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I've been watching all the goodreads drama unfold over the past several weeks and all I can say is it makes me sad.

When did it stop being about the books?

Now we've got people being called with threatening messages in the middle of the night, people being outted with pictures and addresses, authors declaring war on bloggers, reviewers declaring war on authors, authors declaring war on other authors...why is any of this happening?

When did it stop being about the books?

I love reading. I love books. I want to read books and enjoy them. This is why I first joined Goodreads, back in the day before I even was an author.

It kills me to see everyone forgetting why they first joined this site. Isn't it about the love of reading?

Who cares about reviews. Really. Is a bad review really going to change everything in your world? Is it going to destroy your career? Good lord, no. I read books with bad reviews all the time. Some of my favorite books have received horrid reviews.

Hell, I've received horrid reviews. So what? I didn't venture into writing thinking that everyone would love everything I write. I'm not a God. I do tend to write shit from time to time. I accept that not everyone is going to love what I do and I'm not going to try and change their minds.

So can't we all just try and return back to a certain center of normalcy and remember why we're here? We love to read. We love to write. We love to share our opinions...good or bad.

I've got 'em. Two ARC's of Rage Within to give away on Twitter.

Rules

All you have to do is RT my Tweet.

New followers get a second entry.

I will send out a Tweet every day. You can enter more than once!

Contest ends May 1st.

And it's open world wide.

Time for a Twitter giveaway.


Win a signed copy of Dark Inside.

1. Tweet about it or retweet my tweet.

2. Follow me.

Contest ends April 1st.

Is now available on Amazon for pre-order.

http://www.amazon.com/Rage-Within-Jey...

So close but yet so far away...

I keep getting a lot of people asking if there is going to be a second book for the Dark Inside series.

Yes! It is called Rage Within and it will be out in summer 2012.

Here's the blurb from S&S's website.

Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world's population, and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers. Now, they're hiding out in an abandoned house in Vancouver with a ragtag group of surviving teens, and trying to figure out their next move.

Aries is trying to lead, but it's hard to be a leader when there are no easy answers, and every move feels wrong. Clementine is desperate to find her brother Heath, but it's impossible to know where he'd be, even if he is still alive. Michael is still haunted by the memories of his actions during his harrowing struggle to survive. And Mason is struggling with something far worse: the fear that he may be a danger to his friends.

As the Baggers begin to create a new world order, Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael will have to trust and rely on each other in order to survive.

I can't begin to express how excited I was when I saw this.

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