His Final Girl is on paperback!

My horror romance, HIS FINAL GIRL is available on paperback on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! Another way to get it is to ask your local bookstore or your library to order it. Also, the book got its first review and it's amazeballs!  "Do you enjoy fun cheesy 80s movies with summer camps, teens, and something in the woods? Do you like it when the heroes are a little more real and the sparks of romance and love can be felt? Oh, and do you love winks and nods to 80s horror films? HIS FINAL GIRL is a super-fun, romantic, horror-filled romp set in the early 80s at a summer camp. This tale drips with nostalgia for summer campers, movie watchers, and the children of the 80s. It is unique, familiar, risky, and a must read. I bought this book with some trepidation because I don’t normally read romance books, but I love horror novels and movies. I don’t mind romance and a good love story is always welcome, but in a horror film or book this doesn’t always end well. In horror movies (like slashers) there’s usually just a final person (most often a woman) who survives (at least until the last-second jump-scare in some cases). In this case, well, it’s a steamy romance book too. How do 99% of romance books end? Also, the romantic male-lead isn’t a roguish rake, he’s an every-man with flaws and even kind of nerdy. There’s nothing to hate about him. In fact, both leads are extremely likable. Easy to love and root for. Now, about the horror references. Some are obvious. The main male character Wes Carpenter is an obvious nod to Wes Craven and John Carpenter (amazing horror directors). Linnea Langenkamp is a mashup of Linnea Quigley and Heather Langenkamp (an awesome Scream Queen and a great final girl). The references don’t stop there. You’ll see jocks in half-shirts and short shorts. You’ll see pulled up striped tube socks. Let’s just say you’ll see a lot. I often found myself wondering “I wonder if this is a reference to...” when I started out, but then I got into the story more and ignored the references. I keep saying “you’ll see” because this book feels like a great popcorn-and-soda film. After everyone got to camp, I was lost in it. It felt like I was sitting on my couch, munching popcorn, and enjoying the show. This doesn’t happen often with books for me, but when it does, it’s a bit of a mind twist. Effortless reading with moving brain pictures. This NEEDS to be an an audiobook. Hell, it eventually needs to be a great throwback movie. Yes, this would make an “Unrated” or XXX movie (for hot sex and bloody, Tom Savini-esque violence) as written, but it could work as an R or even a—with crafty editing—PG-13 film...but if a PG-13 cut was made, I’m sure the author would want an over-the-top director’s unrated splatterific cut too. It’s interesting to read well-written romantic and hot sex-scenes in a horror book. It isn’t unheard of, but they’re often not this well done (even Stephen King’s make me cringe a little). These felt almost as if Stephanie Laurens decided to write a horror novel. And the best part, this is going to be part of a series of horror romance books that Brooklyn Ann is calling “B Mine.” I don’t know what her plans are exactly, but I’m excited about this. This book deserves to be a number-one best seller, but I’ll be happy if it become the cult classic that it is." SQUEEEEEE!  Now that the move is done, I'm going back to watching haunted house movies because that's the subject of B Mine, Book 2!

But I also need to focus on unpacking, preparing for Book Lover's Con in TWELVE DAYS, writing my next book, and doing my best to make my work known to readers. You all help me with that soooo much when you add my books to your TBR lists and those of you who share my releases on social media. I say this a lot, but I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH!  ((Hugs)) Brooklyn Ann Series by Brooklyn Ann B Mine (Horror Romance) HIS FINAL GIRL Scandals With Bite (Regency paranormal romance) Books do not need to be read in order Bite Me, Your Grace One Bite Per Night Bite at First Sight His Ruthless Bite Wynter's Bite The Highwayman's Bite ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brides of Prophecy (Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy)  Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda Prequel: Tesemini (Free) Wrenching Fate  Ironic Sacrifice Conjuring Destiny Unleashing Desire Pleading Rapture Melding Souls ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hearts of Metal (Contemporary Romance) Standalones that intertwine Kissing Vicious With Vengeance Rock God Metal and Mistletoe Forbidden Song  Tempting Beat Heart Throb ----------------------------------------------------------- For excerpts and special content, visit BrooklynAnnAuthor.com I love hearing from readers! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to send me an email! Contact@brooklynannauthor.com

Tempting Beat is on paperback and other news

I meant to announce this earlier, but I ended up having dental work and being doped up. Anyway, Tempting Beat is on paperback!

You can get it on:
Barnes & Noble
Amazon
The Book Depository (WORLDWIDE free shipping!)
And at Books a Million!
Also, you can request that your local library order it.

Book News:
I'm already almost a quarter way through Hearts of Metal book 7, which will be titled Heart Throb and will release in November.
I'm hoping to have the book wrapped up in early August and get to work on Brides of Prophecy book 6. I had an awesome dream about how I want the cover to look!
And after that, I'll be working on the first book in the new series that I'm still not allowed to talk about. So I am hella busy.

Life news:

Well, I already mentioned dental work, now onto happy stuff. I get to see Buddy Guy at the Fox Theater in Spokane tomorrow and then the Grateful Dead next week. A friend made these necklaces for me and my friends!

I'm already wondering if I can have her make some that fit my books or something for swag.
In other news, I found out that one of my favorite B-movie actresses, Linnea Quigley, suffered massive mold damage from one of the hurricanes and had a Go Fund Me. I ended up getting an auographed picture of her for donating! And not just any picture, but one from my favorite movie, Night of the Demons!


::FANGIRL SQUEEE!::

I don't know if any of you are horror fans, but her GoFundMe page is HERE.
Anyway, I'm off to try to get some mega writing done so I don't fall behind. I REALLY want to get working on Beau's book soon.
((HUGS))
Brooklyn Ann

Series by Brooklyn Ann

Scandals With Bite

(Regency paranormal romance)

Books do not need to be read in order

Bite Me, Your Grace

One Bite Per Night

Bite at First Sight

His Ruthless Bite

Wynter's Bite

The Highwayman's Bite

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Brides of Prophecy

(Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy) 

Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda

Prequel: Tesemini (Free)

Wrenching Fate (FREE!)

Ironic Sacrifice

Conjuring Destiny

Unleashing Desire

Pleading Rapture

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hearts of Metal

(Contemporary Romance)

Standalones that intertwine

Kissing Vicious

With Vengeance

Rock God

Metal and Mistletoe

Forbidden Song 

Tempting Beat

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For excerpts and special content, visit BrooklynAnnAuthor.com

I love hearing from readers! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to send me an email!

Contact@brooklynannauthor.com

How to make a painted block quilt, Part 2: Painting

For Part one, Click here.

Hey, sorry it's been awhile since I continued this tutorial.

The painting part can be easy if you're going the color page route, or it can be challenging if you pick the custom image route, but I will give you some tips. So again, I recommend going with what you're most comfortable with.

With either method, you need the items listed in Part One.

In addition, you'll want to place a piece of white paper beneath your square on the clipboard to absorb the paint that bleeds through.

This is what the paper looks like after the paint bleeds through, so you see why this is important.

You will also want a piece of scratch paper to check your colors and make sure the paint is flowing. This also serves to check your colors and to clean your white after it's been in contact with other colors.

Color Page Method: 

As outlined in part one, you can take a page from a coloring book and transfer it onto the square with carbon paper.

Once you've done that, use your fabric paints, (Tri-Chem and/or Aunt Martha's) and simply color them in like any page on a coloring book.

Be sure to hold paint tube vertically, and don't squeeze too hard.

Here are some my aunt and cousin did:

Custom Image Method:

Be certain to transfer every visible shape and change in color of the image. This can take forever, but it makes the process so much easier.

Once the image is transferred, you utilize the same principle as the color page method. It's just a more complex color page.

Order of painting:

To avoid smearing paint all over your hand and across the square, work left to right and top to bottom.

Blending:

You will have more difficulty in getting the correct color sometimes. For example, in my People Under The Stairs Square, the smokey-cloud thingies in the background were this odd blackish purple color. I was able to duplicate it by layering.

This is an example of when blending the paints is a good idea.

Also, blending is great with faces.

However, sometimes you DON'T want them to blend, like when you're doing white lettering on a dark background or any sort of eye detail. In that case, you need to wait for your square to dry. It takes a full 24 hours, but you can probably get away with 8.

Dimension:

Things like wood and hair require use of progressively lighter and darker shades of the same color.

Patience:

Some squares are just a pain because they are so detailed and they take forever.

Courage:

The majority of the reason that this square took so long was because I kept chickening out and procrastinating on working on it. When I buckled down, it wasn't really that hard.

I've never really taught painting before, so if you have any questions, please ask and I'll do my best.

Next post will be on the actual sewing, which will start in a few weeks. This will be my first time, so it's going to be scary!

Unleashing Desire comes out in 7 days and other news!

My hands are sweating, just like they do before every release. Will you guys like this one? Will this book help or harm my career? So many silly worries plague an author when a release is imminent.

Mostly though, I'm excited. This might be my favorite cover of the series, and early reviewers love it.

I'm also excited for you to read the story. In this book, Razvan and Radu, twin vampires separated for seven hundred years, finally reunite. Also, a certain plot thread left open in book one, Wrenching Fate is finally resolved. I've been sitting on this secret for over two years (6, if you count when I started writing the series) and I finally get to reveal it!

So be sure to Preorder UNLEASHING DESIRE !

iBooks

Amazon

Nook

Kobo

Also, I'm having an awesome release party on Facebook on the 16th. Go here to join in the fun!

In other news, my birthday is Friday! I'm going to be thirty-::cough::

And my Horrorquilt is coming along. I have seven and a half squares to go.

These are the ones I've done lately:

I should be finishing my Phantasm 2 square tonight. I hope. 

I also need to get on making part 2 of my "how to make a painted block quilt" posts.

But for now, I hope everyone has a wonderful week and I hope to see some of you at my release party!

How to make a painted-block quilt. Part 1.

Aside from writing books, I also make quilts. It's something my mom and grandma taught me to do when I was little. In fact, I learned in the daycare they owned together.

Here's one I made for my boyfriend for Christmas:

Okay, I kinda lied. The only part I did for that one was painting the squares and tying the quilt. So if you have an amazing awesome grandma, this process will be even easier.

However, I finally got a sewing machine and I'm learning, so this next quilt I'm working will be ALL me. Anyway, I'd been promising a few people that I'd write a series of blog posts explaining the process. So here we go.

Supplies that you need right away:

1.) Ball point fabric paints.
I use both Aunt Martha's which you can get in combo packs on Amazon, and Tri-chem, which you order from their site.




You can also get this nifty case to hold them all.

2.) Washable Fabric pencil

3.) Quilting ruler.

The square one RULES!!





4.) Cutting mat




5.) Rotary cutter




6.) White cotton fabric.

How much you need depends on how many squares you'll cut.

Tip: You can get 42 13x13 squares out of a Queen flat sheet.

(Just get a bed sheet from a thrift store. They work great)

7.) Carbon paper

8.) The images you want to use.

Ex: 30 for a Queen Size, 42 for a California King.

You can either pick pages from a coloring book, or download any image you want off the internet.

If you're not using color pages and printing off your own, then you will need:

9.) Some photo program like Gimp, Paint.net, or Photoshop

Then, of course, you'll need access to a color printer to print the pictures.

10.) A clip board.

11.) Clippies: Um.. you, know, these things:



Supplies you'll need later:

1.) Fabric for the strips that frame your squares

I'm going with this:

2.) Fabric for the back

3.) Quilt batting for the middle




4.) Yarn or Embroidery floss for tying.

I prefer the latter.




5.)Needles

6.) Sewing scissors

7.) Sewing machine, or an awesome grandma who has one.

Pictured above: The most amazing woman in the universe.

8.) Access to a quilting frame... or study the DIY methods to tie a quilt without one.

Um, we'll get into quilting frames in a later post.

Okay, let's begin:

Step 1: Select the images you want for your quilt. Since I'm a hard core painter, I'm doing the covers of my favorite horror movies. Here's my pinterest board for that. Horror Quilt

However, for easier painting, I recommend coloring book pages. My aunt made quilts with Disney characters, for example.

If you're going my route and duplicating full color images, then you'll need to adjust your images to 8 1/12 by 11 and 300 dpi resolution in your photo program. After selecting the pictures you want to paint on your quilt, either print them out or take them out of your coloring book.

Step 2: cut the amount of squares you need for your size of quilt. For the quilt I'm making, I'm doing 30.

Step 3: Line up one of your fabric squares on the clip board, then place a piece of carbon paper, inky side down on the fabric. Place your image on the carbon paper. Make sure everything is centered before securing the layers with clips.

Step 4: Trace your image onto the fabric.

Step 5: Remove the image and carbon paper, then place a piece of paper on the clipboard underneath the fabric square because the paint will bleed through.


Step 6: Paint the squares.

The envelope was scratch paper to test paint colors. More on that later.

For tips on painting squares, see Part 2!!!