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Writing Prompt Wednesday: Hypochondriacs, aging clowns, garage sales, & airplanes OH MY

19 Wednesday Sep 2018

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IMG-1177Happy Wednesday Everyone! It is Writing Prompt Wednesday! Make sure to go watch my video for more details and an original writing Prompt by me! This is a new weekly video feature on my YouTube channel, make sure to subscribed to get notified when I post new writing prompts and other content! Watch the video now: The Storymatichttps://youtu.be/H6f8f2v9CrY 

 

 

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Christie CoteAuthor of the young adult realistic fiction novel Rain.

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Rain

Taylor Sullivan took her life for granted until she received news that would change her life forever. In a state of denial she met Kyle, who didn’t end up being what she expected. She wasn’t able to escape her new reality, but with his friendship, just maybe she could survive it.

 

 

One Chance Night by Eliza Boyd Cover Reveal

24 Friday Apr 2015

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Good Morning Everyone! Words can’t describe how excited I am about this post! I’ve been dying to share this book with the world as one of the lucky beta readers. This book is amazing, filled with emotion and has ALL of the feels. I’m lucky to know this author and have counted her as one of my friends for years now. I hope you all will take the time to look at this book, add it to your TBR list and read it once it releases; you won’t regret it. I mean, just look at the cover. B-E-A-U-TIFUL! It is so nice to have a cover to go with the words that invaded my heart, made me curse and swoon all over. Okay, I could go on and on and on. The gorgeous cover reveal is below, and there also just might be some teasers ;). I hope you all enjoy!

Author:
Eliza Boyd
Book: One Chance Night
Series: Make A Change #1
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Blurb:

On the surface, Chelsea Greer has it all:
A loving husband.
A nice house.
A good job.

In reality, she works hard to maintain the illusion that is her life. She’s also missing the most important thing:

Love.

One night could change her life. One night could give her the strength to rediscover what’s important. In one night, she could find love when she most needs it and least expects it.

All Chelsea has to do is follow her heart after One Chance Night.

One Chance Night 4 OCN Teaser 3 Happy young couple outdoors

One Chance Night Playlist
About the MAKE A CHANGE series:
One Chance Night, Two Pink Lines, and Three Years Gone are about women who are at turning points in their lives—and fall in love in the process. Each book focuses on one woman, and the women are connected to the other in some way. Though each could be read as a stand-alone as far as the main story is concerned, you’ll likely want to read them in order to the get most out of the series.

About Eliza Boyd:

Eliza Boyd is a contemporary women’s fiction and romance author. Also an avid reader, she writes novels, short stories, poetry, and whatever else strikes her fancy. Born and raised in Northern Illinois, she now lives in sunny Arizona with her husband and her plethora of animals. When she’s not reading, writing, or working, she can be found walking around her neighborhood (for exercise, not for stalking), taking photos of her pets, or catching up on her favorite shows. Catching up really means binge-watching.

Feel free to contact her on any of her social media sites. She spends too much time on the Internet, so she’ll probably get back to you right away.


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Waiting on Wednesday (3)

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

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waiting on wednesday

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

Stella Rose: A Novel Paperback  by Tammy Flanders Hetrick

Expected Release Date: April 21, 2015

Before her death, Stella Rose asks her best friend,
Abby, to take care of her sixteen-year-old daughter, and Abby does the only
thing she can: she says yes. After Stella s death, Abby moves to Stella s house
in rural Vermont and struggles to connect with Olivia, who immediately begins
to engage in disturbing behavior starting with ditching her old group of
friends for a crowd of dubious characters. As the fog of grief lifts, Abby
reconnects with old friends, enlists the aid of Olivia s school guidance counselor,
and partners with Betsy, another single mom, in an effort to keep tabs on the
headstrong teenager she s suddenly found herself responsible for but despite
her best efforts, she is unable to keep Olivia from self-destruction. As Abby s
journey unfolds, she grapples with raising a grieving teenager, realizes she
didn’t know Stella as well as she thought, falls in love twice and discovers
just how far she will go to save the most precious thing in her life.
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I’m especially excited about this book, and can’t wait to read it because I know the author! She is a wonderful woman filled with infectious energy that I’m sure will shine through in her debut novel. Stella Rose sounds fabulous and like my kind of read. April can’t come soon enough! On the bright side, it will be out in time for my birthday on the 23rd. 🙂 This will definitely be on my birthday list!

Last Day that RAIN is on sale for 0.99 Cents!

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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Made by Tiffany from I’m A Book Shark.

 

In case you missed it, or forgot, today is the LAST day that Rain is on sale for 0.99 cents! The book is normally prices at $3.99! That is 75% off! Get it now before you run out of time.

 

Rain by Christie Cote

Taylor Sullivan took her life for granted until she received news that would change her life forever. In a state of de
nial she met Kyle, who didn’t end up being what she expected. She wasn’t able to escape her new reality, but with his friendship, just maybe she could survive it.

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Throw Back Thursday (10)

15 Thursday May 2014

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Throw Back Thursday-This is the prologue to the novel I wrote last November for National Novel Writing Month. It is a New Adult book that I plan to publish in the future. It hasn’t been edited yet, so the excerpt below could change. Tell me what you think! What is your throw back?

Breaking Pointe

Prologue

Pinned to the cold damp concrete floor dark menacing eyes bore down on me. I can’t do anything but stare back at the eyes full of darkness without an ounce of remorse. The smell of stale beer, mildew, and urine is thick in my nose. I try to tell him to stop, but I can’t seem to form words. He enjoys the ever growing panic in my eyes because a wicked grin spreads across his face, showing how evil he is. I try to move, wanting nothing more than to push him away and kick and scream, but my limbs and body are heavy and I can’t do more than twitch.

I watch in horror as he runs his fingers over my right cheek and continues to trail them down my neck, shoulder, and arm and continues down, further and further. It feels like I have cockroaches crawling all over me and I’m pretty sure if I had normal functions working in my body right now I would puke.

“You asked for it sweetheart.” His gravelly voice hit me as he continues to run his hands over me. The fog that has been clouding my brain wasn’t that thick because I know I never asked for this. I don’t even understand how this happened. I only had one drink, and I never put it down. I’m not that much of a lightweight; even if I were it wouldn’t inhibit my body from being able to move.

“Stop playing with your food before we run out of time,” another voice chastises, but I can’t see whom it came from. Dark eyes glares beyond my head, and if looks could kill, his sure as hell would. Flipping his attention back to me, he grabs my hair with one hand jerking my head back and rips my dress off with his other hand. I can feel the material cut into my skin before it gives away, and tears apart, and with it I’m ripped apart.

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Throw Back Thursday (7)

17 Thursday Apr 2014

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Blood Red Sky

I watched the blood red sky fade into darkness. I needed to catch my breath; I didn’t want to lose my head. I was standing there, stuck, staring hopelessly at what once was a magnificent city with beautifully designed buildings that would never be seen again. Ashes fluttered down like snow, as everything around me crumbled beyond repair. The world as I knew it was gone.

Throw Back Thursday! In honor of my failed attempt at Camp NaNoWriMo, right before my book publication. This is the book I started to work on, but didn’t get very far. My head was still too wrapped up in the Rain story-line, and I have been pretty busy with getting everything ready. This one will be finished, but first I’m going to get Rain out of my system, so I can give it the attention it deserves. This is the opening paragraph of the novel.

Post NaNoWriMo: My experience

13 Friday Dec 2013

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It is thirteen days after the NaNoWriMo deadline to write 50,000 words in thirty days. That is a mere 1,667 words a day. That is realistic right?  A challenge, but not too crazy when it is broken down like that. That is, if you actually write every day, and force yourself to at least reach that threshold. I started out strong, but here is the thing. I decided it would be a good idea to embark on this challenge while planning a destination wedding that I would leave for the morning after NaNoWriMo finished.  Needless to say, November was flipping insane. I also had other obstacles come up that I was not expecting, and there were days that I did not write a single word, and other days that I wrote, but the word count was low. I had been thinking about my NaNoWriMo project, Breaking Pointe, for months before I was able to start on November first. The odds were against me, and I was very behind, but I kept writing.

I honestly did not think I would be able to reach the goal, but I was determined to write as much as possible anyways. It was a challenge and I like challenges. I completed my first draft of my first novel a few months back, Rain, which was a major accomplishment for me, so I figured the next logical step and challenge was to write a novel in a month.

The last week I made a decent comeback, but I was still behind by a lot. I looked at my word count and though, I can’t be this close and not finish. So that is what I did. I finished. I reached 50,025 words around 11:00PM November 30, 2013. Obstacles and the world be damned, I persevered, and I did it. I can only imagine how many mistakes there are and I’m not sure how good it is since I was trying to write fast, but I kept going until I reached 50,000. Unfortunately, I didn’t technically finish the first draft of the entire novel. I had to stop when I reached the goal and pack to leave the next morning since I hadn’t done that yet. I will be going back to wrap up the novel soon, before going back to editing Rain.

To sum it up, NaNoWriMo was an insane challenge, but I’m glad I did it. I have most of another novel under my belt, which once given some TLC will hopefully turn into something decent. Luckily by the time I finished, my fiancé still loved me and married me. Everything worked out, making 2013 a kick ass year! I plan to make 2014 even better, starting with publishing Rain.

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To other writers out there, keep writing and never give up. If you haven’t written a full piece yet, pick something and just keep adding words every day. It doesn’t matter how much, just keep at it. Set small doable goals, eventually those small word counts will turn into large word counts and if you persevere, eventually you will have a book. If I can do it, so can you.

Did any of you do NaNoWriMo? What was your experience?

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