C. Lee McKenzie

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Thundering Luv? Cover Reveal & Partay! Her Grammarness Goes On & On

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We have to have some LOVE on Valentine’s Day, so LM Preston has provided us with her latest book and it’s all about that subject.

Cover Reveal Ta da!

Here’s the next book in the Luv series by LM Preston. This is a stand alone story, but if you want at taste of this series before you get your copy of Thundering Luv, just pick up a copy of Summer of Luv for $.99 at all ebook retailers.

Thundering Luv-a Short Story-YA Romance: Jewel has always been able to get the guy she wanted. The starting jock on the football team, the team captain on the basketball team, and the lead swimmer on the swim team. Problem is, she didn’t find them the least bit exciting. Was she cold or a she-wolf for guys? Colin thought so, and he’d do anything to bring her down a peg or two. When these two collide on the sandy beach during their mixed up summer vacation,  sparks fly, making this a summer neither will forget.
Does this cover look hot, or what?

Release Date: June 1st, 2013
Format: Ebook Only Release, but will be part of a print book in 2014 that includes 3 short YA Summer Romances by LM Preston to include (Flutter Of Luv, Thundering Luv, and Double Trouble Luv)

FREE BOOK1 in the ‘Summer Luv’ series of short stories by LM Preston. Flutter Of Luv, to each person who:

  • comments within 2 days of the cover reveal
  • adds this book to their TBR list over at goodreads OR “like” Flutter of Luv at Amazon. (leave your like# in your comment here.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/bc05448/


You’re invited to join in the fun at the  Facebook Release Party: May, 18th, 2013 combined party with LM Preston’s 2013 releases.

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Her Grammarness

The Continuing Saga of The Amateur Writer: We all have to be amateurs at the start, but we don’t have to stay that way, do we? However, if amateur status is your goal, here are some things (semantic as well as grammatical) to include in your stories
Body parts that take on a life of their own:
  • Her hand flew to her mouth. (This is an interesting image. Wonder if she ducked?)
  • His eyes shot toward her. (Yikes! Incoming.)
  • The girl’s head dropped onto the table. (That would ruin any meal.)
Which: use liberally and be sure it never connects with its noun:
  • I didn’t write the story, which was very tragic. (Tragic that you didn’t write the story or did you mean that the story was tragic? Oh dear, we’ll never know.)
  • The aardvark ate the gorilla, which was truly amazing. (An amazing act, indeed for anything, especially the aardvark; however, just what is “truly amazing”-the eating of the gorilla or the gorilla itself?) 

Have you read any of these in WIP’s? I have. I think I even found a few in some early writing at the back of my bookshelf. Incinerated now!


Comments

  1. Take two…

    Great cover, LM! It sounds like a fun short story. Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway. 🙂

    Also- thanks for the grammar tips. I am sure these are both things that I need to continue to work on. Reminders are always good.:)

  2. Smokin' hot cover!! I put the book on my Goodreads tbr. Thanks for the free novelette. 🙂

    jinkyisreading at gmail dot com

  5. Hi Lee - I do sometimes question phrases or sentences and become bemused by some constructions … but being a complete dummy when it comes to grammar - it happens good or bad - but I'd love to learn properly sometime a quick course in English grammar …

    Fun examples you've given us .. cheers Hilary

  7. Oh gorgeous cover!!!

    When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher used this example:

    The woman walked her beagle in a tweed suit.

    😀 Happy Valentine's day!!

  13. Lee - I'm posting this for my main human, Mike:

    You are so right about body parts taking on a life of their own in sloppily crafted litra-choor! But sometimes it can be done for comic effect.

    For instance, re "His eyes shot toward her. (Yikes! Incoming.)" - When I was a little jug-eared kid, there was parody singing duo called Homer and Jethro. One of their songs was a send-up of a Jo Stafford hit, "You Belong to Me." And the only lyric that has stuck in my mind over the years is: "She rolled her big blue eyeballs at me / I picked 'em up and rolled 'em back."

    Both the original (and beautiful!) Stafford version and the Homer and Jethro crucifixion of "You Belong to Me" are on YouTube. For a good time, check 'em out!