Goodreads Giveaway Going on Now!

Right now until May 30, you can enter to win one of four free copies of "The Scholar, the Sphinx, and the Shades of Nyx" on Goodreads! How can you pass up a freebie?

Just go to this link to enter!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16100578-the-scholar-the-sphinx-and-the-shades-of-nyx

Georgia Author of the Year Nominee!

"The Scholar, the Sphinx, and the Shades of Nyx" is a nominee in the Young Adult category for the Georgia Author of the Year Award! The 50th Annual GAYA will be on June 7, with a banquet at 6 p.m. and the awards ceremony at 7:30 p.m. in Kennesaw, Ga. Maybe I'll finally get a chance to meet fellow Knox Robinson Publishing author Victoria Wilcox, who is also nominated...

Check out the full list of nominees here: http://authoroftheyear.org/nominees.html

Thank you to Wood's Mill High School

Thank you to the students of Wood's Mill High School for being so welcoming and attentive during my author visit today. I think it's great you all do something special every Friday--whether it's have a visiting guest speak to you, or you go on a field trip--and I hope you have a great rest of the school year.
Also thank you to Ms. Christie Conti and Mrs. Patricia Cook for helping me to arrange the visit. Love you, Pat!
Wish I had photos, unfortunately the room was too dark (for the sake of my presentation being viewable on the projection screen) for any pictures to turn out clearly. Still, the memories will always be there.

This was nice of them...

Take a peak at one of the recent Brenau University updates (the daily e-mails the college sends out to faculty, staff, students, and the local community):

http://update.brenau.edu/2014/04/04/author-ocps-reeger-cook-welcomed-to-moore-middle-school-for-presentation/

Which reminds me, my next visit is to Wood's Mill High School on April 18th. Busy but exciting times!

Thank you to Moore Middle School!

Just finished an excitng author visit to Moore Middle School in Lawrenceville, Ga. All the students were great! They came prepared with wonderful questions, seemed engaged in the presentation--although I admit, four presentations in a row (so overall got to speak to about 200 some students) is exhausting!
Thank you to Giselle Escobar and Charles Cook for helping me to arrange the visit. You all were so kind and I loved talking to everyone.

Thank You to those who organized the Dahlonega Literary Festival!

On March 8, I had the pleasure of participating in my first Dahlonega Literary Festival, and I want to thank Ken Smoke, Carol Malcolm, and all the others who helped organize the festival.
I also met a lot of truly passionate regional authors. My vendors table was next to that of Sue Cass, who writes inspirational books and she was very nice. Across from me was Fiona Page, who wrote a children's book about butterflies as well as a memoir called "My Nightlife is 24/7" (she unfortunately endured a horrible incident at age 44 that rendered her blind). I swapped books with her, since she said she wanted her grandchildren to read my book to her and I'm genuinely intrigued to learn more about her experiences.

It was impressive to see all the diverse literary talent in the regional authors room, and I enjoyed participating on the panel of eight authors who discussed their publishing experiences (I was by far the ditziest person on the panel, ask David). Everyone has had such unique experiences on their writing journeys, I hope the audience found it infromative.

Finally, thank you to everyone who bought my book! I hope you enjoy it and will look forward to the sequel due for release in September this year.

Next for "The Scholar, the Sphinx and the Shades of Nyx," a visit to Moore Middle School in Gwinett County on March 31. I can't wait!

The Updated Book Trailer for "Scholar and Sphinx"

The book trailer for "The Scholar, the Sphinx and the Shades of Nyx" has just been updated with new music, as the original trailer's soundtrack contained music not in the public domain (but was still an awesome trailer nonetheless). This revised trailer is visually the same, but features music from the opera "La Vida Breve" written in 1904 (so, being well over a hundred years old, I believe that would put this in the public domain).

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meB9ZGs__vk