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Friday, July 28, 2017

The Wattpad & Freebies

Bonjour my lovely people,

I hope you lovely people are kicking off your weekend to a great start. I am still in the editing process of Rise Of The Legacy. Lyrical Heart is finished just needs a professional edit. I have news!!! Soon I will be running a poll on Twitter for VL 3 book title when I start outlining VL 3. In other news for those who keep up with me recently I said I would make a post about plans I have for what I plan to use wattpad for in the future. So here is the post. I have decided that I will use wattpad for book excerpts for upcoming book releases and free short stories that will be available as free ebooks on Amazon.

TTYF,

XoXo,

💜R

Friday, June 23, 2017

The Status Report!!!

Hello Lovely People,

I hope you are making a splash into the weekend. It has been a little while since my last post. I have been a busy little bee working on my book Rise Of The Legacy. Looking for editors for ROTL and LH. I also been looking for beta readers and doing some personal edits and making sure I don't have any plot holes. I am still in the editing phase of ROTL. I had an inspire idea not too long ago about 'world-crossing' setting so they work for several book series so I have been tweaking the ROTL, POAH, and Eden. Later down the line I will at some point do a series and the MCs will be Alyssa twin sisters and another maybe MC being Yvonne's twin brother as of right now its just idea for two spin off series that's not in development. I have been working on my Two Books One Goal Campaign. I have also been deciding which book projects out of my open and new projects I want for self-publishing and which projects I want to go into traditional publishing with. Speaking of which I have created a new page on my website, Book Projects Status Report so you don't always have to refer to the FAQs plus I color coded the projects so you can know the status in real time. I thought it be a fun way to know the status of current and upcoming projects. Easy updates...simplifying the latest update with the BPSR (Book Projects Status Report), so I hope you enjoy. Authors if you like it feel free to try it for your projects.

TTYF,

XoXo

❤ R

Friday, May 12, 2017

Voices Of YA Tag

Bonjour You Lovely Beauties!!!

I hope you all kicking your weekend to wonderful start! You know how I just ah-dore writings I create my own original writing tag, #LicenseToSpillAuthorConfession not too long ago inspired by writing tags I participated in and sorta of a belated valentine's day present to all the writer's that have been kind, sweet, and supportive. I found out about about this writing tag when an author I admire Kim Chance (author Keeper) participated in the same tag in vlog that I watched of hers. Thanks Kim for tagging all writers. She tag all writers and I looked the Voices of YA tag created by Caitlin Lambert. I decided I would participate. Writing tags are really fun so I wish alot more author would participate in them. 😊

VOICES OF YA TAG

by: Caitlin A Lambert

#VoicesofYA

ABOUT THE WRITERS:

What draws you to YA?

I have always loved YA fiction mainly because it has just enough of adult and just enough of teen, but most of all I love the coming of age element that is in most if not all YA.

Describe your writing process. Do you like outlines and structure, or seeing where the story takes you?

I am a half and half I do basic outline and structure and then afterwards I see where the story takes me and refer back to the outline.

How long have you been writing? Where are you in your journey?

If you count book writing about 7 or 8 years if you saying forms of writing then quite awhile I did alot of poems and songs when I was in middle school about 5th or 6th grade.

I am currently crowdfunding to promote and publish the revamping of my debut YA fantasy fiction novel Rise Of The Legacy (formerly Entrapment) in the Valhalla Legacy series and my anthology Lyrical Heart (formerly Rhythm Of The Garden) on GoFundMe. I am also currently working on outlines for my next two book projects. I am trying to figure which book projects outside of the Valhalla Legacy series is the best to break into traditional publishing with and when would be the best time to break into traditional publishing. I know for sure I want the Society Girls series and The Dragon's Assassin series to be under traditional publishing.

What do you need to write? Coffee? Music?

I need a great film music score that is atleast 4-6 hours because that's about as much time I spend on writing in a single day although sometimes longer.

If you could offer one piece of advice to another writer (OTHER THAN “don’t give up”), what would it be?

Ignore naysayers and never limit yourself when it comes to the writing process or dealing with your writing career.

ABOUT THE BOOKS:

What book still has you reeling from its plot twist? (*no spoilers please*)

Well I just finished reading Sarah J Maas's Throne of Glass all I can say is she has been added to my auto-buy list and I will buy the whole series I am in love with this series. I've been bitten by the book love bug...lol 😍

What books are you most anticipating for this year?

The rest of the Throne of Glass series & A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J Maas, The White Rose by Amy Ewing, Shadow & Bone of the Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo.

In your opinion, which YA book/series has the most unique premise?

Maureen McGowan Twisted Tales: Cinderella Ninja Warrior and Sleeping Beauty Vampire Slayer I thought was fascinating I also loved that in these two books the reader chooses how the story ends never seen that done before in a book series it made the book fun and interesting. Cinderella being a ninja and Sleepy Beauty being a slayer that idea has my kind of fun written all over it I love good twists on classic fairy tales.😊

What is your all-time favorite quote from YA lit?

{"weak" I gave him a sideways glare. "You're crazy. Any compulsion to help people-voluntary or not-is a strength. Its noble"

"You don't under-"

"There's nothing to understand, Griffin. You help people. That's the bottom line. There are lot of people who don't help anyone but themselves. And a lot more who wish they could do something-anything-to help someone in need, but can't or won't. The fact that you have to help people doesn't diminish the fact that you do help them."} - Oh. My. Gods by Tera Lynn Childs

I love this particular scene/quote/passage because I feel it is one of the most profound truths in fiction that I have come across and I have read a lot of fiction books.

What book do you most hope will have a movie adaption?

Sarah J Maas's Throne of Glass series, Gallagher Girls series By Ally Carter, Oh. My. Gods series by Tera Lynn Childs, but I actually wish TLC's book series Oh.My.Gods was a TV Show.

I am tagging Ann Dayleview & Janine. I am also tagging all writers.

TTYF,

XoXo

💜R

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

VL2: Trials Of The Legacy - Simplicity Outline

Bonjour My Lovely Beauties,

I hope everyone have a lovely Wednesday and you're enjoy your evening. I will have another post Friday. I am still in the editing/beta reading phase of Rise Of The Legacy and still currently looking for 2 beta readers before I send it off to a professional editor. I am currently crowdfunding to successfully publish and promote Rise Of The Legacy and Lyrical Heart. If you would like to support me in this endeavor click: Two Books One Goal Campaign. I am so excited about the Valhalla Legacy trilogy. So I wanted to share a teaser of what you can expect from the sequel, Trials Of The Legacy. My teaser is through a simplicity outline of the more detailed outline I am working on.

Enjoy! 😉😊

Phase 1 Of Outlining

Simplistic Outline

VL2: Trials Of The Legacy

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Act I - Senses Within

Chapters (1-10)

1 - AncientArtifacts

2 - Temple of Trials

3 - Divide & Conqueror

4 - The Knight's Guild

5 - Valley Of The Lost

6 - Eyes Of The Sea

7 - Capture

8 - Senseless Wilderness

9 - Return

10 - Den Of Darkness

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Act II - Spirit Anima

Chapters (11-20)

11 - Lost & Bound

12 - Rescue

13 - Spirit Bound

14 - Anima Spirit Awakening

15 - Fragrance Of Truth

16 - Pheonix Rising

17 - Water Song

18 - Wildlings Of The Air

19 - Owling

20 - Light Of Aerion

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Act III - Awakening

Chapters (21-30)

21 - The Awakening

22 - Unseen Trap

23 - Erisian's Plot

24 - Cradle Of Magick

25 - The Immortal Cup

26 - Fae Queen's Decision

27 - Dark Queen's Gambit

28 - Out For Blood

29 - Warnings

30 - War Cry

Epilogue Helga's Diary

Next - Phase 2: Detailed Outline
2 Outlines to see which works best freytag (but I may explore a different one) or the outline I created for myself detailed version of the 3 acts I have above. 💡😊

*Check out partial on my instagram *

TTYF,

XoXo

💜R

Friday, May 5, 2017

Step Into The Valhalla Legacy Realm

Hello Lovely People,

I hope everyone is doing well and kicking off the weekend to a great start. For those of you that have not what some places in the Valhalla Legacy series.

Valhalla Preparatory School

Valhalla, NY

Hallow Haven Society Dorms

VPS - Valhalla, NY

Briar-Thorne Academy

Valhalla, NY