Happy Birthday Evernight Teen!

It's Evernight Teen's first birthday and we're having a blog hop to celebrate!

One year ago, ET launched with the publication of Phoenix: The Rising by Bette Maybee. Since then, they've acquired a couple dozen titles, including my book, X5. Many of my fellow authors are participating in this hop, as well as other book bloggers and reviewers, and there are prizes to be had at every turn!

The grand prize being offered by ET is a $100 iTunes gift card. Did you know you can purchase ET's books on iTunes?

In addition, ET is offering 25% off all their books at their website. And there are some amazing books to be had.

For my part, I'm offering a $10 Amazon gift card. Wanna win? Read on!

ET has a Pinterest account and boards for all their books, including mine.  Check it out here. I've selected some pictures and snippets from the book to go with them. For your chance to win, let me know which pic you liked best and why. Don't forget to leave a valid email address otherwise I can't contact you if you win. There are lots of prizes at the other stops and don't forget to use the Rafflecopter to enter for the Grand Prize.

And as a special treat, I've posted the first chapter of X5 under the Free Reads tab above (or just click here).

Happy Hopping!

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Evernight Teen Summer Kick Off Blog Hop

I don't know about you, but I am totally stoked for summer! The last month of school is absolutely crazy, and with my change of school coming up, I have to pack everything I own at school and bring it home. Plus I have to mark a gazillion assignments, write an insane number of report cards, and try not to wander the halls muttering to myself and pulling out my hair. Next Friday cannot come soon enough!

But what to do with this lovely vacation coming up? Well, my first priority is to finish re-writing my book. It's damn hard to be a writer when you've already got a full-time job and a family, so the revision just isn't happening as fast as I'd like it to. I plan to give it my full attention beginning next Saturday, and hopefully it'll be in to the publisher around the middle of the month.

Then what? My To-Be-Read pile has become a teetering pile which is bound to fall on the cat the next time he rubs his face against it. Okay, not really because these days I buy mostly e-books and read them on my phone. They're just so much more portable, and I don't have to throw my back out lugging around a hundred books or more.

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So what's at the top of my list? Kelley Armstrong. The final book in her Darkness Rising trilogy was released in April and I haven't read it yet. *hangs head in shame* I'm a bad fan. But I wanted to reread the first two books, and I couldn't find my copy of the first one, so I tried to borrow it from the school library, but someone already had it so I had to wait... Well, you get the picture.

Also taking up space in the TBR pile are the books by my fellow Evernight Teen authors. I've already read Elysium by Sylah Sloan, and Phoenix: The Rising by Bette Maybee, both of which I strongly recommend. I've begun Shrapnel by Stephanie Lawton but haven't had time to finish it yet. I own all the other books currently in the ET line-up and I'm getting anxious to finally have time to read them!

What's in your summer reading pile? I'd love to hear some recommendations, and as a reward, I will give one lucky commenter a $10 gift card to Evernight Teen! If you want, you can hang onto it until my book comes out, but if you're anything like me and desperate to spend anything you get, you can use it to pick up one or two of the fabulous books written by my colleagues.

But wait! There's more!

• One lucky hopper will win a KINDLE PAPERWHITE eREADER sponsored by Evernight Teen!
• Every book blogger/reviewer site is giving away one free eBook from Evernight Teen (winner's choice of any eBook from Evernight Teen's website).
• Each author offers their own unique prize! So visit each blog hop stop for a host of fabulous prizes to win. You may even find some exciting excerpts from my book at a few of them!

Be sure to leave your answer and your email address in the comments below to be eligible to win a prize, then continue hopping to the next stop!

Happy Reading!

Evernight Teen Valentine's Blog Hop

Hello, and welcome to my first ever Blog Hop!

I have to confess, I have no idea what I'm doing, but here goes:

Romance. Sigh....

It's great when you have it, and not so much when you don't. But I think the enormous popularity of romance novels speaks to our desire for it. Everyone wants to feel needed, like they belong to a part of something more than themselves. In my book, X5 (the main character) has grown up in a Bunker. He was raised with other children, but not as part of a family unit. Imagine growing up in a hospital, with no parents or anyone to show you affection. Not fun. He wants more, and really, who wouldn't?

In the Bunker, relationships are arranged, and purely for the purpose of breeding. X5 is supposed to be mated to A7, but he wonders what it would be like to actually choose the person he's going to be with. He's heard about love, but having never experienced it, wonders what it might feel like.

My book isn't primarily a romance. But it does have romantic elements. And I'm not going to say any more because I can't give it all away! I'm posting the blurb for my upcoming book, X5: Genesis below.

And I've got a PRIZE! A $5 giftcard to Amazon.com! And Evernight Teen is offering a fantastic prize - $$ to use on their website for books from my fellow authors. For my contest, please use the Rafflecopter entry. To enter the Evernight giveaway, post a comment below and answer this question: Who is the hero of the book? I look forward to hearing from you!

Don't forget to check out the other authors from Evernight Teen (links are under the Rafflecopter) who are participating in this Blog Hop. Every comment on their blogs also earns you an entry to the main giveaway, plus they are offering prizes as well! Happy hopping!


X5: Genesis

More than 130 years after a meteor devastated the planet, twenty-five percent of the population is left to rebuild. Among the survivors is a group known as The Consortium. To further their own agenda, they’ve built a top secret Bunker deep within the Colorado Rockies to breed and raise children with psychic gifts, and use those powers for their own gain.

X5, a seventeen year old boy who lives in The Bunker, has a vision of himself covered in blood and running through a forest with A7, the girl who is supposed to be his mate. And when A7 tells him she had a vision of him being killed, he knows they’re in trouble. Their only choice is to run. X5 and A7 have lived their whole lives in The Bunker and know nothing of the outside world. With the Consortium out to get them back, they have to learn quick or their visions will become reality. 

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