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Create Your Ideal Environment

To get the best out of your ideas, you need to be in an environment that makes you relaxed and comfortable. You need to think about how you feel when you are writing and see what is good and bad. For example, if you do a lot of writing in bed, do you feel comfortable or is it a little difficult? Perhaps having a laptop tray will make it easier for you? The location of your writing is also important because it can affect your mood. If you write in a small office in your house with no windows, you might feel enclosed and cut off. Try going to your local coffee shop or sitting in the garden, the fresh air and interaction with others might be what you need. 

WELCOME TO MY BLOG!!! 

Thank you for stopping by, today I am showcasing a boxset I am collaborating with 21 other talented authors in the hopes of making a bestsellers list. I will tell you all about
THE SHADOW FILES , and to thank you for your support there will be prizes up for grabs!

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Cook at home
Cooking at home is the easiest way to watch what goes into your body. Take up the habit of cooking at home most of the days and packing home-cooked meals for lunch the following day at the office. You have the control over the ingredients that go into your foods and the cooking methods used in their preparation when you make your own meals at home. Restaurant meals don’t accord you such liberties and you have little say on what goes into your food and how it is cooked.

Cut processed sugars
A diet high in processed sugars puts you at risk of being obese and developing diabetes. You’ll notice significant improvement in your health by cutting processed sugar in your diet. So avoid foods and drinks with high sugar content like sodas and ice cream. You can satisfy your body’s sugar cravings by eating fresh fruits like bananas and citrus fruits.
Learn How To Make Liquid Stevia From Leaves and use it to sweeten your foods. Stevia is a healthier alternative to sugar because it has zero calories yet it is significantly sweeter than sugar. 
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Get outdoors
There are lots of benefits for yourself and the children in going outdoors and being one with nature. Not only do you get to spend some quality family time but you mental and physical health also improves. Exposure to the sun stimulates the production of serotonin which is helps fight off depression and anxiety and strengthens your bones as well.
You can take advantage of your family outdoor activities to get fit. For instance, you can go hiking and cap off the day with a family picnic as the sun sets.

Get enough sleep
One of the habits of healthy families is that they have a regular sleeping schedule. They also don’t watch TV late into the night. Sleeping for a less than 7 hours every night affects both your physical and mental health.
Sleep deprivation makes feel stressed and controlling your emotions becomes a tough ask making you prone to outbursts. Your cognitive abilities also plummets affecting your memory. You will also find hard to concentrate and focus if you don’t sleep well.
For your physical health, lack of sleep slows down your metabolism and messes your blood sugar level making you crave for sugary foods, which you should be avoiding. The end result is fatigue and weight gain.

​When Denise Walker begins her first year of college at a prestigious university, a strange encounter with one of her professors piques her curiosity. Denise believes the young and sexy professor is attracted to her, as she is to him, and accepts his invitation to join him on his yacht over spring break. Because she can feel the amazing chemistry between them, she's confused by his self-restraint. She becomes even more confused when he begins to tell her his life story, day after day, on the yacht. The details of his past are so incredible, so fantastical, involving time travel and alternate worlds, that she doesn't know what to believe, especially when he reveals a connection to her and her family. Why has he really brought her on the boat? And what will he do with her now that she's there?

​This is a big and exciting one for me!

For those who follow closely know I took a 18mnth break from all things authoring for family and health reasons, of course abstaining from my writing was bad on my happy mojo. It was hard and harder to get my confidence back in writing. Well finally got my groove back and here it is! My next book is a very different kind of book from my YA stuff! 
It's a supernatural suspence and I am having the time of my life with this book!!! 
IT'S ON PRE-ORDER NOW!!!
Squee and this is part of a huge goal for me - 
I'm AIMING for a huge ranking this year - USAT or even NYT - my book Thethered will be in a box set that offers just such an opportunity, thing is I cannot do this without assistance.

Pre-order goes is up today  on Nook Ibooks - and Kobo 
kindle coming soon. 
Once you have preorderd this edition on these sites, send me your pre order screen to the comment section of this post to be concisdered in a draw for a an ARC of my next release or a paperback of Tehtered once it has been released as a stand alone! your choice! 
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As part of a huge thank you to all readers and bloggers out there I'm giving away a signed paperback copy of my first novel The Broken Destiny (Open Internationally) 
​giveaway ends 30 November.
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​Another giveaway! 
~ Dark and Deadly bookish giveaway~
What is up for grabs in the Dark and deadly giveaway? 
Singed paperback copy of Evanescent a Broken Novel with poster and signed bookmarks. 
A paperback copy of Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Black beach bag. more here. 
How to enter ( enter the rafflecopter)  
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​​Umm yes please. 
When I first got the invite to Next Chapter Writer's retreat Paris I  immediately said yes, of course I am so there. OH and Im bringing hubby!  I have worked with Janet Wallace,creator of Utopiacon and founder of Social deviants many times before, and I knew what will be waiting for me in return was  worth it's weight in gold - so to speak. 
The retreat offered an exclusive intensive branding experience, a book signing and photo-shoots with my favorite photographer Regina Wamba, (also my cover designer for the broken novels). 
The other authors included members of my utopiacon family from Nashville, the con you guys see me attend every year in the USA. 

Many of you have reached out to me and asked, why am I paying so much for events, con's and book signings if I'm not making it back in sales?  Is it really worth it?
Simple answer: You need to think like an investor in all aspects. I'm getting more than just book sales, I am expanding my wings in many of my author hats. LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCING ALL YOU CAN - just do it. 

Was my experience all I had hoped? 
Getting to NCWRpairs was scary. I'm used to events that are busy and crowded - safe. Too busy for anyone, including myself to be someone outside of the author mask. I flourish as an actress.
At my recent South African launch of my pen name (Bailey Quinn)  I was asked by the media - tell us about Paris, what were your fears going in. 

yeah I was put on the spot, big time...  see my wtf face here: 

What I wanted to say: 
 As writers we tend to hide behind our writings in a way, behind a desk - and when we come out as a public figure in a crowd it's easy to play a part. At NCWRParis it was an intense workshop with few people and the only way to get the best out of the teachings was to come out as an honest person - expose your core. And I am always scared of being judged as my author persona has a reputation to uphold! 

​NCWRParis was all about branding and how to translate that into visuals. 
So yes, some would say -  but we know who you - are why need a brand? 
Well some might see me, recognize my name. But like most,  even after 4 years of the business of authoring, I felt lost. I need a base to work from and something to work toward. 
So let's get intense, put yourself out there let us explore the core of what makes you you
#OVERWHELMING 

I took my five core reasons for being a writer, took five core reasons for what I want to be as a brand/ a writer/ 
WHY why would people connect with you? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY.  
Yeah even narrowing down my core values was a mission - there is so much I want to say. Then I started to think about the photoshoot we still had to undertake and why I chose a damn evening gown?? 
Well that was me-  I love life and yes I will be a princess if I wanted to - but what did that say about me. If the dress was my leap out of my comfort zone... what was I saying/thinking when I decided on an evening dress as an author shoot?  
Choose 5 keywords I want to convey
Inspiration.
I love the feeling of being inspired, I want to share this feeling and inspire other’s.
Passion.
I live deep, I see and feel things with meaning, purpose and get swept away by the passion I have for life and everything in it.
 
Boldness.
Putting myself out there. Challenging myself. Taking risks, is the only way I learn me. Not being afraid of failing, or getting hurt, and although I can’t handle the bad feelings associated with failing or getting hurt… I need it in order to grow.
Standing out when I feel like hiding. Being happy all the time when there is so much sadness.
Being rejected by others is no longer a bad thing.
 
Beautiful
Because life is beautiful. The good and the bad are all opportunities to see the beautiful.
Positive.
There is no place in today’s times for negative. Positive brings positive. ​

I want to live by life knowing I sacrificed to be where I am, I struggled, I explored, I hurt and I felt things, make mistakes, was an idiot at times... and because I lived passionately others will see it's possible and they too will love life, with fear - because living in fear means you finally living!! 
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE 
As Janet Wallace (founder of NCWR) has said to me many times over. There is no such thing as you cant! If you want it, nothing should stop you. 


So here am I am a princess see there's photograhic evidence <<<<< I work hard and have had many glamorous moments - because I make those moments. 
Believes in happily ever afters. I did not become an award winning, globe trotting author who is also founder of SAIR writer's events, Co-founder of Fire Quill Publishing and founder of Help build a library project because I said no I can't do it. 
I said screw you life -  I will do it!