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The Apple Tree Has a Release Date!

9/20/2013

Super exciting news today!

The Apple Tree is close enough to finished that I've set a release date. Are you ready?

November 15, 2013

The book will be available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Mark your calendars! I've got the date circled in red and little purple stars stickers all around it :)

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Add The Apple Tree to your Goodreads shelf

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The Apple Tree Has A New Cover!

9/18/2013

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Click here to read the back cover blurb.

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I've been feeling uneasy about the cover for The Apple Tree for awhile now. I didn't feel like the previous image I chose said the right things about the book. To me, the old image said sweet contemporary romance when what I wanted was sexy supernatural romance.

After a lot of debate, I decided to hire a designer for help. I went with L.J. at Mayhem Cover Creations and she came up with this great cover.

I feel like this one says Supernatural Romance much more than the old and I love the title font.

What do you think?

Here's the old cover for comparison:

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Making Time For Our Passions

9/10/2013

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Photo by: John Loo

I'm a busy mom. I have three small children ages 6, 4 and 2. Plus, I homeschool the oldest. A lot of people ask me how I make time to write.

The answer is simple: I make it a priority.

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Cloudy Book Brain

9/8/2013

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You know that feeling when you read a really fantastic novel and you can't stop thinking about it?

Well, I'm coining a new term for this: Cloudy Book Brain.

Just wait. It's gonna be a thing. You'll see.

Signs that you may suffer from Cloudy Book Brain:

The lady at the grocery store looks at you funny and you realize you were having an imaginary conversation with a fictional character.
You've been surviving on cold cereal because you can't put the book down long enough to cook.
You skip your best friends birthday dinner to find out what happens in chapter seventeen.
When the book ends, you finally call up your friends and invite them to the book funeral. Because it feels like somebody died.
You scour the internet for book extras, fan art and fan-fic. When you've exhausted that, you cyber-stalk the author and start on online petition for the book to be made into a movie.
You are unable to start another book, because you're still living in the last one.

If you suffer from Cloudy Book Brain, it's important to get help. It may be difficult, but it's best to begin another book right away. When all else fails, go outside. Just remember to bring a book with you. You wouldn't want to be too distracted by nature.

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Yes, so glad.

9/6/2013

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Kara Jimenez lives in Corvallis, Oregon with her pizza-making husband, three rambunctious kids and eight crazy chickens that like to peck her to pieces. When she’s not writing you can find her teaching her children, filling her cupboards with homemade jam and eating coffee ice cream.

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