We here at The Paperback
Princesses often receive emails from Indie authors requesting reviews and are
blessed with free book copies. Often we are unable to get to so many titles
before our mass market published books take over our TBR shelves. That doesn't
mean there aren't plenty of great reads though! We want to give back to those
Indie authors and are declaring EVERY SECOND SUNDAY our SHOUT OUT TO
INDIES MEME. For those of fellow bloggers, please feel free to add our meme
to your regular schedule. We only ask that you quote and link back to us
as a courtesy. For all of you Indie authors, we invite you to contact us
at the contact link to your top left. We will select 1 - 3 titles (each time we
post) that sound interesting. Lastly, for you readers, this is a bit of a test
so please do comment and let us know what you think. We will also be offering up
giveaway copies whenever we can! So without further ado, here are this week's
picks -
Published: May 2012
The doctors have told Kay that she will die before she reaches her eighteenth birthday. Her mother’s determination to save her life leads them to a move outside of Asheville, NC to a new set of cancer specialists in the hopes to help her. But it’s not what Kay and her Mom find in the doctor’s offices in Asheville that lead them on the journey to save her before time runs out. It’s what Kay finds in the woods outside of Asheville, and an inhumanly gorgeous guy named Ryan, instead.
Myths and fairy tales come to life before Kay’s eyes, bringing her closer to the ultimate cure if she can stay alive long enough to get there. And if the cancer doesn’t kill her before she finds the cure the secrets her mother has hidden from her may be the beginning of the end.
Myths and fairy tales come to life before Kay’s eyes, bringing her closer to the ultimate cure if she can stay alive long enough to get there. And if the cancer doesn’t kill her before she finds the cure the secrets her mother has hidden from her may be the beginning of the end.
When not loosing
themselves in a story they remember they have real lives. Crystal lives in
Kentucky with her husband and two little girls who plot daily the many ways
they can drive their poor mother crazy. At the end of the day Crystal then
calls Melissa and threatens to ship her two nieces to their favorite Aunt with
lots of air holes punched through their box. Melissa answers Crystal’s crazed
calls in Washington state where she lives with her husband and big furry baby
of a Rottweiler named Yuffie and reminds her that children are not shippable.
This is their first novel but
they are all geared up and excited to be releasing other projects soon.
Writing with a Co-Author
It
might help to explain the back story to us and why we went the route of writing
together. Unfortunately we live really, really far apart. I live in Washington
and Crystal lives in Kentucky. We normally talked about once every other week
on the phone or on Facebook. So for Crystal to call me late at night was not a
surprise, but I answered quickly anyways. (Most
Hilarious conversation we have ever had, and yes some whiskey was involved on
both sides). And yes Crystal, drunk dialing will always be hilarious!
So
back to the story, she was frustrated about the book, and couldn’t concentrate
on having to revise and reread it again and again. So I told her she needed a
set of fresh eyes to go over it and to send it to me. I’ll send it back to her
in a few weeks and then she can look at it again after I made corrections to
the best of my abilities. I jokingly told her all she had to do was make me
brownies as a thank you. She agreed and then sent me a list of things she
wanted changed and flipped and cut out and so on. It took me about three weeks
before I sent it back to her and prayed she wouldn’t be pissed at the outcome.
Three
days later she called me and her voice was care free while she kinda shouted in
my ear ‘THANK YOU SIS’! Pretty much
after that phone call we started to collaborate on the rest of the ideas
swimming around in our minds and decided that we needed to work together for the sake each other’s sanity and
because we had more hilarious phone calls to add to the first one that started
it all.
We
both have active and vivid imaginations and having someone else there to help
with the releasing of those ideas is so refreshing. We get each other easily,
sometimes finishing each other’s thoughts. So when one needs a break the other
takes over. Now we are inseparable. She’s not just my sister-in-law; she’s one
of my closet friends, and my partner in crime. (On my recent visit, her husband (my brother) and my dad, were laughing
at us because we were trying to make a ‘basket’ with the paper off of the straws
into each other’s shirt, yes we know we are immature but it was funny - until she
got the kids involved. She cheated and I quickly ran out of ammo.) We keep
it simple and fun. We agree on a lot of things and when it’s put to paper, it’s
amazing.
Since
I am writing this from my home in Washington, I know Crystal agrees with me on
this. We wouldn’t be Jessie Lane
without the other and that Crystal still
owes me brownies. Love you SIS!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessieLaneBooks
I am the same. I get masses of requests from Indie authors and I do try to get a bit read/reviewed but again, need another head, lol!!
ReplyDeleteI do Indie Author Spotlights now and I am behind by several, but I will get there:D
Mich