Bitten Shame: Guest Post

   Bitten Shame (Book 2 of the Bend-Bite-Shift Trilogy)

Jill Prescott returned from self-imposed seclusion to help save her best friend Devan’s life. Throwing herself into Devan’s problems and bringing an evil organization to its knees might just be the distraction she needs to keep living without the only man she’s ever loved. Her life changed forever when she was hired to spend a week with Doc Massey.

On the day she became a vampire her youthful innocence ended, but Doc’s love rescued her from being consumed by the darkness. The shadow of that former life continues to loom over her, keeping her from realizing her own self-worth. Running from her past only brings her closer to a destiny that is inextricably connected to what she is trying to escape…

Every gift has both a reward and a price, because All of it fits.....

Guest Post with Olivia Hardin! 

Things that really happened fast for me as an author.








 I mean, this was always a dream of mine, to be a writer. When I was in high school I was serious about it. I wrote all the time in spiral notebooks and then would sit on our family PC and type up all of that scribble scratch. To this day I still have a box at home with all of my 3.5” floppies, each one marked with a story title (even though I no longer have a PC that will read them.) I queried publishers, spent the little money I had from part-time jobs on books about how to write, how to query, how to pick character names, etc. I don’t even remember when I “forgot” that I wanted to be a writer. It just sort of drifted away. Maybe it was too many rejections. Maybe there was too much of “life” going on around me. Who knows? Then a few Christmases ago my boss bought me a kindle. *sighs* I love my kindle. It has opened up a huge new world of writers to me – Indie writers. When I read the story of one of those authors and her journey to self publishing, a little red blinking light started to go off in the back of my head. Then came the realization that I would be turning 35 that next year. Inside I began to panic. What happened to my aspirations of being a writer? I would soon be the big 3-5. Only five years to 40. OMG! So, I joined a writer’s group on facebook. I lurked in that group for a long time. Observing, following posts, soaking up all that was going on. I remember the first time I posted something on that site… I read and re-read and re-re-read that post over and over to be sure it didn’t sound stupid and that it was grammatically correct. It was like hitting that post button was going to propel me into a new galaxy or something. Boy, was I ever right. I can’t believe that just a year and 6 months later I am a twice published novelist. More than that, I’ve established a connection with some very special writers – these people, I believe, are now my life-long friends. I can’t imagine a day without hearing from them. And the most important thing I’ve been blessed to get out of this experience is the chance to connect with other “would-be” writers. It’s an honor to chat or message someone just starting out and give them a little push towards some dreams of their own. So where am I going? I have no idea. I’m just going to keep chasing these dreams. Because even if dreams get lost for a while, as soon as you find them you should never let them out of your sights again! ~Olivia

Bitten Shame is Available atBarnes & Noble ~~~ Smashwords

You can also get autographed paperbacks of both books from Olivia’s blog.

Olivia Hardin realized early on how strange she was to have complete movie-like character dreams as a child. Eventually she began putting those vivid dreams to paper and was rarely without her spiral notebooks full of those mental ramblings. Her forgotten vision of becoming an author was realized when she connected with a group of amazingly talented and fabulous writers who gave her lots of direction and encouragement. With a little extra push from family and friends, she hunkered down to get lost in the words. She's also an insatiable crafter who only completes about 1 out of 5 projects, a jogger who hates to run, and is sometimes accused of being artistic, though she's generally too much of a perfectionist to appreciate her own work. A nativeTexasgirl, Olivia lives in the beautiful Lone Star state with her husband Danny and their puppy Bonnie.

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