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Wow I made Blonde in the Waters Spotlight Author of the week! Whoohooo!

Wow KJ Waters featured me for her Author Spotlight for the week thank you so much KJ  Read the rest of the article on her blog... http://kjwatersauthor.blogspot.com/2015/03/suzanne-kelman-author-spotlight.html?spref=fb#.VRCC9ks1-bA

Suzanne Kelman Author Spotlight -- Blondie's Books from Friends

BLONDIE IN THE

WATER BOOKS FROM FRIENDS (BFF) AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT ON SUZANNE KELMAN

Please help me welcome Suzanne Kelman, one of my social media besties and a true class act. I've worked with Suzanne on the book cover for her latest novel, The Rejected Writers' Book Club last spring and I was blown away by her creative spark, her sense of humor, and her bursting with joy personality. Her book is a spitting image of these qualities and I hope you give it a whirl. 

I was also a beta reader for the novel and it is a really good read. It made me laugh, it made me cry and the character development is so good that still, after nearly a year, I find myself wondering what they're all up to. Thank goodness Suzanne is writing a whole series on these crazy characters because I could not get enough of them.

Suzanne Kelman

Aside from being super fun, talented and smart, Suzanne is a multi-award winning screenwriter who’s accolades include Best Comedy Feature Screenplay – LA International Film Festival (2011) Gold Award – California Film Awards (2012) and Winner - Van Gogh Award – The Amsterdam Film Festival (2012).

Did I mention she has a really cool accent? She was born in the UK and now lives in Washington State. But it's her laugh that gets me -- some would call that infectious, I call it heaven. 

Her writing voice has been described as a perfect blend of Janet Evanovich and Debbie Macomber. Born in the U.K. she now resides in Washington State. 

Buy your copy here

The Rejected Writers' Book Club

Here is the overview from the back cover. It really is a delightful book, I hope you take a few minutes to download the ebook or paperback. It is totally worth your time.

When small-town librarian Janet Johnson is persuaded to attend a gathering of local eccentric lady writers known as "The Rejected Writers Book Club," she gets pulled into a kaleidoscope of craziness she never knew existed.

Collecting publishers' rejection letters like trophies this quirky society cares nothing for being in print and instead meets to celebrate in style it's members' mutually spurned manuscripts.

However, when disaster strikes, the group's survival hangs in the balance, and Janet is coerced by their formidable team leader, Doris Newberry, onto a crazy cross-country dash with a band of merry writers to save the club.

As the intrepid adventurers race to complete their quest, the women's lives are irreversibly changed as they bond together through landslides, haunted houses, false labor, and first love.

Here is a little watery story she wrote that fits nicely into the Blondie in the Water blog theme and an excellent description on what it feels like to be a writer.

http://kjwatersauthor.blogspot.com/2015/03/suzanne-kelman-author-spotlight.html?spref=fb#.VRCC9ks1-bA

Book Reviews for The Rejected Writers Book Club

Book Winner!

AND THE WINNER OF THE FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY WAS………BIG DRUM ROLL….EVEN BIGGER DRUM ROLL……..

MARK DANIELS FROM THE UK

COME ON DOWN MARK THE PRICE IS RIGHT!

I will be winging you brand new shiny copy of my book to you by the end of this week.

Thanks for playing everyone :-)

Guest Blog: Outliners Vs "Outlawers"

My Guest Blog for Hedgebrook                

Writers, I have generally observed, tend to write their first draft from one of two camps. They are either Outliners or Outlawers. Outliners prepare; they are ready; they have journals and graphs, stimulating scents and special writing music and Outlawers… well they don’t. 

I am a hand on heart confessed Outlawer. There is only one way I can write the first words of a new project, and that is running with my hands in the air screaming towards the amusement park of my imagination. I arrive at my keyboard on day one with a 100 different half-blown cobbled together ideas, scenes and sketchy characters all breaming inside me like a stove full of pressure cookers ready to blow. Then once, I start writing there is no real rhyme or reason to my first draft. My process goes something like this, Okay, first the Rollercoaster, no, no the Carousel, then the Ferris Wheel then I have to tackle those high swings and OMG is that the Haunted House. Usually what dictates the first tentative lines of my latest masterpiece is what shouts the loudest in the vaudevillian theater of my imagination. I can often start right in the middle of a story some odd, unimportant scene that has been haunting me for weeks. It comes to me complete with a gang of derelict characters that have been following me around like a bad smell hollering “me, me, pick me, write me.”

(Read the rest of this post at the link below)
http://blog.hedgebrook.org/2014/11/outliners-vs-outlawers/#more-1724

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FREE GIVEAWAY!

BOOK GIVEAWAY!

To celebrate my 15th 5-star review on Amazon I am giving away a free copy of my new novel. If you want to enter please click on one (or all) of the options below then the green button to enter - the more you click on more of a chance you have to win. Good Luck! 

SCROLL DOWN TO THE END OF THE PAGE TO ENTER. FOR EVERY ENTRY YOU HAVE TWO CHANCES OF WINNING. 

Another Great Amazon Review… An Author's Joy!

Just got another great 5-star Review on Amazon… that makes 13 (yes I am counting) since the book was released a month ago. A big thank you "AHawk" whoever you be… :-)

 "So much fun! I read this book in just a few days, because I could not wait to get to the next chapter each evening. I loved the vivid, realistic characters, the charming portrayal of small-town life, and the zany adventures of the Rejected Writers. Suzanne has a knack for good, clean humor. Several times I startled my husband by laughing out loud while reading. There are also poignant, touching moments to balance out the hilarity. A really great novel. I can't wait for the sequel to spend more time with the Rejected Writers Club."

http://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Writers-Book-Southlea-Series-ebook/dp/B00O5BTXIK/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top