Friday 13 December 2013

Book Blog Tour Sign Ups


It's begun...

Thanks to the help of Brooke Berry with Brooklyn Berry Designs, we are now starting sign ups for a blog tour to help promote my book, Deviations, which is scheduled for release January 2014. If you're interested go to either of the links below and fill out the form! Thank you so much for your time and support!

http://brooklynberrydesigns.com/2013/12/deviations-book-tour/

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iywL_D5FTYJX3OdJbl7ufJhL7dOrs2jPxuKcApiZDYY/viewform

Monday 9 December 2013

Happy Holidays

Happy (late) Thanksgiving!! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday! I love the food, the fam, and the appreciation it reminds me to have. Just love it!

Sorry it's been a while. I've been in and out of editing, off visiting family, and most importantly I've been a mom/wife. But here's some quick updates. My cover is getting worked on, and it will be finished soon! Deviations will come out January 2014. I temporarily took down the first hundred pages to do some final work, and will have it up and running again shortly. So excited for the new year!!

Bumps, bruises, scrapes and gashes....


Henly, and Aurora


Training time in the dome. This was a fun part to write. I loved creating Aurora, and experimenting with what went where. My absolute favorite part was creating the training room. When I wrote it down I pictured the cover of Stephen Kings novel, Under the Dome, and went from there.
So a little background to Henly, and the excerpt. Henly's a runner, but after spending months in quarantine it's hard for her to learn all of these new survival tricks that are supposed to save her life. This is where Henly learns how to become a Militaris, but through it all she still gets beat up pretty good. Here's a small excerpt and some great photos... 


Everything here is so fast paced that my days go by in a blur of bruises, scrapes, gashes, and several trips to Ellie. She is starting to think I have a death wish, which after everything I’ve been through, would be absurd. My body is still adjusting from the months I spent deteriorating in quarantine. I thought it would be easier for me to adjust to all of this training, but it’s taken weeks for me to get back to what I used to be, and still I'm not even close. The air around the dome is getting warmer, I close my eyes for a moment and try to picture it, but with no luck I fall in line with the others. Some look to be in their mid to late forties while others look as young as thirteen, fourteen. At the table there are several different kinds of guns, knives, grenades, bows, and arrows. I hear the trainer explain how to use the smaller weapons in hand-to-hand combat against the Deviations. That’s what they call them, Deviations. The televisions around the dome show both what the Deviations look like, and the proper ways to attack one.