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Happy Friday!

Just something I made on Canva today, playing around. I paid $1.00 for this image. Not a bad deal. It's a great tool for promotion. I've only just begun, but I think I'm going to enjoy myself too much with the images and possibilities of creation.  Here's a link to Canva.

Do you have other go-to sites for designing your promotions?  Let me know. I'm gathering resources.  Thanks!  

Happy Weekend! May you find a good book and a cozy spot to read.

Here it is! The Crossroad Blog Tour

Crossroads Blog Tour 

From small to big-gun presses, debut novels to bestsellers, we’re offering unprecedented (and free!) access to amazing YA authors. Thirteen paranormal writers will embark on an exciting blog tour that will hook readers up with great reads and cool SWAG. 


Participating bloggers will feature two Crossroads authors each day from October 26 thru October 31. You can use the link above for more info.  Lots of treats ahead! Don't forget to sign on the Rafflecopter for a $50 gift certificate!

May the tour begin!  I bring you . . . 



Sarah Bromley

1.)  You and a friend are walking down a dark alley. You hear strange noises. Do you walk ahead and check things out, or send your friend instead? 

I’m gonna send someone else, but I’ll make sure they’re armed well with salt, a wooden stake, and some silver bullets.

2.)  What's your Halloween costume back up, the one that's always waiting in your drawer or closet? 

I dress up as a witch every year when I go trick-or-treating with my kids.

Bio:

Sarah Bromley drinks too much coffee, likes her music loud and off-key, and has loved spooky things since she first saw “An American Werewolf in London” when she was five years old. She currently lives in the St. Louis area with her high-school-sweetheart-turned-heroic-husband, three children, and her dogs.

Book blurb

Winter in Black Orchard, Wisconsin, is long and dark, and sixteen-year-old Vayda Silver prays the snow will keep the truth and secrecy of the last two years buried. Hiding from the past with her father and twin brother, Vayda knows the rules: never return to the town of her mother’s murder, and never work a Mind Game where someone might see.

No one can know the toll emotions take on Vayda, how emotion becomes energy in her hands, or how she can’t control the destruction she causes. But it's not long before her powers can no longer be contained. The truth is dangerously close to being exposed, placing Vayda and her family at risk.

Until someone quiets the chaos inside her.

Unwanted. That's all Ward Ravenscroft has ever been. To cope, he numbs the pain of rejection by denying himself emotions of any kind. Yet Vayda stirs something in him. He can't explain the hold she has on him--inspiring him with both hope and fear. He claims not to scare easily, except he doesn't know what her powers can do. Yet.

Just as Vayda and Ward draw closer, she finds the past isn't so easily buried. And when it follows the Silvers to Black Orchard, it has murder in mind.

"Richly written, A MURDER OF MAGPIES isn't a book to be read, but one to be devoured by the light of a dying fire. Sarah Bromley will pull readers in and have them glancing constantly over their shoulder, where the ghosts of the past await them."
- New York Times bestselling author Heather Brewer


"A MURDER O MAGPIES is one of those books I couldn't put down... a little bit mystery, a little bit horror, a little bit love story--there's something for everyone on these pages. Rich, well-written, and different in a genre desperate for something a little bit different..." -- Hillary Monahan, author of MARY: THE SUMMONING 

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Judith Graves   

1.)  You and a friend are walking down a dark alley. You hear strange noises. Do you walk ahead and check things out, or send your friend instead? 

If my friend is wearing a red shirt, and I think she is...I send her off to see what’s what. Don’t judge. Someone needs to be the one who lives to write about our great adventures.

2.)  What's your Halloween costume back up, the one that's always waiting in your drawer or closet? 

It’s so easy to throw together an evil librarian costume, and it’s fitting too, since I am one. Bwhaaaaaa.... All you need are glasses, some baby powered-hair wrapped up in a bun, a blood-stained copy of your favorite book, and blood spatters all over your sweater set.

Bio:

Award-winning writer and screenwriter Judith Graves loves tragic romance, werewolves, vampires, magic and all things a bit creepy. A firm believer that teen fiction can be action-packed, snarky and yet hit all the right emotional notes, Judith writes stories with attitude. She lives in northern Alberta and when she’s not writing, or playing bass in a cover band, she works in a school library.

 Judith on Twitter  & Facebook  Blog

Fright Before Christmas: 13 Tales of Holiday Horrors

It’s the most wonderful time of year…or is it?

 

Christmas Eve is a night of mystery and magic, but not always in ways we expect. Things lurk in the shadows and they’re not the least bit jolly or merry. Let’s just say some presents are better left unopened.

‘Tis the season to be screaming along with our thirteen tales of holiday horrors. Ghosts. Monsters. Demons. And more!

This Christmas, be careful what you wish for…

Edited by Shannon Delany and Kelly Hashway with stories by: Richard Ankers, Jessica Bayliss, Ty Drago, Judith Graves, Jackie Horsfall, Patrick Hueller, Ally Mathews, Laura Pauling, Boyd Reynolds, Medeia Sharif, Andrea Stanet, Lea Storry, and Dax Varley

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EXPOSED by Judith Graves (Retribution Trilogy) Booktrailer

This is amazing you guys!  My editor, Judith Graves, at Leap Books made this book trailer.
And guess what? She helped make my book trailer for The Unmoving Sky.
And it's Coming Soon!

You can watch the trailer for EXPOSED of the Retribution Trilogy here, from award-winning writer, editor extraordinaire, and did I mention her haunting singing and musical deftness. She's the bomb! You want to read this. PreOrder Retribution.

EXPOSED by Judith Graves

Part of RETRIBUTION—a high-interest trilogy that can be read in any order: BURNED, EXPOSED, UNLEASHED - from Orca Book Publishers and launching October 2015.

Raven is cunning, aggressive and whip-smart—she’s had to be to survive. She was taken in at a young age by the boss of a car-theft ring, who rescued her from a life of hell. 

For too long she’s believed she owes him everything and used her uncanny urban climbing skills to train young recruits for what she believes are victimless crimes. Until Raven discovers that his compassion for the kids he wrangles into the ring is just a front, and they are all merely tools of his trade, nothing more. 

When he’s responsible for the death of Raven’s young “apprentice,” she finally sees him for what he really is—and sets out to bring him down.

A Blurb for my YA Suspense, Novella, The Unmoving Sky.

photo credit: me! 

There is nothing darker than the woods, until you meet your worst fear.

Jackson Bower has a lot on his mind lately. His younger brother hasn’t been the same since his mother’s death. His father’s drinking is out of control. Then there’s Jackson’s girlfriend and the grief that ties them together even as it threatens to drive them apart.

He distances himself, hoping for a little perspective at the family lodge. But when their father gets drunk and dangerous, he and his brother escape into the woods.

Night creeps in, and the rains come fast. Artie slips down a ravine. He’s wounded and the brothers seek shelter in a cave, only to find someone else already taking refuge there.

A desperate man with plans to destroy their town.

Jackson must get him and his wounded brother out of the cave and over the mountain to warn everyone in time. Without getting them both killed first.

THE UNMOVING SKY on Goodreads   available in the Spring of 2016 from publisher Leap/Shine Books. 

The book cover is on the way and we've been busy making a book trailer. With the help of friends and my beyond talented editor, Judith Graves. My dear friend, Bruce Edwards of Darktone Music, went beyond what we expected, creating a stunning soundtrack, and I can't wait to share it. 

My Post on Reaching Readers at Summer Camp . . .

Can be found today on the blog Kidliterati

How do you find young readers?  I found some amazing kids at ChessNYC.