I could kill it in five seconds flat. *swoons* Ohh Pax! RUNNING FROM SHADOWS #8Sunday #YAPNR #unicorns

Today I'm sharing from my (unpublished) young adult paranormal romance Running From Shadows!

Follow Greta Shore (a 17-year-old, black-haired wiccan beauty) and Paxton "Pax" Craig (an 18-year-old, blond-haired college student with a dark secret) as they discover the fate of their forbidden love.

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Set-up (last week)... Greta runs away from her surprise engagement party through the woods. Pax saves her from a shadow demon. Oh, and he's a unicorn! 
Back at Pax's cabin, Greta and Pax talk. He tells her that the shadow has fed on her emotions. And that it's definitely someone she knows. And she must under no circumstance confront it because it will kill her. And don't get emotional about anything! >.< Pax offers to drive Greta home. And now he's picked her up, but she's annoyed and tells him she can walk...

Cover Art by Danielle Fine

“Never said you couldn’t.” He didn’t look at me, just kept walking to the white Jeep parked in the driveway.

“Well then, why are you carrying me?”

“You were in the way.” He looked at me this time and I could’ve sworn I saw a hint of a smile.

The cry of a coyote in the distance made me tense. I instinctively wrapped my arms tighter around his neck.

“I could kill it in five seconds flat,” he said, but also tightened his hold on me.

Tune in next week for more angsty spooky goodness!

Thanks again for stopping by! Your support and feedback is greatly appreciated!

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Extra! Extra!

*Would you like to see some pics of Greta and Pax? Check them out here! Gotta love Pinterest!! Ooo, stalk me there too, please...uh, here! ;) 

*Self-publishing? Need an editor and cover artist? Check out my uber-talented editor, Danielle Fine, she's wonderful to work with and does exceptional work! Click here for more info! 

*Check out the USA Today recommended book trailer for Witch Way to Turn!! here

Editor book confessions. Djinn novella updates. And dragon excerpts! Doin' Midweek Mayhem #likeaboss!

Working it out…

• (Editor confesses bookish things!) Danielle Fine reads promiscuously, indiscriminately, and in every possible position. Check out her secrets here :P
• (My novella...) The deadline got extended...phew! So imma feverishly working on edits now. The anthology is scheduled to release early next year!
• (Guest post) Writing and hockey...how do they compare? Author and former NHL player Luke Murphy shares. Check it out here!

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Interview with author Ryan Hill. Dead New World is on Kickstarter! Check it out and support the zombies :)

Hearing voices…

Cover art by Danielle Fine

• Check out my stunning cover inspiration for my dark and gritty new adult urban fantasy with cursed dragon shifters (right beside this paragraph) designed by the talented Danielle Fine!!!
• Twitter pitch for Becoming: After a transplant gives Zoe a dragon shifter’s heart, she learns that her online boyfriend is her donor and...a girl.

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 ♥Today I'm sharing snippet #23 from the Becoming prequel titled Longing (unedited and in Taylor's POV)! Read snippets here: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22. Excited for y'all to get to know my dragons better :) 

Longing - Chapter 1 (snippet #23)... 

“When are you going to talk to her?”

Taylor flinched and jerked away from the door. “Donna, hey.” The middle-aged nurse crossed her arms over her chest and cocked her head to the side. Taylor knew that look all too well. “I was just on my way—”

“To see your dad. Yeah, yeah. Got any new material?” Donna sighed as she leaned against the wall next to Taylor.

“Hilarious.” Taylor scowled at her friend.

Donna saw past the walls that Taylor tried so hard to keep up. Perception seemed to be the nurse’s go-to talent. “Sorry, kiddo, it’s just… It’s been, what, two years? I’m just saying that while you have the opportunity, you should take it. Life’s too short to waste.”

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Cover art by Danielle Fine

Waiting game...

• Running From Shadows is currently with 2 lovely agents!
• Requests currently out for Becoming are 7 total! Squee!!!  *fingers and toes crossed* 

Reading...

• Looking for book recommendations and reviews for your 2013 TBR List? Check out The Perks of Being a Book Nerd! 

Bonus material... 

*Writers, looking for a talented editor? I highly recommend Danielle Fine. She's edited four manuscripts of mine and has taught me so much! I'm a stronger writer because of her guidance. Also, she designed my beautiful inspiration cover art for Becoming and Running From Shadows! Annnnd she created the book trailer for Witch Way to Turn! 
*For more information on Dani's editing services, cover design, book trailer creation and website design stop by her site!

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Random Alert! Alert. Alert. Alert...

I. Made. This!! Freakin' amazeballs, right?

The demon pup tried to help with the snowman...he wore Frosty's hat for a while ;)

The Japanese maple the hubs planted a few years back has gotten HUGE.

This. Just because ;) Can't wait for next season's Game of Thrones!! That is, if there's anybody still alive? :P

Tour stop for A Long Time Coming by @HLVanFleet! Love this series! #spotlight #NA #romance

Blurb:

Abigail Orson has a problem. A love problem to be precise; and she has absolutely no idea how to go about fixing it.

For years now, she has been chasing her best friend’s brother—demanding things from him that he’s never wanted to give. For one? A real relationship that surpasses well beyond that dreaded ‘just friends’ zone. You see, David Anderson is her idea of perfection to a T. The one and only guy who has ever had the ability to make her heart beat faster; make her toes curl with the simple blink of his long, girly lashes. But David is also a recovering amputee, and the only thing he really wants from Abigail is to be left alone. Abigail is a fighter though, and losing the one guy who has ruined her for every other is no longer an option. 

A guy with one leg who has lost his motivation to live—to love—to actually be a man. David believes he’s a waste of space. If only the beautiful girl of his unattainable dreams would get that through her perfect, blonde, stubborn head! He’s not the right guy for Abigail. He’ll never be worthy of what she deserves. However, staying away is almost impossible, especially when he’s just as in love with her as she is with him. But Abigail has a life ahead of her, one that’s definitely livable without a nineteen–year–old gimp like him holding her down. What makes her want to stick around is beyond questionable to David’s mind.

Choices will be made. Lines will be drawn. And together, they will face challenges that nobody saw coming. David and Abigail may have had almost fourteen years to fall in love, but the thing is, timing and love have never exactly worked in their favor. 

It has been years in the making, and definitely A Long Time Coming for David and Abigail. Let’s hope they don’t screw it up before they actually have the chance to get it right…




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Pax is all close and dark and moody... The nerve! >.< RUNNING FROM SHADOWS #8Sunday #YAPNR #unicorns

Today I'm sharing from my (unpublished) young adult paranormal romance Running From Shadows!

Follow Greta Shore (a 17-year-old, black-haired wiccan beauty) and Paxton "Pax" Craig (an 18-year-old, blond-haired college student with a dark secret) as they discover the fate of their forbidden love.

 ****

Set-up (last week)... Greta runs away from her surprise engagement party through the woods. Pax saves her from a shadow demon. Oh, and he's a unicorn! 
Back at Pax's cabin, Greta and Pax talk. He tells her that the shadow has fed on her emotions. And that it's definitely someone she knows. And she must under no circumstance confront it because it will kill her. And don't get emotional about anything! >.< Pax offers to drive Greta home, and as he locks the front door her shoulder brushes his...

Cover Art by Danielle Fine

We were so close…Too close. But the darkness around us kept me within arm’s reach of my guardian. A blanket of clouds shrouded the moon, obscuring the light, and I shivered.

The key made a tiny snick as it slid out the lock then Paxton turned, bumping into me. He managed to get an arm around me before I could tumble down the stairs; guess he hadn’t expected me to be standing so close. He made a low guttural sound and snatched me up into his arms again.

“I can walk, you know,” I huffed. If he could be annoyed, I could be dramatic.

Tune in next week for more angsty spooky goodness!

Thanks again for stopping by! Your support and feedback is greatly appreciated!

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Extra! Extra!

*Would you like to see some pics of Greta and Pax? Check them out here! Gotta love Pinterest!! Ooo, stalk me there too, please...uh, here! ;) 

*Self-publishing? Need an editor and cover artist? Check out my uber-talented editor, Danielle Fine, she's wonderful to work with and does exceptional work! Click here for more info! 

*Check out the USA Today recommended book trailer for Witch Way to Turn!! here

Can’t get enough of those zombies? Guest post by @J_Ryan author of #DeadNewWorld #Kickstarter

Hello, my darlings! This is an exciting post for me because it is mine and editor Dani Fine's first Kickstarter campaign for our publishing house (Definition House). Dead New World is such an exciting book with a fantastic twist on zombies. Check out this guest post from Dead New World's author Ryan Hill! I've also included more deets about the book and our Kickstarter project below. Now...it's brain time! Bwahaha :P

Can’t Get Enough of Those Zombies
by Ryan Hill

Maybe they’re like the modern-day equivalent of an ‘80s slasher film, but people can’t get enough of zombies, including myself. What’s their appeal? I mean, think about it. Here are the main tenets of zombies:

• They’re dead
• They like brains
• Either they move slow or fast

That’s it. Zombies are like a blank slate; there just isn’t much to them. Yet therein lies their endless appeal. Because of their generality, it leaves artists to mold and manipulate them into anything they see fit. You can’t really do that with vampires or werewolves. Well, you can change vampires by making them sparkly, but we all know how that turned out. Zombies you can do whatever you like with, provided they pretty much remain dead. And since there isn’t one specific way to kill them, at

least apart from massive head trauma, you can kill them just about any way you see fit, making for lots of fun, grotesque deaths. They can also mean anything you want, either as a metaphor for consumerism, Nazis, whatever. Not only that, but their origins change from story to story. In reality, they came from the voodoo religion, but in the land of fiction, it can be a meteor, a virus, God getting sick of people, you name it. Half the fun of creating a zombie book or movie is studying what others have done before you and adding your own wrinkle to the zombie mythos.

You know what would be fun? If someone took a person who was a vegetarian, turned them into a zombie, then waited to see if they’d still be vegetarian. The person would just walk around, eating grass or plants like they were brains. Some food for thought, if you will.

Stalk us here:

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Blurb:

Dead New World by Ryan Hill

Zombies aren’t mindless anymore.

They follow orders. And if Holt and Ambrose want to kill some undead, they’ll do the same. But when a routine mission goes horribly wrong, the best friends’ lives are flayed to the bone.

Now there’s only one light in the darkness of Holt’s life, and when she’s taken, he’ll do anything to get her back. Even if that means defying orders and using his best friend as a weapon. Holt and Ambrose risk all to save her, but what they discover among the hordes threatens to remake humanity. Again.

In the end, will there be anything left to live for in this dead new world? 

The Campaign:
 

The Kickstarter campaign is live! It’ll run from November 14 to December 14, and we are so excited! We believe that by using crowd-sourcing we will be able to generate buzz and interact with readers even before the book is published. It also brings authors and readers together so that they are both part of the publication journey. And as the publisher, we look forward to strengthening that bond. We’ve chosen Ryan Hill’s Dead New World as our first project and are looking forward to sharing it with you. Thank you for spreading the word. Now let’s make beautiful zombies together! 

The Dead New World trailer