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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SHADOW OF DECEPTION </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Kazumi Chronicles #1</i>)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Sophia L.
Johnson</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">YA
Dystopian/Sci-fi</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Published
on April 19<sup>th</sup>, 2015</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">2153,
Toronto, United Nation of North America (UNNA)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A
horrific plane crash kills all five hundred and forty-two passengers except
one. Kazumi emerges from the wreckage physically unscathed but has lost all her
memories. Her miraculous survival has the whole city buzzing but all she wants
is to go home, wherever home is.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">After
waiting a month in the hospital with no one to claim her, Kazumi is deemed
homeless. She is about to be sent to a nearby teenage shelter when the nurse
she grew to trust ushers her down a mysterious path, one that promises safety
and maybe even the chance to recover her memories. With no better options
available, Kazumi takes her chance and finds herself in the headquarters of the
Sarcomeres, a secret society of genetically advanced humans hidden deep inside
the Rocky Mountains. The Sarc’s heightened physical abilities and high-tech
gadgets are not the only things that fascinate Kazumi. Finnegan O’Riley, a
fellow Sarc she meets along the way also gets her heart racing. When Kazumi
discovers that she possesses the genetic potential of a Sarcomere, she jumps at
the chance to train with them, not knowing the death defying tests that are
involved.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Meanwhile,
a centuries-old nemesis of the Sarcomeres begins to stir in the dark, setting
their dark plans in motion. Just when Kazumi thinks she can help protect her
new found home, past memories surface to threaten her new identity. She soon
realizes that layers of deception run deep and everyone has a secret agenda,
including herself.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Who can she trust when she can’t even trust herself? One wrong decision
could bring forth consequences worse than death.</span></i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia;">All royalties made in the first year
will go to a charity</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> called </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.covenanthouse.org/"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Covenant House</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">, to help homeless youth.</span></b>
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<span id="freeText14902077247428199516"><b><u>Review</u></b></span><br />
This was a unique and inventive story for a sci-fi/dystopian novel. Without giving too much away from the story, it's easy to feel bad for the main character. Kazumi wakes up from a plane crash with no memory of who she is. In the beginning, I did find her character (or Gabi, who she is being called at the beginning) a little bit annoying and making some really dumb choices that have dire consequences, but once her memories start coming back her character really started to grow.<br />
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Then there's Finn. Such a badass, and powerful both in his leadership and his fighting. He's the character that really made the story.<br />
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As for the plot. I really liked that, for a sci-fi, the technology was explained and the reader got a deeper understanding of the world. Things didn't just happen, they were thought out and explained, such as why the genetically advanced humans are better.<br />
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This story did hold my interest from beginning to end, and I would recommend this to anyone who loves a good dystopian or sci-fi story. <br />
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<u><b>About the Author</b></u><br />
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<i><span id="freeText14902077247428199516"><b>SPINNER</b><br />by Michael J Bowler<br />YA Horror/Paranormal<br />Published on August 5th, 2015 </span></i><br />
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<i><span id="freeText14902077247428199516">Fifteen-year-old Alex
is a “spinner.” His friends are “dummies.” Two clandestine groups of
humans want his power. And an ancient evil is stalking him. If people
weren’t being murdered, Alex might laugh at how his life turned into a
horror movie overnight.<br /><br />In a wheelchair since birth, his freakish
ability has gotten him kicked out of ten foster homes since the age of
four. Now saddled with a sadistic housemother who uses his spinning to
heal the kids she physically abuses, Alex and his misfit group of
learning disabled classmates are the only ones who can solve the mystery
of his birth before more people meet a gruesome end.<br /><br />They need
to find out who murdered their beloved teacher, and why the hot young
substitute acts like she’s flirting with them. Then there’s the
mysterious medallion that seems to have unleashed something malevolent,
and an ancient prophecy suggesting Alex has the power to destroy
humanity.<br /><br />The boys break into homes, dig up graves, elude
kidnappers, fight for their lives against feral cats, and ultimately
confront an evil as old as humankind. Friendships are tested, secrets
uncovered, love spoken, and destiny revealed.<br /><br />The kid who’s always been a loner will finally learn the value of friends, family, and loyalty.<br /><br />If he survives…</span></i><br />
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<span id="freeText14902077247428199516"><b><u>Review</u></b></span><br />
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<span id="freeText14902077247428199516">Alex is a teen in a wheelchair, and he can easily get foster homes, he has a hard time keeping them with his special ability. Alex is a Spinner. He has the ability to take on others' pain and heal them. </span><span id="freeText14902077247428199516">It was only a matter of time before someone sought to use his powers against him. Alex forms a tight connection with the other misfits from his classmates (all with learning disabilities) as sinister events start happening, starting with the murder of their teacher. </span><br />
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The blurb is what originally drew me into wanting to read this story - a story with such a diverse cast of characters, especially with a main character with such a challenge from the first page - and I wasn't disappointed. Bowler has created an interesting story that has elements of horror mixed with a strong and diverse cast. Even being in a wheelchair, I was glad that Alex did not let his disability define him, or stop him from doing what needed to be done. <br />
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It was a thrilling read from start to end and I would definitely recommend to anyone that loves horror.<br />
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I know I haven't been around here much lately, but I've been really trying to get my hectic life under control. But while I try to get everything under control I'm also feverishly trying to get the sequel to Shinigami Eyes finished.<br />
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Yeah, that wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, but I was up for the challenge. Even the several heavy bodies dropped on my head didn't stop me from trying to get good shots.<br />
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Everything in life isn't worth doing if there isn't some risk of failing, or some challenge involved somewhere along the line.<br />
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<i>Emmy has everything she’s ever wanted: a hot boyfriend she adores, great friends, a promising future, and even a well-connected family. But one night rips it all away.<br /><br />A car accident shatters her world, claiming the lives of her twin brother and her best friend. In the wake of the accident, her friends drift away, her family falls apart, and her boyfriend cheats.<br /><br />The grief is more than she can handle, so she finds escape at the bottom of a bottle of painkillers. Taking the pills makes her brother alive again, if only in her head. Seeing and talking to her brother as if he were still alive is the only thing that keeps her going. Until Logan King moves to town. Logan sees past the mask of pristine popularity she wears in public and he’s the only one who can tell she hasn’t moved on. His uncanny ability to read her forces her to open up and she starts to fall for him, no matter how unwilling she is to admit it. But Emmy isn’t the only one keeping secrets and when a close brush with death sparks events that bring everything to light, Emmy will have to decide what’s more important: learning how to forgive and move on, or holding onto the pills and the ghost of her past.</i><br />
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I darted my way around a few chattering and dancing people. If there was one rule I lived by with my best friend, it was friends don’t let friends get hammered and make out with their exes. </div>
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When I reached them, I slid my arm under hers and pulled them apart. “Come on, Skye. Time to go home.” She didn’t put up a fight as I dragged her away. She only giggled in a way I knew meant she had one too many shots of that vodka I saw her carrying around earlier. </div>
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We stepped outside into the summer night air and waited for Zane to pull his car around. We sat on the bottom step of the porch, and Skye started to fall asleep on my shoulder. Sleep sounded nice. “My stomach hurts,” she whined into my hair. </div>
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That last shot had settled, and mine wasn’t feeling the greatest either. “We’ll get you some ginger ale at Zane’s. You can nap in the car until then.” I pulled out my phone to text Derek. It was hard to focus on the screen. </div>
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After a minute or two, she assured us she was fine so we helped her into the back seat and sped off toward town. The open window sent warm air swirling around us like a blanket fresh out of the dryer. The forest smelled of fresh dew and sunshine, even though the sun had set a few hours ago. Soon it would start to smell of decay and changing leaves. </div>
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Zane grabbed my hand with the hand that wasn’t on the steering wheel and interlaced our fingers. “We still all crashing at my place?” </div>
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I squeezed his hand, smiling. “Skye’s mom thinks she’s at my place. My mom thinks I’m at hers. You know the drill.” Zane’s dad traveled a lot with work so his house was almost always empty on weekends. Something we often took advantage of. </div>
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Fifteen minutes later, Skye was passed out in the guest bed and Zane was half carrying, half dragging, me into his room. His lips found my ear lobe, softly caressing the edge with his tongue. My entire body tingled. “We shouldn’t. Skye’s right down the hall,” I breathed. </div>
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He moved his lips down to the skin above my collar bone, the place he knew always sent me over the edge. “She’s out cold. I seriously doubt she’ll hear anything during that vodka-induced coma.” </div>
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I pulled away at the sound of Derek’s ringtone. It was his favorite song, and he blasted it in his Mustang every chance he got. Zane pulled me back to him, recognizing the ringtone as well. <br />
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By the time I pried myself out of Zane’s arms and crossed the room, my phone stopped ringing. I called him back, but it went straight to voicemail. I went to send him a text instead and noticed the one I had typed earlier when we were leaving. I must have forgotten to send it. Deleting it, I sent him a different one asking what he wanted. There was still no reply by the time I fell asleep.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amanda Burckhard grew up exploring bat caves and hunting for dinosaur bones in the Black Hills of South Dakota. When she wasn’t crossing paths with mountain lions, she was making up stories and devouring books at the library. Although, she still does that.<br /><br />Amanda loves to travel and cross out things on her adrenaline packed bucket list. Some of the things she's been able to cross out include see an active volcano erupt, ride a gondola in Venice, and pet a tiger. She currently lives in North Sioux City, South Dakota and works as a microbiologist by day. Some of her obsessions include comic book movies, hot chocolate, sushi, sunshine, and Doctor Who.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-63453384641015238502015-02-11T22:55:00.000+11:002015-02-11T22:55:16.377+11:00Experiments in Creativity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This has definitely been a year that I'm living by the old saying, "Success is 99 percent failure"... what that means is that I'm taking a lot more risks and adventures than I have done before, even if that means setting myself up for certain failure, but most of the time I'm coming up with pleasant surprises. After all, isn't it true that you'll never know what success looks like if you didn't face all those failures beforehand?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nzR0ugARA0WZ2X45SnebmchCZxwbCG82VwrafyLg_HkmOD6KfxGftnCadZuxv1qar72NO-EwP3w7OcbnOCaWh-S0fYaUygoTWqXtfh9Y62gt1ScDVWq4NxnWJ67bV06e3Q7xj5dlHSIH/s1600/P2090019+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nzR0ugARA0WZ2X45SnebmchCZxwbCG82VwrafyLg_HkmOD6KfxGftnCadZuxv1qar72NO-EwP3w7OcbnOCaWh-S0fYaUygoTWqXtfh9Y62gt1ScDVWq4NxnWJ67bV06e3Q7xj5dlHSIH/s1600/P2090019+copy.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a>My latest adventures resulted in spending over 2 hours in a pool (which had way too much chlorine) with my trusty underwater camera and my sister (complaining I'm trying to drown her by 'forcing her to wear a dress' in the pool). This was the first time I'd done any sort of underwater photography. Heck, I didn't even know if the pictures would turn out more than blurry smudges of red and blues. <br />
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Sometimes creativity can be found anywhere, even at the bottom of a pool. You just have to look around and you can create a picture, a story, anything from your surroundings (with a few simple props :P).<br />
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All the photography projects I've been setting myself have been really great for the story ideas as well, and I'm already trying to decide what to start next: a story about a demonic wizard's daughter forced to collect people's souls, or a parallel worlds story, or a halloween prank gone awry when a pretend haunted house ends up real??? So many stories, now, I just have to get them out :D<br />
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<b>PS</b> There was a reason for the red dress... I was experimenting for a cover shoot that will be happening for another story I'm planning to release after Shade Consumed gets released :DAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-56876982178997566292015-02-09T23:19:00.003+11:002015-02-09T23:19:56.269+11:00Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year I'm aiming to do a lot of things I have never even thought I would be game to do, and the one thing I am learning that if you never step out of your comfort zone then you'll never know what you are truly capable of achieving.<br />
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Okay, so the first thing I did to challenge myself was to really step out of my comfort zone by undertaking a fine art nude workshop (Yeah, I never thought I'd ever feel comfortable with being around a naked model let alone take pictures of her... but it's so easy to forget she's not wearing any clothes when you get into the photographers mindset).<br />
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If I didn't take a chance I wouldn't have found such a fantastic local studio with such a great group of people who hold weekly workshops (not all of them nudes :P), and I wouldn't have known that I can work with a model in the most awkward of conditions.<br />
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So what I've learnt is that: You need to step out of your comfort zone to add some excitement and challenge to your life.<br />
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<i>High school senior, Claire Reilly’s world revolves around All-Star cheerleading. The Diamond Girls, are gearing up for a major competition, which, if they win will allow them to compete at Worlds for the first time. But the unimaginable happens, and both Claire and her team are rocked by a devastating loss. Determined to get to Worlds any way she can, Claire finds help from the last person she imagined would give it—up and coming UFC fighter and notorious bad boy, Ryker Vaughn.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I tore my eyes from the mess in front of me and zeroed in on the crap weasel standing in front of Coach Shea's office. If Tayla had seen him, she wouldn't have questioned who was behind the destruction. The perpetrator stood a measly yard and a half from us, and wore a bored expression.<br />
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Ryker Vaughn, Tayla's black-sheep cousin and all-around douche nozzle extraordinaire, was as noxious and irritating as he was handsome. Looking as though he were plucked straight out of one of those big-budget Clash of the Titans movies, he was chiseled like Hercules and rocked a massive Narcissus complex. Gorgeous, with stormy gray eyes and cropped, dark hair, dude thought he was the shizzle, and refused to give the meager masses the time of day. As
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A humanized weapon of the martial arts variety, Ryker had spent a large portion of his eighteen years studying and perfecting Brazilian Jui-Juitsu and Muay Thai. The captain of the wrestling team at Douglas High before he graduated last year, he won two state championships and held the record for most wins and takedowns in a single season.<br />
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Unfortunately for him, neither his name, his good looks, or his martial arts skills saved him from the set of security cameras stationed around the building's perimeter. Why was he here talking to Coach Shea? Why wasn't his butt sitting in a jail cell somewhere?<br />
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I let my eyes wander from Ryker to the wreckage in front of me and frowned. The guy was more than capable of this type of demolition. What I couldn't understand was the why of it? He wasn't the world's friendliest guy, but I'd never known him to be outright destructive and criminal.<br />
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Though, if I were being honest, I didn't really know him. I'd only crossed paths with him at a few of Tayla's family gatherings. He'd kept to his scowling self, barely uttering a word to anyone the entire time. Unsociable bastard.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-72794671991211641312015-01-14T22:13:00.001+11:002015-01-14T22:13:36.787+11:00Practice makes perfect...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's a brand new year, which means new resolutions and new plans/goals that I'll hopefully be able to keep. And boy do I have lots of plans that I am aiming to meet this year, including releasing the sequel to Shadow Embraced andstart working on a dark time travel story, as well as a multiverse/parallel universe story with my brother.<br />
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First off, what can a new years be without resolutions. This year my resolutions (which I'm planning on keeping), are:<br />
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<li>Attend a convention</li>
<li>Keep up regular postings of my blog</li>
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<li>Complete a 365 photo project</li>
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That's not a lot to achieve this year (right?)... And as with the last point, I have decided to take up the challenge of taking a photo every single day of the year... last time I took this challenge I made it to day 6 before I ran out of momentum, but this year I'm determined to get the challenge done and create a lot more images like the one above (which was taken New Years day at sunrise).<br />
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I just want to say have a happy holidays and Merry Xmas to everyone, and I'm just going to take a little break and be back on the 5th January with a new resolution to post more regularly to this blog. YAY! So, in the meantime enjoy the holidays.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-27808822535382114992014-12-16T21:15:00.001+11:002014-12-16T21:15:21.239+11:00Special Promotion: Shinigami Eyes only $0.99<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-8433988911015435712014-12-15T22:37:00.000+11:002014-12-15T22:37:07.622+11:00Shinigami Eyes Book Blitz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is the day! The Shinigami Eyes Book Blitz, hosted by Dark World Books, starts. Come on over and stop by all the stops over the next week. Just click <a href="http://www.darkworldbooks.com/shinigami-eyes-book-blitz/">here</a> to find out all the fantastic blogs that are participating in this book blitz.<br />
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Since it's such a big day, later on I'll also be announcing a special promotion for Shinigami Eyes that will last throughout the entire tour, so stay tuned.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-48535772985889798272014-12-01T22:33:00.000+11:002014-12-01T22:33:08.141+11:00Things not turning out as expected...I know I have been absent for a while, but I have needed to work out some health issues of late and haven't been in the right mindset to blog about anything substantial. But now I'm back and ready to jump back into blogging, and writing, and just letting my creative juices fly.<br />
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Anyone that knows me is well aware that I have become obsessed with photography. These days I'm literally thinking of as many photographic ideas as I am story ideas, but don't worry, that's not getting in the road of my writing. In fact, I'm actually thinking about how I can photograph several scenes (even the covers) of the stories I'm writing.<br />
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One thing that I'm learning from being behind the lens, as opposed to just writing out the words to describe a scene, is that not everything will turn out as expected. Yeah, I can write a scene and mold the words to fit the story in my head, but sometimes for photography the picture in my head does not even come close to matching the final outcome. There are lots of obstacles that can occur when trying to create a piece of art through the lens, whether it be the sun (yep, the damn sun coming out and ruining the shot), limited props, location or even some things might be an impossible feat. Where it's easy to write about someone walking on the roof, it's a totally different thing when trying to photograph it, still mucking around with trying to get the right angles of the model's hair and movement.<br />
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<b>Mistletoe & Hollywood</b></div>
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Jack Eversea and Evan Weston, two of
Hollywood’s hottest young actors had their hearts stolen by regular down
to earth girls, and we lived and laughed and loved their stories in the
<i>Eversea Series</i> and in the <i>Desire Resort Series</i>. But what happened when the books were over?</div>
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How did each couple choose to spend their first Christmas? Was it sexy, emotional, stressful or heartwarming?</div>
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Perhaps it was everything and more…</div>
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<b>My Star, My Love (An Eversea Series Novella) by Natasha Boyd</b></div>
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Movie star, Jack Eversea, has decided to
brave his history with England and take the love of his life, Keri Ann
Butler, home to meet his mother for Christmas. He’s been back in
California and Keri Ann’s been busy with art school, and they are
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But Jolly Old England does weird things
to Jack. And despite his super sweet “twelve days of Christmas” gift
giving, Keri Ann can’t quite work out of he’s about to propose or
regrets bringing her home. Is he still questioning whether she can
handle a few paparazzi, or is he doubting Keri Ann’s commitment to their
future?</div>
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The magnetic couple is back in a fun,
sometimes poignant, and super sexy story about acceptance, love and how
to make love quietly in a creaky old house with one’s mother down the
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<b>Many Times, Many Ways (A Desire Resort Series Novella) by Kate Roth</b></div>
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Vacation is over.</div>
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Danielle was escaping her monotonous
life at a sexy beach resort when she first fell under the spell of
Hollywood hunk, Evan Weston, but now they’re trying to make their
relationship work in the real world.</div>
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While they’re both hopeful for what lies
ahead, the only question is whether or not their desires for the future
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Things have always moved quickly between
Evan and Danielle, but Danielle can’t stave off the lingering anxiety
she has once she finds out about Evan’s big plans—and even bigger
Christmas gift. Can she continue to let go of the worry that plagues her
so the man of her dreams can give her the life she never imagined she’d
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My debut novel<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, The Low Notes</i>, is the first book I
ever finished. I started writing versions of it as far back as high school.
Forbidden love has always called to me and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">What books/authors have
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>NB: </b></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Every book I read
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">So many authors! Everyone
from Emily Giffin to Joe Hill. My very first inspiring author was Katherine
Applegate. She wrote a YA series I devoured as a teen and it really propelled
my love of fiction.</span><br />
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asked this question a lot, and every time I really need to think about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the scene when Keri Ann and Jazz get
drunk together. It comes right after Keri Ann gets kicked in the gut
(metaphorically) and inspired to get her a** into gear about her art and her
future and life in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s some
great banter between the two friends too when Jack shows up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ooh, well my favourite was
a scene I can’t share without giving major spoilers! But I loved being able to
write a few more love scenes for Evan and Danielle. Those are always fun and
they are one of my favourite couples I’ve written—their chemistry is off the
charts.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Believing I could do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
trying to write it as if no one would ever read it. You know that phrase ‘dance
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It was hard for me to just
tell the holiday story. A part of me wanted to keep going and show their entire
life but that would’ve made for a long and incredibly fluffy read since I want
them to be happy. </span>
<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span>
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--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The best solution
for me is to open a new document and write my characters in a totally made up,
stupid situation. That way I usually find out where they actually want to go
(instead of where I was forcing them to go). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I usually try to read
something or see a movie. Unwinding and getting my mind on something else
usually breaks me out of a block.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>NB: </b></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Finishing Jazz
and Joey’s story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to put that
aside for a while to work on Deep Blue Eternity (formally known as The
Cottage). It will be out in March 2015. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m currently working the
next book in the Desire Resort series and a novella in my Confession Records
collection. </span>
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--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Bone Clocks
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m reading Stronger With
Him by JA Hensley. I’m loving it so far!</span>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>NB: </b></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It would be a dinner party because I could never pick just one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you imagine a dinner companion who was a
“good” vampire, and who had been stuck as a teenager for a hundred years?
Fascinating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about President Snow
(Hunger Games)? He would be a totally scary dinner companion but man, do I have
some questions for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d really love
to have dinner with Mrs. Weaton, the elderly neighbour from my Eversea series.
Boy, she lived a life. I’d love to know more!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>KR: </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I have a sick love for Nick
Carraway from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great Gatsby</i>. I’d
love to meet him!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> <br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>NB: </b></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ha ha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write like no one is reading, but publish
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Keep writing! I always say
be a writer first and an author second. Your passion and your love for writing
should be what keeps you going.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">About the Author</span></u><br />
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<b>Natasha Boyd</b></div>
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Natasha Boyd is a writer with a
background in marketing and public relations. She holds a Bachelor of
Science in Psychology, and lives in the coastal Carolina Lowcountry,
complete with Spanish moss, alligators and mosquitoes the size of tiny
birds. She has a husband, two sons and a cat named Tuna. Eversea is her
first full-length novel.</div>
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<a href="http://www.natashaboyd.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/authornatashaboyd" target="_blank">Facebook</a> – <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lovefrmlowcntry" target="_blank">Twitter</a> – <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7046321.Natasha_Boyd" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></h5>
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<b>Kate Roth</b></div>
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Inspired by music, film, art and the
wealth of stories she has heard through her career as a professional
hair stylist, Kate Roth decided to get real about her love of writing in
2008. She signed up for a course after-hours at the local high school
called ‘So You Want To Write A Book?’. Indeed, she did! For years Kate
had been dreaming up love stories in her head and she’d even managed to
write a few of them down but it was that class that gave her the drive
to finally do something more with her ideas. The ideas haven’t stopped
flowing since. She enjoys writing in all sub-genres of romance and even
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-8548029787134976762014-10-23T23:38:00.001+11:002014-10-23T23:38:59.254+11:00The Executioner at the Institute for Contaminated Children Review Tour<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">
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<strong>14</strong> The flights of stairs she must climb to get to her room.</div>
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and avoid Donna’s worst fear—humiliation. Her abilities skyrocket.
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When I first picked up The Executioner of the Institute for Contaminated Children I had no idea what I was in for, and I wasn't sorry. The idea of children developing powers has always been an interest of mine, and Donna was a fantastic character to follow into this story.<br />
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Donna is a smart character, and that is actually her power. She has the ability to always pick the right multiple choice question and she has the ability to predict things in games of chance. That is why Donna is sent to the "special" school. Soon Donna learns that something is not right, especially since there are no phones, TV or internet at the school. When students start turning up dead, Donna is determined she's going to find out what's going on.<br />
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Margaret E. Alexander has written a thrilling story that will keep the reader guessing until the very end about who the executioner is. Donna is a strong character who really develops as the story moves. In the beginning she was very timid and she definitely morphed into the butt-kicking heroine that I love, and she will do anything to stand up for what she believes and protect the ones she loves.<br />
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The Executioner of the Institute for Contaminated Children was a thrilling read and I recommend this to anyone who loves superhero stories.<br />
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her from pumping out novel drafts every year. She found her escape in
storytelling and others like her who sometimes preferred the world of
fiction to the real one. <em>The Executioner at the Institute for Contaminated Children</em>
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good use with a graphic novel project on the side. Her wandering focus
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unexpected turn and she ended up writing stories and articles instead of
computer programs. Now she uses every spare minute to write children’s novels
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-67321783586432370062014-10-15T21:48:00.000+11:002014-10-15T21:48:07.450+11:00Take-over Wednesday: Of Fire & Ice & Wind & Rain<div class="MsoNormal">
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Sometimes living in a foreign country is like living on an
alien planet. In your homeland you get used to things being a certain way, but
as soon as you go elsewhere you’ll find that things are hardly ever simple. The
weather is always going to be unpredictable, but at least at home it’s an
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I moved from a dry desert country in the southern hemisphere
to a muggy wetland in the northern, so there’s a lot of getting used to. For
starters the seasons are reversed. I’m used to September being my much beloved
Spring, instead here it turns to Autumn, so what is for me usually a warm and
lively season becomes a cold and bitter one instead.</div>
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Technically speaking, Japan
has 24 seasons called <span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS Mincho';">旬</span>(Jun) which last around ten days a piece, all of which
have unique and varied characteristics, but just like Australia (which
technically has 5) and many other countries around the world, they make use of
the standard four season naming practice for simplicity’s sake. Summer and
Winter are the two high points of each year regardless of how you wish to call
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Summers here can get a bit hot, but while everyone is busy
exclaiming <span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS Mincho';">あついよ</span><span lang="JA"> </span>(Atsui yo “It’s hot!”), I’m
chilling easy because hot here and hot in Australia are two different beasts.
When I left Australia, we were in the midst of a record breaking heatwave of up
to 50°c, which is hot enough to melt roads. So yeah, not really bothered by
heat here. I actually enjoy the Summers here. One of the best days I’ve had was
sitting in a McDonalds that had a broken air conditioner, it made me feel right
at home, like I was back in Australia. The biggest problem with Summer here is
that it is so humid. No matter where you go you wind up drenched in sweat
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On the other hand, Winters here are ridiculously
cold. I do
not like snow. I once spent a hellish two weeks working at an Australian
ski lodge (yes, they do exist) and, aside from wanting to murder
several of the noisier people I had to bunk with,
it left me with a deep passionate hatred of snow. It’s like sand, but
cold.
It gets everywhere and after the first fifteen seconds of ‘ooh, isn’t it
pretty?’, it
gets to be very annoying. In winter here, it snows A LOT. Either I have
the
worst luck on the planet or the weather here hates me, because I keep
getting hit
with record snow storms wherever I am. I am not kidding. A couple of
years ago,
Cheree and I were touring Japan and in that small window of time Tokyo
was hit
by a massive blizzard. We lucked out and were in Kyoto that day, but
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Don’t believe that? Try this one, last year I was living in
Yamanashi (near Mt. Fuji) and we got hit with a ridiculous amount of snow. It
lasted for several weeks and everyone kept commenting on how they’d never seen
so much snow before. One of the teachers even lost a car because their garage
collapsed under it all. People here, having gone through a few major disasters
already, are rather quick to panic at any sign of the abnormal. I’ve spoken
before on the wonders of Conbini<link article="" to=""></link>, but once panic
shopping begins it doesn’t take long before the stores wind up as ghost towns.
Making the mistake of living off Conbini meals and impulse snacks, I was
dismayed to see the steadily dwindling supplies each time I entered. It started
with the readymade food and bread, then all the ramen, then all the basic
elements of food, then all the party snacks, then whatever wasn’t bolted down,
then whatever was. It got so bad that there were rumours of rescue choppers
preparing to make supply drops. At the time I had plenty of food in the house,
unfortunately 90% of it required the basic element of electricity to prepare
and with rolling blackouts it did get pretty dicey. I have since learnt my
lesson, and have a cache of survival food ready in waiting. Just in case.</div>
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To compound matters, there is also an entirely unique
Japanese season. <span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS Mincho';">梅雨</span>(Tsuyu) or Rainy Season.
As I said earlier, I come from a desert
land so I’m not used to seeing so much rain at once. Just days and days of
falling rain at the turn of the season. You get a lot of <span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS Mincho';">台風</span>(Taifuu) or Typhoons during the
Rainy Season. Severe wind and rain ranging from seemingly endless rain to
full-on hurricanes. As a matter of fact we’ve got a major one barreling down on
us right now, registered as the most powerful storm on the planet all year.
I’ve been lucky so far and all the typhoons have petered out before reaching my
location but you can’t dodge every bullet.</div>
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That being said, it’s not all
doom and gloom over here. I can happily confirm that Spring here is exactly
like the Anime said it would be. When the Sakura trees are in bloom, you are
treated to an awe-inspiring sight. Everywhere you go pretty pink petals are
raining from the sky, and it is enough just to be able to watch it happen. I’ve
spent ages just sitting around watching the surreal dance of falling petals and
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-53353547268768286972014-10-13T22:50:00.001+11:002014-10-13T22:50:29.610+11:00When characters evolve<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3kj5QruFCuKesYfNbFR1fPPsW96KJKWdBXxOaKb_V7k8ZwWR41FfJBq2Id3vOh8a068MNyTNI7BgZVxgcytFICMDKhbbhFyJ50FcWFC0LTKasYULwkqtNwwQxDGWVBWvHtlSiEobS9-R/s1600/hint.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3kj5QruFCuKesYfNbFR1fPPsW96KJKWdBXxOaKb_V7k8ZwWR41FfJBq2Id3vOh8a068MNyTNI7BgZVxgcytFICMDKhbbhFyJ50FcWFC0LTKasYULwkqtNwwQxDGWVBWvHtlSiEobS9-R/s1600/hint.jpg" height="200" width="127" /></a>It feels like forever since I started plotting Rin's story before Shinigami Eyes ever became a full fleshed out story, and I can tell you that it has changed (a lot). Even though there are some characters that I knew their roles right from the beginning still changed and developed. I knew Matt was always going to be an otaku, Rin was always going to be, well, Rin, and then there's Misa...<br />
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Where to start... I don't want to give too much away about Misa, but I can tell you that Misa is Rin's imaginary friend, and also the reason why Rin's sent to Japan in the first place.<br />
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I always knew the role Misa was going to play, but the way I wanted to reveal her really changed... At first I tried to be sneaky and do the whole 'unreliable narrator' route with Rin not mentioning that Misa's not even a real girl, so it would lead the reader to think she was just a little sister, but Misa just wouldn't shut up and how could I explain why no one else was talking to her? <br />
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So, I let Misa dictate how she wanted to be treated, and invisible friend it is... I find out that if you go in with a very strict plan about where you want your characters to be at the end of the story, or what you want them to do, then they have no real time to grow... My motto is let the characters be free to disrupt the story, just hopefully not do something as silly as get thrown into a padded cell (that's another character in another story, still working the kinks out of that one... yeah, where can you go when your character wants to be declared cray cray???)<br />
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<b>What's the craziest thing your characters have done that wasn't what you had originally planned out?</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-12173716125100161882014-10-06T21:45:00.006+11:002014-10-06T21:45:57.853+11:00From words to graphics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With less than a month to go before the release of Shinigami Eyes, I'm still in awe that I was able to get everything ready in time, and soon I'll have a shiny paperback to prove that I actually finished it (YAY!!!)<br />
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Writing Shinigami Eyes story with my brother wasn't the only aspects of this novel though. From the start I also had the idea that I wanted to place graphics in the story to help it resemble the manga that is a main part of the story.<br />
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I enjoyed creating the visuals so much that I didn't want to stop there... There was so many other stories that I could tell, and add to at the end of Shinigami Eyes, and that is why I also chose to create a manga, with chapter 1 being released in the paperback version of Shinigami Eyes. I can't say much about the story of the manga or the characters that appear in the storyline as it might give away some crucial plot points of the main story.<br />
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Through this whole journey I have discovered that I enjoy graphics design manga creation just as much as I like writing, and I hope that I'm hoping that I'll be able to create a full length manga based around the world of Shinigami Eyes in the not too distant future.<br />
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But for now, I'm going to ensure Shinigami Eyes is the best it can be for the release, October 31st... and then get some well deserved sleep.<br />
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Don't forget you can pre-order Shinigami Eyes now.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-76837993842583389812014-10-01T23:33:00.000+10:002014-10-01T23:33:04.350+10:00BIG Announcement: Shinigami Eyes available for preorder... but wait, there's more<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wow, I can't believe today's actually the 1st of October... just 30 more days until Shinigami comes out. And as promised I have a big announcement to make.<br />
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Shinigami Eyes is now available to pre-order from Amazon:<br />
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ebook is available for $2.99 from: <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-47040431297473019542014-09-29T23:29:00.000+10:002014-09-29T23:29:23.866+10:00Never a moments restIt's been quite busy on both mine and my brother, Adam's lines lately. We've been passing different editing notes back and forth over the past week, never stopping... and I can't believe it, but the novel looks like it's actually complete.<br />
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I have been getting questions like, how can I work with my brother, and, do I find it challenging. I can answer, I wouldn't have it any other way. But, yes, it can be challenging... especially when I spend two days working on an image just for him to say, "okay, I like it... but, what about this..." Yes, that happened on nearly all the images I completed for the novel.<br />
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But I don't see this as a negative. albeit it's very frustrating, but he's also very critical and wants perfection. And I hope that's what we're going to deliver when Shinigami Eyes gets released October 31st.<br />
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I have been working constantly on getting everything out and ready so I can make this special announcement on Wednesday, and it looks like I'll be making that announcement, so stay tuned for Wednesday to find out something quite exciting that is happening.<br />
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That's me for tonight, now I'm going to try and get some sleep without them being plagued with creepy robotic Japanese singers trying to kill each other... mmm, the things I do for research.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-36094991301924572042014-09-24T20:06:00.001+10:002014-09-24T20:06:13.899+10:00It's been quiet in here lately, but...I know it's definitely been quiet around here lately, but I have an excuse. Adam and I have been busy working hard on the final run through for Shinigami Eyes, preparing some very special graphics and I have come to learn two things:<br />
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Now that the novel is near completion I haven't finished just yet. I have acquired a little helper to help create something special. But I'm not going to say much more about that, mainly because my little helper is a Japanese program and I need to see if I can operate the Japanese interface first.<br />
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Stay tuned, in the next week I will be revealing something big to do with Shinigami Eyes, and you don't want to miss out on this announcement. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-64108597033005474152014-09-17T22:14:00.002+10:002014-09-17T22:14:42.389+10:00Take Over Wednesday - Changing it up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's Wednesday once more and I know I usually let Adam take over the blog to speak about his interesting adventures of living in Japan, but I thought I'd be a nice sister and give him the week off. I think he deserves it since he's given me the final revisions for Shinigami Eyes and has been a pain-in-my-butt... I mean, very helpful and critical art director who's constantly on my back about how to fix the graphics that will accompany the story.<br />
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So, this week I've decided to share a few of my experiences in Japan. Yes, I have been to Japan twice. Both times in winter and going from the heatwaves of Australia to freezing temperatures in Tokyo really is a big adjustment.<br />
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Being in a foreign country really can be quite intimidating and anxious and exciting, all at the same time. Some times it didn't matter about language barriers, for instance all the trains in Tokyo read in Japanese and English, and most restaurants have food displays in their windows so if you don't know what to order you can easily point at it. Some times language barriers as a big issue, like trying to post a box of completely random trinkets (aka toys and hotel shampoos... yes, I stayed at the Disney hotel and had to collect the bottles :p) home to Australia. I was lucky I had a brother who was having a nice 30 minute conversation with the clerk.<br />
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It wasn't just Adam that helped over in Japan though, and I would recommend this to anyone who wants to visit a foreign country, I was able to find tour guides that were able to take us off the beaten track and show us things that we wouldn't have found out by ourselves. I owe some of my research to these tour guides as they took us karaoking and down back streets of Tokyo where I could see the houses and make notes. <br />
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I have tried to learn Japanese, but I don't have the time or patience to sit down and devote myself to another language with everything else going on in my life. One day I will learn it though - that's my promise - and the next time I visit Japan I would like to be able to pick up some words. I'm sure Adam would like that, then when we go to the theme parks or movies he won't have someone sitting beside him going "what just happened?" or "what did she say?"... Although he does the plot summary of movies quite well (I've seen 2 movies in Japanese theatres... that's without subs or dubs and he's kept me up-to-date with the action for most of the movie).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01677563505368503476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248193231958936629.post-78301131574579867932014-09-15T16:02:00.003+10:002014-09-15T16:02:47.301+10:00Shinigami Eyes Cover Reveal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I'm stoked to be able to finally get the chance to reveal the cover, created by the very talented Silvia Paoletta over at <a href="http://www.darkworldbooks.com/shinigami-eyes-cover-reveal/">Dark World Books</a>, for my newest novel, Shinigami Eyes. <br />
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This novel is very special to me, as it's my first official horror novel, a genre I'm very passionate about (ask anyone who knows me... my favourite character from my childhood was Freddy Kruger), but this is the first novel that I have the pleasure of introducing my co-author, and wonderful brother, Adam Smith. <br />
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exist—if it was only that easy. When manga-obsessed otaku, Matt, won’t
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<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">I have enjoyed working on this with my brother, even though he can be very critical sometimes... he wanted everything to be just right, and I can't wait for its release... I have a special announcement coming soon regarding the release, as well as I've been working hard with my artist sister (yeah, very creative family) to create a special giveaway that you don't want to miss.</span></h5>
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