A Wish, A Gator Boy, and a Princess

Well, hello, peoples!

Do you love middle grade novels as much as me? Yeah?

I've got two new fun middle grade novels to share with you.

Have you ever wished upon a star? When you were little, have you ever wished that your brother or sister was never born? Check out this clever story by Sherrie Petersen about just that!

It's WISH YOU WEREN'T! You can purchase it here and click here to have a chance to win an ebook! 

 

Also, another pal, Samantha Verant just shared her cover of her upcoming middle grade novel, KING OF THE MUTANTS. Looks crazy cool, right? You can win an ebook and gift card here!

And speaking of middle grades, you can have a chance to win a copy of ROCK 'N' ROLL PRINCESSES WEAR BLACK on Goodreads! If you want to read it, you can click that, too!

The first chapter of RNRPWB is now on here on Wattpad. If you are curious about it, give it a quick read!

And not only do I love middle grade novels, but of course Young Adult books are on my Kindle and nightstand as well.

Here are some cool new YA releases!

If you loved Suzanne Casamento's FINGERPRINTS, the companion novel was just released!!

Also, just in time for prom season, check out Laura Pauling's PROM IMPOSSIBLE!

Happy reading, and thanks again for all of your wonderful support! YOU ROCK!

Last Leg of the Rock 'n' Roll Princess Tour

Happy Monday, people!

Thank you to Blog Tours by Elana, we have the last stops of my ROCK 'N' ROLL PRINCESSES WEAR BLACK blog tour! RNRPWB is now available in paperback! Woot!


Please stop by these wonderful ladies' blogs this week!

SHERRIE PETERSEN - Today Sherrie has GUESS THE MUSICIAN PART TWO!
Guess which bands I got to hang with plus win an ITunes gift card!

Sherrie just released her debut middle grade novel, WISH YOU WEREN'T. You can purchase it here!

ELANA JOHNSON - Last stop is Elana's tomorrow! Check out what she has to say about ROCK 'N' ROLL PRINCESSES WEAR BLACK!

Elana's novel in verse, ELEVATED, has been getting rave reviews! It's only 99 cents for a few more days! Buy it here!

Both of these books are on my Kindle, and I can't wait to read them!

Have an amazing week, everyone! Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments and support for my new middle grade novel! YOU ROCK!

World Book Night and More Rock Princess Tour!

WORLD BOOK NIGHT

 

Today is World Book Night. I applied to be a book giver again, and I was thrilled to be accepted! Today I get to hand out 20 copies of HOOT to reluctant readers. Yep, just give them away. What an amazing way to promote literacy! This is the box of awesome that I picked up at Johnsburg Public Library last week. So I will be handing these babies out at different places after school.

 

READING ROCKS!

 

 

ROCK PRINCESS ON TOUR

 

Check out these tour stops this week!

 

Tuesday: Check out the Rock Princess playlist at I Am A Reader

Wednesday: A rockin' review at Domestic Chanteuse

Friday: Another review at Cover2Cover Blog

 

ROCK 'N' ROLL PRINCESSES  is now available in paperback! You can purchase it here!

Thanks so much for your support, guys! You rock!

 

 

 

Rock 'n' Roll Princesses On Tour

Thanks to Blog Tours by Elana, I have an awesome line up for you the next few weeks!

Here is this week's rockin' tour dates.


WEDNESDAY:
On April 16, stop by the Observation Desk with Katie and play GUESS THE BAND!

SATURDAY:
Come visit the Bookworm For Kids blog and read their review!



Thank you to everyone for your support! Paperback will be out at the end of this week! :)

READING ROCKS!

Rock 'n' Roll Princesses Wear Black Ebook is Here!

Happy book birthday to me!

 

My debut middle grade novel releases today!

ROCK 'N' ROLL PRINCESSES WEAR BLACK

Music class and recess totally rock, but being teased in school and ignored at home totally stinks. Stefani Lucas is a rockin’ sixth grader who loves music and dresses like a mini hipster in all black, but there's one thing cramping her style - her lame baby brother who manages to hog all the attention from her parents.

When classmates tease her about her clothes and even double dare her to (gasp!) wear another color, Stef decides a minor makeover may be in order.  Can Stef change for others and still stay true to herself?

 

You can buy the ebook on Amazon and Kobo right now.

Paperback will be available mid-April!

 

 

Thank you all for your wonderful support! I love this writing community so much! I sincerely could not have done this without your sharing great information, critiques, your comments, tweets, posts.

 

YOU ROCK!

 

 

 

Random Thoughts About the Oscars

Looky! It's me and an Oscar winner!!!!!

 

Yes, I stayed up to watch the entire Oscars last night. I have to say it was more entertaining than other years. Here are my Oscars Musings...not in order this year of watching it. These are afterthoughts!

1. I heart Ellen. LOVE her. She cracks me up and everyone else, too. I hope she hosts next year. She had me literally laughing out loud throughout the night.

2. Here's the super selfie that broke Twitter!

3. Lupita Nyong'o looked classy and lovely as usual. Her vibrant, beautiful dresses have been the highlight of every award show this season. Her speech was amazing, too.

4. Performances by P!NK and U2? Love it!

5. PIZZA!!!!! And of course Jennifer Lawrence is chowing down! Glad to see a Hollywood actress not take herself too seriously.

6. Um. Was John Travolta's wig on too tight? Wouldn't you make sure that you knew how to pronounce someone's name before introducing her??? By the way, @@AdeleDazim has about 5k followers on Twitter! Ha!

7. Stunning dresses this year. My favorites were Lupita's flowing light blue dress, and I thought Jennifer Garner's silver flapper dress was really fun and cute! Charlize Theron looked gorgeous as usual, too.

6. Jared. Jared. Jared. Yes, he should cut those long, luscious locks. But so happy he won. I adored how he thanked his mom so eloquently and also thought of others less fortunate in his speech. Handsome and multi-talented (you all know he's lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars, don't you?? My photo above was taken before a concert). If you haven't seen him in Requiem For a Dream, another great performance in that movie.

6. Alright. Alright. Alright. Absolutely thrilled for Matthew McConaughey. He has been my fave since he was Jake Brigance in A Time to Kill in the 90's. He is amazing on True Detective on HBO - only one more episode! His speech was thoughtful and so very quirky like Matthew. Sooooo incredibly handsome, that man. But one thing is for sure. McConaughey's gonna get older, and that Oscar is gonna stay the saaaame age.

Here's me and Matty. (okay, okay, okay. This one may or may not have been photoshopped...)

ROCKABET on the WGN News!

So, I'm pretty darn excited, because my ABC picture book, ROCKABET, and my celebrity book recommendation site, BOOK RECS OF THE ROCK AND FAMOUS, were both featured in a cute little segment on WGN Morning News yesterday! (My mother in law messaged me the photo above.)

If you don't watch Chicago's WGN Morning News  (you can watch a live stream here), you need to. The news team is so funny! I start every weekday morning with it on. They seriously crack me up.

You can view the news clip here:
http://morningnews.wgntv.com/2014/02/26/rockabet-teaches-children-history-of-classic-rock-and-abcs/

Thank you, WGN.  ROCKABET can be purchased here!

Check out BOOK RECS OF THE ROCK AND FAMOUS here. This week I have an actress from Once Upon A Time.

Also, thank you to all the fabulous people that have shared their expertise at IndieReCon this week. What a wonderful resource for writers.

Hope you all have an awesome weekend.  READING ROCKS!