Hideaway Hill has a wonderful 5* review

This always makes me smile. My romance novel, "Hideaway Hill" has another 5 star review on Amazon.



http://www.amazon.com/Hideaway-Hill-Elle-Rose-ebook/dp/B009H6R1BO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1426551072

Also check out a few 5* reviews on Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17085498-hideaway-hill

The Aliens Save the Galaxy Part 3- Book Review

I posted the other week that I was going to take on a new adventure. It was well worth the read! Here is my review for:

The Aliens Save the Galaxy Part 3

5 Stars!

What if your best friend was an alien(s)? What if you and your best friend(s) found yourselves tasked with saving the galaxy? Rose Choate’s third installment of ‘The Aliens Save the Galaxy’ will answers these questions plus many more. It’s not easy to display in words the wonderful, colorful, realistic realms that swirls in an author’s mind, but not only does Rose do this my introducing the reading to the world of Valoom, but she also is able to successfully illustrate other wild and exotic worlds. Each planet holds an array of wonderful inhibitors that mesh well with the heroic main characters.

I’ve enjoyed reading how Ryan Gentry, his siblings and a host of friends have grown throughout the series and how well they all work together. The children in this story are strong willed, positive role models that children of all ages would love to read about. The adventures Rose has produced left me wanted more and having trouble putting the book down. There were a few nights that I had to see the group make it safely through their current predicament before I could sleep easy that night.

I’ve stated this with the previous books, but if you are young at heart and looking for a roller coaster of a new story, make sure to read all three of Rose Choate’s ‘The Aliens Save the Galaxy’. Not only will you fall in love with the adorable characters but you will have a chance to watch them go up against the unknown Fog lands, other aliens, robots, a dragon, a snake, unforgiving weather conditions, giant spiders, and a menacing black hole.  These superb explorations remind me of ‘Ralph and the Motorcycle’, ‘The Chocolate Touch’, ‘The Boxcar Children’, ‘Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing’, and many other wonderful books I grew up reading. And the best part of this series? Rose has left it open for a new adventure one day.

Rose congratulation on bringing forth such a bright, entertaining trilogy that can hold the interest of readers of all ages. 

http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Save-Galaxy-Part-ebook/dp/B00SCC1GVK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1426445923&sr=1-1&keywords=rose+choate

Free Ebooks

It's that time of year again! Smashwords is hosting its 'Read an Ebook Week'. I have 3 books and 1 short story collection free on Smashwords, now until March 7th. 

Living for over two hundred years as an immortal, one usually doesn’t run into others from their past human life, let alone, find out it’s their brother’s new mate. After witnessing a vampire kill her close friend and becoming one, Amber Harris is thrown into a world of secrets, darkness and cravings. Closing her heart off from both love and her new vampire family, she sets off into the world alone. After spending fifty years apart, she reconnects with her family, including the newest member, who happens to be her hot headed vampire brother ‘s new mate. Recognizing the girl from her human past, Amber is convinced her family is in danger. With the news that her brother and mate are thinking about separating from the family, Amber must work quickly to uncover the truth before she and her family lose him forever. Welcome to the chronicles of Amber Harris.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/259364




Lance Grayson, Amber’s one love has died.
After receiving the startling news of Lance’s death, Amber’s world has shattered. However, being invited to say her final goodbye to her true love, Amber realizes Lance has one last request for her. While trying to put aside her bereavement to live with humans, Amber fights with the notion of never loving again. Welcome back to Chronicles of Amber Harris.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/276943





Colliding into love- that’s what most thought of when they saw Veronica Klark and Blake Darwood. Veronica and Blake were known as “the couple of Surpatch” and everyone assumed they were going to be together forever. Nothing could keep them apart, well, that is until it was time for Veronica to go away to college. Nine years later, after leaving Blake for the bright lights of a bigger city, Veronica is back. However, returning to the place she once called home with her new beau, Arthur Stentson isn’t as easy as she hoped. Blake, choosing to stay in Surpatch where he would one day take his place as Mayor, spent years trying to pick up the pieces of his broken heart. Learning to live his life without Veronica was finally going just fine, and probably would have continued that way if she had just stayed away. Now, Veronica and Blake must learn to deal with their feelings from the past and untold dilemmas of the present.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/377016




Frozen- Enter the future with Verick Cedar, a 16 year old boy who will be “Trick or Treating” for the first time. The world as we know it has come to the end, with the invasion of The Xecerptavode, an alien race that infused the land, drained all the fresh water, and forced the humans to live in destitute conditions. Join Verick on what could be his first and last All Hallows Eve.

A Grim Tale- Over eight centuries the burden of reaping the dead has become routine for Cyrene. Tonight, the grim reaper sheds a little light into the world of the undead. As she goes about her normal collection, find out what the history books aren’t telling you.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/281956

Happy reading!

Fellow Author

Being an author is one of the most rewarding jobs. Meeting other authors always tops my list of reasons why I love what I do.

The next book on my reading list is from a fellow author who connected with me on Twitter a while ago. Since then, I am happy to say she and I have become friends. I'm looking forward to reading the final book of her trilogy:

The Aliens Save the Galaxy

 

This series is for the young at heart and middle grade and up readers. As a writer, I'm amazed by the creative worlds Ms Choate has brought forth with the first 2 books. I know this book will be just as fun and entertaining.

Here's the link to the great start of a wonderful adventure:
http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Save-Galaxy-Rose-Choate-ebook/dp/B0087USJ58/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1425228936&sr=8-2&keywords=rose+choate

TBT

Throwback Thursday!!! 

These were the retail days:

I love the Minions!

I've been away, had to travel for the "second job," you know the one that pays the bills.
But I'm back home and wanted to share with you something that will hopefully make you giggle as much as I do.

I love the minions so much that I was one two years ago for Halloween!

Ignore the tall guy I'm standing next to, I wanted him to be a minion too. 

And on my trip to NYC (the rerouted trip from Atlantic City,- stupid closed down hotel...) my bff and I took the best selfie with this guy!

I found My Way Back

Greetings one and all, 

I'm not sure where to start this blog today. I'm sure some of you (maybe, maybe not) have noticed I haven't posted in a a while. (My last post was on January 6th.) Today I've decided to come to you with the raw emotions and reason I guess that I have been so quiet. 

Do any of you write, sing, act, or perform any other activity that leaves your life open to the public? For those of you that do, I believe that you will understand where I'm coming from. Writing is a gift. I can't say that I am good at it. (Only those who read my work can be the judge of that) but I can say that I do enjoy it. Becoming an author was not apart of my career path. I've dabbled in such fields as machining/tool and die, retail and market research. I even thought for a while that I would want to fly a plane. Until a few years ago, I thought it would be great to eventually operate my own Bed and Breakfast. And then one day, while reading a book that shall remain nameless, I decided I would write that book that I used to think about creating. At that point in time, I didn't think I would get more than a few pages in before I would get stuck and never go back to it. Yet the farther I dove into the book and bringing all of my imaginary friends to life the more I understood that all those other jobs were nice but what I needed to do with my free time was write and tell all of the stories that play like an ongoing movie in my head. Now I say my free time because like most writers, this is only our side gig because (no matter how much we dream for it to be our full time day and day out job) I still have to pay the bills.

To cut this very long story short. I, in the last few months, hit the "Self doubting-impatient-angry-confused-jealous-depressed" wall. And I hit it hard. I didn't want to write. I didn't want to listen to all of my imaginary friends. I thought about deleting my Twitter account, discontinuing all clubs on Goodreads and not logging into Facebook again. I didn't want to be Elle anymore because Elle is a microscopic molecule struggling to survive in the ocean. I don't know about you, but it seems unbearable to conceive that I, the person, could be so small and invisible. 

I'm here today to tell you that I am sorry that I lost faith in myself. I lost faith in what I love as dearly as my family. That won't happen again. I may never become a bestselling author. I may never truly have a fan base. I may never receive another comment/review/rating for my books/blog posts. I may never sell/share another one of my stories. But I will continue to be me. The writer that loves to tell stories, regardless of whom out there comments, follows, or reads. The words I share with anyone listening have always and will always come my inner essence, the very threads that hold me together. Going forward, I will not forget that again. 

Here is my promise: