Fall Into Books



Happy Fall Y'all! I'm participating in the Fall Into Books Blog Hop hosted Candlelight Reads. Enjoy hopping around to read about special books and enter to win super prizes. Let me tell you about my special book.....

My special place and time to read is at night in bed before I go to sleep. It's such habit that I can't sleep without reading first.  I get carried away into another world and my worries from the day evaporate.  It's hard to narrow my reading down to one special book, but I'll give it a go.

 I have to say the book I go back to reread most often is the Summer I Turned Pretty(series)by Jenny Han. I'm a sucker for YA fiction. Jenny Han writes so well that you're immediately drawn into the story. The description is so vivid that you feel like you're vacationing with Belly at the beach house in Cousins. The love Belly has for her real family and "summer " family is heartwarming. I feel connected with all of the characters in this story when I'm reading.  Yep, this is my special book. One I can read over and over, falling into it every time.

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It's All In the Voice Contest

Hello all. I'm participating in the Heather Webb's It's All in the Voice Blog Hop and Contest.  Here are the first 250 words of a young adult novel I'm currently writing. Thank you for your feedback and I will "hop" around to your blogs to offer advice as well.

   "You should've stayed away from the preacher dude, Hester." I say to the adulterous heroine in the book I'm reading for class. A robin answers me from the top branches of the old oak. The swing under me sways covered by the shade of the oak. A woman's shriek from next door jolts me off the swing and onto my feet sending The Scarlett Letter to tumble from my lap. It lands spine up in the thick grass. Monstrous hedges guard the property line of my yard and that of my neighbor's, blocking my view from what lies beyond them. I search until I find a space in the hedge monsters and am able see into the yard next door. My eyes widen at the scene playing out before them.

  A woman stands inside a bed of daisies swinging a garden hoe. With each swing, a hot pink ribbon bobs from her brimmed hat.

  "Drop it, you evil thing," she cries. "Get out of here." 

  I want to call out to see if she needs my help, but I'm not sure what her name is. My mom took her a "welcome to the  neighborhood" gift basket and a pie when she moved in over the winter, but I didn't pay attention when mom told me her name.

  The woman inches a step forward, pokes at something with the hoe, and shrieks.

 "Oh my lands!"  A huge tomcat dashes to the opposite side of the yard and turns to bare it's teeth. It gives the woman a hiss before disappearing in the hedges. "Oh good Lord!"