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A Day in the Month in the Life

by on October 18, 2013 in Write to Live, Live to Write

A day in the month in the life of a debut digital-first author: Wake up and check email for new Authorgraph requests. Giggle because it never gets old signing your name digitally, groan because it looks like your handwriting from second grade. Visit Amazon Author Central. Try to make sense of their algorithm and what […]

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Free Love!

by on October 6, 2013 in On Tour

Yep, I’m talking Free Love… Free LOUDER THAN LOVE, that is! Go check out HEAs Are Us and their great giveaway, going on now! The reviewers over there helped celebrate my debut release with a stellar review and Q&A, and now they are sharing their love of LOUDER THAN LOVE by giving away e-copies to […]

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Deleted Scene, Two – Adrian

by on October 5, 2013 in Write to Live, Live to Write

It’s a lazy, rainy Saturday morning here at Blogging on the Brink – a perfect time to cuddle up with Adrian Graves, my hero in Louder Than Love. As promised, here is another deleted scene from Adrian’s POV.  It takes place after the ‘dinner with a side of epinephrine’ episode. As Kat ponders why her answering […]

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Book Hangover – is there a cure?

by on October 1, 2013 in Write to Live, Live to Write

I love that readers have been commenting about Louder Than Love giving them a “book hangover” – that pillar of reference, Urban Dictionary, defines a book hangover as “When you’ve finished a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you’re still living in the […]

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Release Day Giveaway!

by on September 17, 2013 in On Tour

HAPPY RELEASE DAY, LOUDER THAN LOVE! In celebration of my debut, I am hosting a giveaway this week. COFFEE CHAPTER QUOTE CONTEST! Chapter one opens with Katrina and her friends hanging out and chatting in their local coffee shop. What’s your favorite line from this first chapter? Leave your answer in the comments, give the […]

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Swag More, Bark Less

by on June 28, 2013 in Eye Candy, Write to Live, Live to Write

A good friend of mine recently became a black belt in karate.  She’s a mild-mannered, unruffled Type-B personality with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude who began taking classes after her young daughter and her husband enrolled. It began as a social excuse for her, and provided a bit of fitness and fun. Yet after four, maybe five […]

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P is for … Publication!

by on April 18, 2013 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write

PARDON the PREAMBLE, but PENGUIN has announced my PUBLICATION date! Louder than Love will drop, as we say in the music biz, on September 17th. Since my debut novel has music (and fans) at its core, it’s still in keeping with my A to Z theme of the Music-Fan Connection…right? PERHAPS I should PROVIDE a […]

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L is for… Louder than Love: Writing a Rock Hero

by on April 13, 2013 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write

OK, maybe this post doesn’t fit perfectly in with my Music-Fan connection theme, but I was stumped for ‘L’  today. Louder than Love, my debut novel due out in September, got me thinking about the old adage ‘write what you know’. Musicians – like actors and athletes – have long been frowned upon as ‘romantic […]

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What is Louder than Love?

by on January 21, 2013 in Write to Live, Live to Write

Is there anything in the world LOUDER THAN LOVE? Sometimes love comes barging in, as bold and as jarring as an air horn in a Drive-Thru window, unexpected and uninvited. Sometimes it goes as quickly as it arrives, leaving you with a thumping heart, sweaty palms and a head full of unspoken words. Other times, love […]

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