Kaylyn Anderson (Fractured Legacy Series) #Museday

Kaylyn Anderson is another of my characters from the Fractured Legacy Series–the one most of the chaos seems to revolve around. 

After a short stint working for their uncle’s bail bond recovery business, Kaylyn and her sister Cole were recruited as paranormal investigators with Aicil. Three years later,her first encounter with her new boss, Jonah Troyer, didn’t go so well for Kaylyn. In part because she was being terrorized in her dreams by an unknown entity, but also because she’s stubborn and set in her own ways (much like Jonah, really). 

Kaylyn is another of my characters with an affinity for snakes and owns a pet corn snake named Frank (he’s named after a snake I caught as a kid).

Favorite color: Red

Favorite drink: Iced Coffee

Favorite food: Chicken and dumplings made from the family recipe

Education: B.A. in History

Beyond the Divide will reveal more about her past, and why she’s so stubborn and closed off from most people. She can be trouble, but she’s a fun girl to share my brain with. 

 

 

Gone Living #Row80

I need a “Gone Living” sign–like those “Gone Fishing” signs.

It’s not that writing and being around social media isn’t an important part of my life, but when things are already crashing into what is always a busy time of the year for me, things have insane, and I had to step away from some things for a while.

Why have I been MIA for the last 10ish days?

1. The weather here has been insane, and I had already hurt my back shoveling snow, then I fell down a flight of stairs. So, sitting in front of my computer hasn’t been exactly enjoyable.
2. The weather  has also resulted in crazy-fluctuating-weather related illnesses, and particularly for me migraines.
3. I had to take the proofread version of Bound and Unbroken and format it for Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Createspace.
4. Upcoming release also means release party planning and tour planning, so I haven’t much made it past my inbox when logging onto the internet.
5. I decided to start a business out of the blue and I’m into week 2 of my big launch (on top of still working my old office job).

Conclusion–Yes! I’m very far behind in the areas of blogging & social media, but I’m only getting about 15 minutes a day to log on and take care of those things right now.

Book 1: Beyond the Divide (Paranormal, Urban Fantasy) 9959 words

Book 2: Bound and Unbroken (BDSM Romance) 73k(ish) words

February Goals

Writing

1. Finish the final polish on Bound and Unbroken
   Final editing fixes by Feb 3
   Send it off for a fresh critique
   Proofreading by Feb 8 – in progress at the moment
   Finish eARC formatting by Feb 10 & send ARCs out by Feb 11 to prepare for Book Blitz & Tours
   Incorporate final Proofread & prepare to click publish on February 24!
2. Beyond the Divide–I’ve actually been working a little here and there on Beyond the Divide and Wild Guardian. I pulled up my last draft of Wild Guardian, which I haven’t touched in about 8 months and I’ve been working through it, and making notes for some changes. With Beyond the Divide, I’m sitting down and adding to the Reference spreadsheet I created for the series and collecting all of the additional details from Fractured Legacy, so I’ll be good to go again.

Non-Writing Goals

1. Live Healthier
   Fresh Juice at least once per day (hit or miss)
   30 minutes of exercise each day (since it has been nice, I’ve been making it to the cemetery to walk again!)
   Drink 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water twice a day. (Yep!)
2. Become more active in my regular blogging activities and in visiting other blogs. (That’s all a big NO!)
   Visit & comment on at least 3 blogs per day
   Reply to blog comments & make more return visits.
   At least 1 meaningful interaction on Google+/Twitter/Facebook per day
   Connect with someone new on Google+/Twitter/Facebook each day
   Do at least 1 marketing task each day
3. Launch my business with Jamberry!
   My launch party ends at the end of the month and my goal is to do $400 in sales, I’m about 1/3 of the way there. Next month it will be all about finishing my first fast start and adding someone to my team.

Now I’m off to catch up on a few blog visits before I have to cook dinner.

A Round of Words in 80 Days is the writing challenge that knows you have a life.

We are all different and we all have different demands on our time.  Why should we all have the same goal?  The simple answer is that we shouldn’t.  If you want to be a writer, then you have to be able to roll with the punches and adapt to your changing circumstances.  If that means changing your goals when your life blows up, so be it.  ROW80 is the challenge that champions the marriage of writing and real life.

#ROW80

Bound and Unbroken: Blurb Debut and Teasers!

Lena is perfectly content spending her Friday evenings at home enjoying the quiet, but when her roommate insists that she needs to get out more and drags her to a sports bar, she shows him up by flirting with the handsome stranger who sits down next to her. Their anonymous conversation leads to a shared cab ride, but Lena’s conscience puts a damper on the evening. Her near-fling left to become a memory.

Until she finds him roaming the halls of the school where she teaches.

Eric has enough to deal with, recently given custody of his seven-year-old nephew, but he wants something more from Lena. When he reveals his desires, can she submit to what he wants?

And will his binds be enough to keep her?

Note: This book contains explicit sexual content (including BDSM themes), graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: M/f anal play, bondage, spanking, exhibitionism.

Vote on the Fractured Legacy Cast and win the chance to Name a Character!

Want to name a character in an upcoming Darkness Bound book?

All you have to do is help me choose the main cast! Make you picks below and one voter will be picked at random to name a character to appear in the sequel to Fractured Legacy!! (Note: Name must be appropriate and subject to my final approval, and I can’t guarantee the fate of the character–I can’t even control Jonah!!)

Voting ends at noon on Friday (Eastern Time).

And here are my nominees, thanks to my Street Team!! Leave a comment with your top pic for Jonah, Kaylyn, and Cole.

Fractured Legacy Tour Continues Today! (#giveaway)

The second stretch of the Fractured Legacy Blog Tour begins today!!

You can check out the first post at: Never Judge a Book by it’s Movie

Here’s the current schedule:

November 4 – Never Judge a Book by it’s Movie
November 5 – INerded
November 7 – Sally Sue Ember’s Blog
November 8 – Amber Daulton’s Blog
November 12 – Atty’s Attic & The Demon Librarian
November 13 – Shayna Varadeaux Books
November 14 – Kaidans Seduction
November 15 – Mom With A Kindle
November 18 – The Library of Erana
November 19 – Books, Besties, and Booze
November 20 – TW Brown on zombies, Border Collies, and the Indie writing scene
November 21 – The (Mis)Adventures of a Twenty-Something Year Old Girl
November 22 – Dalene’s Book Reviews

I’ll add direct links as each post goes up through the tour, and as each post goes live, you’ll get more chances to enter the grand prize giveaway!

In the Spirit of Halloween, Fractured Legacy is #Free

Through October 31, you can get a copy of Fractured Legacy free from Amazon!

Amazon US: http://amzn.to/Hch4xw

Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1av4Zwp

Amazon CA: http://amzn.to/17U36XG

And other Amazon stores around the globe!

After the sale, the book will return to it’s regular price of $2.99.

Fractured Legacy

Kaylyn Anderson’s fascination with abandoned places and dark creatures kindled her work as a paranormal investigator. But when dreams begin to distort reality, she questions what is real and pulls away from everyone she trusts. The opportunity to investigate the Teague Hotel–a long-abandoned landmark that has always piqued her curiosity–provides a chance to redeem herself. Unraveling the hotel’s secrets won’t be easy, but Kaylyn soon finds herself the target of a dark entity that has been trapped in the building for decades.

If Kaylyn stands any chance of defeating the spirit, she’ll have to accept that her fears are real and convince fellow investigators that she hasn’t lost her mind.

For more on Fractured Legacy, check out the posts from the Scavenger Hunt Tour and Giveaway.

The Paperback is also available from Amazon, and eligible for Matchbook, so after the sale ends, if you buy the Paperback at regular price, you can add on the ebook for Free.

#CoffinHop: Horror Tagline Challenge

Horror Movie Taglines!

For some Halloween fun, name the movie that goes with the tagline! We’re on the honor system here, so no cheating!

“Ding dong. You’re dead.”

“Sometimes dead is better.”

“They’re here.”

“If this one doesn’t scare you, you’re already dead!”

“The lucky ones died first.”

“Who will survive, and what will be left of them?”

“…and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!”

“Kiss Your Nerves Good-Bye!”

“Consult your doctor! Bring your seat belts!”

“A scream that wakes you up, might be your own…”

“The Horror is driving him crazy”

“It is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it.”

“By night they leave their graves, crawling, shambling, through empty streets, whimpering, pleading, begging for his blood!”

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Thanks for stopping by for the Coffin Hop! Please leave your comments below, and be sure to check out the rest of the posts by heading back to the Coffin Hop HQ.

And don’t forget to check out the Death by Drive-In Anthology, “a collection of some of the best and brightest of the Coffin Hop crew, with 21 amazing B-movie inspired stories from some of the best Indie authors around. All profits from the anthology (as well as our Coffin Hop store) will be donated to LitWorld.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization supporting child literacy and social improvement the world over.”

And remember every stop is offering some great prizes, including me!

One lucky winner will get an ebook copy of Fractured Legacy and a $10 Amazon Gift Card, so head on over to rafflecopter to enter!

 

#CoffinHop Day 2: Halloween Favorites

Since joining the Coffin Hop was a spur of the moment thing, I still haven’t had time to actually sit back and figure out what I’m doing for the next few days.

Family Traditions–Halloween is all about the scare!

I don’t know about most families, but for my family Halloween was always the biggest and most exciting holiday of the year. If you want to protect your kids from slightly-traumatic Halloween scares, I recommend you keep them away from my family. We love a good scare and go all out to have the scariest decorations and costumes.

Favorite Tradition: I’ve always been the person to go out looking for scary stories and events. My grandparents took me to the Haunted Fields every year and it was my favorite part of the holiday. I love the heart-pounding adrenaline rush of walking through the scary scenes and never knowing what’s going to pop out of a corner. And scary people running at the group with chainsaws is a nice touch.

Favorite Costume: Jason Voorhees (yes, I was a twelve year old girl, dressed as Jason). I went all out–made a huge machete out of cardboard and tinfoil since I wasn’t allowed to carry a real one, put on a hockey mask, some dirty baggy clothes, and went out to scare all of the trick-or-treating children. Most kids aren’t safe from my mom either, who likes to put a body bag out on the front porch, and have someone hide in it to jump out and scare trick-or-treaters.  I’ll thank her for my demented kind of Halloween humor.

Favorite Memory: In 1998, TNT MonsterVision had a Dusk to Dawn Friday the 13th Marathon hosted by Joe Bob Briggs. My sisters, brother, and I camped out in the living room to watch it. At the end of the first movie when Jason jumped out of the water, my brother also jumped, bumping into a side table and knocking a glass of water over all of us. I miss the days of Joe Bob Briggs.

As a kid, what were your favorite Halloween traditions, memories, or costumes?

Thanks for stopping by for the Coffin Hop! Please leave your comments below, and be sure to check out the rest of the posts by heading back to the Coffin Hop HQ.

Some must see stops & contests:

• Coffin Hop Art Show!
• Halloween Mad Libs contest
• Halloween Around the World
• A pumpkin decorating contest
• Coffin Hop 2013, Giveaway & Prose
• Coffin Hop with Wolfen Secrets

And don’t forget to check out the Death by Drive-In Anthology, “a collection of some of the best and brightest of the Coffin Hop crew, with 21 amazing B-movie inspired stories from some of the best Indie authors around. All profits from the anthology (as well as our Coffin Hop store) will be donated to LitWorld.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization supporting child literacy and social improvement the world over.”

And remember every stop is offering some great prizes, including me!

One lucky winner will get an ebook copy of Fractured Legacy and a $10 Amazon Gift Card, so head on over to rafflecopter to enter!

Coffin Hop! October 24–31, 2013

I’m a little late to the party, but I just discovered this awesome Coffin Hop!

What is a Coffin Hop, you may well ask?The quick answer is that we are a loose association of hundreds of horror authors and artists who get together for the week before Halloween, when we throw a colossal online party with prizes, giveaways and all the crazy you could want leading up to All Hallow’s Eve. Come back from October 24 – 31 to get in on the biggest, baddest, Helloweeniest online event of the year! Free books! Contests! Prizes! NEW SURPRISES AT EVERY SITE!

I’m pretty excited to be a part of this event (and it looks like I discovered it just in time!!). I have already jumped around to a few of the blogs, and you won’t want to miss what they have going on! To view a list of the participants, check out the Coffin Hop HQ to click and view more than 70 participating blogs until you can’t take any more Halloweeny fun.

There are also giveaways at each participating blog!

Let’s get the basics covered, so we can get on with the celebration!

My Giveaway!!

An eBook of Fractured Legacy and a $10 Amazon Giftcard.

To enter, you’ll have to click over to rafflecopter, since WordPress has a thing against scripts.

I’ll be back with more posts throughout the Coffin Hop to share some bits of my writing and some Halloween Tales.

I don’t know about you, but I’m off to see what awaits on the other participating blogs…

 

Related articles

• #CoffinHop Day 2: Halloween Favorites (skyecallahan.wordpress.com)
• #CoffinHop: Horror Tagline Challenge (skyecallahan.wordpress.com)

Fractured Legacy: Live on Amazon! (#Paranormal #UF)

I don’t know how or why, but Fractured Legacy sped through Amazon’s review process and is now available! 

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.ca
• Amazon.co.uk

Fractured Legacy

Kaylyn Anderson’s fascination with abandoned places and dark creatures kindled her work as a paranormal investigator. But when dreams begin to distort reality, she questions what is real and pulls away from everyone she trusts. The opportunity to investigate the Teague Hotel–a long-abandoned landmark that has always piqued her curiosity–provides a chance to redeem herself. Unraveling the hotel’s secrets won’t be easy, but Kaylyn soon finds herself the target of a dark entity that has been trapped in the building for decades.

If Kaylyn stands any chance of defeating the spirit, she’ll have to accept that her fears are real and convince fellow investigators that she hasn’t lost her mind.

You can also find it on Goodreads | 3 Chapters on Wattpad

The Fractured Legacy Release Tour is going strong, earn entries into the giveaway (A Fractured Legacy signed paperback, bookmark with mini-book charm, and other swag–US) by commenting at each post and for collecting all of the clues to put together the passcode at the end of the tour.