I'm Thankful for my Readers!

 

I'm Thankful for ... my Readers! Blog Hop is hosted by Vikki and Tara. Please visit their blogs for a list of rules and participants.

Dear Christine,

Without you, I wouldn't be a writer today. We started out role-playing together on Harry Potter RPGs. Then, I sent you the first chapter of The Phoenix Prophetess and asked if I was crazy to think of writing this story. I may still be crazy, but you told me to continue. So I did. Sending you chapter by chapter as I wrote it. You are my first critique partner, and I value you more than you can ever know.

Dear Aubrie,

The best thing that came out of the publisher-who-must-not-be-named was meeting you. You have been a true friend and a great supporter of my writing. You help me find the best words to use. I can't wait for us to one day have a book signing together!

Dear Cher,

You may be my newest critique partner, but I can't imagine publishing my work without your keen editor's eye looking it over. You keep my work honest.

Dear Kara,

You are my sister, and you don't have to like what I write, but I value your opinion when it comes to my YA novels, since you are still a teen. I promise I will publish The Phoenix Prophetess soon. Well, soon in publishing time (a year or more from now).

Dear Readers,

I don't know who some of you are. You purchase my work. Some write reviews. Some do not. But I value each and every one of you. Without readers, we authors are just voices shouting into the wind. You make all the stress over words worth it.

Dear Blog Readers,

I would have never known how much I would enjoy blogging without each and every one of you. I love your comments and visiting your blogs. I wish I had even more time to do so than I do. I appreciate every single one of you.

Dear Future Beta Readers,

I would love to find a beta reader or two who knows their YA novels. I write contemporary, fantasy, and even some thriller and horror are on the horizon. I'd love to do a manuscript exchange and would need someone willing to give me an overall opinion on my YA manuscripts this coming year. If you think you are that person, please let me know.

Much love from your humble writer,

Cherie

And as a special thank you, I am putting Nightmare Ever After on sale on Smashwords. You can get 50% off with the coupon code UU44W. Coupon code expires on November 15th.

Teaser Tuesday 12.20.11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

    BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Seduced by Darkness by Cher Green
PDF Copy, Page 5-6


Dread filled her as she landed yards away from the cavern opening. What little freedom she'd gained would be taken away at the discovery of the disastrous venture.



So what are you reading? Do you have a teaser?

Promo Monday: SEDUCED BY DARKNESS by Cher Green

Title: Seduced by Darkness

Author: Cher Green

Publisher: eTreasures Publishing

To Purchase: eTreasures Publishing 

Description: Geneva Chilton, warned against human contact, betrays her family in order to be close to the world she longs to join. Intrigued by an artist’s work and his ability to capture life on canvas, Geneva steps too close to the boundaries and discovers love, but what price will she have to pay?

Lewis Hunt, intrigued by Geneva’s beauty and determined to capture it on canvas, discovers he needs more. Lewis needs the real woman behind the beauty. His course leads him to her, but also to danger. How hard is he willing to fight for a woman of darkness, a vampire?

Author Bio: Cher Green, intrigued by the written word, has made it a life goal to bring her stories to life and share them with others. Cher writes in many genres, spanning from horror to romance. Her work has appeared in such magazines as, “Untied Shoelaces of the Mind,” and “Spinetinglers.” For more information on this author, visit: http://www.chergreen.com.

Wednesday's Writing Update: August Stats, September Goals, and a Blogger Award

Happy Wednesday!

August is finished and we're almost a full week into September. It's hard to believe this time next month I'll be in Richmond, VA for the James River Writers Conference.

So, on to August stats:

Submissions: 0

Rejections: 3

Acceptances: 0

Total Words: 15,115

Pages Edited: 601

I don't have many submissions out there, but I'm considering taking some of my shorter works and self-publishing them. In fact, I would like to write two and a half more short stories in my Foxwick land and created a small short story collection titled The Foxwick Chronicles: Women of Foxwick. So you might see this collection in December, if I can get everything together.

As for my novel Virtuoso, things aren't looking too good for it. There are major issues and I'm running out of time and energy to fix them right now. So starting last Friday, I began working on The Phoenix Prophetess. I'm completely in love with it. I've read it two times already and have started edits. It may be against my original plans, but I stand by my decision.

How is everyone else doing? Have you switched what you were working on for something you were more passionate about? How did that go?

 

Also, thank you Cher Green for giving me the Liebster Blog Award! 

The rules:

1. Thank the giver of the award and link back to them.

2. Give the Liebster to five bloggers and let them know with a comment to their blog.

3. Copy and paste the award onto your blog.

4. Have faith your followers will spread the love to other bloggers.

5. Have blogging fun!

I would like to give this award to:

Lisa Rusczyk – She doesn't blog too much, but she's pretty awesome. She works as an editor and has some new books out on Kindle. 

LindsayDuncan – She's a sweetheart and a harpist as well as a writer. 

ChristineRains – I know she's already received this award once, but she's one of my best friends and the reason I'm a writer. 

Jenn Nixon – She's an awesome romantic suspense writer and writes in other genres too. She's all about giving back and promoting authors on her blog. 

Bill Blume – He has an awesome blog with a comic strip he creates himself. I'm loving his steampunk one. Plus, he has the coolest stuffed animals. 

Promo Monday + Interview: Cher Green and her novella, Escape to Love

Constance Spenser, an aspiring witch, is no ordinary woman, and neither are her problems. Unhappy in her life, she seeks knowledge of the spiritual side of life, but what she finds is another world, a world where she has no place. She must gain the council’s trust and discover a way home, but in her attempt she finds herself falling for the enemy. Can she survive long enough to discover her destiny?

Lawrence Wilder, a member of an evil council, wants to break free, but one doesn’t walk away from the council alive. When a witch falls from the sky, hope returns to his life, and to his surprise love. In his world, together they cannot survive. Can he save them both, or will one have to be sacrificed for the other to live?

Publisher: eTreasures Publishing

Purchase here

Cher, tell us a little about yourself.

As a child, I found myself intrigued by books. As a teenager, I wanted to create my own worlds, so I did within poetry and short stories. After graduating high school, life took over and there was not time for my dream. In 2001, I decided it was time to follow my dream. I’ve been writing and honing my skills ever since.

That's wonderful you decided to follow your dream. When did you first consider yourself a writer? 

I’ve been a writer all my life, even if the words didn’t make it to paper.

I love that answer. Perhaps we writers were always writers. You mentioned that your novella Escape to Love is outside your normal genre. What is your normal genre?  

Horror is actually my preferred genre, but not blood and guts type of stories. Thinking over my short stories and novel in progress, I’d have to say paranormal suspense is usually the direction my stories take.
 

I love horror, and I definitely enjoying writing some paranormal suspense. What inspired you to write Escape to Love? 

I wish I could say a dream, or a life experience, but this story was actually created with the purpose of submitting to eTreasures Publishing. Invited to write a piece for one of their themed collections, I brainstormed and came up with the story idea. I wrote from beginning to end with no glitches. It was a fun story to explore and create.

That does sound like a lot of fun. I know writing to a theme can help with inspiration. What other projects are you working on? Do you have anything else coming out soon?

I have a novel, paranormal suspense, in progress. Dark Valentine has accepted one of my short stories, due to come out in September. We are working on a new title, so I can’t really say more on that. New projects pop up every day, a new idea germ, a new story. They don’t all make it to paper, but I have notes all over the place.

Good luck with your novel, and that's awesome about Dark Valentine accepting your short story. What advice would you give to writers?

Practice, practice, practice. I know it’s been said before, but this is the only way to improve your writing. And don’t worry if you are doing it right or not, just keep writing. Also, when submitting, don’t give up. Rejection is part of the process, and for the most part has nothing to do with your writing, your timing is just off or you sent to the wrong editor. Critique partners are a must. I wouldn’t be where I am now without a select few.

Thank you so much, Cher, for visiting with us and telling us about yourself and Escape to Love! 

Cher Green, intrigued by the written word, has made it a life goal to bring her stories to life and share them with others.  Inspired by such writers as Stephen King, V. C. Andrews, and Dean Koontz, she strives to touch the lives of her readers with her stories. After years of learning the craft, she writes in many genres, spanning from horror, suspense, and romance. For more information about this writer visit: http://www.chergreen.com.

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