Barbara Garren's Blog

It's almost a year since I last wrote on this blog. A busy year - some good, some not so great. All of it engaging in the day to day struggle we call life.




I know you know what I mean.




I have a good life - a great life in many respects. I won't challenge "worse" - I'll smile and be thankful for what blessings I've accumulated. I'll bow my head and work harder to overcome the challenges I'm capable of facing. I'll turn away and not burden myself with challenges I have no influence over.




The pa...

My, my - I've been terribly neglectful, haven't I? I haven't posted since February and I can't think of a single excuse. 
I'd like to tell you it's due to the lack of anything of interest to chat about, but that wouldn't be true. This year has been full of developments - some good, some bad. It's presented challenges and rewards, opportunities and obstacles. It's been a lot like...
Followed by…
The dreaded day job has been challenging and boring, all at the same time. The home life has been...

I was in quite a funk the last 2 days. I'm beginning to see this as a normal book-birthday emotion (see this post for book info). You go through months of writing and editing and when your book finally hits the market, it's like *yay - no.*

Weird, but I'm sure perfectly normal.

Anyway, last night I took my funkified self for dinner with a longtime friend I only get to see once or twice a year (her living on the wrong coast while I live on the left coast) and, after dropping her off at he...

Woo Hoo! It's been a loooong road, but I'm happy to announce book 2 in my Phasms series was released today!


Aint' she a pretty one? You can pick up a copy HERE.
  It's exciting to see my work out there on the market, but I had to think long and hard about publication of this and future works. I had to decide WHY I was publishing, and the Hubs and I had a long, hard discussion before I finally went forward.  You see, for most Indie authors, publishing is a losing proposition. Oh,...

DOMINICK



Title : Dominick (A Prequel to Inferno) Author : Kara Jemal Genre : YA dystopian Release Date : March 2015 Publisher : Glass House Press Goodreads Link : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24376214-dominick
Blurb : Dominick Grant had the perfect life: parents who loved him, a beautiful girlfriend, and a best friend who always had his back.  He knew who he was, and how he wanted to live his life.
But in Dominick’s world, that choice belongs to someone else -- a totalitarian government th...

Ummm - so, I kind of missed posting my own cover reveal. Yeah. Lame, I know. But it's never to late to fix that, right? 

So...

Without further ado...

Wait a minute. I can't let this go this easily. Yeah, yeah, yeah - we've all been busy with the holidays and the New Year and the resolutions we've already blown. Me? Well, I don't make resolutions. That way I don't let myself down. 

But if I HAD made resolutions, they would be sort of like this:

1)  Post your own cover reveal on your...

Wow - I haven't actually "blogged" in forever. Shame on me!

To make it up to you, and to get off on the write foot in 2015 (<===  see what I did there?)...

I'm going to kick the year off with a GIVEAWAY! Because everyone likes free stuff, right?

Here ya go - enter - win - I do the rest!  Oh yeah - have a FAB holiday. See you Next Year!

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My best NOLA gal pal and all around FABULOUS author friend Kat Daemon is ready to share the second installment of The Darkness Saga with us!

If you haven't read the first book, Taming Darkness, well, all I can say is the devil never looked so good! (You can find it here: Amazon)

Book Two, Killing Darkness, will be available soon (I'll update this as soon as I have a release date), but for now, the cover alone will make you swoon!

Created by the incredible and talented S.P. McConnell (visit...

Oooh! What's all the pretty going on here? Let's take a look!



Because I'm Disposable is a YA contemporary by Rosie Somers and will be available on July 9th! I'm happy to help reveal the cover today!



Sixteen-year-old Callista Tanner was in the bathroom slitting her wrists the night her father took a fatal plunge down the stairs. People around her think she attempted suicide because she found him dead -- or worse, because she had a guilty conscience. Few know the truth; Michael Tanner ha...

Oooh! What's all the pretty going on here? Let's take a look!



Because I'm Disposable is a YA contemporary by Rosie Somers and will be available on July 9th! I'm happy to help reveal the cover today!



Sixteen-year-old Callista Tanner was in the bathroom slitting her wrists the night her father took a fatal plunge down the stairs. People around her think she attempted suicide because she found him dead -- or worse, because she had a guilty conscience. Few know the truth; Michael Tanner had been be...