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SPOOKTOBER always puts me in the mood for some paranormal romance. I’ve compiled a list of 10 Paranormal Romances that you should read this month if you’re feeling that spooky, paranormal vibe this month too.

10 Paranormal Romances to Read during Spooktober

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Haunted Attraction by Marla Holt [image error]

Who knew unexplained footsteps and a haunted house could lead to such an unlikely attraction?

Jess Lewis doesn’t have time to wait for the contractor. The more delays she runs into with this bed and breakfast, the less time she has for that too. And why does the contractor have to look like he belongs in a hot construction worker calendar? Being late for her next appointment and being forced to come to terms with her bisexuality is too much to handle on only one cup of coffee.

Matthew Zimmerman is a contractor by day, mystery author by night. When his new client is identical to the femme fatale in his books, and just as surly, Matthew has trouble remembering that Jess ended a relationship with a woman. But then they keep hearing mysterious footsteps in the house, he realizes there might be more going on under the surface, both with Jess and the house.

Jess and Matthew have to question what they’re seeing, hearing, and feeling on their quest to find out what’s haunting the house. Or are those ghost investigations just an excuse to give into that tempting attraction?

Haunted attraction is a slow-burn paranormal romance with a bisexual heroine, just the right amount of spooky, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Get cozy with this steamy haunted house romance from Marla Holt today.

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[image error]Bound to You by S Courtney

Kamari Lee was just a small hometown artist with an obsession with drawing wolves�� She doesn’t know why she is obsessed but she is, she feels a love and attachment she just can’t describe. Her studio is popular among the residents but she refuses to sell any pertaining to her muse until one day a man walks in��

Kayden Miller is the Alpha leader of the Cheshire pack, he finds solace in drawing his mate, or features of her. He hasn’t found her but he draws what he sees in his dreams and fantasies.

When he runs out of supplies in the middle of an intense session, frustrated, he decides to go into town to get them himself. It’s when he finds her shop, he sees her painstakingly painting her white wolf, but wait��

This sparks a story for the ages because NOTHING about her is normal.

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Monster Ball Year 3: (A Paranormal Romance [image error]Anthology) by Heather Hildenbrand, Bam Shepherd, SJ West, Cameo Renae, Nikki Jefford, Jessica Wayne, Everly Frost, Karpov, Kinrade, Tish Thawer, Heather Renee, Evan Gaustad, Stacey Rourke

Releases October 13, 2020

From 12 Award-Winning, USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORS Comes A Night You’ll Never Forget.

It’s that time again! The Monster community is abuzz with whispers of the most anticipated party of the year. This deliciously exclusive event has tongues wagging even amongst the who’s who of the monster community. It will once again be held at an undisclosed location on All Hallows Eve.

Don’t worry all you underprivileged socialites, The Monster Ball isn’t just for vampires, witches, and werewolves. Other creatures of the night have as much of a chance to attend. Watch for your ticket but not in the mail. The silvery slip of parchment is said to appear in your hand by the light of the moon.

If you find yourself a fortunate recipient best to keep it to yourself. There are some who would kill for the chance to attend. Because as every good monster knows�� what happens at the ball, stays at the ball.

xoxo, Elvira

Fans of dark fantasy, paranormal intrigue, and romance will devour this story.

Year 3 includes an all-new location & theme, new bartenders, and even a few familiar faces! Don’t wait! Pre-order now and be sure to reserve your “ticket�� to the ball!

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[image error]Paranormal Point: The Asylum by Piper Kennedy

Seven years ago Chloe Goodfellow left Nevada, and Dylan Michaels, without a word.

Now, just as suddenly, she’s back in Nevada and back in Dylan’s life. He needs to know why she left �� and if she still has any love for him �� but time isn’t on his side.

Dylan and his crew, Jeremy Gryffen and Alexander Goodfellow III, are the stars of the hit ghost hunting television sensation, Paranormal Point. And because of a lying assistant, and a tight timetable, they have to convince the producers to approve of the location, finish their research, and go to the hyper-active asylum in less than a week.

Dylan ropes Chloe into helping the team to get the episode running, but once he finally gets alone time with her, will she put him off like she had before, or will she finally admit why she left him all those years ago?

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Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer[image error]

It’s here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this highly anticipated companion: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire’s point of view.

When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella’s side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward’s version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.

This unforgettable tale as told through Edward’s eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward’s past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger?

In Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer transports us back to a world that has captivated millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love.

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[image error]Crush (Book 2) by Tracy Wolff

Everything feels off—especially me. I’ve returned to Katmere Academy, but I’m haunted by fragments of days I have no recollection of living and struggling to understand who, or what, I really am.

Just when I start to feel safe again, Hudson is back with a vengeance. He insists there are secrets I don’t know about, threatening to drive a wedge between Jaxon and me forever. But far worse enemies are at our doorstep.

The Circle is caught in a power play and the Vampire Court is trying to drag me out of my world and into theirs. The only thing Hudson and Jaxon agree on is that leaving Katmere would mean my certain death.

And not only am I fighting for my life, but now everyone else’s is at stake—unless we can defeat an unspeakable evil. All I know is that saving the people I love is going to require sacrifice.

Maybe more than I’m able to give.

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Dusk Before Dawn by Fiona Davenport[image error]

Releases October 12, 2020

Kieran Bancroft has spent almost a thousand years saving humans from evil vampires. Protecting potential consorts from nightwalkers gave Kieran something to focus on other than his dwindling hope that he’d ever find the one who was meant to be his.��
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Thana Fernsby had no idea vampires existed. Not until her aunt sprung an arranged marriage on her, and she went running into the night. Thana ended up at the door of a daywalker–the good kind of vampire that had been born instead of bitten.��
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Kieran would help any damsel in distress. But when he touched Thana and discovered she was his destined consort, the fight became personal.��

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[image error]What Pharaoh Wants by Marcelle Sixx

“One more month and Robyn is officially mine. Hopefully he was the last one that she tried to sleep with. If not…�� He slid into his car and gripped the steering wheel. “I feel bad for the next jig and her too. I’m done with the games. I want my wife and the power that comes with her.��

David Pharaoh was a vicious man. A truce between his father and another gentleman included a promise of young Robyn. After mastering the art of Dark Magic, Pharaoh decides that it’s time to take his prize. However, when Robyn rejects him, he stops at nothing to make any man who comes close to her suffer for even so much as looking, and to prove to Robyn that she only belongs him.

He would make her temperature rise with his invisible touch, or when he disturbed her dreams. Robyn’s loins ached as if he had truly invaded her in the wee hours of the morning. He would make sure to save the painful part of the first stroke, and only made her feel what his slow and meaningful penetration was like. It would always make Robyn wallow in passion and squeeze at her erect nipples before she would realize that she was being manipulated. Pharaoh was becoming much better at forcing himself inside of her dreams and make love to her before he would dissipate into nothing.

Robyn, held in the clutch of something that she hadn’t known she was involved in, is determined to get away and stay away from Pharaoh and his mischief. But at what cost? Anything can happen in the city of New Orleans when the son of Voodoo wants the princess of White Magic.

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Blood that Binds: A Vampire Romance (Blood [image error]Legends Duet Book One) by Melissa Winters

Everyone always told me I was crazy, so I believed them.

But I was wrong, and so were they.

I’m not crazy. It’s the rest of the world that’s blind to the monsters living among them. I should rejoice in my sanity, right?

Wrong again.

Being clinically insane would be better than reality. In that scenario, the only person who’s in danger is me. Stolen from my life to be sold off to the highest bidding vampire to live as a blood slave would seem like the worst of my problems.

Not even close.

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[image error]The Possessive Kiss: Victoria’s Story (Book Two of The Kiss Series) by Michelle C. Hillstrom

This is where it all began, the love story that transcended death and time.
In Louisiana just before the War Between the States, Victoria De’Muerre, heiress to a wealthy plantation, must make difficult, life altering decisions. She is torn between her head and her heart, between stability and passion. To help her make these decisions she enlists the help of a voodoo priestess that resides as a slave on her plantation.
When tragedy strikes Victoria is left questioning everything about her life, but she holds on to hope as she welcomes a new friend and a new bundle of joy.
This is the second book in “The Kiss Series�� and continues the tale of a star-crossed pair of soulmates.

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[image error]About The Stories Stars Tell by CL Walters

Emma-Christian daughter of Mo and Amy Matthews, big sister to Shelby, lover of John Hughes films, and Salutatorian of the senior class-has spent her entire high school career playing it safe because she stifles her risk-taking gene for perfectionism instead. This behavior isn’t necessarily because that’s who she is, but because of all of those external expectations wrapped up in her parents�� approval and the religious messages she’s grown up believing. She’s not a perfect girl; she just feels like she’s supposed to be. Now, she’s headed to college in the fall ill-equipped to face the challenges of real life. Though that one time junior year when she got drunk for the liquid courage to coerce Tanner James into kissing her might be an outlier, unlike most of her well-laid plans (even if she got what she wanted), she took the calculated risk to squash her infatuation for Tanner and it didn’t work. She still wants to have sex with him.

Like Emma, Tanner hasn’t forgotten that kiss junior year either, but for entirely different reasons. Party f-boy extraordinaire has reached high school graduation without options-a dead end. He’s made choices rooted in the expectations of his friends and their pact: the Bro Code. Except, he’s tired of the party life and the Nowhere it leads. That junior-year kiss changed something in him, and now he’d rather be at home reading his favorite book. As graduation and the great empty beyond looms, Tanner questions every choice he’s made. This upheaval unravels the protective box he’s built to insulate himself for all the real stuff he’s been avoiding, namely his older brother’s death and the volatile divorce of his parents.

One week before high school graduation, Emma and Tanner find themselves face-to-face at the edge of a cliff at the Quarry when it’s time for the partner-jump during the traditional Senior Send Off. Under the light of the stars, they both face the terrifying adventure of making a different choice. Tanner asks Emma to be his partner; Emma says, “yes,�� both risking everything to write a new story they’d thought had already been written. It’s just that change always has a price.

My Review:

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My new favorite book.

Beautifully written coming of age story that transports me back to my own senior year of high school and graduation. Every reader will be able to relate and identify themselves in one of the characters. In The Stories Stars Tell CL Walters covers real, difficult, life topics and feelings that teenagers face in a way that’s enjoyable to read about.

Emma and Tanner are incredibly likable characters that immediately find a home in your heart as they struggle to find their own identities while attempting to live up to the expectations of the people in their lives.

If you only read one book this year, make it The Stories Stars Tell by CL Walters.

[image error]About New Beginnings by Janet Olson

Ida and Engen’s 13-year-old friendship is altered when the death of their friend comes between them. Engen, guilt-ridden over Janelle’s passing, has become violent. Ida, in her grief, attempts to fill the loss with a one-night stand, which leaves her pregnant. As punishment, their parents force them to join a program called Youth of America Help a Nation, and they are sent to Africa on work assignments. Enter Lev Rosen, Ida’s irresistible boss at the orphanage where she’s been appointed. Lev has his own connection with Ida, although she doesn’t know it yet. Engen hoped the time away would give him the courage to finally tell Ida his true feelings for her, but how can he do that now that she is getting closer to Lev?

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My Review:

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Janet Olson’s “New Beginnings�� is far from a typical young adult romance. It’s also a fish-out-of-Water, surprise baby, friends-to-lovers, everyone sees it but them, love triangle that takes place at some point in the future and spends the majority of the time in set in Africa.

While I had a hard time relating to the characters and felt the storyline was a little slow, it was an interesting and unique enough story to keep me reading and I think the second half of the book was better than the first.

I was constantly torn between the two love interests: Lev and Engen. Before finally selecting my ‘ship in the last 25% of the book.

I loved the obvious tension in the relationships and the fact that this book is so different from others.

I recommend this book to anyone that loves young adult romance novels and is looking for a break from the usual storylines and settings. Just beware the cliffhanger at the end!

Happy Write About It Wednesday, Writers! On Tuesday, I had a consultation for Sensory Deprivation and Float Therapy. Today, I will be floating in the Sensory Deprivation tank for the first time.

A flotation tank is a lightless, soundless tank filled with highly concentrated Epsom salt water heated to skin temperature. Flotation, also known as sensory deprivation, is simply the act of relaxing in a flotation tank; with all sights and sounds removed, and drifting into a meditative state that rejuvenates your mind and body. [image error]

Sensory Deprivation

Sensory deprivation is the removal of stimuli from the senses. In a float tank, sight and sounds are removed. The air and water are also heated to skin temperature, so it becomes impossible to know where your skin ends and the water begins. And, of course, you are floating. As I am writing this I haven’t experienced it yet, but I imagine it’s like floating in space!

Floating in a tank creates the perfect conditions for removing all external stimuli. This is the sensory deprivation element. Your vision is restricted in the pitch black; apparently you can hear nothing but your own body. You are completely buoyant in the Epsom salt water. This supposedly leads to a feeling of zero gravity with no real concept of up, down, time or space. I am so excited to try it out!

Flotation Therapy

The science of sensory deprivation is known as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST). REST in a float tank has shown a transition from alpha or beta brainwaves to theta, which would ordinarily only occur before sleep and waking. In a flotation tank, theta brain waves occur whilst the user is fully conscious. For many users, this allows for great creativity and problem-solving. I definitely love the idea of increased creativity! YAS! Help me write even more books and blog posts!

Relaxation

The environment in the float tank completely isolates the senses and blocks out all distractions including gravity, temperature, touch, sight and sound. This leaves you in a deeply relaxed and meditative dream-like state like the state you enter just before you go to sleep.

Your brain uses a lot of power to deal with the strain of gravity on the body, however, in an isolation tank, your body and mind is freed from gravity so can fully relax. As a result, the brain does not need to send out any commands to the body so activity in the logical side of the brain synchronizes with the creative hemisphere.

This changes the brainwaves from alpha to frequency delta and theta waves, causing you to enter the meditative dream-like state whilst fully conscious.

Benefits

Flotation can benefit everyone, from athletes and creatives to businesspeople, the elderly, and those with medical issues. Flotation is a form of alternative medicine and boasts an extensive wealth of benefits:

Stimulates the release of endorphins
Creates calm and total relaxation
Rejuvenates the mind and body
Alleviates mental and physical stress[image error]
Helps with fatigue and jet lag
Improves sleep and insomnia
Improves creativity, healing, and visualization
Expands awareness and heightens senses
Enhances mental clarity and deepens your mental state
Improves self-realization and discovery
Helps with anxiety, depression, and motivation
Helps with phobias and addiction
Helps with PTSD symptoms
Decreases the perception of pain
Relieves bones, joints, muscles
Relieves aches, pains, and strains
Relieves arthritis, migraines, and rheumatism
Relieves fibromyalgia
Helps with pregnancy pain
Increases blood circulation and lowers blood pressure
Improves immunity
Helps athletes produce less cortisol, adrenaline, and lactic acid
Helps athletes visualize their performance for success
Helps athletes master the inner game and synchronize mind, body, and emotion
Reduces the risk of further injury and overtraining
Resets the body’s chemical & metabolic balance
Speeds up the healing process and recovery

All of this sounds just so good for my Ankylosing Spondylitis, Fibromyalgia, PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression. I’m so excited to try it out. I’ll probably do a little before and after video on my Instagram to let y’all know how it goes.

Since I am trying out this new treatment today, I thought Alternative Medical Care would make for an interesting Write About It Wednesday theme for today’s writing prompts. So far in my writing, medical treatment hasn’t played a very big role. Just brief mentions of hospitalization or treatment. For example, in FRIENDZONE, Mikayla is being treated by a psychologist for her depression, anxiety, and grief.

Write About:

An alternative medical treatment that you’ve experienced or wanted to try.
Medical care in your WIP. Any characters experience medical treatment. Is medical treatment the same in your setting as it is here today?
Write about someone who develops a new medical treatment. What are they treating? How did they come across this new treatment? Why do they want to treat this particular ailment?
Write about a character that is nervous for their treatment. What are they being treated for? Is it an invasive procedure?
Write about a character that seeks out alternative care from someone other than a typical healer. Do they go to the Fae? Aliens? The witch on the edge of the woods?

[image error]Have medical treatments played much of a role in your writing in the past? Do your characters frequently get injured and have to bandage themselves up? Or do they seek long-term treatment for a chronic condition? Have you considered what your characters health is like? Do they get regular checkups, or do they hate going to the doctor/healer? Let me know in the comments!

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Until next time,

Write on, Writers!

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Happy Write About It Wednesday, Writers

This week in my personal life I am really trying to refocus on healthy eating. Get back to cooking meals, counting my calories, focusing on macros and micros, making sure that I am buying and cooking foods that are good for me and nourish my body instead of eating whatever is convenient and tastes good. I admit that I’ve been eating junk, junk, and more junk during this whole pandemic and quarantine situation. Ordering a lot of takeout and not really doing any meal planning since shopping was difficult with so many items being out of stock constantly and trying to do all of my shopping through online ordering and delivery.

Anyways, this isn’t a recipe, health food, or diet blog, this is a writing blog, so let’s get down to the writing. With my personal thoughts being centered around healthy eating this week that is our theme for today’s Write About It Wednesday.

Writing Prompts and Ideas for Character Development:

What does eating healthy look like to your character? Are they a health nut or does healthy eating to them mean getting a burger with all the veggies?
Are your characters in a sci-fi or fantasy world? Are their foods the same there or do they eat unusual items?
Write about a character who is obsessed with healthy eating and weight loss.
Write about a character who works for a diet company.
Write about a government conspiracy surrounding food, agriculture, and the diet industry.
Write about your own journey with healthy eating.
Write about a character with an eating disorder.
Write about a character with special diet requirements and/or food allergies.

[image error]Did the COVID-19 Pandemic and Quarantine mess up your health/eating/diet goals for 2020? Do you meal prep? Have you ever thought about your WIP characters�� eating habits? Tell me in the comments!

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Until next time,

Write on, Writers!

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Happy Man Crush Monday Book Boyfriend Salute, Readers!

If you follow me on Instagram you know that every Monday I post about a different Book Boyfriend to honor them.

Today, I’m celebrating the newest book boyfriend that I created, Taylor Echols from FRIENDZONE.

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Age: 18
Birthday: November 1st
Sign: Scorpio
Sport: Basketball
Position: Point Guard
Favorite Food: Milkshakes from Doc’s
Best Friends: Jordan Stevens, Aiden Walker, Mikayla Hightower
Lives in: Rescate Canyon, TX
Job Status: High School Senior
Relationship Status: Single, doesn’t date only fucks
Goals: to get into a good college with a good basketball program, play as a starter his freshman year, get drafted into the NBA, make Mikayla Hightower smile
Fears: being a failure, letting his dad down, being rejected, being seen as weak
Biggest regret: ruining his friendship with Mikayla in sixth grade, teasing and bullying her and letting others do the same.
Biggest secret: has been in love with Mikayla his whole life.
Worst trait: cusses like a fucking sailor
Best trait: secretly is a softie who would do anything for the people he loves
Favorite color: blue like Mikayla’s eyes
On a Friday night you’ll find him: at a Rescate Canyon Party, or playing basketball during the season
Vices: Sex and alcohol
To deal with stress: he hits the gym, the bottle, or better yet finds a jersey-chaser to get him off.��
Spontaneous or a planner: Planner. Has a journal that he keeps track of goals, plans, workouts, schedule. Never acts on impulse. Makes a plan and sticks to the fucking plan.

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Learn more about Taylor Echols in FRIENDZONE. Out now. Available on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback.

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I hope you enjoyed learning about Taylor Echols, this week’s Man Crush Monday Book Boyfriend!

Until next time,

Write on, Writers!

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FRIENDZONE IS NOW AVAILABLE!





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FRIENDZONE IS OUT NOW! AVAILABLE ON AMAZON IN PAPERBACK OR KINDLE FORMAT.

To get out of the Friendzone, you’ve got to shoot your shot��

Taylor Echols�� He’s my mortal enemy. My boyfriend’s best friend. He bullied me in middle school and has ignored me for all of high school. But when tragedy strikes and I experience an unexpected loss, he is shockingly there for me �� comforting me and reminding me about all the good things in life. Now he has me feeling complicated and confusing emotions. I’m so close to trusting him �� to wanting him. I’m feeling things I didn’t think I could ever feel again. Feeling things for Taylor I would never have imagined possible. He’s here with me every day making me laugh, supporting my dreams, and cheering me on. He’s earning back my trust, my friendship, and my heart piece by piece. But is this new Taylor the real Taylor? Can I trust him with my heart? There’s a fine line between love and hate. Taylor Echols and I have walked side by side, flirting with that line our whole lives.

Mikayla Hightower�� She’s the girl who has always been too good for me. Unattainable. My best friend’s girl. All I want to do is make her smile, but my past mistakes make her wary of trusting me. My loyalty to my best friend makes me feel guilty for the way I look at her and think about her �� for all the things I want to do with her and to her. Not that it matters. I don’t do girlfriends. I have to stay focused on basketball, school, getting into a good college, and drafted into the NBA. Mikayla’s pull is strong, though. All she has to do is flash that smile with that damn dimple and I’m wrapped around her pinky finger. She might just be enough to have me rearranging my priorities. Jordan would understand, right?��

FRIENDZONE is a 96,000 word, full-length novel and is part one of a series. There is a cliff hanger. HEA guaranteed by end of book two.

Recommended for 18+ Content Warning for grief, survivor’s guilt, depression, teen drinking, strong language, and explicit sex scenes (all sex scenes are consensual and all characters featured in them are over the age of 18).

Tropes in FRIENDZONE include:

Athlete / Jock Romance

Best Friend’s Lover

Friends-to-lovers / Frenemies-to-lovers

Childhood friends

Everyone can see it except them

Love triangle

QUOTES FROM READERS

“I enjoyed that this story dealt with depression and loss in a forward yet sensitive way. I enjoyed the push and pull between Mikayla and Taylor, as it felt age appropriate and unfolded naturally.”⁣
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“You get on an emotional roller coaster. You are laughing one second and crying the next.”⁣
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“A heartfelt and heartbreaking emotional read.”⁣
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“So many emotions reading this, and I loved every second of it!”⁣
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“Thank you Michelle Hillstrom for creating this deep, passionate, romantic, and beautiful story.”⁣
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“Write what you know.��
-Mark Twain

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When I was a kid in elementary school, there was a little boy that I spent a lot of time playing with. He was always in the same classes as me, we played basketball together, and rode bikes together. My parents always teased me that he and I would grow up and get married since we were always together. But when we moved on to middle school, we ended up in separate friend groups and drifted apart.[image error]

Then, the summer before my senior year of high school, a boy that I had recently started dating died suddenly due to an electrical accident. I was devastated and not prepared for the death of someone my age. It was very unexpected, and the loss changed and reshaped me and my future.

I decided to write a story that covered these two different events and topics: changes in friendship and grief, because they are very real and hard lessons to learn as a young man or woman. In your teen years, your friends and the people you have relationships with feel like your whole word and it’s devastating when you lose them in a way that I don’t think is the same at any other age.

I chose to set this story during the end of the characters�� senior year. At the transitional period of graduating high school and beginning college. This time and age is my favorite to write about because every single decision and action you make is monumental and affects your future. It’s an exciting and scary time in teenagers�� lives. They’re excited to grow up, become adults, and take charge of their futures, but at the same time are scared. Suddenly they’re responsible for themselves. Suddenly they have to be adults. They’re out on their own for the first time. Many leave behind everything they’ve ever known as they move away for college, move away from their families, move away from their friends. They leave behind the familiar faces and places that they have known their whole lives. They’re no longer attending school with the same people they grew up with and saw every day for twelve years of school.

At this age everything feels bigger, more vivid, more real, more life and death, bigger stakes. That’s why I love writing stories like FRIENDZONE.

Because I was inspired to write FRIENDZONE based upon my own experiences, it’s been such a real labor of love to write. It’s very much a piece of my own heart and soul in a way my Kiss Series books weren’t, even though they were special to me too because they’re the first books I published.

With FRIENDZONE I talk about the struggles of grief, guilt, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and living up to the expectations that other people place on you. All things that I’ve personally struggled with in my own life.

I hope that when you read FRIENDZONE you might be able to find small pieces of yourself in the characters and the story too. That you find you are able to relate to the characters and see yourself and your friends in them too.

I hope you enjoy reading FRIENDZONE when it releases on Amazon on September 01, 2020.

[image error]P.S. Fun Fact: September 1st is my birthday, and because this book is so special to me, I decided to share my birthday with it! That’s what made me choose September 1st as the release date!

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Write on, Writers!

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[image error]I love free books! I bet you love free books too! I mean, what’s not to love about free books? They’re books and they’re free! Two of my favorite things.[image error]

Speaking of free books, I’ve got a special offer to share with you today. My very first book, The Faithful Kiss (Book One of The Kiss Series) and six other young adult books in a variety of genres are all free right now through July 17th. With no obligations to sign up for newsletters or share links or share posts. No hoops to jump through. They can simply be downloaded straight to your Kindle.

Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy!

Pick and choose which books you want to download. All of them or just one or two. It’s up to you.

[image error]If you love free books (and we’ve just agreed that you do) keep following my blog because I’ve got many more promotions and giveaways like this one coming your way!

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Happy Reading Friends!

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