A Giveaway and Cover Reveal

I am bouncing up and down. My awesome blogging buddy and Choose Your Own Adventure cohort, Kerri Cuevas, is this |<-->| close to her book release, and I, for one, can't wait. Today I've got the honor of unveiling...

DRUM ROLL

...her cover!

Oh my goodness, isn't it gorgeous? And if you think that's good, check out the book summary:

Aiden Grant is seventeen, has a killer kiss, and a boss who used to be President, back in the old days. You see, Aiden is a grim reaper and his kiss welcomes the newly dead. But Aiden’s pleasant grim reaper lifestyle is in jeopardy. And it’s not only because Honest Abe keeps throwing out history lessons with reaping assignments, just to confuse him. It’s because Aiden’s next assignment is to reap the soul of Bee, the only girl he has ever loved.

When Aiden’s kiss of death fails, intertwining their souls, Bee is still very much alive and they are both in trouble. The ancients want Bee, who has special powers of her own, and they’ll do anything to get her.

Some rules are meant to be broken—even if that means Aiden must bargain with his own soul to save Bee. Who knew the afterlife could get so complicated?

The book releases March 5, 2013. You can pre-order it now on Amazon here, and be sure to check out Kerri's Author page on face book and her Goodreads page.

BUT WAIT, there's more! Kerri will be giving away one ebook to the lucky winner. To join in, spread the word and sign up below!



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"Looking at You" Writer Challenge

Peeking around the corner of a tree, I shriek. The barrel of a gun butts against my nose, and I rise. Game over.

Okay, maybe I'm being over dramatic. You know how sometimes you just trying to lay low? I haven't been back in ol' bloggerville for very long, but I don't think I can hide anymore--too many awesome blogging friends out there. (Hello awesome blogging friends!) My wonderful buddy Kerri Cuevas, the instigator of the Choose Your Own Adventure bloghop, tagged me in a new writing challenge.  

"Looking at you." 

The rules: Find how many times the word "look" appears in your manuscript or work-in-progress. Then post your favorite three paragraphs with the word "look" in it. Tag 5 other writers and let them know they were tagged.

This is hard. I'm between projects right now and keep bouncing back and forth, but because it's the one I'm exchanging first chapters on, let's go with Black Vein. The rough blurb:

Seventeen year old Ivy has been with the Sova family since the tragic night both her foster parents were murdered, but she's not a servant like most humans in Black Vein society. As a favored child, she can’t imagine anything more wonderful than her betrothal to one of them and becoming a permanent member of her immortal family—until Hunter the hunter shows up.

For the first time she questions what it truly means to be human, the aspect of herself she's grown up despising, and is she willing to give up her humanity for an eternal existence of nighttime? More importantly, is she willing to sacrifice her family, all she has ever known and loved for the freedom to be flawed? 

So far I'm at 23,000 words and there are 72 "forms" of look in my manuscript--however, only 19 "look"s. Some trimming to be done? Yup.

Blurb 1: Did I look like one of them? What did he see when he looked at me? The nearly eighteen-year-old who lived under a veil of deceit and expected promise, or an average misled teenager, in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Blurb 2: “Hm.” He closed the file, a suspect look sweeping again over me, obviously assessing if I might have been the cause of the Demelo’s fate.

Blurb 3: I didn’t want to look at the pictures, to see the charred-black corpses, perhaps even acquaintances from earlier years. And what would Officer Drake think if I started babbling madly about Hunter the hunter, a secret society of blood-thirsty elite, and the war which had been raging for millennia?

And now for the next round of writers being challenged (this one goes out to recent followers):

Katie S. Pendergrass

Rena

Aldrea Alien

Jackie Felger

Kyra Lennon 

Well, that's it for me. How many projects do you have in the cue, and which one do you love most right now?