Just before Thanksgiving, my son and I were interviewed by our local radio station: me for my books and my son for his music, and the fact that he recorded a song for my latest series. The interview aired this week. I didn’t even know until my brother texted me that he’d heard it. So, […]
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The Big 50 Giveaway Winners
Okay, folks, here is the list of winners–also EVERYONE IS A WINNER, though maybe not for the person you’d picked. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who took part and volunteered their time to critique these awesome entries. And thanks to everyone who took the risk, put your work out there […]
The Big 50 Giveaway (for writers)
For my birthday the past several years I’ve tried to do a bit of a giveback to the writing community–meaning I harangue my author friends to help me give away a bunch of queries. This year, the birthday is bigger (*gulp* no specifics, but the number might be in the title!) and so I thought […]
A Theme Song
I’m so excited to share this. One of my sons is a rapper and he’s recorded a them song for my latest series The High Crown Chronicles. He sat down with me, I gave him a brief synopsis of the series and told him to make it dark and vengeful. This is that he came […]
Book Release: Rumple’s Redemption by Tamara Grantham
NEW PRINT RELEASE FROM TAMARA GRANTHAM Fans of young adult fiction, fairy tale retellings, and YA fantasy will love this new release. Today we’re excited to announce that the final book in the Twisted Ever After series by Tamara Grantham, is finally available in print! Rumpel’s Redemption is the third and final book in the […]
Another Sad & Shitty Day
On Christmas Day we found out that our sweet little furry friend Chewie had lung cancer. This came as a huge blow because she was so young and only three months ago we’d also had to put our Boxer to sleep (stupid, shitty cancer!). We took Chewie home and kept her comfortable and loved on […]
Double Book Release: The Temple and The Temple Twins by Emily Shore
Clean Teen Publishing has not one, but two new print releases from Emily Shore today! THE TEMPLE, and THE TEMPLE TWINS, Books 3 and 4 in the UNCAGED SERIES by Emily Shore are finally available in print. Grab your copies today! NEW PRINT RELEASES THE TEMPLE by Emily Shore Book 3 in The Uncaged Series. […]
My Summer 2019 Reading List
I’ve been so bad about keeping up my blog this summer–okay, for always is a truer statement. The one thing I thought I could reliably do is a post about all the books and audiobooks I’ve loved. Well, I have no excuses. I’m reliably unreliable and you should know that about me. So here is […]
April 2019 Book List
My April reading & audiobook listening habits were a bit varied–and kind of busy! I had a number of ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies) to read for books that are/were about to be released. I also went back and revisited some old favorites on audio. I have to say, I love listening to audiobooks and I […]
Author Interview: Dea Poirier
Author of: The Next Girl to Die (coming May 1, 2019) Can you tell me about the first piece you remember writing? It was a piece for a creative writing class in 9th grade, about a man who was turned into a potted plant (mistakenly) by a witch. When did you first realize you […]