Melissa Maygrove

I'd like to thank all the bloggers who participated in Follow Fest. You guys made it a whopping success for a second year.  You rock! :D I know you're here to find out who won, so I won't make you wait any longer. The winner, per Random.org., is...

This is the last day of Follow Fest '14! But don't fret; there's still time to sign up. The Linky will remain open until 11:59 central time tonight. And don't worry if you didn't get around to making all the visits. I'll leave the Linky up like I did last year. You can hop it from here or the Follow Fest page. ;)

It's day 4 of Follow Fest '14! If you're returning, welcome back. If you're new, hello! This is a bloghop for the purpose of connecting with other writers. Any blogger can sign up once their Follow Fest post launches. Just copy the link, come back here, and enter.

It's day 3 of Follow Fest '14! If you're returning, welcome back. If you're new, hello! This is a bloghop for the purpose of connecting with other writers. Any blogger can sign up once their Follow Fest post launches. Just copy the link, come back here, and enter.

It's day 2 of Follow Fest '14! If you're returning, welcome back. If you're new, hello! This is a bloghop for the purpose of connecting with other writers. Any blogger can sign up once their Follow Fest post launches. Just copy the link, come back here, and enter.

Welcome to the first day of  Follow Fest '14! Once you've launched your post (instructions here .) , copy the link and come sign up on the Linky.  It will stay open all week. You can start visit ing blogs and meeting other writers anytime. If you already know someone, that's cool. Visit their blog anyway. It'll be a good opportunity to catch up with them and make sure you haven't missed any of their follow options. Still not sure? Let me sweeten the pot with a giveaway. :)

The purpose of this blogfest is to meet other writers and build our platforms. Follow Fest '14 runs thru Friday.  There's still time to sign up! :)  Fiction or nonfiction? 99.9% Fiction What genres do you write?

You've probably seen this book around. That's because it was one of the four books chosen by Amazon for 'Kindle First' in August.   The Paper Magician is now available in all formats.  Congratulations, Charlie!!! Bound to a magic she never wanted, a young apprentice falls deeper into its mysteries when she must use everything she’s learned from her master in order to save him… and his heart .

I have seven books for you today.  Now, that's more like it! The first one is right up my genetics-lover, science buff alley. And it's part of a series! :) E.E. Giorgi is celebrating a new release, MOSAICS -- A Track Presius Mystery! MOSAICS is book 2 in the Track Presius mystery series, a hard-boiled detective thriller with a genetic twist. CHIMERAS , book 1 in the series, is a 2014 Readers' Favorite Book Award finalist. Dubbed the Byzantine Strangler because of the mysterious mosaic tiles he leaves at the crime scene, a new serial killer is stalking the streets of Los Angeles. Racing to decipher the code encrypted in the tiles before the killer strikes again, Detective Track Presius faces a new challenge: the "awakened" genes that make his vision and olfactory sense so sharp are now taking a toll on his life.  When a new set of tiles appears in his own backyard, Track makes a chilling realization: those very same genes that are th

On Saturday August 23rd, we lost Tina Downey , a talented lady and a good friend in the writing community. Today we're joining together across the blogosphere to remember her and show our support. I didn't know Tina as well as some. I'd seen her around, here and there, but had only begun interacting with her on a regular basis a few months ago, when we joined the same small writers' group. I've come to realize that was my loss. Tina had a way of brightening us up when we'd had a bad day or were feeling down about our writing. She had a sense of humor that permeated her posts and comments, even when she was battling heath struggles that would have put most bloggers on hiatus. She was like a rainbow on a cloudy day. Tina loved sunflowers. For this tribute, we were asked to plant or display a sunflower in her memory. The header of Tina's blog sports a pink flamingo.   I love wind chimes, so when I saw this... .