I have a special guest today :) I sometimes help out with tours for friends. However, I've quit doing promo only blogs. I want something unique. Kelley graciously provided me with something a little bit different :D
Here's her add on for my blog:
Thanks for asking me to post something unique for your blog (and
thank you for participating in the blog tour). I thought I’d do a little
smorgasbord, and I hope you enjoy!
How I juggle
writing with my day job
Having a day job and writing books is like having two full time
jobs. It’s not “like having,” they are both full time jobs. I have to strike a
balance between work, writing and my personal life. I know many offer writing
advice that says you should write something every day, but that doesn’t work
for me. When I’m in the full swing of writing, I target three work-nights/week
with the goal of writing for two hours or until I hit a natural stopping point.
I typically don’t write on weekends unless the hubbs (i.e. husband) isn’t
around. I try to take advantage of lunch hours and carpooling when I’m rewriting
and editing. Somehow it all comes together!
My favorite
vacation
The hubbs and I love to travel to the Caribbean. We’re fans of
the ‘fly and flop’ types of vacations, aka all inclusives. Some of our
favorites have been Aruba, Cabo, St. Lucia and Jamaica. Of those, I’d have to
say Jamaica is the favorite. I’d highly recommend either the Couples Negril
resort, or the Jewel Dunn’s River resort. Both are excellent, it depends on
which side of the island you’d like to see.
Killing characters
in my books
This
seems to be a popular question: how do you feel about killing your characters?
Well, I’d say my answer depends on the book and the character.
When I
was writing The Search, a friend of mine jokingly asked if I’d write her into
the story. Okay, it was a little more than joking. I obliged. As I was going
through the re-writing process, I knew I had to beef up the backstory about
what my main character had been doing during the time book 1 ended and 2 began.
Keep in mind, I write vampire books. So I promptly wrote my friend and her
husband into the story, and then promptly killed them off as victims of my
character’s blood-fueled killing spree. I had fun writing the scene, and my
friend got a kick out of the fact she was inspiration for a character, even if
the character didn’t last long.
In The
Truth (book 3 in The Descendant Vampire Series), I knew I needed an inciting
incident to kick off the chain of events I had already identified. I killed off
one of the secondary characters and didn’t have too hard of a time doing it as
his death was needed to propel the story forward.
Now as I
look to the 4th book in the series (you heard it here first, there
will be a 4th book in The Descendant Vampire Series), I’m toying
with killing off one or more of the main characters, and lemme tell ya, it’s
not an easy thing to do! However, once I flesh out the story and fully
understand what’s going to happen, I’ll knock off whomever I need to if it
makes sense for the story!
The Truth, book 3 in The Descendant Vampire Series, is ready for you to sink your fangs into!
You discovered the vampire’s origin in THE DESCENDANT, and what that meant for Allison Carmichael, the first descendant to exhibit signs of vampirism.
You joined Allison in THE SEARCH as she relentlessly hunted for information on the whereabouts of her husband.
Now find out why it all happened in the first place in THE TRUTH. Does everything happen for a reason, or is there a puppet master pulling everyone’s stings?
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Book One:
The Descendant
Book Two:
The Search
Fresh out of vampire detox, Allison Carmichael has her cravings for human blood under control…just in time for the rest of her life to take a downward spiral.
After a loved one is murdered, Allison receives a cryptic message from the deceased. A warning to trust no one, not even those closest to her.
In order to identify the murderer, Allison must trust a mysterious stranger and piece together a series of clues while under the suspicious eye of a jealous boyfriend, a vengeful archangel and a jittery Ruling Council. When information is unearthed about the murderer and Allison’s lineage, her world isn’t the only one that’s rocked.
They say that the truth will set you free, but will that be the case for Allison and those she loves?
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Vincent raised
his thumb to my mouth and wiped away the blood. He leaned in and gently licked
where I had bitten my lip. His venom tingled as it healed my flesh. He pulled
away, not breaking eye contact. His icy blue eyes didn’t make my stomach
flutter. His warm hand on my cheek didn’t send waves of desire throughout my
body. “So are you just using me for my body?” he asked.
~Now this large
house stood, half empty, like the dreams Matt and I once had.~
~Though the
Council had been apprised of my detox and subsequent sobriety, I doubted those
actions would go far as long as Sam and Brian’s murder cases were still alive
and well in the press.~
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