Cover Reveal!

No, not for me...  Adriana Ryan, good writer pal and fellow Spellbound Scribe, is announcing the release of her new dystopian novel ! They say you can't judge a book by it's cover, but if the story is half as good as the cover designed by James Helps, we're in for a real treat!

World of Shell and Bone

Coming December 7^th, 2012

In a world ravaged by a nuclear holocaust, Vika Cannon knows there are no guarantees: no guarantees of safety, no guarantees that your neighbor is not actually a spy for the government, and no guarantees you’ll be allowed to emigrate to a new life in Asia.

New Amana is dying. Food and water are scarce, and people suffering from radiation-caused mutations—the Nukeheads—are the new class of homeless. 

Vika has just one purpose: to produce healthy progeny using a Husband assigned by the Match Clinic. Unhealthy children are carted away to Asylums to be experimented on, just as Vika’s little sister Ceres was, eight years ago. Parents incapable of producing healthy progeny are put to death in gas chambers.

When she’s assigned a Husband shortly after her twentieth birthday, Vika expects him to be complacent and obedient. But Shale Underwood has a secret. He is a member of the Radicals, the terrorist group intent on overthrowing the government. And Shale has information about Ceres.

As she learns more about the Rads’s plan, Vika finds herself drawn to Shale in ways she’d never imagined. When freedom calls in the way of a healthy pregnancy, will she betray her government and risk death for Shale and Ceres? 

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Adriana Ryan lives and writes in Charleston, SC. She is currently at work on a dystopian and an urban fantasy series. A huge fan of spooky stuff and shoes, she enjoys alternately hitting up the outlet malls and historic graveyards.

Adriana Ryan is a member of the Romance Writer’s Association (RWA).

Contact: Adriana@adrianaryan.com

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Tree CPR, Free Stories, and Stocking Stuffers!

With Thanksgiving behind us, I still have so much to be thankful for. If you read my holiday post over at Spellbound Scribes last week, you'll know my heartache over the loss of some of my precious ornaments during the "great flood" in our basement this summer. I also thought my tree had perished in the flood, but after a close inspection last night, I was able to bring it back to life. 

Just call me Martha Stewart. While my tree survived, the plastic tree stand did not, so I fashioned a new stand with a bucket of sand! And my lack of ornaments? Well, there's a reason I save wine corks! 

Another thing to be thankful for is being in such great company this holiday season. Let it Snow! Seasons Readings for a Super Cool Yule is FREE on Amazon today (11/25) and tomorrow (11/26)! My short in this collection is from the Travelers Series... Chase and Jenny's first date and how they celebrate the Mayan 12/20 doomsday prophecy. 

Ten authors band together for a little holiday cheer:

A Laurents County Landfill Christmas, by Red Tash

Silent Night, by Jack Wallen

Crazed in Christmas City, by Jessica McHugh

A Manlove & Kickerdick Xmess, by Axel Howerton

The Snow Wolf's Gift, by Tim Tash

A Serial Killer Christmas, by Mercedes Yardley

Old Mexia Christmas Brew, by Claudia Lefeve

The Pratty Who Saved Chrissmuss, by Marian Allen

Believe, by Connie Roberts-Huth

Hau'oli Hanukkah, by T. Lee Harris

An in honor of this collection going FREE, Red Tash is doing a Trivia Stocking Stuffer Giveaway! If you know anything about me and my YA books, you're ahead of the game!  

Silos and Shelters

I like to think of myself as a "prepper." If there were ever an environmental, nuclear, or heaven forbid, a zombie apocalypse, the hubby and I would be prepared...but you can never research enough. Perhaps this is why I'm partial to post-apocalyptic stories! 

Here's what I've read this week:

Second Shift: Order by Hugh Howey. If you haven't read the bestselling WOOL series, you have missed out and you should go buy it now. For those that have and have been waiting for Second Shift, it's already out! I think I may love the Shift books (prequels) more than Wool! I just love the how's and the why's of it all. I talk about these books so much, my husband has no idea why I keep talking about silos and whether or not we'd be able to take our pug with us should we be forced to go into one. 

And this week, one of my readers recommended the Project ELE series by Rebecca Gober and Courtney Nuckels. I read the first book in the series, Project ELE, and immediately downloaded and read the second book, Finding ELE, the same night! You can't beat a post-apocaliptic story that includes love, powers, and FEMA. And the best part is, Project ELE (book 1) is currently FREE! 

So that's my reading "already read" pile for this past week! I hope you'll take a chance (if you haven't already) on some of these great reads! Remember, you can't ever be too prepared for the future! 

I doubt I'll be posting anything until after the holiday this week, so with that, have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 

What Happens Next?

For those of you who picked up PARADIGM and want to know what's next, well, you'll be pleased to know I have already started writing book 4 in the series, PARAMETER. This book will mark the second volume in the Travelers Series. Set primarily in the dystopian future commandeered by Thornberry (if you haven't read the series, he's the bad guy), I hope to steer this series towards a new adventure (Etta can only go back and forth between realities so many times, ya know?). 

I am also working on a short story set in the Travelers universe. This will be a story about Etta and Cooper...at their wedding, and of course, you will be cordially invited to attend! I really hope to have this out by the end of the month, but don't hold me to it! At the very latest, I'll have it done by January. 

And if you haven't picked it up yet, Let it Snow! Seasons Readings for a Super-Cool Yule, is available for free on iTunes right now (but for a limited time as this anthology has now been enrolled in Amazon Select). There will be FREE days on Amazon and I will keep you posted on those days. My short story featured in this collection, Old Mexia Christmas Brew, is also set in the Travelers universe and chronicles Chase and Jenny's first date (remember when they went missing for awhile in PARADIGM? Well, now you'll know what they were up to)! 

As soon as I get more updates, y'all will be the first to know!