OKC Event Debrief, NaNoWriMo Decisions, and Hashtag Adventures.

October 28, 2018October 29, 2018 / Rozkai / 2 Comments

About Last Night…

A big thank you to everyone who came out the Bricktown Freaky Book Bang in OKC! We had a great time. I signed and sold a book, and I was able to meet and introduce some new people to my work. I call that a success. Also it was fun to be a supermodel for a day. lol

NaNoWriMo 2018

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). This year, for the first time, I have decided to do the NaNoWriMo challenge. I’m still feeling my way around the site and trying to get the gist of this phenomenon, but I already have a couple of writing buddies. So yay! The challenge for me now is deciding which work in progress (WIP) to focus on for the challenge. Also I think I am supposed to set a word goal. I guess that will depend on which WIP I choose. Here are my choices:

God or Mammon

Originally, I was going to choose the second book in the Life Choices series,God or Mammon (Life Choices Book B). It’s a medical thriller. This one will be fun to write, and I am very excited about it.

Patches

The first draft of Patches is already finished. It is a supernatural thriller with angels and demons, and all kinds of wonderful spiritual warfare. It’s about an interracial couple that moves to a small town called Purblind. Christopher White is an architect and his wife, a black woman, is his lawyer. After doing a remodeling project in Purblind, AL, Christopher falls in love with the quiet little town, and purchases a house and some land there. Purblind only allows certain families to own land, so imagine their surprise when not only has an outsider purchased their land, but he also shows up with a mixed family. I still have a few beta readers who are reading it, and I recently got it back from my editor. So if I choose it, I will be mostly correcting and rewriting. Which can be fun as well, but I want to hear from more of my Beta Readers before I get started on this one. And some of them are still reading.

Wrong Number

I started working on this novel a few years ago, and lately it has been calling me back to it. Here’s the blurb: Billions of digits randomly collated into systematic sequences of ten, doled out according to nation, state, and area have linked our society in an intricately woven tapestry of communication. For Jason Gord, one systematic sequence became a lethal obsession, and for Cardigan DuPree the same phone number started a life altering nightmare. It is a thriller suspense novel. I am seriously itching to work on this one again. So I think I will choose it for NaNoWriMo.

#LiveTweetANovel

So I have started to do this new thing on twitter. You know how people live tweet their favorite shows and such? Well I thought it might be a fun thing to do with novels as well. So I started #LiveTweetANovel. Basically I am giving my reactions to what I am reading as I go along. Not for every page of course, but ever so often when I have a comment or thought about what I am reading. I am hoping this catches on, as I think it could be kind of fun. I am currently reading Miranda Warning by Heather Day Gilbert. Follow me on Twitter @Rozkai to find out what I am thinking about the novel so far.

Join me in OKC! Win a Glam Box!

October 14, 2018 / Rozkai / Leave a comment

It’s a Costume Book Signing Event!

On October 27, I will be signing copies of The Wages or the Gift at the Bricktown Freaky Book Bang in OKC. I know it may seem a bit weird for a Christian Fiction author to be signing books at a Halloween event, but there will be a great variety of authors there, and I feel like its a chance to be a light. Also to have some fun. There will be games, free massages, food, and a costume contest. My costume will be Ebony Reynold (the supermodel) from The Wages or the Gift. I will also have a few glam boxes to give away. If you are in Oklahoma City or near it, please come and see me. Tickets are on sale now, and I would love to meet you. For those of you who would like to preorder your signed copy, or at least reserve one (there are a limited number), you can fill out the this form.

Glam! Glam! Glam!

You automatically get two entries into the Glam Box drawings for getting your book in advance! If you choose to reserve and pay at the event, you get 1 entry. Of course there will be plenty of opportunities to get additional entries at the event. (The treasures inside are a surprise.)

The October 1st Announcement!!!!

October 1, 2018October 21, 2018 / Rozkai / 1 Comment

October 1 is almost over, but I could not let it end without making the big announcement that I promised! I am super excited to announce that I finally found the right producer for the audiobook version of The Wages or the Gift!

Audiobook Cover/Producer Reveal!!!!!!

You know how I said earlier that the surprise is what is missing from the cover? You might have guessed that it was the narrator. I am overjoyed to announce that Christopher Lane, winner of numerous Audie and Earphone Awards, has agreed to produce the audio version of The Wages or the Gift (Life Choices Book A)!

Have a Listen!

The book is in production and will be released sometime before the end of this year on audible and i-tunes. I will announce the release date in a later post. However, to whet your appetite, I am posting the first 20 minutes here now. Please enjoy this audio excerpt narrated by Christopher Lane for The Wages or the Gift.