New Trailers - NEW ORDER APOCALYPSE

I've completed publishing a NEW EDITION of my New Order Apocalypse series, and have loaded a trailer for book 1 and 3 over on my trailers blog. I invite you to pop over and give me your impressions.

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SURVIVING - New Order Apocalypse 3

I have clicked publish on the NEW EDITION of NOA 3.

Chloe and Ginna Lee must decide whether to continue Jason’s dream to unite survivors of Earth’s shredded population, or concentrate on surviving. Chloe hasn’t the tact to play ambassador and Ginna Lee is more likely to take heads than spread good will. Promises little hope they can build an alliance, especially if peace hinges on a cure for Jihad. Meanwhile, the landscape they must cross still writhes with roamers and desperate clans.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K5WB63I

Fav Passage - SURVIVING

They pretty much looked like every other starving survivor I’ve ever crossed paths with. Filthy clothing, hands filled with whatever odds and ends didn’t fit over their shoulders. Their life possessions. Most of it less than useless. The pathology of the long-starved. They hoarded garbage, perhaps to give them a sense they had something.

What they needed most usually, was a bar of soap. To stop by a mall and scrounge a new set of clothes, even if it was two-decades-moldy.

[Edition Two in edit]

Test Driving a New Cover for NOA 3

Second Edition of NOA 2 now Live in Amazon

Thirty-three years after an engineered plague shredded Earth’s population, technology barely sustains a starving few on the Eastern Seaboard. After returning from a mission to the heartland, Jason Kates ignited a revolution that turned the CDC from a ruling order back to a scientific organization.

Now, Jason leads a team of pioneers West to feed what remains of civilization. The convoy must cross lawless lands, avoid scavenging bands, and negotiate passage with desperate clans. But he and the tiny Chloe will be propelled into a larger scheme.

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Favorite Passage

The cruiser jolted and shook.

“Crap!”

I hadn’t expected to make it out of Atlanta without some group of losers trying to blow us up. The glass by my head feathered from impacts. Hundreds of hits vibrated through the cruiser’s frame, through my seat. Felt a little like massaging fingers, but a little deadlier.

[Editing in Kindle now]

Favorite Passage

One nice thing about editing a series I published 5 years ago ... the writing is all new and fresh to me. 

Here's a nice passage from book 2

I wrapped the sling of the carbine around my left arm like I’d been instructed. But it was just for looks. I couldn’t shoot myself in the foot. That is, if that’s what I was trying to hit. It wasn’t just the weight of the rifle. Chloe claims I’m afraid of the noise when it goes boom. I’ll deny that to the day I die. I just suck at physical things. Sex excluded. My eyes are too spastic to align front and rear sights on a third point. Like asking a duck to dance Swan Lake, but much worse.

The Blurb

I buy way too many books. I read a hundred blurbs for every one I buy. I've published 38 books of my own...so I've spent my time on the torture rack.

I've joined a blurb and cover review group in Facebook...so I'm seeing a lot of draft blurbs now.

I wrote the following comment in frustration. Maybe I'll go back and delete it.

First intrigue me: dragons and magic;
Introduce the MC without a cliche;
What is her conflict?
What happens if she fails.

That's all the blurb needs.

I find too much in blurbs. We try to get fancy (and try to explain too much of the plot). Drop the prose. 

Look at the ing words...they'll point out where you're prosing.
believing/giving/insisting/struggling/shaping/depending/coming 

ahhhhhhhhhhhh

The blurb is no time to be literary (sound like a writer) :) 
Stand up, turn around, sit, and act the marketer.

DEAD EYE - Alyssa Day

If you like cozy-paranormal-romance, you'll enjoy DEAD EYE. I laughed out loud several times, my best accolade. The characters are fresh and quirky, the writing crisp, the story fun enough to keep you turning pages longer into the night than you intended.

And holy cow! It's free as I speak. Go grab a copy.

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I'm Considering a new...

I'm considering a new image for book 2 of NOA, as I am editing the series. What do you think?

(The current covers)