Monday, April 22, 2013

Clean Slate Complex : A Daynight novella

The new novella from Megan Thomason,
CLEAN SLATE COMPLEX
(A daynight story)

Full of action, humor, romance, twists and turns, clean slate complex is a companion story to the highly-praised dystopian novel, daynight. It can be enjoyed before or after reading daynight. Meet Alexa Knight. Feisty, tough and currently homeless in Los Angeles, Alexa agrees to help non-profit group The Second Chance Institute in return for medical care for her sick mother. But there's a catch.. 


Meet The Second Chance Institute (SCI): Worldwide non-profit and do-gooder organization. Their motto: Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Life(TM). Reality: hidden behind every kind act is a dark agenda designed to gain control and force societal and moral extremes. Currently, the SCI’s pushing Project Liberate, a program to woo the poor and downtrodden into their Clean Slate Complexes—where “everything is provided” from jobs to food, shelter, clothing, and education. Unfortunately, as with all things that sound too good to be true, there’s a catch…

Meet Alexa Knight. Feisty, tough and currently homeless in Los Angeles, Alexa agrees to help the SCI in return for medical care for her sick mother. When she starts to suspect there’s more to the SCI than meets the eye will she believe Adam—the boy who saved her life and the SCI’s biggest champion, or Joshua—the attractive enigma who sings about conspiracy theories and pretends to be someone he’s not?

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Megan Thomason lives in paradise aka San Diego, CA with her husband and five children. A former software manager, Megan vastly prefers writing twisted tales to business, product, and marketing plans. When she isn't typing away on her laptop, she's reading books on her phone—over 600 in the last year—or attending to the needs of her family. Megan’s fluent in sarcasm, could potentially benefit from a 12-step program for road rage, struggles with a Hot Tamales addiction, loves world travel & fast cars and hates paperwork & being an insomniac. Daynight is Megan's first published novel, but fourth written one.

~ MY REVIEW ~

I am so thrilled to have been Megan's editor on this novella!
Regardless of whether you have read Daynight, you can read and enjoy Clean Slate Complex. It works as a stand alone or as a supplement to Daynight, the official first in Megan's exciting series. 
Readers will be given an up close and personal look into the SCI's inner workings. 
It's a scary and compelling read with a kick ass main character. I was extremely impressed by the amount of story contained in this novella.
Readers will finish feeling like they've just read a full length novel!
Clean Slate Complex will have you excited to delve further into the Daynight world!


Monday, April 15, 2013

Cover Reveal : To Be Maria

To Be Maria
By Deanna Proach
Coming May 1, 2013
on Amazon Kindle 
(FREE May 10-14)



Seventeen-year-old Anya Preschnikov wants to become a famous actress but she's faced with two problems. Her father ignores her and doesn't have any money to support her. At school, she's bullied on a daily basis, yet she believes that she will gain her stepping-stone to stardom if she's accepted by her peers.


All of this changes when Maria Hernandez--an immigrant from Spain-- comes to Peach Valley Senior High. Maria knows what it takes to fit in. She's assertive, confident and she dresses suggestively, characteristics that all of the popular kids admire. Yet she sees in Anya what no one else sees: beauty and talent.

Maria is everything Anya wants to be: popular, sexy and self-assured. So, when Maria extends her hand of friendship, Anya is elated. Her rise to popularity is about to become a reality, but it ends one Saturday night at a house party when a boy's rude comment sends her into a rage.Desperate to belong somewhere, Anya and Maria set out to find new friends outside of school. They meet Alex and Marissa, a young couple who eagerly welcomes them into their world of parties and drugs. Anya and Maria soon find out that Alex is a drug dealer, but they are so lured by his wealth, good looks and aggressive confidence that they can't resist his friendship. They don't know that his gang is at war with a rival gang--one that's run by Anya's older brother, Adrik--until one incident puts their lives in danger's path. To make matters worse, Alex won't let Anya and Maria out of his sight.

The two girls must find a way out of this situation before it's too late.

** ALL ABOUT THE AUTHOR **

Deanna Proach graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Northern British Columbia in 2008. She initially trained to become a teacher, but decided, in her last year of post-secondary education training, to pursue a career in writing instead.


Since then, Proach has written two novels: DAY OF REVENGE (Inkwater Press) and TO BE MARIA (will be released on May 1, 2013 on Amazon Kindle). When She's not writing, Proach is actively involved in her local theatre community as an actress and she's taking the travel journalism course through MatadorU with the intention to start a career as a travel writer. She also has a new obsession: the Crusades, www.crusadesandcrusaders.com.

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