New Top 10 List! Top 10 Best Bookish Memories!

Top 10 Best Bookish Memories - this was such a fun list to write. I have even more bookish memories than these top 10, but these were the first ones that came to me. It was really a great trip down memory lane. 

Check out the full list of my Top 10 Best Bookish Memories on my blog Writer Girl in LA! Top 10 Tuesday is an internet meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and I try to participate every Tuesday!
 
Here's 3 of my picks for top 10 bookish memories: 
 
1. Amanda Hocking - Her success as an author was an inspiration to me to put my writing out there, unagented and without a publishing house. It had been sitting on my computer instead, as I queried endlessly (taking breaks from the rejections). She impacted my life in a big way and gave me a reason to take a chance AND to write, write, write! I now have a purpose! Yes, I know that her success is a million to one, but the thing is, even one or two people reading my books and loving them is a success to me. And, people are reading my books and that is quite simply amazing. Besides, someone has to win the lottery, right? :) Everyone should dream big and Amanda reminded me that I absolutely, should, no matter what the odds are against you. (Hey, if you're reading this an interested in my books - my first book (as of this posting) - ADVENTURES IN FUNERAL CRASHING is FREE on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Itunes, Smashwords, & more! Just an FYI if you want to read it for free!!!)

2. The Shining by Stephen King - This is probably my best bookish memory. When I drove across country to California, moving there to pursue screenwriting dreams, we stopped in Estes Park, CO and stayed in the hotel where Stephen King wrote The Shining. It was so beautiful there and the hotel was wonderfully creepy. We even stayed in the room Stephen King stayed in while he was there. It was a great experience!  

3. Willy Wonka and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - Actually, this memory is way up there, along with my Shining memory. I loved movies as a kid and I also really liked books, so in general I thought books turned movies were AWESOME! I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and saw the original movie - loved them both! I wondered why they never made the sequel a movie, so I did something about it. I wrote to Michael Eisner at Disney. I was about 9 years old and they actually wrote back (and called me!). This is the response I got... 

That's only 3 of my 10, well kind of, to see more check out the full post on my blog Writer Girl in LA: Top 10 Best Bookish Memories!     

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Just another reminder that THE NEW GIRL WHO FOUND A DEAD BODY is FREE on Amazon Kindle for less than 24 hours in the name of the holiday season and giving back to my fans! If you enjoy a good YA mystery, download it! Even if you don't...it's free, so check it out and see what you think!

You know you want to check it out! So, go and get it by clicking here to go to the book's Amazon page!!!

About the book:

If you're a fan of RL Stine, Stephen King, or Christopher Pike check out this book!

Chloe is excited about spending her senior year of high school in California with her friend Jake's family. Even the usual dread of being the new girl can't bring her down. That is, until she stumbles across the dead body of the most popular girl in school, Lora Kelly. Now she's receiving threatening notes...will she be next?

Everyone is a suspect. There's her childhood friend Jake, who she's known forever and there's his girlfriend, Kate, who is insanely jealous of any girl in Jake's vicinity. Or is it Grey, the mysterious, handsome, and arrogant rich boy who has a passion for photography and Chloe is already falling for? Chloe doesn't know who to trust and time is running out before the killer strikes again...

New Top 10 List! Top 10 Halloween Reads!

Check out the full list of my Top 10 Halloween Reads to get into the Halloween Spirit on my blog Writer Girl in LA! It's an internet meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and I try to participate every Tuesday!

Here's 3 of my picks:

1. Someone At The Door by Richie Tankersley Cussick: Two strangers burst into a girl's house where she and her sister have been trapped by a blizzard... It goes from there. What I like about Cussick's books are that they're horror/romance and they're fun reads. Also loved: The Locker, Starstruck, and Summer of Secrets.

2.The Shining by Stephen King: It's the only Stephen King book I've read and it was great! In fact, I visited the hotel in Estes Park, CO where Stephen King wrote it because I thought the book was so great - I wanted to see the inspiration for the book. For those of you not in the know, it's about a family whose father is the caretaker of a hotel one winter and he starts to go insane...

3. The New Girl Who Found A Dead Body by Milda Harris: Yes, that's me! It's true, though. I would recommend it for a Halloween read. This book is in the vein of RL Stine's Fear Street Novels. It's a horror mystery: Chloe is excited about spending her senior year of high school in California with her friend Jake's family. Even the usual dread of being the new girl can't bring her down. That is, until she stumbles across the dead body of the most popular girl in school, Lora Kelly. Now she's receiving threatening notes...will she be next? Everyone is a suspect. There's her childhood friend Jake, who she's known forever and there's his girlfriend, Kate, who is insanely jealous of any girl in Jake's vicinity. Or is it Grey, the mysterious, handsome, and arrogant rich boy who has a passion for photography and Chloe is already falling for? Chloe doesn't know who to trust and time is running out before the killer strikes again...

Make sure to check out my other picks at my book/writing blog Writer Girl in LA: Top 10 Books To Get Into The Halloween Spirit! It's Top Ten Tuesday!

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What's it about? Do you want to read it? It's free! Just get it! In the meantime, though - here's some info on the book:

If you're a fan of RL Stine, Christopher Pike, Stephen King , or just like YA horror mysteries, check out this book!

Chloe is excited about spending her senior year of high school in California with her friend Jake's family. Even the usual dread of being the new girl can't bring her down. That is, until she stumbles across the dead body of the most popular girl in school, Lora Kelly. Now she's receiving threatening notes...will she be next?

Everyone is a suspect. There's her childhood friend Jake, who she's known forever and there's his girlfriend, Kate, who is insanely jealous of any girl in Jake's vicinity. Or is it Grey, the mysterious, handsome, and arrogant rich boy who has a passion for photography and Chloe is already falling for? Chloe doesn't know who to trust and time is running out before the killer strikes again...

And, I have to share this - for a few hours, I was in between James Patterson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the YA Free Mysteries section. They're two amazing writers and how cool is that?!?!?! I was so excited...I even took a screen capture!