Goodreads Giveaway!

During the month of February, I'll be doing a series of Goodreads giveaways for both my middle grade novels, The Rabbit Ate My Homework, and The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops! The first giveaway is up and running.

Click below to enter to win!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops

by Rachel Elizabeth Cole

Giveaway ends February 05, 2016.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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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

 

 

 

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

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.

 

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.

Goodreads Book Giveaway for The Rabbit Ate My Homework!

Win a signed copy of The Rabbit Ate My Homework! 5 copies are up for grabs on Goodreads!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Rabbit Ate My Homework

by Rachel Elizabeth Cole

Giveaway ends October 21, 2014.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

First copy of The Rabbit Ate My Homework!

Look what came in the mail this week!

Author Interview!

Check out my author interview on Limerence Magazine! http://limerencemag.com/2013/01/author-interview-rachel-elizabeth-cole/

Tag I'm It!

Thanks to Pat Esden http://patesden.livejournal.com/ for tagging me in this fun post. It gives me the chance to talk about what I'm working on and share that love with some friends.  If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged! Let me know when you post your answers!

Today, you're in luck, because I'm going to give answers for TWO books instead of one!

Blog Hop Pitch Polish

Well, I didn't get into the official Pitch Polish, so I'm participating in the blog hop. I'll be hopping around to give a hand to the other blog hoppers as time permits this week.

Anyway, here's my pitch and first 150 words.

In Need of a Catchy Title

Titles come to me any number of ways. Sometimes a catchy title pops into my head and I just have to write a story to go with it. This happened with my yet-to-be-published middle-grade novel, The Rabbit Ate My Homework, and a recently written short story, Free to Good Home.

If a title doesn't come to me before the story is completed, I'll go back after the fact and comb through it to find a descriptive phrase or line that fits the story. Listen to the Rain and my upcoming chick-lit novelette, How to Cook Up a Disaster, were titled this way.

Sometimes I choose a symbol, image, or object that represents the story. That's how The Perfect Ring and Fallen Leaves got their titles.

There's as many ways to title a story as there are stories to be titled. Here's a really great article on titling: Choosing the Right Name For Your Story.

Right now, I'm in the process of bundling several of my short stories (Fallen Leaves, Listen to the Rain, Caring For Lily, For Good or For Bad, and a bonus story, Is This Seat Taken?) into a themed collection. The theme that seems to run through these stories is choices, and how the choices we make affect our lives in good and bad ways.

However, I am having the worst time picking a title for this series (even after reading that excellent article and several more like it!).

Novel, Novella, Novelette? (What the heck?)

Probably 99% of the population knows what a novel* is. It's a work of fiction. Usually 300-400 pages (80,000 to 100,000 words) long. It's got chapters. It's got characters and plots and sub-plots. And it can take hours and hours to read, even if you're a fast reader like me.

Photo by Alberto G.© 2006

But you ask readers if they know what a novella or a novelette are, and they start scratching their heads (at least the readers I asked sure did!).

So what exactly is a novella and a novelette?

4th of July Hangover (Free Ebook Event Extension)

The highly successful 4th of July Literary and Thriller Fireworks Free Ebook Event will now extend through July 5, 2012. Five of the literary fiction and thriller authors have announced they will continue to offer their ebooks free for a third day.

The authors, who are all members of the Backspace online writers organization (www.bksp.org) include Rachel Elizabeth Cole, Loretta Giacoletto, Mary Beth Daniels, Daniel A. Smith and Nora Carroll.

The ebooks included in the free promotion are:
• Fallen Leaves by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
• Chicago's Headmistress by Loretta Giacoletto
• Heteroflexibility: A Romantic Comedy by Mary Beth Daniels
• Listen to the Rain by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
• Storykeeper by Daniel A. Smith
• Hemingway Point by Nora Carroll

Free Ebooks!

Today nine literary fiction and thriller authors announced that they will be offering their ebooks free on Amazon.com (http://amzn.com/lm/R2WOWYEBBT2Q8E) during a two-day promotion. The two-day free ebook promotion named 4th of July Literary and Thriller Fireworks will take place on July 3, and July 4, 2012.

In the spirit of writers helping writers and as such making ebooks more easily accessible to readers, the authors who are all members of Backspace (http://www.bksp.org), an online writers organization, include Karen Dionne, Eileen Cruz Coleman, J.H. Bográn, Danielle Younge-Ullman, Rachel Elizabeth Cole, Loretta Giacoletto, Mary Beth Daniels, Daniel A. Smith and Nora Carroll.

The ebooks included in the free promotion are:

Sweetwater American by Eileen Cruz Coleman
Freezing Point by Karen Dionne
Falling Under by Danielle Younge-Ullman*
Assassin's Mistress, a short story by J.H. Bográn
Fallen Leaves by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
Chicago's Headmistress by Loretta Giacoletto
Heteroflexibility: A Romantic Comedy by Mary Beth Daniels
Listen to the Rain by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
Storykeeper by Daniel A. Smith
Hemingway Point by Nora Carroll

*Falling Under by Danielle Younge-Ullman will be free only on July 3, 2012, but will be discounted to .99 cents on July 4, 2012.

“The 4th of July Literary and Thriller Fireworks promotion is a unique opportunity to pick up some exciting thrillers and gorgeous literary novels from several talented members of the Backspace Writers' Organization -- for free!” said Darcie Chan, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the literary novel, The Mill River Recluse (http://www.amazon.com/The-Mill-River-Recluse-ebook/dp/B0051PRFLQ/)

Readers may easily download all ten free ebooks from Amazon.com on July 3rd and July 4th by going here: 4th of July Free Ebooks

Don't have a Kindle? Don't worry! You can download a FREE Kindle app for your computer, smart phone, tablet, or other electronic device here.