Book Review Of Between Octobers

Here's a great review of my first book, Between Octobers, written by the The Sharon of SHARON'S BOOK NOOK Blog and pasted here for your reading pleasure: TITLE: Between Octobers AUTHOR: A.R. Rivera GENRE: Contemporary/Women’s fiction PUBLISHED: June 17th 2014 by Take Two Publishing FORMATS: Ebook, Paperback SOURCE: Author PURCHASE: Amazon | Smashwords Synopsis: A …

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Conflict: The Fuel Of Your Story—Craft Tuesday at Write on the River

This post is full of useful writing tips and information about how to construct conflict within your manuscript. I have to reblog! # Awesome #WritingTool

Chapter One

They say the first chapter in any book is the most important. Within that chapter, the most important paragraph is the first. And within the first paragraph, the most important sentence is the first. Below, I am pasting all three of those things, from my first novel, Between Octobers. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ …

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Works In Progress: Update

I recently decided to be a little more spontaneous when I'm writing. Not that my writing is structured, per se. I mean, I could not construct an outline to save my life. Well, maybe . . . if it really would save a life. Anyhoo, as I have mentioned here on my blog before and …

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This weeks FREE Sync Audiobooks Are. . .

Remember all summer long, SYNC is giving away two free audiobooks every week! One YA title along side one classic title. All you need is the Overdrive Media Console App (used by libraries across the U.S for checking out digital titles. So download it and dust off those library cards!) and you can download and …

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It’s Not Just You

I have followed author Dahlia Adlers' awesome and insightful blog for several years now and 'It's Not Just You' is one of my favorite posts that she has ever written, which if you've ever been over at The Daily Dahlia, you know that is really saying something. Read on, readers, and enjoy . . .

The Selection by Kiera Cass

I am re-blogging this book review because I LOVE The Selection novels by Kiera Cass and this is a great review of the first in the trilogy.

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Every now and then a book shows up all over my news feed on every social network with a really enticing cover (and often featuring a beautiful dress.)

It’s a book everyone seems to have read except me and often there is a love-hate division; on Goodreads, The Selection has a pretty set line of love-hate, but unlike other books I’ve encountered like this in the past, I really enjoyed The Selection.

I can understand why some people left less-than-positive reviews on Goodreads if we’re trying to compare it to The Hunger Games. Some similar ideas are played with in The Selection, but in an almost completely different setting. There’s no fight-to-the-literal-death here.

It’s basically a beauty pageant–with higher stakes. The winner becomes queen. Simple, right?

Unlike many others, I didn’t find it a frilly or stupid read. I found in it a straightforward plot; the simplicity of the…

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Panster Flash Fiction

I'm flying by the seat of my pants with this whole writing thing. Always trying to do fifteen things at once. Work, cook, clean, parent, write, craft and mold, market, sell books . . . it's gets really tough to work in the time to write a piece of flash fiction that I feel has …

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Contest – Chance to Win $5 and/or $50 – Just Read and Review!

This is a really great and unique contest idea! I’m always up for helping out Indie authors get book reviews, so I’m reblogging to spread the word. THe more entries, the more reviews! Right?

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Hello Blog Readers!

This is Rachel Barnard here. I’m hosting several contests on my blog here I wanted to let you know about. I wanted to give back to the readers and support great Indie authors, so I’ve come up with a contest to do both!

My first type of contest runs new monthly; with one in June, July, August, September, October, and November. All you have to do is purchase a book! Not just any book, though, one from my reviews list that I’ve rated 4.5 stars or higher. Here are your current options to choose from:

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A Song For @Rhys_Matthews

If you don't know who Rhys Matthews (known as Evan to his friends) is, that's because you haven't read my first novel, Between Octobers. Well, that's okay. You can still enjoy the song below. It's mellow, don't worry. As I have stated numerous times, Rhys is a fictionally famous actor inspired by Robert Pattinson.  But …

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