The last week has been much better than the last few. Although my sciattica wreaks havoc on my ability to sit or stand long periods of time. Not that that should really be of interest to any of you. But on the way cool front I might be doing a New York Comic Con autographing session. High tide indeed. I got a discount at a nice hotel because of a twitter connection. High tide again. All that is a big fat maybe. I'm waiting to hear back from NYCC to see if they can accomodate me and a one hour autograph time. You better believe I would be promoting the heck out of an appearance there. Again it will be about making connections. I met my small press publisher Hydra at Fandom Fest. I met my epublisher at DigiCon. I will be teaching two classes at the Muse Online Conference in October. High tide.
Low tide, in order to travel I have to move back in with the parents. Low tide, it could all be overwhelming. Low tide, when you think you're built to be a writer for hire when you're just not, not matter how much people are willing to pay you. I did it once, it didn't turn out well. It produced some of my worst work ever. Some are exceptional at it. I'm just not.
Somewhere in between. Finding balance is hard. And I'm not really an in between kind of gal. I'm either an all in, or all out kind of gal. I'd make a horrible poker player, James Bond would fleece me. Maybe could play strip poker instead and we would both purposely lose. I'd be willing to wax my legs for that, as long as he looked like Daniel Craig of course.
So, as soon as you figure out how to balance real life with work life I'll live my life as a professional doing my own thing on my own terms. I don't settle. I was told the other day sometimes you have to learn how to settle. I never have figured that one out and I don't particularly care to.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Inspiration In A Time of Struggle
I post a lot of man candy pictures. And everyone is aware of my affair with Daniel, shhh, don't tell his wife Rachel ;) lol. But I want to explain why I find men like him so appealing, or at least the characters he portrays (although Jeremy Renner is giving him a serious run for his money right now. I loved him in Mission Impossible 4 and the Avengers, and with the Bourne Legacy out this Friday I think I may have just found someone else I could write for) but anyway, back to the story. My life has been no cakewalk but here is what my mom and stepdad did right: they encouraged me to read. Exposed me to film and televison and supported me in my dream to write, even if they wanted me to be a teacher or a doctor or lawyer or in my mother's still going dream an alto saxophonist. (I was accepted into a performing arts school but my fear held me back, I saw someone with pink hair and let's be honest my best friend and boyfriend were at the law magnet high school.) But anyway I always wrote and honestly that's where my my true passion lay then as it does now. Let me tell you my mom's exact words to me when I didn't go to YPAS were go ahead, break my heart, I don't care. Encouraging words lol. Now someone with colored hair doesn't bother me. Tats are cool and piercings mean nothing to me.
Ultimately I followed my own path and I looked to other people to get me there, at least their work. Daniel Craig was my breakthrough hero model for my characters. I always bitched about alpha heroes and wondered why women found them so appealing. Well, duh! Daniel Craig is about as alpha as you can get in his movies. Casino Royale. Cowboys & Aliens. TGWTDT. Athletic, chain smoking, scotch drinking, pill popping anti heroes are what I like in my stories, (don't ask me about my emotional baggage there's too much of it to go into here) and he delivers in a lot of ways. And the hot to cold to hot emotional spectrum. Yeah. I know I've got some serious issues. I just wish I could thank him for his films being a very bright spot in a sometimes very dark world.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Living At the Bottom
I want to take a moment here and talk about why writing is so important to me and what exactly it does for me. So if I wander a little off track a little bit bear with me, because sometimes it seems I'm playing to an empty room in my everyday life.
Example, I live with a bipolar diagnosis. I take my meds. I keep my appointments with the doc and my psychiatrist and somehow my less responsible sister who can barely pay her way gets pregnant again hijacks most of all the help and my family fears her and her boyfriend so much that I get to sit at the doctor's office 45 minutes extra because her lazy boyfriend won't help my family out.
He's produced two children with my sister. Has no job, but has let my sister work while he goes to school. Has anyone here ever seen the episode of Roseanne where they try to put Mark through school? Yeah, it's kinda like that, only Mark worked. Oh if only life were like fiction. And somehow I'm going to be sitting at Seven Counties, my writing time ticking away while I wait for my best friend to pick me up at the same time a cab would.
I know the logical answer to all of this would be, you're 37 years old why do you give a shit what your sister and her family does? Why not just buy your own car and be done with them? And your parents who seem to be under their Svengali like trance? Because I'm on disability and clear less in a month than they have the collective ability to, and my royalty checks, well, I have a ways to go before I can live off those lol ;).
But enough with the belly aching, what can I control? I can write everyday. I can escape to worlds where bad things may happen, awful things may happen to my heroes and heroines but they can get their happily ever afters if I so choose. (Really it's more like they choose but who's quibbling right?) I have 12 contracts while some don't even have one. I have some really nice reviews and a close working relationship with one of my marketing directors at Hydra and a great editor in Tanja Cilia.
To be honest, my sometime writing partner is also my best friend, my spinster sister from another mister. And only she and ironically enough, my group understands that writing is the great love of my life and that most everything else can go to hell in a handbasket.
As for my family, they love me and ironically enough I love them. They support me as a writer but I think their vision of a successful author is the one where I get the lightning in a bottle success. I'd love that. But until that happens I'll keep cranking the words out and see where it takes me. Living at the bottom keeps me from believing my own press sometimes and keeps me from becoming an author who behaves badly.
Example, I live with a bipolar diagnosis. I take my meds. I keep my appointments with the doc and my psychiatrist and somehow my less responsible sister who can barely pay her way gets pregnant again hijacks most of all the help and my family fears her and her boyfriend so much that I get to sit at the doctor's office 45 minutes extra because her lazy boyfriend won't help my family out.
He's produced two children with my sister. Has no job, but has let my sister work while he goes to school. Has anyone here ever seen the episode of Roseanne where they try to put Mark through school? Yeah, it's kinda like that, only Mark worked. Oh if only life were like fiction. And somehow I'm going to be sitting at Seven Counties, my writing time ticking away while I wait for my best friend to pick me up at the same time a cab would.
I know the logical answer to all of this would be, you're 37 years old why do you give a shit what your sister and her family does? Why not just buy your own car and be done with them? And your parents who seem to be under their Svengali like trance? Because I'm on disability and clear less in a month than they have the collective ability to, and my royalty checks, well, I have a ways to go before I can live off those lol ;).
But enough with the belly aching, what can I control? I can write everyday. I can escape to worlds where bad things may happen, awful things may happen to my heroes and heroines but they can get their happily ever afters if I so choose. (Really it's more like they choose but who's quibbling right?) I have 12 contracts while some don't even have one. I have some really nice reviews and a close working relationship with one of my marketing directors at Hydra and a great editor in Tanja Cilia.
To be honest, my sometime writing partner is also my best friend, my spinster sister from another mister. And only she and ironically enough, my group understands that writing is the great love of my life and that most everything else can go to hell in a handbasket.
As for my family, they love me and ironically enough I love them. They support me as a writer but I think their vision of a successful author is the one where I get the lightning in a bottle success. I'd love that. But until that happens I'll keep cranking the words out and see where it takes me. Living at the bottom keeps me from believing my own press sometimes and keeps me from becoming an author who behaves badly.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Sometimes Subtle Says It All
Sometimes, when you're blessed to be in the situation that I am (to have multiple books out in a short amount of time) you wonder, how am I going to pull this off. I have been promoting GLADIATOR for a long time it seems. Since April I think it is. When it comes out in a few weeks, I'm hoping for a good response. I
In October, my first print book comes out. And I'm really excited about it. It's called BOUNTY HUNTER. And right now I have another ebook out called SET FIRE TO THE RAIN these two books are out from Hydra Publications.
Writing blogs are hard and promoting is even harder because you need to know how much romoting is just enough without going overboard. All three of these books are important to me. But GLADIATOR is the one I've thrown all my weight behind these days. But I know I need to throw my weight behind BOUNTY HUNTER soon, it releases in October. So here is my schedule for the month of August. Here is where I'll be live during the last week of the month. I hope you'll join me.
On August 23rd I'll be joining Barbara E. from MuseItUp on her blogtalk radio show where we'll be talking about GLADIATOR, my other books and whatever else comes to mind. I think we're also doing a giveaway, here's the link! (It's from 4-6PM)
In October, my first print book comes out. And I'm really excited about it. It's called BOUNTY HUNTER. And right now I have another ebook out called SET FIRE TO THE RAIN these two books are out from Hydra Publications.
Writing blogs are hard and promoting is even harder because you need to know how much romoting is just enough without going overboard. All three of these books are important to me. But GLADIATOR is the one I've thrown all my weight behind these days. But I know I need to throw my weight behind BOUNTY HUNTER soon, it releases in October. So here is my schedule for the month of August. Here is where I'll be live during the last week of the month. I hope you'll join me.
On August 23rd I'll be joining Barbara E. from MuseItUp on her blogtalk radio show where we'll be talking about GLADIATOR, my other books and whatever else comes to mind. I think we're also doing a giveaway, here's the link! (It's from 4-6PM)
On August 25th I'll be at Half Price Bookstore from 2-4PM in Louisville, KY on Hurstbourne Ln.
And on August 30th 9-10PM I'll be doing a live chat in the Muse Chat Room, here's the link. Be sure the register by the day before the chat so that you can get in.
Friday, July 27, 2012
These Are A Few of My Favorite Things
Danny Boyle is an Oscar winning director so that makes things interesting too. But I have to admit Beijing really took the cake when it came to the opening ceremonies, right down to choosing the nine year old boy who climbed out of the rubble of a Chinese school house after their devastating earthquake only to go back and get two classmates out as well to lead the Chinese athletes out. When asked why he went back he said because he was a class monitor and leader and it was his responsibility to. I cry even thinking about that. How awesome is that?
I am an Olympics addict. And staying off of Twitter and FB long enough so that I don't real time mess up my fun is going to be hard. I was able to do it with Beijing. And had the greatest moment in a long time when the U.S. men beat those braggart Frenchies. (And it was the old man of the team that did it too, go Jason).
And of course there is my favorite events, the men's and women's marathons. Nothing like watching men and women testing the limits of their endurance. Sometimes under the most extreme of conditions.
Mix in a side of Daniel Criag doing his best bad ass 007 and wow God has really given me a treat. I hope for a fantastic opening ceremony. And I don't understand why politicians say the dumbest things. #MittRomney, angering a nation to rally around it's athletes. In any case, I can't wait and hope no other stupid things are said by either side. The Olympics are about the athletes. And of course, my movie star crush Daniel Craig lol.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
My First Review for GLADIATOR
Title: Gladiator
Author: Kate Lynd
Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing
Pages: 111
Rating: 4 Stars
Fate brought them together….Destiny may pull them apart.
Tristan Shane is a gladiator with a tortured soul and a jaded heart. His battles are for the entertainment of the government and the mob of citizens inhabiting a post apocalyptic United States of America. His ability is legendary and afforded him the attention of Veronica, the queen. But Tristan has no desire to be Veronica’s pleasure toy for he knows the evil she has committed.
All of that changes the day Veronica propositions Tristan with an offer he doesn’t want to do but cannot turn down. Veronica has only one fear, the Healer. As foretold in prophesy, a healer would come and usher in a new era by restoring the barren terrain of the world. Veronica believes the Healer has come but wants to be sure. She entrusts Tristan to discover the truth and, if need be, eliminate the person who would threaten her kingdom.
However Tristan wasn’t prepared for the impact the Healer would have on his life. Her beauty intoxicates him, her touch softens his harden heart, and her words linger in his mind. Yes, she has done what he never thought possible...awaken his desires and teach him to love again. But their relationship goes beyond mere love and Tristan soon learns the power they share. A power best displayed through their passionate exchanges.
Author Kate Lynd turns up the heat in this post apocalyptic struggle of love, lust, and survival. The characters are well developed as you see the depth of their emotions throughout the novel. This novella is packed with intrigue, action, and scenes that will get your pulse racing. If you enjoy action and erotic romance, “Gladiator,” is the novella for you.
PRE-ORDER LINK: http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=495&category_id=69&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
Author: Kate Lynd
Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing
Pages: 111
Rating: 4 Stars
Fate brought them together….Destiny may pull them apart.
Tristan Shane is a gladiator with a tortured soul and a jaded heart. His battles are for the entertainment of the government and the mob of citizens inhabiting a post apocalyptic United States of America. His ability is legendary and afforded him the attention of Veronica, the queen. But Tristan has no desire to be Veronica’s pleasure toy for he knows the evil she has committed.
All of that changes the day Veronica propositions Tristan with an offer he doesn’t want to do but cannot turn down. Veronica has only one fear, the Healer. As foretold in prophesy, a healer would come and usher in a new era by restoring the barren terrain of the world. Veronica believes the Healer has come but wants to be sure. She entrusts Tristan to discover the truth and, if need be, eliminate the person who would threaten her kingdom.
However Tristan wasn’t prepared for the impact the Healer would have on his life. Her beauty intoxicates him, her touch softens his harden heart, and her words linger in his mind. Yes, she has done what he never thought possible...awaken his desires and teach him to love again. But their relationship goes beyond mere love and Tristan soon learns the power they share. A power best displayed through their passionate exchanges.
Author Kate Lynd turns up the heat in this post apocalyptic struggle of love, lust, and survival. The characters are well developed as you see the depth of their emotions throughout the novel. This novella is packed with intrigue, action, and scenes that will get your pulse racing. If you enjoy action and erotic romance, “Gladiator,” is the novella for you.
PRE-ORDER LINK: http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=495&category_id=69&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Meet Joshua Livingston, Hero of QUEEN
Joshua Livingston came from the shadows of ORACLE and nearly stole the book away from Cain Seymour. But now he has a stage of his own to play on and while we're just in the beginning stages of development of his arc, it is clear, he has a temper, is quick to use against his enemies and has a take no prisoners style that really is all his own.
Daniel Craig was my first love in the publishing world. The man can do just about any role he wants and he has a steely blue eyed gaze that just gives me chills every time I see him on a magazine cover or poster shot. And when he acts, well, sooner or later that man is going to have an Oscar on his shelf. And when I wrote GLADIATOR he was the embodiment of every jaded, self-loathing aspect I had about myself. Only I would have wanted Tristan Shane to heal me.
In ORACLE Chris Hemsworth was my man, and to be honest he had the softest heart of the men and he was the most difficult to write. Cain Seymour was a mystic and had the power of second sight. He was intense, ala the Huntsman, but he loved the heroine deeply and when he thought he might lose her well, his search took him to the most unlikely of places.
So now we are at the finish line with QUEEN. I needed a hero who could redeem the most irredeemable of villains. Veronica, the queen who brought on all the suffering of her siblings to begin with. I needed a hero in as much need of salvation of spirit as she was. And my friend and sometime co-author Melissa Goodman (you should really checkout her debut book, It's Your Love, http://www.amazon.com/Its-Your-Love-ebook/dp/B008H50OLU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342561390&sr=8-1&keywords=It%27s+Your+Love+Melissa+Goodman) showed me this picture of Jeremy Renner. He has the jaded rage and intensity that I demand of all my heroes in his eyes and physical strength in those arms that my heroine will undoubtedly take pleasure in ;) lol.
So everyone, meet Joshua, the more than capable hero of QUEEN. He's got a long way to go, but I'm really enjoying his story right now. I hope you will too.
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