❄️ to 🔥 The last decade brought me my first (and second!) series. I get to start the next decade by publishing a book with one of my best friends. Thanks, 2010s. You’ve been more than I ever dreamed. #snowlikeashes #setfiretothegods #bookstagram #authorsofinstagram #amreading https://www.instagram.com/p/B6wb9WGA4LI/?igshid=avtlutisfu2h
Anyone else feel like Christmas was a runaway semi with cut brakes that smashed into you and now you’re just bruised and beaten on the snow-slick road begging for the sweet release of New Year’s to free you from the holiday onslaught? No? Just me? At least there are dogs with derp tongues who have no idea they are so very derpy. #dogsofinstagram #christmas #nye2020 #qcbralumni #qcbr https://www.instagram.com/p/B6nu2u7gqGd/?igshid=nvv0ggc0q1a4
🎅🏻The aftermath. Happy Holidays to all! May your carrots be nibbled, your cookies munched, and your nog slurped. #christmas #merrychristmas https://www.instagram.com/p/B6f_O_QAtdO/?igshid=vwqtubnrah84
My winner of the SET FIRE TO THE GODS ARC giveaway is @inksight! Congrats!! Send me your shipping info at seesarawrite at gmail dot com and I’ll get your signed ARC to you ASAP! Didn’t win? Check @kris10writes page - she announced her winner today too! And stay tuned to both our social media outlets - we’ll have a TON more fun stuff coming in the new year! #bookstagram #books #amreading #setfiretothegods https://www.instagram.com/p/B6N8LSlg0fd/?igshid=1df494crob64g
These bright eyed kids are hauled up in a hotel room working on a book about sexy magical gladiators, picture circa 2015. Those same bright eyed kids just finished the final round of edits on that same sexy magical gladiators book that’ll come out in 2020. Life is crazy and wonderful. (There’s still time to enter the first ARC giveaway! Check my last post!) #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram #books #amwriting #amreading https://www.instagram.com/p/B6L5rY2ge5h/?igshid=62rqri0nyl59
Imagine I’m saying this in my Arena Announcer voice: THE TIME HAS COME TO STEP INTO THE ARENA! Behold, @kris10writes and I are hosting our first ARC giveaway of SET FIRE TO THE GODS! You have *two* chances to win by entering on my post here and Kristen’s post over on her page. Both contests will award one signed ARC of SET FIRE TO THE GODS! Open internationally. The rules? 🔥Tag a friend in the comments who you’d want fighting at your side in an arena! That’s it! Contest runs through Tuesday night EST. Winners will be announced on each of our accounts on Wednesday morning EST. Ready. Set. And...FIGHT! #setfiretothegods #bookstagram #books #amreading #authorsofinstagram #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/B6IuvkNA1yK/?igshid=7tb8hdixuln5
Final pass pages for SET FIRE TO THE GODS before it’s a real live book next year! To celebrate, here’s one of my favorite scenes from my girl Ash’s POV. She’s dancing with Madoc and supposed to be focused on a Mission but he’s just...so...pretty. Also she loves dancing. Pretty boys + dancing = trouble. 🔥❤️⚔️⛰ (And yes I had to repost this cuz I forgot to black out a spoiler and while I personally love spoilers I know the topic is Divisive. 🤦♀️) #setfiretothegods #books #bookstagram #reading #amreading #authors #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Boa43g_10/?igshid=1l3jvm7ae6gdl
Final pass pages before SET FIRE TO THE GODS is a real live book!! To celebrate, here’s one of my favorite scenes from my girl Ash’s POV - she and Madoc are dancing and she’s supposed to be focusing on a Mission but he’s just...so...pretty. Also she loves dancing. Pretty boys + dancing = trouble. 🔥❤️⚔️⛰ #setfiretothegods #bookstagram #books #reading #readersofinstagram #amreading #authorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B6BnpAigLx5/?igshid=qwifwingv0rv
Books and pups. Yep, that was 2019. One of the best things about this year by far was selling SET FIRE TO THE GODS with @kris10writes. We’d been working on this book for so many years that it’d started to feel like a lost project - and then, joy. Here’s to you all getting to read it in 2020. Here’s to more joy. 🔥 #topnine2019 #setfiretothegods #books #authorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B5s3yHOgjpU/?igshid=170e9qp1wma7v
There is a whole world of fantastic dog scarves opening up for me now and you better believe this is just the beginning. Check out my stories for outtakes in which I have a photo journal of Maze voicing her displeasure at me withholding treats to take just ONE! MORE! PIC! Also, a neighbor met her recently. Him: Maze! Like Amazing Grace? Me: No, like the demon from the show Lucifer. Him: ...oh. Anyway my dog is officially on brand, sweetness on the outside that lures you into the dark and evil creamy center. #dogsofinstagram #bulldogsofinstagram #qcbralumni #queencitybulldogrescue https://www.instagram.com/p/B5qqCgYA-JG/?igshid=waziicu9jgif
You asked. We answered! Want a review copy of SET FIRE TO THE GODS? @kris10writes and I now have a handy dandy form you can fill out! Hit up the link in my bio. There’s no guarantee that you’ll get an ARC, but our publisher will try to accommodate as many as possible! We are SO thrilled to hear what you all think!! This book has been a longtime labor of love. There are six energeias, or energies, in the world of SET FIRE, each controlled by a different god. Which energeia would you want to fight with in an arena? 🦅 - Animals 🌿 - Plants 🔥 - Fire 🌪 - Air ⛰ - Earth 🌊 - Water #setfiretothegods #bookstagram #books #amreading https://www.instagram.com/p/B5kwV-ZgKvA/?igshid=q8fw2qnlzz2y
Got the BEST surprise in the mail!! ARCs of SET FIRE TO THE GODS have landed! They are so pretty and fiery and fierce and FIERY. Not to mention fiery. Did I say fiery? FIRRRRE. @kris10writes and I are still appropriately fawning over these beauts, but we’ll soon gather ourselves together enough to formulate a giveaway. For now, swipe through to see the PRETTY! Also, swipe through to see Miss Mazikeen thoroughly unimpressed by my ARC. “So you wrote a book mom big whoop, talk to me when it’s made of cheese.” #bookstagram #books #setfiretothegods #bulldogsofinstagram #reading #amreading https://www.instagram.com/p/B5YoC9JgTpY/?igshid=xe006gw41bp0
Well that’s not a fire. Some of you may remember the puppy I had for all of three days earlier this year. We ended up giving her back because having an 8 wk old puppy + a 2 yr old human was unfair to both of them (lots of biting and crying and yelping). Fast forward a few months, and I fell in love with one of the pups I walked at the shelter. But I knew the last dog hadn’t gone well, so I didn’t want to post any pics until I was sure. Well, that dog was amazing... except with our cat. Whom he tried to eat. Twice. And it was horrible and terrifying and involved us tackling the dog to let our cat get to safety. Ultimately, we decided to return the dog to the shelter, but with a glowing review of all his good qualities and specific instructions that he not be with kitties. He got adopted to his furever home within a week. Another few months passed. I was still hoping to find the pup for our family. One who could keep up with my toddler. One who not only tolerated cats but didn’t even seem to know they existed. We looked through shelters and rescues, but none of the dogs or organizations felt like The One. Until I found @queencitybulldogrescue. I instantly fell in love with their site and presence, and thanks to my time at the shelter, I am mad in love with the dopey, smushed-face, love-you-with-their-whole-bodies fifty+ pound lap dogs that are the bully breeds. I’d applied for a few pups through QCBR, but they’re masters of human/dog matching, and it wasn’t until recently that they contacted me to tell me about Mabel. Suffice to say we’re all in love with this derpy delightful little girl who wiggles her whole body when she’s excited and blissfully does not give two figs about our cat (who is adjusting very well to her because of that!). We’ve taken to calling her Maze, because for some reason neither my husband nor I could remember “Mabel”?? I don’t know why. But we’re obsessed with the show Lucifer and you better believe I sometimes call her Mazikeen. Check out my stories for more pics of my newest family member! I finally have a dog again, guys. Teehee. 🥰🥰🥰 #dogsofinstagram #queencitybullies #bulldogs #englishbulldog https://www.instagram.com/p/B5SkTq-AsKD/?igshid=11wd8iqrdfvyc
Bowing to the trend - #decadechallenge but yes I realize this pic is of 2010 not 2009, what do you want from me, I could barely find even this one, how do so many of you have pics from ten years ago my god https://www.instagram.com/p/B5LewcAghyT/?igshid=jiv8haxeqgp1
🍁Best fall accessory? Aside from my @littleskystone ring - my voting sticker! If I can drag my double-infection-riddled self to the polls, you can too! Go, go, go! 🗳🇱🇷 #voting #vote https://www.instagram.com/p/B4fTgBsg-E6/?igshid=c9ftrtlsc3z8
Perfect weather and turkey legs, what more do you want? #ohiorenaissancefestival #authorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B34lBQsAfpi/?igshid=iya2qvl78et0
⚔️🔥⛰⚔️ It’s out! It’s out! The cover for SET FIRE TO THE GODS is here! Madoc is looking appropriately mmmmm and my girl Ash is bout ready to kick some butt! Thank you to everyone who’s helped spread the prettiness! You all are incredible and your support is why this job is so so fun. Now the important part - do you all like it?? What do you think? #setfiretothegods #stepintothearena #bookquotes #bookstagram #authorsofinstagram #coverreveal https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ZtKDzg1XA/?igshid=y4u5e8hej0w9