Born in Flames Travels

Hello once again, Readers!!! How goes it!? How has life been treating you? Good? Decent? Fantastic?

Awesome.

Unless of course, life has been mean to you. Then that is not awesome. But any who, my days have been pretty good. I took a pause in editing, From the Embers so I could help edit my bestie’s novel, Casted. It’s going to be good! I am so proud of her and all of her accomplishments. She has been through a lot and is finally on the road she has always dreamed of being on.

But on another note, I wanted to share something fun with you today. My street team has been taking flyers for Born in Flames and posting them up around their hometowns. It’s so freaking awesome to see the many places the cover has gone and it only pumps me up for when Born in Flames will finally be available in print! Hopefully by August!

So with that being said, here are some photos of the flyers:

A bookstore in England.

The front of a library.

A bus stop in England.

A newspaper stand.

A Nook book corner.

A frame shop front.

That’s only a handful of places that I have photos of. Awesome right?! I love my street team. They are wonderful, sweet ladies who make me laugh and support my novel. What’s even better is that we all support each other. ♥

Now to leave you with a question: What’s the weather like? It’s rainy here. My favorite kind of weather. Unless I had plans that involved outside…then not so much.

Echelon out ♥

Crazy’s My Middle Name

Hello once again, Readers!!! I’m just going to jump right into things because this past week has been an emotional rollercoaster for me. It started off normal, and then all of sudden the rug was pulled out from under me. My husband’s brother was in a very bad car accident. And he lives over 1100 miles away from us.

o_O

It was one of the scariest phone calls I have ever received and it resulted in rushing to book two flights out for the next day for my husband and me, while trying to set everything up for my children to be taken care of by my bestie and mom.  Around midnight. Thankfully I have such a great support system. They helped me tremendously.

Long story short, my BIL is alive and healing up. I can’t tell you how good it is to day that because for a minute there, we weren’t sure. I won’t get into all the gory details, but I will say that he is extremely lucky to be alive. He must have an angel on his shoulder and I am so glad we were able to be there for him and to see his face alive and smiling.

Any who, now onto Born in Flames news. First off, the tour has kicked off with an awesome start. Great reviews, fun interviews, and music galore! I am very pleased and excited with how things are coming along. If you want to see for yourself, check out this post I did previously with all the dates and stops.

Also, when I finally made it home (after four crazy days of being in another state), I came back to two special packages. One being from an insanely sweet fan who created and mailed necklaces to me all the way from England!! And another was from Next Day Flyers who I ordered my second round of bookmarks from. Here are the necklaces:

Aren’t they just gaw-geous!!!?? So exciting!!! I can’t wait to find ways to give them away! It is the first thing a fan has ever made for me. Kind of tears me up a bit. I am extremely grateful to have the wonderful fans in my life who love and understand my story. I can’t wait to share book two with them!

Here are the bookmarks I ordered:

That’s 500 right there. I will be ordering the Embracing the Flames bookmarks next all in preparation for the Bookfest in August. And that’s about it for now. I’m still in the process of editing From the Embers. It’s crazy how my writing has changed and grown since Born in Flames. I’ve learned so much from the editors and just from writing and reading.

But I digress…

Now to leave you with a question: What would you do for a Klondike bar?

Echelon out ♥

Born in Flames Blog Tours

Hello once again, Readers!!!

Not much happening on the home front. Unless you consider editing, fitting in the gym when I’m not being lazy, and potty training a thrill. If so, then I will change the above statement to my life is a never-ending thrill ride!

But I digress.

Next week Born in Flames will be featured in not one, but two blog tours. Say what!

Cha-I know.

I wasn’t paying attention when I scheduled the dates and for some reason I scheduled them together. Freaking exciting. They’re both seven-day tours with around 44 stops. Can I getta oh snap!

Any who, here is the breakdown of what’s going down:

Reading Away the Days! Born in Flames Blog Tour from April 22nd to April 28th:

22nd April:

Book Addicted AA - Review

Lily Bloom Books - Review

23rd April:

Soul Unsung - Character Spotlight

Tams’s Book Blog - Review & This or that

Shelves of Books Blog - Review

24th April:

Fated Paranormals - Review & Excerpt

Book Crazy - Review

25th April:

Sweet Southern Home - Interview

Reading Away the Days - Top 10 post

26th April:

Pieces of Whimsy - Book Excerpt

Rachels Book Reviews - Review

27th April:

Cause I Say So - Review

YA-Aholic - Review

28th April:

We Do Write - Interview

Book Club Sisters - Review

And….

Girls *Heart* Books Born in Flames Blog Tour from April 21st to the 27th:

April 21st: 

A Little Bit of R ‘n’ R -Excerpt, Spotlight, Playlist Post-Songs that you listened to while writing the book

Raven Reviews – Excerpt, Playlist Post-songs that fit the main character

Angels with Attitude Boook Reviews -Review, Spotlight

Girls *Heart* Books Tours-Schedule & Spotlight

April 22nd:

Brianna Lee Book Reviews-Excerpt, Spotlight

Shadow Realm- Excerpt, Spotlight

Girls *Heart* Books-Review, Spotlight

Ever and Ever Sight- Review, Top Tens Book Series

April 23rd:

Krystal Clear Book Reviews- Review, Excerpt, Book Soundtrack

Paperrdolls -Review, Excerpt, Spotlight

Addicted Readers – Review, Excerpt, Spotlight

Sassy Book Lovers- Excerpt/Spotlight

April 24th:

Flavor of Love- Top Tens -Favorite Love Songs

The Next Chapter - Review, Excerpt

As You Wish Reviews -Excerpt, Spotlight

Book Dream Land- Review, Excerpt, Spotlight

April 25th:

Cu’se-Book Give Aways - Review

Consuming Worlds – Review

Indy Book Fairy -Review, Excerpt, Author Interview

Bawaka’s Book Fair-Excerpt

Page Flipperz YA- Spotlight, Playlist Post

April 26th:

Just Me, Myself & I -Review, Excerpt

The Next Chapter - Character Interview, Spotlight

A Page Away -Excerpt, Spotlight

Rambling Voices in My Head-Review, Excerpt, Spotlight, Book Soundtrack

April 27th:

Between the Bind-Review, Excerpt

Paranormal Book Club- Guest Post, Excerpt

The Reader’s Garden – Review

Mythical Books -Review, Excerpt

So that about sums that up. More to come, folks!

Echelon out ♥

A Book Event & Print Talk

Hello once again, Readers!!

I am going to my first author event! It’s the Indie Bookfest 2013. What could be more exciting than that?

Being told I am from a long lineage of powerful magic?

Going to Disney?

Winning a million dollars?

Try my publisher informing me we will most likely have the print versions of Born in Flames available at the fest!!!!

So not only will I be experiencing my first signing and all the excitement that goes along with it, but I will also have print copies to hold and cherish in my hands!

Ahhh!

Any who, the event is going to be awesome. There are a lot of talented people involved and even talk about a scavenger hunt for readers to meet their favorite authors. I honestly can’t wait for this. The tickets are $20.00 and include food and beverage for the day. What a deal!

It’s in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, so any of you Floridians should stop by and see me!

That is all for now.

Echelon out ♥

Oh and check out my latest tattoo!

Preparing For A Radio Interview

Hello once again, Readers!!! For any of you wondering, yes, that is me with my sister. And yes, I put glasses on her using Pixlr.

Don’t ask why…lol.

So…remember that award Born in Flames won…Book of the Year? Do you remember me saying that I also won a spotlight appearance on a radio show?

Yeah, that’s happening next Thursday and I am unprepared (mentally I mean).

I am really starting to freak out about this. The only reason why I haven’t flipped a lid yet is because when I start to think about it and all the many ways it could go, I stop myself and tell myself that I will worry about it later.

But later is quickly approaching!

What if I say something silly? What if my mind draws a complete blank? I worry about this because I have tried to do the video blog thing, but when I got in front of the camera, I couldn’t think of anything to say. Shoot, sometimes I’ll sit here for hours trying to figure out what to even blog about…but at least with this I have time to think and a delete button.

Not when I’m on the air!

Ugh.

So I guess I should go through the list of questions I will be asked and start preparing my answers and praying to any and all Gods that they will have some mercy on me and keep me from stuttering or drawing blanks.

You know, I’d have to do it sometime or other (if my book ever does take off), so I guess it’s preparation and practice. At least that is what I will tell myself. It’s necessary.

Any who, wish me luck…please!

Now to leave you with a question: How do you get through situations such as this?

Echelon out ♥