Recruitment Happening Now

Uncle Sam needs you!!

Okay well, he doesn’t. But I do. XD I need Beta readers for Untitled. Now before you make up your mind, I’m gonna direct your attention to the blurb below. 

Clay Walker has moved on. A successful Marine pilot, he wants nothing to do with the life he left behind, or the God he associates it with. Japan is on the brink of surrender when his unit is shipped off to Okinawa, and suddenly his past returns to haunt him. Faced with loss and questions he never wanted to face, Clay must choose if he's going to continue on his own, or let God give him a second chance. 

Jess Walker wants to serve. But the world is a mess and he isn't sure how much of a difference he'll be able to make. As a Navy medic assigned to the Marines, he's thrust into a world he never expected to face. Yet he struggles to help the men around him when the fact that he couldnt help his brother burns hot in his memory. But the battlefield isn't his toughest challenge. What he didn't count on was the battle he'd have to fight inside.

Two brothers. Two separate paths. One conflict that will force them to make a decision.

(Defintely not the final blurb but it’ll work for now. xD) 

Content Warning: This is not a book I’d recommend for middle-grade readers. It deals with PTSD and touches on aspects of Homosexuality. It also deals with two main POV characters - one unsaved, one saved. In an effort to show the difference between the two lifestyles, there is mild cussing included in one POV. (Damn and Hell are used a handful of times.) The book is still around a PG-rating, however because of subject matters I’d not recommend it for younger readers.

And ... there it is. I don’t have much else to say about it right now. It’s right around 35k, and I’ll be sending it out sometime mid-August or so.

If you’re interested, let me know! You can go ahead and leave a comment below, or If you have my email or Social media you can also send me a messege that way.

I’m so excited to get this little project out into the world and I can’t wait to partner with y’all to do so! <3 

WIP Update

*waves* Hey guys! How’s your summer going so far? Mine has been interesting. It feels like it’s not quite summer, yet it is. I think it’s because all the quarantine + restrictions there are on things. So much of the stuff I normally associate with summer is not happening.

But it’s all good! I’ve had time to study and get a nice amount of writing done. Now I’m just chilling and waiting for the amazing Angela to finish the developmental edit, then I’ll go through and edit and get it off to beta readers.

Speaking of beta-readers, I’m hoping to have a post with more info up soon! So if you’d be interested in beta-reading, be sure and keeep an eye out. ;)  I will warn y’all that it’s a bit different then any of my other books. Think PTSD + homosexuality + WWII + Brothers + family issues + all the normal heartache my books normally tend to have. I’m rly protective and hesitant to have anyone read it ... but at the same time I can’t wait to share it with the world. 

I have a Pinterest board that I’ve been working on for the story and I thought I’d share some of my favorites here today. 

This. This is so Clay. <3

This story is rly my special story. I love it so much. <3 Are y’all looking forward to it? Let me know! And keep an eye out for the beta-reader post coming soon! 

Independence Day - 2020

Have you ever spent the late afternoon
Watching the purple shadows deepen in Arizona desert?
Or seen a herd of Elk plough their way
Through waist deep snow on a cold Colorado dome?
Did you ever see the sun go down in Hawaii
Or seen the stormy waves break over the rock bound coast of Maine?
Or have you ever see an eagle fly up out of the mists of Alaska?
Or a big October moon hanging full over the still Dakato badlands?

Have you ever tasted the gumbo in New Orleans, Bar-B-Que in Carolina
Or the chicken wings in Buffalo?
Have you ever had Brunswick stew in Maken, or cornbread in Burmingham?
Or briskets slow cook over hill country mesquite wood?

Did you ever drink the water from a gurgling branch in Utah
Or, stand on the mountain above El Paso Del Norte
And see the lights twinkling clear over in Mexico?
Did you ever jingle horses in the pre dawn stillness of a perfect Texas day
And watch their shodded hooves kicking up sparks on the volcanic rock?

Or attended a truck line on a foggy Carolina morning
Or heard the distant love song of a lovesick whipperwill
On a pristine Tenneesee late night?
Have you seen the faces on Mount Rushmore or stood at the Vietnam monument?

Have you ever crossed the mighty Mississippi
Or been to the daddy of them all in Cheyenne, Wyoming?
Or seen the mighty Volve run out on the football field on a chilly autumn afternoon?

Did you ever see the Chicago skyline from Lake Shore Drive at night?
Or the New England follage in the fall
Or the summer beauty of the Shanandoah valley
Or Indiana covered with new snow?

Did you ever seen a herd of wild horses running free
Across the empty spaces in Nevada?
Or, caught a walleyed pike out of a cold Wisconsin stream?
Or, marveled at the tall ship docked in the harbor at Baltimore?

Did you ever see the early morning dew sparkling on the blue grass
Or, the wind stir the wheat fields on a hot Kansas afternoon?
Or, driven the lonely stretches of old Route 66?
Have you ever heard the church bells peal their call to worship
On an early Sunday, in some small town in the deep south?

Or pass through the redwood forest just as the sun was going down?
Have you ever been to Boise or Batchlee or Boford or Billings?
Have you ever passed through Sanford or Suffacer San Angelo?
Have you ever seen the falls at Nigara?
The ice palace in Saint Paul?
Or the Gateway to the west?

This then is America!
The land God blesses with everything
And no Effel Tower: no Taj Mahal
No Alps; No Andes
No native hut; nor Royal Palace
Can rival her awesome beauty
Her diverse poplulation, her monolithic majesty
America the Free!
America the mighty!
America the beautiful!
I pledge alligence to the flag of the United States of America
And to the republic for which it stands
One nation under God indivisible
With liberty and justice for all!

-My Beautiful America, Charlie Daniels 

It seems that every day there's something else threatening our freedom and frowning on anyone who dares to be patriotic. But you know what? I'm proud of my country. I'm proud of our history, as flawed as it may be. And I'm proud to be an American. 

Happy Independence Day - may we never take our freedom forgranted, and maybe always be willing to fight for it. 🇺🇸❤️