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Some chit chat.
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Sun is shining, A light breeze to keep the humidity at bay. A perfect summer day!
After a week of clouds and rain, the sun finally shows itself again. Glorious day! I rushed outside to meet it, taking my computer, my phone, my Kindle, and a print book just in case. I spent many hours out their, reading, swimming in the pool, and just closing my eyes to listen to the seagulls. Man, I love summer! LOL
I also did a bit of writing.
Writing, you ask? Yep, I’ve been trying my hand at a few short stories that have been in my head for years. I don’t plan on trying to publish them. But I do plan on sharing them on my blog. When I do, Ill be asking for feedback. Good or bad! I thought it would be a fun discussion post and I need more of those.
If you have any plots you’d like me to take on, a challenge of sorts, bring em on. It might take a while, but I’ll try to get to them. Should challenge me and it would be fun to see what I can come up with.
These will be very short stories and flash fiction to start. When I do my reviews, most times I write my own synopsis and that’s whet my appetite to try to do more. Scary!
And a lot of them are horror shorts. I do love my scares. I also learned real quick to not write them on my computer. You’ll see why in the gif below.
This was me fairly quickly. LOL I now use pen and paper to get a rough draft written first.
So, what are your plans for the weekend? I’d love to hear!
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Here are my new books for review.
The 6:41 To Paris first caught my attention with the cover. Sounds fun.
And I jumped on the authors offer to read Cold Hearted. I loved the first book!
I’ve read books from a few different series’ by Joyce and Jim Lavene and jumped on this new release,
A Watery Death, from a series I hadn’t read yet!
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New ones just because.
I grabbed these beauties from my favorite used books store. They are in perfect condition and they are autographed editions! How cool.
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And here are some freebies for ya!
Click on the covers to get yours and remember to make sure they’re still free before you click that buy button.
And some freebies for all of you game lovers!
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Books I reviewed this week. Click on the covers for my reviews.
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Books I’ll be reviewing next week.
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What I won.
I won a few books and some awesome swag. Going to wait until it arrives and share the pictures of all the goodies.
I also won a couple of gift cards. I’ll show pictures of what I bought after I finish shopping. LOL
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Other Posts on my blog this week.
I’m tellin ya….Bubba Done It _ Cozy Southern Mystery Review and Giveaway
Shining the Light on Taylor Dean’s Newest Release ~ Girl Of Mine ~ Blast and Giveaway
Teaser Tuesdays #116 ~ Cannibal Reign
Cover Reveal ~ Madison’s Song by Christine Amsden
This it it, the…Climax: The Publicist #3 ~ Tour Review and Giveaway
#T4T Blitz Giveaway ~ Call Me Grim and Into The Fire
Rumble in the jungle ~ Fevers by Joel Homer ~ Tour Review and Giveaway
The Friday 56 #63 ~ Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
GHOSTCROW: A Tale Of Andor ~ Tour Review
Exclusive Character Bios & Excerpt with Giveaway and Q&A ~ Dawn Of The Chupacabra ~ It’s coming!
New Cover! A Haunted House Tale ~ Free Friday and Saturday
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So, what did you get to read this week?
Got any recommendations?
I’d love to know and thanks so much for visiting fuonlyknew.
You’re right, Laura. The 6:41 to Paris has an eye catching cover. Interested to know how you liked the book.
I’m hoping it’s as good as it sounds. I’ll let ya know:)
I don’t like scary books, but the covers on the Stephen King books are really nice. You got some good looking books this week.
Isn’t summer great, Laura? Such a great time of the year. Enjoy! And have fun reading this week!
I’ve loved scary stories since I was a kid. It surprises me I can still get scared. LOL
Yes, summer is glorious and I’m going to treasure every second of it!
Here it’s raining today, seems we switched weather as last weeks or two weeks ago it was the other way around.
That GIF is realy disturbing O_o Writing your horror stories not on your computer sounds like a good idea if that’s what happens. So you write them on paper and then later type them out? Also I think you should give it a try and publish a few of your short stories, who knows there might be some people out there who love them and you can make some extra money.
The 6:14 to Paris has an original cover, I can see why that caught your attention. have a great week and enjoy your new books!
It’s been strange weather, for sure.
LOL I couldn’t resist that gif. If I could have found one of the computer being smashed, might have used it. Yep. I make notes, write a draft, and only then do I use my computer. I may try to publish one day. As much as I love reading and writing, it makes sense:)
Wonderful looking books this week, Laura! Have a great reading week ahead!
Thanks! I’m reading like a crazy woman. LOL
GOOD for you on the writing bug!! Looking forward to reading!
I love reading in the summer time. We are having similar weather but I haven’t had a chance to sit down and enjoy some reading time. The Joyce and Jim Lavene book looks great. That’s one of the few of their series I haven’t started yet.
Enjoy! Have a great week!
Me too. I read lots of different genres too. You’d think I’d stick to light romance and chick lit, but I’m all over the place.
I was thrilled to get my hands on A Watery Death. It’s the one series by them where I hadn’t read any of the books yet.
Cold Hearted sounds good. Hope you enjoy and have a great week.
I loved his first book and expect to love this one too! Crossing my fingers:)
Well done on the short stories. I actually like handwriting sometimes as well. I think my creative juices flow more when I do so (if that makes sense!).
I know. I always have a pen and paper everywhere I go so when something pops in my head, I can jot it down. Even in my car. LOL
I am amazed at all the posts you got done last week. I’m plugging along with a couple of reviews a week.
Hope you’ll be stopping by
Sometimes it gets a little crazy but I wouldn’t have it any other way:)
A relative works for an indy horror publisher – she loves it and also writes super creepy stories. It’s called VIllipede press: http://villipede.com/.
Personally, the scariest I go is LKH’s Anita Blake. My post http://fangswandsandfairydust.com/2015/05/sunday-crab.html
Thanks a bunch. I’ll check it out! And Anita has given me some shivers:)
Good luck with your writing! I need to get on the ball and buckle down and do some writing myself. Great haul also..I picked up one freebie..trying to refrain from grabbing to many…lol.
Stormi
Maybe we can work at it together. Giving each other some needed nudges. LOL
I only grabbed one too!
It sounds like you had a great summer reading place and went well armed with every thing needed for reading. Love the sounds of summer too. Congrats on all the wins, always a nice thing to have happen.
It’s a must to have a cozy place to read and work outside. It can get brutal in the afternoons though. Then I move it inside:)
I read very few Stephen Kings, I think I should catch up some day… Have a great week and enjoy the weather 😉
Been doing a lot of swimming. AAH describes how it feels. So lovely:)
I love Stephen King and it’s funny. I didn’t realize the two covers connected until I put them side by side. I wish they’d make a movie of The Regulators!
I’ve used that GIF at work when it gets so frustrating emailing back and forth to people who don’t understand what’s going on lol. No matter how many times I say something or even in a simpler way they still don’t understand and I feel like banging my computer keys lol.
But anyways that is great you are writing and I hope you share some of your stories. I don’t like horror so hopefully I won’t be scared at night lol.
Have a great week and enjoy the beautiful weather!
I’ve used it before too. LOL Says it all!
I’m writing but spending a lot of time rewriting and rewriting and deleting. LOL Not all of them are scary:)
Good luck with your writing. I will enjoy reading them. Need any help or ideas, my email is open.
I’m sure I’ll take you up on that! LOL
I had no idea you were writing short-stories, Laura, that’s awesome!
And how I laughed at your gif – I can’t type at first either, even my assignments for uni are first written with pen and paper.
Your new books all look great, I hope you’ll enjoy them.
Have a fantastic week and happy reading.
I’m “attempting” to write some. LOL Fumbling with it but having fun. We’ll see how it goes. And I’m tearing through the books and having some good reads:)
Sounds like so much fun out there. Been sitting on my back patio the same way. Have a good week!
There’s nothing like being outdoors is there!
Excellent book haul! And LOL at that gif. I also would like to try my hand at writing. One of these days…:)
I probably would have banged my face except I didn’t want to get blood on my computer. LOL
Can’t wait to read your horror shorts!
Now I’m getting nervous. LOL I’d love to read more of yours!
Sounds like a great week! We’ve been nothing but heat and sun here until this week. It’s nice to have a little break from that. Totally enjoying the cooler weather this week. Plus not having to water the veggie garden every morning. 😀
Hope you have a great week!
It’s been beautiful this week. More sun, less rain and the pool is finally warming up so I don’t cringe when I first get in. LOL
Glad you got to writing those short stories. 🙂 It’s fun to do. I use to do like a flash fiction friday thing with shorts about 250-500 words (of course some went longer as it just flowed) but haven’t done those in some time. Have fun with the stories!
I’ve been hemming and hawing about it for a long time. Now I’m getting down to it and it’s fun but hard. Sometimes I throw it all out and start over. Funny how a story demands to be told it’s own way. LOL