The Wrong One

Bio: KC Sprayberry started writing young, first as a diarist, and later through an interest in English and creative writing. Her first experience with publication came when she placed third in The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge contest while in the Air Force, but her dedication to writing came after she had her youngest child, now in his senior year of high school.

Her family lives in Northwest Georgia where she spends her days creating stories about life in the south, and far beyond. More than a dozen of her short stories have appeared in several magazines. Five anthologies feature other short stories, and her young adult novel Softly Say Goodbye, released in 2012. During 2013, more young adult stories have been released: The Ghost Catcher, Who Am I?, Family Curse … Times Two, and Amazon Best Seller, Canoples Investigations Tackles Space Pirates, Canoples Investigations Versus Spacers Rule, Take Chances, Mama's Advice, Secret From the Flames, and Where U @.

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Blurb:

One by one, the residents of Landry, Georgia gave up on finding Lyssa Winders alive. It had, after all, been fourteen years since she vanished. The men who invaded her home left behind the bodies of those she loved with all her heart. Only one person never gave up and still searches for Lyssa. Kyle Tinker battles his own demons from that night, when he hid like a coward instead of running for help. Their eighteenth birthday looms on the horizon, and Kyle is determined to bring Lyssa home.

Meanwhile, Kim Tinker is having trouble understanding her dreams about a pretty blonde girl—she has no idea that these dreams are of her life as Lyssa Winters. She also hears a guy who has recently started talking to her--in her head. All Kim wants is to get away from a family which hates her, but doing it safely is the one thing which eludes her.

On the day of the Freedom Festival, Kyle sees the girl he never thought he'd see again. And Lyssa finds the one person she's protected for the last fourteen years on their shared birthday.  

Excerpt:

Four-year-old Lyssa Winders landed with a thump on her living room floor. Her bottom hurt from the hard wood, and her head ached from all the yelling and shouting she'd been hearing. Nothing made sense. She just wanted this to stop.

Her parents, Auntie Keisha, Nana Brandy, and Grandpa Monty kneeled in front of her. They had their hands on the back of their heads, and they looked very scared.

"Gonna talk now, Jack?" the stinky man asked. He had carried her out of the safety of her bedroom and dumped her on the floor. "Or do I hurt your kid?"

Stinky jerked Lyssa to her feet. She couldn't run. He held her tight in front of his nasty smelling body.

"She's just a baby," Daddy said. "Don't hurt Lyssa. Let her go. She won't tell anyone anything." He stared at her with scared eyes. "Right, baby? You won't say anything." She nodded, and her daddy faced Stinky. "See, she agreed. Just let her go."

"Nope." A man near her laughed.

She turned her head and saw her puppy. Rags crept out from behind the sofa. His tail stood straight in the air, and he made growly noises in his throat.

Lyssa swallowed hard. Rags couldn't come any closer. Stinky had a gun. He had a horribly tight grip on her shoulder. 

K. C. Sprayberry has written another super exciting mystery! Check out the super trailer below and ORDER THIS BOOK TODAY! It will be a gripping read that will keep you guessing until the end. Who is The Wrong One?

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Another fascinating YA novel by outstanding author K.C. Sprayberry!

Book Release – Where U @ by K.C. Sprayberry

Bio: KC Sprayberry started writing young, first as a diarist, and later through an interest in English and creative writing. Her first experience with publication came when she placed third in The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge contest while in the Air Force, but her dedication to writing came after she had her youngest child, now in his senior year of high school.

Her family lives in Northwest Georgia where she spends her days creating stories about life in the south, and far beyond. More than a dozen of her short stories have appeared in several magazines. Five anthologies feature other short stories. She has four books that are Amazon best sellers: Softly Say Goodbye, Who Am I?, Mama's Advice, and Canoples Investigations Tackles Space Pirates. Her other novels available are: Take Chances, The Ghost Catcher, Family Curse … Times Two, Secret From The Flames, and Canoples Investigations Versus Spacers Rule.

Blurb: Trea Jones has always known the bitterness of bigotry and abject poverty. Her half-Cherokee daddy disappeared thirteen years ago on the pretense of getting milk. Mama has done nothing but mourn his loss, and she blames Trea for that. Now that she's starting her senior year of high school, Trea hopes for something better, but she doesn't hold out much hope.

Until …

She loosens up on some of her rules. Her guy, Dave, proves to her that she is worthy of everything the others have. The last day of classes prior to the winter break, she's ready to share some stupendous news with Dave, but tragedy intervenes when her daddy texts while driving a bus. Trea is left wondering if she can ever be free of a curse that heaps a lot of bad luck on her whenever good things happen to her.

Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/WsHmHiZXERY

 

Excerpt:

Where U @

The text is from my guy, Dave Woods. It's a code, a way for him to help me feel better about everything. Mostly, it's his way of showing me that he cares.

Kitchen. I roll my eyes. Cleaning.

Want to come do mine?

His return text sends me into a fit of giggles. That's something only he can accomplish.

RFS?

More code, and this one sends fear shivers up and down my spine. I am in no way ready for school, but I'll have to go tomorrow, no matter what.

I text him back, slide my phone into a pocket, and open the door to a floor to ceiling pantry. To put away the last of the dishes, I have to step into a room that is narrower than a shoebox.

The same reaction overtakes me that I experience every single night, as soon as my foot moves through the doorway. Cold sweat rolls down my back. I can't catch my breath, and the walls feel like they're squeezing the life out of me.

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Like all teens, Trea has her favorite songs. Here are just a few she uses to get through the day!

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A mini quilt made for a friend. I'd always wanted to make a quilt for a friend who loves flowers and gardening.  This summer she gave me gobs of flowers and I wanted to make something to show her how much I appreciated it.  It didn't turn out quite how I'd hoped, but she was pleased.

 
 Here are some of the buttons  shaped like a watering can, pair of gardening gloves and a pot of basil. My aunt found them at a closeout sale years ago and I saved them for a special project.

Welcome KC Sprayberry and TAKE CHANCES

Good Morning! My name is KC Sprayberry. Donna Alice Patton of Layers of Life has let me hijack her blog today. The purpose is to tease all of her very dedicated readers with information about my soon-to-be-released YA coming of age novel, Take Chances.

We're going to do an interview of Take Chances main character, Julie Bond today.

1.  Introduce yourself to our readers. What should we know about you?

Well, my name is Julie Bond. I'm almost eighteen when the story starts. Wow! Eighteen, an adult. How cool is that?

Anyway, I have this great group of friends, but I'm always scared that they'll tell me one day that they're going to disappear from my life. Even after four years, I can't help feeling like this. See, I grew up as a military brat, always moving away from my friends, always leaving my school, sometimes in the middle of the year. That totally sucked, but I now have the chance to graduate from the same high school I started almost four years ago, so I can't let anything stop that. I really won't let that happen.

2.  What do you think about the author? Tell us everything. We want to know.

She's okay. Well, better than okay. There were a few times when I had to crack a whip over her head, to get her to understand how I feel, since she was just a military mom, not a military brat, so she has to work hard to understand my feelings, but she does now.

3.  What are your feelings about this story?

I wish it never had to be told. Seriously. More than anything, I wish it had never happened, but it did, and now I'm dealing with it.

You see I used to define the worst moment of my life as the day when terrorists took over my kindergarten classroom. Things turned out mostly okay, but I refuse to talk about that. That didn't work, though. All the promises I got about it never happening again turned out to be so many words.

It did happen again.

4.  How do you feel about being a character in this book?

Great! Looking back, I know I had a great life, well except for WWE, but she has her own problems to deal with now, and she's kind of forgotten all about me. That's sort of sad, but I don't have to put up with everything she used to do to make me feel bad about myself. All my friends gave me the best memories I've ever had, but I'm working on making even better ones now.

5.  What do you see in your future? (No spoilers please!)

My future? Oh, you want to know about my future. (giggles) What I'm doing now, with two of the best friends I have. I'd love to say more, but you don't want spoilers, so I can't tell you how much fun I'm having. One day, I do want to go to college, but that won't happen for a while. It's still too hard to walk back into a classroom.

6.  Is there another Take Chances in the future? Will you be part of it?

Probably not. We told you our story, the reasons why we are the way we are. I think it's good to leave things as they are, to let the reader envision the future.

7.  Say a movie producer comes knocking. What actor/actress would you want to play you and why?

Movie producer? Did you say movie producer? Oh-em-gee! Wow! I don't know. Maybe. It would be kind of a good thing. I mean, there's not really a movie a whole lot like this story, but then again, it might be too sad for most people.

I don't think it's too sad. It's more like bad things happen, but then you have to make good things happen, and that's what I'm doing.

So, if the impossible happens, I'd want to see Nina Dobrev play me. Wasn't she total amazing in The Vampire Diaries? So cool!

Blurb:

Julie Bond grew up in Europe as a military brat. She found her very first permanent home in Landry, GA as a teen going into high school. Almost four years later, she's having pre-graduation jitters and flashing back to an incident of school violence she experienced in Europe. She attempts to convince herself that it can never happen again, but continually finds herself flashing back to that day no matter how hard she tries.

The people around her present any number of problems for Julie, and she's hard put to keep from drowning under all the issues. Then Michael--a cool guy she's had a crush on for the last three years—returns from traveling the US as a photographer, and Julie now has one more thing to distract her as she prepares to leave high school. One thing she firmly believes in: no one will ever invade her classroom with violence again.

Once again, the impossible happens. Once again, she's in a classroom with a madman holding a gun. Once again, she must survive.

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Teaser Excerpt:

Achtung!

The German word for attention echoes through my head as I sit in the last French class I'll ever take. In an instant, the comforting cream-colored walls of Landry High School vanish. I'm crouched under a table with tears streaming down my face. Three men and two women point huge, black automatic weapons at my classmates.

It's not real! I'm almost eighteen – not five.

Bio:

KC Sprayberry started writing young, with a diary followed by an interest in English. Her first experience with publication came when she placed third in a Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge contest while in the Air Force, but her dedication to writing came after she had her youngest child, now a in his senior year of high school.

Her family lives in Northwest Georgia where she spends her days creating stories about life in the south, and far beyond. More than a dozen of her short stories have appeared in several magazines. Five anthologies feature other short stories, and her young adult novel Softly Say Goodbye, released in 2012. During 2013, more young adult stories have been released: The Ghost Catcher, Who Am I?, Family Curse … Times Two, and Amazon Best Seller, Canoples Investigations Tackles Space Pirates.

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Stick around for the full tour. Why? On September 26 through September 29, 2013, you can pick up my other YA coming of age books, Softly Say Goodbye and Who Am I? free on Amazon:

Softly Say Goodbye

Who Am I?

Thank you Donna Alice Patton of Layers of Life for hosting me today. Tomorrow you find the next Teaser Tour on Margo Collins Words, Words, Words.

Softly Say Goodbye by KC Sprayberry

Erin Sellers, an eighteen-year-old high school senior, hates teen drinking. She and her three friends – Bill, her guy, Shari and Jake - decide to use Twitter to stop a group, the Kewl Krew, from using their high school as the local bar. But the members of this group are just as determined to stop anyone from messing up their fun. Despite veiled threats to her safety, Erin continues her crusade.

To make matters worse for her, the stress of school and extra curricular work mounts and suddenly, shockingly, booze-fuelled tragedy strikes. Erin is now under greater pressure as she spends all hours to produce a mural and other work to commemorate the death of a teen friend. Bill, Jake and Shari support her in all this...

But more tragedy lurks nearby… until it’s time to softly say goodbye.

 

 

 

KC Sprayberry juggles her writing between a son in the band, a loving husband, a reformed barn cat, and an excitable Black Lab puppy determined to play all day long. She lives in Northwest Georgia, and often uses local settings in her stories. Her first love in writing is for young adults, be it historical, contemporary, sci-fi, or fantasy, a short story or a full length novel.

KC Sprayberry

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I have to say that this is one of the best books for teens I've read in a long time! It's especially timely in dealing with the topic of teens and underage drinking. Too many young kids - roughly one out of every four - lose their lives in accidents pairing driving and drinking.

KC Sprayberry has written a book that speaks to young people in their language and tells it like it is.  I'm having a hard time putting it down and wish I could read the whole book straight through. The only that keeps me patient is the fact that Kathi is a friend of mine and I had the privilege to read the whole book in first draft form. So I know what happens - I think! The final draft is proving to be so much richer and like a chocolate chip cookie crammed with details, descriptions and delicious bites of teen humor.  If you know a teen who needs this message, or even one who might know other teens with a drinking problem - get the book asap! You won't regret it!

 

Guest blogging today!

I'm guest blogging or being featured (really have to learn this cyberworld lingo) on http://www.sunnebnkwrtr.blogspot.com/. This is my friend, Carole Brown's super blog! She also has a new book coming soon and I hope to have her visit here.

Read about my new book and leave a comment to win a super prize - and no, it won't be a blue diamond. Seriously . . . no diamonds . . .

It's a Blog Hop!

     

      

Where’s the Anastasia? It’s been almost a year since Laura Barkley’s husband, a museum curator, was murdered and the fabled Anastasia Diamond stolen. A long year filled with accusations, too many accidents directed toward Laura and her twins, plus plenty of soul searching. How well did she know Peter? Had he planned to steal the diamond himself? Was his murder a double cross or a robbery gone bad?  If he was innocent, what did Peter mean by his cryptic clue? Where is the priceless blue diamond now? Someone is determined to find the diamond no matter the cost...unless Laura can decipher Peter’s last baffling clue and find it first. As the one-year anniversary of the Anastasia’s disappearance draws closer, Laura finds herself caught in a series of snowballing events she can’t control, including the Blizzard of 1978. As the snow deepens, who will survive?

What is the title of your book?  Roses are Red, Diamonds are Blue

2    1. Where did the idea come from for the book? My friend, Judy Nickles, is totally responsible for this book! She saw a contest at one publisher and encouraged (nagged?) me to enter. The contest had certain criteria – it had to include a blue diamond and the main character had to be in danger.  I’d always wanted to write a ‘puzzle’ mystery and this just happened to appeal to me.

3   2.    What is the genre of your book? Suspense with a hint of romance thrown in to keep it interesting.

4   3.   What actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition? Okay, this is going to be hard since I rarely go to the movies. For Laura Barkley, the main character, would be Mag Ruffman (a Canadian actress who played in Avonlea the series awhile back)  for the male lead – Sean Murray (NCIS) with a dark beard and very brooding in this role. Then the other male lead – how about Stephen Baldwin?

4.     Provide a one-sentence synopsis of your book. Anastasia Diamond—missing

Museum Curator—murdered

A cryptic clue, kidnapped child, time running out. . . as the snow deepens.

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     5.  Will your book be self-published, published by an independent publisher, or represented by an agency?  Published by MuseItUp Publishing an independent publisher.

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     6.     How long did it take you to write your first draft of your manuscript? Hm – hard to say. I should probably keep track? It took about a year to get it into a book form with all the drafts, another three months to take out 20K words to submit to one publisher who rejected it. After that it took two more months to put in all the 20K I took out and submit it to the publisher who accepted it.

8   7.   What other books would you compare this story to within your genre? I’d compare it to some of Mary Higgins Clark’s finest – whether or not anyone else does . . . SMILE.

9  8.    Who or what inspired you to write this book? Again – Judy Nickles – kept after me until I did! But I’d have to say someone else ‘inspired’ me to write it and that’s Laura Ingalls Wilder. I’ve loved her books since I was a child and this was the perfect opportunity to use some “Laura Lore” in the mystery. Also some of the inspiration came from the Blizzard of ’78.

     9.  What else about the book might pique the reader’s interest? The book is set during the 1970’s and I think it’s as historically accurate as I can write it. Hopefully, it’s like stepping back in time – whether you were there or not!

      

      Here are some other authors you might like. Be sure to check back soon as I will try to showcase their new books soon.

      www.judynickles.com   See what's new with Penelope Pembroke and the Bogus Biker! A new cozy mystery series that's sure to have you begging for more.

     www.sharonlavy.com  Check out Sharon's first book, Dreaming of A Father's Love. An excellent edition to any library or kindle!  

     www.kcsprayberry.com   Kathi has written a YA that will draw you in from the first sentence and keep you biting your nails in suspense. Softy Say Goodbye is a teen book every teen and parent should read.

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Well, I hope I'm back to the world of blogging. This blog has been a source of frustration, joy and just about every other emotion since I first began several years ago. My choice would be not to have a blog at all - but since the standard is that a writer "should have a blog" - here I am again.

This time I've added some tabs of some of the 'layers' in my life. It's a work in progress so if you like, check back from time to time. Can't promise to post every day or even every week, but I'd like to start posting a few things along the way.