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August 11, 2015
Cover Reveal - 17 Marigold Lane
17 Marigold Lane (a Prudence Penderhaus novel)
Prudence Penderhaus was just an ordinary weirdo until the day one word changed the course of her life forever.
Giving up on life, a risky move turns her world upside down and uncovers an odd boy no one knew existed.
Trying to cope with her life at it stands, Prudence juggles her own emotions as she peels back layers of small-town secrecy that have been hiding right under her nose.
With a newfound purpose, she and her odd boy turn the town of Flintlock on its butt in the pursuit of truth. Uncovering more than she bargained for. Murder.
"My name is Prudence Penderhaus. I've never done anything remarkable. Never even bothered to look up. Until the day I realized I was dying."
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This quirky Young Adult brings forth a character not unlike many of us.
Too awkward, too reclusive, too damn tall, and too damn red headed to skate through life.
Too scared to live it.
Until the day death changed all that.
Give this bad boy a click and drop your email address.
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August 6, 2015
#365 Why I drink in the afternoon
What happened to three? I miss my twenties. A time when nothing mattered but answering the burning question, what’s coming next? What’s happening tomorrow? Living in the moment and having the energy to let those moments last all night. Twenties is when waking up with one shoe on and little recollection of who’s in your bed equates to a fairly decent Saturday night. When the word tequila didn’t give you a headache. When two shots and a beer got the night started and didn’t cause a three-day hangover. Twenties meant exploring the world, yourself, and what it meant to be in it. Changing meant growing and you could change yourself once a week and twice on Sunday. Twenties was supposed to be the beginning of the rest of your life.Younger, leaner, better, faster, dumber twenty-five hit like a ton of bricks. There were only five years left until I was officially an adult. Twenties is grown up, but mistakes in your twenties are easily waved off by lack of experience, a youthful indiscretion. Thirty, thirty would bring with it the expectations of success. How many kids to you have? What’s your annual gross income? You’re thirty years old and you haven’t—fill in the blank as necessary--yet?
Not thirty. More like, sixteen. I awoke on my thirtieth birthday like Nosfuratu from his tomb. A creaking sound followed my rising body, arms crossed over my chest as if prepared for burial, a sallow tone to my skin. Thirty could only be compared to begrudgingly rising from your grave morning after morning. The youth I’d taken for granted had been rode hard and put out wet and I was paying for it.
Growing up and becoming an adult are two very different things. Growing up allows for mistakes. There is a margin of error allowed while you’re growing up. That margin gets smaller every year until one day it’s gone. The space for errors is no more. Suddenly and without warning, you are responsible for more than you bargained for and left wondering, when the fuck did that happen? Adult happens when you least expect it.
I'm also wearing red boots. (not pictured) Thirty. It hadn’t been that long since twenty-five and the realization that I was getting older minute by minute, I couldn’t figure out what changed ina measly five years. How quickly could a person’s body really change? The answer that question isfucking fast. Thirty meant two-drink hangovers. It meant random diarrhea—how many times can a person shit, really? Never fear, constipation is also inevitable. It meant falling into a tailspin of nostalgic memories at the drop of a beat. I never considered my high school career more than I did in the years after I turned thirty. Songs, movies, the scent of cheap perfume and Mr. Sketch would take me right back. Why? I don’t know. I didn’t like those assholes then and I don’t see why I’d like them now, but there’s something in nostalgia the makes us cling to it like shit to the side of the bowl. A sense of the past that if we hold onto tight enough will keep us young forever.Nostalgia is a lie. It’s a bundle of bullshit we tell ourselves actually happened.
You were never that cool. They were never that cool. Memories of your youth will not save you from your future. Because they’re bullshit. I heard once our memories merely exist from the last time we recalled them. That memory of senior prom we’re clinging to for dear life likely wasn’t exactly how we remember it today just as it won’t be exactly how we remembered it today when we think of it again next week. Nostalgia, a series of bullshit we tell ourselves to convince our brains there was a time better than now. Even if now is old, tomorrow will be older. Tomorrow might be thinner, calmer, cleaner, better, but it will alwaysbe older. That’s the one thing we truly have zero control over. Time. Time moves fast and means business. It slows down for no man—or woman you sly thing, you—and makes no apologies for its consistent inconveniences.
Thirty. And then some. There is no time other than now. There was no time better than then, but that’s long past. Then is gone and now is all we have. Tomorrow isn’t promised and each tomorrow we get is just one day closer to old and dead. Now is all we have.July 16, 2015
Waking Up Dead...well then.
As most know by now Amazon, and it's all knowing persnickety algorithm, has made a statement recently regarding authors reviewing books. While I find it's bullshit, I understand there are enough fake reviews to fuck it up for the rest of us.
That being said, here's a little bit about a book I picked up on the Kindle Lending Library for free.
Kindle Unlimited Free!Carry on...
my wayward son...Waking Up Dead - Margo Bond Collins
Going into this story I had high hopes. Callie, our heroine, is a sassy dead girl full of moxy, which are easily relate able attributes for me. I dug the idea of a ghostly main character and her handicaps as a ghost moved the story along without getting boring or ridiculous.
While overall I really did like this whodunit, a few key points irked me. On a few occasions I wanted to shake the shit out of Callie and Ashara. I felt like a few times clues/etc. were "forgotten", or otherwise not realized, conveniently to lengthen the story with another meaningless task.
As the story unfolded and the characters began to matter, suspenseful scenes kept me interested and curious to uncover the mystery. Unfortunately, about midway, I lost a bit of the story as secrets are uncovered and the backstory seeps through confusing the timeline a bit.
The romance is at a minimum and the bit that is there made me smile. Although I'd called it from first mention of the characters. I felt like I called more than a few clues before they happened, but Miss Margo had me on a couple.
By the end I was pleased. I appreciated the characters and the emotion the author seemed to put into the politics of the storyline. I only wish the mystery were more mystery and less bumblefucking around in the dark.
Completely irrelevant rating: 514 Dinner Rolls
Pick up your copy and tell me what you think.
Have a Kindle? I snagged mine FREE through Kindle Lending Library. This is a Kindle Unlimited book.Waking Up Dead
July 15, 2015
Happy Prime Day!
If you're anything like me you're ass deep in Amazon deals today. I'm shopping for shit that's not happening for months. With prices like these what better time to snag your new eReader?
Psst, The Scene is FREE right now so you'll have something to read...
Honestly, I can't recall a day I didn't have my Kindle on me. Unfortunately, my poor old bitch has seen better days and needs to be replaced by the latest and greatest. Lucky for my husband he scores my hand me down because I'm a shitty wife and bookworm.
While he's happily digging into the latest Star Wars canon on his new-to-him Kindle I can smile and enjoy the fruits of my sacrifice. My new toy....
I'm sensing a Kindle giveaway in our future. Who's in?
Seriously? Do not miss out on this deal!
Be sure to download the first in the Dylan Hart series now for FREE!SALE $79!!
July 1, 2015
Dylan Hart book 5 Title & Cover Reveal
The torment has just begun.
Dylan Hart book five slings us to the forefront of evil...
...and didn't even bring beer.
Don't miss this...we're coming to an end.
Bound ~ Dylan Hart 5Coming late 2015!
"My stalky, fat little legs carried me through the space of
infinite blackness and fog. Screams filled the air around me.
Screams of torment, pain. As if I had traveled to hell itself.
There was a good chance I had." - Dylan Hart
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Grab your copy now and get started on the series that proves anyone can be the hero.
Even the snarky fat chick!
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June 17, 2015
Get your Hart on FREE this summer!
Have you got your Hart on yet? Ha, get it? Hart on?
Snag The Scene FREE now through August 31st in a super rare Amazon promo shindig.
Can you guess why? Yes! Book 5 is coming soon. Keep a look out here, or sign up for killer news and get everything in your email.
Read it? Spread it. No reason to leave your baddest bitches in the dark. That's where the monsters are. Check out the entire first chapter now - or just grab the entire book for FREE! Here's the low down... Irreverent, twenty-something journalist, Dylan Hart, is not your average heroine. With a big butt and an even bigger mouth, she has her work cut out for her when she decides to cash-in on the blood-drained bodies of seven prostitutes scattered throughout southern California.
In an attempt to write her first bestselling novel and pay off her ever-growing student debt, Dylan begins the search for the culprit of the media-dubbed Vampire Massacres, diving head first into L.A.’s sanguinary ‘vampire’ subculture. Before long, Dylan finds herself tits deep in plastic fangs, velvet capes, and hooker corpses. Plastic or not, those fangs are razor sharp and out for blood, nosy journalist blood.
With her best friend in tow, and two contrasting boy-babes at her heels, the crew is pulled into an all too real sanguinarian lifestyle and dragged them through a bloody good mystery. Horrible pun intended. Take me home!
June 4, 2015
Dylan Hart book five BIG announcement
Are you ready for the fifth Dylan Hart? Projected to be released end of 2015, DH5 is set to bring a new villain and tie up a few loose ends. And, as always, fall ass over tea kettle and toss everything upside down. But then, does that surprise you?
July 1st! Save the date, DH5 cover and title reveal!
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See you soon, kids!
May 30, 2015
Rare and Illusive
For those few awesome folks who actually follow this blog, I haven't died. Or gone on a bender...regardless of those police reports. I've just been busy and it's all my own damn fault.
I'd like to take a second to pop in and quickly thank everyone who has busted their nipples this year and it's not even half over. Thanks for sharing, reviewing, and snagging books this year! You have successfully brought both Dylan and Lynnie into TOP ten rankings in their genres! I couldn't do it without you.
This year has seen the completion of the Lynnie Russell trilogy, the start of a brand new branch of badassery with my young reader's pen name, Rhiannon Michelle, and the opening of RMGraphics - by an author for an author, graphics and design.
While I may be running around like a mad woman these days, I haven't given up any of my many hats. Dylan Hart book five is in the works for 2015 along with other cool NEW stuff!
Stick around, grab a beer, and let's do this shit.
Who's coming with me?
March 6, 2015
Ninja Warrior
o Got a steal! Blender, food processor (with dough blade) and three single blending cups for $149.
o Bought more strawberries at Costco in blending anticipation.
o Set it all up. Fits perfect on the counter.
o Cut myself. Hadn’t even gotten it all out of the box…and I cut myself. Welcome to my life.
o Once the bleeding stopped, I whipped up two smoothies in, like, under a minute.
o Tonight, I wanted a cookie--bad--but I used my fancy new Ninja instead. One carrot and one orange, it’s fucking amazing.
What’s to come of this new gadget in the Gilmore kitchen? Well, I'm going to grab a beer and see for myself.
Any killer recipes out there in the interwebs?
Barring an untimely death due to blender malfunction, see you next week for Ninja update: part deux.
Sincerely,
Ninja Warrior
February 15, 2015
February 15th, 2015
R.M. Gilmore brings to an end the trilogy that introduced readers to a girl and a beast and all things in between.
Coming March 17th, Asecnsion, the final piece to the novella trilogy, drags Lynnie to edges of her existence and back again.
Cover Reveal
Trying to put Havana, Arkansas behind her, Lynnie is becoming a woman and learning to be the beast that dwells inside her. When old friends come back she must decide where she belongs in the world and learns letting go is harder than it seems.
With Puck as her ally, Lynnie braves the world and becomes what she was always intended to be; vengeance. Yearning for acceptance she does the unthinkable and travels farther than she ever imagined and into dangers she never expected.
In the final piece to her story, Lynnie learns just what it means to be Cu Sidhe
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