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Brightest Kind of Darkness Blog Tour Kicks Off Monday, Sept 24th!

Click PLAY to find out some of the prizes on the tour!

Below you will find the blog tour schedule for Brightest Kind of Darkness and Lucid.   The tour will run from September 24-28, 2012.

This book tour will include:

– Reviews for both BKoD and Lucid

– Some mind-blowingly awesome guest posts

– giveaway opportunities for readers to win both BKoD and Lucid.

P.T. Michelle’s Brightest Kind of Darkness

Tour Schedule

September 24th
Nothing Better Than a Book – Review (BKoD)
Jelly Loves Books – Review (BKoD)
Some Like it ParanormalFeatured Post (Random Trivia about the BKoD series)
Beauty & the Bookshelf – Excerpt
The Bookish Babe – Review (Lucid)
Hope, Faith & Books – Review (BKoD)
I’m a Book SharkFeatured Post (All about Parkour)

September 25th
The Bookish BrunetteFeatured Post (Ethan & Nara character interview)
A Buckeye Girl Reads – Review (BKoD)
I Read Indie – Review (Lucid)
Readers Live A Thousand Lives – Review (BKoD)
Vendea’s Dream World of Books – Review (BKoD)
Seeing Night Reviews – Review (Lucid)
Fictional Distraction – Review (Lucid)
Creative Reads – Review (BKoD)
K-Books – Review (Lucid)
A Book VacationFeatured Post (Ravens)
Stories of My Life – Excerpt
Winter Haven Books – Review (Lucid)
Deea’s Journal – Review (Lucid)
Literary Getaway – Review (BKoD)

September 26th
Mundie Moms – Review (BKoD)
I Heart YA Books – Review (Lucid)
Serenity’s Lovely Reads – Review (Lucid)
Book Nerd – Review (BKoD)
Simply Infatuated – Review (BKoD) + Excerpt
Books Over BoysFeatured Post (Playlist)
Step Into Fiction – Review (Lucid)
Nomalicious Reads – Review (Lucid)
Reader’s Antidote – Review (BKoD)
Primrose MusingsFeatured Post (BKoD: The Movie)
Panda Reads – Review (BKoD)

September 27th
Kindle Fever – Review (Lucid)
Always YA at Heart – Review (Lucid)
A Dream Within A Dream – Review (BKoD & Lucid)
Rampant Readers – Review (BKoD)
Book BriefsFeatured Post (Top 10: Little known facts about Nara)
Michelle Chew Writes – Review (BKoD)
Into the Hall of Books – Review (Lucid)
Book Passion for Life – Excerpt
Rhi ReadingFeatured Post  (Building a World)
Shortie SaysFeatured Post (How Dreams Can Inspire…)
Jean BookNerd – Review (Lucid)

September 28th
Refracted Light Book ReviewsFeatured Post (The RL girls discuss Ethan & Drystan)
Once Upon a Twilight – Review (BKoD)
Vamps and Stuff – Review (BKoD)
Young Adult BookReviews – Review (Lucid)
Sparkles and Lightning – Review (Lucid)
Books With BiteFeatured Post (Top 10: Little known facts about Ethan)
Little Hyuts – Review (Lucid)
Books 4 Juliet – Review (BKoD)
Rants ‘N Scribbles – Review (BKoD)
The YA Sisterhood – Excerpt
Random Acts of Books
– Review (BKoD)

Confessions of a Bookaholic – Review (Lucid)
Better Read Than Dead – Review (BKoD)

A huge THANK YOU to RLR Tours for doing a phenomenal job hosting this blog tour!

BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS up for Favorite Story, Needs your vote! :)

HONOR/NOMINATION
BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS is nominated for Favorite Story for April at the Grave Tells website along with some stiff competition. If you enjoyed BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS, please take a minute and click here to vote for it! Voting ends this Sunday.  Grave Tells recently reviewed BKoD and gave it a “must read” review. Here’s a snippet from the review…
“…The plot of the book was interesting and complex… Brightest Kind of Darkness is a suspenseful, romantic book and it’s a great new addition to the YA genre. I highly recommend it!” Click here to read Rachel’s entire review at GRAVE TELLS.
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GIVEAWAY
Also, Cassay is featuring an excerpt from BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS on her Vamps, Weres and Cassay, Oh My! website, along with an opportunity to win an eBook copy of BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS. All you have to do is comment for a chance to win! Good luck!

Writing Process, Giveaways & Reviews!

Old School - You like? I found this in my dad's attic. We've come a long way, baby!

WRITING PROCESS

When I first started writing, I didn’t outline. At all. I just sat down and started writing, flying with the story right along with the characters. I was what you’d call a panster writer (I wrote by the seat of my pants). Then later, when my books’ storylines became more complex, and especially as I moved further into a series, for my own sanity I had to learn to outline.

I don’t write 100 page synopsis, because then I’d feel like I’ve already written a mini version of the story, but instead I write one-liners that say, This happens in this scene, then another one-liner that says, and then this happens in this scene. I do this over and over until I’ve created a basic outline of the whole story. That process works for me, mainly so I know “where” I’m planning to go. Do I veer off the outline? Heck yeah, but at least I can look ahead in my “very loose outline” and anticipate where I wanted to go, so I can see how to get on track. Or even if I want to. 😉 I guess my current process makes me a hybrid-pantster, because I lightly outline the story, but I still give myself lots of permission to adapt it as I go.

Haha, of course this is just my process for the rough draft. Then I layer. That’s a whole other cray-cray process. Think onions and tears, but BOY does it add flavor to the story! 😉

As far as writing a story, I’m an linear writer, which means I write the story that I see playing in my head like a movie from start to finish. I might think ahead to scenes I want to write, but I don’t actually write that scene until I get to it in the story. I have some writer friends who write all over they place, meaning that they write the scenes in the story as the scenes come to them and then at the end, they piece all the scenes into place, moving them around and weaving them into the story. It always boggles my mind that some of my friends can work like that. LOL! But see that’s the beauty of it, there’s not a right or a wrong way to create a story. It all comes down to how YOUR writing brain works to help you get the story written. 🙂

GUEST POST/GIVEAWAYS

Check out the guest blog I did with Kristi at The Book Faery where  wrote about mythology and the BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS world.  While you’re there, enter for a chance to win two different prizes, 1 eBook and 1 print copy of BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS!  (Giveaway ends in 3 days)

 

Don’t forget, I’m offering a chance to win a SIGNED copy of BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS!  Go here to enter. (Giveaway ends in two days)

INTERVIEW

Anna has asked several authors a series of interview questions on her The Bursting Bookshelf blog over the past week. Go here to check out my answers to:

1) Where did you come up with the idea for your book?
2) Did you find finishing writing your book bittersweet?
3) What is your favorite part of writing for the genre that you do?
4) What has been the most rewarding aspect of being an author?
5) Was there any part of your book that was particularly hard to write?
6) Who was your favorite character to write and why? Who was your least?
7) Did you put any aspect of your life into your book?

 

RECENT REVIEW

“…Highly entertaining to those of those who enjoy the paranormal with a good amount of romance mixed in…” Click here to read the entire review at JJ Reads

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