Last Day of the MEME Blog Hop and Great New Releases

What a super fun week of hilarious and inspiring memes! You guys are awesome. There's still one more day. Let's have some more!

I am hosting this blog hop with the marvelous C. Lee McKenzie and Tara Tyler.

Click here to see the list of participants and check out their memes!

Your awesome hostesses will hop around and ooo and ahh and choose one entry each to win an ebook. AND two lucky random participants will win a $20 gift card.

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Now that I'm finished the first draft of the third novella in my Totem series, I'm eager to get some reading done. Check these fantastic new releases out!

Jolissa is a contrary maiden who thinks an adventure will make her life better, until she's forced to go on one...

Buy Jolissa: An Anti-Princess Story today! 

The ever clever Tara Tyler also has the first two chapters of Jolissa up on YouTube. You don't want to miss out on this amazing tale told by Tara herself!

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Galactic Empires

Eight Novels of Deep Space Adventure

Eight full-length novels of adventure, war, intrigue and survival in the far reaches of space.

The Backworlds by M. Pax 
A man struggles to survive in the harsh world of humanity's outer settlements and prove his father wrong.
Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by Patty Jansen 
To look an alien superior in the eye is a deadly offense. To accuse him of a political murder…
Alien Hunters by Daniel Arenson
A scruffy alien pest controller faces an alien threat the likes of which the universe has never seen.
Hard Duty by Mark E. Cooper
Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?
Bypass Gemini by Joseph Lallo
A disgraced racer pilot gets mixed up with a mega-corporation. Now he has to stop them.
Sky Hunter by Chris Reher
Sent to a human outpost to investigate sabotage, a pilot finds more trouble than she bargained for.
The Galapagos Incident by Felix Savage
A genocidal AI attacks the solar system, and a Space Corps agent has one chance of saving a bunch of asteroid squatters she was sent to evict.
First Conquest by David VanDyke
To Conquest must fight to seize a new star system.

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Inspiration Blogfest

Today is the Inspiration Blogfest hosted by My Inner Fairy. The rules are to post one inspiring prompt. It can be a writing prompt or a photo prompt.

My prompt: I'm going to go with something darkly awe-inspiring. Something that will hopefully inspire magic and mystery, and maybe give a few of you the chills. I would like to post a few photos, but since they do belong to the photographer, Sally Mann, I won't assume I have permission to do so. Click on the link to see her photos from her book, Deep South.

Mann's photos have given me inspiration for my horror, dark fantasy and paranormal stories. I have the urge to explore those mysterious landscapes and yet I'm not sure if I want to find out what creatures live there.

Where do you find your inspiration for the darker aspects of your writing?