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NIGHTS AROSE HAS RECEIVED A NEW AWARD!

http://www.newappleliterary.com/2018awards/2018awardsCat03.html

Great questions I need to answer - When did you first know you'd be a successful writer?

I get looks when I tell people I am an author. There is a range, which goes from tedium to undivided attention. In between is the claim "I could write a book, about my life and it would sell out of the stores." Or I have gotten the sweet dig- "well anyone can write a book nowdays, I guess." Jaw and conversation drop! My favorite question opens the door- "What do you write?"

I smile, I gush my story out in a brief yet captivating pitch. An elevator pitch I think it's called, something that can peak their interest but wouldn't take longer than an elevator ride to the 18th floor. A few seconds will due. I try to keep it brief because any longer and you lose their interest any shorter and you don't get what you are waiting for -- The GASP!

That's when I first knew my story would work. When writing my story I gasped! I teared up, I broke into laughter and wrote it down.

Great Questions that I need to answer!

Why do you write? To answer quickly the first answer off the top of my head is... If I don't write the words down they will continue to ache inside my head. Repeating like -- and I don't mean to date myself -- but like a record player needle stuck on a scratch. Scenes playing and replaying in my head until finally they have to burst onto the page in all their anguish, happiness or laughter. Other than that, I write so my family would be proud of me, so that I can leave them with a part of me.

A game I often play Who would be the perfect actor to portray characters in Nights Arose? ~ Young Blaze~

We meet Blaze as a 16-year-old teen at the beginning of "Nights Arose.". Shy, kind of a goober, and the squire to Arose's Uncle Edmund. Arose has just returned from receiving the Gem of the Red Spirit from Old Bess. Her Step-Mother, Lady Katherine, is all but ready to hand her over to the magistrate as a witch. But her father gets word her Uncle's ship which is docked in Montego Bay. In comes, young Blaze, who rides all night to bring 10-year-old Arose back to the ship. He becomes her protector and best friend, until of course, she begins to bloom and then they must be separated... Until they meet again.

His name is Gavin but to me he is Young Blaze.

WHO WOULD PLAY? ~ Captain Edmund DuMouchelle~

Who would play the characters...IF...and WHEN "Nights Arose" was made into a live action film? The easiest character to cast would be Uncle Edmund DuMouchelle. The character...a sea captain with nerves of steel. Machismo with guile and style. A gaze that could melt the cannon balls he sends flying through the air. I have two men on my wish list for him Robert Downey Jr. or Johnny Depp?

Both have the swaggar which would bring Captain Edmund to life. Both can pull off a straight hot beard and would look so intense peering out from under a feathered hat. Huh... I don't know but they top off my wish list... In more than one way. ;)

You Tube Trailer

Fantastic 8 foot standing Nights Arose banner.

Quite an eyecatcher at the Comic-Con 2019

2019.

Ad Campaign in the Oratorio Society Christmas booklet

The New York Authors Group Book signing at Starbucks Howard Beach!

     Due to the nasty Corona Virus, we will not be attending the Starbucks signing

My newest 5***** review!

https://www.amazon.com/Nights-Arose-Gem-Red-Spirit-ebook/dp/B082H3XWT9

New York Authors Group !

I am now part of the New York Authors Group!
Please find us!

We will be out and about in the New York area taking over coffee shops, bookstores and anywhere they would allow us to take up space in their place.

New Book Marks will be available soon!

Great Pumpkin Pie!

Boo!!

 There are so many fun things I need to tell my friends about this month! 

I love October!

Dunkin Pumpkin lattes 

My mom's recipe for Apple Pie 

The pumpkin cinnamon Macrons Elizabeth makes and then Halloween! Hoping Mike and I win this year's best costume at the Veteran's Post 4, again!

I wrote a fun post on a friend's page. Please check out my special Halloween blog post on Kate Hill's page:

https://www.kate-hill.com/halloweenpage  

This blog was especially fun to do. Halloween is one of my most favorite holidays.  

The topic was what are your top three things about Halloween.

Find out what I chose by going to Kate' s page.

ALSO:

Nights Arose's cover was selected for an award with All Author, it's off to a good start with a few votes but I can use some more.

Won't you stop by there for a moment and give my book a vote?

https://allauthor.com/cover-of-the-month/5750/  

New Bookmarks for giveaways Love these

My table at the Queens Public Library in Maspeth.
My book is now available there!

Some happy authors at the Maspeth Book Fair.

How much do I LOVE this Promo from Crystal Wolfe and the Queens Public Library!

Between the Covers -The show for readers and writers ...and lovers... of books

Strong Island TV

I am delighted to be a guest on "Between the Covers".

We will be filming on Wednesday, July 10 from 7-8 PM.

The door says "Paradise Studios".

 Me! ONSET!  Wow!

EVENT MAY 18, 2019- MASPETH BOOK FESTIVAL!!

MASPETH BOOK FESTIVAL

Where:  60-02 Maspeth Ave NY 11378

When: Saturday, May 18, 2019 

11 AM to 4 PM

NIGHTS AROSE- THE GEM OF THE RED SPIRIT

Arose Du Mouchelle is the heiress to a sprawling sugar plantation. In her youth, an old Gypsy gave her a matriarchal heirloom. She spends years in exile, learning its secrets. The most mysterious is the ability to enter the Astral Plane.  She must act as a sentinel, forcing back its evil creatures.

An evil Priestess covets the Gem, taking hostage Arose’s family, and the people of a port town, as she attempts to force Arose into surrendering the powerful Spirit. Evading her henchmen Arose collides with a notorious pirate. Leery, he gains her trust after aiding in her escape. But, realizes she has been duped when he disappears with the Gem.
However, even if she recovers the Amulet she has a bigger decision to make — keep the Gem and doom those she loves or give it to the Priestess and let the world fall into a demonic wasteland.  

Finalist Winner -Readers Favorite International Book Award 2017

I was speaking to a fellow Solstice Author. When she said, "Oh, by the way, Congratulations on the Readers' Favorite Book Finalist Award."  I said Oh yeah? Thanks! LOL,  I have to check into that.
So I checked it out. Sure enough under the section marked Fantasy Supernatural was Nights Arose. Sitting pretty in the Finalist section.  I am a happy Book Momma today!