happy vladurday!

So there I was, eating a Fat Boy Jr ice cream sandwich when...

THIS popped into my email. yes!! THIS beautiful cover for my book. I'm in love. all I could think was WOW this is it! and now I have ISBNs on Cambridge Press' website. FYI Cambridge is a new imprint of Charles River Press and they are accepting submissions. so all around it was made of WIN. ice cream sandwich, BEAUTIFUL book cover and ISBNs. YAY!

happy vladurday!

moving lost and found

have you ever seen this? I loved this so much that I bought the t shirt. anyway, I'm in the process of moving. yes, I'm moving again. y'all probably think I'm in the Witness Protection program or I'm a bedouin but yeah I'm moving. the plus of this  move is that I have found a bunch of stuff that I previously lost.
my 16 gig iPod. yeah. after I bought a new one and was in the process of replacing the music. funny thing is I forgot I had some of this music. so now I have 2. actually 3 because I have one I swim with but I never lost that one.
the other key to my car. okay it's not really a key. it's more like  a flash drive because it's a Mercedes and the Germans don't like keys anymore. anyway, I found this but not after I ordered a 250 dollar replacement for it because at the time I had lost the only key (leaving me with 0) at the time. so now I have 3. like the iPods.
my tag heurer watch. this was in a basket in a closet. apparently the basket went in a closet when we decorated for CHRISTMAS. that's how long that had been MIA. I was sad about losing that because I've had that watch 11 years and LOVE it. it has a pink face and even the jeweler says it's pretty rare. but it's found, battery replaced and seals tested. I don't have 3 of these.
I think I'm finding things because I'm going through stuff before packing. I have gotten rid of SO MUCH stuff. it's amazing how much you accumulate. but the only good thing about this move is finding my lost items. otherwise it's been the pits.

this isn't my bike. this is what my friend Susie Mercer's bike looked like when she left it parked at the Fine Arts A building at UF for like 6 weeks. I still laugh about that and thought I'd share that with you. I wonder if she remembers this.

it was national donut day yesterday?!

omg it was national donut day and I missed it! I'm celebrating today with these babies. these are HOT KRISPY KREME donuts which are right up there with sex. even this picture makes me drool. one of the most mesmerizing sights in the world is to go to KK and watch the conveyor belt of donuts. I swear I'd kill to just run in there and eat all the donuts I could for 3 minutes.

happy vladurday!

Welcome Jennifer Wright author of The Vampire Hunter's Daughter series!

today I'm pleased to welcome Jennifer Wright, author of The Vampire Hunter's Daughter series. she's going to share her feelings about indie publishing.

Independent Publishing Isn’t Really Independent.

Yes, the title may be deceptive and look argumentative, but it’s not. I am an indie author, but even though I write these stories, there is no way I could go this road alone.

When you are an independent author, there are certain people you depend on to help you get to where you want to be. We have our cover artists, our editors, our beta readers, the book bloggers, our friends and especially our readers, who are the reason why we do what we do.

My editors are the bomb, I use Accentuate Author Services and they are absolutely the best. I have learned so much from them and it’s helped my own writing a lot. Let me just say this about editing really quick. Editing your own work is not a good idea. Yeah, you might have the skills to do it, but fresh eyes are what your work needs.

Covers are very important, because those are what people see first. I use a variety of different graphic designers for everything from my covers to swag and my banners. Paragraphic Designs do the covers for my Vampire Hunter’s Daughter series,  My cousin did my cover for The Birth of Jaiden, Farah Evers does my some of my covers that haven’t released yet and a lot of my graphics for lots of other stuff, including our business, Tempting Book Tours and Svenja Gosen did the collection cover for The Vampire Hunter’s Daughter.

I have several supporters online, tons actually that help me out and I simply could not do this without them. Jennifer Swiger helps admin my fan pages so she deserves a shout out for sure. I also want to thank the two other Musketeers, you know who you are. I could go on and on listing people, but I just want to say thank you to each and every one of them, including all the readers. You are the reason I do what I do and am able to do what I do.

This is a sappy blog post, but I don’t think that this stuff is said often enough. People should know that being independent doesn’t mean you are alone.
So, thanks everyone. I heart you!

Thanks Jennifer!
You can find Jennifer's awesome books on  Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Vampire-Hunters-Daughter-ebook/dp/B005GSS26K
She's on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/thevampirehuntersdaughter?ref=tn_tnmn
Her website:
http://www.jenniferwrightauthor.com/

happy vladurday!

happy vladurday!

happy mother's day to all you muthas!

I do that muthas joke every year but I just want to say Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! being a mom is a hard job!

A very presidential Happy Vladurday

apparently, I don't know the comma rules

so my awesome writer boyfriend read thru Blood of New Beginnings and I came to realize that I don't know the comma placement rules. most of his corrections were comma placements. at first I laughed, but then I thought "man, I really don't know crap about grammar rules." how can that be? how did I forget all of that stuff? I mean, I'm a writer(don't even get me started on writing analytical papers for school because I suck according to my professor) and I use grammar allllll the time. however, I don't think I'm using it right.the bad news is I'm going to have to brush up on basic grammar rules so my edits aren't so painful.
the good news is he really liked BONB and that meant a lot to me because he and I write completely different genres.

hiding for WAY too long and not having anything to show for it

so you may or may not have noticed that I have been absent from the blogosphere. I've been lurking but not posting due to the hideous amount of personal stress and other assorted disasters that have rolled in and out of my life. most have simmered down so I can rejoin the world.

Happy Vladurday!

Happy Vladurday!