I'm not sure if you know...

I'm not sure if most are aware of this, BUT...all of my books are available for libraries, books stores, retail stores, and wherever else, to purchase through their normal venues. Just thought I'd mention this.

Carry on, rock on, read on.

Lindy

***SALE***

If you have read Take Care, Sara and would recommend others to read it, now is your chance! If you haven't read it, now is also your chance! The eBook version is $1.99 in celebration of its one year anniversary. This will go on for at least the next two to four weeks. Link is posted below, along with some teasers and reviews.

http://amzn.to/1iQH4hC

Amazon review: This book depressed me. Shame on me for not checking reviews before I read it because I should know better by now, and I went into it unprepared. I knew it wasn't a light read but that it would make me cry throughout... I didn't expect that.

Amazon review: Elegantly written!! Like poetry on a page. Fabulous!

Amazon review: This is a book that needs to be read, the language so true that I found myself going back to read dialogue just to imagine how it sounded. This book would get six stars of that were possible!

Amazon review: This story is written beautifully! It has opened my heart and eyes to the world around me. Thank you!


Amazon review: I read somewhere that a good author is one who can make you connect with a story and make you feel the emotions of a character(s) with their writing. I gave this book 5 stars for that reason.

 

ZARTIAN FOR LIFE TEE SHIRT CAMPAIGN

Hey, Everyone! A few months ago I had a campaign going on through teespring.com for people to purchase a ZARTIAN FOR LIFE tee shirt. We met the goal and there were, and still are, some PRETTY happy people walking around strutting their Zartian love. With the way teespring.com works, an order goal must be set by me, and reached, before anyone gets charged, or receives, their shirt. If the goal isn't reached, no one is charged, but also, no one gets their shirt. So here it is! Goal is 40 shirts and this ends in 21 days! So stock up. Multiple colors will be available by tomorrow. Gray is the only option as of now. Link is posted below.

Rock on, Zartians!

Lindy



http://teespring.com/LindyZartAuthor

UNLIT STAR Excerpt

I grin, he grins, and we start laughing. I am not even entirely sure why, but it feels good to. It is like this reaching into the past has swathed us in giddiness, and made us in this moment simpler, but happier. We built a tent. And it made us smile.

“You have dirt smeared across your nose,” he tells me.

“And you have grass in your hair.”

I reach for him as he reaches for me and we collide, which makes me laugh even harder. I tip my head back and let it leave me in a cascade of joy. When I look at him again, he is staring at me like I am something to be looked upon with wonder. I go still, wondering what he is thinking as he looks at me.

“Hey there, Delilah,” he says softly, a slow smirk taking over his features.

“Don't even, Rivers,” I warn. I can tell what he is thinking just by how he said that.

He does. He sings 'Hey There Delilah' by The Plain White T's. Night holds us in its embrace, but he lights it up with his essence alone. His voice is steady, deep, and touches me in a way I cannot explain. Tears fill my eyes and trail down my cheeks, but they are happy ones. This feeling I have for him, it has washed away anything that has fought to darken my heart and soul. I feel reborn in him, in what he gives me with his mere presence.

Before he even finishes the song, I am springing myself at him, wrapping my arms around his neck and squeezing him to me. Don't let go, don't let go, I think. I don't know who I am telling that to—him or me. Both of us.

“Girls always fall for that,” he says against my neck.

“How many Delilahs have you sung that to?” I ask, never relinquishing my hold on him. He may be fractured, and I may be fractured, but together we are whole.

“Just one.”

*SOME NEWS*

I'm terrible at keeping up to date on the blog. I find myself gravitating toward the temptation of Facebook to post all my necessary information on. I'm so bad. I'm making myself post all pertinent info on here today (or at least what I remember to), because I know I should. Here goes...

1. The Anything But series was signed with Crushing Hearts Black Butterfly Publishing a few weeks ago. This is exciting news for me. Ordinary will be re-released through them in September, Unremarkable in November, and Insignificant has a release date of January 2015 with CHBB.

2. Complete is in paperback! Be sure to get your copy if you haven't. I am also placing a book order soon, so if you would like to purchase signed books from me, message me. I accept payment through Paypal.

3. I am having a signed paperback giveaway of Incomplete and Complete when my Facebook author page reaches 7,100 Zartians, which it is close to achieving. If you can send anyone over to the page, I'd appreciate it. www.facebook.com/lindyzart

4. The eBook version of Incomplete is currently 99 cents through Amazon, so I'd snatch that baby up if I were you.

5. I'm aiming to have my WIP, Unlit Star, be my next release. I'm tentatively saying this fall, but I'm really going to try to get it to you this summer yet. I'm over halfway to my word count goal. I might be able to do it! I'm posting teaser pics of it below.

Thank you and Happy Reading!

FACTUAL WIP

As I've mentioned once or twice, for the past few weeks, I have had a story in my head that is relentless and refuses give me peace. Therefore, I'm writing it until it stops hounding me, or it's finished. Whichever happens first. Hopefully the latter. Here is a snippet of it.

“When you look at me, you have to be repulsed.”

“By what?” I ask.

He gestures to the scars that line his face and then to his legs.

“I don't even see them,” I say with all honesty.

His eyebrows lower and his eyes follow. I caught the blatant yearning in his eyes just before he hid it. He wants to believe me, but can't allow himself to.

 

My fingers curl into the palms of my hands to keep from reaching out to him. I blow out a noisy breath and look at the caterpillar ever so slowly creeping along the grass. I put my finger out and it carefully feels my skin before crawling over it, tickling my flesh as it goes. I smile.

 

“He's so slow, but you know what? He never gives up. He knows, one day, he'll be free,” I say in a low voice. “He's ugly to most, but to those that matter, he's beautiful. They know his potential. They know where he started and where he'll end, and how long it will take for him to get there. It's something to be admired, not tossed aside.”

SUPER SECRET WIP

Once upon a time, there was a girl.  She was definitely a girl.  Boobs and what have you.  It was quite wonderful.

Which is exactly what the very specific boy that I'm talking about thought about her.  Especially the boobs.

One day, he decided to do something about it. Despite the fact that he didn't know she knew he existed - even though she said hi to him every day and was his next door neighbor and came over to his house after school every day to get some make out action going on.

Still, that wasn't enough for this guy.  He needed more proof.

This is that story of proof.

Also boobs.  Because who doesn't like boobs?