Keeping Ghosts Alive

Unchanged Soundtrack

2012-02-10T07:53:00.000-08:00

I like to call them soundtracks instead of playlists. This may be a little premature since I have no definite idea when I'll actually get the copyright and publish Unchanged (other than "hopefully March"), but at least I can share some music.

"Bodies And Minds" - Great Lake Swimmers
"Alone" - This Mortal Coil
"Pretty When You Cry" - VAST
"Lost" - The Cure
"Winter Kills" - Yaz
"Teenage Lust" - The Jesus & Mary Chain
"Shadow Of A Doubt" - Black Tape For A Blue Girl
"Us In Leaves" - The Veils
"Full Moon" - The Black Ghosts
"Running Up That Hill" - Patrick Wolf
"All Eternal Things" - Trembling Blue Stars
"Inside A Boy" - My Brightest Diamond
"Dark Moves Of Love" - M83
"Rise From The Shadows" - Alberta Cross
"My Heart Of Wood" - The Sadies
"Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven" - Love And Rockets
"I Would Do Anything For You" - Foster The People
"She Calls" - Slowdive
"The Distance Between" - Vanishing Kids

So there it is. Let me know what you think? Let me know how desperately you're looking forward to reading Unchanged? I appreciate all comments. :)

Hey, guess what!

2012-02-08T07:17:00.000-08:00

Unchanged is now listed here on Goodreads.

I can't decide about the cover. It looks pretty mediocre no matter what I do. Oh well. I'm tired of messing with it. But you can see the new one on the book's page.

It feels crazy, putting myself out here like this.

Cover + Synopsis

2012-02-07T08:45:00.000-08:00

Lilly is an ordinary teenager living in a small town. When she meets a mysterious man called Ahaziel, strange things start to happen in her life. She soon realizes she has met Ahaziel before. They have a history she must remember if she is to defeat the enemy who has been stalking her through lifetimes.

I may write a better blurb at some point, but that's what I came up with off the top of my head. To the point.

It looks like I need to darken the cover and maybe choose a bolder font. I apologize if it's crap, but I don't have a good photo-editing program and the ones I was able to download were really just glorified versions of Paint. So I went with simple and (hopefully) effective.

I'm waiting on my copyright to come back before I publish to Kindle. I don't know when that will be but I'm religiously checking copyright.gov for news. It's "pending" and the waiting is killing me! I've been distracting myself by working on what I hope will be my next novel. It's in that stage where everything is a mess and nothing is working like I want. It's all there (some of it in my head) and I just need to figure out how to make it all come together.

Anyway, I hope Unchanged sounds interesting to you. It took me a long time and maybe one day soon readers will love it as much as I do.

Begin Again

2012-02-06T09:01:00.000-08:00

I (re)started this blog in an effort to promote my soon-to-be self-published book, Unchanged. I'm going to write and post a blurb (hopefully within the next couple of days). Maybe I'll even get a photo up at some point. I have one in mind, but it hasn't been taken yet. All in good time.