Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Backwoods Bash 2013


This past Memorial Day Weekend I spent all of my time at the always awesome, always independent, and always a blast, Backwoods Bash Music and Camping Festival. It's three days of camping by a beautiful lake, hanging out with some beautiful people, and listening to a beautiful collection of indie bands from around the region. My personal fav band this year was GROOVEMENT out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. But there were a lot of good musical acts to choose from. A little something for everyone.




This year the festival is supporting the non-profit organization SIAME which I'm a member of. The organization had a nice tent set up for fun activities for the kids like painting, a drum circle, and feather art. 


Whole Foods donated tents for SIAME plus free organic bananas and apples with coffee for campers. I worked the tent with some wonderful volunteers and it was one of the best experiences I've had at the festival, which is saying something since I've been participating in Backwoods Bash since the very first year.

The festival itself has come along way in six years. In 2008 we had maybe 300 people, but now that number has grown into the thousands with more discovering this great festival every year. I'm so proud to be a part of it and can't wait to see what wonderful things are in store for Backwoods Bash and for SIAME in the near future.

Good people. Good music. Good times.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Purgatory Reigns Facebook Party Countdown: Author Linda Foster

This week I'm joining with other young adult authors to promote our joint online Facebook Party that's coming up this Saturday. We also have two Twitter chats scheduled. We join Kate Tilton's twitter chat #K8chat tonight from 8-9pm CST and on Friday we will have our official Twitter chat. During my hour of hosting duties for the Facebook Party, I plan on doing some book trivia and some character interviews with characters from Skid and my new upcoming paranormal romance novel My Girlfriend BitesDetails for the Twitter chat and the host schedule for the Facebook Party are at the bottom of this post. 

Today I welcome indie author Linda Foster to the blog!

Linda's Featured Story is inside: Click here to purchase for $0.99





My name is Linda Foster. I was born and raised in Colorado, where I still live with my (very patient) husband and four (very spoiled) ferrets.  I became an avid reading enthusiast the moment I picked up my first book, and have grown steadily worse with time.  By the time I was 15 years old, my library had become too big for my shelves, and I was forced to donate all of my books to the local school, just to make room for new ones.  I started writing short novellas for my friends in middle school, and expanded into full-length novels several years later. 


Soul Bound is my first published novel.Though I had my short story Condemned, which is based on the characters in my book, published in the Dark Heart Anthology January 2012. So if January seems like a lifetime away, like it does for me, you can pick up a copy of my short story. You will get to hear Ash’s back story and get a little taste for my writing while you wait for the book. And all proceeds go to charity! Just click on the link below!



 


Now for a little preview of my book…

Soul Bound is set for publication January 2014.
Ash was just another high school student, intent on living life to the fullest.  Until he sold his soul to a demon to save his sister’s life, and fell in love with a fallen angel.

Kali, on the other hand, had never considered herself normal.  She was, after all, one of the original fallen angels – cast from Heaven in the days before mankind, and cursed to serve a dark master as repentance.  She’s spent thousands of years battling that fate, and trying to regain her soul.

Now the two find themselves bound together by a promise that can’t be broken, tied by a blood vow stronger than life itself.  Kali has unwittingly gained Ash’s soul, and cannot be rid of it by any means available to her.  Ash, on the other hand, cannot escape with his life – or soul – intact.

But there are darker fates than being tied to a demon.  Like being at the top of the Master of Dark’s kill list.  Kali has spent centuries unwillingly serving him, and dreaming of a way out.  Now she’s found it.  It will take an alliance of the fallen angels, and answers to some ancient questions, but the end will mean redemption. Freedom. The chance to go back home.

If they succeed, they become angels once again, and return to light.  If they fail, the entire world fails with them.

Unfortunately, things are rarely that simple.  When Ash gets involved – in the worst ways possible – Kali must defend the blood vow, and finds her path littered with demons, sacred artifacts, confusion … and a love she never saw coming.



You can find more information on my website - http://linda-foster.com/

And you can follow me on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/TheRealmOfTheClaimedSeries


Or Twitter @lindafoster86

Join Linda and the other amazing authors at my Purgatory Reign Release party this Saturday, May, 18th!

Prize list:
- itunes gift cards
- free books of course  
- Swag galore from multiple authors
and so much more  

Party Host Schedule – Saturday, May 18th, 2013

3pm-4pm (EST) Kymberlee Burks-Miller
4pm-5:30pm (EST) Emma Michaels
5:30pm-6pm (EST) LM Preston
6pm-7pm (EST) Linda Foster
7pm-8pm (EST) Doug Solter
8pm-9pm (EST) KaSonndra Leigh
9pm-10pm (EST) LM Preston Party Close Out
TWITTER PARTY: Friday, 5/17 at 7pm-9pm EST, use the hashtag #PurgatoryReign and @LM_Preston prizes include $5 Amazon Gift cards for 2 winners & books, swag prizes

FACEBOOK PARTY:  
Starring 5 other authors and blog hosts, tons of prizes and fun.

About Purgatory Reign by LM Preston
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance, Action Adventure




Brief description of Purgatory Reign

Seventeen-year-old Peter Saints’ life stinks. But things are about to get much worst. First, his parents are murdered in front of him. Then another victim dies in his arms.

Visions plague Peter with warnings that something wants him for a sinister cause. It desires the one thing that Peter refuses to give – his blood. Peter carries within him the one gift or curse that could unlock a secret to destroy the human race.

On the run with Angel, a girl disguised as a scruffy kid, Peter starts to unravel the mystery. It’s the one treasure the heavens sought to hide from the world. Unfortunately, when Peter finds the answer he hopes that will save them, he opens the door to a great evil that happens to be salivating to meet him.




By LM Preston,

Order Below:




RaffleCopter Prize Pack: Paperback or Ebook copy of Purgatory Reign, $20 Amazon Gift Card, T-shirt, a prize from all participating authors



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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Purgatory Reigns Facebook Party Countdown: Author Emma Michaels


This week I'm joining with other young adult authors to promote our joint online Facebook Party that's coming up this Saturday. We also have two Twitter chats scheduled. We join Kate Tilton's twitter chat #K8chat this Thursday night from 8-9pm CST and on Friday we will have our official Twitter chat. During my hour of hosting duties for the Facebook Party, I plan on doing some book trivia and some character interviews with characters from Skid and my new upcoming paranormal romance novel My Girlfriend BitesDetails for the Twitter chat and the host schedule for the Facebook Party are at the bottom of this post. 

Today I welcome indie author Emma Michaels to the blog!


My Favorite Character 
by Emma Michaels

The last time I was asked who my meanest character was I answered with Caleb from my Society of Feathers series and while he is still the cruelest (though has his reasons for being such) I am working on a new project that I would say might give Caleb a run for his money when it comes to being mean. Only in my new project the character who is meanest just happens to be very different from the way he might seem whereas Caleb simply is what he is, even if he was made that way. BUT since Owlet which features Caleb is already out, with the sequel coming out soon and my current project is still a work in progress, I will just have to go with Caleb who still wins the prize for meanest character at this point.

Caleb is in a way the villain in Owlet though in many ways he isn’t a villain at all, he is the primary reminder of everything that is wrong with the society and in book two, we get to have a more in depth look at both Caleb and the Society of Feathers as a whole as Iris fights for her life and the safety of those she loves. While in Owlet her friend were the ones protecting her in book two the tables quickly turn and she realizes it is her turn to be the protector. She isn’t willing to keep hiding. 

Eyrie is set to come out this October! If you would like to get your hands on Owlet before then here is a blurb and the cover!


Somewhere between falling and flying… there is a girl.

Iris has a secret. She lost her memory eight years ago and never told a living soul. After an asthma attack one night she finds out that her dreams of a strange house on a snowy island may be a memory resurfacing but the more she learns about the past the more she realizes the life she has been living is a lie. As the façade her father has built starts to crumble around her she will have to decide which means more to her; the truth or her life.



Thank you so much Doug for featuring me on your blog!

Party Host Schedule – Saturday, May 18th, 2013

3pm-4pm (EST) Kymberlee Burks-Miller

4pm-5:30pm (EST) Emma Michaels
5:30pm-6pm (EST) LM Preston
6pm-7pm (EST) Linda Foster
7pm-8pm (EST) Doug Solter
8pm-9pm (EST) KaSonndra Leigh
9pm-10pm (EST) LM Preston Party Close Out
TWITTER PARTY: Friday, 5/17 at 7pm-9pm EST, use the hashtag #PurgatoryReign and @LM_Preston prizes include $5 Amazon Gift cards for 2 winners & books, swag prizes

FACEBOOK PARTY:  
Starring 5 other authors and blog hosts, tons of prizes and fun.


About Purgatory Reign by LM Preston
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance, Action Adventure




Brief description of Purgatory Reign

Seventeen-year-old Peter Saints’ life stinks. But things are about to get much worst. First, his parents are murdered in front of him. Then another victim dies in his arms.

Visions plague Peter with warnings that something wants him for a sinister cause. It desires the one thing that Peter refuses to give – his blood. Peter carries within him the one gift or curse that could unlock a secret to destroy the human race.

On the run with Angel, a girl disguised as a scruffy kid, Peter starts to unravel the mystery. It’s the one treasure the heavens sought to hide from the world. Unfortunately, when Peter finds the answer he hopes that will save them, he opens the door to a great evil that happens to be salivating to meet him.



By LM Preston,

Order Below:


RaffleCopter Prize Pack: Paperback or Ebook copy of Purgatory Reign, $20 Amazon Gift Card, T-shirt, a prize from all participating authors

a Rafflecopter giveaway