find a cure. But time is not on her side, because Lynley's illness is spreading rapidly.
   Confused and scared, seventeen-year-old Brylee must confront a new ghost in the house she has never spoken to before. This spirit is not a Brown relative and makes no promises to help them … unless she can re-unite her with a loved one. The fate of those she loves now rests on her. Can Brylee put the pieces of this puzzle together in time to save them? Or will the Brown house claim another victim?
 The Visitor’s Series continues to scare and entice its readers with this gripping second book.    
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And Now what you've all been waiting for!!! The big reveal!!!!  Presenting the cover for The White Door [image error] The White Door Book 3The haunting third book in the Best Selling Visitors Series. “When I first moved here I was still a girl who cherished the normality of teen life. Now, after being here a year I had come to love a boy who was both strong and courageous. I made real friendships that would last even after death. The selfish girl my grandmother warned me of becoming had vanished. A girl who stood tall, with the powers to see the dead and help those in need, appeared in her place.”
In Brylee’s world, nothing is normal. She sees and speaks with the dead and, at seventeen years old, she already has a full plate. She’s in her senior year of high school and college is just around the corner, but only if she learns to control her gifts and survive in the land of the living. She has succeeded in ridding her boyfriend, Ephraim, from the Brown family curse, but, in the end, her best friend loses her life. Now a whole slew of new problems presents itself and, like always, Brylee is tempted to run for the hills. With Ephraim at her side, she must come to grips with the reality that she is not an average girl and she never will be. What will happen when the town turns on her? Or, better yet, when a body is unearthed in her backyard? The choices that Brylee must make will determine whether she has a future or nothing at all.




[image error] Christy Sloat is a SoCal born girl who resides in New Jersey currently with her husband, two daughters and Sophie her Chihuahua. Christy has embraced the love of reading and writing since her youth and was inspired by her grandmother's loving support. Christy passes that love of reading, writing, and creativity to her daughters, family, and friends. When you do not find Christy within the pages of a book you can find her being mommy, wife, crafter, and dear friend. She loves adventurous journeys with her friends and can be known to get lost inside a bookstore. Be sure to venture into her Past Lives Series, The Visitor's Series, and watch for many more exciting things to come.
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Here it is the big cover reveal for Shattered Hearts

It started with Broken Earth
It all began with a war.... Jess' life was turned upside down when the plagues came and destroyed her family. The cities are surrounded by immense graveyards that are inhabited by dangerous gangs that rule the cities and hold the inhabitants under their thumbs. It's a game of life and death and only the strong survive.
It continued in Christmas Magic
A Christmas Story set in the world of Broken Earth

Now the story continues in Shattered Hearts
Jess lost her family when the plagues came, but she gained a new one when she married Ian. Pregnant with another man's baby Jess and her family travel through the vast labyrinth of cemeteries searching for the Promised Land.
Surrounded by the unknown, will they get there before the baby arrives?

About The Author:
Lee Ryder is a mother of 3 children and one angel. She currently lives in New England. She started writing small works at an early age and was featured in local publications. She studied theater and vocal performance and was featured in several plays. She believes in love at first sight and married her soul mate at age 19. She also has read reviewed and edited other published works. You can visit her at her blog and on her on Facebook.



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On working on and Building my new book Shattered Hearts.

My new book Shattered Hearts will be out soon. It will follow Jess and Ian's story after they leave the camp of the grave dwellers. There are many things to come and you don't want to miss a thing! \I began writing this story right after Broken Earth was published in the vacation time between Christmas and New years. Also during that time I wrote Christmas Magic which is a tale I wrote in the Broken Earth Universe. 

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Shattered hearts will be the second book in the Broken Earth Series and I am super excited for it's release. I've been working closely with some awesome editors and cover artists on this project. I've learned a lot from book one and I hope you'll be pleasantly surprised with book two. It will be an emotional roller coaster for sure!
I also decided that until the release of the cover I would lower the price on Broken Earth to .99 from now until the 31 of  January! Don't be left out in the cold pick up your copy today! 

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What's coming from me? That's a good question. I have a Circuspunk story being released soon as well as a New Adult paranormal story that I'm putting in a multi author work to be released later this year. I'm well into writing it and it's a doozie. There are some very talented authors working on this project so both books should be very good! 
If you are looking for more of my work look no further than Zombie Addiction which is another compilation of Zombie stories done by some awesome authors like CM Wright, Yours Truly, S Cu'anam Policar, and many more! Check it out! 
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There's even more exciting news! Later this year I will be releasing a crime novel entitled Paradigm Of Betrayal and YES there is a third untitled work coming in the Broken Earth Series.
I'm super excited about all the new releases I have coming out. Thank you all for making this girl's dreams come true. My fans are so important to me. Please feel free to send any questions to mom14043@gmail.com and I'll get back to you!
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