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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I am a 31 year old author and reader and soon to be book reviewer as well. I am a fiction/suspense author and my new book is called Celebrity Secrets. It is the first of a series
- Do You Have A Website?
- My web site is www.freewebs.com/jenniferbrown/author/
You can also check out my myspace at www.myspace.com/jenniferbrownauthor/
- About Me:
- I am 31, and writing is an absolute passion of mine! Reading is one as well, but I seem to get a much stronger adrenaline rush from creating a moving and suspenseful story. Celebrity Secrets is my new book, you can check out it's synopsis as well as an excerpt here.
- Favorite Books:
- I loved Barb Freethy's All She Ever Wanted.I have read most of VC Andrews books. I am currently reading Diva's Last Curtain Call by Angela Henry. And of course, Celebrity Secrets, the first of my new series! Read about it below!
For Elissa Harner, one of Hollywood's newest actresses, nothing could be better.Upon celebrating her twenty-first birthday, she has just finished filming her new movie, and is romantically involved with it's producer Kevin Lytle. Events take an unexpected turn once Elissa comes back to her hometown to spend more time with her family, and attend her movie premiere bash. A recently released book detailing the events from a nightmare in Elissa's past, turns up in her fan mail. Despite her attempts to keep the past buried, her overprotective father steps in, wanting to resolve it once and for all....leaving Elissa no choice but to face her past.....
Celebrity Secrets Excerpt
Elissa walked into the terminal and smiled seeing Greg standing far off to the side waiting on her. She waved at him excitedly and he put a simple hand up to meet her excited wave. She rushed over to him, wrapping her arms around him in a hug.
"Hey you! Where is everybody else?"
He let go of her, amazed at the scent of lingering perfume he smelled on her. She smelled different, like…an actual movie star, if there was such a thing as someone smelling like a movie star.
"All waiting for you at the house. Dad's running late though, at the hospital."
She smiled at him. "So…How have you been?"
He shrugged. "Hanging in there. Going to school. I think I've finally decided what to become."
"Really? What's that?"
"A child psychologist."
She stopped and gazed at him with the same smile he'd seen on her face on screen. "Really? Wow, Greg….that's really cool."
He smiled back at her, wanting with all his might to say she had been his inspiration behind the desire to do that, but he kept his mouth shut.
"Let's go home," he said putting an arm around her as they walked through the terminal towards his car….
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- I am a penny pincher so I have to say used book stores are a favortie with me. But I am grateful to Amazon as well as Barnes and Noble and numerous other sites, for without them, I would not be able to sell books as easily!
Jennifer Brown's Blog
Lots of promoting going on!
I am happy to be on this site, and am glad to see there is something like this out there. And thank you to all the ones who have requested me as a friend.
I am not on here as much as I am myspace, or my official book site @ www.freewebs.com/jenniferbrownauthor/ but was very flattered and glad to see other talented people so welcoming and requesting my friendship. I hope people who drop by get to check out my othe
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A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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