Showing posts with label MuseItUp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MuseItUp. Show all posts

Friday, October 25, 2013

Cover Reveal Game and Prizes

Help!


Gremlins have stolen my book and messed with my cover art!
They’ve added (or subtracted) weird things to the cover of my upcoming novel, Soul Cutter, 
and hidden them on 10 different blogs.


Please visit the 10 blogs and find each one's error so I can fix them.  You can comment on the blogs with an “I found it!” or "Nice cover" or whatever, but DON'T give away the answers!  Instead, put the 10 answers in an email to me:  laura.6eg@gmail.com

I’m so desperate I’m giving away prizes:

1     e-copy of Soul Cutter
1    10-page critique by me
1     5-page critique by me


Here's the real cover of Soul Cutter. 
(Use it as the key to see what’s wrong with the others.)

(Soul Cutter releases from MuseItUp Publishing on Dec 6, 2013.)

Blurb:

The Soul Cutter is hunting again.

Seventeen-year-old Élan spends her free time videoing psychic scams and outing them online. Skepticism makes life safe—all the ghosts Élan encounters are fakes. When her estranged mother disappears from a film shoot in Egypt, Élan puts her medium-busting activities on hold and joins the search.

In Egypt, the superstitious film crew sucks at finding her mom. When a hotel guest is killed, whispers start—the locals think their legendary Soul Cutter has come back from the dead. Élan's only ally is Ramsey, a film-crew intern, but he’s arrogant, stubborn—and hiding dangerous secrets.

When Élan discovers the Soul Cutter is no scam, she finds herself locked in a deadly battle against a supernatural killer with more than her mother’s life at stake.

Élan's fighting for her very soul.




People who find all 10 errors (or get the most right answers) will go into a drawing and three will be randomly picked to win the prizes.  The drawing and announcement of winners will be on Oct 31 – Halloween!



Happy hunting and don’t let the gremlins get you!




(You have until Wed, Oct 30 at midnight to write me with the complete list and be entered in the prize giveaway.)

Monday, October 21, 2013

Guest Post: Learning the Lingo

Hi my wonderful blogging-buddies!  I have a publishing-mate from MuseItUp Publishing guesting on my blog today with a funny take on writing dialog for kids.  Without further ado, here's Heather Fraser Brainerd!


 

Learning the Lingo

By Heather Fraser Brainerd

“Dude!” I said to my son.  “Chillax!”

“Mom, no one says ‘chillax’ anymore.”

I have three boys in the tween-to-teen age range.  While writing my Young Adult paranormal mystery, Dream Shade, I relied on them to be my vocab coaches.  Problem is, teen lingo changes at a crazy fast rate.  This meant that my manuscript’s slang had to be revised.  A lot.

“That is so epic!”’ became “That’s beast!” which morphed into “He’s got swag!” which then changed to “YOLO.”  (I just learned what that last one means.)

In the end, I cut almost all references to teen slang, hoping that the classics like “cool” would carry me through.

But while I’ve got you here, why not check out my book?  Because, you know, YOLO.


Blurb:
As if high school wasn't tough enough, sophomore Sarah Pasmore has one extra little problem: ghosts have started appearing to Sarah and they seem to want something from her.  With help from her brainy best friend, as well as a few new friends (including the hottest guy in school), Sarah must solve the mystery of what the spirits want in order to put them back to rest.  To complicate matters further, a more evil spirit will go to great lengths to make sure this doesn’t happen.  As they investigate the past to unravel this supernatural mystery, the teens learn a lesson in the powers of friendship and love.

Release date 10/25/13. Pre-order link:
http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore/index.php/coming-soon/october-2013/october-25/dream-shade-detail


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Leave a comment below for your chance to win the e-book Dream Shade!


Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Book Contract!


I've gotten a book contract for SOUL CUTTER!  Here's the announcement that appeared today in Publisher's Marketplace:

Publisher's Marketplace ~ Deals June 11, 2013:
Lexa Cain’s SOUL CUTTER, a teen who outs fake psychics on YouTube overcomes her epic skepticism when she confronts a legendary Soul Cutter while in Egypt tracking down her missing mother, to Lea Schizas at MuseItUp Publishing for publication in December 2013 by Michelle Johnson at Inklings Literary Agency. (World English)

Yay!  It may have taken some time, but I'm pretty excited my book will be out to readers in December 2013!
 
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