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Blog postBrightly Burning by Alexa Donne My rating: ★★★★☆ Jane Eyre in space! It’s an excellent elevator pitch and certainly worked to sell Brightly Burning to tons of book lovers. When I first heard this description in one of my writing forums, I immediately started following the author and excitedly waited for the book to come out. I don’t know if current teens are familiar with the classic story of
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Blog postNo matter how many books I have out, I’m always super excited when I have an announcement, but I’ve been particularly looking forward to this one. This fall, on November 6th, 2018, I will be releasing my fifth book, In the Lurch. YOU'VE BEEN REPLACED. Once a machine could do as much work as three men, the labor force was quickly replaced by much more efficient androids. As the number
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Blog postCritiquing other writers’ work is surprisingly difficult. It’s tempting to go through with a red pen and mark everything you find that’s wrong (or you just don’t like), then hand back the bloodied masterpiece: These are all the things you need to change! However, if you do that, you’re an asshole. Something I’ve enjoyed about the writing community is that we try to build each other up, and
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Blog postI don’t intentionally look up tons of Young Adult books to read, they just keep falling in my lap. I really enjoy reading (and writing) dystopian fiction, but a lot of dystopian stories are targeted at teen readers. It totally makes sense, though. Under the thumb of their parents and teachers, life as a teen can feel like living in an oppressive bunker while the rest of humanity has been
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Blog postAshes by Libbi Duncan My Rating: ★★★★☆ Ashes picks up right where The Scorching left off, continuing Madi’s story. Like in the previous book, Madi is searching for her parents. There is some sort of conflict between the moon and Earth, although I must admit, I have a bad memory for stories, so I forget what the set-up was in the previous book. I really enjoyed the voice and prose, and like
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Blog postiframe {padding-right:30px !important;} I don’t really watch that much TV (I’m including Netflix and Hulu in this statement), but I do enjoy consuming tons of YouTube videos. And as a writer, most of my screen time is devoted to following ‘AuthorTube,’ which is shorthand for channels by writers and for writers. Since I’ve moved from searching for tons of writing advice to looking up
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Blog postWhile in the middle of drafting a novel—one that I ultimately decided to set aside—I had an idea for another book. Actually, not really an idea for an entire novel, but a character. I’ve met some quirky and interesting grad students/postdocs over the years and wanted to write a story featuring an academic. I started piecing together my protagonist, Dr. Peter Cork. He loves his work, which
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Blog postLast weekend was HeroesCon, and I had a great time. I really enjoy going to events to meet fans and sell books in person. Of course, the primary goal of tabling at an event is to make money, but there are a bunch of other benefits that also make it worthwhile. Even though I didn’t quite reach my lofty sales goals for Heroes, I’m still really glad I went. I’ve done an embarrassing amount of
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Blog postLast weekend was HeroesCon, so the past week has been incredibly busy and hectic. I’ll share more about the event after I’ve had a chance to decompress. I wanted to write up something about my novel, At Fault, since I haven’t talked about it too much. In fact, there isn’t even a preview of it on my website! So here is the first chapter of At Fault. The Kindle book will come out on July 3rd
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Blog postI love the idea of an escape room. I already enjoy solving puzzles, and the opportunity to do that in a tactile, first-person setting is awesome. However, I don’t think escape rooms are particularly kid-friendly, and good childcare gets expensive. When I learned that there were board game counterparts to these immersive experiences, I had to give them a shot. There are a number of escape games
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Blog postYoung-adult fiction just isn’t my jam. I was looking for something to read with more ‘adult’ themes (i.e. the characters have jobs, no coming-of-age self-discovery, romance subplots that contain more than the protagonist over-analyzing whether or not they should kiss the love interest, and so on). How do I keep messing up? Clearly, I need to stop purchasing books from my Kindle, since the sales
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Blog postMy novel group has made it to the halfway point of our sixth-month time frame, and the first member has finished their first draft. I had been hoping that I would be the first one to pen The End, but I haven’t been keeping up a fast pace like I had originally expected. Instead, I’m a little under halfway done. Even though publishing is a business, the act of writing is still a creative
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Blog postBeing a parent is really hard. Last week, I got a call from my son’s school. The nurse informed me that he was sick, and she needed me to come pick him up. However, I had an important meeting in an hour with his teachers. Unable to find anyone to watch him, we tried doing the meeting as a conference call. While I was steam cleaning the sofa (why couldn’t he aim at a bucket, or at least a
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Blog postI'm sure some authors are already aware of the insanity surrounding Faleena Hopkins and her claim to the word “cocky.” The whole debacle has brought the entire idea of branding to the forefront of my mind, so I thought I’d tackle it in today’s post. Faleena Hopkins is an indie author who writes romance novels. She has a series about the “Cocker®️ brothers” called “The Cocky®️ Series,” in
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Blog postImmersed by Jenetta Penner My rating: ★★★★☆ Following right after the end of Configured, Avlyn finds herself in New Philadelphia. But instead of attaining freedom, she has become a prisoner of the president, Warren. A team of people will help her train her skill of immersing into computer systems, with the plans of using her in the future as an ultimate weapon. She doesn’t trust any of the
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Blog postI have delved into the world of book covers before, finding a bunch of romance and thriller novels which shared the same stock image. However, since I write science fiction, I wanted to know if there were any great stock photos within the genre that have been a little too played out. Enter Future women concept, black latex with neon lights. Now, future woman is featured in a few different photo
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Blog postBelieve it or not, but I had set up a pretty strict release schedule for my books: one new title every six months. It took me a while to realize, I’m self-publishing—I can launch books whenever I want! Having novels come out more or less frequently probably isn’t going to hurt me. Heck, a lot of indie authors make books available for preorder before the book has even been formatted/edited/written
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Blog postOne of my goals for the posts I make on this site is not to have three book reviews in a row. This is actually really hard for me. First of all, I read a lot. Second, book reviews are easy content to create. And, finally, they tend to draw a lot of people to my website. I know this last fact thanks to Google Analytics. I can see which searches land on this site, so I know what you’re looking
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Blog postThis time, I decided to pick up a novel that had the backing of a large publisher in order to ensure that I would be reading something of higher quality. I had run across a few promos for the The Handmaid’s Tale adaptation on Hulu, and was intrigued by the story—but not enough to subscribe to Hulu. In retrospect, a month of Hulu would have been cheaper than purchasing the eBook. But enough about
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Blog postI picked up Secondborn because every time I browsed Amazon, the site was like, “BUY THIS BOOK!” Since I read a lot of dystopian-fiction-with-strong-female-lead novels, it seems that this one would be a natural recommendation. And Amazon published it, thus the not so subtle promotions. Secondborn by Amy Bartol My rating: ★★★☆☆ In Secondborn, the first child is a member of elite society,
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Blog postI had an absolute blast at Four State Comic Con this past weekend! Since I’m a planner, I had done a test set-up for my table and packed everything way in advance. I thought I’d share all the items I brought to give you an idea of what’s involved in setting up a table to sell books at an event. Keep in mind that not all conventions and fairs provide vendors with the same setup. Some give you
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Blog postWriters get inspiration from all kinds of places, and when I was trying to come up with an idea for a novel, I thought, I’ll write a book with aliens! The result of that inspiration is Mental Contact, which (not really a spoiler) is a story with absolutely no aliens. I crafted a world in the far future where warp travel is possible, but not commonplace. I wanted to have a flawed protagonist
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Blog postI’ve only written up product reviews of books for this site, since I figure people who follow an author’s website like books. I also read a good bit, so reviews are fairly easy content to create. Aside from devouring novels, I also play a lot of board games. Since I have small children—and good babysitters are hard to come by—I’ve never had the opportunity to do an escape room. So I was really
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Blog postI’ve decided to branch out a little bit and read some non-dystopian fiction, so I was happy to find a psychological thriller with a cool premise. Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell My rating: ★★★★★ When Emma’s husband receives a new job opportunity, her family decides to finally sell their home, the one Emma grew up in and inherited from her father, and move to the city. However, there’s a
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Blog postI was going to post a book review this week, but it’s going to have to wait. Being an indie author, I try to read and review a lot of books written by other indie authors. I do this to help fellow authors out (reviews can be hard to get), to show readers that there are tons of high-quality indie books, and also to hopefully attract some of other author’s fans to my work. Since traditional
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At Fault
Jul 03, 2018
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The End of Refuge: A Near Future Thriller
Mar 07, 2017
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Mental Contact
Mar 20, 2018
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