It’s All About Me

Wow!  Has it been that long since I’ve last posted???  Woooo!!  Well I can honestly say, I’ve been incredibly busy.  I teach full-time and this past year was a total bear.  Massive budget cuts from the state, illiminated my job (boooo!!!) so now I am job hunting.  You know, I always thought it would be easy to find a job if I was a teacher.  How wrong was I?  Anyway!!  Since I’ve had time, I wrote a short story and submitted it to a great epub called Total E-Bound http://www.total-e-bound.com/ to go in a Halloween Anthology entitled . . .  are you ready?? Bite Me!!  Isn’t that awesome?!  My piece is called Blood Bond and I was just offered a contract.  To tell you I am flying is putting it mildly!!  Once I have more details I will certainly write and let you all know.

I am so jazzed!!  BE MINE has been out for 3 weeks and it’s been on Samhain’s top ten best seller list the entire time.  Wow!!  That makes me feel so great that people actually appreciate and enjoy what I do. I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember and my friends and family have always said that I’m good at it.  But it’s totally different when strangers buy your work.  That means that I am good enough at my craft that people will spend their hard earned dollars to have it.  *dancing around*  Wowzer!!  One of my very best girlfriends called me and told me that she cried through part of it.  As an author, if I can inspire that type of emotion, then I know I’m doing it right!!

I cannot believe it’s finally here!  BE MINE has finally released from Samhain Publishing. I am so excited!  What’s even better is I also received copies of the anthology, Caught By Cupid!  Oh my gosh, it looks so good!  This can either be found at a Borders, ordered from My Bookstore and More, or Amazon when it finally becomes available there.  To say that I am over the moon is putting it mildly.  I’ll just say that Samhain has been a real pleasure to work with! 

 Great reading!  Gwen

Join Bianca, Maya, Jessica and I for our chat on the Fallen Angels Review boards tomorrow.  We are scheduled from 10am to 8pm Eastern time so there will be plenty of time to chat and carry on . . . which is probably what we do best.

I am so jazzed!!  Today I received the cover for Caught By Cupid!!  Wow, it looks so good.  I can’t wait to actually be able to go into a bookstore and touch it.  LOL  My sister, Judith, is planning on taking a picture of me holding the book.  Sounds good to me since this is my very first book in print.  And to be with such great company, Maya and Bianca are the bomb! 

I just received word that my ebook, BE MINE, through Samhain Publishing is going to be released on January 16th instead of the 23rd!!  I am so jazzed about this!  The print anthology, Caught by Cupid, is still being released on the 23rd. So talk about excited. I cannot wait for this book to come out.

Stay tuned because I plan on doing promo and contest for this one since it is geared toward Valentine’s Day.

Gwen

Bianca so lovingly tagged me for this topic and I readily agreed to do it.  I don’t know how crazy some of this stuff is, but I think it’s interesting.  So hope you enjoy!

1. I have a tattoo of a dragon wrapped around a goddess symbol on my right shoulder.  I’ve wanted a tattoo forever, but had never gotten around to it.  When my 35th birthday hit I knew it was the time.  So I went with a friend of mine and I got my tattoo and she got her belly button pierced. 

2. It took me 10 years to graduate with my undergraduate degree in Liberal Studies!  I got a job at a local university when I was 25 and part of the benefits was 2 free classes a semester.  I finally walked for my degree in 2002.  I then leaped right back into school for my Masters in Teaching and received that 2 years later in 2004.

3. The first book I had published, Quest for Fire, was a fluke.  I wrote it as an entertainment piece for a friend of mine and I as we slogged through our masters degree.  I never meant for it to be read by anyone else, but Jessica Jarman read it and loved it.  She is the one that encouraged me to go for it and get it pubbed.

5. I don’t mind driving anywhere by myself.  As long as I have a lot of CDs, a full tank of gas, and a map I am good.  In fact, last summer I drove 16 hours to see Jess and her family.  Then the two of us drove back to my house, Will Smith blaring the entire way.  Jessica’s husband Brian said he was way more afraid for everyone else on the road with us.  What???    So that was my incredible list.  Hope you all enjoyed it.