Fraterfest Read-A-Thon: Goals & Updates!

*in a singsong voice* Who loves read-a-thons? I do, I do! 

It is time once again for me to participate in another awesome read-a-thon.  Yay!! I always have so much fun doing these and you can too. Sign up are open for the next couple days. HERE 

I love Halloween! Last year I was a Vampire and my Mother face painted my face to look dead and I had to holes in my neck. See? 

I jumped at the chance to join in a Halloween themed Read-a-thon. I love to read scary books. Each book I will be reading will have a paranormal or horror feel to it. The list of my books being read will be below as will my daily updates. I will also post my updates as well on twitter using the hashtag #Fraterfest

Time Devoted to Reading

• I will be reading from Oct 5th-8th (off and on - not continuously )

Goals:

• Read 2-3 Books
• Do mini-challenges.
• Don't get stressed feeling I am not reading enough.
• Be more consistent with daily updates.
• Meets new people, make friends but most of all have fun!

Books I will be reading - ( This may be subject to chance )

 Sweet Shadows by Tera Lynn Childs - DONE
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry - decided not to read.
Vaempires: Revolution by Thomas Winship (for review) - DONE
Why Must I Lie by M.M. Lake - read about 150 pages

Day One Updates: Oct 5th, 2012

Number of books read today: 1
Number of books read in Total: 1

Total Pages Read today: 332

Mini Challenges Completed Today: Name that Vampire Challenge @ Fabled Crossroads

Day Two Updates: Oct 6th, 2012

Number of books read today: 0
Number of books read in Total: 1

Total Pages Read today: 67% done Vaempires: Revolution by Thomas Winship

Mini Challenges Completed Today: Cover Sleuth hosted by Barbara@ Basia's Bookshelf

Day Three Updates: Oct 7th, 2012

Number of books read today: 1
Number of books read in Total: 2

Total Pages Read today: 33% of Vaempires: Revolution. Finished the book

Mini Challenges Completed Today: Fraterfest Bash hosted by Christy@ Love of Books / Tune this Title hosted by April@ My Shelf Confessions, Books to Movie Madness hosted by Fran @ Books and Beyond

Day Four Updates: Oct 8th, 2012

Number of books read today: 1/4 of Why Must I Lie
Number of books read in Total:  2

Total Pages Read today: 153

Mini Challenges Completed Today: The Texas Crossword Massacre hosted by Kristen@ My ParaHangover 

Fraterfest Bash hosted by Christy@ Love of Books

What you do:

Using book covers, you are going to show us what you will wear and who your date will be.

Date:

Me:

Release Day Blitz Book Tour: Shallow by Georgia Cates | Guest Post - My Writing Cave

Hi everyone! 
Today is my stop on the Release Day Blitz tour for the book Shallow by Georgia Cates. Shallow is the 2nd book in the Going Under series. I have previously worked with the author back in July when she did a fun guest post for my blog, found here. So please help me in welcoming Georgia Cates back to do another fabulous author guest blog post. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope everyone will enjoy learning more about Georgia and her newest novel, Shallow. 

Shallow (Going Under #2)

by Georgia Cates 

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary

Published: September 21st 2012

BUY LINKS: Amazon / B&N / Smashwords

Payton Archer's best friend, Claire, strives to be perfect in every way. Payton doesn't and this is her story.

Nick Hawke likes his car fast and his girls even faster. He blows through females quicker than his muscle car races down the "The Strip" in Collinsville and he wouldn’t have it any other way. Determined to avoid the devastation he has watched his father endure in the aftermath of his mother leaving, he believes there is no room in his life or his heart for a relationship lasting more than one night. He seeks happiness in things that won’t let him down...fast cars, adrenaline and one night stands. To his absolute dismay, all of that changes when he unexpectedly runs into an old friend and is introduced to Payton Archer, the first girl he ever wanted for more than one night. There’s only one catch...she is completely immune to him and his smooth talking ways. 

Payton Archer is looking for what Claire has with Jessie, but she has given up on finding it...at least until she leaves for college in the Fall because she is certain that is where she will find the perfect guy to fit into her perfect world. She plans on Summer being nothing but three uneventful months of fun, but it turns out to be anything but ordinary when Payton is introduced to Nick Hawke, one of Jessie’s old Collinsville friends. She is shocked by her immediate and intense attraction for “Hawke” because nothing about him is what Payton is looking for. Sure, he’s hot and sexy but he comes from Collinsville and that is definitely not on her list of prerequisites. Everything about him makes Payton’s heart speed because he is exciting and dangerous, but his fast car and the dangerous chances he takes aren't what scares Payton the most...it’s the way Nick Hawke makes her feel every time he looks at her. Can Payton find that moment of total fearlessness and make the decision to leave the safe, shallow end of love to risk going under completely?

 My Writing Cave by Georgia Cates

I am smiling from ear to ear. Why? Because I am completely stoked about sharing my writing cave with you today. Woo Hoo! (It’s highly possible that wasn’t appropriate author language. Well...no author language police here right now.)

I’ve been writing for about three years but I didn’t have my own private place until a couple of weeks ago. I started out writing in the “hobby room” in front of our family iMac but it was very difficult to be inspired with two young children and a husband constantly buzzing around me. After countless interruption, I took matters into my own hands and started writing late at night to get away from the distractions but that’s wasn’t the greatest solution either. I had daytime obligations and sleeping half the day didn’t work for our family. Imagine that.

I eventually abandoned the desktop and traded my old MacBook for a MacBook Air so my next writing spot became the recliner in the living room. Who can spell disaster? Apparently, me since I just did. Anyway...I jammed my earbuds into my ears (Ouch...forgot about that tragus piercing) and attempted to drown out the screaming and crying, but I could still see them. (I’m one of those people that sees a sparkle and says, “Ooooh, something shiny,” so that didn’t work for long.)

Finally, my husband insisted I deserved my own writing cave and I happily agreed so we recently turned one of the extra bedrooms into a writing cave and that’s where Georgia makes the magic happen. My cave consists of a huge big man chocolate velour recliner, (which I occasionally put in the reclined position and take a siesta) a side table with drawers so all of my things (meaning my much needed coffee) are within reach and a desktop I use for graphic designing and photo manipulation. I’m such a girly girl and I love to be surrounded by pretty things so I couldn’t fudge on the the decor. It’s simple, soothing and inspiring in rich colors I adore.

Aaahhh! Maybe I should call this refuge my Writing Haven instead of a cave. Cave sounds very...caveman like. Regardless, this is my beloved hangout. If you’re ever in my neck of the woods, swing on by and join me in my cave, my refuge, my haven. (Unless I’m writing and in that case, leave me alone.)

Find Georgia @ Blog / Facebook / Twitter / Goodreads

Georgia resides in rural Mississippi with her wonderful husband, Jeff, and their two beautiful daughters. She spent fourteen years as a labor and delivery nurse before she decided to pursue her dream of becoming an author. 

Blood of Anteros, Book One in The Vampire Agápe Series, was her first novel and it was released in September 2011. She decided to briefly step away from the paranormal genre to try her hand at a young adult contemporary romance when she wrote Going Under, but returned to the paranormal romance platform to complete the second book in The Vampire Agápe Series, Blood Jewel. 

Her current works in progress are Shallow (A Going Under Novel) which will release on September 27th and Blood Doll (The Vampire Agápe Series #3), to be released in January 2013.

Teaser Tuesday (#33)

I will be skipping this weeks Top Ten Tuesday. 

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

The Rules:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) or so “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

This week's teaser comes from Just for Fins written by Tera Lynn Childs.

"Let's race," I say. "If you win, we can have seaghetti for dinner instead of sushi."

"And if I win?" he asked.

I give him a wicked grin. "You have to eat hoya".

Taken from page 135

Please share with me your teaser and book for this week. I will stop by and check yours out. :)

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Reading!