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Howdy readers! You made it through the month of May's Summer Teen Reading Party. On this posting you will have the opportunity to read Chapter 3 from Odessa, Book One Seraphym Wars Series. Afterward, comment about the excerpt and be entered in my Grand Giveaway. Continue reading →

In Searching for a Starry Night, Samantha Ann Carlton would rather spend her summer vacation anywhere but a spooky old house in Wisconsin…like Lake Geneva! Somehow Sam knows it's going to take more than a few days to find a missing painting no bigger than her hand. Maybe things won't be so bad, she thinks, since she gets to take a friend's lovable but mischievous Dachshund, Petey, and her best friend Lita. If they're lucky, the three of them can find the miniature replica of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and help Sam's mother get it to the museum where it belongs. It's not going to be easy, Sam realizes, when she discovers her own family has some spooky secrets. Then Petey digs up an ancient curse, and Sam fears her friendship with Lita is doomed... Will they find the miniature masterpiece in time? Will Sam and Lita go home friends -- or enemies? Continue reading →

Fifteen-year-old Lupe Hernandez dismisses the legend about her Mexican grandmother's magical earrings as a silly fairytale, despite recurring nightmares of human sacrifice. But when the earrings thrust her into the parallel world of Ixtumea, she must confront the very thing she shuns the most -- her cultural heritage. Continue reading →

Welcome Emerald Barnes, author of Read Me Dead and Piercing Through the Darkness Knowing Your Audience I’m a YA writer. At least that’s what I thought. What I’ve discovered about my writing is that I write cross-over. Boy was I surprised to learn this! I’m a YA suspense/thriller author. And even though, I write YA fiction, I have found that a lot of adults read my writing, more so than YAs. That’s fine with me. I’ve had some young adults who told me they loved my book, and I’ve had some adults tell me they love my books. My characters tend to be 17 and older, so I think that is who my audience generally is. Then again, younger or older people can relate to my characters as well. Cross-over. And I’m here to tell you, that’s not a bad thing! Hello – a larger audience. Something to be excited about. Continue reading →