Smashwords

Screwing Up Time and Screwing Up Babylon are now available at Smashwords!! So now they're available for any format e-reader!

Here's Screwing Up Time.

Here's Screwing Up Babylon.

Merry Christmas!!

Books for Teenage Guys

A few weeks ago, I came across a posting on Google plus about my Screwing Up Time books. The teenager guy who wrote the post commented that my books were “written for them.”

That made my day. When I first started thinking about Screwing Up Time, I focused on who Mark was. I wanted him to be like all the teen guys that I knew. When I started writing, my three sons were teens. So I knew a lot of teenage guys. And they were great people. I could say, “Okay, guys, old Capt. Kirk vs. new Capt. Kirk. Who wins?” And we’d discuss it. (New Capt. Kirk takes the old one, in case you’re wondering.)

I wanted Mark (Henry) to be like one of these guys. So Mark couldn’t be perfect. He had to be a real person with real problems. In fact, Mark’s far from perfect—he’s a slacker who has been getting by in life based on the gifts he’s been born with. I wanted him to face huge obstacles and decide who he was. And what kind of man he wanted to be. And I still wanted it to be like real life. A series of small decisions (sometimes bad ones) leading to bigger ones—should Mark believe the unbelievable story Miranda told him? Because if he does, then he’s got to break into the locked ward of a psych hospital to meet his crazy grandfather who tried to kill him. And if he believes Miranda and his grandfather, then he has to travel through time. And if he travels through time, then he has to deal with a murderer, who’s out for his blood too.

And maybe it’s not just Mark who’s there. We’re all trying to make decisions—trying to choose what’s right over what’s easy. And I think that’s what appeals to us about books—we see ourselves, for better and for worse, in someone else.

Quick note: I’m more than halfway through the first draft of book 3! And Screwing Up Time and Screwing Up Babylon should be available at Barnes & Noble.com for Nook by the end of the week. 

And the winner is...

Congrats to Jo who won the Screwing Up Babylon giveaway!  Thanks to everyone who entered!!

Holiday Blog Hop

This week I'm participating in the 2012 Holiday Blog Hop sponsored by Indie Writers Unite. There are lots of great prizes! Just below, you can use the Rafflecopter widget for a chance to win an e-copy of Screwing Up Babylon. But there are scads more prizes, including two Kindle Fires!! So after signing up to win a copy of Screwing Up Babylon, visit the main Holiday Blog Hop site. Click HERE.

One more bit of excitement. If you're an early bird and you're hopping on Monday, you can get a
FREE copy of my young adult time travel, Screwing Up Time. Click HERE.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Here's more information about the Grand Prizes.

Welcome to the 2012 Holiday Blog Hop, brought to you by the writers of Indie Writers Unite. There's all kinds of swag to be won as well as some amazing grand prizes!

Each writer will be hosting their own giveaway on their blogs and offering their own prizes in addition to the grand prizes. Click HERE to start hopping the author pages.

As the for the grand prizes, there are five. What are they?

PRIZES ONE AND TWO

NOT ONE BUT TWO 7" KINDLE FIRES
WITH HD, 16 GB, WI-FI, AND DOLBY AUDIO.
$199 VALUE

PRIZE 3

$25 AMAZON GIFT CARD

PRIZE 4

18 SIGNED BOOKS THAT WILL BE MAILED RIGHT TO YOUR DOORSTEP.

PRIZE 5

36 DIGITAL BOOKS THAT WILL BE DELIVERED TO YOUR KINDLE

GOOD LUCK AND START HOPPING!!

Screwing Up Time for FREE!

Thursday is not a normal posting day for me, but I have some exciting news. In celebration of the release of Screwing Up Babylon and the release of "Screwing Up Mongolia" in the anthology Winter Wonders, I decided to give away Screwing Up Time for free from Dec. 6 through Dec. 10. Click here. Enjoy!!



Screwing Up Time is a 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarterfinalist.

Screwing Up Mongolia

"Screwing Up Mongolia" is out! *Throws confetti!* "Screwing Up Mongolia" is a Screwing Up Time series short story. And it's included in Winter Wonders, a winter themed anthology of short stories published by Compass Press, recommended for those aged teen and above.


The story is set in the time between Screwing Up Babylon and book three of the Screwing Up Time series. And, of course, the story has Mark (Henry) and Miranda in it.

Here's a link to the e-book version, which is selling for $4.99 at Amazon.
Here's a link to e-book at Barnes & Noble, also selling for $4.99.
And one final link to the paperback version, which is selling for $9.99.

One more bit of information, all the proceeds from the anthology go to Literacy Inc., an organization that teaches teens the importance of reading and offers them a chance to win  a free college education.


(NOTE: Make sure to come back and visit the blog on Friday! I'll have some exciting news to share.)

Here I am with my author copies.

   Here's the cover with the list of all the authors.