Samantha Campbell is born into an extraordinary family of females. Only she is different from her ancestors...
Sam wakes in a Baltimore bar missing memories of her college life. Now the target of a demonic presence, she learns she is a weapon designed by evil to destroy her family’s divine fate. The demon royalty will do anything to ensure Sam’s loyalty to their cause. But Sam is tough. She refuses to give in without a fight and partners with a secret group of students to regain her memories and rewrite her destiny.
Ohhhh I Love this cover!! Let me just say that I have already read this and it is So Good! I will doing a review for it soon, but don't wait on that Get it Now! Or atleast add it to your Goodreads list!
I am excited to announce that Taryn Browning *author of Dark Seeker and Dark Beauty* is releasing a new YA Paranormal Romance titled : Whispering Hills.
Title:
Whispering Hills
Genre:
YA Paranormal Romance
Description:
For as long as she can remember, seventeen-year-old Alexis Forbes can hear the thoughts of others. Most recently, she is disturbed by the dark, unfamiliar voice of a frightening killer: callous, cunning, charismatic…and dead. She hears his every sinister thought. But she can’t tell anyone. No one would believe her. Alexis is suddenly being haunted by a terrifying past she doesn’t remember, and a ghost with a serious score to settle. Even Chance, the gorgeous new guy she’s falling for, has his own ghostly secret. He’s definitely not like any guy she’s ever met. Alexis soon discovers she has a connection to the dead and it runs much deeper than she could ever imagine. And if the sociopathic entity has his way, she’ll finally be sentenced to the fate she escaped thirteen years ago.
It's official! One year of Blogging down for me. I really cannot believe it has been that long. It feels like it's been months.
When I set out to start this blog I was doing this for my friends in real life *hey I have a couple of those*. What are you reading now? What have you read lately that has been really great? I thought I need a place to put all this so they can come see. So I started SupaGurl Books,I use SupaGurl as my online presence and have for years... Why might you ask well... I am a MOM you have to be super to do that everyday! My love for Supernatural also came into play. I have mad, mad love for that show the hubbs and I started watching it from the pilot and yeah I was lost to it. Yeah ok so now that I have bored you with that little tid bit of info LOL.. Here are some things I wanted to mention on my 1 year.
First to all my blogger buddies:
Thank you to all of you who have answered questions, helped me out and basically been really awesome people! A few in particular are Andrea from The Bookish Babes , April from Sim~Sational~Books , and Rachel from Fikshun and all her other blogs lol. Dee from GoodChoice Reading These girls are amazing and I am so glad I have gotten to know each of them.
The book blogging community is made up of amazing people. Each of them go into blogging for different reasons but we all have major love for books and the people that write them. I for one have learned to spread the word far and wide on the web and exactly how to do that. We all want people to read and enjoy the great books that we read.
For all and I mean All amazing Authors:
Before I started blogging I would read and be like oh WOW that was great! My husband would let me talk to him about it *sometimes rolling his eyes... alot* Now though I get to jump on the net, hit up facebook or twitter and chat up the authors about this great story I just read. These people are freaking Great!! Before this year I have never met an author before, this year I have got to meet Charline Harris, Myra McEntire, Victoria Schwab, Jessica Workman, and just recently The Cassandra Clare!! Who have all been absolutely yes, you guessed it amazing in person! These people all spend their time writing the stories we all love then they also, take tons of time to talk to everyone on twitter and or facebook. Myra McEntire is the funniest person ever *I have told her this but she doesn't believe me* Victoria Schwab is super sweet and very funny also *She was also super sweet to my 9 yr old son when we met her*. Jeri Smith-Ready is always on her game and willing to answer questions and interact. Cassie Clare is forever answering questions too. Maureen Johnson is well .. there are no words to describe her LOL!
I am just really glad I got into this so that I can interact with all these authors and more!
Super Special Shout out to Self-Published Authors!!
These are some of the coolest people on the planet! No really I'm not lying! I would like to start out with ... If for whatever reason you are not reading Self-Pub'd Books well you SHOULD BE! I have heard it all... they are not edited well, the stories are not any good that's why they are Self-Pub'd and on and on. Totally NOT TRUE for all of them! I have only come across 2 books that I could not finish and if you look at my blog posts well a ton of them are for Self-Pub'd books. Now I have met a ton of amazing Self-Pub'd authors who are really special and of few of them are... Taryn Browning *she is so full of awesome I don't know how she doesn't esplode!* I have been really blessed with a great new friend! Everyone needs to be reading her book!!, Matthew Merrick he is such a nice guy and full of the funny *did I mention he's a hottie* and an intensely great writer *also still waiting on my signed poster if he ever makes them*. Megan Duncan really great, sweet girl and her books are just WOW. Megan Curd is just amazing and great to chat with. If you haven't read her books yet well Why NOT? SupaGreat writer!Angeline Kace and KC Neal *I group them together cause they are BFFs* are two wicked awesome peeps!
Seriously, you really should be reading Self-Pub'd books, they have some of the most interesting, emotional, and jaw-dropping stories and yeah well the Hottest guys ever!!
MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL!
BOOKS!!
I have been exposed to so many new books since I have started this that I would otherwise Never have read. I have tons of people that I look to for their opinions on books and a few choice people *cough Andrea and April cough* that I trust explicitly because our tastes are so similar. I still find new blogs everyday... yes everyday and I also find new books to put in my huge, overflowing, needs a room of its own to be read pile!
Followers:
You guys are all super special to me! No really you are I have shrines and everything. I was just super excited when I had 10 and as of writing this I have 290 something... I'm beyond words and am blown away. I adore all of you and especially all the comments. I live for those as I'm sure all bloggers do. Also, everyone should have an April of there very own to comment on their posts cause I don't think I laugh *almost snort my drinks out* like I do when I read her comments.
You are now a huge reason why I blog! Thank you so much and I hope you all continue to stick around with me :) Keep the comments coming cause I eat those for breakfast and you don't want me to starve do ya?
WOW that was alot... jeeze I feel like if you made it through all that well You deserve a chance at my
Blogoversary Giveaways!!
Note! There are several different Raffle Copter forms below so you can enter for what you WANT to WIN
Welcome to the Celebration! To Kick things off we have...
Author and my SupaAwesome Friend Taryn Browning
Thank you, Heather, for having me on your blog to kick-off your 1-year blogoversary celebration. Congratulations, girly! I've had the most fantastic time getting to know you. This includes your total awesomeness advocating Janie in the YA Heroine Tourney. You are such a phenomenal, caring, fun person! I'm truly fortunate to have you as a friend.
To many more years celebrating your fabulous blog *CHEERS*!! <3
To celebrate a year of fantasticness, here is the first look at the description for the 2nd book in the Seeker series, Dark Return.
Janie Grey is dedicated to hunting the undead, an inherited duty passed down from her Cherokee ancestors and generations of powerful Seekers before her. Then, there's Kai. He's like no one she's ever met - cocky, fast, skillful, infuriating and gorgeous. Not only has he become a valuable asset in her fight against the growing population of the vampire/demon hybrid known as Daychildren...
She's unwittingly fallen for him.
Just when Janie thinks she's learned everything there is to know about Kai's mysterious past, there's a newcomer to Baltimore. Someone who will do anything to make sure Janie loses Kai forever.
Darkness returns in 2012...
SG: I'm interrupting the guest post here to SQUEEE!! If you don't know by now... I LOVE this!
I've also provided 3 excerpts from Dark Seeker (Seeker, #1), because you're way to amazing for just one :)) SG: awww, Thanks!
For 17-year-old Seeker, Janie Grey, ridding the Baltimore streets of the undead is an inherited duty passed down from her Cherokee ancestors. Seeker Training Lesson #1: Never trust the undead. After her father’s tragic death, Janie creates her own life lesson: Love isn’t worth the risk. Both lessons are easy to follow until she encounters the flawed Kai Sterdam. At first, she believes he is the hybrid she is trained to hunt. But, when he has human traits, she determines she doesn’t know what he is. As Janie’s intrigue over who Kai is pushes her deeper into his mysterious past, she discovers a shocking truth that is even more harrowing than the evil they are up against. It’s a secret Kai wants to keep hidden, especially from Janie.
So here they are:
He was different.
She just didn’t get the vibe. Usually she could feel when they were around, like that creepy something’s-not-right feeling girls typically ignore, multiplied by about a thousand. But this time she got nothing. It was like he wasn’t even there, until he was there…and then he was gone. And his eyes were so unusual. Not black, but vibrant green.
“Were you hurt?” he said, pulling her out of her reverie. “When your car struck that pole? Sorry I didn’t stick around to find out.” His hand left his scythe. He paused, assessing her hate-filled expression. After an awkward moment, he extended his arm. “I’m Kai.”
“I’m not shaking your hand.” Janie stepped beyond his reach. Something was off. He didn’t smell or act like the rest of them, and she couldn’t get over those eyes. She glanced around the empty alley. “Why did you kill them, anyway?”
“They stink. There’s enough trash on these streets. I’m just ridding the city of filth.”
“And you don’t stink?”
“Nope. Just took a shower, in fact.” Kai glanced down at his shirt. “It was clean an hour ago, anyway, and I had sleeves.”
“What are you?”
“You seem to have me figured out. I’m a monster.”
“Is that supposed to scare me?” She raised her guard.
His voice softened. He forced the sharpness from his tone. “No, Janie. It’s not.”
Kai left his place next to the wall and approached her. Janie froze. The smell of lavender strengthened, filling her lungs. “How do you know my name?” she mustered.
“We all know your name.”
“So you kill your own kind?” Her heart pounded against her rib cage.
“They are not my kind.” She heard the disgust in his tone. She’d angered him.
“I know what you are. You’re one of them. So, now tell me, how exactly are they not your kind?” she pushed, visibly stripping away his cockiness.
The muscles along his jaw line twitched. He glanced off to the side, shifting his stance, seemingly unsure of how to answer. “We’re done here,” he said.
She blinked and he disappeared in the same blur in which he’d appeared. Janie stood alone, still clutching her dagger.
***
Inside his house, Kai retrieved a bottle of water from his mini-fridge and joined Janie on his leather couch. “You look at little less green.” He unscrewed the cap and handed her the bottle. “Drink this.”
Janie took small careful sips. Her insides felt like a dried-out, cracked desert floor. Kai dabbed a wet washcloth on her lip. “You’re being gentle,” Janie whispered. Even her hushed tone echoed loudly between her ears.
“Don’t get used to it.” The cotton material caught a piece of loose skin. She drew back from the washcloth. “You look like you’ve been in a bar fight,” he said.
Despite herself, Janie let out a laugh. The expulsion of air shot splinters of pain through her ribcage. She recoiled and turned away from Kai. She peeled up her tank and hoodie to check out the bruise the teenager had left along her ribcage when he’d kicked her. As she suspected, her skin was decorated with swirls of red, indicating she’d have a colorful bruise the next day. Over the redness she noticed tiny white dots bubbling up on her skin, resembling tiny fluid-filled blisters. “Kai—” she gasped.
“What’s wrong?” He spun her around. Her eyes widened. She realized her bra was exposed. “It’s the demon blood. It seeped through your clothing. You’ve got to get your clothes off.”
“I am not,” she protested. She yanked her top down.
“It’s burning your skin.”
“Then I’ll remove my jacket.” Janie unzipped her hoodie and slid it off, feeling not quite as vulnerable as before, but still vulnerable enough in her black tank. She squirmed. Her flesh burned under her shirt.
Kai looked at her in annoyance from under his blond lashes. “Your skin is burning and you’re being modest right now?” He took the hoodie from her hand and wadded it into a ball. “This is trash.” He lifted her off the couch and placed her feet on the floor.
“What are you doing with me?” She pushed on his chest.
He held her tighter. “I’m helping you up the steps to the bathroom. You need to take a shower and get that demon blood off your skin.”
“I can make it to the bathroom myself.” He loosened his hold and she spun away from him. She hadn’t forgotten what he’d said to her. We’ll never be that close. It’s not like she had any expectations about their relationship, but hearing him tell her they’d never be friends after all they’d been through over the last few days was hurtful.
He stepped away from her. “As you wish. Towels and soap are in the bathroom.”
***
Kai stood with his hands resting below his hips, thinking about something, maybe how to respond. “It’s because of what I am. I shouldn’t have told you. I should have let you think I was a monster.” He looked out into the street. A group of kids wearing heavy jackets played basketball in the cul-de-sac.
Janie stepped out of the car. She stomped over to him, contemplating how to tell him how she felt. “What you are doesn’t bother me. I just don’t think we should be friends anymore. Ever since I met you, I’ve become sloppy, unfocused. I can’t allow my feelings for you to interfere with my job.”
His eyes left the ground and traced a perfect line up the front of her until they finally reached her eyes. “So you do have feelings for me?”
“That’s not what I meant.”
“You just said it.” He stepped closer to her, with an intensity so powerful it drowned out the world. Nothing else existed—the bouncing basketball on the black top and the laughter of playing children disappeared. Kai’s words flooded with raw emotion, a fresh wound that had been torn open.
“Then I said it wrong. Kai, I can’t see you anymore.” She pushed against his chest, but he didn’t move. He grabbed both of her wrists and held her in place. His green eyes blazed with an impassioned craving to want and to be wanted.
“You are the only person I have felt comfortable enough with to talk about my past. You can’t say you don’t want to see me anymore. You’re the only one who knows me.”
“That’s not my problem.” She tried to turn away from him but he held her tightly in place.
“You’re afraid,” he said.
She laughed. “Afraid of what, you?”
“You’re afraid of your feelings for me. You won’t ever let anyone in. You think that if you run from your feelings you won’t get hurt.” She yanked on her wrists. He finally let go. She threw her fists into his chest. Again he just stood, still and hard like a statue.
“My mom loved my father and now he’s dead. It’s not worth it.” She pivoted around to leave.
He shouted to her from behind. “What you’re doing with Matt isn’t right. You don’t feel anything for him. He’s safe.”
“And you’re not.” She strode to her car. She wanted the conversation to be over. She didn’t want to discuss Matt, Kai, or losing her father anymore. All the topics were too painful.
***
It's been so much fun celebrating a phenomenal year! Happy Blogoversary *throws confetti*!! Love ya, girl!! XOXO
Taryn
Thank you so much Taryn for stopping by and leaving readers with all that awesomeness! Now if you would like to find her on the web well here is where you can....
Thank you to everyone who voted and spread the word about Janie!
I think we did SO WELL, we got through to round 2 and put up a great fight against Tris from Divergent. I think Dark Seeker will have a ton of new readers and that was the ultimate goal for me *well ok I REALLY wanted Janie to win too*. Keep on supporting the awesome girls still left in the Heroine Tourney , I know I will be!! ~ SupaGurl
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Wednesday December 21st Janie is #21 up against Tris #5
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If, for some strange REASON you haven't read Dark Seeker yet... well you can
Dark Seeker Blog Tour hosted by The Magic Attic Author Taryn Browning
So I have a treat for you all today! I have my new Fave person here with her cast choice for Dark Seeker. Taryn is so sweet, funny, and Excellent to talk with. But First!! Here is the final piece to the Cover Reveal to the next book ... *squeee*
And now the Cast selection by Taryn...
Actors I Would Choose to Play the Characters in Dark Seeker if it was Made into a Movie
Janie Grey – actor Camila Banus
Experienced Seeker in Baltimore, who quickly learns that the training lessons she’s always followed don’t always apply. Especially when she meets Kai.
Kai Sterdam – actor Max Irons
“Daychild” (I don’t want to spoil the story by revealing too much). When I saw Max Iron’s in Red Riding Hood I fell in love with him. Not only is he absolutely adorable, I knew he would make a great Kai. The only things he’d need to pull of Kai’s look are white highlights, a lighter shade of golden-blonde hair, bright green contacts, and a few scars on his forearms and chest.
Matt Baker – actor Asher Book
Star high school wrestler who inadvertently finds himself caught in the middle of a war between the undead.
Abram Mitchell – actor George Clooney
Abram is a former Seeker and Janie’s mentor. Read about Abram’s life as a Seeker in the prequel short story, Dark Beauty. Give the younger George Clooney (pictured) blue contacts and he’d make the perfect Abram.
Isabelle Grey – actor Karina Lombard
Former Seeker and Janie’s mom. Read about Isabelle’s time as a Seeker in the prequel short story, Dark Beauty. When I was writing Dark Seeker, the picture of what she looked like in my mind came from one of my favorite movies, Legends of the Fall (Brad Pitt *swoon*). Karina played “Isabel Two” in the movie. (Haha, she really must have been on my mind because they share the same first name, not the same spelling!)
Ava – actor Danielle Panabaker
Janie’s best friend and one of the only people who know she’s a Seeker.
Luke– actor Jeremy Sumpter
Janie’s always fashion-conscious best friend.
Jerome – actor Michael B. Jordan
Den leader for the vampire community in Baltimore. I loved his character in Friday Night Lights. He could definitely pull off the roll of Jerome.
Tanya – actor Cat Graham
Vampire and Jerome’s girlfriend.
Antony – actor Jesse Garcia
Leader of the Baltimore gang of Daychildren. With make up to display his bad complexion and black contacts to illustrate his soulless eyes, he’d make a great Daychild leader.
Albania – actor Emma Stone
Witch and friend of Kai’s. She has striking long red hair. Emma looks gorgeous with red hair. She’s young, but also has a mature demeanor, like Albania.
WOW! What a great cast... I myself find them all Great choices *my Ava is a little different* But that is just me :) These are all Fantastic choices.
If you made it this far...Good cause I have the Final Whole Cover
