Belle Whittington
Serial daydreamer, Inkslinger, Author of YA Paranormal Novels, Shopaholic, and Professional Nerd.Join me as I begin my journey to publication. Here, I will post articles of interest, blogs, and interviews pertaining to Indie Publishing.
Check out a sample of my novel, CICADA, posted on my "About My Writing" page. I've also got some CICADA short stories posted here, as well.
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Day 4: FIREFLY Book Blog Tour!
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Check out these lovely blogs to read Guest Posts by my cover designer LB at Books and Broomsticks! And don’t forget to join in the Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt and also enter to win awesome prizes!
Hey all! Welcome to my stop on the Cicada blog tour! I have a fantastic guest post from Belle Whittington, author of the YA novel Cicada! So enjoy yourself, read the guest post, and go find a copy of this book. YAY!
Belle Whittington - Cicada• Pub Date: September 13, 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Format: Paperback 220pp
• Age Range: Young Adult
Summertime for Blair Reynolds and her friends had always been carefree and fun… until the summer they happened upon something that was not human. As they band together in a fight for their lives, Blair’s true love becomes something more than human. Something unnatural. And their survival depends entirely upon their ability to keep a secret.
Guest Post
I have been daydreaming stories for as long as I can remember. My first recollection of wanting to be a writer was when I was in the second grade, and my teacher, Mrs. Rambin, would have us lay our heads on our desks after lunch while she read us stories full of magic and imagination.
Most of my early writings were stories with a twist of science fiction…even my earliest poems. I remember sitting on the dam of a neighbor’s pond around the time I was eleven, writing a story about space travel. In fact, I still have that little handwritten story. It’s still bound in the same yellow notebook that I put it in way back in the sixth grade!
Growing up in Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas, afforded me summers full of adventure with my friends. I call on those adventures and memories a great deal for my YA stories. Cicada has a lot of the energy of those childhood adventures spun throughout. One of them is something that actually happened to me when I was thirteen years old. I was on one of my adventures in the woods with my dog, Dusty. We made our way through the woods to a neighboring pasture and crawled through the barbed wire fence. When we got to the top of one of the rolling hills in the grassy field, I realized I was standing in the middle of a giant circle imprinted in the pasture grass. No one had ever told me about crop circles at that time in my life, so I just thought it was an odd occurrence that there was a strange circle in the tall grass. Now that circle is forever memorialized in a YA novel, Cicada!
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Hello my lovely followers. I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday.Today I would love to share with everyone a guest post written by author Belle Whittington. I was asked to read her new book, Cicada and while I do not have the time right now Belle and I decided she would write up a guest post for my readers. She would also like offer my readers ONE free e-book as a giveaway. Very cool! Cicada sounds like amazing book and I am sure the winner will love it. I hope everyone will enjoy this post and learn more about the new young adult author, Belle Whittington and her new book.
Go here to read the post and ENTER THE GIVEAWAY!
Post by Beckie
Christmas in our small, inconsequential, southeast Texas town is usually a cold and rainy time of the year. In retrospect, the snow and sleet that covered everything, including the haunted forest, in a blanket of white must have been a harbinger that everything was about to change. However, at the time we thought it was a good omen. At the time we thought that all the sadness of losing our father and brother would finally disappear and we could recall the memories of Christmases past without shedding tears or hiding the pain under a pillow at night when all the rest of the world had fallen asleep, dreaming of sugar-plums and Santa Clause.
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Belle Whittington is not only lovely but she is also hilarious, so I am delighted to be able to feature her this week on Once Upon A Time as I love her to bits! She is the author of the book Cicada, for which you can see my review here and also enter the giveaway to win a copy. Without further ado, I have you over to Belle. Enjoy!
Please tell us a little bit about yourself.
First of all, I’d like to thank the lovely Hannah so much for having me over to her wonderful blog for a nice cup of tea and a really fun chat! Hannah is such a terrific person to get to know, and we’ve definitely exchanged some fun emails over the past few weeks! I’m really excited to be able to get to know your readers and to share a little about my little YA novel, Cicada, and me!
I have been daydreaming stories for as long as I can remember. My first recollection of wanting to be a writer was when I was in the second grade, and my teacher, Mrs. Rambin, would have us lay our heads on our desks after lunch while she read us stories full of magic and imagination.
Click here to read the rest of the interview and see the unofficial playlist…
Click here to enter the giveaway and read the review…
Post by Hannah <3
