Author Quote - PJ Sharon

Author quote from WANING MOON, book one in the Chronicles of Lily Carmichael trilogy

“In order to survive, we need to adapt, improvise, and overcome.”

 

Thanks for having me on Halloween, Tina. You asked for something scary and it doesn’t get much scarier than a looming apocalypse, does it?

This quote from Lily Carmichael’s Uncle Samuel in WANING MOON, book one in the Chronicles of Lily Carmichael, my YA dystopian trilogy, is a throwback from the military and has become the credo for survivalists and doomsday preppers everywhere.

 Dystopian literature has become increasingly popular over the past few years, in part, because of the pervasive sense that the crap is about to hit the fan and that life as we know it could turn on a dime. Although I’m fairly certain we don’t have to worry about a zombie apocalypse, there are plenty of real world fears that could make zombies seem like a walk in the park. Collapse of government, financial ruin, rioting and chaos in the streets, decay of social order, pestilence and disease are just to name a few of the modern day monsters that might come calling in the very near future.

Let’s hope that our better angels take over, God intervenes, or that the next generation can pull it together and save us all. I have great faith in human kind’s ability to overcome and adapt to whatever the future has in store for us. I like to think of myself as an “apocaloptimist,” someone who believes that yes, the world as we know it will end, but it will all turn out okay. And yes, LOVE is the answer. That’s why we romance writers will rule the world one day.

 

CONTACT INFO:

 

E-mail address:  pjsharon64@gmail.com

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Blurb: WANING MOON

          In the year 2057, in a post-apocalyptic world where a polar shift threatens the survivors of a widespread pandemic with extinction, sixteen-year-old genetically enhanced Lily Carmichael has more immediate problems. Her uncle is dying of cancer and her healing abilities are ineffective against the blood ties that bind them. In order to find a cure, Lily must leave the protection of her quiet town and journey to the trading city of Albany, all while avoiding the Industry, an agency that would like nothing better than to study and exploit her abilities.

 Seventeen-year-old Will Callahan has been searching for his father since severe storms blasted through the Midwest, killing his mother and sister. When he learns that his father may be in the city, he catches a ride with Lily, a girl who has come to his rescue more than once. As the two embark on a dangerous journey, the tension between them grows. But the secrets Will’s keeping could put Lily in far more danger than traveling to the city with him, and if he was any kind of man, he would have told her to run the minute she found him.

 

WANING MOON

2013 Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence finalist

2013 HOLT Medallion Award of Merit recipient

2013 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards finalist

RT Book Reviews gave WANING MOON 3 stars and called it “An action packed read with a strong female lead.”

IndiePENdents seal of approval for quality Indie fiction.

 

Amazon e-book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009GW3GTK/ref=tag_dpp_yt_edpp_rt?_encoding=UTF8&ie=UTF8&redirect=true&redirect=true&s=books%23tags#_

Amazon UK link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waning-Chronicles-Carmichael-trilogyebook/dp/B009GW3GTK/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1370027102&sr=8-1&keywords=waning+moon+by+pj+sharon

Print copies also available for Baker & Taylor through Create Space: https://www.createspace.com/3994643

 

B&N:  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/waning-moon-pj-sharon/1113017575?ean=2940015609547

 

Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/239484

 

I set this YA Dystopian trilogy in the year 2057 in hopes of giving teens and YA readers the opportunity to see that there is still time to change the future. And if, by chance, the world does go to hell in hand basket, there are ways to survive. Adapt, improvise, and overcome!

Happy Halloween!

 

#AuthorQuote "Is anyone born a futilitarian?" by J. Conrad Guest

Is anyone born a futilitarian? Or does it simply grow on us, like a fungus that afflicts the toenail of the great toe on our right foot from wearing shoes too small, eventually spreading to the neighboring toes?

 

 

“Introspective, like a personal remembrance of life, this book is more than diary or autobiography, but less than truth perhaps because it’s viewed entirely through the eyes of the (dead) protagonist. Slowly working towards the unseen facts of his character’s past, J. Conrad Guest’s A Retrospective in Death is a languid, oddly compelling tale, evoking an era with a wealth of intricate detail, creating a memorable yet achingly ordinary man, and searching for meaning and purpose in it all.” – Sheila Deeth, Amazon Top 1,000 Reviewer

Amazon 

Author page: http://www.amazon.com/J.-Conrad-Guest/e/B002BM8Q88/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

Website: http://www.jconradguest.com/index.html

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/j.conrad.guest

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JConradGuest

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/JConrad

Publisher’s website: http://www.secondwindpublishing.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=166&osCsid=da5caefcd4ac1392a0d3568295765908

 

J. Conrad Guest

Author of: The Cobb Legacy, Backstop: A Baseball Love Story In Nine Innings, January’s Paradigm, One Hot January, January’s Thaw, A Retrospect In Death

500 Miles To Go (forthcoming)

 

Thanks JC for sharing,

 

Tina

"History, to many young people, is..." Michael Stern #authorquote

"History, to many young people, is about 'a bunch of stuff that happened a long time ago to a bunch of dead people'." 

by Michael Stern

Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes made back then because history is boring?

"Reflections on a Generous Generation", the story of a generation, born in the first quarter of the 20th Century, who lived through the hardships of the Depression, fought in World War II and changed the world.

Buy link -

http://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Generous-Generation-Michael-Stern/dp/1477474838/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379355845&sr=1-1&keywords=reflections+on+a+generous+generation

I don't yet have a completed website.  I have an authors page on Facebook, though.  https://www.facebook.com/cabinfevercommunications

Thanks Michael for sharing,

Tina

#AuthorQuote - Sharing one of Mine. @authortinagayle

"No one who ever walked through the doors of a hospital knew the outcome of what would happen. Victory or defeat, the adventure tore at your emotions and could leave you face down in the dirt." by Tina Gayle

 

This is from a short story I'm working on for Ellora's Cave VaVa Boomers series. It is for the baby boomers out there that want a little hot romance in their lives.

Plan on sending it off in the next few weeks after I done with my edits. Wish me luck.

Weathering the Storm  blurb

Karen is a divorcee who has moved on with her life. She's trying her best to help Daniel to do the same.

After two years of spending time with the man, Karen is ready to take the relationship to a new level until her ex-husband has a heartache and her kids need her support.

Then everything changes...

Now, can Daniel convince her to give them a chance?


Have a wonderful day,

Tina

Have You Joined #NORHalloween Hunt?

 There are lots of prizes up for grabs.

Plus the chance to discover so wonderful new books.


In the Scavenger Hunt, they ask a question about my book which is revealed in the book's blurb.

In this book, I have a whole family of spirits and one very special ghost.

Blurb -

Forced by the family spirits to get a life, Mattie Winston has to train her replacement Amber Harrison to be in charge of all the workings of the Winston estate. Reluctant to make changes in her life, Mattie forms a bond with Amber, when strange accidents start happening which threaten their lives and an unknown ghost makes an appearance.

After being rescued by an old flame, Quincy Miller, Mattie faces old wounds of rejection. As the general contractor for Amber’s redecoration project, Mattie is in constant contact with Quincy and realizes she still in love with her childhood sweetheart.

Amber, learning her new role in the family, wants to discover the identity of the ghost who keeps appearing. After several appearances, Gwen, Amber’s distance grandmother, shifts the book into more of Amber’s struggle to find out why her grandmother disappeared two hundred years ago without a trace. In a fight to claim her position in the family, Amber searches for clues to solve the mystery.

Mattie and Amber are both challenged when the family spirits decides Amber shouldn’t be the keeper. Battling for Amber, Mattie realizes she wants a life with Quincy outside the Winston estate.

Amber realized the importance of her new spiritual family, and she works to discover how Gwen died.

Can these two women achieve their goals?


Read First Chapter of "Summer's Growth"
Purchase ebook at:

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Hope you enjoy the Scavenger Hunt,

 

Tina Gayle

"I think that as long as..." #AuthorQuote by Adrienne Thompson

Quote: ". I think that as long as you are living and breathing, anything is possible. Anything, if you open your heart and mind to it—including a happily ever after." - From Your Love Is King.

Website: http://adriennethompsonwrites.webs.com

Buy Link: Book will be available 11.12.13

Excerpt: 

I laughed. “Chris, I saw all of those admirers back at the church, and I know you probably get approached when you perform with the band, so why do you want my number?”

“Because the moment I saw you I knew you were different. I just wanna talk to you sometimes.”

“What if I told you I already have a man and that he’s back home waiting for me?”

“Then I’d say he’s a damn fool for letting you come all the way to St. Louis without him and that it is my privilege and my duty to take you off his hands.”

“Off his hands? You make me sound like I’m some unattended land or something.”

“I meant to make you sound like an unguarded treasure.”

I rolled my eyes. “Mm-hmm.”

“Do you?”

“Do I what?”

“Have a man?”

“No, I don’t.”

“Then may I please have your number?”

I sighed. “Okay, but if I give you my number, it doesn’t mean we’re anything more than friends.”

He leaned in until his lips nearly touched mine, looked me dead in the eye, and said, “Then I’ll just have to take what I can get until I can change your mind.”

 

Find Andrienne Thompson at 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Adrienne-Thompson/300208429995218

Twitter: https://twitter.com/A_H_Thompson

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/ahthompsn/boards/

 

Thanks for sharing,

 

Tina

"I refuse to believe..." by Lauren Linwood #AuthorQuote

“We have a lifetime of love to give each other. I refuse to believe it will end in death in a dusty town on a forsaken prairie in the middle of nowhere.

by Lauren Linwood

Blurb:

Separated from her twin during the Orphan Train selection, schoolmarm Serena Sullivan searched for her brother Bill over fifteen years. Just as she gets a lead on his whereabouts, she is railroaded by a crooked sheriff and set to hang for the murder of the sheriff’s best friend.

English playwright Daman Rutledge has come to the American West on business for his brother when he witnesses a woman about to be executed. On impulse he rescues the beautiful stranger and goes on the run with her across the Kansas prairie. Along the way Daman finds the muse he’s been missing and loses his heart to the raven-haired beauty with haunting amber eyes.

As they try to escape the long arm of the law, Daman seeks to prove Serena’s innocence before it’s too late. They find love—and the truth—on a journey that changes their lives.

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Buy link for OUTLAW MUSE
 http://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Muse-Western-Romance-ebook/dp/B00FQ0QGZM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381849707&sr=8-1&keywords=OUTLAW+MUSE

Music for My Soul
http://www.amazon.com/Music-For-My-Soul-ebook/dp/B00CSC14SA/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378144795&sr=1-1

thanks for sharing,

Tina