Month: June 2017

Raffle: Donate and WIN BIG

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Hi everyone! From June 14 until June 30th,  I’ll be running a very special raffle. Keep reading for details!
Linnea Gear is the illustrator of Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character. She’s incredibly talented, a friend of mine, and an all-around awesome person.
Take a look at her art!
Recently, one of Linnea’s close friends has faced a really tough situation regarding domestic violence” and there’s a GoFundMe set up to help this friend and her family.

To help her friend, Linnea and I are running a special raffle!

Simply email proof of your donation (any amount counts!) to broodybook@gmail.com to be entered to win. EVERYONE who enters will receive Broody swag, and a handwritten thank you from Broody himself!
Donate here: GoFundMe Link
Now, let’s talk about the GRAND PRIZES. 
Writer Prize: An edit of your first 100 pages! Not only will I provide detailed edits on character, voice, etc, but Broody himself will chime in with (probably useless, but very amusing!) advice. This is a one of a kind feature! You’ll also get a mailed package of fun Broody Swag and an autographed bookplate!
Art Prize: Linnea will draw and color any OC or character of your choice. (No nudity please.)
Runner up prizes:
3 runners up will receive a preorder of BROODING YA HERO: Becoming a Main Character, plus a personalized, autographed bookplate! (international okay, as long as The Book Depository ships to you!)
If you can’t donate, please share on social media! Thank you.
So, to recap. Any donation amount will get you BROODY SWAG+Thank You letter from him. PLUS, you have a chance of winning a preorder or a manuscript edit or CUSTOM ART.
This will run until June 30th!
Thank you so much for your donations. This means a ton to Linnea, Broody, and me. ❤
Donate here: GoFundMe Link

How to Jump from One Story to Another

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This is one of those times I’m going to blog about something I’m admittedly struggling with in the hopes it inspires me, (and maybe you too!)

Namely: changing from one creative project to another.

You may have encountered this before. Perhaps you’re trying to draft one story while you wait on edits for another. Or you’ve sent your first manuscirpt out to the query trenches, and now you need to write something new.

Maybe, like me, you’re a debut author who is also trying to write a new book.

It’s not easy, to split your thoughts, your hopes, your creative enegry between two projects. I’ve come up with a few ideas, but I’d love to hear your thoughts too!

  1. Image board!
    I admittedly do this the old-fashioned way, where I print out random things that give me story-related feels, then tape them to a posterboard I hang by my writing nook. It’s a great way to get some visual inspiration. However, most people I know use pinterest… which is the exact same thing, without the whole “attempting not to glue yourself to bits of paper.”
    Here’s a mini version of mine for my new project.Untitled design (1)
  2. Playlist!
    One of my all-time favorite things to do! Simply hop on spotify, or 8tracks, and start adding songs to a list that will give you all the feelings of your main characters.
    Here’s one for my next story: link to spotify
  3. Pretend to be your main character
    Okay. Maybe don’t do this if your main character is a brain-eating zombie or something, but I find a little method acting can be a lot of fun. Maybe it’s eating a food (not brains!) that your character likes, or perusing a store they might frequent. Have fun with it!
  4. Art!
    If you can, draw your characters! Or commission an artist (I’ve found amazing ones on Tumblr!) to draw them for you.
    Here’s a sketch the amazing Linnea did of my new MCs. I love how she captured their personalities too!Untitled

    Okay! So I’ve shared my favorite ways to start a new project. Now, tell me, what are yours?

Upcoming Release: FREEFALL by Joshua David Bellin

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Hi all! I’m here to share a teaser image for an upcoming YA sci-fi that I SO excited for! FREEFALL by Joshua David Bellin promises to be a thrilling, suspenseful epic! Check out the blurb below, share the image, and add it on Goodreads!

This wild ride of a novel is out Sept. 26th! Preorder your copy today.

FREEFALL: The fate of the human race hangs on the actions of two teens from very different backgrounds in this thrilling sci-fi adventure.

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In the Upperworld, the privileged 1% are getting ready to abandon a devastated planet Earth. And Cam can’t wait to leave. After sleeping through a 1,000-year journey, he and his friends will have a pristine new planet to colonize. And no more worries about the Lowerworld and its 99% of rejects.

Then Cam sees a banned video feed of protesters in the Lowerworld who also want a chance at a new life. And he sees a girl with golden eyes who seems to be gazing straight through the feed directly at him. A girl he has to find. Sofie.

When Cam finds Sofie, she opens his eyes to the unfairness of what’s happening in their world, and Cam joins her cause for Lowerworld rights. He also falls hard for Sofie. But Sofie has her own battles to fight, and when it’s time to board the spaceships, Cam is alone.

Waking up 1,000 years in the future, Cam discovers that he and his shipmates are far off-course, trapped on an unknown and hostile planet. Who has sabotaged their ship? And does it have anything to do with Sofie, and the choices—and the enemies—he made in the past?

About the author: Joshua David Bellin has been writing novels since he was eight years old (though the first few were admittedly very short). He taught college for twenty years, wrote a bunch of books for college students, then decided to return to writing fiction. He is the author of three science fiction novels for teens and adults: the two-part Survival Colony series (Survival Colony 9 and Scavenger of Souls) and the deep-space adventure Freefall. Josh loves to read, watch movies, and spend time in Nature with his kids. Oh, yeah, and he likes monsters. Really scary monsters.

Website: http://www.joshuadavidbellin.com

Blog: http://theyaguy.blogspot.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheYAGuy

So, are you on the edge of your seat? I am! You can preorder Freefall here: link.