Echelon Team-Quake Teen author blog tour

Kieryn Nicolas, teen author for Echelon Team-Quake, just launched her first blog tour. Join her on her summer tour at the following blog locations and drop her a line.


July 15: http://blog.scotthbooks.com/ or
http://scotthbooks.blogspot.com/

July 19:
http://cyn2write.livejournal.com/


July 23:
http://justanotherbookaddict.blogspot.com/

July 30:
http://darylgregory.wordpress.com/

AUG 4:
http://runningforfiction.blogspot.com/

Aug 12:
http://jongibbs.livejournal.com/

Aug 19 & 20: http://www.rebloco.com/

Date TBA: http://jberkj.livejournal.com/

Just for fun

Most of my spare time is spent writing, so, just for fun, I thought I'd list some of the other things I want to do before I kick the bucket. As I plan to be a supercentenarian, maybe I'll find the time. They are in no particular order, and I'm not a daredevil or a thrill seeker, so most of them are pretty ordinary:

1) Visit Australia
2) See the other wonders of the Medieval and the Modern World. So far, I've seen 1 from the medieval and 2 from the modern.
3) Attend the Olympic games. Maybe in 2012, as they'll be held in London.
4) See my novel(s) become a best seller (okay, that's the only one about writing as this is meant to be about OTHER things)
5) Visit Ireland
6) Move back to England
7) Make doing what I love my career.
8) Take an IQ test to find out if I would qualify for Mensa.
9) Attend a bad taste party, where guests can wear their most hideous outfits
10) Make someone with no sense of humor realize they need one.
11) See a Broadway show
12) Learn CPR
13) Test drive a car I could never afford to buy.

What about you?

A brief celebration

Today I woke up in a positive mood full of good intentions, and I actually carried them out. After dusting the cobwebs out of my workout shoes (yes, it's been a while), I spent 45 minutes in the home gym working up a sweat and lifting weights. My legs felt a bit wobbly when I finished and sat down to write, but, overall, I felt terrific, like something great might happen today. Good to be back on track. Before I settled into another mammoth writing session, I spent a little time catching up online with friends and doing a bit of marketing, and discovered MADNESS AND MURDER is now at NUMBER 1 on the Omnilit.com top 10 best seller list. How incredibly exciting. It feels fantastic and I want to take a moment to extend my sincere thanks to all of you, my new readers, in supporting me and helping me get there. I can't celebrate for long, though. A writer's work is never done and my challenge is to stay there, along with pump out a stellar third novel for you to enjoy. I'm almost half way through Hide and Seek. No Alibi, my second suspense novel, will be out in 2011. Please leave me your thoughts and comments about MADNESS AND MURDER. I would love to hear from you.

Tonight I had coffee at Starbucks with an author friend, and discovered my debut suspense novel Madness and Murder is at #2 on the onmilit.com top ten best seller list, four days after its release. Thank you so much to all my new readers. I’m looking forward to your feedback and chatting with you.

J F Hilborne: 8 days and counting

J F Hilborne: 8 days and counting http://tinyurl.com/2dkwajk

8 days and counting

Only eight days to go until the release of Madness and Murder. I found my book on Amazon.com today - what an exciting moment; so exciting, I had to look at it several times. Three years, almost to the day, have passed from the day I started writing Madness and Murder, to today and seeing it up there on Amazon.com. Not that long really, although it certainly feels like it to me after the many hours I've poured into this book to make it a mystery worth reading. I'll admit, it looks darn cool on Amazon.com. Check it out for yourself! To all those who have supported me this far, I extend my sincerest thanks, and to all my future readers, if you have a few extra minutes to spare after you read Madness and Murder, I would love for you to post a review and let me know what you think.

Something's gotta give

Someone sent me this instant message today: "You need to get another life". I'd actually been out all morning at an event, and left myself logged into my computer. She thought I'd been sitting here online all morning. Not today, my lovely, but usually yes, that's the case! Almost all my free time is spent at the computer; writing, editing, marketing, networking, and reading, not to mention the odd game here and there. I get a lot done, however, there's a lot I don't get done. Who knew weeds grew so quickly? I try to organize my day into time slots - certain times for certain things - but it never works out and I find it too boring. I'd rather just juggle it all at once and see what happens. This afternoon, I planned to write chapter 8 of Hide and Seek, but I'm going to give myself time off instead, away from the computer. And no, I'm not going outside to weed.