JUST DESSERTS Review and Promotion Tour
When her friend Julia needed help forming a revenge plan against her ex-boyfriend, Ava was happy to lend a hand. She never expected that in the course of making Liam pay, she'd be the one to fall hard. . .for the one person who was absolutely off-limits. Crushing on the guy who humiliated her best friend is definitely against the girl code.
Besides, Ava has goals. Her life is all about graduating with honors and landing the perfect job. And Liam Bailey—sweet-talking, complicated son of a well-known local politician—isn't part of those plans.
But Liam doesn't give up easily. And he doesn't intend to let their friends' opinions, his parents' disapproval or Ava's past get in the way of what he wants--Ava's heart.
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About the Author
Tawdra Kandle has been a writer since the invention of the pen. Her first published work appeared in Child's Life magazine when she was 13. After a brief, thirty-year hiatus, she published a young adult quartet, The King Series. More recently, she's released contemporary and paranormal romances in both the adult and New Adult genres. Tawdra lives in central Florida with her husband and children, of both skin and fur types. And yes, she has purple hair.
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Random Musings of an Upwardly Mobile Indie Writer
Going
the indie route means that much of time, I’m forging my own path, which
can mean using a figurative scythe to clear the way. I’m blessed with
friends who always seem to be able to shine the light on the next step
just in time, but sometimes, it can get a little hairy.
For instance, one of my chief jobs right now is to promote myself and
my book. Back in the good old days of traditional publishing, a new
author would have a whole department of experienced folks at the
publishing house to guide her along the way. Today I’m walking a fine
line between continually telling people how fabulous my book is without
making them sick of hearing about it.
Little things happen that keep me going. I’ll get an email from a
friend, a Facebook message from a high school classmate, a voice mail
from a homeschooling pal, all telling me that they’re reading my book. I
don’t even ask if they like it; right now, it’s enough to know that
they’re reading.
There’s part of me that wants to say, “I know, YA. . .I know, love
story. . .I know, paranormal. . ” as though I’m trying to excuse all
those elements of my book. But guess what? That IS my book. That’s
what I wrote, and that’s the story that I wanted to tell. I’m not
ashamed of it. It’s not the great American novel, but I am a strong
believer in variety. We all need some chocolate with our health food,
and I’m proud to provide my readers with some sweet chocolate goodness!
Do The Next Thing
I
am way overdue on grocery shopping. If you’re main food buyer in your
family, you’ll understand this: I’ve been at different stores in the
last week, but I haven’t done a comprehensive, well-planned shopping;
I’ve just been skirmish shopping, where I pick up those things we really
need (milk, bread) and some stuff for dinner.
So I woke up this morning and realized I had nothing definitive
planned for dinner and no car access for the day. That’s not good.
People in my family have come to expect regular meals. I didn’t even
have my back up pasta and ready-made sauce, because we used it last
week! Yikes.
I just did a pantry patrol. At first, I didn’t see anything
promising. But as I took the time to look at everything on the shelves, I
realized I had a lot of different pieces. A box of farfalle pasta. .
.diced tomatoes. .
.some canned veggies. . .hmmm. I’m not promising
anything gourmet, but I think I can make dinner happen tonight. Whew,
crisis averted.
Writing is like that. I might approach the next chapter feeling as
though I have nothing in the pantry that will make something appealing.
But then as I look at all the pieces, it comes together. A character
surprises me. I think of a plot option that I hadn’t considered. And
somehow it all comes together.
If meal planning has helped me in my writing, so has homeschooling.
I’ve been doing that for over ten years, and if there’s one lesson I’ve
learned, it’s that no matter how much I plan, life happens.
Sometimes,
on days when we’ve gotten a late start, or someone is not feeling well,
or the house is a mess, I might be tempted to just let everything go and
ditch school. But if I did that all the time, we’d never get anything
done. So instead, on those days when it’s like swimming upstream, we
just do the next thing. We do a page of math. Read a little history.
Write some spelling words. Nothing elaborate, nothing earth-shattering.
. just the next thing.
When I’m stuck on a manuscript that won’t move forward, I employ the
same tactic. Do the next thing. Write mundane stuff. Sketch in some
dialogue. Even if you’re not certain that what you write is what you want to write, do it anyway; you can always improve it or edit it out later. But do something; do the next thing.
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