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Wanted By You: Cover Reveal + Sneak Peek

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Steph Nuss

Title: Wanted by You

Series: Love in the City – Book #1

Bandit Publishing and I are excited to share with you the Cover Reveal for Wanted By You. Make sure to join us at the Release Day and Blog Tour Event starting on February 27th – join by clicking the below link.

TO BE RELEASED: FEBRUARY 27th

Carter was captivated by Ellyson Evans the moment he laid eyes on her,
but she was the one girl who didn’t beg for his attention.
He wanted her.
Ellyson vowed to never fall in love, because love can destroy you,
but then she met Carter Jennings.
She wanted him.
Unwilling to risk their comfortable friendship, neither confessed their desires.
Losing touch after college, a chance meeting reconnects them.
They want each other.
But love in the city is never quite that easy.

**iBooks Pre-order and Exclusive Sneak Peek**

Celebrate Good Times

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In celebration of hitting 1,000 likes on Facebook last night, I’ve put together a giveaway full of amazing books from Bandit Publishing! I couldn’t imagine working with a better group of people. They’re simply the best! Click on the giveaway link below to enter to win their books:

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ICYMI: Release Date

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That’s right. Thursday, February 27th, Wanted By You releases!

Mark your calendars for the cover reveal on February 13th! It’s absolutely beautiful! I can’t wait to share it with you!

So, to celebrate, let’s share a song from the Wanted By You playlist. This is Never by Moving Pictures, and I love the chorus of this song:

The Art of Writing

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Last night, I finished up with a few tweaks and edits on WANTED BY YOU. It’s headed to the copy editor now which means we’re getting closer and closer to publication! 

*throws confetti!*

Let’s talk about the art of writing for a moment…

I think some people think writing a book is like taking a crap. You just sit down and write, and boom, a masterpiece is formed. No. That’s not how it works. There’s anxiety involved. A lot of anxiety and edits and rewrites. And the voices in your head never shut up. And they’re begging you to tell their story, but you can’t write fast enough to get everything down at once so you have notes all over the place. Inside your old college notebooks. On your Notes app on your iPhone. On your laptop’s sidebar sticky notes. It’s a mess of notes all over the place; sometimes in places you can’t even remember putting them. It’s exhausting and time consuming but completely magical all at the same time.

All of the anxiety and edits and perfecting is totally worth it because writing a book is not like taking a dump. It’s not an everyday occurrence that everybody does. It’s a big deal. It’s crossing off a bucket list item. It’s chasing after the dream you’ve had since you were a little girl. A dream of one day becoming that author who inspires others to write because being a writer is their dream, too.

So, as I get closer to publishing my first book and think about all the excitement and nerves that will come with release day, I can’t help but smile and think, bring it on! I’m not going to let anything or anyone bring me down. I’ve worked hard to get where I am as a writer, and I’m not going to let one person’s opinion or a bad review or whatever bring me down because writing a book is not like taking a poop. If it was, everybody would do it and nobody would judge anybody on how they do it because nobody would care.

I’m thankful for the people who care about me and my book and the Love in the City series, the people who have taken the time to help me through the writing and editing process and given me sound advice, and to the people who read my book early on and gave me their honest opinions.

I will forever be grateful for people’s honesty and feedback, but honestly, writing a book is nothing like taking a shit. Not everybody can do it. Not everybody has the guts to do it. So, cheers to all of us who have the courage to put ourselves out there, and to all the people who continuously support and encourage us to pursue our dreams and who care enough to share their thoughts with us.

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Happy New Year

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One of my New Year’s resolutions is to write more posts on here. In 2013, I neglected my website quite often, but that’s all going to change in 2014. I like my new layout. I finally figured out how to create my own widgets. Life on here will be good! It will be!

My other resolutions consist of eating healthier, working out more…the usual resolutions most people have. I’m fairly good at watching what I eat, but I’m hoping to start eating a paleo diet again. The “caveman” diet, as it’s been referred to, is a very clean eating regimen. It really does make the body feel a hell of a lot better and I’m excited to jump back on the bandwagon. I lost about 10 pounds from eating a paleo diet earlier in 2013.

Of course, I don’t believe in completely cutting out the things I love. I think it’s important to reward yourself for living a healthier lifestyle by enjoying some of the not-so-good-for-you foods maybe once every two weeks or every Saturday because it’s the weekend, but with that being said, I think it’s important that that “treat” doesn’t morph into binge eating. A fun-sized candy bar or a bowl of cereal would suffice.

I recently started pinning and using polyvore and you can find links to my profiles on the side of my website. I’ve been building polyvore boards and pinterest boards for my book and I’ve grown addicted to them. I’m positive 2014 will be filled will lots more pins and polyvore sets. It’s all just so addicting, I can’t help it! None of my sets on polyvore are published yet because they’re a big, fat secret until my book comes out…which is soon! I can’t wait for you all to see them as well as my pinterest boards.

As for the rest of 2014, I’m planning on writing a hell of a lot more! I’m hoping to at least get two books published this year. That’s my goal anyways. The first book in my Love in the City series, Wanted By You, is currently with the beta readers and I’m really excited to hear their thoughts! I’m just really excited in general with everything in regards towards my book and writing and publishing. My cover is hot! I can’t wait to share it with the world! Bandit Publishing has made this entire process a dream come true. They just get me and I really, really appreciate that.

One of my other goals for 2014 is to write everyday no matter what. Like Nora Roberts says, “I can always fix a bad page. I can’t fix a blank one.” I’m currently in the process of writing book two, and I’m hoping this goal pushes me to finish it and publish it before 2014 ends!

I hope everyone has set some resolutions and/or goals for themselves this year. I think it’s important to push yourself towards your dreams because life is too short to do anything else. I sat down at my laptop in April 2013 and started writing. In July 2013, I signed a contract with Bandit Publishing and have had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest people to bring out the best in me as a writer, and I know 2014 will be full of awesome things for us! I can’t wait! May you all have a wonderful New Year’s! Cheers to 2014! 

 

Love in Awareness

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The awesome thing about being an artist is using your gift or your art for good.

That’s one of the best things about being a writer–millions of people read your words and take something from them.

That’s also why I believe in not only telling a great love story, but also supporting a variety of causes in doing so. In the My Kind of Lover series, I have designed each plot around two lovers and their love story. The lovers, either individually or together, become advocates to certain causes because they’ve either personally been impacted or know of somebody or something that has been which causes them to bring awareness to you, the readers, by showing their support to such causes. You’ll see throughout the series how each book brings awareness to certain charities like Susan G. Komen for the Cure or March of Dimes or the Special Olympics just to name a few. Each book has some cause it hopes to bring awareness to.

It’s my goal as a writer to use the passion I have to help those in need because my voice can be heard through my stories, and I hope all of you take something special away from the lovers, their story, and their support for their causes.

Inspirations

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I thought I’d share with you all some of my inspirations for writing.

The first is definitely music. I have a ton of music on my iTunes in all sorts of a genres and will be creating playlists for each of my books for the readers to fully understand what inspired each one and some of the characters. They are definitely more upbeat than other playlists I’ve seen from other authors. There’s a reason for this. I don’t listen to music while I write. If I did, it would be a disaster. Trust me, I’ve tried it. I know a lot of authors who do this and major kudos to them because I physically and mentally do not have the ability to do it. However, I do listen to music during my workouts or when I’m walking my dog so I’m constantly finding music that inspires my writing or my characters, and I think that’s really important to the story and important to share with the readers.

The second is poetry. I found a girl by the name of Charlotte Scott who creates the most beautiful poems. I actually spent weeks hunting down her blog because someone posted one of her poems on Pinterest and didn’t tag her blog (so irritating). Anyways, I feel like most of my characters can relate to her poems or their love story can relate to it. I also feel like most of my readers will be able to appreciate her work and how the beauty of her words incorporates into my characters and their story. I’ve asked her if I can use her poems at the beginning of each book in the series and she was more than happy to let me publish her work in my own. This is also a really great way to promote her and her talent and I’m happy to do so. It’s important that writers promote one another and I’m more than thrilled to share her work in my books since she’s been such a huge inspiration to me and my characters.

The third inspiration would be my fellow writers. I’ve become friends with several writers through Facebook and Twitter and the support from them has been amazing and I know I’ll never be able to thank them enough for it. Jamie McGuire has amazing self-publishing information on her FAQ page on her website that is extremely helpful. A special shout out to Jennifer Probst as well because without her and her feedback I don’t think I would’ve ever started this series. Her thumbs up was the boost I really needed and if I ever meet her in real life, I’ll probably go bananas. I’m extremely grateful to other authors for taking the time to help us aspiring authors with our questions as well as just promoting one another. The endless love for indie writers and/or self-published authors is amazing, and I’m happy that I’ve chosen this path.

Write on my fellow writers, write on!

The Time Has Come

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After 86K words in the first book, I am finally making my website as an author and beginning the process of getting you all riled up about it!

I’m so thrilled to share my series with you all. I hope you love my characters as much as I do. I hang out with them more often than I do the people in my life who aren’t imaginary. So, I’m really excited to share my imaginary friends with you. I’ll post inspirations and playlists for each book in the series, and when the time is right, I’ll share synopses and book covers and other self-publishing info. My goal is to have the first book finished, edited, and ready for ebook publication by August 2013. Cross your fingers!

Each book in the series is about different kinds of lovers. I’m also a huge Billy Squier fan and his song, My Kinda Lover, really inspired me to create these characters and their love stories. It’s always been a dream of mine to become a writer and I love a good series so that’s my dream, to create a series of my own to share with the world and hope they love it just as much as I do. It’ll be a long and crazy journey and I cannot want to embark on it. Cheers!