Wife, Mommy, Urban Fantasy Author, Artist, Actress, Director... I'm only as old as I feel and I try to see the good in everyone. I take life one day at a time and focus only on the moment I'm in without fear or worry about the past or the future.
WORKING TITLE: Everdal
GENRE: YA/NA Fantasy
Status: Writing First Draft
Days in current Status: 93
Days of actual writing: 19
Current Word Count: 40,890
Current Chapter Count Complete: 16
NEXT STEPS: Complete first draft - Estimated completion date: 5/31/2021
What Happened?!?!
I haven't written a single word in two weeks...
My minds been muddled.
My mouth has gone dry.
My eyes can't see and my body aches.
Words come in overloading waterfalls.
Images crowd my vision.
Time passes to quickly and I can't catch up.
Tonight, I tell myself.
Tomorrow, I say.
14 days gone already, how many more can I chance?!
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Sunrise(Chasing the Sun Duet Book 1) by Kaci Rose ~ Genre: Contemporary Romance
When you’re labeled as a Hollywood Playboy, you can’t do anything right.
I can’t go out for a simple drink without the press having a field day.
And I definitely can’t help my coworker’s wife home when she gets too drunk without the studio threatening my contract.
My manager decides to send me across the country to a small beach town. He rents out the whole Sunrise inn since it’s the off-season, and I’m told to stay out of trouble.
When a steady relationship seems to be the only way to save my career, can I convince Lin, the curvy bombshell inn owner, that pretending to be my girlfriend will be a great PR move for the inn too?
And to make matters worse, a storm washes out the only bridge, leaving us stuck together on the island.
Too bad my heart didn’t listen that this was just a fake relationship.
With my job in Hollywood and my heart at the Sunrise inn, what the hell am I going to do?
This is a Steamy, Fake Relationship, Small Town, Beach Romance. No Cliffhangers. This is Book 1 in the Chasing The Sun Duet. As always there is a satisfying Happy Ever After. If you love steamy romances with insta love, hot love scenes, a bad boy, small towns, and beaches, then this one is for you.
No matter what I’m not opening up my heart again, even if he’s great at warming my bed.
Jasper blew out of town taking my heart with him. He swore he’d never come back. Last I heard he was some famous chef in a big city.
Then I’m at the farmer’s market and there he is in vivid color. So, I do what any sane person would do, I throw a kiwi at him and leave.
Then a storm blows in washing out the only bridge off this island and now we are stuck together.
To make matters worse? My chef quits and the only option I have is to bring in Jasper per his mother’s suggestion.
Oh, and our mayor is trying to turn our small town into a major tourist spot, my best friend is in a fake relationship with a Hollywood Movie Star, and I just saw Jasper with his shirt off.
How did my life get here?
No matter what I’m not opening up my heart again, even if he’s great at warming my bed.
This is a Steamy, Small Town, Beach Romance. No Cliffhangers. This is Book 2 in the Chasing The Sun Duo. As always there is a satisfying Happy Ever After. If you love steamy romances with insta love, hot love scenes, small towns, and beaches, then this one is for you.
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Kaci runs on coffee, chocolate, and Oreos. She loves her book boyfriends with tattoos, muscles, beards, and a little dirty.
Kaci loves romance books and has been jotting down ideas since she was in high school and is now putting the ideas down on paper. She believes in satisfying, happily ever afters with a lot of steam on the way.
She was born and raised in Southwest Florida but is wholeheartedly a mountain girl. She has been reading as many books as she could get her hands on since grade school and loves to travel when she gets the chance.
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Braving Stars (A Becoming Human Novella) by Amy Michelle Carpenter ~ Genre: YA Science Fiction
Ahs is the one they call “coward girl”.
But ever since she was young, she has dreamed of joining the ranks of the guardians, powerful protectors of weaker planets. With the help of a loudmouthed friend and fueled by a haunting memory, Ahs enters the Academy’s selection process; a grueling series of unusually difficult tests and trials meant to see if she has what it takes to become a guardian-in-training. When a new danger arises that threatens Ahs standing at school, she must decide which is more important–acceptance of others or true courage.
From the universe of Becoming Human comes this short story about one girl’s quest for bravery, for fans of Skyward and Enders Game.
Amy Michelle Carpenter is a developmental editor with Eschler Editing and a professional blogger. She’s written hundreds of blogs and news articles for local and national companies. She also has a children’s story in an anthology.
As the daughter of an Army officer, she grew up traveling the country and has lived by sandy beaches, southern woods, towering cities, and the rocky mountains. Now, she resides in the countryside of Tooele, UT with her husband and baby girls. She enjoys seeing what wildlife and farm animals dare venture into her yard only to be chased by her toddlers. Wherever family is is home.
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My Peaceful Place – A Coloring Book For Wives and Brides with Sage Advice and Fun Ideas for Couples by Sue Young ~ Genre: Coloring Book
My Peaceful Place. A coloring book for wives and brides with sage advice and fun ideas for couples. We all need a peaceful place at one time or another. A place to be alone and ponder our thoughts. Whether you are married or getting married, some days are just more stressful than others. We, as women, need time to think. To reflect. To regroup. Tuck this book into your purse and pull it out at the moments you need just a few minutes to yourself. Revel in the designs as you add color to them using your favorite medium. Read the sage advice from someone who has been happily married for 38 years – and counting! Then read the fun ideas for couples and let your mind wander as you plan how it will work for you. Weddings are beautiful and so is marriage. My Peaceful Place seeks to help you when you need to be refreshed and inspired.
Sue Young is a creative at heart. She founded her wedding invitation business in 2011 and eventually branched out into favors, signage, dessert buffets, and Day Of Wedding Coordination. She has helped numerous brides navigate the planning of their wedding. Her most notable client was partnering with The Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. She has now “retired” and lives with her husband in Sequim, Washington where she helps care for her aging in-laws. Believing that everyone has a gift and not being able to sit still, Sue has recently started her business, A Sweet Haven, where she helps others find their gift, hone it, and share their gift with others. Here she inspires, encourages, and teaches other women to be creative in their daily lives.
My Peaceful Place Coloring Book came about as a way of calming brides as they were plan-ning for their wedding. She recently expanded this book to include wives with ideas for dates with their spouse as well as sage marriage advice that she has used in her 38 happy years of marriage (and counting!)
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Kathleen has been a freelance writer since 1999 and now writes full time. Her work has appeared in Doll World Magazine, Apolloslyre.com, The Lake County Journals, Trails.com; USA Today (travel), Livestrong.com (lifestyle), Essortment, eHow, Answerbag, Examiner.com, Suite101 and YahooVoices. She is the author of the award-winning novel Whispers On A String, the Head Case Rock Novel Series (Head Case, Whiplash and Haven) and Tell Me You Love Me. She also has short stories published in the Secrets: Fact or Fiction I & II anthologies.
What would you sacrifice to protect someone you love?
In 1965 April Toulane’s life is turned upside down on her fifth birthday when her mother marries a man she’s known for only two weeks. The life she’d known is forever changed with the addition of a stepfather and a five-year-old stepbrother who terrorizes her on a daily basis. After a family tragedy the young siblings are thrust into the Hollywood spotlight, surrounded by people whose very foundation is based on secrets and lies. Struggling to grow up and find their way in a world where child stars are forever manipulated and exploited, the siblings form an unbreakable bond vowing to always protect each other when the adults entrusted to take care of them fail at every turn. “Tell Me You Love Me” is the story of April and Auggie Fairbanks, the most sought after faces in show business throughout the sixties and seventies, maneuvering their way through the lies and corruption to learn the truth about their parents and searching for the love and acceptance they so desperately crave.
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Charlotte Pool lives in Virginia with her husband, two daughters, and three pit bulls. She is a Cardiac Surgery ICU nurse and is currently pursuing her graduate degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Despite her impressive education and professional experience, she wants nothing more than to make s*** up for a living. Hopefully this book will be the start of a new adventure.
Darkness Made (The Marked Trilogy Book 1) by Charlotte E. Pool ~ Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, SciFi
To become what she was made for, she must lose everything
*Urban fantasy meets paranormal romance meets science fiction in this nail-biting, heart-racing story of loss, love, revenge, and the darkness that lives within us all.*
The town of Landow, Virginia, is a tiny, quiet, suburban sort of place where nothing ever happens, and no one ever seems to leave.
Eighteen-year-old Bexley Rose is quietly resigned to her ordinary life in this infuriatingly quaint town. Aside from the car accident thirteen years ago that killed her father, nothing interesting has ever happened to her.
Enter Asher, a curious newcomer who disturbs the daily monotony of Landow, sparking whispers and rumors among the locals. A peculiar magnetism draws them together. As she spends more time with him, the list of unanswered questions about his past grows, and with it, Bexley’s unease.
But when one of Bexley’s classmates is found dead in a hotel, Bexley finally learns what Asher is doing in Landow. He isn’t human, and soon Bexley won’t be either. Asher’s people have lived in secret alongside mankind for millennia, governed by an international organization known as The Council, and now Bexley is part of their underground world. As the body count in Landow grows, Bexley demands answers. And when she gets them, she finds herself at the center of an age-old prophecy and an emerging war between species.
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Meet my manuscript! Ten things to know about this beauty!
by Charlotte E. Pool
1) urban fantasy thriller with elements of paranormal romance and a dash of science fiction.
2) this is a kissing book but it is not primarily a romance.
3) dark themes, blood, gore.
4) it is the first in a trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. It does NOT stand alone. The second book is in the works.
5) it is written from multiple POVs. Think: Dan Brown. It’s meant to keep you guessing and on your toes. And it all comes together in the end.
6) the sci Fi element is reminiscent of the da Vinci code. Heavy and fascinating. Fiction woven into nonfiction. Lots of research went into this book. Lots of true stories/myths/legends based in real history.
7) if you like slow burn romance and banter this may not be for you. If you like sex and suspense and a little bit of fantasy and magical realism…not to mention some truly “love to hate” characters, then this book is what you’re looking for.
8) it is a vampire book, but not one like you’ve read before.
9) there is a LOT of backstory…duh these characters are hundreds of years old…but you’ll have to wait for the second book for most of it…it will get into WWII era Europe and some wicked betrayal.
10) so think…Vampire Diaries meets The Da Vinci Code meets historical fiction meets Ocean’s 11….yeah…kinda like that!
Today, I would like to welcome Laurelle Lewis, author of The Boy Next Door and Tragic Flower, as my guest.
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What is your name and do you write under a pen name? My name is Laurelle Lewis and I write several different genres under my own name.
Where do you call home? I live in a small country town in New South Wales, Australia.
Do you have any hobbies, other than writing? What do you enjoy doing? I am currently studying a diploma of screen and media specialist make-up, which appeals to my creative side-as I love to draw and paint and create- something I hope to get better at in the future so I can illustrate my own books.
What is your greatest dream? To have a happy and meaningful life- and to see that for my children- oh and to be a famous author too.
Who is your role model? I have lots of role models- my mum- she taught to care about others, be a kind person etc, Oprah Winfrey because she is just amazing with what she has achieved in her lifetime and I also really appreciate the wise words of people like Richard Rohr and Echart Tole.
What is your greatest fear? I hate flying-but I do it when I have too.
Do you prefer e-books, paperbacks, hard-covers or audio-books? There is nothing like holding a beautifully bound book in your hands, but I do love the convenience of E-books, and I only just got into listening to audio-books last year- I absolutely love them. I enjoy drawing while listening to them- I’m currently listening to The Grapes of Wrath.
What is your favorite book genre at the moment? My favorite genre at the moment is paranormal romance- I think it just gives a little edge to romances.
What is the name of your most recent book and if you had to sum it up in 20 or fewer words, what would you say? My latest book is called Tragic Flower (it’s a short story) and it’s about breaking free from the past.
When Fleur meets the strange and exciting Jeffrey-the new kid in town- something tells Fleur she should stay away from him. Before she knows it, she is drawn into his world, but what tragic secret is he hiding?
Did you listen to any particular songs while writing your book(s)? I like listening to metal music for inspiration.
In your latest novel, who is the lead character and can you tell us a little about him/her? The main character is Fleur- a straight A student who meets the mysterious Jeffrey and her life turns upside down in a very short space of time. She is drawn into Jeffrey’s word, but she ultimately learns an important life lesson by the end of the story.
Are you a self-published/Indie author or did you publish through a traditional publishing company? I am self- published. I enjoy the creative control have over my projects- but I would like to get a traditional publishing contract one day!
If you’re a self-published/Indie author what made you go that route instead of the traditional publishing route? As above-more creative control.
What’s the best advice that you have been given when it comes to writing? Just start! Write everyday if you can and treat it like a job!
COMING SOON: THE BOY NEXT DOOR
THE BOY NEXT DOOR is a short horror story. It’s about a girl named Violet, who lives with her mentally unstable father- he’s never been the same since her mother died in childbirth- and when she who gets a new neighbor and she soon realizes he is hiding something disturbing…and it will turn her whole world upside down.
Carlyle is a South African USA Today Bestselling, award-winning, and international bestselling author with a flair for mixing genres and adding loads of drama to every story she creates!
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Shadow’s Dissident (Children of Chaos Series) by Ariel Paiement ~ Genre: YA Fantasy Adventure
A powerful cabal rounding up those with extraordinary abilities. A girl with an ability only the elite should possess. They want to shape her into the ultimate weapon, but she just wants her life back.
Gwenabhir is a simple farm girl with an ability she doesn’t understand. She’s been told to hide it her whole life so the nobility won’t execute her for having the ability. But she never imagined someone more dangerous than the nobility might come after her because of it.
When Oblivion, a secret organization bent on plunging the universe into chaos, kidnaps her, she is thrown into a world rife with secrets, lies, and darkness. Her only goal is to escape before they can break her and force her into the role they have planned for her. When her refusal to cooperate lands her with a new trainer, she sets out to turn him to her side.
Can she survive and escape? Who will she tell when she does, and where will she find the allies she so desperately needs?
Shadow’s Dissident is the thrilling first book of two by Ariel Paiement in the Children of Chaos collection. Fans of romance, intrigue, and secret organizations will love Ariel Paiement’s riveting fantasy adventure.
Buy Shadow’s Dissident today to reveal the world of secrets and magic lurking in the darkness.
Ariel Paiement is a speculative fiction author. She writes a variety of fiction pieces and other works. As a reader, she enjoys lots of styles and genres, though fantasy and science fiction are her favorites.
Her favorite pastime is indulging in wild flights of imagination for new fiction pieces and other works. If asked what she spends most of her time doing, she’d tell you that she spends most of it working either and writing. Life gets to be hectic, but she enjoys her part-time teaching and editing work as well as writing whenever she has a spare moment.
She is the author of several short fiction pieces and other works, including On The Narrow Way and Rith’s Disciple (both of which are published in Port and Key’s anthologies), In Darkness Lost, and the first of the Legends of Alcardia series. Her newest novel, On Twilight’s Wings, is a YA fantasy novel and the first in a YA Christian fantasy series with the second one, On Anarchy’s Wings, releasing in the beginning of 2021. In July of 2020, another short story, Leap of Faith, will be out. This short story will be available in the anthology Glimpses of Time and Magic.
You can find Ariel on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest as well as via email at arielpaiement@gmail.com. She’s pretty open to connecting with readers and other writers too! Reach out if you want to chat. Just be sure you introduce yourself. She deletes requests that seem weird or creepy. Saying something more than just hi would be nice.
WORKING TITLE: Everdal
GENRE: YA/NA Fantasy
Status: Writing First Draft
Days in current Status: 79
Days of actual writing: 19
Current Word Count: 40,890
Current Chapter Count Complete: 16
NEXT STEPS: Complete first draft - Estimated completion date: 5/31/2021
The End…
I am usually a chronological writer. Meaning, I write from the beginning of a story to the end.Every now and then, a scene pops into my mind out of order and I quickly type it up so I don’t forget it, but usually I type my stories in order. So, you can imagine my surprise when I recently typed the final chapter of my latest work in progress… at least five chapters early. I’ve never known what was going to happen so soon into the writing process. To be perfectly honest, I’m excited and a bit weirded out. I’m not sure I want to know the ending so soon… I’m not sure how I feel about it, other than to know that it is the right ending for this particular book. I don’t even know how we get there yet. But, I have a feeling its going to be a crazy, exciting, and bumpy ride. I can’t wait to share this adventure with all of you.
Nina Soden 