tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39400335213543891192024-03-13T15:17:37.175-07:00Disgruntled BearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger631125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-39155084354690399142013-12-09T18:39:00.001-08:002013-12-09T18:39:10.611-08:00Best Intentions...I meant to get the posts up weeks ago, but I've been a combo of overscheduled and sick. Fear not--I will still post the top entries for a vote-off, but it will take a little while. The winner WILL get consideration for publication at Spencer Hill Press, even though open submissions period closes tomorrow (December 10th), as well as the other prize stuff listed below. And bragging rights.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-22752807331647234632013-10-31T07:07:00.001-07:002013-10-31T07:07:12.461-07:00The Great Query Contest of 2013<i>Dear Ms. Agent, </i><br />
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<i>Have you ever wondered why query letters should NOT start with rhetorical questions? </i><br />
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<i>Dear Mr. Spencer Hill, </i><br />
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<i>I has wrote a book. </i><br />
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<i>Dear Editor, </i><br />
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<i>If you ever want to see your guinea pig alive again, leave a publishing contract in a briefcase at...</i></div>
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<a href="http://spencerhillpress.com/" target="_blank">Spencer Hill Press</a> has "open subs" coming up, so it's time to get those queries in shape with...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>THE GREAT QUERY CONTEST OF 2013! </b></span></div>
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How to participate:<br />
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Paste your query into the comments section on the <a href="http://www.site.ganzfield.com/Contact.html" target="_blank">Ganzfield website contact form</a>. <br />
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Please submit your query by Friday, November 8th. All genres are acceptable, however, I reserve the right not to post queries that contain material that people might find offensive (e.g., graphic language and/or explicit sex). Depending on the volume received, I'll probably have to pick and choose for query critiques, so not everyone will get a critique (I didn't cap it the last time, and I was critiquing for WEEKS). <br />
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I'll go through the entries and do several critiques throughout the next two weeks, which I'll post here at Disgruntled Bear. People who get critiques can then revise and resubmit their queries (revisions must be received by November 15th). I'll select the queries that I feel are the best-of-the-best from all received (including resubmitted ones) and then give the blogosphere a chance to vote during the week of November 18th. All queries received will be considered for the finals, even if they do not receive the online query critique. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The winner will get a $25 gift card to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Book Depository, or the indie bookstore of her/his choice. </b></span></div>
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Please spread the word! <br />
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Back in the days before I was an editor, I wrote a post about writing compelling query letters that still holds up--feel free to check it out: <br />
<a href="http://thedisgruntledbear.blogspot.com/2010/09/writing-query-letters-101.html">http://thedisgruntledbear.blogspot.com/2010/09/writing-query-letters-101.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-90804380484706431332013-10-03T08:46:00.004-07:002013-10-03T08:46:55.860-07:00The Great Query Contest of 2013?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hi folks! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back in 2010, we had a query contest on this site that included this entry: </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>#3: EMBER</b></span></span>
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Dear Mr. Agentoftheyear,</span></span>
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Dying sucks--and high school senior Ember McWilliams knows firsthand.
After a fatal car accident, her gifted little sister brought her back
from the dead. Now anything Ember touches dies, and that, well, really
blows.</span></span>
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Ember operates on a no-touch policy with all living things--including
boys. When Daemon Cromwell breaks into her house, claiming her curse is a
gift, she thinks he’s crazy. But when he tells her he can help her
control it, she’s more than interested. There’s just one catch: Ember
has to trust Daemon’s adopted father, a man she is sure has skeevy
reasons for collecting gifted children like action figures. </span></span>
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Learning to control her fingers-of-death holds a powerful allure. Ember
is willing to do anything to be able to hold her sister's hand again.
And heck, she'd also like to be able to kiss Daemon. But when Ember
learns the accident that made her a freak wasn’t an accident, she’s not
sure who to trust.</span></span>
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Someone wanted Ember dead, and they still do. The closer Ember gets to
the truth, the closer she gets to losing not only her heart, but her
life. For real this time.</span></span>
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Ember is a YA Paranormal Romance complete at 82,000. I thank you for your time and consideration.</span></span>
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Sincerely,</span></span>
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Jennifer ABC</span><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah, <b>"Jennifer ABC" is <i>that </i>Jennifer</b>, and finding this little gem in the <a href="http://thedisgruntledbear.blogspot.com/2010/11/round-two-of-great-query-contest.html" target="_blank">blog archives</a> made me giggle, because this is the query for the book that became <i>Cursed</i>...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">... and look at what<b> the <i>guy's </i>name was! </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sooo, I bring this up to see if there is any interest in a query contest again this year. If you're interested, please leave a comment below, and feel free to spread the word--the more interest there is, the more likely we are to make it happen. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-43552169095968177012013-09-21T04:27:00.003-07:002013-09-21T04:35:26.813-07:00Change in Policy at GoodreadsHi folks,<br />
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I was thrilled to hear about the change in policy over at Goodreads, which includes taking down offensive shelving names and removing posts that abuse authors and try to bully them into no longer participating in the site. As the <i>first line</i> in the Goodreads author guidelines reads:<br />
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<b>"Goodreads is a place for all kinds of booklovers, and that includes authors." </b><br />
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(<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/guidelines">http://www.goodreads.com/author/guidelines</a>) </div>
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After the fallout earlier this summer, I heard from and about so many people who had been attacked for breaking the bullies' self-created "authors behaving badly" code, which included such "offenses" as:<br />
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<li>Asking questions about the review policies (in a forum, not even in a review) </li>
<li>Correcting huge factual errors in negative reviews of books by other authors (e.g., "Is it really fair to call this 'blatant plagiarism' if this book was written *before* the other book?")</li>
<li>Posting a review if the reviewer knows the author of the book</li>
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To clarify, a scathing review of the BOOK is appropriate, e.g.: <br />
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<b>"This was a poorly written, amateurish piece of drivel, filled with flat characters and fake-sounding dialogue. By the end of the story, I was seriously rooting for everyone to die." </b><br />
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(By the way, this is how I feel about <i>Godzilla.</i> Remember that movie? Gods, that sucked. Matthew Broderick, if you are somehow reading this, know that I loved you in <i>Ferris Bueller</i>).<br />
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As an author, reading a review like that is hard. But that's the kind of review authors need that oft-mentioned "thick skin" to handle, and it's<b> NOT </b>appropriate for an author to even <i>flag</i> that kind of review. Suck it up and move on. I know it hurts, but seriously, let it go. <br />
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However, an attack on the AUTHOR of the book is different, and Goodreads has updated their review policy to list these types of attacks as violations of their terms of use (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/guidelines">http://www.goodreads.com/review/guidelines</a>). A large number of these attacks have been documented by the people over at Stop the Goodreads Bullies (<a href="http://www.stopthegrbullies.com/">http://www.stopthegrbullies.com</a>). I've found their posts to be factually accurate and well-documented (there have been some complaints about their tactics, but I wasn't able to find any evidence of them posting the personal information of any bullies), and Nathan Bransford mentioned them when he posted about this topic earlier this month (<a href="http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2013/09/the-bullies-of-goodreads.html">http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2013/09/the-bullies-of-goodreads.html</a>).<br />
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He was then attacked by the bullies. *sigh*<br />
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However, I suspect that having such a well-respected and high-profile person stand up for civility is one of the main reasons that Goodreads (and Amazon) finally took action to save the tone of their site. I'm relieved that this abusive behavior is no longer being tolerated, because up until the bullying thing this summer I had unconditional LOVE for Goodreads! And now I'm looking forward to going back and enjoying it again. <br />
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For a different opinion, please take a look at Jennifer L. Armentrout's post about the Goodreads policy change (<a href="http://www.jenniferarmentrout.com/dear-gr/">http://www.jenniferarmentrout.com/dear-gr</a>)<br />
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See? See how two people can have <i>completely different takes</i> on something and still be able to interact without insulting each other? Intelligent, informed people can reach different opinions on things--and I'm still going to read every d@%# thing she ever writes. :) Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-56353044249056457612013-07-23T15:46:00.000-07:002013-07-23T19:59:39.887-07:00The Frightening Side of Book Reviews<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earlier today, I saw a negative review of a Spencer Hill
Press book on Goodreads (not one of mine). No big whoop--we all get some
negative reviews, and this one, while I disagreed with many of her points, was clear and logically-written, although I strongly disagreed with her statement that one of the characters was depicted in a racially insensitive way because she doesn't speak English at the start of the book. </span></span></div>
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said, "I get that you didn't like the book and
that's great. Not everyone will. But, damn, you trashed it." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then, the attacks on her began:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Anyone tell you to go f***
yourself recently? Well I'm here to preach the good word!</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"F***. OFF. Don't come on here and
criticize a well-written, fully articulated and intelligent negative review
just because you don't agree with the reviewer. It makes you look like a
tw**."</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Thanks to R***, I am NEVER
touching any work from this author again."</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">People posted memes asking, "Are
you retarded?" and calling her an a**hole. Others blacklisted the author
for the comments of R***, saying it must be the author using a fake name (side note: it wasn't the author). To me, these seemed completely inappropriate for a book review.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But then I did something <b>really, really
stupid</b>. I engaged.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the record, <b>NEVER</b> respond to
negative reviews of your own work. I don't. No author should. But this *wasn't*
my book, and I just wanted to mention that the character who doesn't speak
English at first learns fast, and the fact that she didn't speak it from the
start made sense. I also asked people not to post profane personal attacks. And
I mentioned my connection to SHP, since that's the disclosure policy when any SHP editor,
publicist, etc. posts on a review site.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*face palm*</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah, I know. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As you might expect, everyone then turned on me. They
decided to mark all or her books--as well as all of my
books--"not-for-me."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They called me several unflattering
things. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One even tweeted a link to the let's-call-Kate-several-unflattering-things thread to Twitter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another of the responders took a screenshot
of my comment and then used it in a new thread to expand at length on my shortcomings.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> One person on *that* thread asked:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"And what is there to
defend her from? She's not even on the thread and the review is about the book.
Getting a negative review is nothing anyone needs defending from. This is
ridiculous, that so many authors need to be coddled to not feel
"attacked". It's a book!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's the thing: <b>a
book isn't just a book to authors--it's a piece of their soul.</b> If that causes non-writers
to eyeroll, I can't do anything about that. But books are like children to
those of us who write. If someone says your baby is ugly, it hits you hard. <b>And
being accused of creating a racially insensitive character is an accusation of
being a racist.</b> Authors *do* read their reviews. They see the nasty things
people post about their books. And those reviews stick in their souls and fester. Sure, we need to have a "thick skin", and I can take bad reviews of my books, but I get strongly protective of our authors. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah, <b>I made a mistake</b>. I should not
have posted on that thread--it didn't do anyone any good. <b>I publicly apologize</b>
to anyone I may have offended. I did not set out to offend--I merely wanted to set the record straight on behalf of the author, who knows better than to respond to her own negative reviews.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've specifically avoided giving
identifying info in this account, since I don't want to make things worse. But
I feel sick inside. Why do people have to be so nasty to one another? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Asterisks added for anonymity and to
take out the worst of the bad language) </span></span><br />
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</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-37900080017085508672013-03-25T10:38:00.000-07:002013-03-25T10:41:04.524-07:00The Kelpie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The castle glittered as if it were made of crystal and shimmered solid parts as if they were made of moonstone or cat's eye. It shouldn't have fit on the outcrop, but the outcrop seemed to have grown with it. Behind the castle, the clouds that had darkened our trails had parted and stars glowed brightly."</span></span></i></div>
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The
Faerie Castle is the most appropriate piece to put on Kate's blog, as
Spencer Hill Press really is her castle of magic and wonders. Truly,
being part of the SHP family is a magical experience that has changed my
life for the better since Kate invited me to work on <i>UnCONventional</i> with her. :)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
be part of this professional family—and I repeat "family" on
purpose—means that I have had this amazing privilege to nurture people's
dreams, dreams they trust us with, and then be able to hand them that
dream, actualized, as a real, physical thing. That's how SHP was
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though I’ve never been to Colorado, author Darby Karchut picks me up and puts
me in High Springs, where I meet a young teen boy named Finn, NOT Finnegan,
MacCullen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finn is a halfer: half mortal,
half Tuatha De Danaan, an ancient race of warriors from Ireland. Finn has just
hitch-hiked over 60 miles (from Denver to High Springs, Colorado) to meet the
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thoroughly Tuatha De Danaan, with a quick temper and thick accent. Like all the
De Danaan, Gideon believes that the pure-bloods of the race are superior to
anyone else, so he is annoyed to find out that Finn is a halfer. This ancient
Irish warrior has to teach the computer obsessed Finn in the ways of the Tuatha
De Danaan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No sooner have they started,
but the Amandan attack!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Amandan, a
race of goblin-like creatures, have been battling the De Danaan for centuries
over control of Ireland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The war has spread
over the world as the two races have emigrated to other countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The De Danaan believe their existence relies
on keeping themselves and the Amandan secret from the mortals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Amandan have no problem using mortals as
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span>Darby Karchut uses an extraordinary mix of myth and
imagination to create this exquisite book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love how she uses detailed descriptions of the battles between Finn
and the Amandan; I felt like I was right there watching. I also enjoyed the
journal entries of Finn and Gideon, because it made me get a better sense for
what the characters were really feeling about life and each other. The one
thing I didn’t like was that there weren’t strong enough female
characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her male characters are so
well written, but I would have liked some more females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Darby Karchut writes strong descriptions like
this one, “The woman smiled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her grin
stretched wider and wider across her face, as if the corners of her mouth were
trying to meet each other around the back of her head.” She uses these great
descriptions to create visual imagery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span>Time is running out as the Amandan
gather their forces and the De Danaan search frantically for the one thing that
will kill their enemies, The Spear of the Tuatha De Danaan. Will the De Danaan
find the spear? Will someone die? If so who? WHAT WILL HAPPEN? To find out read
Finn Finnegan by Darby Karchut.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span>I loved this book, and can't wait to
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Walnut Storm is the pen name of an 11-year-old avid reader. Her image and words are used with parental permission.</span> </span>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-66321669927691776982013-01-23T16:19:00.004-08:002013-01-23T16:19:34.713-08:00Publishing Truths<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You need to know: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/01/22/25-hard-truths-about-writing-and-publishing/">http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/01/22/25-hard-truths-about-writing-and-publishing/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-51973112842729454092012-12-17T06:33:00.002-08:002012-12-17T07:11:34.810-08:00On Gun Control(This is a serious post today. My thoughts, prayers, and tears go out to the families of Newtown.) <br />
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I'm a gun owner. <i>And </i>I favor expanding gun control legislation. But I don't think it's going to happen. <br />
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As a former POW of the culture wars (four years as a teenager in an evangelical household) I can tell you that the main obstacle in any gun control is that a large portion of conservative America *literally* believes that any law enacted will be horribly abused by those in power. If we have restrictions that keep people with mental illness from obtaining firearms, the government will then declare that anyone who wants to shoot their own dinner rather than buy it from the supermarket is "crazy," and therefore they can't have guns.<br />
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Back in the former Soviet Union, dissidents were often labeled with some form of mental illness; it allowed the government to simultaneously discredit them... and lock them up. Fear of this kind of abuse of power is what causes the resistance to gun control legislation. Do I believe it? Absolutely not. But *millions* of American think like this. If we find a way to overcome this fear, then we can move forward. But until we do, we need to understand *why* the other side tolerates events like Sandy Hook without seeing the need for changes in gun control laws--they literally believe that the alternative could be as bad or worse.<br />
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That's what we're up against when we try to put additional legislation in place--just thought I'd translate the rhetoric. Talk amongst yourselves. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-44319520605115044742012-12-14T00:30:00.000-08:002012-12-14T00:30:02.641-08:00Cover Reveal for CAMP BOYFRIEND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Title: Camp Boyfriend (Camp Boyfriend #1)<br />Author: J.K. Rock<br />Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary<br />ISBN: 978-1-939392-50-3 <br />Release Date: July 2, 2013<br />Formats: Paper, e-book<br />Goodreads TBR: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16409311-camp-boyfriend" target="_blank">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16409311-camp-boyfriend </a></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-19004099097962545492012-11-29T12:26:00.000-08:002012-11-29T12:40:36.324-08:00TEAM AIDEN<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We had some technical issues getting the paperback version of <i>Elixir </i>shipped, and it has delayed some people from receiving their pre-orders. We're sorry for any inconvenience this has caused, and we'd like to make it up to you... with Aiden. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yup, in honor of Aiden's POV novella, we have "Team Aiden" shirts, and we're going to give away three of them. To enter, just leave a comment below. It can be anything--your favorite Covenant book, your dog's name, a suggestion for a Covenant-themed Ben & Jerry's flavor ("Seth Ripple?")--whatever</span><span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'll use random.org to pick the winner after midnight (EST) on Friday, December 7th.<span style="font-size: small;"> We'll s<span style="font-size: small;">hip internationally<span style="font-size: small;">, too. </span> </span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-61608336806791159632012-11-03T16:22:00.002-07:002012-11-03T16:22:49.255-07:00Emily White's New Book<span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ISBN: 978-1-937053-68-0 </span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Release Date: 11/12/13 (cool date for a time-travel book, eh?)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Formats: Paper, e-book</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-71511597329062805822012-10-26T00:30:00.000-07:002012-10-26T00:30:05.648-07:00Cover Poll--BLOOD BOUND<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi folks, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Spencer Hill Press has a great book coming out next year, Keshia Swaim's debut, <i>Blood Bound</i>. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her</span> short story, "Family Ties," opened the <i>UnCONventional </i>anthology
that came out in January, and (at the request of several of our
editors, including yours truly), has been expanded into this novel. It
reminds me of <i>Morganville Vampires</i>... but with fae! I think you'll enjoy it.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But we've been back and forth about the cover design, so we finally decided to leave it up to the readers!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><i><b>Blood Bound</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"> Starting college a year early is hard. Starting fae college and learning to protect the world from the Unseelie is harder.<br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: navy;"> </span></span></span>Brielle
Reed has always been an over-achiever, but this time she may have
bitten off more than she can chew. Between her crash course in fae
politics, struggles to control her new mind-reading ability, training
sessions with the demanding Dr. Schwartz, and discoveries about the
father who is still a mystery to her, Brielle finds herself longing for a
chance at a normal life.<br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: navy;"> </span></span></span>But she may not get that chance. Or chance at a life at all, for that matter. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">So, for this book, which cover catche<span style="font-size: small;">s your interest more? </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The one with the hand... </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Covers by Vic Caswel<span style="font-size: small;">l</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Title: Blood Bound</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Author: Keshia Swaim</span></div>
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<span style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Publisher: Spencer Hill Press (<a href="http://www.spencerhillpress.com/" target="_blank">www.spencerhillpress.com</a>) </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: x-small;">ISBN: 978-1-937053-45-1 </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: x-small;">Release Date: September 10, 2013</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-38258135982631160342012-10-05T00:30:00.000-07:002012-10-05T00:30:06.502-07:00Cover reveal--AWOKEN<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi folks, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's time for another cover reveal! <i>Awoken </i>is a "boy book" with an amazing and original twist. </span><br />
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<tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cover by Lisa Amowitz.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #003300;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0px;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fourteen-year-old
Michael Stevens has never been ordinary; no orphan who hears music
coming from rocks considers himself a typical teenager. But life gets a
lot more complicated when two-foot-tall, albino, doll-like men sneak
into his room one night, transforming the harmless music into a
frightening ability he cannot control. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Soon,
strangers in black suits begin to ask unsettling questions while
unnatural animals with mismatched eyes haunt the streets. They are
hunting, and not just Michael: anyone he cares about is in danger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">With
the help of a mysterious drifter, an annoying girl he's accidentally
mutated, and one of those creepy doll men, Michael finds himself in the
middle of a war that could forever change the world he knows -
reconstructing the very definition of humanity. </span></div>
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Title: Awoken</div>
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Author: Timothy Miller</div>
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<span style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Publisher: Spencer Hill Press (<a href="http://www.spencerhillpress.com/" target="_blank">www.spencerhillpress.com</a>) </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">ISBN: 978-1-937053-53-6 <span id="GD__CURSOR" style="display: inline; visibility: hidden;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Release Date: August 13, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It can be added to your Goodreads TBR list here: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16064647-awoken">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16064647-awoken</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-65857330536046438892012-09-29T11:52:00.001-07:002012-09-29T11:52:08.294-07:00I'm sick......so I'm sitting around doing art projects, like this:<br />
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<span style="color: #003300;"><span style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This
book blew my mind. I started reading the manuscript one evening, just
to get a sense of it before talking to the author for the first time the
next day. But I couldn't put it down, so I stayed up until nearly 2am
(and I'm old, so that's a big deal) to finish it. This is one book worth
losing sleep over. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #003300;"><span style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Whisper Falls</b></i></div>
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<span style="color: #003300;"><span style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">While
training for a mountain bike race, high-school senior Mark Lewis spots a
mysterious girl dressed in odd clothing, standing behind a waterfall in
the woods near his North Carolina home. When she comments on the
strange machine that he rides, he suspects something isn't right. When
Susanna claims to be an indentured servant from 1796, he wonders if
she's crazy. Yet he feels compelled to find out more.<br /><br /> Mark
enters a 'long-distance' relationship with Susanna through the
shimmering--and temperamental--barrier of Whisper Falls. Curious about
her world, Mark combs through history to learn about the brutal life
she's trapped in. But knowledge can be dangerous. Soon he must choose
between the risk of changing history or dooming the girl he can't stop
thinking about to a lifetime of misery.</span><br /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Title: Whisper Falls (Whisper Falls #1)</span></span></span></div>
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Author: Elizabeth Langston</div>
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<span style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Publisher: Spencer Hill Press (<a href="http://www.spencerhillpress.com/" target="_blank">www.spencerhillpress.com</a>)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ISBN: 978-1-937053-42-0 <span id="GD__CURSOR" style="display: inline; visibility: hidden;"></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Release Date: November 19, 2013</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Formats: Paper, e-book</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">What do you think? </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-71335703138737165192012-09-25T19:23:00.003-07:002012-09-25T19:25:16.285-07:00We all scream forHow cool is this?<br />
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Personally, I'm guessing about 20' F, because sometimes I'm annoyingly literal. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-63765528020768802162012-09-18T05:01:00.000-07:002012-09-18T05:01:10.261-07:00Happy Book Birthday for CURSED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you haven't already, you really should pick one up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Cursed</i></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">by <a href="http://www.site.spencerhillpress.com/Jennifer_L_Armentrout.html">Jennifer L. Armentrout</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dying sucks--and high
school senior Ember McWilliams knows firsthand. After a fatal car
accident, her gifted little sister brought her back. Now anything Ember
touches dies. And that, well, really blows. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ember operates on a
no-touch policy with all living things--including boys. When Hayden
Cromwell shows up, quoting Oscar Wilde and claiming her curse is a gift,
she thinks he’s a crazed cutie. But when he tells her he can help
control it, she’s more than interested. There’s just one catch: Ember
has to trust Hayden's adopted father, a man she's sure has sinister
reasons for collecting children whose abilities even weird her out.
However, she’s willing to do anything to hold her sister's hand again.
And hell, she'd also like to be able to kiss Hayden. Who wouldn't? </span>
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But when Ember learns the accident that turned her into a freak may
not've been an accident at all, she’s not sure who to trust. Someone
wanted her dead, and the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she is
to losing not only her heart, but her life. For real this time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">978-1-937053-13-0 (e-book)<br /><br />
Read the first chapters </span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.site.spencerhillpress.com/uploads/Cursed_first_chapters.pdf">here</a> (PDF). </span><br />
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Korean rap--who knew? We may have to play this at the zombie prom. <br />
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Thanks to Gregg for the link. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-88358097030534622032012-09-14T10:21:00.000-07:002012-09-14T10:22:00.362-07:00Cover reveal for FIREBLOOD<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi folks--we have an amazing new cover for Spencer Hill's first-ever YA epic fantasy! And it's from Trisha frikkin' Wolfe--woohoo!</span><br />
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save a kingdom, Zara must choose between a prince who could be the
answer and a rising rebellion that threatens to take control.<br /><br />
When Zara Dane is chosen to marry Prince Sebastian Hart, son of the man
who ordered her father's capture, Zara knows she must fight to save
everything she loves from ruin. <br /><br /> Being betrothed to the prince
means a life trapped behind the towering stone walls of the
Camelot-forged realm. Under the watchful eye of the prince's first
knight, Sir Devlan Capra, changing her future becomes difficult. <br /><br />
When an unlikely rebel reveals the truth about the deadly secrets that
fuel King Hart's twisted world, Zara's path to rescue her father becomes
clouded by deception. The Rebels clear her path by forcing Zara's hand
with an ultimatum: sway Prince Sebastian to join the Rebels, convincing
him of his father's evil nature, or they will take him out. <br /><br /> But
Zara is uncertain about a future under the Rebels' command and where
the prince's heart truly lies. She must decide who to trust, what to
believe, and what she's truly fighting for before the king destroys all
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</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940033521354389119.post-14730225336218657512012-09-07T00:30:00.000-07:002012-09-07T00:30:01.550-07:00Cover Reveal for STALKED BY DEATH<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I kinda love how well this one turned out: </span><br />
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<span style="color: navy;">Jodi
knows that any slip-ups made by the Ophi--a special group of
necromancers born under the 13th sign of the zodiac--will fall on her
shoulders... and that Hades is just waiting for them to screw up so he
can wipe out the Ophi line.</span></div>
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the only Ophi Jodi can convince to come to the school and train with
her is a gorgeous guy named Chase, it spells more than trouble for Jodi
and Alex. Her mixed emotions for both guys send her powers surging out
of control, and she begins raising the dead without even meaning to.
Jodi doesn't want to lose Alex, but Chase is offering her something Alex
can't. His very touch enhances her powers, making her stronger than any
Ophi ever has been--maybe even powerful enough to stop Hades from
threatening them all. But Chase's offering comes with a huge price. One
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The first book of the series, <i>Touch of Death</i> (<a href="http://www.site.spencerhillpress.com/Touch_of_Death.html" target="_blank">http://www.site.spencerhillpress.com/Touch_of_Death.html</a>),
will be released in January 2013... and the launch party will be a
ZOMBIE PROM in Boston! Keep an eye out for news of the coming
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