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Monday, February 3, 2014

Author Spotlight for Samantha Combs!!

Bibliography:

SPELLBOUND EVERSPELL GHOSTLY WATERDANCER THE DEADLIES

ISBN: 1463787936 ISBN: 1478345780 ASIN: B00BQME674 ASIN: B0096TPBX2 ISBN: 1618858033

ASIN: B0055T3D1E ASIN: B006Z0LKLC ASIN: B00C9FVH7E

(Astraea Press) (Astraea Press) (Astraea Press) (Musa Publishing) (Secret Cravings Press)

June 2011 January 2012 September 2011 September 2012 July 2013

DETENTION DEMON TEETH AND TALONS WAY PAST MIDNIGHT HELLOWEEN WINGSPAN
ASIN: B0077DTQHG ASIN: B006X51I4S ISBN: 1483936872 ISBN: 1483936899 COMING SOON! ASIN: B0088DXFP8 ASIN: B009X3N9IA

(Musa Publishing) (Createspace) (Createspace) (Creatspace) (esKape Press)

February 2012 January 2012 June 2012 June 2013 Winter 2014

Chessa Dawning never thought she’d be on the run. Yet, she was, having left the only home she’s ever known, staying two steps ahead of the men chasing her and falling for a resourceful ex-criminal with colorful friends.

Most of the time, Charlotte Lake can’t believe her life. The reluctant leader of a rebel faction called the Ginger Nation, Charlie’s days are filled with planning surveillance, rescuing detainees, and exposing government conspiracy. Surrounded by loyal friends and soldiers, she knows she can never reveal the true nature of her quest: finding her real father.
When a sudden twist brings the two girls together, revelations about the past will make them rethink where they came from and define the future in ways they never could have imagined. Not every scientific breakthrough is a gift.

Samantha Combs is a Southern California author with ten published books: Her Young Adult paranormal titles, the Global Ebook Award-winning debut title SPELLBOUND, SPELLBOUND's sequel, EVERSPELL, GHOSTLY, WATERDANCER, THE DEADLIES, and WINGSPAN, a middle grade horror called THE DETENTION DEMON, and her adult horror collections, TEETH AND TALONS, WAY PAST MIDNIGHT and HELLOWEEN. She enjoys writing YA paranormals, both dark and light, and supernatural fantasy and romance, but it is her love of horror that started it all. Thanks, Mr. King.

When she's not writing, she works full time and enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. Her guilty pleasures include reality television, the Food Network channel and shoes. She truly believes she can accomplish anything if she has the right pair of shoes. And she adores totally inappropriate earrings.

Samantha loves writing and publishing her work and is in awe of the technological advances of our lives. With all of the genres there are for a reader, she has learned that writing paranormal and horror lets her share all the weirdness of everyday life in a not-so-everyday way. The foundation of a good story is all around her. All she has to do is....breathe.

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Guest Post by Author Angee Taylor!!

THE GUEST POST:

Advice for as aspiring Author...

Oh wow, advice for an aspiring author. I have only been at this for less than a year but I have learned so much in that time.

First thing, I learned was DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT think you can self-edit. Your mind edits your writing as you go and you miss a lot. Find a good editor. You can find freelance editors that are reasonable and great. If you want referrals, just ask someone. I’ll be happy to send you to a few.

Second thing- Think long and hard before you publish with a cover. Do you absolutely love that cover? Are you proud of it? Is it representative of you and your book? If not find another and make sure you get a professional cover. It just looks better and usually sells better.

The third thing I learned was just put that story on paper or on my laptop something. If you never write it how do you know if it will be a success or not. Spit it out—You can always tweak and fine tune it later.

Finally as long as one person enjoys your work then you are a success.

THE AUTHOR HERSELF:

Angee was born in Houston, Texas in 1977, to an interesting family. Her mother and father separated when she was young. She lived with her mother who later remarried a wonderful man, who had a huge impact on her as she grew up. Angee has always had a love of reading, mostly paranormal. As a child, she would sneak up at late night when her mom thought she was sleeping, to read. They moved around a lot, eventually settling in Deep East Texas. Angee married at a young age and eventually divorced. She has raised her now 16 year old son alone. Angee works full time as a pre-hospital nurse and sometimes sees things that would make the rest of us have nightmares. On other days, she is blessed to see miracles. These things are what drive her to write.

In 2006, she was diagnosed with a rare disease, shortly after that she was told she would be on full disability in five years and most likely to be dead in ten. She’s fought to live a normal life every day since and is beating those odds. She works at a demanding job, is a single mom, cares for an elderly mother, and two dogs.

Angee describes her job as- “I fight to save people’s lives. Sometimes I lose, sometimes I win. It's the emotional roller coaster of that job, which leads me to writing. I'm able to put those emotions into my characters and let them out of my heart and soul.”

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Thanks so much Angee for coming to visit the blog today!! I love the advice... it's great for aspiring authors like me!! Now... if only could I get the time to write!! Please come and see me again anytime!!

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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Author Spotlight for MJ Summers for Break In Two!!

MJ Summers currently resides in Canada, not far from the Rocky Mountains, with her husband, three young children and their goofy dog. When she's not writing, she loves running, reading (of course),going for dinner with her girlfriends, swimming and camping with her family.

Romantic. Witty. Sexy as Hell. Thirty-one year old Claire Hatley is running from Seattle having just discovered that her live-in boyfriend has traded her in for a twenty-two year old hostess. Devastated and alone Claire must make a fresh start. She answers an ad for a chef at a guest ranch in Colorado Springs and finds herself face to face with Cole Mitchell, quite possibly the sexiest man to ever ride a horse. Common sense tells them to stay away from each other, but their attraction is not to be denied. He gives her a glimpse of what love should be, but just as she starts to trust him, the past comes back to tear them apart. Join Claire and Cole as they embark on the stormy love affair of a lifetime. (Oh...and for those of you with husbands/boyfriends, please tell them “you’re welcome” from MJ.)

Praise for Break in Two “MJ Summers new release had me gripped from the very start. I really wasn’t expecting anything quite like this! A scintillating tale filled with all the erotic goodness you could ever want.”

~ Bestselling author Cliff Roberts

“What a tale! I loved it and my wife couldn’t put it down. This is one for the Kindle.”

~ Tim Northway - Bestselling author of Total Amnesia

“I loved every juicy second of this one!”

~ Julie Cooper Brown - Author of The Dead Live On

5 out of 5 Stars. The best book you will read all year!...A wonderful story that twists and turns and never lets up for a second, every page is a new experience, and I reached the end before I knew it... Setting the bar high with her debut novel, MJ Summers has all of the skills necessary to cement her name at the top of the ladder."

~ Alex Laybourne - Author of Highway to Hell