Okay, so here is a little Tuesday Teaser of Kyle B. Johnston. On Kindle and Nook October 2012

Happy Reading!!!

Chapter 1

Kyle

I’m a liar. There. I finally admitted it.

I am a sad excuse for a man, because I lied to my friends. I lied to the world. And I wasn’t even lying for myself. I was lying for someone else. Someone who I thought gave a damn about me.

But there it is.

Kyle Benjamin Johnston.

World-class pushover.

It’s eating a hole in me. I don’t know what to do. I have this huge secret that I’ve never told anyone. Not even Zack. He was his own person. He didn’t care what people thought of him, most of the time, or even doubted what he wanted. He and Chloe had a good thing going.

To be honest, I was a little envious of their relationship. I mean, I wasn’t looking to strap on the ball and chain, forever and ever amen, but it would be nice to be in a relationship where both parties were equally interested in each other.

I wish it had been good for Lana and me, but we were toxic. I couldn’t make her happy, and she didn’t do anything for me. So what were we staying together for? Not for us, that was for damn sure. It was for a secret.

A big ass secret I’ve been keeping since spring break. Everything went down the proverbial toilet once Zack found out about the club. Then I found myself standing on the edge of the porcelain throne, thinking I could hang on to the rim, or jump into the chaotic clockwise swirl.

I jumped, feet first.

I’d had enough.

Finding Your Muse

Where or where has my little muse gone?
Where oh where can she be?
With her wit so good.
And her snark so strong.
She can’t stay hidden from me!



We need good mojo to write. We have to feel the words flowing like molten lava through our veins, searing our fingertips. It’s magical. An experience that cannot be duplicated in any way….

Okay, so what do you do if your writing muse says, “Thank you. Thank you very much,” and leaves the building?

Well, you could try going back to the beginning of what you wrote and reading everything to the point you lost your mojo. Or go looking for it. Search under every nook and cranny. Get out your compass and map, if your old school and totally awesome like that, or ask Siri where your muse is hiding. I’m sure she’ll know!

Or you could always take the project you’re working on and shove it in a deep, dark hole until lightning strikes and your muse takes up shop again.

That’s what I do.

If I can’t figure out what to write, I put my book away. It could go away for a week, a month…once, it went a way for a full year! Your muse will return, but if you try to force the writing, it’s not going to be pretty. You might as well brace yourself for some crummy work. At least, that’s what happens to me. Maybe your muse fly’s the coop and you produce some top quality work, because again, you’re just awesome like that.

So when I am looking for my muse, I work on something else. I’ll do research for another book I have coming up. Or I’ll go read a book by someone else that has nothing to do with what I’m trying to write. I know at some point, she'll be back. That little devil sitting on my shoulder, telling me what to write.

Blog Overhaul

It's been a while since I've written anything on my blog, and with good reason. I never gave myself a direction to go with things, so most of it was turning out to be willy nilly. While that can be fun, it can also leave me scratching my head, losing my sense of direction.

So with that being said, I've decided to change a few things. From now on my blog is going to be dedicated to posts about the writing world and everything in it. It's what I know and what I do, so why not spread the love, right?

Once a week I will post a piece about writing. You can expect it to be on technique, the process, the business. Just anything under the writing sun.

If there are any writing questions you'd like me to tackle, leave them in the comments.

My first post will be up Tuesday :)

Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend!