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New Year's Resolution

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Another year goes by, and we reflect on what our resolutions were last year. Now it's time to make new resolutions for 2013. What will be your resolutions for as a writer for this upcoming year? - Write a novella? -Write a full length novel? -Write something in another genre?  -Finish that story that gave you writer's block? -Edit your NaNoWriMo project? -Challenge yourself to write a 100,000 word book? -Read more books? Everyone has their own challenge these are my New Year's resolutions -Finish my New Adult book series. -Work on my query letter -Submit to agents -Land an agent -Get a book deal -Edit my NaNoWriMo -Publish my dystopian trilogy -Write a book over 150,000 words I have my goals for this year and I hope to achieve half of them. I am wishing all of my writer friends the best with their writing and hope everyone has a happy and safe New Year!

Submitted

I recently submitted the first ten pages of the first book in my trilogy to a publisher I would love to have publish my book. I am such a nervous wreck. I have never really submitted anything in a while, but I don't really know the reaction from the publisher but I'm going to cross my fingers.

Cover Reveal: Dear Cassie by Lisa Burstein

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After a prom night gone wild, now comes the time about one of Amy's friend Cassie.  What if the last place you should fall in love is the first place that you do? You’d think getting sent to Turning Pines Wilderness Camp for a month-long rehabilitation “retreat” and being forced to re-live it in this journal would be the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.You’d be wrong.There’s the reason I was sent to Turning Pines in the first place: I got arrested. On prom night. With my two best friends, who I haven’t talked to since and probably never will again. And then there’s the real reason I was sent here. The thing I can’t talk about with the guy I can’t even think about. What if the moment you’ve closed yourself off is the moment you start to break open? But there’s this guy here. Ben. And the more I swear he won’t—he can’t—the deeper under my skin he’s getting. After the thing that happened, I promised I’d never fall for another boy’s lies. And yet I can’t help but wonder…what if?...

Blog Tour: Hollywood Holiday by Sasha Summers

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Want to read a romantic Holiday novel, then Hollywood Holiday is the book for you! All she wants for Christmas is for Hollywood to love her again. But once she meets him, her Christmas list changes. Jen’s only Christmas wish: Hollywood falling back in love with her. Meeting ex-Marine Gunner was a bonus. She likes that he isn’t impressed by celebrities or the movie biz. She likes that he’s funny and sweet … and drop-dead gorgeous. And she loves that he has no idea who her alter-ego is: Jen Fleming, Hollywood bad-girl and paparazzi target number one. Why ruin an amazing affair when he’s leaving after the new year? But the closer they get, the harder she falls, and the more she wants to tell Gunner everything. Especially once he shares his secret with her. Her new Christmas wish: Gunner accepts and loves her for who she really is. Available At Inkspell Publishing Barnes & Noble About the Author Sasha is part gypsy. Her passions have always been storytelling, Hollywood, history, an...

Finished NaNoWriMo 2012

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Another November down!  I feel amazing! After tearing at my hair because my book was at 40,000 words, and I couldn't seem to get the story to finish. I opened back up my book of outlines and it gave a small spark in me for three little plot twists I ended up adding in, and it made the stories final word count come over 90k. It's a sci-fi, so around that range in the wordcount is something good. I am filled with so much relief right now! I shall now put this manuscript to rest, and I will reopen it after Christmas, before I head back to university. In the meantime since this is a trilogy I'm working on, I'm going to see how far I can get into book two in the trilogy before I start preparing the queries about the new trilogy.

NaNoWriMo Update

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It's near the middle of NaNoWriMo. I feel so much progress than I did last year. Last year I was getting 1500 words a days and I didn't finish until after Thanksgiving.  I started this year on November first at the crack of dawn, at exactly 5am with a ten cups of coffee, and wrote 15,300 words in one day! That is a big accomplishment even for me. It was mostly the climax of the story I had been working on, and now I am working backwards. I now find myself at 40,000 words, and the story doesn't feel anywhere near completion. It's a bit in different spots as well. Plus I did not break up the chapters so I just have one really long story. On the plus side I showed yesterday my creative writing professor the first four chapters (even you can even call it that) and he liked the story, he said it just needs major editing required. I just need to face that I am too wordy for my own good.  I hope this will be the trilogy series I had been anticipated on writing. I am also  real...

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

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Blue Bloods When the Mayflower set sail in 1620, it carried on board the men and women who would shape America: Miles Standish; John Alden; Constance Hopkins. But some among the Pilgrims were not pure of heart; they were not escaping religious persecution. Indeed, they were not even human. They were vampires.The vampires assimilated quickly into the New World. Rising to levels of enormous power, wealth, and influence, they were the celebrated blue bloods of American society. The Blue Bloods vowed that their immortal status would remain a closely guarded secret. And they kept that secret for centuries. But now, in New York City, the secret is seeping out. Schuyler Van Alen is a sophomore at a prestigious private school. She prefers baggy, vintage clothes instead of the Prada and pearls worn by her classmates, and she lives with her reclusive grandmother in a dilapated mansion. Schuyler is a loner...and happy that way. Suddenly, when she turns fifteen, there is a visible mosaic of blue ...