C. Lee McKenzie

Young Adult and Middle Grade Author

Always Room for More Books

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Now welcome, Tara Tyler with her newest publication.

DISPOSAL has arrived!!

DISPOSAL by Tara Tyler
Pop Travel, Book Three

Cooper and Geri are finally in a good place, but their bliss is short-lived when Cooper’s rebellious nephew Jimmy moves in with them for a summer internship. He hits the town hard and thinks he’s found the girl of his dreams in an fiery, exotic beauty. Against all words of warning, he pursues her and ends up getting kidnapped by her powerful Drug Lord father. Geri tracks him down, but gets herself kidnapped as well.


Now it’s up to Cooper to use all his resources to save them, including the hot homicide detective Geri secretly despises, and the latest sketchy gadgets his genius friend Hasan offers him to field-test. Sure, why not? Cooper will do anything to get his family back.

KINDLE <=> Paperback (coming soon)

About the Author:
Tara Tyler is a math teacher who writes to share her passion for reading with others. She loves dogs, coffee, and is the lazy housewife, living in a world of boys with three sons and a coach husband. Join her for an adventure!

Pop Travel & Simulation - The Cooper Chronicles
Broken Branch Falls & Cradle Rock - Beast World fantasy series

To celebrate, you can take Tara Tyler’s SURVEY- which will automatically enter you for a PRIZE!

Here is the DISPOSAL blog tour schedule:

FRI, NOV 17 - Tyrean Martinson - 5 Things that will get you published!

MON, NOV 20 - Christine Rains - The Lazy Housewife talks Garage Goals
THU, NOV 23 - Juneta Key - I’m Thankful for where I am

MON, NOV 27 - Patricia Lynne -
THU, NOV 30 - Diane Burton - The Lazy Housewife talks Bathroom Blues

WED, DEC 6 - MJ Fifield - Special IWSG: Will anyone like me? Will anyone care?
FRI, DEC 8 - Elizabeth Seckman - The Journey of the Really Real Housewives

MON, DEC 11 - C. Lee McKenzie

Donna Galanti: December’s Featured Follower

I thought you might like to see the trailer for her first book. It’s exciting.

*IF YOU HAVE TIME, STOP BY VERBOSITY REVIEWS. I’M VISITING THERE!*

 

I’m bringing back my Quote of the Week. I kind of missed doing it.

“Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50.” Edgar Degas

BLOODWALKER AUDIO BOOK WINNER! HEATHER HOLDEN. CONGRATULATIONS, HEATHER

NOTE: YOU CAN NOW CHECK A BOX UNDER YOUR COMMENT IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE MY REPLY. I’M GAINING ON WORDPRESS!

 

It’s November. Did You Notice?

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Yep. November arrived last week, then daylight savings time ended, and we Fell back. I hear the pitter-patter of holiday feet and, of course, Christmas decorations are already in the store windows. However, I refuse to panic…yet. I have more important things, like my Featured Follower of the Month. Ta-Da! L.X. Cain is a writer of horror fiction and she does a great job at scaring me, yet keeping me reading, so I’m excited to feature her here this month.

AMAZON . B&N . KOBO

MY REVIEW.

“Lightning flashes. Another child disappears…” This is how the book starts, and you’ll have to keep reading because the terror doesn’t stop until the end. You can enter to win either an eBook or an AudioBook by leaving a comment with your choice and a contact email.

 

 

What happens in the dark will come to light.

 

There’s an anthology that’s just out, and I’m plugging it because all proceeds go to an excellent cause. Full Dark is a benefit anthology. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Gary Sinise Foundation, an organization that does many wonderful things for our country’s active military, its veterans, and the countless first responders who sacrifice so much to keep us safe.

AMAZON . B&N

GET YOUR COPY TODAY!

 

And what about France? Well, it was much more than I expected. I’ll be boring you with snippets of my adventure, so be forewarned. First, there was Limoges. [Read more…] about It’s November. Did You Notice?

Email Connect Commercial & Double Negative

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Commercial Announcement-This will not disappear in ten seconds, so don’t fight it.

Email Connect (EC) is not a Newsletter. I have no news.
“So what do you have?”
“Thanks for asking.”
*A Featured Author each month.
*Gifts and Giveaways.
*Short, but hopefully helpful tips for writers and readers and other humans.
Sign up today for your chance to win a digital copy of Gadget Girl by Suzanne Kamata, my Featured Follower in November. I’m reading it now and it’s good!

 

I’ve been so neglectful of my Young Adult books lately, that I thought I’d give one a bit of press. So here’s . . . the Story Behind Double Negative
READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY. IT’S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTANDING THE REST OF THE POST.
BUT NO PRESSURE.
#anT t# re#d #nd #nj#y # g##d st#ry? Wh#T #f y## c##ldn#t do th#t? W##ld y## b# fr#str#t#d? #ngry? S#cr#t#v#?
You could probably figure out the message, but was it easy? Did it take a while to decipher the words, and when you did, did you forget all about meaning because you were picking through it so slowly you forgot where you were going? And what about the NO PRESSURE part? Did you ignore that?

 









Here’s what it said: Want to read and enjoy a good story? What if you couldn’t do that? Would you be frustrated? Angry? Secretive? Maybe act out with anger?

In 2010 I stumbled on an article that said in L.A. County 33% of the residents were illiterate or low-literate. That brought me up short. Wasn’t the inability to read an emerging nation issue? An issue in back-country regions of the U.S.? I guess not!
Bryant Doughtery is definitely Hutch.
Hot and naughty. Lots of potential.

That article was the beginning of Double Negative. Hutch, then Fat Nyla and Maggie slowly evolved into the characters, then came Father Kerry, Moss and Meeker. All destined to play a part in a story about a kid who can’t read well enough to get through high school, but has the heart of a winner. All he needs is a pair of glasses and someone to believe in him.

Evernight Teen

“My life was going, going, gone, and I hadn’t been laid yet. I couldn’t go into the slammer before that happened.” —Hutch McQueen.

Quote of the Week: “Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.” Anonymous

 

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