by Ruth Silver
Release Date: 04/13/14
Patchwork Press
Dark forces, magical creatures, and the world Lil thought she knew collide when
a dream transports her to the strange world of Orenda. Stunned and terrified,
Lil comes face to face with her doppelganger, Willow, who possesses the ability
to travel between the two worlds. Everything Lil knows logically says that
Orenda can’t exist, but a small clue may be proof that it was more than an
ordinary dream. With the threat of her sister in danger, Lil crosses dimensions
but it may cost her even more than she bargained for.
A sword wielding girl, the eternal suit, and a
parallel universe come together in this action- packed Young Adult fantasy
adventure that will keep readers of all ages turning the pages. Orenda is the
first novel in the Orenda series.
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Ten
things I’ve learned since I started writing...
1. Build
an author platform
2.
Social media is key.
3.
Read books daily (especially your genre or target market)
4.
Write reviews for other books. Understand what you like and don’t as a writer.
5.
Build a website or better yet a book blog
6.
Create a Street Team. Recruit your fans
7.
Attend author events (UtopYA was AWESOME)
8.
Don’t listen to every bit of advice you receive. Write for you. Otherwise
you’ll make no one happy.
9.
Keep a notebook handy near my bedside. As I’m tired and start to fall
asleep, sometimes I get worthwhile ideas for where to take the next chapter. By
morning I’ll forget it if I hadn’t written it down.
10. People
will inevitably forget to tell you that they saw you dedicated the book to
them.
Ruth Silver
first began writing poetry as a teenager and reading heaps of fan fiction in
her free time. She has written under three unique pseudo names and penned well
over a hundred stories.
She attended Northern Illinois University in 2001 and graduated with a
Bachelor's in Communication. While in college she spent much of her free time
writing with friends she met online and penning her first novel, "Deuces
are Wild", which she self-published in 2004. Her favorite class was
Creative Writing senior year where she often handed in assignments longer than
the professor required because she loved to write and always wanted to finish
her stories.
Her love of writing, led her on an adventure in 2007 to Melbourne, Australia.
Silver enjoys reading YA novels and sharing her favorite books with other
readers. She runs her own book blog and also enjoys photography and traveling.
Her favorite YA genre is a mix of Dystopian & Fantasy which is evident in
the upcoming release of her latest book, Aberrant. Slated for release April
2013 by Lazy Day Publishing, it is the first in a trilogy.
Interesting list of ten things.
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