Ink in the Book

FLUX by Ellie Carstens Release Date: May 27, 2014 The last thing sixteen-year-old Alaina Oftedahl-Miller expected was to watch her mom brutally destroy their life.  But, in the wake of tragedy, strength forms. Shipped off to live with her birth father, Alaina finds herself dealing with more than just being the new American girl in a Norwegian school. Juggling the formation of a relationship with the man who abandoned her as a child, and a budding attraction to Kaius Vargøy--the mysterious, beautiful classmate who's been assigned as her personal translator--Alaina can't shake the feeling that every move she makes is being watched. Judged. She soon learns there's far more to this sleepy Norwegian town than she ever imagined. Kaius and his friends aren't exactly what they seem, and the repercussions of that could send her traveling through the most unexpected experience of her life. Murder and relocation is one thing, but add in supernatural o...

Wow. I can't believe I'm posting for May already. Where as the year gone? I've been away from home for two weeks and I just got home today. I'm so happy to be back in my house, my bed and my comfy chair:) Again, there are some many doubts swarming my head as another month has come and gone and I still find myself unpublished and unagented. Yes, I wonder what's wrong with me? What's wrong with my writing? Why doesn't anyone love my stories, my characters? WHY?? Not when. Not will they ever. But WHY? And yes, again I have crossed the bridge of " Why bother? Why keep trying? No one will every love my books." But again, I smothered those s fears by preparing to send out more queries AND by starting not one, but TWO new WIP's. Yes. It's going to happen. I can't give up on that dream. I won't.