Summer Book Crush Time!

It's time for Summer Book Crush!

 

We have tons of authors with tons of books for only .99 cents!

 

June 19 - June 22, 2014

 

 

Whether you like the boy next door or the bad boy down the street,

there are lots of book boyfriends to cozy up to.

Just go to www.summerbookcrush.com and check them out.

 

Also, we're on twitter using a few different hashtags:

 

 

#SummerBookCrush

#SBCboyfriends

#romance

 

OR, Come Find Me:

 

@LadyGwenTweets

 

So, what's your type?

 

Boy With A Bite?

 

Boy Next Door?

 

Sexy Foreigner?

 

Jock?

 

Sizzler?

 

 

 



The Partners in ParanormYA Are Baack!

 

Remember those two crazy gals who write paranormal but are too scared to read or watch it themselves? Yeah, those two - Angela Brown and Gwen Gardner. We're back with our sequels and can't wait to share them with you!

 

But for now, it is with great pleasure and a thrill in our hearts that the Partners in ParanormYA reveal the covers for our follow-up stories to our currently available novels: Givin' Up the Ghost (Gwen) and Neverlove (Angela).

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THEY ALL FALL DOWN by Angela Brown (Add to Goodreads)

 

Cover design by Heather McCorkle

 

 

Abby and Basil: New love reaches new heights as they finally give in to their lust and desire for each other.

Q: Consumed by the Devourer within and his base need to claim Abby as his own.

The crave: What it all boils down to. A crave for souls. A crave to keep love intact beyond betrayals. A crave for a second chance. A crave for power and The Fall of mankind.

“Love can conquer all” is put to the test and salvation may be impossible when it’s “ashes, ashes…they all fall down.”

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A GUILTY GHOST SURPRISED by Gwen Gardner (Add to Goodreads)

Cover illustration by Corona Zschusschen

 

An Angel Among Us

 

Paranormal happenings at the Eady household are the norm. Recently, things have become downright peculiar. Childish giggles at odd hours of the night lead Indigo Eady to her little cousin, Bryan, a guileless cherub spirit, complete with Spider Man pajamas and a set of faux angel wings. The problem is that Bryan died nearly three years ago in a hit and run that killed him and his mum. The driver was never found.  Now the gang must solve the mystery of his death in order to send him back to heaven.  But where to start when the trail is three years cold?

Indigo Eady

Indigo Eady is not clumsy. At least, that’s what she keeps telling everyone. Can she help that the overactive spirit community of Sabrina Shores causes her psychic abilities to short-circuit? It’s unfortunate that her cute friend Badger is often on the receiving end of her mishaps. At times, she is positively hazardous to his health. Even so, sparks fly in more than one direction.

 

About Gwen

Gwen Gardner is a native Californian living in sunny San Diego, where her love of reading and writing led to a BA in English literature. Life is now complete with her husband, two dogs and a daily call from her daughter.

Since ghosts feature prominently in her young adult Indigo Eady Paranormal “Cozy” Mystery series, she has a secret desire to meet one face to face - but will run screaming for the hills if she ever does. Gwen adores travel and experiencing the cultures and foods of different countries. She is always up for an adventure and anything involving chocolate - not necessarily in that order.

Haunt at the following: Blog | Twitter | Facebook

 About Angela

 

Angela is a lover of Wild Cherry Pepsi and chocolate/chocolate covered delicious-ness. Steampunk, fantasy and paranormal to contemporary - mostly young adult - fill her growing library of books.

 
Mother to a rambunctious darling girl aptly nicknamed Chipmunk, life stays busy. Her favorite quote keeps her moving: "You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Haunt at the following: Blog | Twitter | Facebook

Not Just a Ghost of a Chance

I hope you all had a blessed weekend.

I don't really have a post today, just a bit of trivia.

 

But if you come back tomorrow, there's going to be a

Partners in ParanormYA cover reveal!

I'll leave you with this:

The real Chance Gardner

 

This little guy right here, who just happens to be my granddog, Chance, has a role in my next book,

A Guilty Ghost Surprised.

 

He plays a ghost dog AND his name is Chance in the book.

He is also featured prominently on the cover. You will be amazed at the likeness my illustrator, Corona Zschusschen, created.

 

Have you ever featured people

or pets you know in your books?

Partners in ParanormYA Sequel Sign Ups!

 

 

Wahoo! Guess who's getting ready to release their sequels?

The Partners in ParanormYA!

Last October, Angela Brown and I  released our debut novels, Neverlove and Givin' Up The Ghost. This October, we're releasing the sequels, They All Fall Down and A Guilty Ghost Surprised.

But first, to the covers. We're really excited for everyone to see them.

We're slated to reveal the covers on August 27th.

I'm having problems with the linky, so if you can't sign up, just leave a message in the comments.

You can add our books to your TBR list on Goodreads, too.

They All Fall Down by Angela Brown

AND

A Guilty Ghost Surprised by Gwen Gardner

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Thanks so much for participating!

IWSG: When is Make Believe Too Much?

It's the first Wednesday of the month, so you know what today is! It's Insecure Writers Support Group day! Thanks to our host Alex J. Cavanaugh and his helpers this month.

This is where we tell the world about our insecurities, and then bloghop around to our fellow writers blogs to lend support. You can sign up or see the list of participants HERE.

You may have noticed I've been MIA lately. That's because I've been working on a new project and my current insecurity, Second Death. It's a new novella series (An Indigo Eady Afterlife novella) off-shoot of my first series (Givin' Up The Ghost.) My protag, Indigo, is a teenage ghost whispering psychic who can see and speak to ghosts, which is instrumental in solving the murder of her friend's dad.

My new novella series was actually inspired by the second book in the series, A Guilty Ghost Surprised (not yet published). There is a scene where Indigo has a conversation with Franny, a Victorian ghost madam. Franny reveals to Indigo that there is a whole spirit community in Sabrina Shores (mostly Victorian) that basically is parallel to the living world. They have community meetings, court each other, and socialize as if they're still alive.

Second Death is...more fanciful, to say the least. It picks up from the conversation between Indigo and Franny about the overactive spirit community in Sabrina Shores and takes it a bit over the top. Indigo is basically drafted onto the Missing Paranormals Committee by a ghostly high court judge during court proceedings of the highly active spirit world. She must serve on the committee alongside other spirits.

The series will also introduce other such afterlife characters that have been mutated (my theme for the A-Z!)by what they had become in previous lives and other paranormal creatures and paranormal happenings. But I think it still encompasses the light paranormal characteristics of my first series.

So you see - Indigo becomes much more active in the spirit world, rather on the periphery. AND there are some pretty off the wall creatures.

I worry that it may be too over the top and wonder whether it will reflect on my original series in any way because I'm using some of the same characters.

What do you think?

Any thoughts on what's too much?

Will it reflect on my original series?

NaNoRevMo and the Rough Stuff

Badge by Tara Tyler

This is just a quick post to say that instead of NaNoWriMo, I'm doing NaNoRevMo. It's being hosted by Jenny Morris. If you want to join, the easiest way to connect is on Facebook, where we check in everyday.

What is NaNoRevMo, you ask? It's short for National Novel Revision Month.

Instead of writing 50K, we're revising what we're working on. In my case, I'm revising/editing/rewriting my 50K novel.

What are my goals?

Edit the first draft of my novel, A Guilty Ghost Surprised. It's only 50K, but will be longer once I go back and add setting, description, and everything else I left out when I zoomed through it during BuNoWriMo.

Daily goal: 1667 words

Words to date: 13,500

So far, I'm ahead of schedule. But, the rough stuff is coming up! My first draft is so rough, I wonder what I was thinking! And the disorganization. I did some rearranging, and I'm not even sure if it works.

How rough are your first drafts?

What are you doing this month?