Excerpt Monday August
I promise I’m not neglecting you 
But sometimes life gets hectic, and juggling writing, mommyhood, the money factory and personal life time makes writing blogs not so much a neccessity. But this week is Excerpt Monday. I have a short snipit from my Historical The Rose and the Lion. Pop on over to the Official Website (linkage on the side) or check out other great author’s excerpts on the Official EM website……
Once a month, a bunch of authors get together and post excerpts from published
books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t
have to be published to participate–just a writer with an excerpt you’d like to
share. For more info on how to participate, head over to the Excerpt Monday
site! or click on the banner above.
Secret Agent Contest
What’s on my iTunes : Kick by INXS
Recently agented YA author, JA Souders is hosting a fabulous Secret Agent Contest. It’s too late to enter this one, but I’m sure she’ll have more.
Check out the entries and give some great feedback. Mine’s in there
Check out her beautiful site HERE. The entries are on her blog page, HERE.
And just ot get you motivated….a little picture of my favorite vampire……and my visual inspiration for my character….
Excerpt Monday is Here!!
What’s on my iPad : Pandora radio : McFearless by Kings of Leon.
That’s right it’s Excerpt Monday. HERE is the link to my post.
Or you can check out the official Excerpt Monday site and read everyone’s post.
Once a month, a bunch of authors get together and post excerpts from published
books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t
have to be published to participate–just a writer with an excerpt you’d like to
share. For more info on how to participate, head over to the Excerpt Monday
site! or click on the banner above.
Excerpt Monday
Once a month, a bunch of authors get together and post excerpts from published
books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t
have to be published to participate–just a writer with an excerpt you’d like to
share. For more info on how to participate, head over to the Excerpt Monday
site! or click on the banner above.
Sorry this month I wasn’t able to play along. But there are some truly awesome reads over on the site Excerpt Monday so please check it out.
QUERY CONTEST OVER AT NEVERENDING PAGE TURNER
THE QUERY CONTEST ENDS FRIDAY
Associate Agent Kathleen Ortiz is hosting a query conest to launch her new blogsite. You can get the details here – NEVERENDING PAGE TURNER CONTEST
Excerpt Monday is tomorrow
That’s right, check it out at www.excerptmonday.wordpress.com or check out my site at www.catehart.com
See ya tomorrow!!
It’s Excerpt Monday!
What’s on my iPod – Dummy by Portishead
It’s once again Excerpt Monday over at my website. Check it out here – Excerpt Monday December. Or you can head over to Mel and Bria’s site by clicking the lovely box below!
A Little Rant
What’s on my iPod : Beautiful Day by U2
Rarely do I rant about the writing and publishing world, but today, I had to get this off my chest. On Tuesday, I zipped over to Best Buy to get my copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on Blue-ray. While I was at my favorite little shopping center, I decided to run into VERY BIG DISCOUNT BOOKSTORE (I’ll refrain from completely lambasting particular bookseller since I usually find no complaints with them). I was there to pick up debut author Lauren Kate’s paranormal YA, Fallen. I’ve been anticipating this book because the subject is fallen angels, and though it doesn’t sound like my plot, I’m itching to see what the competition is writing. Well, after foundering for about twenty minutes looking for the book that was scheduled to release that day, I went to the front to ask. And I did recieve GREAT customer service, but nobody could find the book. Their system said they had seven in stock. After another fifteen minutes, the general concensus was I could order the book on-line, but it just wasn’t available in the store. As a writer and a hopefully soon published one, I was angry for Lauren Kate. A snafu like this is horrible. How gut-wrenching to discover that your debut novel can’t be bothered to be placed on the shelf of a major retailer!
So, I decided that I would post a link to Amazon. There are other places you can get it (I hope). And check it out; it looks fascinating.
Pinning down an angel part 2
What’s on my iPod : Billie Jean by Michael Jackson.
Continuing with last week’s post, I chained Sarah to the hot seat to force some answers out of her. It seems she is extrememly reluctant to sit still for any length of time and even more antsy answering questions about her self or her angel, Caleb. Too bad for her, good for us!
Cate : First easy question, favorite season and why?
Sarah : Fall because I love the change in colors of the trees and how the mornings and the evenings get colder. I’m from the South, and when I was little, we used to travel every autumn to the Appalachain Mountains to see the trees.
Cate : Nice, my favorite, too. What about favorite subject in school?
Sarah : Art, hands down. Even though my father doesn’t think it’s a worthy subject to pursue in college.
Cate : Do you like to draw or paint or designing on the computer?
Sarah : I like playing with art programs on my laptop, but what I really love is drawing – sketching.
Cate : Any particular subject?
Sarah : (blushing) hmmm, I gues that would be Caleb.
Cate : Any Titanic-esque sketches?
Sarah : huh? Oh, no,no, no,no. (blushing bright red)
Cate : So, what exactly attracted you to Caleb?
Sarah : Oh, I wasn’t attracted to him at first, more like repelled. But I guess, I started to see behind his poser attitude, and what I saw was a pretty remarkable guy.
Cate : So what was your reaction when you realized what Caleb was?
Sarah : I wanted to beat his head in – oh, strike that. I was really, really mad at him for not telling me the truth and then lying to keep it from me.
Cate : And then once he did tell you?
Sarah : Relieved that I wasn’t going crazy.
Cate : Last question. Caleb’s a musician, inspiring some pretty famous people and writing his own incredible songs. So your impression of his music?
Sarah : Wow, I’m not the best person to ask questions about music. I like all kinds. (deep breath and sigh) But his playing is moving and his singing, his voice – it’s incredible.
Cate : Awesome, thanks. Next time, I put Tristian on the wire.
It’s Excerpt Monday!
Once a month, a bunch of authors get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t have to be published to participate–just an writer with an excerpt you’d like to share. For more info on how to participate, head over to the Excerpt Monday site! or click on the banner above.
Check it out at the above web address or you can go straight to my post -HERE.
