Cover Reveal, BeSwitched in Time

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Behind The Scenes of Making an Audio Book

Hey! So, I have some good news! BeSwitched has been made into an audio book. It should be available for purchase through Amazon.com in a couple weeks.

Let me first say, it is such a treat to hear your own words being acted out by someone else! I went through Amazon's service--ACX.com. When I received an audition from actress Ashlyn Selich, I knew right away that I wanted her to produce BeSwitched. She really got into the characters, bringing them to life. Super talented.

After the audio book was made, Ashlyn emailed me this pic of her with with her kitty! Her cat was with her the entire time, at her feet,  as her "character inspiration." How cute is that??

Thank you, Ashlyn! It was a real pleasure working with you.

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On his eleventh birthday Thomas Farrell is informed that the deceased father he never knew has provided for his education at Darkledun Manor, a school for gifted children. Thomas, however, feels he's just an ordinary boy, but Darkledun Manor proves to be anything but an ordinary school...

In this work of fiction the reader is transported into a world of myth as the young protagonist, Thomas Farrell, seeks to understand who his mysterious father was, and why he left him a strange glass orb containing a serpent. As the story progresses, Thomas and his friends become increasingly caught up in a world they never knew existed - a world beyond the standing stones.



JENNIFER LYNN ALVAREZ

What happens when a vacationing princess befriends a hard-working pet washer?

Meet the pet washer! Cianna works overtime at The Royal Pet Palace and Day Spa. Here, animals are cleaned, massaged, bedazzled, and dyed to match the outfits of their masters. Cianna is popular because she invents special shampoos, flea treatments, pet foods, and toothpastes to keep the pets as healthy as they are clean.

Meet the princess! Polly owns the finest dresses, the fastest horses, lives in the largest castle, and has the prettiest friends in the seven kingdoms. One of the dancers in her Spring Festival performance is sick, so Polly befriends Cianna to take her place.

When Cianna is thrown into the glamorous lifestyle of the royals it seems all her dreams are coming true, but when Polly has a change of heart, both of their lives are changed forever.


MOLLY SNOW

 

Surla and Cathy have a HUGE secret!

After spending hundreds of years as a 'familiar' to an abusive witch, Surla runs away to find freedom. But there's one catch! The Black Cats' Curse states she will have to switch bodies with the first lonesome soul to cross her path.

Painfully shy Cathy Phillips can't muster the courage to ask hot water polo player, Craig Nelson, on a date. Neither can she stand up to the three biggest snobs at Washington High. What's a girl to do? Could switching lives with a sassy, magical cat be the answer to her wishes?

The "curse" of being "BeSwitched" may just be the most purr-fect secret these new best friends could ever have!

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To Kiss a Werewolf

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Hello, everyone! As I have been waiting to hear some news about Fallen Angel, I've written another story: To Kiss a Werewolf. It was sooo fun to write. It stars a goth girl named Stella who is president of the PAA (Paranormal Addicts Anonymous), and Damien, the most popular jock in school, who turns into a werewolf at night.

I want to take a moment to explain why I decided to write this story. At first the book was going to be more of a satire on the "werewolf romance" wave. The more I wrote, the more it became a romantic comedy. So it pokes fun at these sexy beasts and their admirers, but not in an absurd way (well, sometimes); it's more endearing.

To Kiss a Werewolf is written from both Stella's POV and Damien's POV, so we can follow their journeys simultaneously, which is something I haven't done before. Both have their own interesting ways of looking at the situation.

This book just tickled my fancy so much, I had to write it.

Here's a glimpse into Chapter One:

  

Damien slid another Capernalli stuffed crust special out of the brick oven, onto a pizza pan, and across a counter. He wiped the back of his glistening forehead with his forearm. Five nights out of the week, it was the same routine, yet he would be a fool to complain about it. Working at his Uncle Leo’s pizzeria, Dough-licious, gave him extra cash and time with his friends. Then there were the girls. Not that Damien needed the extra money, friends, or especially girls.

He went to a refrigerator and pulled out a lump of dough, then returned to his spot. As he mashed the stuff against the flour-powdered counter, his eyes couldn’t help but focus on the muscles of his forearms, pumping with each push. They were bigger than usual. It had been weeks since he went to the rec center and lifted weights. Was he having some sort of growth spurt, or could swimming in the surf of the ocean make that much of a difference? Either way, it was another thing he’d be a fool to complain about.

“Hey, brah! Wassup?!” a voice called from the front counter.

He looked up and saw his friend Tyler. The blonde guy with a shell choker smiled big. “Wassup!” Damien called back, purposefully not reciprocating his “brah.”

Being new in town, about six months now, made it so Damien had to get used to some foreign beach lingo. He was fine with Tyler, or the others, saying  “Brah,” but the word could never roll off his own tongue.

“Heading out to the shore tonight?” Tyler asked.

“You know it.” Damien nodded. He’d gone nearly seven days a week for all of July. August wouldn’t be any different.

“Cool. There will be a bonfire this time.”

“Cool, see you there.”

When Tyler walked away, a girl who had been standing behind him, waiting, came to view. Silky long black hair shimmered down the sides of her face, down the sides of her sad yet strangely beautiful eyes. A gray cardigan sweater wrapped over… a zombie t-shirt? Zombie Fallout, it said on a picture of a book cover.

No one was at the register. Damien looked around, waiting a moment longer, before coming forward.

“Uh, can I help you?” He leaned against the counter. With satisfaction, he noticed the girl catch a look at his bicep that bulged from under his white tee. Even though she wasn’t his usual type, he went into auto-drive, flashing a smile at her with perfectly straight and white teeth.

Her eyes flitted away from him to the menu. “I, um, I don’t know.” She wiped some hair behind an ear.

“You’re not sure what you want?”

“I mean, I know that I want pizza.”

“Well, then you’ve come to the right place.” The entire menu consisted of pizzas, besides the drinks. Uncle Leo was against salad bars.

She cleared her throat. “Yeah, do you sell by like the slice?”

“That’s during lunch hours only. Your first time here?” As soon as he asked that, he knew it sounded like a come-on. This girl was different, but he couldn’t help but feel a slight attraction, and it came out in his tone.

“Y-yes. It’s my first time here.”

“Well, we got the Emo—I mean, Primo Pizza, which is my favorite.”

“I’m not emo.”

“I didn’t say you were.” He coughed to cover his embarrassment. What was that?

Tina’s heels click-clacked against the concrete floor. The new and voluptuous cashier from last semester’s biology class came back to the register. “Hey, Damien. Thanks.” She touched his arm. “I got this.”

“Alright.” He acknowledged her with a nod and returned to his back counter. He rolled out some more dough and mashed it, while keeping an eye on the rest of the transaction up front. Lately, Tina had been stealing his attention, but he couldn’t help but wonder who that customer girl was. Had he seen her before? Maybe had a class with her?

Tina filled a glass with some Mr. Pibb and soon the customer girl was off with it in hand.

“What’s the order?” he called out.

“Just a soda.” Tina ripped off the receipt and crinkled it.

“No pizza?” he asked, perplexed.

“Nope!” She threw the paper in a trash and started walking toward him, her apron tied tightly to accentuate every curve, Dough-licious spread across her.

“Oh.” He wiped his hands on his own apron, watching her, but his thoughts weren’t on her and her dough-liciousness.

‘“Oh’ what?” Tina was now in front of him, her eyes twinkling.

“It’s just that she said she wanted pizza.” His dark eyebrows furrowed at the thought.

“So, Damien.” She leaned on his counter-top. “I’ve been thinking…”

Traci Tyne Hilton's book, Gone.

Traci Tyne Hilton is an indie author who has had a fair amount of success with her Mitzy Nehaus mystery series. She has also been an active member of different self-publishing groups or forums, offering help, cracking jokes, and learning more with the rest of us as she grows.

She has a new Sci Fi saga, The Tangle Saga, out. The first book is called Gone. It stars a young woman whose younger siblings go missing. But this is science fiction, so it of course has all the fun that comes in that genre. Oh, and her royal father is trying to arrange her unwanted marriage. Should be fun for the YA crowd.

Blurb: From best selling mystery author Traci Tyne Hilton comes Gone, the first novel in The Tangle Saga series. One woman, heir to a throne back on Earth, found life on a remote space station a comfortable way to avoid responsibilities waiting back on her home planet. But when her rebellious teenaged brother and sister disappear her responsibilities catch up with her. Thousands of lives hang in the balance--including her own--as she digs into the darkest corners in space. Can she find the missing kids before their rebellion sets off a chain of violence no one can stop?