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#ROW80 Check-in 10/07

Hello friends! First check-in of round 4!

Last week goals and how they went:

  • Writing: work on DESTINY GIFT pre-edits. The deadline is Nov 20, but I want to send it to my editor at least a month earlier since I have too much on my plate … also, HHSW next set of edits should drop in at anytime and those need to be work on asap. I had two rounds of HHSW editing this week. Worked a bit on DG pre-edits.
  • Reading: read book #56 of the year and finish critiquing my CP’s manuscript. I’ve read book #56, #57, and I’ve also read two short stories (a little less than 8k words each).
  • Social media: I want to spend LESS time on twitter and blogging—so I can get more writing done! I still spend a lot time on twitter. Bad me.
  • Exercising: at least 4x. Six times.

The girls of NA Alley and I have some great news coming up. All I have to say it that New Adult is happening, even if most agents don’t want to see it. If you want to be informed about New Adult, you should follow NA Alley. Besides having posts about writing an industry, we have contests and features of authors that write NA, with giveaways. We’ll also start a monthly post with news of what happened on the NA side during that month, because a lot has been happening and we want people to KNOW!

Anyway, here are my next week goals:

  • Writing: finish pre-edits on DG, and start new WIP, which is called BREAKING THE REINS (BtR). And edit when the next set of HHSW edits come to me.
  • Reading: read book #58 of the year.
  • Social media: I want to spend LESS time on twitter and blogging—so I can get more writing done!
  • Exercising: at least 4x.

ROW80 pal Jenny Hansen is organizing a FastDraft group again and they started this past Friday. I hope to join them at some point this week  since I’ll be rafting BtR. I want to draft this pretty quickly, even though I know I’ll be interrupted by edits.

Interesting posts on my blogs during this week:

– Promo of FLIGHT by Alyssa Rose Ivy.

– Cover reveal of THE FAERIE GUARDIAN by Rachel Morgan.

– Talking Tropes at NA Alley.

– Announcement of Entangled Publishing New Adult line at NA Alley.

 

Want to check out how the other ROWers are doing? You can find the linky here.

Have a great week, everyone!

Cheers,

Categories: Covers, Self-pubbed, Young Adult

Cover Lover: THE FAERIE GUARDIAN

Title: The Faerie Guardian
Author: Rachel Morgan
Release Date: 5 Nov 2012
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Protecting humans from dangerous magical creatures is all in a day’s work for a faerie training to be a guardian. Seventeen-year-old Violet Fairdale knows this better than anyone—she’s about to become the best guardian the Guild has seen in years. That is, until a cute human boy who can somehow see through her faerie glamour follows her into the fae realm. Now she’s broken Guild Law, a crime that could lead to her expulsion.

The last thing Vi wants to do is spend any more time with the boy who got her into this mess, but the Guild requires that she return Nate to his home and make him forget everything he’s discovered of the fae realm. Easy, right? Not when you factor in evil faeries, long-lost family members, and inconvenient feelings of the romantic kind. Vi is about to find herself tangled up in a dangerous plot—and it’ll take all her training to get out of it alive.

[This novel was originally published in four separate parts: Guardian, Labyrinth, Traitor and Masquerade. It includes bonus scenes at the end.]

 

Giveaway Time!

The bonus scenes at the end of the book are NOT written from the main character’s point of view. If you’d like to win a $10 Amazon gift card, all you have to do is guess whose point of view these scenes are written from! Head on over to the cover reveal post at Rachel Morgan Writes and fill in the Rafflecopter form. There’s a list of characters there that you can choose from. Good luck!

 

Cheers,

Categories: Blog Tour, New Adult, Self-pubbed

FLIGHT by Alyssa Rose Yvy

FLIGHT

Genre: Mature YA/New Adult Paranormal Romance

Sometimes you just have to take flight.

A summer in New Orleans is exactly what Allie needs before starting college. Accepting her dad’s invitation to work at his hotel offers an escape from her ex-boyfriend and the chance to spend the summer with her best friend. Meeting a guy is the last thing on her mind—until she sees Levi.

Unable to resist the infuriating yet alluring Levi, Allie finds herself at the center of a supernatural society and forced to decide between following the path she has always trusted or saving a city that might just save her.

Amazon | Barnes & Nobles | Goodreads

 

Author Bio:

Alyssa Rose Ivy lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children. Although raised in the New York area, she fell in love with the South after moving to New Orleans for college. After years as a perpetual student, she turned back to her creative side and decided to write.

Webiste | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads 

 

Cheers,

Categories: Blog Hop, RTW

RTW: Season Writing

Road Trip Wednesday is a “Blog Carnival,” where YA Highway‘s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s unique take on the topic.

This week’s topic:

October!! It is SO fall! How does your writing (place, time, inspiration, etc) change with the seasons?

 

Short and sweet answer: It doesn’t.

My inspiration, time and place don’t change. Almost never.

The last time my writing place changed was when we moved from Brazil back to the US. And before that my writing space was the same for 3 years.

Here’s how it looks now:

This desk sits on a corner of my bedroom. I started using a bedroom as home office, but, for some reason, the central air doesn’t go to that room and it became impossible to write there in the summer, especially with the sun hitting the window right beside it all day.

So I moved my main desk to the bedroom. I wanted my own office room, but since hubby works away from home and now kid is in kindergarten, the bedroom is only mine during the day. *shrugs*

Anyway, I don’t do anything different for the seasons.

In the winter, I might throw a blanket over my chair, though. LOL

How about you? How does your writing place looks like? Does it change with the seasons?

Cheers,

Categories: #ROW80

#ROW80 Round 04 of 2012 – Goals

Hello friends! Tomorrow starts the next round of ROW80.

Don’t know what ROW80 is?

A Round of Words in 80 Days is the writing challenge that knows you have a life.

We are all different and we all have different demands on our time.  Why should we all have the same goal?  The simple answer is that we shouldn’t.  If you want to be a writer, then you have to be able to roll with the punches and adapt to your changing circumstances.  If that means changing your goals when your life blows up, so be it.  ROW80 is the challenge that champions the marriage of writing and real life.

And the best part? The friends we make. The support. The sense of belonging to a tight group. Good stuff.

Anyway, I should talk about my goals, right?

My writing/revising/editing schedule is a wreck, so I’ll stick to weekly goals set every Sunday—which is also the day I post my check-ins. So I’ll state here the goals for this week, and next Sunday I’ll tell you how it went and state the goals for the next week. Okay?

Here it goes. The goals for the first week of ROW80:

  • Writing: work on DESTINY GIFT pre-edits. The deadline is Nov 20, but I want to send it to my editor at least a month earlier since I have too much on my plate … also, HHSW next set of edits should drop in at anytime and those need to be work on asap.
  • Reading: read book #56 of the year and finish critiquing my CP’s manuscript.
  • Social media: I want to spend LESS time on twitter and blogging—so I can get more writing done!
  • Exercising: at least 4x.

 

How about you? Even if you’re not on ROW80, what are your goals for the last three months of the year?

Let the fun begin!

Cheers,

Categories: Beatsheet, Craft, Movies

Tinker Bell in 15 Beats

Blake Snyder’s beatsheet is my new blog feature. I’ll try to have posts like this every two weeks or so, Name of movie or book in 15 Beats, and I hope this helps you too.

Two things to keep in mind: I watch most of these with my kid and that means most of the movies will be kids’ movies and I’m not paying 100% attention to the movie. Second, I’m sorta new to the method and still struggle with the Theme, the All is Lost and Dark Night of the Soul beats. In case you have better suggestions, please do so on the comments. We can discuss the points and, if I end up agreeing with you, I’ll change my beats. Deal?

 Tinker Bell in 15 Beats

1. Opening Image: London changing seasons by fairies.

2. Theme Stated (4.5%): Hm, still debating this one … Such a rare talent. Rosetta says something like they should expect great things from Tinkerbell.

3. Set-Up (1-9%): Birth of Tinkerbell.

4. Catalyst (10%): Tinkerbell becomes a Tinker fairy but she’s not very happy about it.

5. Debate (10-22.5%): Tinkerbell finds out she can’t go to the Mainland. What to do now?

6. Break Into Two (22.5%): Tinkerbell decides she wants to try other talents.

7. B Story (27%): In doubt here. Tinkerbell and the girls. Or, Tinkerbell and the lost things (since they help her gain confidence and become a real tinker by the end).

8. Fun and Games (27-50%): With Silvermist, and Iridessa and Fawn trying to become a fairy of some other talent.

9. Midpoint (50%): When Tink brings a hawk into their village and Vidia ends up being messed with.

10. Bad Guys Close In (50-68%): Tink is hopeless. She thinks her friends are against her. She turns to Vidia for help.

11. All Is Lost (68%): Tink “brings” sprinting thistles into the spring preparation area and messes everything.

12. Dark Night of the Soul (68-77%): She’s the reason spring won’t come in time. She feels worse than ever before.

13. Break Into Three (77%): Tink realizes she can fix everything, so she steps up besides the disappointment everyone feels toward her.

14: Finale (77-100%): With lost things and the help of her friends, Tink brings Spring on time. She’s allowed to go to the Mainland.

15. Final Image (100%): Tink in London with the other fairies, after bringing Spring.

*Note that the percentages are approximate. 

Cheers,

Categories: Blog Hop, RTW

RTW: Best Book of September

Road Trip Wednesday is a “Blog Carnival,” where YA Highway‘s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s unique take on the topic.

This week’s topic:

What was the best book you read in September?

 

Couldn’t decide between two, even though I’m still reading one of them.

From Goodreads:

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha…and the secrets of her heart.

 

From Goodreads:

When Travis returns home from a stint in Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother’s stolen his girlfriend and his car, and he’s haunted by nightmares of his best friend’s death. It’s not until Travis runs into Harper, a girl he’s had a rocky relationship with since middle school, that life actually starts looking up. And as he and Harper see more of each other, he begins to pick his way through the minefield of family problems and post-traumatic stress to the possibility of a life that might resemble normal again. Travis’s dry sense of humor, and incredible sense of honor, make him an irresistible and eminently lovable hero.

 

What was the best book you read in September?

Cheers,