Book News and Updates

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 31 Comments

1. It's spring break for my college guys. We've had fun...even if my rotten red headed son said I ran a horrible bed and breakfast. Not once was there a mint on his pillow.

2. Christine Rains and Chrys Fey gave my books great reviews. AND I won a swag pack for the Loose Corsets tour!! I love swag. I really do. Imagine...when Christine becomes the next JK, I'm going to have autographed stuff to sell on Ebay. I'm telling you, writing will make me rich one way or another.

3. I am finally over my flu like crud and I am so happy to have my voice back! I did have a lot of fun saying, "I am Batman", but I still prefer to sound like a girl.

GOALS UPDATE 2015:

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Publish two books: on track! Wrote about 30,000 words in March.

Master marketing: Let's pretend the A-Z counts as marketing. I'm signed up for the challenge and I'm a member of the Muffin Commandos team during the challenge.

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More book events: Went to Care Haven Assisted living. Excellent place to visit. Friendly people who love reading.

What I'm reading right now?

Carrie Butler released a new book earlier this March.
It's the fourth book in the Nexxus series.

This is an excellent series. It's no wonder it won the eFestival or Words best series. These stories are a fast paced blend of romance, action, and paranormal with a plenty of fun one liners only the talented Carrie can drop in.

You can buy Loyalty HERE!

But honestly? The best value is to just buy the whole series for 6.99!!

Buy the Group Set HERE!

And a special Congratulations to Nick Wilford! He's sharing his cover for his new novella/short story book!

Title: A Change of Mind and Other Stories

Author: Nick Wilford

Genre: Contemporary speculative fiction

Cover Design: Rebekah Romani

Release Date: May 25^th 2015

Find Nick at his blog/ Goodreads/ Twitter.

Preorder Links: Amazon US, Amazon UK

Add it on Goodreads

Carrie Butler

Nick Wilford

Way to go guys!!!

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Easy A to Z

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 101 Comments

Theme Reveal!

What's my theme for this year's A to Z?

It's everything easy from A-Z.

Tips, recipes, anecdotes, and what not.

We're going to explore the joy of being easy: lots of variety, zero complications, and quickies are always appreciated!

Special thanks to all of my hosts from the Defying Reason blog tour. You guys are all awesome.

Now, for the top commenters. No one can compete with Alex Cavanaugh or Pat Hatt.

They made it to every single stop! Now, I doubt these guys would much appreciate the scented soaps and necklaces from the swag pack, so you wonderful men...be watching your inbox or mailbox for your prizes!

Now, for the most frequent chick commenter...Dixie at DC Relief was the trooper.

Dixie, you win the autographed book and swag pack! Email me your address at eseckman(at)ymail(dot)com to claim your prize.

Thanks everyone! You all rock.

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Celebrate!

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 180 Comments

Thanks to Lexa Cain and our trusty co-hosts, L.G. Keltner of Writing Off The Edge and Katie at Cyborg Mom.

1. The snow is all melted and the sun is shining.

2. The A-Z is coming!! I have an theme.

3. It's the last day of the Defying Reason blog tour. So grateful for all the help. The blogosphere is full of wonderful people.

For the last stop...I'm visiting Jeff Hargett. Jeff is one of the sweetest bloggers. He hasn't been around much since his wife passed away, but he always makes himself available to help friends out. When Jeff offered to host me, I asked if he had any post preferences. He said it was lady's choice.

Sooo...I sent him some questions for him to answer, so we can all get caught up on what Jeff is up to, Be sure to visit and tell him how much we miss having him around.

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Oh, Sweet Muffin!

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 12 Comments

Today I'm visiting Jay Noel today discussing some presidential love. Come on over and say hi!

Now, let's talk Muffins....

Logo courtesy of Matusic

I'm part of C. Lee McKenzie's team to help with the A-Z Challenge. "The Muffin Commando Squad" includes Lee, Tara Tyler, Donna McDine, Tammy Theriault, Carrie Butler, Patricia Lynne, Tyrean Martinson, Yvonne Ventresca, and me. Each member of the squad is answering a few introductory questions so everyone gets to know our sweet team a little better.

**An A-Z tip by the Muffin Squad's own Yvonne...make follow backs easy by adding your link in the comment. Just be sure to replace with your own name with and blog address after you copy and paste!

<a href="http://www.eseckman.blogspot.com/blog.html">Elizabeth</a>

Now, to answer my questions!

Who are you anyway? I am the boss. I have the answer to any question...even if I have to make it up.

Favorite Food: peanut butter. I bet you thought I'd say chocolate. A gal can't live on chocolate alone, but she can survive on peanut butter.

What kind of muffin would I be? I'll go with cinnamon. Sweet and matches my hair.

An image of myself:

Thanks to Tammy Muffin for sexying me up!

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Cover Reveal and Faith

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 15 Comments

I'm visiting Tyrean Martinson today to discuss the balance between personal beliefs and literary expression. And my continued hope that God has a good sense of humor.

Before heading there...how about a whoop whoop for Cortney!! She has a new cover to reveal!

We have a wonderful cover to reveal to you today for Such A Secret Place!

Let's take a look at the author of this book, Cortney Pearson.

Cortney is a book nerd who studied literature at BYU-Idaho, a music nerd who plays clarinet in her local community orchestra, and a writing nerd who creates stories for young adults. She lives with her husband and three sons in a small Idaho farm town.

Follow Cortney on her pages
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Website

Synopsis:

Raids splatter across the news--Arcaian soldiers are stealing magic left and right, using it against the people they steal it from.

When sixteen-year-old Ambry Csille's brother gets taken in one of these raids, her utter fear and panic should be enough to invoke tears in any normal world. But for Ambry, tears are a thing of the past.

Because of a spell, people can no longer feel emotion; not enough to cry, and definitely not enough to defend themselves against the tyrannical soldiers stealing her people’s magic. A rare vial of enchanted tears chooses Ambry to reverse the spell, and soon she finds herself the target not only of the Arcaians, but of battle-scarred Talon Haraway, who wants the tears for his own reasons.

All Ambry wants is to rescue her brother, but when her tears get stolen, Ambry determines to work with Talon to get them back. Any day the Arcaians could drink her tears. Any day they’ll succeed at draining her people's magic completely, and all hope will be gone—not only for her brother, but for her world.

Are you ready to see this cover!?!

You can pre-order your copy of the book here:

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Make sure you go around to the other blogs participating in this event today!

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Thunder and Soaps!

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 11 Comments

The blog tour continues. Today, I'm over at Heather Gardner's talking about soap opera wisdom. Be sure to come and comment!!

You know you ~~want~~ need to help out the Ninja Master!

Join the Thunderclap campaign, Unleash the Dragon, to share on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Tumblr on April 7th!

Thunderclap campaigns are easy. They're easy to sign up for and even easier to complete. Just do nothing...Thunderclap posts for you! And only once....about the campaign you signed up to help. It's not like they start spamming book tweets and posts every hour on the hour under your name.

Oh, so I was the only one paranoid about allowing Thunderclap to tweet for me?

So, go Thunderclap NOW!!

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Friends...

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 39 Comments

I have totally outdone myself today.

I forgot to send posts.

And when I remembered to send posts, I sent them to wrong email addresses.

I could use a keeper, any takers?

Oy. Some days, I amaze myself...and that's not a brag.

Super huge thanks to today's hosts!

I've been keeping a tally of all the comments on guest posts. Top commenter will win an autographed book and swag pack.

Today I will be at: JL Campbell/ Gwen Gardner/ Cortney Pearson/ Yolanda Renee's!

And if I'm not at any of those places, it's because I messed up and forgot to send a post.

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Big and Small

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 37 Comments

Thanks to Lexa Cain and our trusty co-hosts, L.G. Keltner of Writing Off The Edge and Katie at Cyborg Mom.

1. I got my teeth cleaned. No cavities! Or at my age? I'm happy none broke. I was eating popcorn at a football game this fall, and my tooth broke. No more grinding kernels. Can't say mom never warned me.

2. We had another blast of snow. Sure, everyone is getting tired of it, but it's still beautiful and there's a special glee in having the school call and cancel.

3. It's Cole's birthday! Oh, my goodness. Baby #2 is nineteen years old!

He went from a ham who was willing to try Alfalfa hair....

To serious guy.

Not really, this is the same ham all grown up practice his "contemplative" face.

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Have you read Medeia's new book?

Excellent story. I was expecting the usual story of teen survival, which was good. But then, the story took a twist and I was totally hooked. I was close to the end, but the family wanted dinner, so I had to put the my Kindle on auto read, set it in the kitchen window, and listened to the Kindle version of Siri get me to the end.

I had ideas about what the 52 Likes was all about, but I wasn't even in the same ball park.

Check out Medeia's books Here!

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It Must Be Love!

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 0 Comments

I'm off to visit Julie Flanders today to discuss the physical nature of love.

Wink. Wink.

IWSG for Three

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 37 Comments

Join the IWSG HERE!

My for real IWSG post is over at Tammy's blog!

And if you're feeling down or insecure, come on over to Loni Townsend's. Let's just say, if I ever get tired of writing, I may have a career in comedy.

Thanks to the ninja master Alex J. Cavanaugh for the opportunity to share our fears and insecurities with the world (and each other!) Special thanks to this month's co-hosts, Chemist Ken, Suzanne Sapseed, and Shannon Lawrence!

Now, since I've already written an IWSG post, I'm just going to leave you with a little Mom wisdom:

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A Bit of Advice

10:21 PM Elizabeth Seckman 5 Comments

I'm visiting Jerry McGarrity today.

Jerry is a talented writer and all-round good guy.

Be sure to head on over.

You'll not regret meeting Jerry or hearing my sage advice!

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Sad Love

6:00 AM Elizabeth Seckman 11 Comments

Today I'm visiting Nicole Zoltack and sharing a tragic love story. And the worst part is, it's all true.

Remember to visit and comment for a chance to win an autographed book and swag pack.