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17 June 2013

A Superb Bargain For Only One Week! #urbanfantasy #paranormal #darkfantasy #99c

Hello everyone.

As most of you will know, I’m currently working on book 2 of The Supes Series (Finding Luna), but the first book (Finding Esta) is currently on Amazon for only 99c / 99p (usually $2.99)! This offer will last until next week, so bag it now while it’s cheapideep! Oh, and don’t forget, we authors NEED reviews, so please – if you enjoy it – do find time to leave feedback for other potential readers.

Ridiculously short synopsis:

Psychic flaws curse a fledgling journalist who seeks validation from loveless parents, and peace within a cruel world. When her investigation into child abduction leads her to a supernatural Cornish community, her sense of identity implodes as each incredible revelation steers her to a singularly mind-blowing question:
“What am I?”

For more information about this book and The Supes Series, click here. To head over to AMAZON, click the image.

Many thanks, and enjoy!

Filed Under: Books and Authors, e-Books, Fiction Books, Fiction Writers, Finding Esta, Good Books To Read, My Writing, Publishing, Random Post, Speculative Fiction, The Supes Series, Urban Fantasy, Vampire Fiction Tagged With: 99c, Finding Esta, Kindle Bargain, New Adult Fiction, Paranormal/Supernatural Fiction, Shah Wharton, The Supes Series, Urban Fantasy

17 June 2013

Lessons I’ve Learned from My Hero/Heroine/Villain by Shea Berkley – Excerpt & Guest Post.

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Shea Berkley's The Fallen Prince blog tour

Hello readers! Any writers or readers out there who use characters in books (your own or otherwise) to live out your fantasies, to afford a sense of catharsis when she kicks ass, falls in love or moves on through a bad time? Well, Shea Berkley shares a few lessons she’s learned from her own heroes, heroines, and villains, as well as an excerpt from book #2 of her Keepers of Life Series – The Fallen Prince - the sequel to The Marked Son, which I featured here, and is a paranormal YA romance.

Filed Under: Book Tour, Books and Authors, Excerpt, Fantasy, Features, Fiction Books, Fiction Writers, Guest Post, Paranormal Books, Young Adult Books Tagged With: Excerpt, Hero, Heroine, Keepers of Life series, Paranormal Romance, Shea Berkley, The Fallen Prince, THE MARKED SON, Villain, YA, Young Adult Fiction

16 June 2013

Quickie #ROW80 Update: #amediting #amwriting… Slowly!

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Hello all. Sorry it’s been a while since my last update, but life really did shove it’s boney elbows into my ribs. I’ve been on holiday! Twice!

The Far East

I’d never been anywhere like the Far East before, and as hubs hates it here in Dubai he is always applying to other airlines for a job. There aren’t many real or worthy jobs around, mind. So nothing ever comes of those hopeful applications – yet! One job means we’d be based in Singapore, so when he flew there a few weeks ago, he booked me a flight to spend the night and following day there with him. Wow! And wowza!

Filed Under: ROW80, WIP Tagged With: Book Cover, editing, Finding Luna, holiday snaps, Photographs, Phuket, Row80, The Supes Series, writing

15 June 2013

The Blogger Book Fair – book your trip to far away places!

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Hey there, folks. Anyone who hasn’t really should stop by and sign up to this event. If you’re neither an author of a blogger, then pop this even into your calendar so that you can hop around the participating blogs and enter giveaways, bag a few freebies, enjoy the events and more!

Filed Under: Books and Authors, Fiction Books, Fiction Writers, Giveaway, Indie Soap Box Files, Random Post Tagged With: Authors, bloggers, blogs, books, events, giveaways, The Blogger Book Fair

31 May 2013

My Entry to the WIP IT GOOD Blogfest: Finding Luna #2 The Supes Series

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This blog-fest allows authors (and their readers) to hop around to discover other authors WIPs, and link up with potential CP’s and BR’s for their own projects. Jump on board, read all about my current WIP – Finding Luna #2 The Supes Series, and enjoy! This is also my Celebrate the Small Things post.

Filed Under: Beta Readers, Book Cover, Books and Authors, Finding Luna, The Supes Series, WIP Tagged With: Beta Readers, Celebrate the Small Things, critique partners, Finding Esta (#1 The Supes Series), Finding Luna #2 The Supes Series, My Writing, Shah Wharton's books, WIP IT GOOD Blogfest, writing

29 May 2013

The Get Healthy Blog Hop (Tips For Bloggers & Writers)

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Hello all. Today I’m participating in The Get Healthy Blog Hop, which is a meme all about health – but for writers and bloggers.

Why?

Because I have a habit of sitting on my growing backsides while snacking on carbs, sugar and fat, and gulping down gallons of caffeine. Not a great state of affairs and I wanted to get stuck into the other posts to discover a few more tips for healthier alternatives.

I also wanted to share a few of my own tips with you.

Filed Under: Inspirational post, Random Post Tagged With: CHROMIUM PICOLINATE, Green Coffee Extract, GREEN TEA. Writing, Writer

27 May 2013

Why Blogging Is Essential For Any Kind of Writer

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Writers haven’t always had the internet at their disposal and if those trying to make it big as a journalist or author in the 80’s and early 90’s had the kind of technology we have now, they just might find it too good to be true.

The internet has made the written word highly valuable and important. Much more so than it ever was before. Businesses need blogs and advertisers are looking for sites with a lot of traffic, which is making a blog much more important and vital to the success of any kind of marketing.

Filed Under: Guest Post, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing, Writing Tips Tagged With: author platform, blogging, Writer

20 May 2013

A Cool Non-Linear Model of Storytelling

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Nonlinear narrative has been around forever, but it has been considered inferior, erroneous, complicated – and not in a good way – when compared to linear narrative. Of course, now we might see it as quite special, we might welcome the challenge and unpredictability of a non-linear narrative.

In Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino made us follow three stories at once, each one belting forward, stomping backward, sidetracking and generally criss-crossing (I love this movie, btw). The possibilities for nonlinear narrative are endless. I wanted to find out some way of doing this without driving myself crazy and well, when I found this I had to share it with you. Take a look at this model of non-linear storytelling.

Filed Under: Writing, Writing Tips Tagged With: Adam Brackin, Non-Linear Model of Storytelling, Pulp Fiction

Can You Help This Author Out? There are incentives. #ROW80 #amwriting

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I recently heard about a ROW80 author buddy of ours who has run into hard times. The original post is here. Please go read it. Basically, her husband is very unwell and could be for some time. Two blood-clots are the sickness, for which he’s receiving treatment.

This means no wages for an indeterminate amount of time for Lauralynn and her family. So, I wanted to join everyone else in trying to raise awareness. To help in some way. But how?

Kait Nolan (RWO80 creator and author) has set up a donations campaign (with yummy incentives to donate, should you need one) HERE!

Filed Under: Books and Authors, Fiction Writers, Indie Authors, Inspirational post, Paranormal Books, ROW80 Tagged With: #ROW80 #amwriting, books, donations, Giveaway, Lauralynn Elliot, Row80

19 May 2013

Mega Shareathon, ROW80, Book Cover Design, & Monsters.

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Also, this is a ROW80 update – if you’re here for that alone and do not want to check out these amazing links, dart to the bottom (I’d add a bookmark link right about here if I knew how to!).

But first, I have a collection of great posts and resources to share. Remember, if you’s like to share anything with my readers, here on my blog, get in touch using the contact page of my email address.

These guys got in touch to share an enormous resource list, compiled for higher education students. I plucked the following resources from it, because although there were many specifically for students studying for their thesis, these seemed interesting and useful to all writers. So that means – You! Click the link to see the full list, especially if you’re at university!