Jennie Bennett, Romance Author

Are you a fan of LDS Romance? Well I have a giveaway for you! Roseanne is a dear friend of mine who just released her first audiobook and she's been kind enough allow me to giveaway a copy. Here's the deets via Goodreads - Cathee is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has suffered from severe post traumatic stress disorder for several years. During a vacation with her four year old daughter to Topeka, Kansas, she meets Garrett, a widowed therapist. He hopes Cathee will let him help her work through her issues, but her past has come back to haunt her. Sounds good, no? If you'd like to win, fill out the rafflecopter below. a Rafflecopter giveaway This runs until Monday. Good luck!

I haven't been so great about reading this year, it's mostly because I've been beta reading like crazy, but I'm also missing out on some published books that I should've already read. Yeah, I haven't even watched Beautiful Creatures much less read the book. So when I heard about the Summer Book Trek I had to sign up. Nothing like the prospect of winning more books to get me reading ;) All of the details are here and you can sign up and join the challenge here . So what am I going to read in July? Far World: Water Keep by J. Scott Savage  Descendant by Nicole Giles The 13th Reality by James Dashner I happened to get all of these books signed while I was at LDS Storymakers and if I complete the challenge I'll be giving them away! Here's to a summer filled with good books!

You already know that Google reader is leaving us on July 1st, but you might not have known that Google Friend Connect is going with it. There will no longer be that friendly "follow" button with everyone's happy faces on our sidebars. It sucks, but it isn't the only way for people to follow your blog. A lot of people were talking about feedly, but I didn't find it that user friendly, so I've been using bloglovin'  instead. It's easy to use and it's easy to put a follow button in your side bar. The switch is less than three weeks away, so be ready! Go here to find out how to import your google reader to bloglovin' and here to get a button for your sidebar. Happy blog reading!

Another huge thank you to Jolly Fish Press and Teri Harman for letting me read Blood Moon ! Here's the blurb: Willa dreams of true events and her best friend is a ghost. Simon can heal any wound with a touch and senses others’ emotions, intentions. All their lives they’ve felt alone in their bizarre abilities, hiding behind a facade of normalcy, wondering why and how. The night Simon walks into the Twelve Acres Diner and meets Willa face to face, in a swirl of electric heat, they are bound to one another and glimpse the magic of who they are. Across town a witch is held prisoner in the derelict basement of an old Victorian house. One night as it rains, she dares to reach her filthy, scarred hand out the window. Willa, walking home from work, recognizes the pathetic hand from a recent, terrible dream. After a daring rescue of the witch, Willa and Simon are catapulted into the alluring but dangerous world of witchcraft and the magic of The Six Gifts. Answers to all...

I feel like I've been overwhelming you guys with this stuff, but I promise, this is one is worth it. I love this book so much I want to squeeze it until it dies. When it releases ya'll are gonna LOVE it! K, here's Cassie with the deets: I know some of you have already seen the awesomeness that is my cover for HOW TO DATE A NERD, but this is the official reveal, so pretend it's the first time you're seeing it, ha! And yes, I came off really braggy, but I love this cover so much. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect one. Okay, and if you are reading my babbles here instead of just scrolling to the cover, I know most of you have followed my journey with HOW TO DATE A NERD and know just how big a deal this is for me to get it out there to everyone. It's scheduled right now for a September release, and here's to hoping I don't lose my mind waiting :) And I want to thank all of you for the support you've shown me in the past two years si...

One of the things I like most about blogging is the amazing sense of community. Someone gets an agent, has a cover reveal, or is doing a book launch and everyone rushes in to help. Well what if one of our own was in serious need with something other than their books? We'd still step up to help, or course. I've been watching the outpouring of love for Ben Wolverton and it's left me totally breathless, but there's more that can be done. His father, David Farland, is an author. He supports his family off his books. As all of us writers well know, the benefits package is really crappy. Now imagine one of your children needs 1 million plus worth of medical expenses. It's a little overwhelming. Here's the deal, a few of us bloggers got together and thought, 'if we all donated at least $5 in one day, how much would that add up to helping Ben?' So here we are, asking for a small sacrifice to help one of our own. If it's not too much ask, click on the...

If you're here for IWSG that post is below.  Today I'm honored to welcome one of my 5 am writing buddies, Donna K Weaver! Her book A Change of Plans just came out and I couldn't be more excited for her! Here's the low down, When twenty-five-year-old Lyn sets off on her cruise vacation, all she wants is to forget that her dead fiancé was a cheating scumbag. What she plans is a diversion uncomplicated by romance. What she gets is Braedon, an intriguing young surgeon. He's everything her fiancé wasn't, and against the backdrop of the ship's make-believe world, her emotions come alive. Unaware of the sensitive waters he navigates, Braedon moves to take their relationship beyond friendship—on the very anniversary Lyn came on the cruise to forget. Lyn's painful memories are too powerful, and she runs off in a panic. But it's hard to get away from someone when you're stuck on the same ship. Things are bad enough when the pair finds themselves o...

Yay for the first Wednesday of the month and the Insecure Writers Support Group! Hosted by the awesome Alex J. Cavanaugh I have a lot going on this month, which can lead to a lot of insecurity. I'm re-writing my NaNo novel from scratch, I'm querying, I'm planning a party for my writer's group, and I'm just trying to keep up with summer madness of weddings, parties, and camping trips. So basically words aren't enough to describe the chaos in my life. Thank goodness for Gifs. When I decided to step in to the querying waters, I thought I'd take it a little at a time. But it ended more like this: To take my mind off things I thought I'd try writing 50,000 words this month. It's only been five days and I already feel like this: That's okay, I can do it as long as I keep getting up early. But sometimes I just want to do this to my alarm clock: When I think about all the weddings/ summer get together's/ book launches I ...

Many thanks go to Terron James and Jolly Fish press for giving me an advance copy of Insight which came out on June 1st! Let me start by saying I read this before Jolly Fish had it (one benefit of being a beta reader) and wow, some of the changes blew me away. The writing was new realm of awesome with some really powerful imagery mingled in. Certain scenes were switched around to make the story stronger, and it worked really well. I still believe being a Beholder is one of the coolest forms of magic ever thought of, and Terron did a great job of making the reader feel like they were suffering along with Lon as he struggled to control everything happening to him. The contrast between Appernysia and the Rayders gave a great sense of tension with the perfect action packed ending. The cliffhanger at the end still gave me chills even though I've read part of book two (Take that, suckers!) I've said all this good stuff even though this really isn't my type of book. I...