Every now and then, someone will tweet me something that's just so cool I have to share it. This video by Jennifer Sombrotto, based on the novel the Maze Runner, is just one of those awesome things. This girl has talent. Remember her name because I bet you'll be hearing it a lot before long.
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Check out this cool video my friend, Maria Bradley, made for my booksCheck out Indie YA Books Pet Selfie Photo ContestFREE KINDLE! Okay, now that I have your attention, I want to tell you about this AWESOME contest on my sister site, IndieYABooks.com. It's super easy. Take a selfie picture of yourself and your pet and enter. The prizes are pretty cool. I've already told you about the free Kindle LOADED with free books. Second prize is a $25 Amazon gift card in your country of choice (Pay Pal Cash will be substituted where Amazon cards aren't available). Third prize - and there will be several - is free ebooks by myself and several of my author friends. Click here to check it out!
Did I mention we're giving away a FREE KINDLE? I am so excited to be promoting the new cover of Dream Student, the first novel of my good friend, J.J. DiBenedetto. I loved this book. Took me right back to my days as a college coed. For a limited time, it's bargain priced at 99 cents, so snap it up while you can. But I'm warning you - these books are addictive. I bought this one and immediately purchased the rest of the books that were available at the time. I've now read all six, and I'm fortunate enough to be one of J.J.'s beta readers for number seven. Read the excerpt, and you'll see what I mean. And did I mention it was available as an audiobook as well? Here is the purchase link. Link to audio sample. Excerpt: We stop at McDonalds for a quick bite on the way home, and we just sit for a few minutes after we’ve eaten. Dad is staring longingly at his autograph. “This is beautiful,” he says, a faraway look in his eye. I look at Brian’s gift. Mike Schmidt signed it, “Brian–Go get ‘em, slugger!–Mike Schmidt, #20.” He’s going to love it. How could he not? I just stare at the words, picturing Brian opening up his gift, imagining his reaction, feeling him holding me, kissing me… There’s a sound, my Dad clearing his throat, and I’m back in the here and now. He looks at the picture in my hand, and then, with a very odd expression on his face he wags his finger at me. “I think I need to meet your young man.” “You’re going to, Dad. On Sunday.” What’s going on? He’s still got that expression. He’s looking at me as though he’s noticing something he’s never seen before. “I see so much of your mother in you. I don’t think you realize how like her you are,” he says, finally. I do, actually. I look a lot like her. I’ve seen pictures of her when she was young, and if you didn’t know it you might think you were looking at me. I start to say that, but he shakes his head. “It’s not just that you look like her,” he says, reading my mind. “It’s–well, I was watching you just now. I saw how your eyes lit up when you were thinking about your Brian.” How long was I staring at that picture? “Nobody else has eyes like yours. Nobody else’s are that bright. Nobody else’s light up the way yours did just now. Except…” and now he chokes up a bit, and he has to have some water before he can go on, “Nobody except your mother. How you looked just now, that’s how she looks sometimes, when she’s looking at me.” Oh. Oh, my. --- Read about my writing: www.writingdreams.net What if you could see everyone else's dreams? Find out with the Dream Series! Available at amazon.com orsmashwords . by Fran Veal Confession, this is a bit of a reprint (okay, the 10 things are entirely a reprint) of a post I did for IndieYABooks, but this movie is so cool, even my sixteen-year-old loves it. And the 10 Things bear repeating. So we go, in no particular order:
If you TIVO'd the How I Met Your Mother finale and haven't watched it yet, don't read any further. Or better yet, delete your recording before you even watch - the story could have ended last week with Barney and Robin's wedding. It would have been far, far more satisfying. If you liked the ending, I get it it. It portrayed life as it really is. Marriages don't always last, and people sometimes do end up going after their best friend's exes. But the reality is, had Ted actually gone out with Robin, his friendship with Barney would have been OVER. It defies everything about the Bro code. But I'm digressing. What I'm most upset about is the poor, poor writing of this last episode and the way CBS cheated it's viewers of nine years of buildup only to rewind the clock back to Season One when Ted first met Robin to begin with. As a writer, I'm as big a fan of plot twists as you'll find. In fact, readers of my novels have been known to throw my books against the wall because the endings leave them hanging. The major difference is that my readers understand that my books are part of a series that will have resolution in the end. So here are the Top 10 Reasons How I Met Your Mother's Finale Is One of the Top 10 Worst Finales of All Time
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