ECHO Book Tour Kick-Off + Int'l Giveaway

ECHO BLOG TOUR hosted by Xpresso Book Tours & Good Choice Reading Blog Tours

Today is the kick-off for the virtual tour featuring my novel Echo, a young adult science fiction adventure. Click on the above image to see the Goodreads page.

Over the next three weeks, Echo will be featured on 50-70 different blogs. Each tour stop will feature a guest blog post written by me, review (not written by me), interview, excerpt, teaser, character highlight, or character interview. It should be a lot of fun, with lots of information being revealed about Echo and its characters.

There will be two big giveaways, offering bookstore gift cards, paperbacks, and ebook copies of the book. Plus, some blogs may hold their own mini-giveaways for one ebook each.

You can find links to this week's tour stops here. These will be mostly reviews. Sometime during the next week, I'll update this post to link to the remaining tour stops. Those will be mostly non-review posts. I intend to visit each blog, so feel free to ask me questions in post comments throughout the tour.

Here's the first of the two big giveaways. It's international.

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Cover Reveal: Broken Gates by D.T. Dyllin

We're revealing a cover for one of my favorite publishers, Dragonfairy Press, for a book authored by D.T. Dyllin, who has guest-posted here a couple of times. In fact, I'm pretty sure I already granted her honorary Fantasy Floozie status.

This is the second book in her P.J. Stone Gates Trilogy.



Title: BROKEN GATES
Author: D.T. Dyllin
Publisher: Dragonfairy Press
Expected Publication: May 24, 2013
Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance


Book Description

P.J. Stone is a Seer who saw too little, too late.

In the past, her biggest worries were boys and school—but war has a way of changing things. Now, the alien Riders are trying to overrun the world. As the last of their kind, P.J. and her friends must find a way to save humanity before there’s nothing left to save.

After choosing a mate, P.J. hoped she'd have time to enjoy her love life. But with everything changing so quickly and major secrets revealed, who knows what the future will bring?

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And, of course, let's not forget the first book in the P.J. Stone Gates Trilogy, Hidden Gates. Click on the cover for more information.


So what do you guys think of the Broken Gates cover?

Finish the Line: Second Rate Chances Blog Tour

I was lucky enough to jump on the Second Rate Chances blog tour. This guest post is different than our usual ones. Today, the book's hero will finish the lines to several ones I post. 

Have fun with it, but first check out this awesome novel that's making several bestseller lists!

Book Summary: Sam wakes up in the hospital expecting to find his girlfriend by his bedside. Instead, he finds a bleached-blond diva, claiming to be his fiancée, hovering over him. When he learns that he's just woken up from a coma and has lost the last three years of his life, any semblance of stability he thought he had falls down around him. All he wants – all he needs – is Lil.

After countless visits with her shrink and too many sleepless nights waiting for the one man she loves to walk back through the door, Lil wants nothing more than to separate herself from the life she used to have. But the moment Sam smiles at her, Lil knows it's going to take more than self-restraint to stay away.

Second-Rate Chances is about a young man fighting to regain his memory, and the one thing in his life that felt real. A modern-day Samson and Delilah, it's a look at what it means to love and be loved, and to fight though it seems hopeless.





Finish the line... with the novel's hero, Sam!

1- At night I love to. . .
curl around Lil. Sometimes I put my feet on her. She hates it.


2- When I'm enraged, the only thing that will calm me down is. . .
either seeing Lil’s face or playing video games.

3- The scent of lavender reminds me of. . . 
my grandma. She always had lavender in bowls, like potpoori, in her house.

4- I believe love is. . .
something that you you hold on to. Once you’ve got it, you try like
hell to keep it.

5- If I was a superhero my power would be. . .
reading minds. Because let’s face it. While Lil and I have strengthened our communication, women are still a strange
species. So sometimes I’d like to see how the inner workings of her mind works.

6- Love can. . .
enlighten life, but it can also make me stronger. I’m strong because of Lil and her love for me.

7- My dreams are. . .
filled with the days ahead as Lil and I prepare to say I do. And of our children because I know we are going to fill this house full of them.

8- My favorite fantasy novel is. . .
Oh wow. Fantasy right? 
Then I’d be a masked man saving the world from harm. But in my quests I’d find this woman and I’d make her mine. 
And I’d have her night after night. While keeping the mask on.

Author Website        Twitter

People have often told me that I live in a fantasy world. Little did they know, I was building an empire of stories in my head to one day share.

I'm a mother first, a wife second, and a writer third. I'm so thankful to have been given this chance to get my stories out of my head and onto paper.

When I'm not writing, I sell plumbing (no I'm not kidding) and read romances that leave my heart a flutter. I know a ridiculous amount of pop culture information and can quote certain movies word for word. Music drives me to write and to also sing off key.

Cover Reveal: The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton

Interesting story: This cover reveal is happening earlier than originally planned. Why? Apparently, someone leaked the cover yesterday!

The author decided to go ahead and reveal it, since it's out of the bag. Sadly, the book description isn't ready yet. But this is the second book in a series, so you can check out the description of the first book to see if you're interested.

Book description coming soon!

Release: September 17th 2013!

Hardcover, 320 pages

Expected publication: September 17th 2013 by Simon Pulse

Other books in the Gods & Monsters series...

I like it! It's similar to the first two, which is good. It bothers me when covers in a series don't stick to a theme. Plus, it's dark and romantic.

To celebrate the cover reveal, author Kelly Keaton is giving away paperback copies of Darkness Becomes Her and A Beautiful Evil. These are the first and second books in the Gods & Monsters series. And this is an international giveaway!

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