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Enter Lee and Low Books New Visions Award Contest!
I missed the deadline last year, but Lee and Low Books are holding their NEW VISIONS AWARD for books featuring Middle Grade and YA protagonists of color in the genres of scifi, fantasy and mystery.
http://www.leeandlow.com/p/new_visions_award.mhtml
Lee and Low Books New Voices Award 2012 Lee and Low are also holding a contest for authors of Children’s picture books
About the Award
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Real time writing . . . Sort of
GOLD is a novel about the 2012 Olympics. But since it includes actual events in the story, a decision was made to write in real time as results unfold. There will be tweets throughout the week announcing updates in the story, and readers can view the plot progression and character development by clicking this link:
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JUKEBOX Volume Two
A bit of a teaser for JUKEBOX Volume Two, set for release in September.
Country deep Southern Rock, the first sighting of Glitter and Glam, and Soul Music gets downright Funky. Simone, Eli and Johnny are forever changed during the decade of free love, black power and violent protests over the Vietnam War.
While JUKEBOX Volume one was a YA novel, Volume Two is an adult historical.
JUKEBOX Volume Two Also, a free excerpt of the paranormal serial novella RAZHER will be up this week!
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In honor of the 2012 Olympics . . . GOLD, a YA novella
Two athletes fall in love while vying for the 2012 Olympics 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.
Heaven book cover 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.
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Next week is Paranormal Week!
Next week two paranormal romances will be released.Sorry, editing (or what I like to call “don’t release it to the public even after the 20th edit) is compulsive for me. I’m never satisfied. So I’m tentatively looking at sometime next week to release this book. Unfortunately that throws off the other releases.First up is RAZHER, a Young Adult Paranormal ebook:
Alpha Girls Series Book One: RAZHER Her book will be released on
Wednesday, June 20th.An adult paranormal ebook will be released on
Friday, June 22ndTBA. This book is EPIC. It’s over 100,000 words and a djinn is the main character. However, that fine werewolf Andre Santana’s origins are revealed in this book. If I had a wish list regarding who would play the main characters in a movie, I’d like Michael Fassbender (lovesick Victorian Era Vampire in a modern world), Paula Patton (as the female djinn he searches for) and Lee Thompson Young as Andre Santana (a newly turned “lone Wolf” who teams up with the vampire).
Michael Fassbender 
Paula Patton 
Lee Thompson Young There are three epic novels coming out this summer. The Queen of Comedy, this adult paranormal and a scifi novel.
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The WikKid SeXy Cool Book sampler
I’ve been toying with this idea, a sort of “try it before you buy it” that consists of several opening chapters of heroines from both the paranormal and contemporary novels that are almost ready. I say “almost” because the job of finding typos and making sure scenes flow smoothly is never ending. Just when you think you’ve got them all, you realize typos are your kryptonite (well, at least I do. I can’t speak for other writers). And sure, I’ve caught typos as well as seriously WTH mistakes in some major novels from the big publishing houses, but since I’m also an avid reader, things like that can pull you right out of the story.
I also noticed that the “Look Inside” feature shows several chapters of JUKEBOX in italics, however the file was not sent that way. I’ve been in contact with Amazon regarding fixing this, and now all I can do is wait.Hooray! I got an email today (June 11th) from amazon. They’ve corrected the Look inside! portion of the novel.
But with so many ebooks now on the market, trying to stand out from the crowd will be tough. I’ll be calling on a few twitter friends to help market the novels. For the sampler I plan on having five chapters from these novels:
HEAVEN – Incarcerated teen and wounded marine bond over the therapy dog they both love.
Heaven book cover The Queen of Comedy – A comic recalls his competitive relationship with his more famous aunt (adult historical romance)
RAZHER – After fleeing an arranged marriage, a female she-wolf teams with a Russian vampire, disrupting the criminal operations of both their species.
Bender – Katrina survivor begins his training as a lesser djinn under the tutelage of a powerful Genie. (middle grade)
I wanted to add this to the end of JUKEBOX Volume one, but that ebook has a word count of over 88,000. So the sampler can also servce as a marketing tool.
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JUKEBOX – Official release on June 5th
Now that Jukebox is no longer in the running for one of the top three slots in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, I’m releasing the ebook Tuesday, June 5th and using the semi-finalist status for marketing purposes.
I’m still trying to figure out how to add the back cover to Kindle 🙂 so I’ve downloaded a few tools to study, like Mobi and Calibre.
Back cover of JUKEBOX Volume One Congrats to the finalists in YA fiction and General fiction! Please go to Amazon and read their excerpts so you can vote for the winners in these two categories.
