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Exciting News: New Books!

May 10, 2013
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I’m excited to announce I have a new home with Michele Bidelspach at Grand Central Publishing. Carponti’s Christmas novella I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS will be out in December with Forever Yours followed immediately by Laura & Trent’s BACK TO YOU, Reza & Emily’s COME HOME TO ME and Ben & Olivia’s FINDING THE WAY…

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Fort Hood, Sandy Hook and Powerlessness

March 21, 2013
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I hope I don’t offend a lot of people off with this post. It is not my intent. I’ve been wanting to write about a lot of things that have been happening lately but I’ve found that when I sit down to write, the right…

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Cover Reveal ~ THE LONG WAY HOME ~ on sale today

March 18, 2013
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I’m thrilled to announce that after a long way, the cover for The Long Way Home is finally out. The fabulous Shawntelle Madison did an amazing job with this, didn’t she? Want your own copy? Buy it at: Barnes & Noble| Smashwords | Amazon |…

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NEWS: The Long Way Home

March 5, 2013
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So I’m thrilled to announce that The Long Way Home will be released on 18 March (barring any crises, natural disasters or acts of blood thirsty hamsters). In gearing up for the release, I’m prepping a couple of things. The first is a sign up…

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March Madness Hop

March 4, 2013
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It’s time for March Madness. March will be particularly mad for me as I’m getting ready to move to a new state and a new job. But! That doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate with some awesome prizes for this hop! Check these out! a Rafflecopter…

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Packing Out

February 28, 2013
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I’m packing today. Packing up things from the house that has been my home for ten years. We’ve been lucky as a military family: this house has been the one we’ve come back to after schools, after deployments, after everything. I never expected to put…

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Fight the Power – of Cravings

February 27, 2013
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So I’ve been battling with sugar since about November. I’ve always had an unhealthy relationship with sugar. When I was a kid, my mom was super strict about it so I was the little fat kid begging for extra twinkies at my friends’ houses. Sugar…

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Junk Mail

February 21, 2013
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Lately I’ve become obsessed with my junk mail account. See, many moons ago, back in the 90s when email wasn’t prolific and you were really ahead of the game if you had an account, I opened my first hotmail account. This was back in the…

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My Commander’s Reading List

February 19, 2013
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So I’ve left command in the rear view mirror. I’m signed out of Fort Hood and on to a future that no longer involves direct leadership at the tactical level. There will probably be a series of posts on my life in command, now that…

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Productive in PJs

February 16, 2013
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It’s almost bedtime. I may not have made it out of pajamas/work out clothes today but I had one hella productive day: Taxes Finances Worked out Cleaned out garage cleaned out office downloaded songs for oldest as payment for demining the backyard (this was a…

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Glasses Frustration

February 12, 2013
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I’m a space cadet. I’m convinced the only reason I’m even moderately successful in life is because I joined the army and it taught me discipline. When my kids were little, every day would be an exercise of trying to find the missing thing. Either…

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Tackling my To Do List – Backwards

February 7, 2013
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Many things to do today. Not nearly as many as when I was in command. Days like this make me really reconsider how I managed to get anything done at all over the last three years. Regardless. So today, I need to write 4000 words…

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Hamster Prom Queen

February 6, 2013
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Ok this is getting ridiculous. The last two times I’ve sent out my newsletter, I’ve included updates from the world of Fluffy. Fluffy, as many of you know, passed away over Christmas and Squeak promptly moved in and took over. Which is fine. People liked…

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ANYTHING FOR YOU BLOG TOUR

February 4, 2013
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So once again, I went all in and schedule an insane blog tour. Below are all the dates scheduled for ANYTHING FOR YOU. It’s all new material (because hey, if someone is nice enough to host me, the least I can do is offer up…

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Cover Reveal & Release Day – ANYTHING FOR YOU

February 4, 2013
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I’m so excited that ANYTHING FOR YOU is finally here! Check out this awesome cover!! I really think it captures Shane & Jen beautifully. Here’s the blurb: From the author of Because of You comes an all new Coming Home short story. Sergeant First Class…

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Crowd Sourcing a Blog Tour

January 23, 2013
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Okay so I went all in and now have an insane blog tour scheduled for oh, the entire month of February. To the bloggers (who I shall name later once I format the tour page) who stepped up to help support ANYTHING FOR YOU I…

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News: ANYTHING FOR YOU

January 11, 2013
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All right so I’m really excited to announce that Shane & Jen from Because of You will have a special short story just in time for Valentine’s Day. Stay tuned for more information about Anything For You! Here’s the blurb! From the author of Because…

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Good News About To Iraq & Back

January 9, 2013
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So I was teasing about it last night but I have really cool news about To Iraq & Back, my first book available in both print and digital. In less than 1 month on sale, I have earned back my costs of producing it! How…

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RIP Fluffy

January 7, 2013
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Fluffy died last night. She’s been sick for a while and sadly, she succumbed last night, quietly in her sleep. Which is strange because I always figured she’d go out in an epic blaze of glory like driving off a cliff or something. This was…

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To Iraq & Back Giveaway

January 3, 2013
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I’m giving away 10 PRINT copies of TO IRAQ & BACK over at Goodreads. Stop on by for a chance to win! Goodreads Book Giveaway To Iraq And Back by Jessica Scott Giveaway ends February 03, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to…

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Get the F*ck off Twitter & Write

January 2, 2013
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There are no more dishes to be done, now sit down and write. No one cares about the f*cking lolcat on Facebook. Now sit down and write. The Kardashians can wait. Sit your ass in that chair and start writing. I don’t care about the…

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Naughty New Years Hop

January 2, 2013
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New Years Hop

January 1, 2013
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Happy New Year! A great way to start off the New Year is with some after holiday sales at Barnes and Noble! a Rafflecopter giveaway

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When Friends Leave

December 14, 2012
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I don’t make friends easily. I don’t say that as a way to ask for pity or a way to seek sympathy, it’s simply how I’m hard wired. I’ve learned some hard lessons about trust over the years and well, people who have supposedly been…

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Holiday Gifts of Love Hop

December 14, 2012
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Happy Holidays! Enter to win a 25$ gift card from BN to help with last minute holiday shopping! a Rafflecopter giveaway

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