FFF--The Matchelor

Falling For Fiction is hosting The Matchelor at the end of March. 

Hop over to FFF and find out more about it!

Caught you! Now go wash your hands!

At the moment, I am at school, teaching a classroom of twenty-nine second graders probably reading them a story, giving them a spelling test or guiding a step-by-step drawing of a chameleon.                                               freedigitalphotos.net




More than likely, I'm asking one of them to get hand sanitizer because I just caught them with their finger up their nose.




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Anyhow, I'm "over" at Falling For Fiction today with the fabulous Emily R King. Come find out why she's so adored in the writing community :)

Happy Friday! Enjoy your weekend :)

Hellooooo!

Helloooooo! 

For those of you who haven't seen every episode of Seinfeld multiple times, this is how you say it . . . 

la, la, la!

Today, I'm over at FFF with Rachel Schiefflebein who is part of the anthology Foreign Affairs that was released this week! 

YAY Rachel! 

You can check out her blog, Writing on the Wall here and her interview with me at Falling For Fiction here.

Happy writing :)

Two Cool

1 . . . 

Another FFF gal, awesome friend and cp, is going to be a published author! Kelley signed with Sapphire Star Publishing! Her book, Fraction of a Stone, will be released March 7th, 2013! 

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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Congratulations Kelley! 

You can wish her well and read a bit more about Kelley and Fraction of a Stone on her blog, Between the Bookends. 

2 . . . 

I'm over at FFF for an inspirational Monday interview with Kimberly Gabriel. If you haven't met her yet, you can get to know her a little better at her blog, The Art of Infiltration, and today on

Happy writing :)

The Critical Eye

I'm over at FFF doing a critique! Come help Martin out :) 




And send anything our way if you'd like another set (or five sets) of eyes on something you're working on! Check out the tab at the top of FFF's page for instructions on how to do this.

Happy writing :)

Squee!

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Cassie has an agent! 

She has signed with Brittany Booker from the Corvisiero Literary Agency!

The little piggy from Geico is a close second to how I feel about this! And if it wasn't for all the image stealing scariness out there (not even sure I"m doing that one image correctly), I'd have a picture of that squealing piglet along with a million others to try to convey how exciting this is!

So, hop over to Cassie's blog and congratulate her :)

AND, Hanger winners are announced on Falling For Fiction today! Gotta say it again, so impressed with everyone's hookers and hangers! You guys are awesome!

Happy writing :)

Catch me if you can!

I'm over at FFF with Lara Schiffbauer today!

Happy writing :)

Hangers

The Hookers & Hangers Blogfest is underway! 

Monday, the first sentence from each chapter were posted. I had so much fun reading everyone's lines! So much fun!

Today, July 18th, post the last sentence from each chapter.

Post as many as you like!

Falling For Fiction will be judging everyone’s first three HOOKERS and first three HANGERS, each of us picking two winners (MOST ENTICING HOOKER and MOST IMPOSSIBLE HANGER) making a total of ten winners! Winners will receive a 10 page (double spaced) critique and a Friday Spotlight on FFF!

I was thinking my hangers were swear-word-free, but I'm wrong. So, again, Pigeon has a potty mouth. Grab a pair of ear muffs if you need them :)

Here's the pitch for my WiP, Birds of a Feather:

An overdose, meant to get the attention of her parents after her sister’s death, lands Pigeon at Camp Hope with other troubled teens. It’s up to Pigeon to decide if her Aves wings can fly through her cage of anger or if they’re a crock of shit like everything else she ignores there.

And here are the first ten chapter hangers for Pigeon's story:

* Back to hell.

* Life sucks. I’m not in control.

* “I see plenty of bird brains every day.”

* “You first.”

* I think I know where I belong.

* I watch her run off to her clan members wondering how in the world I’m going to become part of mine.

* Camp Hope. Such bullshit.

* He knows what I’m about to do.

* “We’ll see, won’t we?”

* He spins me around, hands warm on my lower back, eyes searching mine, lips so close when he says, “Prove it.”

I hope these hangers left you wanting more! 

Now check out how well everyone else lets it hang :)

Hookers

The Hookers & Hangers Blogfest is underway! 

Today, July 16th, post the first sentence from each chapter.


On July 18th, post the last sentence from each chapter.


Post as many as you like! 

Falling For Fiction will be judging everyone’s first three HOOKERS and first three HANGERS, each of us picking two winners (MOST ENTICING HOOKER and MOST IMPOSSIBLE HANGER) making a total of ten winners! Winners will receive a 10 page (double spaced) critique and a Friday Spotlight on FFF!

Remember how I said I swear a lot and my new WiP's character, Pigeon, has the mouth of sailor making her fun to write? Well, you've been warned :)



Here is the pitch for my WiP, Birds of a Feather:

An overdose, meant to get the attention of her parents after her sister’s death, lands Pigeon at Camp Hope with other troubled teens. It’s up to Pigeon to decide if her Aves wings can fly through her cage of anger or if they’re a crock of shit like everything else she ignores there.

And here are the first ten chapter hookers for Pigeon's story:

* I hate this f %*@# year.

* Mile one is nothing.

* The more campers return, the more I feel alone.

* The scent of freshly mown grass relieves the puke welling in my belly.

* It’s torture walking into the auditorium, trying to find a seat, knowing I don’t want to sit by anyone in here.

* I don't want to belong.

* Lunch goes down as smoothly as it came up this morning, only with a slightly better after taste.

* Shit on a shingle I believe is the correct term for this meal.

* The thrill of payback runs a marathon through my insides.

* “Every year there’s some kind of trivia challenge, right?”

Did I hook you? 

Now hop around and check out the other hookers on display :)

Hookers and Hangers Blogfest

Falling For Fiction is hosting a HOOKERS & HANGERS blogfest next week!

We all know how important those first and last lines are in every chapter. This blogfest will hopefully get your HOOKERS and HANGERS polished making it impossible for readers to put down your book and leaving them begging for more!

On July 16th, post the first sentence from each chapter.

On July 18th, post the last sentence from each chapter.

Post as many as you like! 

We will be judging everyone’s first three HOOKERS and first three HANGERS. We'll each pick two winners (MOST ENTICING HOOKER and MOST IMPOSSIBLE HANGER) making a total of ten winners! Winners will receive a 10 page (double spaced) critique and a Friday Spotlight on FFF!

Sign up and get your hookers and hangers ready!

Falling For Fiction

I hope you had a fantastic weekend! 

Summer finally showed up in Washington giving us 70+ degree weather and zero rain for a few days in a row, woo hoo!

I'm over at Falling For Fiction today with the fabulous Lisa L. Regan, check us out!

 

Happy writing :)

1, 2, 3, GO!

1. Thanks to all of you who commented on my query + first 500 words of My Protector: The Calling for the Wilde's Fire Agent-Judged Contest entry. I enjoyed every one of the other entries I had the privilege of reading. Amazing class of writers out there! Good luck to all of you! And thank you Sharon Bayliss and Kristal Wade for putting this contest together!






2. For those of you where were/are interested in having another set of eyes on your first 20 pages of your WiP and have not sent them to me, I'm ready for them whenever you want to send them my way :)







3. I'm over at Falling For Fiction today doing a critique for Sheena-kay's WiP Circa, go check out her way-cool idea out here!

GO have a great day!

A to Z Challenge

 

I'm doing the A to Z challenge X 3! 

 

Here, I'll be travelling the world, stopping by all the places I'd love to see some day. Hopefully you all can give me ideas or tell me stories of great places you've been :)

On Cinema Challenge Cavalcade, Joshua and I will be telling you our favorite movie picks for different genres/categories. (Joshua's Harry Potter trivia challenge is going on now, so get over there and work your magic!)

And over at Falling For Fiction, Cassie, Jade, Jenny, Kelley, and I will be introducing our group blog by lifting writers one post at a time, starting off letter by letter :)

And for absolutely no reason at all, I'm adding my theme song--You're So Cool by Hans Zimmer--to this post :) 

If you've never seen the movie, I highly recommend it if you're into action flicks, it's one of my favorites!

Have a great weekend and hopefully I'll see ya on Sunday!