My Girlfriend Bites Release Day!!!!

So happy to announce the release of the eBook version of MY GIRLFRIEND BITES! This book comes at the end of a long and rocky road. The manuscript was almost deleted a few times out of frustration, but it always had a way of coming back. Since Aiden and Bree wanted to be published so bad, I had to relent and make their wish come true.

To celebrate the release, I'm doing a two and a half week blog tour AND having an awesome giveaway! All the details for both are further down on this post. You can enter the giveaway on this blog or on the other blogs on the tour. Some entries you can do every day!

To my local readers and those who still love the feel of paper, the paperback version of MY GIRLFRIEND BITES will be out in August. I will post that information later so be sure to check back next month for updates, or better yet --- join my newsletter and never miss out on anything!

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My Girlfriend Bites Blog Tour Schedule

July 16 - Froze 8 Blog 

    Guest Post by MGB character Bree Mayflower!

July 17 - I Read Indie

    Guest Post by MGB character Aiden Jay!

July 18 - Girl in the Woods

    10 Things You Didn’t Know About My Girlfriend Bites.

    

July 19 - Cassandra Lost in Books 

    Guest post: High School and the concept of The Future.

July 22 - Lady's Book Stuff

    Guest post: Sneak Peek of first two chapters of My Girlfriend Bites.

    

July 23 - Oops I Read a Book Again   

    Interview with MGB character Bree Mayflower. Plus MGB dream movie cast!

      

July 24 - Morgan Dragonwillow

    Guest Post: Protecting Manhood in YA. My opinion.

      

July 25 - Dana Square

    Author interview.

   

July 26 - Bittersweet Enchantment

     Interview with MGB character Aiden Jay.

July 29 - Alli's World 

     Guest Post: What Inspired Me to Write My Girlfriend Bites

August 1 - Reading Teen

     Indie Spotlight

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Random Thoughts: Things That Annoy Me at Starbucks



Photograph by Carlos yo



This is a new series composed of random thoughts that I have. Maybe you'll find them interesting...or extremely sad. Don't know which but here it goes...

Things that annoy me at Starbucks:

1) The guy who treats the arms of his comfy leather chair like a drum set, mindlessly going BANG BANG BANG. Is the name Ludwig or Gretsch listed on the front of that frickin' chair? No? Then it's not a set of drums!!!!! Respect a nice piece of furniture would ya?

2) Girl on the phone who's next in line and who is standing in front of the barrista and who is clueless that she's holding up the line because she's on the phone and we're waiting for her to order but she's too busy and the people behind her are thinking evil thoughts. Should we download a nasty virus to her phone? Should we use her phone to play the game, how deep is this water well? Should we just drown her in a vat of steaming Sumatra? Word of unsolicited advice? Love the people around you. Not your phone.

3) The person who blocks the entire electrical outlet because they have a mini-brick for an AC plug yet chose to use the top plug. You could plug that into the bottom one and leave the top one open for others to share. Related gripe: The jerk who uses all the plugs to power his laptop, phone, I-Pad, and his electric car parked just outside. Don't be an outlet hog.

4) When a particular location has cheap, wimpy chairs made of thin metal and plastic. You can be comfortable for maybe 15 minutes if you're lucky. Good wooden chairs are the way to go and the locations that have them are my personal favs. Extra points if they have comfy chairs to read books in!

5) The lady who came up to me as I was writing and asked what I did. She had seen me almost every day at this particular Starbucks working on my little laptop and was just curious. With a courteous smile, I informed her that I was writing a novel. Her reaction? She turned away and left without a word. I'm serious! It was like she was thinking, A writer? Oh, I thought you were doing something important. Well lady who-thinks-writing-isn't-a-real-job...Let's get something straight....When I write, I can travel to any place in the universe or go back to any time in history or create things that don't even exist yet. I can experience the triumphs and failures of hundreds of lives. Now, what did you do on that day? All you managed to achieve was to buy some coffee and then insult someone. Lady, I hope that cup of delicious Pike Place Roast burned your tongue. And by the way, the fictional teen girl whose life you think is trivial? She flipped you off when your back was turned.

*Side note: The one thing that keeps me going BACK to Starbucks are the barristas! Most of the ones I've dealt with are friendly and bust their butts to make coffee. So I salute all you wonderful barristas! You guys always rocketh with me.

What do you guys love/hate when you visit Starbucks? Or any cafe in general?

First Draft of Werewolf Novel Completed

Luka by Sylwia Malon

I'm very happy to give you all a progress report on my new book. The working title is MY GIRLFRIEND BITES (But that could change). It's a young adult paranormal "romance" novel that is more BLOOD and CHOCOLATE (The book is better) mixed with Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD rather than TWILIGHT. Humor and romance mixed in with a little blood and violence. We are talking werewolves people!

The first draft is done and clocks in at 95,650 words. I'm taking a month off to do rewrites on another book that I'm having some issues with before I start rewrites on the werewolf book. If all goes well, I hope to have the werewolf book out by April or May. But I promise to keep all of you posted on the blog.

What do you love about werewolf stories?

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SKID Book Signing in Tulsa!

What a day! Thanks to everyone who came out last Saturday to see me at Steve's Sundry Books and Magazines in Tulsa! This was my very first book signing and all of you made it so fun and stress free. The two hours felt like only a half-hour and I signed 22 books! I even had one friend who lives in Austin make her parents come to the book signing so she could have a signed copy. Stuff like that floors me.

 

With Joanie of Steve's Sundry Books and Magazines

 I would also like to thank Joannie, Kayla, and everyone else at Steve's Sundry for helping me set up this book signing and for being such wonderful hosts. And another big thanks to KJRH Anchor Karen Larsen who actually interviewed me for the 5pm news that day. I have the video that aired and will try to have it posted soon so you guys can watch it. Here are some cool pictures...

   

Calm before the storm

 

I signed 22 books

 

Cian’s first book signing! And according to him, I rulz.

 A cool shot of me signing

 

Lara liked her signed book so much she took a picture of it.

 

Superfan Melanie and me

 

Me and the youngest YA reader ever Tatum