My Favorite Reads Giveaway Hop

Congratulations to our winner!
slayjaguar [at] msn [dot] com

Enter to win the young adult ebook release, Until Next Time: The Angel Chronicles, Book 1 from Tribute Books.

1) Click here to add Tribute Books' upcoming YA release, Back to Bataan to your Goodreads to-read list.
2) Leave a comment with your email address.

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Until Next Time:
The Angel Chronicles, Book 1
by Amy Lignor

How does a girl choose between the one who steals her heart and the one who owns her soul?

Matt and Emily were created for a specific job. Raised and trained as the ultimate angel/warrior team, they are sent down to save, defend, judge and forgive, depending on the 'life' they've been assigned. What they don't realize is that the power of human emotions, such as love, anger, passion and fear can take over even the best of souls, causing them to make mistakes and follow paths that lead to confusion and heartache.

When the reason for their training is finally revealed, the angel/warrior team find themselves thrust into a world they know nothing about. Matt takes over the life of Daniel, a young man with a great deal of baggage. Emily becomes Liz, a girl living in a remote village who relies on nothing more than her own strength to survive. A violent storm erupts one night, and framed in the window of Liz's establishment is a frightening face. Let in by the soul of a Good Samaritan, the two visitors bring with them a past full of secrets that could literally change an angel's path and a warrior's plans.

From murder to redemption, this angel/warrior team must find a way to keep the faith they have in each other in a world that's ripping them apart.

http://www.the-angel-chronicles.com

Feature & Follow

Feature & Follow

Q: Activity, Dreamcast your current book!

My current ebook is Night Sky by Jolene Perry.

I would cast Taylor Lautner as Jameson and Santana from Glee as Sky.

Jamie B. Musings/Jamie White - The Life and Times of No One in Particular - Guest Post

Guest Post

Plotting By Ear

You know that old saying “play it by ear”? It’s kind of a way of life for me and how I do most of my writing. When writing something, I’ll have a basic idea of what the story will be about and that’s pretty much it. Other times, I’ll know what I want to do with it, who the characters will be, and sometimes where I want them to end up. Mostly often than not, it starts with that one idea: “What if this happened? How would a character react?” I basically try not to plan too much because I like taking the spontaneous approach. I like the energy that gives the story.

Ideas are kind of hard for me to come by… my husband’s much better at that part of the writing process. He sometimes helps me with that. Ideas are so tough at times (and fleeting!) that I have to sit down almost right away and start working to get anything done. Once I do, it’s interesting how the idea takes over and gets a life of its own. Sometimes the idea ends up having only a small resemblance to the original once I’m done with it.

I remember one month we had to write a fantasy story for a writing group. I was stuck on what to do and my husband came up with a mini outline about a mermaid whose father is a kind and she ends up in a dungeon after the kingdom is taken over. By the time I got a story out, the King and Princess were humans and the father had been murdered by an evil wizard who then used magic to take his place. The daughter discovers this and the story ends with her running away before the wizard can harm her as well to plan how she’s going to expose what he did.

Taking the spontaneous approach is a fun method that seems to work for me so far and sometimes leads to fun surprises. We’ll see where that approach takes me in the future.


About the Book

Beware the muse with a chip on her shoulder.

Muses are often called uncooperative, grumpy, lazy beings who abandon a writer when they're needed most. Now, one of them has decided to tell their side of the story. Meet Clarissa, a muse who has spent centuries trying to inspire artists who sometimes are too stubborn to listen to her.

What is your muse trying to say to you? Clarissa might just be able to answer that...

Price: $0.99
Number of Pages: 216
Genre: Paranormal Fiction/Satire/YA
Publisher: Create Space
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Buy Link: Kindle


About the Author

Jamie B. Musings (Jamie White) is a music addict, book lover, pet servant and NaNoWriMo survivor. When she's not busy writing posts for Culture Shock, she's taking pictures for her new obsession (That Photo Blog) and spending time with her husband and pets. Her first book, The Life and Times of No One in Particular, was released this month.

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Splash into Summer Giveaway Hop

Congratulations to our winner!
Koddabear1 [at] gmail [dot] com

Enter to win the young adult ebook release, Until Next Time: The Angel Chronicles, Book 1 from Tribute Books.

1) Click here to add Tribute Books' upcoming YA release, The Color of Snow to your Goodreads to-read list.
2) Leave a comment with your email address.

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Until Next Time:
The Angel Chronicles, Book 1
by Amy Lignor

How does a girl choose between the one who steals her heart and the one who owns her soul?

Matt and Emily were created for a specific job. Raised and trained as the ultimate angel/warrior team, they are sent down to save, defend, judge and forgive, depending on the 'life' they've been assigned. What they don't realize is that the power of human emotions, such as love, anger, passion and fear can take over even the best of souls, causing them to make mistakes and follow paths that lead to confusion and heartache.

When the reason for their training is finally revealed, the angel/warrior team find themselves thrust into a world they know nothing about. Matt takes over the life of Daniel, a young man with a great deal of baggage. Emily becomes Liz, a girl living in a remote village who relies on nothing more than her own strength to survive. A violent storm erupts one night, and framed in the window of Liz's establishment is a frightening face. Let in by the soul of a Good Samaritan, the two visitors bring with them a past full of secrets that could literally change an angel's path and a warrior's plans.

From murder to redemption, this angel/warrior team must find a way to keep the faith they have in each other in a world that's ripping them apart.

http://www.the-angel-chronicles.com

Teaser Tuesday

My teaser today is from  The Color Of Snow by Brenda Stanley  (e-book).

“What? Are you trying to tell me our young lady in here is the legendary Callidora? Do you really think this is the perfectly featured, flawless beauty that graced those flyers? It’s a classic case of a family canonizing their lost child. It’s sad and pathetic.”

Click here to add The Color of Snow to your Goodreads to-read list.

Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday

Q:  If you had to choose to live within a novel, which would it be?

Either Little Women or Ann Of green Gables , maybe a little time in both sounds good.

Feature & Follow

Feature & Follow

Q: This Sunday in the U. S. is Mother's Day. In celebration, what are some of your favorite books with strong mother/child relationships?

I definitely have to say Little Women, this was a strong bond between mother and her daughters.

Anne Of Green Gables, was an orphan but had a very strong bond and relationship with Marilla.

C.Y. Bourgeois - Visions of You - Author Interview

Author Interview

1. Who is the plot based around?
The plot of Visions of You is based around Shelby Leight and her group of friends.

2. What is the main idea of the plot?
The main idea of the plot is that these small-town teenagers encounter a serial killer who murders one of their friends. They decide to take it upon themselves to “help” the FBI and the police find this monster.

3. When does the plot take place?
Visions of You starts out in 1975.

4. Where does the plot take place?
Visions of You takes place mainly in Palmer, Alaska, where I grew up.

5. Why did the plot develop the way it did?
As I was writing Visions of You kind of took on a life of its own. I just wrote the story as it unfolded before me. I used people from my own life, my family and friends were models for Shelby’s.

6. How did you come up with the idea for the plot?
After reading the Twilight series I wanted to write a different kind of vampire story, using facts about real-life people who believe they are vampires. It started out as Paul’s story and then morphed into Shelby’s point of view.

About the Book

Shelby Leight is a wise-cracking, lighthearted teenager, looking forward to a fun-filled senior year in high school. She already knows the pain of losing a loved one, but has worked her way through the grief to come out on the other side. Then, in the fall of 1975, in the sleepy, picturesque town of Palmer Alaska, the unthinkable happens. There's a serial killer on the hunt and one of Shelby’s best friends has disappeared. The sudden loss of her friend in such a violent manner awakens something in her, an ability to communicate with the dead....visions.

In the midst of all this, Shelby falls in love for the first time only to discover the shocking truth about her boyfriend. Can she accept him for who – what he is? Can her friends and family accept him? Shelby has a vision of the killer stalking another of her friends and is desperate to stop him before it’s too late. Instead of an enjoyable senior year of high school, Shelby and her friends must come to grips with life and death - and all they hold - in their quest to find a monster before he kills again.

Price: $16.95 (SC), $26.95 (HC), $3.99 (EBK)
# of Pages: 204
Genre: Suspense/Thriller (bordering on YA)
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date: 12/01/2011
Buy Links: Amazon


About the Author

C.Y. Bourgeois is a freshman author and an avid reader. After having spent countless enjoyable hours over the years reading other people's narratives, she realized that she too has stories to tell. C.Y. considers herself a native of Alaska, having lived there since the age of two. She and her husband recently moved to northern Idaho where they now reside with their two dogs and three cats and where she is currently working on her second Shelby Leight novel, Visions of Mortality.

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