What is the YA Secret Series?

Happy Holidays Everyone! Good tidings and cheers to all: ) Thank you for stopping in, I was hoping you would as I have a few things to share about my new young adult Secret Series.

First off here’s the Secret Series tagline for the YA paranormal, supernatural series:

A series of secrets, invisible yet glaring, and most include a supernatural spin, like an unwelcomed sensation sparking every nerve ending.

Each book has a “secret,” sometimes more than one, and it usually comes with an element of the paranormal, sci-fi, or supernatural. Each book is unique in characters – there are no ties from one book to another with the exception of the secret thread, not the same secret either.

The young adults that star in each book vary in ages, like for instance, Secret: In Wolf Lake stars Sam (Samantha) a fifteen-year-old, and Secret: In HL Woods stars Bri, a seventeen-year-old. The next book releasing end of next year, Secret: Of Amber Eyes will star Morgan, a high school newly graduated eighteen-year-old woman.

Every book is its own story from beginning to finish so it doesn’t follow any sequence of events or evolving characters and relationships from one book to another – the books can be read in any order: )

Here’s Secret: In Wolf Lake Blurb: YA sci-fi

Samantha’s dealing with a lot of emotional blow-back from her mother’s new marriage. Then she discovers a gifted creature living in Wolf Lake, and life suddenly becomes all about keeping his existence a secret, earning his trust.

That is until his life depends on her saving him. But she won’t be able to do it alone…

Buy Links Here: https://books2read.com/secretinwolflake

Secret: At HL Woods Blurb: YA Paranormal

Bri, seventeen-year-old ghost-seer, keeps her ability under wraps at the new school until a murdered couple from the 60’s asks for help.

Kyle, a high school jock, realizes the new girl lives next door; she’s crazy cute, goth-odd, and too convenient to ignore.

Max, Kyle’s best friend, only sees Bri as a wicked threat.

Luke, Bri’s gay best friend, moves in for the summer, escaping his abusive father.

Paths cross, sparks spew…will anyone remain the same after?

Buy Links Here: http://books2read.com/secretatHLWoods

Wishing you and yours joy, abundance, and health for the New Year and always.

DK Davis - BWL Publishing Inc. Author Page: http://bookswelove.net/authors/davis-dk/

It's Nearly Here! by Victoria Chatham

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OK, I admit it. I'm a sucker for Christmas. Admittedly there have been a few years when Christmas has lost some of it's meaning, but the older I get, the more I appreciate it. 

It's not so much the tree and the trimmings, or the food and the wine, but the realization that without the company of family and friends at this particular time of year we are somehow at a loss. 

My family is far away but I can still see them and talk to them because of Skype.  An e-mail can garner an almost immediate response and Messenger can help reconnect people who may have lost touch. Moving to a new location, whether it be a new house or a new country, often meant that someone's address got lost in the transfer, or maybe they had moved, too, and the notifications crossed in the mail. There could be a hundred and one reasons that people lost touch but now, unless they don't want to be found, that reconnection is not impossible.

Today is my daughter's birthday, so I called her as I usually do. We talked for not too long as she was at work (she manages a jewelry store in the UK) and we briefly discussed the family gathering we had in October when I went home for a visit. My cousin was home from Australia, an Uncle and another cousin were home from France and the cousin who hosted the family get-together and I had not seen each other for thirty years. We talked about our childhood Christmases spent at our grandmother's house when, post-war, we got a stocking

containing an orange, chocolate and nuts, and one or two gifts and thought ourselves incredibly well provided for. 

I think back to other Christmases when my children had so many gifts their father and I had to hold some of them back. The Christmases when someone finished up in tears because they didn't get what they wanted, or someone hadn't done what they said they would do, or the sheer exhaustion of getting everything ready for the table and having the turkey and whatever went with it all served hot at the same time. 

For me, Christmas is not to be found in the stores, but in the hearts of people. It's in the enjoyment of their pleasure and company and the hope of a happier and healthier New Year for one all. 

So enjoy the season, celebrate it as you may, and look forward with hope to what 2018 may bring.

Victoria Chatham

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Perseverance

Perseverance 

CRG Consulting, one of our customers, gifted me a calendar. Not your usual muscle cars or Canadian scenes (beautiful though they are) but a calendar of positive thoughts. I opened it at random to July, which spookily enough was the very page I needed to read:

‘I’m convinced

that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs

from the non-successful ones is

pure perseverance.’

STEVE JOBS

Sourcing something, even an idea, that I need to perform a required task is an intuitive (woo-woo) thing that drives my wife crazy. One day you’ll probably hear of the candle snuffer, but that’s a story for another blog.
Today’s blog, however, is about writing. How many great literary classics that could change lives, or even entire generations, lie on a shelf or in the confines of a computer file somewhere?
Forgotten…
…because the writer never believed in themselves. One or two rejections were enough and they simply gave up.
Sadly, I guess we’ll never know.

Early every morning, steaming coffee in hand, caffeine dancing its merry way around my system as I await its full effect so I can get writing, I sit before a poster entitled, oddly enough, Perseverance. A man sitting before a piano, pages of discarded drafts scattered by his feet, in a room all alone.

“Great works are performed not by strength,

but by perseverance.”

Samuel Johnson.

 If it weren’t for perseverance Stephen King’s "Carrie" would not have seen the light of day, dumped into the trash along with the words, "I give up. I'm going to stick to being a teacher."
Although the perseverance in question was not his but his wife’s. "You tell me you're a writer. Dust off that blown, crumpled and withered ego and put it out there. AGAIN."
The very next publisher accepted the book, otherwise only the children of some Eastern American state would know him at all, and as only a stuffy English teacher to boot.
War and Peace, the great literary classic by Leo Tolstoy, was rejected by over a hundred publishers.
Dr. Suess of Cat in the Hat fame did give up. Fortunately he left his rough draft to be found by a fellow during a house party, who just happened to work at a publishing house. The rest is simply Green Eggs and Ham.
A mother frequents a warm, dry café somewhere in England, nursing one cup of lukewarm coffee. Seven years after graduating from university, her marriage failed, jobless with a dependent child, suffering clinical depression and contemplating suicide she signed up for welfare assistance to try to make ends meet. But despite all this she knew in her heart she was a writer. How easy it would have been to give up and then the world would never have met Harry Potter.
I went through 398 rejections before my first novel got accepted. That’s not giving up (although it is a very humbling experience.)
Joanne Rowling’s soul, like mine and yours, keeps crying out; you’re a writer. You can’t look yourself in a mirror knowing you’ve given up.
For that blank page beckons you, oh so seductively, to keep writing.
And the pen never sleeps.

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Sincerely

Frank Talaber

twosoulmates@shaw.ca

Frank Talaber’s Writing Style? He usually responds with: Mix Dan Millman (Way of The Peaceful Warrior) with Charles De Lint (Moonheart) and throw in a mad scattering of Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get The Blues). 
PS: He’s better looking than Stephen King (Carrie, The Stand, It, The Shining) and his romantic stuff will have you gasping quicker than Robert James Waller (Bridges Of Madison County).

Or as is often said: You don’t have to be mad to be a writer, but it sure helps.

Also look for my next novel: The Joining, coming out in early 2018.
Carol Ainsworth goes undercover to the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC. Where two mafia clans are meeting for a supposed wedding. Only they are waking up all the ghosts in Victoria, and believe me, there's a lot of ghosts in Victoria. You'll also meet hunky Jake Holden and Tony Belleti. Both have the hots for Carol. You'll also meet psychic, Agnes Van Lunt, elderly lady madder than a raccoon on a dog sled.  

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