Writing Updates

So with school starting for my girls (YES both are going to school finally)  I will be taking a short break from writing.  But before I do that I wanted to update you on all of the books I'm working on.  I know its a lot and I'm going to give you a slight over view of each one. 

Contemporary - 609 words done

This is a story dealing with my time of depression back in 2009 when I attempted suicide.  

Retelling - 1,316 words done 

This is a retelling of Cinderella 

Salt and Silver Academy - 27,042 words done

This is a fantasy about the power of prayer (not religious) (before the rewrite the older version of this is on Wattpad)

The Sharpie Assassin - 226 words done

This deals with an incident I saw first hand and is dedicated to Heather Burch and Anna Banks LOL 

The Witches Rise- 404 words done

Fantasy about witches coming out of the broom closet

The Kidnapping- 809 words done

For the life of me I can't remember what this one was about lol 

The Assassins - 2,446 words done 

This one either 

The Siren's and the Atlantean's - 20,199 words done 

This one deals with a fantasy about Sirens and the people of atlantis 

The Stone Bridge- 1,160 words done

yep don't remember this one either 

The Well- 6,748 words done

This one is another retelling but of the fountain of youth and Jack and Jill 

Gingers- 1, 239 words done

This one deals with demon hunters 

Witch Wars- 30,876

This one is about time travel 

 Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information. Buying via these above links allows my site to get a % of the sale at no cost to you. This money gets used to buy items for giveaways. In accordance with FTC guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials for bloggers, I would like my readers to know that many of the books I review are provided to me for free by the publisher or author of the book in exchange for an honest review. I am in no way compensated for any reviews on this site. All donations are to help keep this site running via costs from shipping, .com charges, and other giveaways.

Comments are DELICIOUS! and now that were using this new format for comments the TOP 3 Commenters will all win bookish goodies each month! So that is just one more reason to comment!  This is open to everyone!  So get commenting!  

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@CrossroadReview 

Social Media is hard to do!

This was posted back in June via my other site so I'm just moving it over. 

So yesterday I spent all day! ALL DAY!! Doing social media va my site Crossroad Reviews. Let me tell you for people who do this all day every day and get paid for it. I salute you!  REALLY cause man after yesterday I didn't even have the energy to make dinner. It was every man for themselves!  Que the hunger games cause momma is going to bed!  

#BookReview of Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1) by Jay Kristof #Giveaway

    The first in a new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author.

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.

Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.

Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?

Welcome to the #Weekend with @CrossroadReview

  Welcome to the Weekend!! You made it! Man for a second there I wasnt so sure!!  

Hey People!

So I spend the other day redoing the entire beginning of this book.  So far I really like how it came out.  I started the girl out being 12 then going to 16/17.  Which seemed to work out a lot better and got the story moving along.  I swear this girl if she ever hopped out of this story.  I would not survive from all the things I'm going to put her through. 

Here is a sample of what the book is about. 

A girl named Cinis (latin for Ashes)  is a slave but right before her 13th bday her master or Mistress in this case is going to adopt her. But before it can happen she dies and leaves Cinis to the cruelty of her Cousin and that evil ladies children.  So as you can see this is a retelling of Cinderella in a way.  But it has a giant twist that I think will appeal to those who want a strong MC. 

I might be posting the story to Wattpad I haven't decided yet.  So how do you like this idea so far?

 Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information. Buying via these above links allows my site to get a % of the sale at no cost to you. This money gets used to buy items for giveaways. In accordance with FTC guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials for bloggers, I would like my readers to know that many of the books I review are provided to me for free by the publisher or author of the book in exchange for an honest review. I am in no way compensated for any reviews on this site. All donations are to help keep this site running via costs from shipping, .com charges, and other giveaways.

Comments are DELICIOUS! and now that were using this new format for comments the TOP 3 Commenters will all win bookish goodies each month! So that is just one more reason to comment!  This is open to everyone!  So get commenting!  

Don't forget to check out our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest! 

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#Review #Giveaway The Flame Never Dies (The Stars Never Rise #2) by @RachelKVincent @DelacortePress

    For fans of Cassandra Clare and Richelle Mead comes the unputdownable sequel to The Stars Never Rise, a book Rachel Caine, author of the bestselling Morganville Vampires series, called “haunting, unsettling, and eerily beautiful.” 

ONE SPARK WILL RISE. Nina Kane was born to be an exorcist. And since uncovering the horrifying truth—that the war against demons is far from over—seventeen-year-old Nina and her pregnant younger sister, Mellie, have been on the run, incinerating the remains of the demon horde as they go. 

In the badlands, Nina, Mellie, and Finn, the fugitive and rogue exorcist who saved her life, find allies in a group of freedom fighters. They also face a new threat: Pandemonia, a city full of demons. But this fresh new hell is the least of Nina’s worries. The well of souls ran dry more than a century ago, drained by the demons secretly living among humans, and without a donor soul, Mellie’s child will die within hours of its birth.

Nina isn’t about to let that happen . . . even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

#FictionFriday #Writing with @WitchReader

  Welcome to FRIDAY!!!! This meme is all about writing.  Ill be keeping you up to date on how I'm doing and giving you the chance to sneak a peek on what I'm writing about.  Chapter samples etc.  So this week I've bombed!! I got no writing done at ALL!!! with the girls going back to school and me trying to get ready to start school myself.  This week was full of just trying to get a schedule down.  So I'm hoping next Friday ill have better news.  BUT you can check out my stuff on Wattpad and let me know what you think.  Some of it will be getting updated shortly. As one story is getting blended with another one.  Because its going to make it even better!! 

 Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information. Buying via these above links allows my site to get a % of the sale at no cost to you. This money gets used to buy items for giveaways. In accordance with FTC guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials for bloggers, I would like my readers to know that many of the books I review are provided to me for free by the publisher or author of the book in exchange for an honest review. I am in no way compensated for any reviews on this site. All donations are to help keep this site running via costs from shipping, .com charges, and other giveaways.

Comments are DELICIOUS! and now that were using this new format for comments the TOP 3 Commenters will all win bookish goodies each month! So that is just one more reason to comment!  This is open to everyone!  So get commenting!  

Don't forget to check out our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest! 

@CrossroadReview 

Creatures and What It Means to Be Human in my #Review of This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) by @veschwab @GreenwillowBook

    There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.

Where am I and HOW did I get here?

I have to say that in scared out my ever living mind!! After years of writing parts of books. I think I finally found one that I can finish. It's just a little story where I'm going to mess up this girls entire world and put her through a lot of crap. Things like breaking her fingers and shaving her hair. 

I've never been one to do posts like this. But I thought if I'm going to REALLY make a go with this. I might as well do it out in the open. 

So WELCOME!! I hope you guys don't mind me sharing stuff about me writing a book.  

Every week I'll pick a day to sit down and write and then I'll update you guys on what's going on. As I post things please let me know what you think!  

 Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information. Buying via these above links allows my site to get a % of the sale at no cost to you. This money gets used to buy items for giveaways. In accordance with FTC guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials for bloggers, I would like my readers to know that many of the books I review are provided to me for free by the publisher or author of the book in exchange for an honest review. I am in no way compensated for any reviews on this site. All donations are to help keep this site running via costs from shipping, .com charges, and other giveaways.

Comments are DELICIOUS! and now that were using this new format for comments the TOP 3 Commenters will all win bookish goodies each month! So that is just one more reason to comment!  This is open to everyone!  So get commenting!  

Don't forget to check out our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest! 

@CrossroadReview 

#Review #Giveaway for The Stars Never Rise (The Stars Never Rise, #1) by @RachelKVincent @DelacortePress

    Sixteen-year-old Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul, but she's too busy trying to actually survive. Her town's population has been decimated by soul-consuming demons, and souls are in short supply. Watching over her younger sister, Mellie, and scraping together food and money are all that matters. The two of them are a family. They gave up on their deadbeat mom a long time ago.

When Nina discovers that Mellie is keeping a secret that threatens their very existence, she'll do anything to protect her. Because in New Temperance, sins are prosecuted as crimes by the brutal Church and its army of black-robed exorcists. And Mellie's sin has put her in serious trouble.

To keep them both alive, Nina will need to trust Finn, a fugitive with deep green eyes who has already saved her life once and who might just be an exorcist. But what kind of exorcist wears a hoodie?

Wanted by the Church and hunted by dark forces, Nina knows she can't survive on her own. She needs Finn and his group of rogue friends just as much as they need her. 

Thursday #Thoughts #BookHoles #Bookhangerovers #Feels

 Welcome to Thursday Thoughts.  Each week well bring you one topic to think about. Comment below if you have a topic you want us to post about.  This week were talking about Book Hangovers.  They can be brutal!!!  

#Review of Three Dark Crowns (Untitled #1) by @KendareBlake with #Giveaway

    Every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of lions.

But becoming the Queen Crowned isn’t solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it. And it’s not just a game of win or lose…it’s life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins. The last queen standing gets the crown.

If only it was that simple. Katharine is unable to tolerate the weakest poison, and Arsinoe, no matter how hard she tries, can’t make even a weed grow. The two queens have been shamefully faking their powers, taking care to keep each other, the island, and their powerful sister Mirabella none the wiser. But with alliances being formed, betrayals taking shape, and ruthless revenge haunting the queens’ every move, one thing is certain: the last queen standing might not be the strongest…but she may be the darkest. 

#Review of Cola Fountains and Spattering Paint Bombs by Jesse Goossens, Linde Faas

    Bring STEM home with this colorful collection of science experiments that use everyday household objects. Turn your home or garden into a laboratory and create paint bombs and elephant toothpaste, let crystals grow, volcanoes erupt and CDs fly, build your own lava lamp, and discover how you can bounce an egg. Jesse Goossens has collected 47 spectacular, exciting, and sensational experiments with clear instructions and helpful information presented in a graphic way. Illustrator Linde Faas has exploded her palette to introduce even more giggles. The result is a festive book for budding inventors and other sorcerers' apprentices. Parental supervision recommended.

#Review of The Poet's Dog by Patricia MacLachlan

    From Newbery Medal winner Patricia MacLachlan comes a poignant story about two children, a poet, and a dog and how they help one another survive loss and recapture love.

Teddy is a gifted dog. Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan, he grew up listening to sonnets read aloud and the comforting clicking of a keyboard. Although Teddy understands words, Sylvan always told him there are only two kinds of people in the world who can hear Teddy speak: poets and children.

Then one day Teddy learns that Sylvan was right. When Teddy finds Nickel and Flora trapped in a snowstorm, he tells them that he will bring them home—and they understand him. The children are afraid of the howling wind, but not of Teddy’s words. They follow him to a cabin in the woods, where the dog used to live with Sylvan . . . only now his owner is gone. 

As they hole up in the cabin for shelter, Teddy is flooded with memories of Sylvan. What will Teddy do when his new friends go home? Can they help one another find what they have lost?

#Review of Pop Manga Coloring Book: A Surreal Journey Through a Cute, Curious, Bizarre, and Beautiful World by Camilla d'Errico

    Manga artist and Pop Surrealism superstar Camilla d Errico presents her first everadult coloring book, filled with portraits, patterns, and the stunning artwork her fans and collectors have come to love. 
This one-of-a-kind book offers you the opportunity tocollaborate with d Errico, adding your colors to her gorgeous black and whitelinework. Featuring everything from haunting and surreal character portraitsto pages filled with patterns and designs all rendered in d Errico sinimitable style, "Pop Manga Coloring Book "is guaranteed toprovide hours of coloring fun and excitement."