The Sweetie Chronicles

Emerald Darkness Prequel Story, Part 1: Harper

Hi everyone! As some of you know, over the past five weeks I’ve been sending out exclusive prequel stories to my mailing list subscribers. Now that we are just five short days away from the release of Emerald Darkness, I thought I would share these stories with everyone else!!! These short glimpses into each character were originally a set of scenes at the beginning of the book. When I cut them out, I hated to just throw them away entirely, so I wanted to share them with you! Over the next few days leading up to the release, I’ll post…

Boundary Crossed: New UF release from Melissa F. Olson

Hi everyone!!! I have a very special guest on the blog today, telling you about her brand new novel, Boundary Crossed. This is an awesome Urban Fantasy book with some kick-butt characters. I got my copy through Kindle First last month, but it officially releases today. So exciting! Congrats Melissa! Boundary Crossed Thank you so much to Sarra for being part of this multi-webpage blog blast. If you’ve already heard of me and my books, you can scroll down to go straight to the contest entry. Otherwise, please let me introduce myself. My name is Melissa F. Olson, and I…

Special iBooks Feature: FREE New Adult Series Starters

Just popping my head in to make sure all my iBooks fans and readers know about this cool feature over at iBooks starting today!! They have compiled a great list of FREE New Adult series starters. What an awesome way to discover new authors and new series, right? The first book in my Fairhope series, The Trouble With Goodbye, is one of the featured books! Yay! If you haven’t already started my Fairhope series, or you’re looking for something new to read, take a look at the iBooks list and see what might like. There’s nothing better than getting to try a new…

The Pressure To Produce Faster

If you are an author–at least in today’s Indie world–you have likely been thinking about speed. How fast can you write? This is a question that paralyzes me. Before I started publishing, I spent months writing books. The first YA book I wrote (Death’s Awakening) took over a year to write, and much longer to actually edit and publish. I felt pressure to make my work the very best it could be. I studied books on writing and read books by my favorite authors, taking notes on what I could do to improve my craft. I still read books on craft…

Mistake in The Fear of Letting Go

We are all human and make mistakes, right? Sadly, I have made a mistake in The Fear of Letting Go. Here’s what happened. I realized at the last minute that I had called Knox’s bar Ray’s through out the book, instead of Rob’s. I quickly did a search and replace to change Ray to Rob. What this did, sadly, was also change words like pray to pRob. Tray to tRob. I should have done a quick spell check at the end, but just wasn’t thinking. Thank you to my readers who very nicely let me know about the error instead…

New Release: The Fear of Letting Go

The 4th book in the Fairhope series is here!!! The Fear of Letting Go released today!! She’ll have to let go of the past in order to find a love that could last a lifetime. All I wanted when I moved to Fairhope was to disappear. I wanted to become a ghost. A stranger to everyone who knew me before, including my parents. Especially my parents. I never expected to become someone. A friend. A faithful employee. A scholar. And least of all, a lover. Love is a word I never truly understood until I moved here and witnessed it…