Don't Freak on Me Now

Blitz Tour, Day Three!

 

 

More fun stops today!

 

Franny Knows Best, ParanormYA Feud, Fright Night, Welcome to KPIP and another one about, erm, canines and ghosts and stuff.

 

Today's stops are here:

 

http://christinerains-writer.blogspot.com/

 

http://the-open-vein-ejwesley.blogspot.com/

 

http://cmbrown-books.blogspot.com.au/

 

http://www.jessarusso.com/

 

AND!

 

Episode 4 of the Partners in ParanormYA blogcom miniseries,

The Great Destruction:

 

The Great Destruction: Don't Freak On Me Now

 

 

 

Who Killed the WCP and The Unforgiven

Guess what day it is?!

 

The Partners in ParanormYA

New Books Release Day!

Woo Hoo!


This time, the PIPs are doing a short, quick blitz, Tuesday through Friday, but with 4 - 5 stops per day.

The posts are short so that you can follow every stop if you've a mind to. They will feature posts such as KPIP, a radio show featuring the PiPs, bloopers, and other fun character game shows and posts.

 

Todays stops are here:

 

http://julieflanders.blogspot.com

 

http://www.susankayequinn.com

 

http://anjeasandro.blogspot.com/ 

 

http://taratylertalks.blogspot.com/

 

PLUS!

As an added bonus, we're running a mystery miniseries this week over at the Partners in ParanormYA blog. We hope you'll enjoy the character/author blogcom called, The Great Destruction.

 

Here's episode 1:
(which started yesterday)

 

 The Great Destruction: Who Killed the WCP?

And, today's episode 2:
 

The Great Destruction: The Unforgiven

AND!

Don't forget the giveaway:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Is Your Aura Safe?

About Fractured Soul (sequel to Fractured Light)

Llona will do whatever it takes to protect her new found friends and home, but the dark plot threatening Lucent Academy, a school that’s supposed to be a safe place for Auras, may be too powerful for even Llona to defeat. This fast-paced tale of love, loyalty, and overcoming the darkness will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page!

Excerpt
As soon as the Vyken appeared in the doorway, I tossed a ball hard. He dodged it by jumping up along the side of the wall, his nails and bare toes somehow finding a hold in the thin cracks of the wall. I threw another one, but he was already moving, scrambling alongside the stones like a spider. He was grinning.

I rolled away from the wall until I was in the middle of the room. I lost sight of him for just a fraction of a second, but that was enough. The Vyken was gone, or, I should say, hiding. He was still here. I could feel him. I looked up toward the rafters of the tower roof. It was pitch black.

At the bottom of the tower, I heard Christian begin to ascend the stairs. “I’m coming, Llona!” he yelled.

Still staring up, I created Light again in the palm of my hand and willed it to rise. The closer it got to the rafters the faster my heart beat. Sweat rolled down the small of my back.

Light began to fill dark spaces, exposing that which wished to remain hidden. My Vyken was there, but he wasn’t alone. Another sat crouched on a beam. Where his left eye should’ve been there was an empty hole.

I screamed when my Vyken dropped from the ceiling, extinguishing the light. He fell onto my stomach, pushing my shoulders into the floor. I tried to create Light, but it was as if he knew what I was going to do because his hands slipped up and pinned my wrists together. He bent forward and inhaled my skin. The warmth of his breath steamed my ear when he said, “I’m going to eat every part of you.”

What others are saying:

“I love these books! A kick-butt heroine and a hottie love interest, with a refreshingly original concept. Be prepared—once you start, these are hard to put down.”
—Paula Cotton, book reviewer at ReadingLark.blogspot.com


“Fractured Soul is a brilliant sequel, exceeding even the remarkable first book in the series. It will haunt your every waking moment between the times you’re reading it, and it will stay with you long after you’ve finished. It’s an amazingly well written and engrossing story that I highly recommend—after you’ve read the first one, of course.”
—Cindy Bennett, bestselling author of Geek Girl and Rapunzel Untangled

Author Bio

Rachel McClellan was born and raised in Idaho, a place secretly known for its supernatural creatures. When she's not in her writing lair, she's partying with her husband and four crazy, yet lovable, children. Rachel's love for storytelling began as a child when the moon first possessed the night. For when the lights went out, her imagination painted a whole new world. And what a scary world it was...

Find Rachel

Facebook  / Blog  / Website  / Twitter  / Goodreads  / Book Trailer

Buy Fractured Light

Amazon / Barnes and Noble

Buy Fractured Soul

Amazon /Barnes and Noble

It Was The Best of Times and Winners

"It was the best of times, it was the worst  best of times..."

Okay, I took liberties with Charles Dickens' quote from A Tale of Two Cities. I had to, because the Partners in ParanormYA Blog Tour was absolutely, positively...

 "the best of times"!

Today marks the end of our tour! It's kind of sad - but not. Because it's not really the end, but the beginning. The beginning of our careers as writers and authors. More books are planned. Another PIP book tour is in the future. But that's only part of it. There's a world full of possibilities, full of branches and paths that lead to more interests and opportunities. Angela and I will have more adventures together, but not all of them. I wish all the best for Angela, and I know she wishes the same for me.

Thank you, Angela Brown, for the best of times! It's been such a fun and exciting adventure through self-publishing with you.

Thank you to Tara Tyler for hosting us yesterday and for creating and donating all our awesome banners and badge!

And to all our hosts and followers, your support and kind words have meant the world to us. The blogging community rocks. Thank you all so much!

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And so where are we on our last day?

We are being interviewed by Natalie Aguirre over at Literary Rambles .

With our paranormal angle and all, it's really kind of fitting that our last day of the tour is on Halloween.

And by the last day, I mean not really today, but Friday. Because we sort of added another stop onto the end of the tour, because on Friday, we'll be over at Angela Orlowski-Peart's blog talking about paranormal abilities and realms.

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Week 3 Winners are announced!

Shannen Aleene Romein - $10 Amazon gift card, Givin’ Up The Ghost ebook and 2 Personalized bookmarks


JC Martin – Neverlove ebook and Personalized bookmark

Jennie Bennett – 10 page critique and 50 page critique

Mary Preston – Personalized bookmark

Stephen Tremp – Personalized bookmark

Congratulations to the winners! You will be contacted soon :-)

AND

The Big Swag Giveaway is still going on, too!

a Rafflecopter giveaway  

Talking With...Tara, Bears and Wolves

Today the Partners in ParanormYA are over at Tara Tyler Talks for a very different sort of interview. Do you like bears? How about wolves? And dogs? Yeah, it's different like that.

And speaking of Partners in ParanormYA, our teens, Abby (Neverlove) and Indigo (Givin' Up The Ghost), are getting ready for Halloween tomorrow - but they may need help finding the decorations.



AND

Many thanks to Dianne Salerni for hosting me and Angela yesterday. We hope you enjoyed our real life case files!

Are you excited about Halloween? Doing anything special?

Monstrous Monday and Real Case PIP Files

Today is Monstrous Monday!

(For PIP blog tour update, please scroll below)

This is a blogfest / bloghop hosted by Tim Brannan at The Other Side.

To see the official rules, join, or follow the participants, go HERE.

It's simple. Just post your favorite monster. One you like, love or hate. It could be from your own novel or someone else's or from a movie - anything! 

I don't care for the really scary monsters, because, well, they're scary!

But I do adore the Fun-Scary monsters.

And so today, my feature monster is...

Sally!

From The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Why do I luurve her? She is just so sweet - and talented.

She can cook...

If she falls apart...

She can sew herself back together...

She can sing...



And that's why Jack Skellington loves her, too!

Are you participating in the blogfest?

What is your favorite monster?

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Now, on to more blog tour information...

Thank you to Tyrean Martinson for hosting me and Angela last Friday. We appreciate your hospitality ever so much!

Today we're over at Dianne Salerni's blog talking about Real Case Partners in ParanormYA files. That's right, real paranormal stuff that's happened to us.

And of course, we still have our blogsitting teens over at Partners in ParanormYA, holding down the fort. We hope they're behaving after last weeks revenge scheme against the Devourer (Neverlove) and the Dark Shadow! (Givin' Up The Ghost).

There is still a giveaway going on over at PIP, so please stop by.

Getting Even With Evil

Haunted banner by Tara Tyler!


TGIF!

and

Thanks to the lovely ladies who hosted us yesterday,
Linda Jackson and Michelle Pickett.

Today, Angela and I are at Tyrean Martinsons blog talking about the love scenes we cut from our young adult novels. Why? Because they were, well, too hot for YA. At least our YA's.  

AND

You are not going to want to miss the shenanigans our PIP Blogsitting teens are up to today. You know how the Devourer busted them last week by sending me and Angela the USB showing the unauthorized party they had? Well, they decided to get even with both the Devourer (Neverlove) and the Dark Shadow (Givin' Up The Ghost). If you want to see how, go through this portal. And please don't try this at home.

So how about you? Ever have to cut a hot scene? Or get even with evil entities? Want to share?

Week 3 is nearly over, but you still have time to enter the giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway

And you can still win the Big Swag Giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Cookin' Up Crazy



Banner by Tara Tyler!

Happy Tuesday!

We have winners from Week 2 Giveaway!

JC Martin - $10 Amazon gift card

Martha Campos-Arana – Neverlove ebook

Carolyn Brown – GUTG ebook

Angela Orlowski-Peart – 10 page critique

JC Martin – 50 page critique

Angela Orlowski-Peart – Personalized bookmark

Fiery Na – Personalized bookmark

Dee Dee Brinkman-Griffin – Personalized bookmark

Nick Wolford – Personalized bookmark

JC Martin – Personalized bookmark

Congratulations to the winners and Thank You So Much for participating! You will be contacted soon about receiving your prizes:)

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Today, Angela Brown and I are over at Nadja Notariani's for a bit of excerpting - I think.

But if not, our teen delinquents from Neverlove and Givin' Up The Ghost are cooking up a crazy plan over at Partners in ParanormYA while they blogsit for us.

~Thank you so much to yesterday's hosts~

Cherie Reich

AND

EJ Wesley

We appreciate your hospitality so much!

And there are still two giveaways!

Visit Partners in ParanormYA for the Big Swag Giveaway and for Week Three Giveaway.



Ain't Misbehavin'.....Much

Banner by the awesome Tara Tyler!

It's Week 3 of the PIP Blog Tour!

~Thank you so much to last Friday's hosts~
Elizabeth Seckman
and
Medeia Sharif

You ladies rock the blogging world!
Have I mentioned how much fun Angela and I are having? If you've been following our tour, you may have noticed that our tour posts have been heavily character-based. Every day our characters are up to something new. Game shows, a fashion show, a blog opera over at PIP. We hope you're enjoying it as much as we are.
Today, we're over at EJ Wesley's blog, where our female characters are showing off some of their special talents. Last I heard, EJ was looking pale as a ghost and swearing never to invite them back. We are sooooo sorry, EJ!

We certainly hope that our delinquent characters are behaving better over at Cherie Reich's blog. They can't really get into too much trouble just doing character spotlights. Right?



DO YOUR CHARACTERS MISBEHAVE AS MUCH AS OURS DO?

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Week 3 Giveaway is up!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

AND

The Big Swag Giveaway is still going on!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Scary Grin and Mwahahahahaha!

Banner donated by Tara Tyler!


WooHoo!
Happy Friday!
It's the end of week 2 of the
Partners in ParanormYA Blog Tour.

A million thanks to yesterday's hosts,
Candilynn Fite and Susan Kaye Quinn.
Ya'll are rock stars!

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What's happening on this lovely Friday?

1. Should our teenage blogsitters over at PIP Headquarters be wary of a suspicious grin? Why yes. Yes, I think they should.

2. Speaking of suspicious grins, above said blogsitters are on their way to Medeia Sharif's blog for a little Q&A. Should they be scared? Why yes. Yes, I think they should. Mwahahahaha!

3. I believe I mentioned the cloning bit in one of my posts. So
that enables Angela and I to be in two places at once. We'll be at Elizabeth Seckman's talking about angels, demons and other related stuff. And we'll be making a surprise (and we're not saying who will be the most surprised) visit HERE. Mwahahahahah!

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Purchase Angela Brown’s Neverlove at
Amazon US, Amazon UK, Barnes and Noble, Amazon FR, and Amazon DE.




Purchase Gwen Gardner’s Givin’ Up The Ghost
at Amazon US and Amazon UK.



And there are two giveaways! Visit Partners in ParanormYA

for the Big Swag Giveaway

The Week Two Giveaway is HERE!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Quick Shoot and Shady Characters

The awesome banner? By the awesome Tara Tyler!


Thursday of Week 2 PIP Blog Tour!

A barrel full of thanks to yesterday's hosts,
Mina Burrows and Carol Kilgore. You ladies are awesome!

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What's happening today?

1. An interrogation at PIP Headquarters

2. A Quick Shoot at Candilynn's blog

3. And some very shady characters over at Susan Quinn's blog

~AND OF COURSE~

Week 2 Giveaway

AND

the Big Swag Giveaway

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction and A Secret

Awesome banner by Tara Tyler!


It's Wednesday of Week 2 Partners in ParanormYA Blog Tour!

Many thanks to yesterday's awesome hosts,
 C.M. Brown and Millie Holmes.

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What's going on today?

First, our teenage blogsitting characters are over

at PIP Headquarters trying to figure out a damage control

plan. Are they in trouble? Why yes. Yes they are.

Today Angela and I will be at Mina Burrow's blog talking

about truth being stranger than fiction - and we'll be

revealing a secret about ourselves.

And we'll also be at Carol Kilgore's blog speaking about

 stretching the imagination.

As a reminder, we have a Week 2 Giveaway

AND

A Big Swag Giveaway!

Devil at the Door



Thanks for the banner, Tara Tyler!



Happy Tuesday of PIP Blog Tour Week 2!

Thanks for hosting us yesterday, Angie Sandro!

 And Shelly Arkon do not despair about the mix-up. Sir Poops and Hair Ball did just fine. You gals rock!

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And, we have winners from Week 1 Rafflecopter, chosen randomly by random.org

Carolyn B. - $15 Amazon Card


Elizabeth H. – Neverlove ebook

Tara T. – Givin’ Up The Ghost ebook

Crystal Y. – personalized bookmark

Ellie G. – personalized bookmark

Ellie G. – personalized bookmark

Ellie G. – personalized bookmark

Shallee McArthur – personalized bookmark

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you so much for participating and supporting Angela and me. I'll be contacting you through email to see how you'd like to receive yours prize, i.e., email addresses and in the case of bookmarks, I'll need your physical address.

Thanks again!

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There's a lot going on today. For one thing, someone needs

to lecture our girls over at Partners in ParanormYA Headquarters

about not opening the door to the freaking devil!

So, um, maybe you can do it?

*shakes head*

Those girls just don't listen to me or Angela.

They think they can handle anything.

In the meantime, Angela and I are being interviewed at

C.M. Brown's blog,

and Indigo and Abby should be over at

 Millie Holmes' blog

preparing to protest over a subject near

and dear to our self-publishing hearts.

Love Bites and Phantasmic Fashionistas



Thanks for the awesome banner, Tara Tyler!



Whew! Last week was a whirlwind of touring,
talking, and delinquent teen characters.



The tour is progressing nicely, though, and I'd like to thank you all again

for the awesome support you've shown. The writing community rocks!

And a big thank you to last Friday's host, Ciara Knight.

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Where are we today?

The girls, Indigo and Abby, are still blogsitting at PIP Headquarters.

Angela Brown and I will be at Angie Sandro's blog with a Phantasmic Fashionista fashion show. The paranormal kind that you won't want to miss!

We will also be at Shelly Arkon's place where she's interviewing our young cast members about luurve...

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And of course, we have another giveaway for Week 2!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

And the Big Swag Giveaway is still going on!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

A Madam, A Priest and the Devil

Thanks for the awesome banner, Tara Tyler!

First, I want to let you know that I'm being interviewed over at Unicorn Bell today. That'd be awesome if you could stop by:)

And in case you didn't know, I've been posting

over at Run Gwen, Run! every Friday for the Healthy Writer's Club.

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Thank you so much, Meradeth Houston,

for graciously opening your blog to us yesterday! 

Angela Brown and I truly appreciate it.

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It's day five of the Partners in ParanormYA Blog

Tour - we made it through the first week! Be sure to stop

by PIP Headquarters and see what our delinquent teens have been up to.

And so where are we today?

With Ciara Knight (ever heard the one about the madam and the priest?)

and

with Cam, talking about sucking and touching...

We hope you can stop by!

Happy Friday, everyone!

Week 1 Giveaway ends Sunday night, so be sure to enter!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

And the Big Swag Giveaway is still going until the end of the month!

a Rafflecopter giveaway



A Ghost of a Chance

Thanks for the awesome banner, Tara Tyler!

Thank you Jessa Russo and J.L. Campbell for hosting the Partners in ParanormYA yesterday. We are truly grateful!

Today is Day Four of the PIP Blog Tour.

Where are we today?

With Meradeth Houston.

Yes, we are breathing a slight sigh of relief after someone who owns this blog double-booked us nearly every day. But we love me her and forgive her.

And we hope you can stop by Meradeth's today!

And, if you get the ghost of a chance, please check up on our stop by our PIP blog because there are a couple of teenage characters over there who have been left on their own all week. Oh - and a GIVEAWAY!

Bullying and Organized Chaos

Thanks for the awesome banner, Tara Tyler!

Thank you so much to Brooke Johnson and Brinda Berry for hosting us yesterday. We appreciate the support so much!

And Now....Day Three of the Partners in ParanormYA Blog Tour.

Where are we today?

With Jessa Russo, talking about teenage bullying and how our characters overcome it...

...and with J.L. Campbell talking about how Angela Brown and I work together.

We hope you can stop by!

Week One Giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Big Swag Giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Darling Killers and You Take The Ghost



Thanks for the awesome banner, Tara Tyler!



Yesterday's launch over at Alex Cavanaugh's blog was a BLAST! Thank you so much, Alex. We can't thank you enough for your kindness and generosity.

NOW!

Day two of the Partners in ParanormYA blog tour.

Want to read about Darling Killers? Go to Brook Johnson's blog.

Or how about how paranormal activity affects technology? Head on over to Brinda Berry's blog.

Of course, you can do both. Since we've double-booked, Angela Brown and I have had to clone ourselves so we can be in two places at once. If you want, we'll send you the concoction recipe. And don't believe a word Angela says - it does not taste like devil poop!

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Purchase Angela Brown’s Neverlove at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Barnes and Noble, Amazon FR, and Amazon DE.

Purchase Gwen Gardner’s Givin’ Up The Ghost at Amazon US (ebook), Amazon US (print) and Amazon UK.

Okay, crazy me forgot to put up the rafflecopter links here yesterday!

And there are two giveaways! Visit Partners in ParanormYA for the Big Swag Giveaway and for the Week One Giveaway

Launch Day! GUTG and Neverlove!

Thanks for the awesome banner, Tara Tyler!

Do you know what today is?

It's launch day for the Partners in ParanormYA blog tour!

WooHoo!

Today, we'll be over at Alex Cavanaugh's blog for blast off!

Angela Brown and I are so excited for the release of our novels Neverlove and Givin' Up The Ghost.

We hope you'll follow as we tour Blogtown. Our tour schedule is over in the sidebar. Every day will be a brand new post featuring our characters, creatures, and of course, us!

Also, please feel free to spy on drop in on the Partners in ParanormYA blog - our teenage MC's are house-sitting while we're gone.

Both books are now available on Amazon:

Givin' Up The Ghost ebook on Amazon HERE.

Givin' Up The Ghost print book on Amazon HERE.

Neverlove ebook on Amazon HERE.

Finally in Print: The Faerie Guardian!

I am so excited to help Rachel Morgan reveal the cover for her print version of the Creepy Hollow series. I just reviewed her last book, Masquerade, on Monday. So you know how much I adore this series!

Here's the scoop:

Title: The Faerie Guardian


Author: Rachel Morgan

Release Date: 5 Nov 2012

Protecting humans from dangerous magical creatures is all in a day’s work for a faerie training to be a guardian. Seventeen-year-old Violet Fairdale knows this better than anyone—she’s about to become the best guardian the Guild has seen in years. That is, until a cute human boy who can somehow see through her faerie glamour follows her into the fae realm. Now she’s broken Guild Law, a crime that could lead to her expulsion.

The last thing Vi wants to do is spend any more time with the boy who got her into this mess, but the Guild requires that she return Nate to his home and make him forget everything he’s discovered of the fae realm. Easy, right? Not when you factor in evil faeries, long-lost family members, and inconvenient feelings of the romantic kind. Vi is about to find herself tangled up in a dangerous plot—and it’ll take all her training to get out of it alive.

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This novel was originally published in four separate parts: Guardian, Labyrinth, Traitor and Masquerade. It includes bonus scenes at the end.

Giveaway Time!

The bonus scenes at the end of the book are NOT written from the main character's point of view. If you'd like to win a $10 Amazon gift card, all you have to do is guess whose point of view these scenes are written from! Head on over to the cover reveal post at Rachel Morgan Writes and fill in the Rafflecopter form. There's a list of characters there that you can choose from. Good luck!