LET THE RELEASE PARTY BEGIN!!!!

WELCOME TO MY RELEASE PARTY FOR FRACTURED PARADISE!

First off, I'm so thrilled you're here. Thank you for sharing this event with me. Fractured Paradise is my second Honor Guard story with Decadent Publishing. It's a contemporary romantic suspense novella set in the UK.

I'm so excited to share this book with the world. It will be available tomorrow, but I wanted to start the party early. I'll be here all week sharing stories, facts and details about this book and the process it took to get published. I'll also be giving away prizes to commenters and followers. So be sure to visit, share your thoughts and get in the running!

What's on tap for the week?

Monday: (2 posts) Introduction, & the Story Behind the Story
Tuesday: (1 post) Official Release Day!
Wednesday: (2 posts) Fun Facts of Fractured Paradise, & What's this IPN?
Thursday: (2 posts) Sunderland Dialect game!
Friday: (1 post) What's Next For Lexi?

I'll be choosing WINNERS from the comments this week to receive UK treats! There will be one winner a day AND one lucky commenter will win a FREE copy of the book at the end of the party! (Winners will be chosen and announced after midnight each day. Grand prize winner will be chosen from all commenters all week and announced Saturday.)

PLUS, you can have an extra chance to win a copy of the book if you visit my 2-day release party on the Get Lost in a Story blog. Tomorrow is the official release, with an excerpt, and then Wednesday on there I'll be interviewing Rachel Grant, the heroine from Fractured Paradise. From the commenters on that blog, I'll be choosing 1 winner for a copy of the book too!

Okay, later today I'll be sharing the story behind the story for you!

(In the meantime, feel free to visit the Celtic Hearts blog, where I'm blogging about Thurso, Scotland today.)

Six Sentence Sunday

Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday! Today I'm sharing the last snippet of my book Fractured Paradise. It will be released on Tuesday! And now, for the last snippet of my 2nd story:

Accusing the brothers had been foolish. She knew that. "This is totally why I spend my days behind a computer desk."

Suddenly spending the day alone on the island didn’t hold the same appeal as it had when she first got up. She pushed the door open and stepped into the chill of the morning air. At this moment she wanted…Aidan.

Well? What do you think? Be sure to come back this week because I'm celebrating ALL WEEK. There will be prizes and a game and....well, I won't spoil the surprise. Just drop by when you can to learn more about this book and me, and to get into the running for a prize!

Insanity Pays A Visit!

I'm already behind on NaNoWriMo! Yikes! BUT, I love the story that's coming to life. It's a straight romance set in Scotland (again) with a Scotswoman who first made an appearance in Her Highland Champion and her hero was SUPPOSED to be a Scotsman she'd been pining for over the last decade. But, her true hero showed up last night. He's an Irishman and he's a cocky SOB. But he's a charmer, too, and so he and I are getting along fine.

I voted today! Yay! Regardless of who you support, get out there and vote. Many people died trying to make sure we had this right. If not for yourself, do it for them.

I'm hard at work putting the finishing touches on my RELEASE PARTY for Fractured Paradise, which will start early Monday morning and run through Friday! Info, stories, fun facts, prizes and a game I spent time researching today when I should've been writing my NaNoWriMo words. Make plans to visit often to join in the celebration!

AND.....Sunday will be my last Fractured Paradise snippet for Six Sentence Sunday. After that, I'll be sharing my NaNo project.

Okay, I've got my tea ready and my pen so I'm going back to write more of my NaNo words. Later!

And We're Off!!!!!

HAPPY NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH!

I'm already hard at work writing Silent Surrender. I got a neat idea just the other day and the characters were screaming at me so I decided to scrap my originally planned book for NaNo and write this one. I'll tell you more about it when I learn more about it! Check out here during the month and I'll keep you updated on my progress.

ALSO.....Fractured Paradise comes out next Tuesday (November 6th). I'll be partying here all week starting Monday (Hey, even with NaNo a girl needs some breaks!) with snippets, blurbs, fun facts, prizes and more. So make plans to visit and join in the fun!

Prepping for NaNoWriMo!

At 12:01 tonight I'll be on my way to writing 50,000 words in the month of November with TONS of people around the world. It's National Novel Writing Month! I'll be working on a story called Silent Surrender. I was going to work on a different book, but this one is better for me to write at the moment. I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOO excited! For more info about NaNoWriMo, visit the website here. I'll be sharing my progress and my insanity on this blog during the month, so be sure to check on me! And let me know if you're participating in NaNo. We can support and console each other.

Here is a picture of all my necessary items for me to have a successful NaNoWriMo:

*2 gorgeous pictures of Glenfinnan, Scotland (my happy place) that one of my best friends sent me for my birthday. These are for inspiration.
*The paper on the left is specific writer craft details I need to keep in mind as I write.
*3 notebooks, because I write all my rough drafts by hand.
*Tissues for when the characters make me cry or when I cry because they're no longer talking to me.
*Pens and pencils for writing in those notebooks.
*Nail file for fixing my nails after I chew them off out of worry and/or frustration.
*Ipod, because I usually get "in the zone" when I've got music.
*A pencil sharpener for those pencils I break from either writing too fast or from snapping them in half out of panic.
*Aspirin for the headaches I'll get when the characters go one way and I want the story to go another.
*Peanut M&Ms because they're my favorite candy....wait. That package is open. Hey! Who stole my M&Ms????? (Well, at least I have a few more hours to stock up!)

Six Sentence Sunday

Good morning! Today I'm bringing you a suspenseful snippet of mt upcoming release, Fractured Paradise. (It comes out Tuesday, November 6th!) I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Enjoy!

After two straight days of working in the cottage, Rachel thought she was ready to spend her first night there. She’d scrubbed, swept, and rearranged furniture.

But now that she stood in the center of the living room with her pajamas in her hands, her suitcases against the rocker, and noises coming from the walls, reality did not live up to her dreams.

Wind whistled an eerie tune through the cracked windows despite the plywood she had managed to hammer in place yesterday afternoon. The wood burned in the fireplace, yet a chill overtook her body.

Thump, thump.

There you have it! Feel free to leave me a comment or to look back at previous snippets from other Six Sentence Sundays. For more of today's entries, visit www.sixsunday.com!


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Update.....

Hello, hello! I'm currently on a "writing break" as I refill the well and prep for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which starts on November 1st. I'm reading (on my 2nd Jill Shalvis book in a week!!), playing, planning and teaching an online class. Here's what's up:

I received a rejection from Harequin for a full-length suspense story. It's the one I did a revise and resubmit on. One editor requested it and then she was transfered to a different department. The 2nd editor was very nice in her rejection, telling me what she liked and what needed work, and she offered to read something else. So I immediately decided to submit another manuscript that I love.

Because I love the rejected manuscript and still believe in the story, I'm going to review it and submit it to other epublishers. (I can't send it to my epub, because it's longer than the books they publish.)

My NaNoWriMo book is itching to get out! I can't wait! I've been jotting down notes for it and today I heard the theme song on the radio. (It's "Without You" by David Guetta with Usher.) Remember what it's about? Stripped- Tessa has 2 men in her life. One doesn't know she's alive, one wants her dead and by the end of the week she'll leave them both speechless.

I've decided not to write the historical romance short story I was working on. There were many reasons, but it boils down to the reader in me would love the story in my head, but the writer in me can't get the right story on paper. I tried for 2 months and I was still only halfway through the rough draft.

In place of the historical short story, I've started jotting down notes for a new contemporary romance short story, which will be set in my fictional happy place, Glenhalish (the setting of Her Highland Champion), and will "star" a heroine my senior editor mentioned not too long ago.

I'm teaching my favorite online class, Killer Openings, this month and loving it. I'm also gearing up for my next online class, Candid Confessions of a Newbie Author, in which I discuss in detail what happens after the book contract is signed. I'm giving details about the ups and downs, doubts and successes of my first year as a published author. That class will be taught in November.

I've been working a bit more, which is great, but I'm also going to step up my search AGAIN for a full-time job.

2 weeks tomorrow Fractured Paradise comes out!!!! Yay! I'm planning to celebrate on a few different blogs, as well as my own. A friend recently went to London, so I asked her to pick up some goodies I can use for contest prizes, as well as free books!

Okay, back to work!