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Self-Published Marketing

Posted on December 24, 2013 2 Comments

Another writer once asked me why, OH WHY, did I bother with live models? They asked, “Isn’t that time-consuming? Expensive? What if the photos don’t come out right? What if the models don’t understand their characters’ emotions?” The questions went on and on . . . I simply responded, “Well, first of all, what would […]

UNDERTOW novel in the news!

Posted on November 29, 2013 Leave a Comment

UNDERTOW has some awesome fans – I have been very blessed in that respect. Readers, reviewers, and Cape Codders have all become quite a fabulous cheering section. To them all, I cannot say THANK YOU enough :) Today, I am sharing some pictures, reviews, and media from the past month. UNDERTOW released on October 13th. […]

Meet the UNDERTOW cast – Alex Duanais

Posted on November 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

If ever there was an unsung hero in the UNDERTOW insanity, it has to be Alex Duanais, our faithful photographer. I stupidly assumed I could take the photos (cue rolling on floor laughing) and thankfully John Sullivan had a photographer on standby – Alex. Young as he was, he did a fabulous job!! Shooting what […]

Mall Madness!

Posted on November 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

It has been an amazing ride with UNDERTOW thus far, and I can’t thank the fans, my family, Cape Cod, and my fellow writers enough! A big high-five to the Fiction Fanatics and author Trisha Leaver (check our her Facebook Page here). Huge thanks to Nate, Jill, the newspapers, the local bookshops, and John Sullivan […]

Why negative book reviews are bad for the reviewer.

Posted on November 6, 2013 20 Comments

*** FYI – this post is about reviews that are BRUTAL – 1 and 2 stars that are just riddled with scorn for the book. That said, here we go! *** It is no secret that I love to review books I have adored. If you kick around on this blog, you will find them. […]

Meet the UNDERTOW cast – Ana Lane

Posted on October 7, 2013 Leave a Comment

Every character in UNDERTOW has their own back story – not just little details, but HUGE stories. I wrote it that way so that readers would connect with multiple characters and not just Eila and Raef. As book review blog Twin Spin writes, “Although there was one main character in Eila, there was a great and […]

Meet the Undertow Cast – MJ Williams

Posted on September 30, 2013 Leave a Comment

Finding MJ was up there with finding Kian – basically I was screwed. I had resorted to digging through RF sights and praying I could drop a nameless model into what I needed. But after weeks of searching, I came up with a big, fat NOTHING. When I relayed the fact that I needed a […]

Meet the Undertow Cast – Raef Paris

Posted on September 28, 2013 2 Comments

When I was searching for faces of the UNDERTOW characters, I found it exceedingly difficult to match a real face to a fictional character. A character who had lived in my head for YEARS. Raef O’Reilly (Paris) was a HUGE player in UNDERTOW. He is an immortal killer who decides to protect Eila against his […]

Meet The UNDERTOW Cast – Eila Walker

Posted on September 27, 2013 2 Comments

When I was writing UNDERTOW, I had a huge desire to find local Cape Cod kids to be the models for the story. Finding them, however, wasn’t so easy. But when Kim Rocha, a Cotuit resident and UNDERTOW Beta reader, said she believed “Eila Walker” was the girl who lived next to her, I had […]

Bus Driving . . . and why it requires insanity.

Posted on September 25, 2013 4 Comments

So I have come to the realization that I am stupid. No, no – seriously. I mean, my current M-F job (plus some weekends, when my mouth turns mutinous and blurts out, “Yeah – I’ll drive the team!”) is as a school bus driver. No, not the small suckers that had the butt bitten off […]