Split Your Heart, Not Your Tongue

"I kissed him intensely and at the moment I didn’t care if I was making a mistake."-Peyton Hayley Giordano ( RED ) Starting today, I'm going to write blog posts based on the many themes of my upcoming novel, RED . I think sometimes people get so caught up in a story that they forget to take lessons out of them. I'm going to make it easier for you all to pick out the lessons and themes from the book. You'll understand more once you read it.    As most of you all know (hopefully all of you), no one is perfect...not one of us. Therefore, it only makes sense for characters in books to not be perfect. They need flaws like everyone else. RED is full of characters with flaws (some major, some minor). The topic of today's post is mistakes. We all make them and we're all guilty of them.    The problem with mistakes is that we usually know beforehand when we're making one. In fact, a lot of mistakes are premeditated but something inside of us p

Today is the day A Tragic Heart is on sale for only $2.99 on Kindle! You can pick up a copy of the book before the release of the second novel to the series, RED. You should hurry because the sale ends on September 28th at 12:00 am PST and will resume to its original price of $5.99. Here's a quick synopsis of the novel and you can find the link to the novel below: Sixteen year old high school student Taylor Caldwell has been through the wringer of life. The love triangles, heartbreak, and stress of being a teenager is all crashing down and it's slowly igniting a fire that's bound to destroy her. It would take a miracle for her parents to remember her existence and the same goes for the only guy she has eyes for. But sometimes miracles happen...just not in the form that we want them to. All she ever wanted was an option; a way out of her turmoil...a reason to fight. She never thought that life would give her two. With more options and decisions to make than ev

Wow! Time really flew by fast! On September 27th, my debut novel, A Tragic Heart will celebrate it's first birthday. I wanted to do something special for my baby's first year so I decided to discount the price of the novel for 48 hours. That's right! Starting September 26th at 12:00 am, A Tragic Heart will only be $2.99 on Kindle. The sale ends on September 28th at 12:00 am. It's a pre-birthday/birthday celebration! The novel has seen a decent amount of success, moving over 400 units (not bad for an indie author of no primary status) since it's release almost a year ago. More importantly, the novel has been met with critical acclaim by both readers and book reviewers. In fact, I just found out that my novel has been illegally downloaded 815 times this week and it's only Tuesday! While that may not seem like something to be proud of, the fact that the average star rating is 9.4 out of 10 makes me proud. More than anything I'm happy that people actually enjo

Most people have the belief that you have to be in the mood to write. I used to be one of those people (and on some days I still am). In fact, I skipped over my fifth novel to complete my sixth all because of the mood I was in. Now that I'm finished with the sixth, I'm back at working on number five. I was always one to complete one project before moving to another but the mood I was in compelled me to write a fourth and final book to my series, starting with A Tragic Heart . I've been given the advice to write even when I'm not in the mood to and so far it's been great advice. I've actually written some of the best scenes during moments I simply didn't feel like writing. It always starts off hard but if you just sit there and think for a while, the writer's block will go away. Now, I do agree that it feels better to write or create something when those creative juices are already flowing. It's easier to get the words out when the wheels are alre

We all should learn to fall in love with ourselves a bit more. In the end we're all we're going to have and if we don't love us then who will? That's what my new post for I Am That Girl al about. It's about loving your body, image, and whatever else you have regardless of what the media or anyone else says. Here's the link: http://www.iamthatgirl.com/love_what_you_got

"...Force our smiles, baby, half dead/From comparing myself to everyone else around me..." The quote above comes from one of my favorite Fall Out Boy songs entitled, " I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) ". While listening to this song the other day I got the great idea to write a blog post about something that stuck out to me in the song.  When Pete Wentz wrote the song he was suicidal and had tons of "bad" thoughts on his mind (hence the title). It's actually considered to be a form of a suicide note. Now, I talk about suicide and depression a lot but what I never talked about was the feeling of being depressed because of comparisons.  I think one of the main reasons a lot of people get down on themselves is because we compare ourselves to everyone else around us. To be truthful, I'm extremely guilty of this. Most of my years of misery came from me comparing myself to everyone els

Can you believe it's a new month already?! It feels like I just created a character profile for Mason Taylor and here I am about to sort of introduce a new character. For those of you who read A Tragic Heart , the name Adalyn isn't so new to you. Although in A Tragic Heart Adalyn didn't have any dialogue which still makes her a new personality because she is one of the main characters in RED . In fact, RED couldn't exist without her. From now on, Adalyn is an extremely important character to the series I'm working on (I'm in the last stages of writing the final book). As some of you know Adalyn is/was the bass player in Peyton's (Mason's cousin/Peyton Hayley Giordano's father) band. They also have a history together that goes far back (I won't ruin anything else for those who haven't read it yet). So let's get to know Adalyn a little better...shall we? Full Name: Adalyn Voyvodich-Taylor Birth Date: November 23, 1992 Gender: Fe