It's Friday, which depending on how things are going, can be a celebration in and of itself. Thank you to our host, Lexa Cain, and her awesome cohosts: L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker.
Here's the good things:
1. This was the next to last week of having a few quiet hours for writing. For the month of August, the kids will be home and I'm
Image: Sheep purple
toast.
2. I didn't buy the farm on Monday. I did wreck my bike by hitting a small, but deep pothole, the jolt of which caused me to lose the handlebars.
via GIPHY
KEE-RASH! (With emphasis on the rash--road rash that is.) Most of the damage is to my left side: left leg resembles a cat scratching post, left elbow sore 'cause a huge something (me) landed on it, left palm scratched and scraped, and left side of chin swollen and purple. Note to self: Noses are not good brake pads. I'm celebrating the fact that while I did land in the road, there was no car there at the time to finish me off. Now that's luck! (And, unlike the giphy above, my bike is fine.)
3. New covers. Here's one from C. Lee Mckenzie--free Kindle Edition!
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Scarred. Scared. Alone. Can sixteen-year-old Shawna Stone
overcome her inner suffering and transcend the past?
Shawna has spent the first sixteen years of
her life in Las Vegas and learned to handle anything from a Las Vegas hustle to
skipping out on the rent. Damaged inside and out, she's survived with a tough,
hardened attitude. When her mother abandons her, with only a bus ticket and the
name and number of stranger to call, this troubled , desperate teen finds
herself on a California horse ranch with Kay Stone, the steely, youngish
grandmother she's never known.
Kay overwhelms Shawna with rules and daily
barn chores, and Shawna baffles Kay with her foul-mouthed anger and shrugging
indifference to everything--except the maltreated horse on the ranch next door.
But it's worse than even Kay suspects: Shawna's driven to cut herself by
Monster, that strange voice inside her head. Kay struggles to keep the ranch
going and fears that unless she helps this girl, she could lose her last living
family member.
As this unlikely pair struggles to co-exist,
will they overcome their suffering and transcend the past?
LINKS
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/276348
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What's the last serious injury you've experienced? Ever update a book cover?