S.M. Boyce is a kickass author and amazing reviewer.  She takes the time to really break down the particulars of a book and then does both a video review as well as a written one.  Check out both below, and also the link to grab your copy of The Sin Collector for only $2.99!

                          S.M. Boyce Blog Review          Buy The Sin Collector


 
Reviews have suddenly been pouring in on Amazon.

Find out more about The Sin Collector and what people are saying!

Click here to find out all about it, and grab it up for only $2.99!
 
March 2nd is Read Across America Day. 

Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children's author Dr. Seuss.

Yet why should kids have all the fun? 

To celebrate, get my novel The Sin Collector 100% free through Amazon on March 2nd.

Turn off the TV, let the dishes pile up, don't bother vacuuming, and snuggle up with a good book!

GET YOUR FREE COPY HERE!
 
"Life is like a novel.  This novel is incredibly long, and detailed (if you’re lucky).  Slowly the mass of pages move from your right hand to your left.  Mostly the book is unexciting.  Yet, you’ll find some of the pages highlighted, notes written in the margin.

The day you learned to ride a bike, the first time you baked cookies without your moms help, the name of your goldfish, the first time you were ever left home alone, or snuck out of your house. 

Those moments glow.

Other pages, well other pages are bookmarked. Specifically noted as a point in your story when you were changed beyond a mere highlight.  Events that brought color and warmth, progression and strength to your tale.

A marriage, a baby, a new job, anything that made you stop what you were doing and say to yourself, “THIS is a day that will be infinite to me.”

Then there are the dark bookmarks. 

The ones that stick out from the pages of your life like razorblades.  The moments when you are irreparably altered, and unable to control your course. 

The moment your story turns into a tragedy. 

These bookmarks can often times split the tale in half altogether.  There is the version of your life before, and the part that came after.  Try as you might, no binding can put the two halves together again.

The new story is not for others to read, or even share. Maybe you were sick; maybe the love of your life died.  Maybe you grieved your Mother or your Father. Or you lost the child you wanted more than life itself. 

Perhaps one day you tried to make a list of everything in the world that made you smile, and sat staring at a blank page until it was so late only you and the stars were up.

Yet despite it all, our stories go on.  They intersect like highways.  It is our job to keep going, to keep reading.  Take the pages of our lives that are bloody, ripped, covered in tears, and somehow find hope and meaning.  To take the broken mangled second half of your book and try to live again.

It’s not easy, and I’ll be honest, I don’t think it’s always possible.

There is no such thing as the perfect legend, the perfect story.

Yet every day we strive for it.

I mean…What other choice do we have?"

~Jess Fortunato

 
Beginning Saturday night, through Monday, grab up your copy of The Sin Collector for only 5.00!!!

Hope you enjoy!
 
I did an interview with an awesome website Kindle Fantasy Authors.  They were kind enough to send me some great unique questions, and I enjoyed the interview very much!  I am going to link it below, lets get to know one another!

Kindle Fantasy Authors
 
I have been trying to plan free promotions over the next few months for my novel The Sin Collector.  As I was staring at my calendar there was one date that stuck out. 

February 20th, was my Grandma’s birthday.  She gave me the gift of books when I was little.  Since she has passed, I can’t give her anything this February 20th, but I can give a bit of her legacy to you, the magic of a good book.

SO. My book will be 100% free Monday February 20th on Amazon.

I hope you get a chance to pick it up, and  that you like it.
Link is below:

Click here to get The Sin Collector absolutely free
 
A great writer I met through GoodReads runs a blog doing reviews and author interviews.

She interviewed me last week and the interview just went live to her site this morning.  After reading the interview snoop around her blog, it's great!

Jessica Fortunato Author Interview


 
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield
 
Last night I received my first two book reviews, both from awesome members of the  GoodReads community.

Both reviews were amazing, and I cannot tell you all THANK YOU enough. Not just because they were good reviews, but that anyone anywhere is taking time out of their busy lives to read/review my book. I don't expect every review to be positive, but I have to say that because of you two, I had the best Valentines day of my life!

I mean it when I say I love you guys for doing that. I hope everyone out there had a great Valentines Day!

So here are links to my first two reviews....I may frame them  :)   :

The First Is On My Amazon Page

and the second is located on the awesome review blog

Life Long Learning by VS