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Whirlwind of book fun
Wow. These past two weeks have been a whirlwind of emotions.
Release Day for IN THE PENALTY BOX was Tuesday January 5th, 2021. Release days NEVER get old. They are so fun, exciting, scary all rolled up in amazing. Especially since I got to share it with my co-author, Kelly Anne Blount.
We made Virtual appearances everywhere these past couple of weeks. It was a bummer we couldn’t do in-person book signings and panels, but Zoom and Crowdcast were pretty freaking amazing as well.
What topped all the release day and week fun was actually seeing my book on a Barnes & Noble shelf. You might have seen my social media posts about it, but I wanted to throw it up here on the blog, too. It gives me a little more space and time to properly thank everyone.
I know I can’t name each of you by name because there are so many of you who helped and celebrated with us. There’s a full list of events we’ve had so far and will have in the coming weeks and months HERE. I hope you click over there to see the great independent book stores and bookstagrammers and book bloggers who helped us celebrate our release.
But to name a few….
The Seymour Agency, Entangled Teen, Storygram Tours, YA Bound Book Tours, THE READERS!!!! Those who read early versions such as our hockey/skating readers and our sensitivity readers. All the TikTok and Instagram posts book lovers are sharing, the reviewers willing to leave reviews on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Book Bub…
I could go on, but this post is probably already way too long.Thank you so much for supporting IN THE PENALTY BOX.
Happy reading, my friends.
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Take The Shot. Face the Penalty.
Athletics have been in my life since the fifth grade. I played tennis in junior high and high school. I played in college as well, thankful for the resources it provided for me to pay for college. After college I found competitive inline speed skating, road & mountain biking and now I’m into the ultra endurance running.
It felt only natural for me to jump into writing a novel about athletes. Especially when it came to women in athletics. As a female athlete, especially one who was wicked-competitive, I faced off with plenty of resistance from men-even other women who were threatened by me.
In PENATY BOX, a book I co-wrote withKelly Anne Blount, I wrote Brodie’s point of view (POV). Now, if you’ve read any of my other novels, especially the Wasteland & Bound by Hades Trilogies, it’s all from the Male POV. I love writing guys.
Yeah, I’m weird. LOL.
With this project, specifically, it was even more fun to write Brodie’s POV because I am a female athlete. I’ve experienced some of the ignorance guys exhibited toward me as a female competitive athlete. So,it was fun dig super deep into what motivated Brodie and his reactions to female athletes. His hockey team is his family, and when Willow storms onto the scene…well, let’s just say, it was super fun to write his reactions.
Willow is a strong, competitive, and highly talented female, and it took him by surprise. Not only that she was an amazing athlete, but it challenged some of his beliefs about female athletes being on guys’ teams. It challenged his confidence and made him face off with his relationship issues.
I got to work through some of his narrow-minded, self-fish thoughts and behaviors, which was very enlightening. And frustrating sometimes. LOL.
So ladies…Tell me, what are some of your fun stories about being a female athlete?
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The Mary Sue Effect
Hope you’ll join me….
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Main Page to share: https://www.lynnrush.com/marysue/
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Absolutely Almost Human (The Bot Trials #1)
It’s been a blast jumping into the fun-filled world of middle grade writing. I’m super excited to introduce Bot to you all.
Here’s the blurb and a sneak peak into the first few lines of the story….
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Eleven-year-old Robert “Bot” Trials comes to terms with becoming a cyborg-the very thing that has turned his friends and their families against him.
His desperate need to prove he can be a normal human boy pairs him with an unlikely friend: the mysterious girl who just moved into the Haunted House on the Hill. The bullies, haters, and frightening urban legends won’t stand in their way of finding a talking dog that showed up the same time mystery girl did.
With his wacky new friend and his long time best friend at his side, they set out on an adventure that leads them into a world of secret societies and technology warfare. Everything spirals out of control when deadly family secrets are exposed.
Secrets that could kill them all.
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THE DAY I DIDN’T DIE
Lightning flashed, and the entire, beaten-down house on the hill was visible in the blast of yellow. The shattered windows on the main floor morphed into dark mouths with jagged glass teeth. Ones that could chomp anything to shreds.
Thunder clapped. My tree house roof rattled. I stepped away from the telescope and held my breath to listen.
Wind howled, moaning through the gaps in the walls of my little hideaway. Branches scraped along the wooden roof.
Like a monster clawing its way in.
A monster sent by The House.
