Love Dystopian Novels? Like Action? Want a pinch of Romance and a touch of Humor?
You'll Love The Knockdown Series!
Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Evernight Teen.
Voted Editors Choice!!!
Coming Soon! Book Two in the Knockdown Series
Evernight Teen has just accepted my second novel in the award winning "Knockdown Series"
"Beached" will be released in October.
The story of Toni and her teenage crew continues in book two.
The young crew aboard the sailboat Whistler have finally arrived at an island off the California coast. They survived a mega tsunami and the the dangerous waters along the Pacific coast while being chased by an ice age. Exhausted and running out of supplies, they continue the search for their families.
But the previously deserted island is no longer deserted. Desperate people have claimed the island. Dangerous critters threaten them. The military has taken over the mainland and the lack of supplies and diseases threaten the coast.
Will they ever find peace and the loved ones they seek?
Evernight Teen
Happy Birthday to EVERNIGHT TEEN!
EVERNIGHT TEEN turns two this month and we’re having a huge party to celebrate! It may be EVERNIGHT TEEN’s birthday, but you get the presents. So, grab a piece of cake, hop from blog-to-blog and discover EVERNIGHT TEEN!
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Have your TBR list handy because we have lots of new titles for you to add, including my featured book…
Knockdown is a pre-dystopian novel about a group of kids who race the clock to outrun a tsunami and an ice age in a sailboat.
But this quiet moment is one of my favorite scenes. It takes place inside the sailboat's head (or bathroom.)
“Are you mad at me?” he asked.
“Hell, yes,” I said. “You totally embarrassed me just now.”
“No, before this. You’ve been distant this morning.”
“Takumi, we almost died yesterday. I may never see my parents again. My brother is…”
Takumi shook his head. “Would you go to Homecoming with me?”
“What?”
“Would you go to Homecoming with me?”
My mouth opened and closed but no sound came out. “You’re crazy,” I finally whispered.
He knelt on the floor in front of me and took my hand. This was getting weird. I jerked my hand back.
“Look,” he said. “I never asked a girl to Homecoming. There wasn’t a girl I wanted to ask. Now I’ve met someone and there won’t be a Homecoming dance. But if there was one, would you go with me?”
I tipped my head.
He grinned up at me.
“You are totally insane.” I smiled.
“Well, would you go to Homecoming with me?”
“Okay. Yes, if there was a Homecoming to go to, I would go with you.”
“Good.”
“Is that what you wanted to ask me?”
“Yeah. I know we just met. I know we might not survive all this. But I need to have something, some positive thought, or person to think about. I want to lie in bed at night and imagine what it would be like to go on a date with you. To give you a corsage. To sit with you at a fancy restaurant…”
His eyes began to water and he faced away. I slid to the floor and reached for him. He took me in his arms. We hugged and cried silent tears for all the ways our lives had changed.
I wiped my eyes. “What color dress would I wear?”
“I don’t care…No, wait. Not black.”
“Okay, no black. But pink’s good?”
“Pink’s good. Red would be better.”
“Red, huh?”
“Yeah, I like red.”
“Okay, if we could go to Homecoming, I would wear a red dress.”
“Thanks, Toni.” He took my chin in his hand. Our eyes met and we smiled. Then he kissed me. A soft and gentle kiss.
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Hope you've had a great time. Thanks for stopping by.
Sincerely,
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Book Signing Party
My family and friends threw me a book-signing party in June. I am so grateful for all their support. Here are a few photos of the event.
Writers in the Rain
I am beyond grateful to these beautiful people. They are the writers who listen to and critique my every word, the members of my writing group, Writers in the Rain.
My friends and talented all.
Fabio Bueno has three two novel out and one about to launch. In Wicked Sense, and Broken Spell, Fabio creates a world of good and bad witches, where forbidden love struggles to survive, and the destiny of the most powerful young witch is in the hands of a mortal.
Fabio has an amazing gift for teen dialog that makes you laugh as often as cry.
Martina Dalton wrote, The Third Eye of Jenny Crumb and has a second novel to be released in October. Martina's main character is Jenny, a teenage girl who lives in Seattle. Jenny navigates the normal ups and downs of life as a teen while helping the police with her incredible psychic gifts.
Martina's descriptions of Seattle and her knowledge of the psychic community makes this novel a page turner.
A. O. Pert, or Angela to us, is our prolific writer. Her first novels, The Forged Series are about shape shifters who live in Seattle. This trilogy is an epic story, where the fate of the world is determined by the love of two teens.
Angelia has recently published her New Adult novels, The Almost Bad Boys Series. These are sexually explicit, lighthearted, romance novels.
Eileen Ricco wrote a lovely novel, Choosing Sunshine. Sage, the main character, is a normal teen who's life turns upside down. While coping with loss, Sage learns the meaning of friendship, love, and how the differences between she and her mother are not a great as she thinks. It is very a moving and inspiring story.
Suma Subramaniam is a poet and author of an incredible novel about child trafficking in the aftermath of the tsunami in India as seen through the eyes of a young girl.
Suma's agent is as excited about her novel as we are. It will be published soon.
Knockdown goes live
Friday the 13th. My lucky day.
My novel is live!
You can find it on Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/Knockdown-Brenda-Beem-ebook/dp/B00KYA4IRM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411852094&sr=1-1&keywords=knockdown+by+brenda+beem,
Barnes and Noble, itunes, and Evernight Teen.
A dream come true.
Cover Reveal
Yeah! My novel has a cover.
It wasn't an easy process. I was out of the country and had limited internet. I couldn't open the picture files the publisher sent me on my tablet.
But Evernight Teen was great. They listened to my ideas, rejected a picture I sent, and came up with this even better one.
In my novel, the boat the characters are on goes upside down. I love the way the publisher made the letters do the same.
Hope you like it too.
It will be available on June 13th.
Evernight Teen Publishing to Publish My YA Novel
My novel Knockdown will soon be published by Evernight Teen Publishing. It is an innovative publisher and I am so happy they chose to publish my Young Adult adventure novel.
I'm thankful for both my talented writing groups, my supportive family, and my encouraging friends for helping me complete this novel.
I smile when I think back on all the times I sent out pages and asked, "How does this sound?" I showed my writing groups the first five pages so many times, it became a joke. Listing off the different versions is now a memory game.
It is all fun.
Now on to book two.
Knockdown Wins!
Thank you Houston Writers Guild for awarding my novel, Knockdown, first place in the YA Division. I am thrilled and honored.
Whistler
It has been less than a year, and my novel Knockdown is almost complete. It takes place on my sailboat 'Whistler.'
Sailboats aren't just romantic. They're safe. They will roll over and come upright again if closed off properly. And they are the first wind powered vehicles.
As the characters in my latest YA novel learn, a sailboat is a great place to be should a world disaster strike.