Holiday Sale!

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

Astraea Press is having a post-holiday sale.  Many books including Hauntings of the Heart and Sucker for a Hot Rod are only 99 cents.  They are also available on Amazon.

Happy Shopping!

Sale! Sale! Sale!

Sucker for a Hot Rod is on sale this week for only a $2.99!  If you haven't gotten your copy, you should pick it up. :-)

Available at Amazon.

Don't forget to check out the other great books at Astraea Press.  There are some great deals out there.
Http://astraeapress.com, then click on Sale!

Hope you have a fun and safe holiday!

Back from vacation

We're back from vacation and trying to get our life sorted out.  Most everything is put away.  The laundry is washed, but there are eight baskets of it to put away. How did we go through so much clothes?  And I did laundry while we were on vacation.

We took our usual trip to Nisswa, MN to visit Grandma and Grandpa.  The kids had a blast swimming in the lake and playing with all the treasures Grandma had found at garage sales for them.  My son learned to cast a fishing pole and caught his first fish.  It was one of those moments when you can't wait to tell someone something and then you remember that they have passed on. My dad would have loved it. My daughter played tea party with her cousin and danced to Johnny Cash music in the park and the Little One is a dare-devil on the slide off the dock. I got a lot of reading done: Dangerous to Know by Nell Dixon, Lifeline Echoes by Kay Springsteen, and two-thirds of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.  I also got a chance to write.  It's amazing how much you can get done when there isn't an Internet connection readily available.  The worst part of vacation was that I was sick with a cold the entire time. At least it didn't stop me from enjoying the sun.  I have tan lines from my swimsuit for the first time in years.

In other news, Astraea Press is having a sale through the end of the week.  Sucker for a Hot Rod is available for $1.99.  You can't beat that!

Hope you all have a great week.

Summer Reading

Last week, I signed the kids up for the summer reading program at our local library.  They are all in the Read to Me category, so my husband and I will actually be doing the reading.  Three kids and thirty books each.  We should read over ninety books bey the end of July.  Shouldn't be a problem as we usually read a few at bedtime (although if bedtime continues to be as early as it has been the last couple nights, we might have a problem.)

But then there's an adult program too.  When I worked at the library, I was in charge of the program and thought it was so easy to read ten books over the ten weeks of the program.  I had time to read two to three books a week. Now, not so much.  It can take me a month to read a book that used to take me a few hours.

Last summer I didn't sign up for the program, thinking I'd never be able to read that many book.  This summer I'm going to try it. I have my iPod loaded with books from my fellow Astraea Press authors and W.S. Gager has a new book coming out in July.  I'm also going to try Altas Shrugged while we're on vacation. (I've heard a lot about it and it's long enough to count as two books. :-)) So I should have a good selection to choose from.

Does your library have a reading program for adults too?  What's on your reading list?

Mothers' Day Sale

Astraea Press is celebrating Mothers' Day with a sale!  Enter the coupon code CELEBRATEMOM at http://astraeapress.com and get 15% off your order.  


Hurry the sale ends Monday!

Fridays off the Wall with Rebekah Purdy

Today, Rebekah Purdy, fellow Astraea Press author, is joining us for Fridays off the Wall. Her young adult novel, My Dad is a Paranormal Investigator: Seeking Shapeshifters, was released in February. 

      Who would you cast as the main characters in a movie of your latest book? Oh my gosh! I love this question (LOL). I actually spend a lot of time finding actors/actresses who match what I picture my characters look like. So here’s my short list:

Ima Berry: Britt Robertson

Carsen Shinew: Booboo Stewart

Talon Yutu: Alex Meraz

Matt: Ian Somerhalder

Ferren Shinew: Victoria Justice

Lou Berry: Steve Zahn

Brady: Sterling Knight

    I can see Ian as Matt.  If your main character could invite anyone to dinner (fictional or otherwise), who would it be? She’d probably invite Taylor Lautner over. Not only is he a great actor, but he’s got some mad fighting skills! And well, his abs don’t hurt either.

     I've heard Taylor's local.  Maybe you could work something out. :-)  Do you have any characters who keep bugging you for their own book? Will you give them one? YES! That would be Matt. And let me say for the record, you’ll be seeing more of him in the next two My Dad’s a Paranormal Investigator books. Lots of fun stuff in store for him.

      

I thought Matt was very interesting.  I can't wait to read a story about him. What one thing would make your writing space perfect? I’d love it if it could be more secluded. When we build our new house (in a couple of years), I’m already trying to con my hubby into putting in a secret passage that leads to a private office. Think Scooby-Doo hidden rooms (LOL). Ultimately, I’d like to have it overlook a lake or pond or something. But we’ll see.

    A secret passage would be so much fun.  Who knows what lurks at the end of the tunnel?  LOL. When the power goes out, what do you do? (Cell phone service is out too.) I like to pull out flashlights/light candles and read. But I also have notebooks for my stories, so I’d likely be jotting down notes for whatever I’m working on at the time. There’s something kind of fun about hanging out without all the distractions.

More about My Dad is a Paranormal Investigator: Seeking Shapeshifters

Blurb:  Sixteen year old Ima Berry (pronounced I’m a) leads anything but a normal life. For starters, the ridiculous name her eccentric dad gave her is always the opening for a good joke. Not to mention the fact he makes his living as a supernatural investigator, which has them moving around every few months. It’s hard to hang out with new friends when she spends all her time trying to prove the existence of Bigfoot, ghosts, fairies and any other number of paranormal creatures. Unfortunately, the cases always end in disaster. That is until now.

On a whim, Ima’s father decides to move them to Point Hope, Alaska. Here, he plans to investigate the possibility of shifters amongst the Inuit tribes. Ima isn’t thrilled with the move, until she meets an Inuit guy named Carsen. Not only is he hot, but he’s also a star basketball player, and he’s interested in her. Too bad his best friend, Talon, doesn’t like her and takes every opportunity he can to discourage the relationship. Ima has no idea what she’s done to make him mad, but there’s no denying the strange connection between them.

As things grow more serious with Carsen, Ima uncovers a secret about him and some of the residents of Point Hope. A secret that will force her to choose between her father’s already dwindling career and her new found love. And with the knowledge of this secret comes danger…a danger that could cost them their lives.

Buy Links:

Amazon

Astraea Press

Barnes and Noble

You can get in touch with Rebekah and learn more about her books here:

Blog: http://rebekahlpurdy.wordpress.com/

Website: http://www.wix.com/sisterswhowrite/sww

If you are an author who would like to participate in Friday Off the Wall, please email me at joselynvaughn @gmail.com (no spaces).

Have a great weekend.