A Muse Meant ... Some Shameless Plugging

Some people number their chapters. I'm among the camp that names mine. And so I thought on the day I was able to HOLD my novel -- A Muse Meant -- in my hot little hands, that I would share these chapter names with you. And unashamedly, I hope that I pique your interest so you just HAVE to go buy my book on Amazon.

The Lame Field Trip

Future-Shroom and Fear

For Your Muse, Meant

Lies and Omissions

Penalty Sick

The Vacant Lot

Returning a Goon

Safe Place

The Dead Man in the Yearbook

Poor Mrs. Darling

The Big Game

A Most Unusual Diner

PDA in the Library

Reverse Psychology

Critical Urgency

Not Amused

Mrs. Darling Returns

A Goon Named Greg

Defeating Paradox

No Ordinary Animals

Goon Trap

Big Goon Battle

Pink Elephants

No Holding Back

I hope your interest is piqued! My book is available on Amazon. Get it! If you want your copy signed, be sure to let me know! And if you know someone who would be interested in my publishing workshop, let me know or tell them to contact me. I am working to have a place to hold classes, but also teach via Skype and Google Hangouts!! 

Phyl Campbell is Author, Mother, Dreamer. Right now, she's in over her head with

 book projects whose (author-self-imposed) deadlines passed by. She waved, and only cried a little. But sometimes the Mother and Dreamer get in the way of the Author, and the Author has to catch up. Check out her author page on Amazon. 

Other articles of interest:
Finding Pink Elephants
A Muse Meant
Quick and Dirty Publishing Guide

Book Review Thursday: Among the Hidden Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix

There are seven books in the Among the Hidden series (also known as the Shadow Children Series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix:

                         Among the Hidden / Shadow Children Series

Among the Hidden
Among the Imposters
Among the Betrayed
Among the Barons
Among the Brave
Among the Enemy
Among the Free

The main character of the series is Luke, a child with two older brothers who was not supposed to be born and must stay hidden. Hidden children face execution if found in this dystopian YA adventure. And knowing it is a dystopian adventure, it's not much of a spoiler to announce that Luke does break out of hiding and face many perils before, as the final title suggests, he becomes free.

In some books of the series, another character plays lead fiddle and Luke is a background character. All the characters are well developed, so that doesn't negatively affect point of view. Haddix is known for painting many hues of gray with so much color in worlds where the authority only sees black and white. This entire series is no exception to that.

I read the entire seven book series in a three-day weekend. I had started the series in 2002 or 2003, read the first three books, then quit in frustration because I knew the series would not be finished for many years. A year ago, I picked up the fifth or sixth book, thinking I had not missed that many in between -- but I had. So I had to start from the beginning and retrace my steps. It was worth the decade-plus wait. Haddix rarely disappoints.

Among the Hidden is a great series for YA fans of dystopian fiction. There are intense themes, deaths, intrigue, confusion -- you've been warned. There are no easy answers -- and isn't that why we read?

Images courtesy of Margaret Peterson Haddix's website. Haddix is also on Facebook.

Book Review Thursday

View of my bookshelf. One of them, anyway.

Thursday is Book Review day on my Twitter account, @phylc_author, and I thought I'd include links to book reviews here as well. While I should be nice and put in the hyperlinks, I'm not going to today, this is enough procrastination. But if you want something prettier, check out my webpage, which may not be 100% up to date, but it has most of these. And I've also got my new work on Bubblews linked here, which is where I'll have the more recent stuff from now on.

Gillian Chan's A Foreign Field (Book Review) http://nut.bz/1ccg-go-/ Book Review -- The Fisherman -- by Mark D DiRienzo http://nut.bz/3hnmw1nu/ Chinese Eyes, Unbound Feet: Authot Lensey Namioka http://nut.bz/b23d3eo0/ Book Review: Divergent http://nut.bz/37asuvty/ Sorority Girls With Guns… Cat Caruthers http://nut.bz/3twf9r9r/ Book Review of Sally Warner's This Isn't About the Money http://nut.bz/3s28_lu1/ Review: The Primrose Way by Jackie French Koller http://nut.bz/3z7rjg5v/ Review: The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby http://nut.bz/23egngcj/ Book Review of Chris D'Lacey's Fire Within  http://ow.ly/BCTqn Book Review: When the Lights Go Up by Jennifer McClory http://nut.bz/1r_xrew1/ Review of Perilous, By Tamara Hart Heiner http://nut.bz/30in_31w/ Book Review: Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian http://nut.bz/2an6qhtk/ Review of Blue Tent by Carla Herrera http://nut.bz/1zdz_6xe/ Review of Her Blood's Warning by Kymberley Cook http://nut.bz/2mshvx5v/ Review of Tesla's Secret by Carla Herrera http://nut.bz/n1ecme8t/ Book Review: Natasha Brown's The Fledgling http://nut.bz/249r-n1i/ MPH: The ALWAYS WAR http://nut.bz/ajqj_l20/ Almost Magic is 100% Magical http://nut.bz/2o032nk0/ MPH: FULL RIDE http://nut.bz/345j4c_j/ (Book Review): Exploring the Fantasy World of E.D. Baker http://nut.bz/1t8-xhsh/ Review of Jump, Fall by Jennifer McClory http://nut.bz/2i_9fo12/ The Magic Wakes by Charity Bradford http://nut.bz/1m4229hm/ What is Dystopian Fiction? http://nut.bz/eg4lgt4f/ Unwanteds http://nut.bz/3q_2f0m3/ Last Girl http://ow.ly/DxZCa Book Review: Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot http://nut.bz/1ygm8hpc/ Feminism in MOTHER CONFESSOR  http://ow.ly/DkmS7 Why Carley is Not the Star of THE CARLEY PATROL http://ow.ly/Dkn5m ICEFIRE by Chris  D'Lacey http://ow.ly/DWnl6
I also want, on this BookReview Thursday, to show some author love to Blogger and Book Reviewer,
@ThisNerdyGal AKA Ashley Darling. Check out her reviews and stuff.
	Ashley Darling, AKA @Thisnerdygal.
Finally, a local author is putting on a Kickstarter to go INDIE!!  So show some love and pre-order
Charity's romantic urban fantasy, FADE INTO ME. Advice? Suggestions? Something you don't want to share with the whole class? Email me, please. (It will be a long time before I put a table in a blog post again, I hope -- this did NOT go well on my end.)