YA Contemporary
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What I’m up to . . .
Working on: Editing Love scenes
Listening to: Maxwell’s Whenever Wherever Whatever and Robin Thicke’s Lost Without You
For which books: HEAVEN and The Queen of Comedy
Excerpts from Queensrealm and the Queen of Comedy will be up this weekend.
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Diversity Matters
Upcoming novella offerings from Wikkid.Sexy.Cool:
UnSpoken – A deaf Cuban American teen faces challenges as a runaway.
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HEAVEN – the little story that could . . .
What a pleasant surprise! HEAVEN was first submitted to Amazon’s Break Through Novel Award Contest back in 2011. It made the quarterfinals but didn’t go any further. Though the ABNA Publisher’s Weekly reviewer liked the characters, the storyline didn’t grab them. Fair enough. It was shelved, but a decision was made to see just what the public might think, especially since the Vine reviewers on Amazon were very gracious and complimentary on the excerpt and blurb. Following up on a hunch (tastes are subjective after all) we decided to bring it back after a few tweaks in the story. However the excerpt under Free Chapter Views on this site and simultaneously on Scribd.com have generated the most reads out of all the other excerpts wikkidsexycool.com lists as a free read. It was supposed to be out in July, but didn’t quite make it.
September is more realistic. Looks like the editing won’t be finished until late October. -
In honor of the 2012 Olympics . . . GOLD, a YA novella
The Olympics will be held in London, England from July 27th until August 12th (dates include opening and closing ceremonies)
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Coming in July – HEAVEN
This book was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarterfinalist in 2011. It will be released in July.
In the YA multicultural romance novel HEAVEN, A therapy dog transforms the lives of the teen inmate who trains her and the wounded young marine who becomes her owner.