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An Ode to Bloggers - Guest Post by Terri G. Long Last May, a month or so after I began marketing my novel, In Leah’s Wake , a former agent told me that I would never sell 500 books. A rookie, I had no idea what to expect. When I published the novel, I’d dreamed of selling a 3,000 – 5,000 books, hoping healthy sales numbers would attract the attention of an agent or traditional publishing house for my next novel. The agent had left New York, but she’d been in the business for a long time, and her words stung. I hung up the phone, heartbroken, depressed. Had I not been in the midst of my first blog tour, I might have pulled my novel off the market that day. Determined to see the tour through, I soldiered on. On the tour, I met wonderful, caring people, book bloggers, whose kindness buoyed and sustained me. Over the next few months, In Leah’s Wake appeared on hundreds of blogs. Bloggers opened their hearts and spread the word about this quiet literary novel. In Aug

1.     What (and how many) works have you released? What are they about? Awaken is my first novel that has been released. It is about a girl who wakes up dead (so to speak) and finds herself on another realm facing a new and challenging role. 2.     How did you get the idea for your work? What lured you to your topics? The idea literally just appeared in my head one morning. I woke up, and the whole first half of the story was in my head begging to be written down. I didn’t dream it, it just was there. 3.     What scene, topic, or section was the most intense (or visual) for you to write? Without giving too much away, there were two really intense scenes that I had to write. The hardest was by far when Lucy has to retrieve a soul of a child who has died. I cried the whole time I wrote it. 4.     In the event that your book became a screenplay (or documentary), who would you like to see included in the casting? I actually thought of this a lot. I have a friend who starts ev

Interview with Bob Thiel 1. What (and how many books) have you released? What are they about? I have had six other books published, and they relate to nutrition and natural health. This is my first theological book, and I am close to finishing another prophecy-related book. 2. How did you get the idea for your work? What lured you to your topics? The idea for 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect came when I heard that Sony had bought the production rights for Roland Emmerich’s 2012 movie. I had been working on a much longer book on church history and prophecy (which should be out in 2012) and realized that there might be more general interest in a book that focused on what would need to happen by 2012 and beyond. 3. What topic/scene/section was the most intense, or most visual, for you to write, personally? Probably appendix B of the book, which relates to a sequence of steps that I believe prophecy shows will come to pass—and some items in tha

Title: Scent of a White Rose Series: The Rose Trilogy Author: Tish Thawer Publisher: Amber Leaf Publishing Format: ARC [eBook] A vampire's love... An innocent's guilt... A secret no one could've imagined... A paranormal romance that entices with a heroine that isn't quite what she seems, a vampire whose love story is filled with dark surprises, and a vampire clan whose Sire has lost the ability to inflict "the change". ~ ROSE ~ I'm Rose Reynolds. I have recently lost my Mom in a "freak accident". Now everyone sees me as an innocent girl.... a “white Rose”. But I have a secret that no one can imagine. I'm not as innocent as everyone thinks… ~ CHRISTIAN ~ I'm Christian and I’m in love with Rose. I also have a secret as old as time. I’m a vampire. No, she doesn’t know…yet. But when our new Sire is revealed, I'll petition them to change her. Because truly, I can't live without her... *Pleas

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Description: When Lexie Anderson’s mother suddenly announces she is marrying a Romanian immigrant, Lexie willingly leaves behind her busy life in Connecticut for her penance in “The Moose Capital of the World.” Small town living is strange enough, now Lexie must cope with her overbearing stepfamily monitoring her every move. They disappear into the woods at night and keep a strange secret locked in their shed. Her once calm mother is now having violent outbursts and Lexie’s little sister is hearing sinister sounds coming from the forest behind their new home. Lexie’s biggest surprise comes when she discovers the boy she has been dreaming about since her accident is living in Maine. Despite Torin’s questionable reputation, Lexie cannot resist the physical and emotional attraction pulsating between them. Animals and people in town are turning up dead and Lexie learns the strange new world she lives in has real life monsters. Just when she decides she wants to be with Torin fo