Attempting Elizabeth has been out for almost two months and it's just occurred to me I have yet to host a giveaway for it on my site! What? Unacceptable! Let's rectify that right now, shall we? Attempting Elizabeth is also now available in paperback and it's straight up gorgeous. I love it so very, very much and I want to share it with you! Enter away! I'm willing to send this paperback anywhere in the world! a Rafflecopter...

Whoo hoo!  Here is the internet debut of the first chapter of my upcoming Austenesque novel, Attempting Elizabeth.  Check out the back cover blurb here.   I hope you enjoy it! Chapter One "At such an assembly as this..." “You need to go with me to the party. I’m not taking no for an answer.” I didn’t bother looking up from my novel to where my roommate, Tori, lounged against my doorjamb. “No.” “Yeah, see, I...

First of all, Happy Last Day of 2012! I'm glad I'm getting this in before the year is over.   Here it is! After much sweat, blood, tears, breaking of glass vases, tearing out of hair ... I present the back cover blurb for Attempting Elizabeth:   Kelsey Edmundson is a geek and proud of it. She makes no secret of her love for TV, movies, and, most especially, books. After a bad breakup, she retreats into her favorite novel,...

What's the Self-Published Reading Challenge you ask?  Good question!  See my post about it here.  I've committed to the "Paragraph Level" which means I will be reading 10 books by self-published authors. I've made a decent dent in my goal this month by reading three.  Two reviews were for Indie Jane, and one I reviewed just for my blog.   First up is Dear Miss Darcy by Laura Briggs and Sarah Burgess.  I reviewed Dear Miss...

I honestly thought I'd feel a lot more excited about this... But I guess at a certain point you realize that getting the first 50k is a great milestone, but you are so far from done that it's a little bit "ho, hum, guess I'm still going into the office tomorrow." And by office, I mean Starbucks. The middle is looking great. I've still got to write the end...and the hero and heroine's entire relationship prior to the middle (so yes,...