Rafflecopter Giveaway Winners!

Congratulations to the winners of my Rafflecopter giveaway!

Up for grabs was one paperback copy of The Rabbit Ate My Homework and five ebook copies of The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops.

Congratulations Carol L, you are the lucky winner of the paperback copy of The Rabbit Ate My Homework!

Heather B., Connie S., Theresa C., Jo A., and Sandra G., you are winners of the five ebook copies of The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops! Congratulations!

Due to technical difficulties, I've ended up with some extra winners. So congratulations to Hope C. and Brandi D.! You are also winners of ebook copies of The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops!

I will be emailing the winners today!

Congratulations! And a big thank you to everyone who entered!

Hoppy reading!

Kidtastic Back-to-School Giveaway!



Continuing with The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops new-release celebrations this week, I'm also participating in the Kidtastic Back-to-School Giveaway. Over thirty fantastic and fun free and $0.99 kids' books are available from September 11 - 15, 2015! Follow this link to see the entire list:

 

Kidtastic Back-to-School Giveaway

 

Interview with author J.B. Cantwell

This week, in preparation for the launch of my second book in The Rabbit Ate My . . . Series, The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops (September 16th! Mark your calendars!), I'm participating in the Back to School Blog Tour. Check the host site for featured author interviews and links to participating author blogs with behind the scenes posts, back to school memories, and more. Plus your chance to win books and prizes!

Participating authors:

Marilyn Peake Monday Sept. 7
Rachel Elizabeth Cole Tuesday Sept. 8
Sean McCartney Wednesday Sept. 9
Lee Winters Thursday Sept. 10








Today, as an extension of the tour, I'm interviewing fellow middle grade author J.B. Cantwell, author of the Aster Wood series and the 6th Grade Supernatural series.

Release Day Already?

Look what I found on Amazon! The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops is now available for Kindle!

The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops

 

Grab a copy! Gift one to your friends!

 

 

This week, in preparation for the launch of my second book in The Rabbit Ate My . . . Series, The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops, I'm participating in the Back to School Blog Tour. Check the host site for featured author interviews and links to participating author blogs with behind the scenes posts, back to school memories, and more. Plus your chance to win books and prizes!

Participating authors:

Marilyn Peake Monday Sept. 7
Rachel Elizabeth Cole Tuesday Sept. 8
Sean McCartney Wednesday Sept. 9
Lee Winters Thursday Sept. 10

 

 

 

The Seven Best Things About September

My favourite month out of the whole year is September. And here are the seven best reasons why!

 

Leaves Changing Colour

Few things can surpass the beauty of leaves in late September in their array of gold, and orange, and red.
 

Back to School Blog Tour

This week, in preparation for the launch of my second book in The Rabbit Ate My . . . Series, The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops (September 16th! Mark your calendars!), I'm participating in the Back to School Blog Tour. Check the host site for featured author interviews and links to participating author blogs with behind the scenes posts, back to school memories, and more. Plus your chance to win books and prizes!

Participating authors:

Marilyn Peake Monday Sept. 7
Rachel Elizabeth Cole Tuesday Sept. 8
Sean McCartney Wednesday Sept. 9
Lee Winters Thursday Sept. 10

Happy Bookiversary to The Rabbit Ate My Homework!

It's hard to believe my book is now one year old. My how time flies!

To celebrate, the ebook edition will be only $0.99 for Kindle until September 16th, the official release date of The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops! Grab a copy or gift one to your friends!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MUE1C6A

New Release: The Secret-No Girls Club

I'm so excited to announce my latest release, an early chapter book for young readers aged 6-8. This is the first in the Kids in the Tree House series.

 

 

Best friends Logan and Caleb decide to form a club. A secret no-girls club. They write up the rules, create a secret handshake, and compose a pledge. But who will be president? They can't have a deciding vote with only two people. They're going to need some help from Caleb's little brother--and maybe even Logan's twin sister!

 

ISBN-13: 9780994821614
ISBN-10: 0994821611

Publisher: Tangled Oak Press
Publish Date: August 2015
Page Count: 32

 

Available now on:

 

Amazon

Apple
Barnes & Noble
Google

Kobo

Oyster
Page Foundry
Scribd



The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops Release Date and Pre-order!

I'm super excited to announce that The Rabbit Ate My Homework is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Official launch day is September 16, 2015! Mark your calendars!

 

The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops

 

You can’t bring a rabbit camping. That’s what eleven-year-old Drew Montgomery’s grandparents say when his annoying little sister wants to bring their pet rabbit, Tiny, along on the trip. And Drew agrees. It's bad enough that he will miss the release of the coolest video game of the year while he's stuck in a cramped travel trailer for a week with his grandparents and sister. But Tiny is certain to cause trouble. Plus there are bears and eagles in the woods. And what if Tiny gets lost?

But Libby smuggles the rabbit into the trailer anyway. Now Drew’s got to keep Tiny out of trouble. And that’s not easy to do with Libby always letting him out of the cage and a pair of rabbit-hating bullies ready to let their dog chomp him if he gets too close.

Top it off with never-ending rain, bloodthirsty mosquitos, a broken toilet, stinky outhouses, angry squirrels, terrible food, and an eye-gougingly boring “schedule of activities.” Drew is about ready to take the rabbit and hitchhike home before disaster really strikes.

 

How to Cook Up a Disaster Audiobook Giveaway!

May is International Chick Lit Month. So to celebrate, I'm giving away 5 audiobook copies of How to Cook Up a Disaster, DIY Dating Book One!

Sadie Dawson's mother goes into labor hours before her great-grandfather's 100th birthday party and Mom refuses to cancel the festivities. Now it's up to domestically-challenged Sadie to host the dinner party--only she hasn't a clue how to cook a turkey.

This could be the mother of all culinary disasters, but with the help of her two best friends, Sadie is determined to pull off the best dinner party in a hundred years. And maybe land Mr. Right, too.

Mary Jane Wells' effortless narration adds just the right dash of spice to this breezy chick lit romantic comedy. You might just have seen her in the films Elena Undone and Meth Head, or as Josie Marks in the HBO series The Newsroom, or caught her work on the Downton Abbey audiobooks.

The DIY Dating Series:
Book One: How to Cook Up a Disaster
Book Two: How to Knit a Tangled Mess
Book Three: How to Wallpaper a Catastrophe (coming 2015)

Enter to win!

YA Spring Fling Blog Hop Author Interview

 

The YA Spring Fling giveaway runs from March 20^th to April 3^rd and gives readers the opportunity to win ebooks, paperbacks, audiobooks and swag from some of the most awesome YA writers around.

To be in with a chance of winning head over to Sarah Dalton Books after the giveaway opens.

 

Over 70 authors are participating, with over 100 books up for grabs. From contemporary romance to ghostly gothic, all kinds of YA books are covered. Find new authors to follow or grab a free book from your favourites. One thing is for certain, this spring is going to be epic for YA books!

The "Bad" Picture Book Blog Hop

Today I am taking part in Dani Duck's "Bad" Picture Book Blog Hop where authors are posting pics of their early attempts at writing children's books. Here are links to the previous posts:

Feb. 9: Dani Duck, PEWE'S WONDERFUL ADVENTURE
Feb. 10: Becky Fyfe
Feb. 11: Marcie Colleen, RAINBOW HUNT
Feb. 12: Mandy Yates, A WORLD WITHOUT COLOR
Feb. 13: Sylvia Liu, MY EARLY WRITING AND DRAWINGS

Now it's my turn to share my "bad" first attempt at writing a picture book. I was in grade two and seven years old when I wrote this masterpiece. I couldn't tell you now what inspired the story, but I had decided I wanted to write a book, so I sat down with a cracker box, some paper, and tape and made myself a book. Then, once my book was assembled, I set to work on the story. This is not the best way to write a book as you'll see why later.

The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops Sneak Peek!

I'm very excited to share the first chapter of Book Two of the Rabbit Ate My Series (coming in 2015)!

Chapter One

Time to Go

 

I stare at my computer screen and sigh. On the screen, a picture of a super-cool looking space station hovers in front of a swirling alien planet and a vast starry background. Above it, in large glowing green letters it reads, "Galaxy Guilds: Connect. Construct. Conquer." Beneath it, a countdown timer ticks down the minutes. 20:42:16. Less than a day until the coolest game of the year--the game my best friend Quentin and I have been waiting ages to play--finally releases, and am I going to be around to play it? Nope.

 

I'm going to be stuck in a camper with my annoying little sister, Libby, and my grandparents in a campground in the middle of nowhere. Why? Because Mom has to go to a conference in Hawaii for her job at the insurance company and Dad is going, too. So that means nobody will be here to take care of me and Libby. And since Nana and Papa are going camping this week, they thought we should come with them. Oh, and did I mention this camping trip is an annual thing Nana and Papa do every year with a bunch of other old people they've known since Dad was a kid?

 

I sigh again.

 

Just then a Skype message chirps. It's Quentin.