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Wednesday, May 27, 2020



Twelve-year-old BFF’s Ginnie West and Tillie Taylor, want to be sisters. Ginnie's widowed dad plus Tillie's divorced mom could equal a lifetime of round-the-clock girl talk and slumber parties. Too bad Dad vowed to never marry again. 

Ginnie and Tillie come up with the perfect scheme to change his mind: ‘Operation Secret Sisters’ (aka OSS). After all, if they can’t get Dad to move on, Tillie can’t move in.

Things get more complicated when Ginnie stumbles across her mom’s hidden journals. Ginnie can finally get to know the mother she doesn’t remember and her dad doesn’t talk about—if Dad doesn’t take them away.

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Did you Know that today, 23 May is Ginnie West's 12th Birthday? What a great way to celebrate her birthday by sharing this book with your friends!

When Monique isn’t writing, you can find her playing taxi driver to one or more of her 12 children, plotting her next novel, scrapbooking, or being the “Mamarazzi” at any number of child-oriented events.

Even though she realizes there will never be enough hours in any given day, Monique tries very hard to enjoy the journey that is her life. She shares it with a terrific husband, her dozen children and 3 in-law kids, eleven granddarlings, 5 cats, and many real and imaginary friends.


She is the author of five published books (and several unpublished ones) and is in two anthologies. You can find more about Monique and her works at: www.moniquebucheger.blogspot.com 


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Saturday, May 23, 2020

Happy Perpetual 12th Birthday to Ginnie and Toran West!

Wow!! I can't believe it's been 4 years since I posted on this blog!!

I am building a new website--but it isn't ready to go live yet-- so I am on this one and I am excited to post the newest news in the Ginnie West series.


Today, May 23, is Ginnie and Toran West's 
perpetual 12th birthday

And the kickoff to the blog tour celebrating making The Secret Sisters Club into an audiobook--my first audiobook EVER!! :) 

It's been a fun and crazy journey bringing the voices in my head to life outside my head and onto the listening device of your choice! :) 

My narrator, Hillary Straga, is very talented at voices --especially accents. She has been a pleasure to work with. 

Here is the blurb to the Secret Sisters Club: 


Twelve-year-old BFF’s Ginnie West and Tillie Taylor, want to be sisters. Ginnie's widowed dad plus Tillie's divorced mom could equal a lifetime of round-the-clock girl talk and slumber parties. Too bad Dad vowed to never marry again. Ginnie and Tillie come up with the perfect scheme to change his mind: ‘Operation Secret Sisters’ (aka OSS). After all, if they can’t get Dad to move on, Tillie can’t move in.

Things get more complicated when Ginnie stumbles across her mom’s hidden journals. Ginnie can finally get to know the mother she doesn’t remember and her dad doesn’t talk about—if Dad doesn’t take them away.



Please join us this week and hop around the internet checking out the blogs that are hosting The Secret Sisters Club. 

Thank you!

Laugh lots ... Love much ... Write on! 






Monday, May 16, 2016

The Gladiator and The Guard by Annie Douglass Lima

I'm excited to announce that my young adult action and adventure novel, The Gladiator and the Guard, is now available for purchase! This is the second book in the Krillonian Chronicles, sequel to The Collar and the Cavvarach

First Things First: a Little Information about Book 1: 


Bensin, a teenage slave and martial artist, is desperate to see his little sister freed. But only victory in the Krillonian Empire's most prestigious tournament will allow him to secretly arrange for Ellie's escape. Dangerous people are closing in on her, however, and Bensin is running out of time.  With his one hope fading quickly away, how can Bensin save Ellie from a life of slavery and abuse?


What is the Collar for, and What is a Cavvarach?


The story is set in a world very much like our own, with just a few major differences.  One is that slavery is legal there.  Slaves must wear metal collars that lock around their neck, making their enslaved status obvious to everyone.  Any slave attempting to escape faces the dilemma of how and where to illegally get their collar removed (a crime punishable by enslavement for the remover).  

Another difference is the popularity of a martial art called cavvara shil.  It is fought with a cavvarach (rhymes with "have a rack"), a weapon similar to a sword but with a steel hook protruding from partway down its top edge.  Competitors can strike at each other with their feet as well as with the blades.  You win in one of two ways: disarming your opponent (hooking or knocking their cavvarach out of their hands) or pinning their shoulders to the mat for five seconds.



Click here to order The Collar and the Cavvarach from Amazon 
for $2.99 a discounted price of just 99 cents through May 30th!
 
And now, The Gladiator and the Guard, with another awesome cover by the talented Jack Lin!

 
Bensin, a teenage slave and martial artist, is just one victory away from freedom. But after he is accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he is condemned to the violent life and early death of a gladiator. While his loved ones seek desperately for a way to rescue him, Bensin struggles to stay alive and forge an identity in an environment designed to strip it from him. When he infuriates the authorities with his choices, he knows he is running out of time. Can he stand against the cruelty of the arena system and seize his freedom before that system crushes him?

Click here to order The Gladiator and the Guard in Kindle format from Amazon 
for $2.99 a discounted price of just 99 cents through May 30th!


Click here to order The Gladiator and the Guard from Smashwords (for Nook or in other digital formats) 
for $2.99 a discounted price of just 99 cents through May 30th!


Annie Douglass Lima spent most of her childhood in Kenya and later graduated from Biola University in Southern California. She and her husband Floyd currently live in Taiwan, where she teaches fifth grade at Morrison Academy. She has been writing poetry, short stories, and novels since her childhood, and to date has published twelve books (two YA action and adventure novels, four fantasies, a puppet script, and five anthologies of her students’ poetry). Besides writing, her hobbies include reading (especially fantasy and science fiction), scrapbooking, and international travel.


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Sunday, January 3, 2016

HUGE Middle-Grade Book Promotion-FREE to $.99. :)

I'm happy to be part of a HUGE multi-author promotion featuring a wide assortment of middle-grade books ranging in price from FREE to .99.  For all of you who need to fill your kids' e-readers with awesome books--this promo is for YOU. ;)

The Multi-Author Middle-Grade Book Promotion starts January 4, 2016 and ends January 7, 2016.


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All Jacob wants is to make the basketball team. All the Lorkon want is to control the magical powers Jacob doesn't know he possesses.
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Twelve-year-old Steven never wondered where the Loch Ness monster or Big Foot came from until he found a stone box with a dangerous secret--one people are willing to kill for!
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More than anything, Benjamin Ravenspell wants a pet, but when he buys a mouse named Amber, he gets more than he bargained for.

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Laughing and Learning Little Life Lessons
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When a blast from the past shows up and makes her BFF go nutburgers, Ginnie is torn between helping her friend and getting some very important questions answered.

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To save his friends from a dystopian future Earth, Nikolas leads them to a fantastic Moon in the past. But what happens when the fantastic becomes fatal?

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Explore the magical history of Kendra Kandlestar's world in this collection of bonus tales from the Land of Een.
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DREAMS: Dorothy called it Oz, Alice called it Wonderland, but Nightmares call it HOME.
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When Turik finds a special egg his Grandfather is kidnapped and he must balance his power for good with the strength of the evil that wishes to consume him.
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Felicity, an ordinary sparrow learns that she can do extraordinary things!
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George, the magical basset hound, is on the trail of the mysterious ghosty haunting his Packmate, Tillie.
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Carter's life changes when an old man entrusts him with a book of magical spells, one of which grants the power to raise people from the dead.

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The future looks bleak unless eighteen-year-old Lance and his young New Camelot Earth Warriors can save the planet from catastrophic climate change.



Enjoy your new books! :-)

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Day 12 of 12 Days of Back to School Books The Avery Shaw Experiment by Kelly Oram


"When Avery Shaw’s heart is shattered by her life-long best friend, she chooses to deal with it the only way she knows how—scientifically.   The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. She’s going to find the cure. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart.  Avery finds the solution to her troubles in the form of Aiden’s older brother Grayson. The gorgeous womanizer is about to be kicked off the school basketball team for failing physics. He’s in need of a good tutor and some serious extra credit. But when Avery recruits the lovable Grayson to be her “objective outside observer,” she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for, because Grayson has a theory of his own: Avery doesn’t need to grieve. She needs to live. And if there’s one thing Grayson Kennedy is good at, it’s living life to the fullest."
Buy your copy here:
http://www.amazon.com/Avery-Shaw-Experiment-Kelly-Oram-ebook/dp/B00CMLBK9U/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=00RG854QJFQRKJVCMXAN


 Kelly Oram wrote her first novel at age fifteen--a fan fiction about her favorite music group, The Backstreet Boys, for which her family and friends still tease her. She's obsessed with reading, talks way too much, and likes to eat frosting by the spoonful. She lives outside of Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, four children, and a cat named Mr. Darcy.


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Question and Answer with the Author


1.      Given unlimited resources, what would be your ideal writing environment?
With truly unlimited resources, my ideal environment would change based on the book I was writing. It would be anything from a cabin in the woods, to a house on the beach to a hut in the jungle. I would love to live similar to the setting of my book as I write. One thing would always be the same though--quiet and peaceful. I'd need a place to myself where I could write uninterrupted!2.      Where do you actually write?This varies. I have a home office that I love, but I often leave to write. Sometimes I just need to get out of the house. I'll go to the library or the local coffee shop, or sometimes I'll go to the park if it's not too hot.

10 Fun Facts about Kelly Oram

1. I love to sail but am terrified of the ocean. (Being on the boat is good. In the water is bad!)
2. I am a redhead. I have four kids—all blond. My sister is a blond. She has four kids—all redheads. Go figure.
3. I’m left handed.
4. My favorite food is steak and mashed potatoes.
5. I am credited as associate producer for the independent film Amber Alert.
6. I got married at the ripe age of 20. (We’ll celebrate 14 years this September!)
7. My cat’s name is Mr. Darcy. My kids think it’s a weird name, but they are amused at all adults’ responses when they learn his name.
8. I live for road trips. Best vacation I ever took was a three-week coast-to-coast-and-back drive with my father.
9. I was a choir geek in high school and have a great appreciation for the movie Pitch Perfect.
10. I took both golf and bowling classes in college. (I still suck at both.)