Excerpt from Hypnotik series.
 “Oh crap!” I gasp. Wishing I had my cell phone on me so that I could call for help, I only had enough time to jump over the car to avoid being hit by her. “Goddammit!” I shout.
     Now I have scrapes on my hands and elbows, my heart is beating hard in my chest. I need to calm down, but I hear her car screeching as it turned wildly burning rubber coming back at me. I get the key out of my stash pocket and quickly open the door.
     As terrified as I am, I have to concentrate to keep from breaking the key off in the door. I take a few deep breaths to calm myself, once I get it open she skims the tail of my car causing me to scream. “Jesus!” I reach frantically for my cell but my hands are shaking terribly, my thoughts are rambling and I drop it on the passenger side. I’m surprised that no one has even come to our location from hearing the sound of her revving the engine and the scent of rubber in the air.
    With nervous hands I concentrate to steady them and get the car started, while my heart is beating like a jackhammer, and my nerves are shot to hell. I put it in reverse to get out fast, when I turn the wheel looking for her car, she is coming at me full speed. I strain my voice giving an ear piercing scream. In the short time that I have to respond, I struggle to get out of the drivers’ side, but the impact flung me into the passenger door causing me to hit my head and I land on the floor of the car.     
     “Oww, hell!” I palm the sore area of my head, I hit it hard but not enough to cut myself, thank goodness. “Shit,” I grunt. Blinking several times from the water that is building there, I remind myself that I can’t pass out, not now. As I turn, panting heavily, I scrunch my body in the small area hoping that whoever it is doesn’t see me. I am shaking with overwhelming fear and my heart is damn near ripping a hole in me to come out of my chest.
     I see a fuzzy vision of someone coming towards me, it has to be the woman, I can’t make out her face but I can hear her voice.
     “Stay away from him or I will really kill you.”
     I clutch my chest gasping, “Alex…help…me.” The pain in my head is increasing, but I need to stay awake.
     ‘Alex,’ I think as I lick my lips making an attempt to swallow to moisten my voice to speak again. I need to get to my phone but my body is frozen in fear. I feel a tear run down my cheek as I hear the screech of tires until they fade into the background. I feel the car rolling, I never took it out of gear, and when it comes to an abrupt stop all I hear is a loud crash, and Alex’s name leaving my lips until everything goes black.
http://www.amazon.com/Hypnotik-Curses-Ashley-Tracy-Gilmore-ebook/dp/B00NQGWZ3U/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Sistahs with Sass

Had an absolute WONDERFUL time with the Sistahs with Sass at the Little Creek Library yesterday. Read them an excerpt from a story that I am currently working on and they were literally speechless for a minute. I was able to join the ladies and now I am an official member of Sistahs with Sass. I cannot wait for the adventures that we will be going on and the books that we will be reading. I can't even imagine what kind of stories I will get from the books I read. This will be an interesting year for me.

Snippet from Measuring the size of a Claude.

 

     Saturday morning I wake up from a haunting dream and go into the kitchen to get something to drink when my eyes catch a glimpse of something even more terrifying than the dream I had. I cautiously took a step closer wanting to see more of the item. My breathing increased and my hands began to shake. My face frowned when I could see it fully knowing what would happen next.

Facebook Issues

Currently I am having trouble with my TracyHotchotlverGilmore Facebook site. Someone tried to get access to my account and now it is frozen by Facebook. It may take a few days. Five from my understanding of it happening to other people. Having to start over from scratch may be a good thing.

HYPNOTIK ON SALE......GET IT WHILE IT LASTS

Looking for a great read then check out my Hypnotik Series. Now the first book in the series is .99 cents. Yes you read that right. 99 cents for a FULL LENGTH book. Find out what has Ashley so scared its hard to sleep at night. Why she is afraid to let Alex get to close to her and what secret is she keeping from her roommate that she has to keep her place immaculate. If you love secrets, this book has plenty, if you like that little bit of mystery, this book has that too and if you like a little bit of action....well this book has too much of that. There is some romance. Take a gander and see for your self.
http://www.amazon.com/Hypnotik-Curses-Ashley-Tracy-Gilmore-ebook/dp/B00NQGWZ3U/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Sistah's with Sass

Looking forward to meeting with the Sistah's with Sass next weekend at the Little Creek Branch Library from 12 to 3pm. I had such fun with them last month and was able to learn a few things while with the women. I'm sure they will be even more surprised at the new bit of information that I hand on to them when I have a copy of my newest release to read to them.

It wont be available to the public until March 31 so they are getting a sneak peek at what's inside. Excited to hear their responses.  

Making friends in the Self publishing industry.

To be a self published author it is better to make friends with all you can along the way and gain what knowledge you can. It is possible to do the job alone, but why make it harder on yourself. Make friends and ask for helpful advice and be willing to exchange any advice that helped you along the way. Shared information is the way to help, not only yourself reach a goal, but others as well. When you look at the back or insides of a NYTBS book and see the names of familiar authors that are also on that list. It is clear proof that they helped one another.
I am always thankful for any knowledge passed to me and willing to share it with others. Even as we speak I have learned many more things about self publishing.
ARC-Advanced Review Copies are sent out to BETA readers and for their added information on character development, storyline and other helpful information when the completed book comes out their reviews will be the first to go up. You can anywhere from 20 to over 100 reviews in a matter of hours.
Having a following is just as important as those that you have reviewing your books before their release. I am currently working on that as we speak. It is only a matter of time before my following will be so great that I will achieve my goal.

Changes

Wow, it's so amazing how much one move can make. I was supposed to be cleaning, rearranging and moving some things and then the idea for another story came into my head. I could see the story unfold, as I do with all of my ideas, but I never have names for these people. I can't just pick any name. It has to be one of those 'it was meant for you' names. So as I am typing the story out using her and him. Then when others come in I go with first person, second and so on then I can change it to the one with 'color eyes' or 'hair.' Then at some point the image of who they would most likely resemble will come to me but I don't want to call them by that name so I have to jumble the words around, sometimes this works, sometimes it don't. But as I am reaching page 40 I have a turning point and names spill out. To me its not a story unless the characters have names, then it becomes real. Well I have to get back to the story...I'm so anxious to see what's going to happen next.