I can't think

I am so so bad with doing two things at once.  Do you know anyone like that?

Maybe your husband.  You're trying to tell them something important and all they say is yeah-ahuh and yeah-okay while looking at the computer or T.V. 

That's me right now.  I am trying to finish this book and logically that means that I can't blog.  Or read blogs.  I want to do these things so badly, but alas, I am a husband watching T.V. focused and zoning all at the same time!

BUT, I am working on something.  I get a lot of emails asking me about more books.  I have written a few but I don't want to publish them because they just aren't very good.  They are fine, I guess and they would entertain you but they are hardly memorable.  And I want to write something that moves me and I want to publish something that I believe has the potential to move you!  I'm a little OCD like that. 

Right now I'm working on a book called "Good Girls don't Swear" or perhaps it will be called "Infertile Annie."  I haven't decided.  I'm feeling excited about it like I did when I was writing My Stupid Girl.  I love the characters and I have fallen in love with the main characters. 

Here is a little fun fact.  I am writing it with someone this time.  I have set the book in Georgia and I have a friend from Georgia who is getting a hold of it and blowing it out of the water.  I send her a chapter and then she countries it.  I am having so much fun. 

So, what are all of you up to?  And how do you do writing and blogging and breathing at the same time?  I'm stumped!

Oh, this happened.  It was awesome.  I then got to #69 on the top 100 for a few days. 

Amanda Bynes

I just have to say that I am and have been very very sad about the whole "Amanda Bynes going a little nutty thing."  I think most woman my age are particularly sad about it because we grew up watching Amanda Bynes on television.  I am four years older than her and I always thought she was hilarious.  I mean, who does this....

Only the extraordinarily cool and stellar people will do this.  Especially with Tatum Channing in the room. 

 

Oh and this...

Who can eat a chicken leg like that and still be so amazing?  AMANDA BYNES, that's who.

She has been that actress/comedian that everyone loved.  She was silly and made faces that were quirky and yet stayed beautiful.  She never took herself to seriously, she was real.

Then something happened and the rumors say that she is suffering from some mental illness.  She has been doing this kind of stuff. 

Is it crazy that it breaks my heart?  I just hope she gets the help she needs because I want old Amanda back.  But she might have gone a little further than even Brittney and Lindsey.  And that's bad.

 

What are your thoughts on the whole "Amanda thing?"

Last day! Last day! .99

Today is the LAST day that My Stupid Girl is going to be .99

 

SO GO GET IT!

 

ALSO, this picture was taken.  I love it more than any of the "glamour" shots that she took.  It's me! There just comes a point when you can't smile with your eyes anymore, and you cant "look serious."  I'm a dork, I know it. 

 

Here is the favorite SERIOUS pic from that day.

 

 

No, I don't wear shoes.  They hurt and Pixies don't like constricting things...

 

forgive me

I've been so so absent lately because I am finishing up "Nightmare's Daughter" which is scheduled to come out in October.  So my head is down and I'm typing typing editing editing typing, screaming at kids, typing and so on and so forth!

BUT I did lift my head for a second and decided that because I've been so absent that I'd put my book on sale for absolutely no reason than I wanted to. 

If you're interested in the craziest sale in the history of My Stupid Girl then click HERE and grab it for .99, yes that's what I said.

OH and one more thing....

And another things...

I woke up and looked at my book stats and My Stupid Girl is sitting at #2,839  WHATEVER

Last one!

 

ALSO, I'm getting excited and nervous and palpitationist (not a word) about Nightmare's Daughter!  It's different, but it's fun.

Oh and I've made it onto a few Pirated Book Sites.  So if you'd like to read my book for free and get a nice virus in the process then go look for it! Bahaha.  Those places are SKETCHY!

Fan Girl Squeal

So there is this book that I love.  You've probably heard about it. If you haven't then you've been under a rock.  Come get some air and go check out "Remember When."  Remember When on Amazon

 

 

This book is completely original, that's why it's getting so much attention.  Oh that and the humour and amazing sauce writing.  It's basically about a girl recalling her high school years and her first love who ends up being a movie star.  Here is the exert from the back.

 

Ever wonder how often Brad Pitt's high school girlfriend must ponder jumping off a bridge? Ever think about the girl that had her hooks in George Clooney before he took off for TV stardom? How about Leonardo DiCaprio's ex, or Johnny Depp's first groupie, or any number of young women who got left behind when their boyfriends set off for greener pastures and eventually achieved unfathomable Hollywood fame?

My name is Layla Warren and I don't need to wonder about any of those things. I already know. Because years before Trip Wiley could be seen on movie screens all over the world, he could be seen sitting in the desk behind me in my high school English class.

This was back in 1990, and I cite the year only to avoid dumbfounding you when references to big hair or stretch pants are mentioned. Although, come to think of it, I am from New Jersey, which may serve as explanation enough. We were teenagers then, way back in a time before anyone, himself included, could even dream he'd turn into the Hollywood commodity that he is today.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you who Trip Wiley is. But on the off chance you've been living under a rock for the past decade, just know that these days, he's the bad boy actor found at the top of every casting director's wish list. He's incredibly talented and insanely gorgeous, the combination of which has made him very rich, very famous and very desirable.

And not just to casting directors, either.

I can't confirm any of the gossip from his early years out in Tinseltown, but based on what I knew of his life before he was famous, I can tell you that the idea of Girls-Throwing-Themselves-At-Trip is not a new concept.

I should know. I was one of them.

And my life hasn't been the same since.

So, here is why the blog is titled "Fan Girl Squeal."  Torest (the author) contacted ME and told ME that she liked MY book.  (Insert ugly crying, hyperventilating and peeing pants) She gave me a five star review on Amazon (Repeat) and then she asked me if she could put a link to my book in the back of her sequel that was coming out in a few days.   (Dies.  Just dies on floor.)

When I became coherent I, with shaky typing fingers, wrote.

"Like, OMG, aldkjfalkfdjaldf, Do whatever you want.  Would you like to be my best friend.  I love you and your book and I... alksdfjalkdjfadlkfjadfjk ...Yes, yes you can put my book in the back of yours.  I am not worthy.  I am not worthy."  I'm paraphrasing but that's basically what it looked like. 
 

Here is "Remember When 2" Link to Remember When 2

This book is about them years later after loosing touch and their reuniting.  I don't want to give it away.  But it's sad and sweet and makes you think of your first love from high school and where he (she) is and if you were in a situation to re kindle something, what would you do?  Here is the Exert.

 

Back in high school, Trip Wiley’s fanbase only encompassed the denizens of the nothing little suburb of Norman, New Jersey.

Ten years later, all that is about to change.

In the summer of 2000, Layla Warren is enjoying her career as a journalist in New York City (well, sort of), while Trip spends most of his time grabbing Hollywood by the balls. In the days before what will turn out to be his skyrocketing fame, they’ll find themselves confronted with some life-altering choices.

Remember When 2 is the second story in an NA romance trilogy. It will bring you back to that exuberant and riotous time of life in your twenties when you struggled to figure out your place in the world and the person you were meant to be...

…and the person you were meant to be with.

 

So, I seriously consider you checking these books out! 

 

My Ego has been boosted and my head can no longer fit through any door.  Thankyouverymuch.

Coull Crituiques

Go check this out

 

It made me feel like this...

 

 

And like this

 

 

 

So, go check out the blog and like it because shes amazing!

Sale and Updates

Hi, good morning and good Monday!

How are y'all doing this glorious morning?  Its hotter'n heck out here in Texas.  The muggy 98 felt like 120 with the 90% humidity...whatever! 

Firs thing I'd like to tell you that the book is on sale so if you haven't gotten it or want a friend to read it then tell them.  Here's a link so you don't have to work.  Working is hard.  My Stupid Girl for 1.99

Here is another suggestion for the book cover.  Thoughts? 

Now, I know a ton of people said the black, but this was the second choice.  I looked at the thumbnail size and the black made the book look choppy and you couldn't read the title very well.  So I am playing with this color. 

Third, I got my first one star marking on goodreads.  I felt bad for a moment then I realized it was a 72 year old man who pretty much pressed one star on every book he comes into contact with.  So the sting numbed and I am now officially still waiting for my first one star review.  That will be a day filled with ice cream and Brandon Frazier movies.  So far my lowest has been a 3 star review, but it read like a 4-5 star review so I can't complain. 

I had a giveaway on goodreads and 852 people signed up!  WHAT?  Now, I just need those people to actually buy the book.  It's good, mepromises. 

ALSO, look at these pics and smile.  This is how hot it was.  My first and second son rolled in mud like little elephants.  I think the husband had more fun hosing them than was necessary. 

 

 

 

 

 

OH, and the "baby" turned one on Saturday.  Excuse me whilst I cry in the corner.  I want to remember him like this.  Come to think of it, all those kids are a year older.  Sigh...