The Future of Our Past featured on Best Romance Novels Today!

Hey all!

The Future of Our Past has been featured on The Best Romance Novels!

The site only features 5 Star romances!  I'm honored to be listed among the other wonderful books  & authors found there!  If you're looking for something great to read, this site is a great resource.  The books listed have to have 5 Star reviews by book review bloggers to be posted there, but I'm so thankful for all of the wonderful reviews from my readers posted on Goodreads, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  Reviews can mean the difference between success or failure for a writer, so THANK YOU!!!

Update on Book 2 of The Remembrance Trilogy, Don't Forget to Remember Me is almost to the point of Print Formatting!  I admit I believed the book would be out by now.  I'm sorry!  I'm as anxious as many of you who have contacted me on Goodreads, Twitter or email.

My mother is out of ICU and now in a rehabilitation hospital.  Thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.  She can't walk yet, but her mind is as sharp as ever.

I'm currently writing the Beyond Twilight outtake I promised.  I will be sending it out as soon it is finished and beta'd.

AND, I'm about 1/3 finished with A Love Like This!  I'm working on a pivotal scene and I'm a picky bitch!  My goal is to have it written by the end of SEPT so it can publish around Christmas.

There is a giveaway coming up on Bookish Temptation where I've been asked to do an author interview, where I am offering a ePub & print copy of The Future of Our Past & one lucky reader will get an advance copy of DFTRM.  Thanks to Elena and the site for the opportunity.

Keep watching for more giveaways!  There will be one on Kerry-Ann McDade's Blog, Reading a Little Bit of Everything along with other goodies to celebrate her birthday in August.  (Exact date to come.) :-)

Also, I have another book that will publish the first quarter of 2013.

xoxox
Love and Peace...
Kahlen~

Worthy Cause

This past Tuesday, the Twilight Fandom lost a dear friend. Gisela (@Mad4Hugh) lost her life crossing a street in San Diego while waiting in line to be part of the first fans for the Twilight Panel at Comic Con that took place today, July 12, 2012.

I had the opportunity to meet Gisela in Las Vegas this past June for the TwiFic Meet Up and was lucky enough to spend quite a bit of time getting to know her.  We shared an evening walking the Vegas Strip with two other special friends, Lilly and Wendy and had breakfast together the last morning of the meet up.  She was funny, sweet and so, so kind.  Giseal was passionate about Twilight and had mad love for Robert Pattinson and Hugh Jackman. :-)

I know I, as well as many others, will miss her dearly.

This is Gisela with myself and Lilly on the strip.  Wendy took the photo.

As usual, when tragedy strikes or a worthy cause comes along, the masses of the Fandom unite.  It fills up my heart.  

Gisela's mother suffered from Alzheimer's Disease before her death and Gisela was her care-giver.  This fundraiser, in her name, will benefit the Alzheimer's Foundation.

I am donating signed copies of all three books in The Remembrance Trilogy as they publish.  I encourage you to join me in donating to this wonderful cause and pay tribute to one of our own, gone too soon.

Fandom 4 TwiFan G (Pls. donate here).

RIP Dearest Gisela....You will be sorely missed, but I know you are dancing (and watching Rob and Kristen at Comic Con) with the angels.  Best seat in the house!


I promise, we won't forget to remember you.   
My sincerest condolences to Gisela's family and friends.

Love, Always....and Peace...
~Kahlen

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Hi all,
It will make it easier to send you all the outtake, (when the situation with my mother stabilizes and I am able to complete it), if you enter your email address in the yellow "Subscribe to My Newsletter" box, lower right side of this page. We have to do it this way as Google disabled sending mass emails through the "Follow Me" widget.

Thanks to everyone who DM'd and tweeted your support and prayers for my mom.  You always amaze me and I'm so thankful for each one of you!

Love,
Kahlen

The Promised Outtake

Hello, all,

I promised a new BT outtake by the end of June to the members of this blog.

I'm sorry to tell you that I'm a little behind schedule for three reasons:

I was proofing the final versions of DFTRM for my publisher
I'm editing a new novel to submit to my publisher and most of all
my mother has been gravely ill.

As some of you may remember, around the time I was finishing DFTRM back in 2010,  she had open heart surgery and though she was supposed to have a valve replacement they decided instead to thin out the septum. She only felt better for about a month, as it turns out she has two leaky valves. Over the past two years, she has gotten weaker and this past Christmas, she got the shingles. This is a severely dibilitating disease that causes a lot of pain. She has had problems with her lungs due to the heart disease, and she smoked for 2/3 of her life. (Lesson, if you smoke, stop now.)

Last Friday night she was put on a respirator because she can't breathe on her own. I am not sure what the prognosis is, but I wanted to give you the reason that the outtake will be delayed.

I apologize. It is not my intention to make promises that I do not keep.

I will finish it and I will mail it to every one of you. It will not be a post here or on Live Journal.  You, my readers, are so important to me. That hasn't and will never change.  Thank you for the support you've shown for TFoOP and also for book 2, which will be out very soon.  I am truly grateful and humbled by the amazing reviews that so many of you have left and for telling your friends about my writing.  Keep an eye out for more giveaways of both books.

Love and peace,
xoxox
Kahlen

Blog tour, reviews, interviews and give aways!

If you want a chance to win one of my books, please follow these bloggers!  If you would be so kind as to help me promote the tour and the book, I'd be ever so grateful!  A couple of these links don't have links, but I'll get them up as soon as I have them.  Thanks!

May 28 - Understanding Shae's Story - Review/Giveaway

May 29 - TToria - Review/Excerpt

May 30 - The Life and Lies of an Inanimate Flying Object - Guest Post/Giveaway

June 1 - Reviews By Molly - Review/Excerpt

June 4 - TE Garden of Books - Review/Interview/Giveaway

June 5 - What's on the Bookshelf? -Interview/Excerpt

June 6 - Sweeping the USA - Giveaway/Excerpt

June 7 - My Cozie Corner- Review/Giveaway

June 7 - The Guardian of the CrossRoads - Excerpt

June 7 - Keeping up with the Rheinlanders - Promo/Excerpt

June 8 - Abbey Ann's Bookshelf - Review/Guest Post/Giveaway

June 11 - The Self-Taught Cook - Review/Giveaway

June 12 - Reading a Little Bit of Everything - Review

June 13 - Musings of a Bookworm - Review/Giveaway/Excerpt

June 14 - Snag a Bargain - Review/Giveaway

June 15 - Book Lovin' Mama's - Review/Interview/Giveaway

June 18 -  Bunny's Reviews- Review/Guest Post / Giveaway

June 19 - In Between - Review/Giveaway

June 20 - For the Love of Film & Novels - Review/Giveaway/Excerpt

June 21 - Ja citiam, a ti? - Review/Excerpt

June 22 - The Adventures Within - Review/Interview/Giveaway

June 22 - The Steamy Side- Review/Giveaway

Drum roll please.....!

Here is the cover for Book Two of the Trilogy, Don't Forget to Remember Me!

Cover Image of Don't Forget to Remember Me available SOON!

I'm so excited!  There is so much going on and I'm so busy!  My real life sometimes feels like it intrudes so much on all I want to get accomplished with my writing!

I saw the first images of the cover drafts from my publisher yesterday and I'm very anxious to share it with all of you!  It's hard to portray an entire book in one image, but I think we're close!

Don't forget that you'll all receive the new Beyond Twilight Outtake emailed to you after June first.  Please remind any of your friends who are fans of the story to please subscribe to this blog because it won't post on my LiveJournal pages!

Also, those of you attending the TwiFicMeetUp in Las Vegas on June 6-11, please find me there!

You can win one of 25 signed copies of the paperback! There's still time!
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Thank you to all of you who have cared enough to post reviews of my novel on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords and Goodreads.  As usual, it means the world to me to know that I've managed to entertain you or touch your life, if only for a moment!  You inspire me to keep writing and overwhelm me with your kind words.

I have the BEST READERS, EVER!!  Don't be afraid to email, tweet, DM or chat.  I want to talk to you!! :-)

Love and Peace...
~Kahlen
!!! xoxoxox !!!