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Welcome to an #indiebooksbeseen Blog Hop An independent author has the freedom to express one’s creativity without being told how or when to do it. As an Indie author I am the captain of my ship. With my characters aboard, I set out for adventure. They learn about life, love and sacrifice within the boundaries of my chapters, but I learn, too, gathering snippets of information from each port-of-call of my own voyage. As a newbie captain, I’ve gained priceless insight about the many tributaries of writing under one’s own initiative: editing, blogging, marketing, social media, and the delicate art of selling one’s work without being too pushy. Despite the solitude of our work, an Indie author isn’t truly alone. If you listen, you’ll hear the calls from across the cresting waves. Others are out there. Many, many others, and together, we are both united and ignited by an allegiance to our craft. Countless times I’ve been offered insightful guidance and knowledg...

As part of the new independent author movement, #IndieBooksBeSeen, over 75 self-published authors like myself have come together to offer an assortment of wonderful stories and titles for a special holiday giveaway.  No purchase to enter, only tweets and follows.  Get in on it Today! Click here:  SECRET SANTA'S INDIE BOOK GIVEAWAY *Drawing open until December 15. Ended Congratulations to Holly Letson who won a paperback copy of Saving Toby! Current contributing authors and titles supporting this #IndieBooksBeSeen Secret Santa giveaway are, as follows: DB Nielsen – SEED: Keepers of Genesis I Mark Shaw – The Keeper of the Wind J.C. Brennan – A Fine Line Kylie Kaemke – Heavy Hearts Robert A Palmer – Relyk C.L. Schneider – The Crown of Stones K.S. Marsden – The Shadow Rises L.A. Starkey – Deceived K.K. Allen – The Summer Solstice: Enchanted LISA – The Elemental Kevin Moore – The Golden Merra volume 1 Wanda Smith – Summer Winds Jacci Turner – Bending Willo...

© Depositphotos.com/krivenko It seems that many books in the New Adult genre have become wildly popular because of readers' obsession with misbehaved, but hard-to-resist bad boy characters. We simply cannot get enough of guys like Beautiful Disaster’s Travis Maddox, Easy’s Lucus Maxfield, Pushing the Limit’s Noah Hutchins, and my own sweet, misguided bad boy, Toby Faye of Saving Toby. Here’s my take on what is so compelling about this kind of guy. Maybe he lived in a rundown house on your street, or around the block. Maybe he was that boy in the back of the classroom who seemed to be the bane of every teacher’s existence. Your brother’s friend whom your parents said was a bad influence. However you knew him, we all knew at least one: the bad boy. He was a guy who had zest for pushing the envelope. The guy who took pride in getting people to react to his outrageous remarks, his cutting humor and dastardly deeds. Wherever he went, his notoriety preceded him. The rumors...

As an indie author, I have learned to celebrate even the smallest successes — a nice review, a book sale, or a kind word about my writing. In this vein, I am excited to announce that Saving Toby met the fairly stringent criteria of the vetting process for Indies Unlimited and is now listed on the website. Besides having my book added to the site, part of the perks is getting to do an author interview. Here are some of the questions with my answers. Q: How did you come up with the title for your book? Does it have any special meaning? This is a working title that fit the story. Toby Faye is a troubled guy whose story goes from bad to worse. As Toby begins a dark, downward spiral, I wanted readers to wonder, and worry, how and if he’d be able to pick up the pieces. Q: Who was your favorite character and why? Toby – this is his story; his journey, and I enjoyed writing his POV. From his humor to this angst, his cocky arrogance to his emotional fallout, he was such a great cha...

Readers: Thank you for being so patient while I work to complete 'Keeping Claudia,' the sequel to Saving Toby. In the meantime, I thought I would offer you a little insight to my creative process. When writing a novel, an author must know her characters well enough to consider how they will react and behave in almost any situation. For this, we create a character bible. A character bible is a bio of sorts that  includes a charcter's basic backstory, attitudes, desires and such. This one was created for 21-year old Toby Faye. Some of you will recognize a part of it that I adjusted to fit into the actual storyline.  Enjoy! The room has a decent-sized crowd, but I'm not nervous nor intimidated by this. It's an informal gig, and most of them don’t even know who I am, but that’s okay. I gonna play anyway. I begin to talk to them like we're all friends. They quiet down, and I begin to strum. I like the feeling of my guitar in my hands, and I am p...