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Out With the Old, In With a Bang!

Out With the Old, In With a Bang!

Posted by on Dec 31, 2013 in News, Protector Series, Publishing, Writing | 7 comments

We’re jumping into the new year a day early. Screw last year! The past year has been rough, full of ups and downs and piles of steaming crap that resemble dead famous people. But this coming year, the year of 2014? It’s going to be good, and I’m jumping in with both feet. To start off that wonderful year, I just wanted to take a moment to say a few things to all of you incredible people. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you for all the support you’ve given me, and all the strength you’ve donated. You’ve made the hard times a little easier, and that’s no small feat. In the past few years I’ve published four books and brought a close the main story line in The Protector. This series has reached an audience like I cannot believe, all because of the great reviews and all the help in spreading the word that you’ve offered me. You’ve made a dream come true for me, and there are no words of thanks or appreciation to tell you what that means to me. And the story is still growing! I’m reaching new readers every day, and there is a core audience of amazing fans that are responsible for that. You. I’m extremely thankful for the all the opportunities I’ve been granted over the years, most recently the chance to be featured in my local Chapters book store. The books have been flying off the shelves, and my mind has officiously been blown…again. This year I want to get out there and approach more bookstores. Seeing my books on the shelves in a real book store was pretty awesome, and I want to expand there and see what I can do on my own! Some of you have reached out to me with kind words of support, and some with ideas for future growth in The Protector. I’ve had a lot of ideas for The Protector and the characters inside it, and the fact that people are asking for more books means I’m on to something, and because of that, in 2014 I’ll be working on something special regarding  a specific character or two, but I won’t tell you who just yet. You have to stay tuned for that 🙂 2014 is going to be an amazing year. I want to work hard to grow the audience I’ve already found, because you all have been so amazing, and it’s a surreal thing to have people tell you how much they love something you’ve created. I want more people to feel that way about my books, especially teens, the audience I originally wrote it for. I want to find a way to get more young people reading this year, because I wrote Exiled originally to be the book I never had growing up. That book I could have related too, the...

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Updates

Updates

Posted by on Jul 14, 2013 in News, Protector Series, Publishing, Random | 2 comments

It’s been a while, I know, and I keep saying I’ll be back soon, but the time is actually getting close! It’s been touch and go for me for a few months, things have been very tough, but now that everything seems to be winding down, I’m prepping to get my focus back in place. I’m going on holidays this coming weekend and I’ll be gone for a week. When I come home, I’m back to work on a new project, and I’ll have some great posts coming for you. They’ll be a few wicked Story Time posts, and some updates on new projects. Life sometimes gets a little crazy, and unfortunately it’s effected my writing time in a massive way. While you wait, you need to check out the Endure Blog Tour hosted by Stuck in Books. There is a great prize pack up for grabs, including a copy of the entire Protector series, signed by me, and a $50 Amazon gift card! Check it out, collect all the letters, and read some awesome reviews of Endure. Everyone who is taking part in the tour is a must follow book blog, and they’re wicked awesome people! So in a few weeks time, we’re going to have some fun together and I’m going to get you some more...

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Vote Chase – Ya Sisterhood Crush Tourney

Vote Chase – Ya Sisterhood Crush Tourney

Posted by on Jun 21, 2013 in Matty Says, Protector Series | 1 comment

Today’s the day everybody, and we really, really need your help. Chase is up against Tristan in the YA Crush Tourney, and he needs your votes. Check out the post, read the excerpts, or if you don’t have time, just go vote. It’s one click, and we need to make sure Chase makes it to the next round of the tourney. Not only is this a blast, it’s a great opportunity to spread the word about Chase Williams and the world of The Protector. Val from Stuck in Books is representing him this year, and she has put together videos, photos, and a great post on why Chase deserves to win. So head over to the YA Sisterhoods blog, and give our boy Chase a...

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Endure Release Day

Endure Release Day

Posted by on Jun 5, 2013 in News, Protector Series | 12 comments

It’s finally here. Endure is now available! Today is an strange day. You’d think there would be nothing but pure excitement on my end, and in all honesty, that excitement is right here with me, but it’s also surrounded by fear and sadness. Fear because every time I release a new book it’s scary. Sadness because this means the series really is over. I know I’ve spoken about working within the same world again, and even with some of the same characters, but it’ll never be as it is now. It’ll be something new! That doesn’t change the fact that I’m excited to put all my focus into The Nova Chronicles, which has been sitting dust-ridden inside my computer, but it’s the end of something special for me. My first-ever published series. If you read the acknowledgements, you’ll see a big thank you to my readers for all their support, so I won’t go into rehashing all that here, but please know that it means the world to me. I’d be nowhere without my readers. You all mean so much to me. Today is a very special day, and you helped make it what it is. Thank you for that. Now, onto what you want to know. Where can I buy it? You can find purchase links on the Books page for Endure, but you’ll find not all the links are available yet. The reason being is that I’m still waiting for some of the sites to load the book. Barnes & Noble is always troublesome for me. In some cases it’s up in a week, while others it takes as long as six weeks. The good news is that the book is available at Amazon and Smashwords. If you don’t have a Kindle, you can download the book in any format from Smashwords and load it onto your eReader of choice. As for the paperback, I’m awaiting the proof copy to be delivered (hopefully by Friday) and as long as everything looks good, it will be available as early as next week. Again, it’ll take time to get it up on B&N, but it should be available on Createspace and Amazon sometime next week. If there are any issues with the proof, I’ll be sure to keep you updated. Other than that, I know I’ve been very MIA lately and I apologize, but sometimes life throws you a curveball and you need to step away from everything else to make sure it doesn’t take your head off! I’m trying to get my focus back into everything else, and I appreciate all the support and concern some of you have shown me, but I am alive and well, I promise! I’ll be getting back into work slowly, and hopefully by Fall, you’ll be ready to join me on my new adventure known as The Nova Chronicles! Thanks to everyone for...

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Endure Cover Reveal

Endure Cover Reveal

Posted by on May 1, 2013 in News, Protector Series | 15 comments

  The time for waiting is over. Today, a whole group of amazing people are out to spread the word. Endure, The Protector Book 4, is coming June 5 2013. To celebrate that, it’s time for the cover reveal! Check it out, along with the excerpt, spread the word, and let me know what you think!      Cover Artwork: Parajunkee Design Wrapped in darkness and woven with defeat, every action Chase has taken since being exiled from the Circle has been met with a devastating response. Now he’s been burdened with a quest that seems impossible, and he needs to evolve into something more—something greater than he ever thought he could be. Armed with magic, friendship, and an unbreakable will, Chase must build an army and find a weapon capable of defeating the ultimate evil. But he knows that nothing great comes without sacrifice. Blessed by the very gods who have abandoned him and carrying the fate of all the worlds on his shoulders, Chase Williams is about find out just how much one man can endure.    ...

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On The Horizon

On The Horizon

Posted by on Apr 30, 2013 in Author, News, Protector Series, The Nova Chronicles, Writing |

There is a ton of stuff happening over the next month. Tomorrow is the cover reveal for Endure, which, if you haven’t noticed, I’m beyond excited about. I had to make some changes in operations this time around with cover artists, and I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been nervous about it. As you’ll see tomorrow, that nervousness was not necessary. Parajunkee Design, the talent behind this entire website, has put together my absolute favorite book cover in the series. I’ve had it for a while now and even still, I look at it and it just feels right. It’s the perfect cover to wrap around what has become my favorite book in the series as well. This entire journey feels surreal right now. Knowing that on June 5th I’ll have published the final book in my first series is…well, overwhelming is one word that comes to mind. As tomorrow is May 1st, and the cover reveal, I won’t be posting my Blogger/Author alerts until May 2nd and 3rd. This month I have two pretty great people coming at you, but this month is also going to signify some change as well. Starting in June, I’m changing the process. Rather than spotlight one author and one blogger for the entire month, I’m going to do either or, and alternate them. The reason being is that I tend to make the  interviews a little longer, and often times I leave them to the last minute (no matter how many times I tell myself I won’t do that again). I’m really trying to focus on writing my new series, and since I like to invest a fair bit of time in my interviews, it makes more sense right now to have one of them each month rather than two. So to recap, this month you get a blogger and an author, but next month it will be one or the other, and we’ll mix it up from there. This Saturday I’m off to a writing workshop with Donald Maass, and I have to tell you, I am very excited. I started reading his book, Writing 21st Century Fiction, and it’s pretty awesome. I’ve stayed away from reading book on writing, for no other reason than I’d rather be writing, but I wanted to prepare myself for his workshop, and I’m very happy that I’ve taken this on. I’m already mentally developing all kinds of advances in my upcoming series, The Nova Chronicles, that might not have been put into place without his book. It’s going to amplify my ability to tell a story, of that much I am certain. In 36 days, Endure is officially going live on all online sales outlets. This is the book. The way it all comes together. The story funnelling down into a single climax of epic proportions. I hope that with your help, this release can be a huge success....

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