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Being an author is nuts but so am I!

   

 Before I ever thought of writing a book I was an avid reader of romance novels gobbling up four or five a week minimum. I had no clue what the authors went through to bring me those hot scenes and addictive characters. Now I do and the appreciation meter is through the roof! I've been trudging along for two years now writing and loving every insane wild minute of it! 

     Writing is not just a job it's a passion and unfortunately there are a billion other people with the same passion. We all share the same dream of doing something we love and making money while doing it but it's not that easy, not at all. The fact is that there is an ocean full of talented writers who will probably never be discovered and it's heartbreaking. Unless you've got a little money and maybe even a friend who knows something about marketing and publishing a book you're sorta screwed. Sometimes it feels as impossible as breaking the sound barrier with a fiat but we keep plugging away. We use every second of every day that we aren't busy doing all of the other things like laundry, working a full time job, taking kids to school and oh I don't know living! And that's not it... oh no not even close. If an author can manage to finish writing their first draft you can bet they're yelling 'whoohoo oh my God I just typed The End!' little do they know they are only about twenty- five percent there. After a couple days of celebration the new author finally comes down from their high and realizes there are about a zillion edits to be done. They start the process of going back and forth with their editor and then back and forth some more until finally they're done...yea no... not really. Now they need a cover, a proofreader, beta readers and an awesome formatter to make all of the long hours of writing pretty and if you don't know anybody in 'the biz' again I say your screwed. 

     Every author has their own story, the Jodi Ellen Malpas's and Colleen Hoover's have immediate success with their first books and then there are the people who have no idea what they're doing and learn one tiny tidbit about being an author every day until bam they've got a hit! And then there are the writers who shouldn't be touching a pen to a sheet of paper or tapping their fingers on a keyboard...ever. 

     Authors and writers old and new who are successful or flops Indie or published make up the melting pot of some of the most interesting, intelligent, wacky, out of their mind people that populate the earth and I'd like to say how proud I am to be included in that group of people!

Why I went mental wait, wait no... I mean why I started writing.

Every writer has a story of how they got started writing and I'd like to share mine with you.

I hadn't been an avid reader for years due to my other full time gigs raising kids and working as a registered nurse in OB. But when all the hubbub surrounding FSOG began I thought ok what the hell I'll see what this is all about. When an entire unit of nurses ranging in age from 19-70 years old can't stop talking about a book I gotta read it! So I did just that, I borrowed it from another nurse and read it. Don't hate me now but I didn't really care for the writing and the content was a little disturbing so I gave it back and politely declined the second installment. Then... I got to thinking I'd like to know what happened to poor Anastasia so I got online looking for cliff notes to fill in the blanks, do they even make those anymore? I'm showing my age aren't I? Anyway I found some excerpts and changed my mind, I ended up reading them all. I wasn't inspired to write yet though. That came three hundred plus books later when my pediatrician recommended Jodi Ellen Malpas's This Man trilogy. I'd been taking this particular pediatricians advise on the hottest books for a while and she never disappointed me so I bought all three without even reading the synopsis. I didn't care what they were about, the pediatrician recommended them, that's all I needed to know! I devoured page after page and fell in love with love. Being a single mother with zero time to date romance novels quickly became my escape, the place where my prince charming was always chiseled and handsome but troubled and in dire need of a good compassionate woman, like me, to whip him, no pun intended, into shape and teach him how to really love. I needed to know more about the woman who created Jesse Ward, who's name I hated at first. It made me think of Jesse from Full House or Jesse James, or a little girl I knew in kindergarten named Jessi, it didn't fit my image of a dominant professional sex-pert. It grew on me though as did the character and after book one I couldn't have cared less what his name was, he was the Lord to me. But I digress, I needed to know about Jodi Ellen Malpas! I googled her, I google damn near everything, and found she was originally a self published author who had never written a book before This Man. Self published I thought, what's that? And then it began... I researched and pondered and pondered and researched some more until one night at work a fellow smut reading mom and co-worker suggested I write my own book. I immediately thought of Jodi and how she got her start and figured what the hell, I'll give it a shot. Apparently my outbursts and rants in the break room about unrealistic sex scenes, impossible positions and stupid plots led my co-worker to believe this might be a hidden career that was buried deep in my psyche. "You should write a book" She said. Those five simple little words have taken me down the rabbit hole of INDI romance writing for two years now. Three books written and published on Amazon and another one nearly finished I will never be able to thank that co-worker or Jodi Ellen Malpas enough. I've found my passion, my love and my obsession. I've been contacted by fans from all over the world who have become my good friends, they've astonished me with their kindness. A few have even tattooed the quote 'You go, I go' from my trilogy The Two Sides of Me on their bodies and another added Dark Kiss to the pile of her favorite romance novels on a tattoo that covers her entire back! Can you say MIND BLOWN? Yea I know! I was so honored I cried.
I have also met and befriended countless amazing authors of all genres and walks of life that I would never in a million years have crossed paths with otherwise. I've been schooled on a kind of generosity I never knew existed, the kind where strangers give their time and energy to promote an unknown authors work without expecting a single thing in return.
That's my story! Thank you readers, fans, my street team, personal assistants, friends, editors, formatters, cover designers and fellow authors both 'big' and 'small' for you support in my endeavor to write classy smut! I love you!
Now for a shameless plug! Look for Play Me, my upcoming work in progress to be released this fall on Amazon, it's my best work yet, I say that about every book when I'm writing it though, but this time it's true!

FSOG... getting the women of the world hot and bothered since 2011!

The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. 

The books that inspired me to write!

The Queen and my friends Gayle and Erin from Australia getting me an autograph!

My first trilogy The Two Sides of Me

Play Me is my current work in progress coming this fall 2015 to Amazon!

Play Me

Amy Lynn Garcia

Coming to Amazon Fall 2015!

How does a class 'A' dick billionaire end up falling in love with a sweet innocent fifteen year old virgin violin prodigy? In the rarest of circumstances Holland Bennett finds herself on the dance floor of the hottest new night club in Houston Texas. Separated from her friends by the throngs of sweaty dancing bodies and full of raspberry kamikazes Holland doesn’t realize she’s just stepped into dangerous bad boy King Romero’s lair.

Determined to help her best friend Holland experience all the 'normal' things that high school students do before she leaves in the fall for Juilliard Savannah makes a wild itinerary for the summer. First thing on that itinerary, get fake ID's and party in dance clubs. Savannah never could have imagined the outrageous life altering complications that she would set into motion with that list.

King has been searching for a way out of his dangerous lavish life since the day his father died leaving him in charge of the Romero empire. After a lifetime of being surrounded by immeasurable wealth King yearns for something different, something bright and pure to help pull him from the trenches of his unfulfilling life. 

He didn't know that thing would be Holland. 

He didn't know she was fifteen. 

He didn't know she was a virgin.

He didn't know he was about to destroy her dreams of playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Somehow King has to find a way to put the pieces of Hollands life back together even if it means destroying his own.

.???.??.??? Dark Kiss by Amy Lynn Garcia is FREE on Amazon September 23-27th! ALWAYS FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED! ?.???.??.??? Evan and Mia are thrown into a unique relationship after Evan drives his car over a bridge in a horrible accident and suffers a serious head injury. After being rushed to a private Seattle hospital where Mia works in the ICU as his nurse she finds herself powerfully drawn to this unconscious mysterious stranger. Mia can't get Evan out of her head, with limited information about his past available she is left to imagine what this gorgeous man is like when he's awake. Mia's curious nature wants Evan to wake from his coma but another broken damaged part of her is content caring for him while he sleeps. Mia is first and foremost a nurse however and she encourages Evan not to give up on his life. She coaxes him to return softly with her voice, music and at times her touch. She has no idea who she is actually summoning though, the man in bed 8 is known to his co-workers and family as ?The Beast? for good reason. Teetering on the brink of life and death Evan is ready and willing to accept his destiny and make his way into the depths of hell. But when he feels the magnetic pull of Mia?s presence, hears her luring whispers, feels the electric voltage of her touch on his skin, he knows he?s not going anywhere... not until he sees the face of magnetic woman that's been caring for him while he waits paralyzed on the edge of life and death in the darkness of his mind.

.???.??.??? Dark Kiss by Amy Lynn Garcia is FREE on Amazon September 23-27th! ALWAYS FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED! ?.???.??.??? Evan and Mia are thrown into a unique relationship after Evan drives his car over a bridge in a horrible accident and suffers a serious head injury. After being rushed to a private Seattle hospital where Mia works in the ICU as his nurse she finds herself powerfully drawn to this unconscious mysterious stranger. Mia can't get Evan out of her head, with limited information about his past available she is left to imagine what this gorgeous man is like when he's awake. Mia's curious nature wants Evan to wake from his coma but another broken damaged part of her is content caring for him while he sleeps. Mia is first and foremost a nurse however and she encourages Evan not to give up on his life. She coaxes him to return softly with her voice, music and at times her touch. She has no idea who she is actually summoning though, the man in bed 8 is known to his co-workers and family as ?The Beast? for good reason. Teetering on the brink of life and death Evan is ready and willing to accept his destiny and make his way into the depths of hell. But when he feels the magnetic pull of Mia?s presence, hears her luring whispers, feels the electric voltage of her touch on his skin, he knows he?s not going anywhere... not until he sees the face of magnetic woman that's been caring for him while he waits paralyzed on the edge of life and death in the darkness of his mind.

.???.??.??? Dark Kiss by Amy Lynn Garcia is FREE on Amazon September 23-27th! ALWAYS FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED! ?.???.??.??? Evan and Mia are thrown into a unique relationship after Evan drives his car over a bridge in a horrible accident and suffers a serious head injury. After being rushed to a private Seattle hospital where Mia works in the ICU as his nurse she finds herself powerfully drawn to this unconscious mysterious stranger. Mia can't get Evan out of her head, with limited information about his past available she is left to imagine what this gorgeous man is like when he's awake. Mia's curious nature wants Evan to wake from his coma but another broken damaged part of her is content caring for him while he sleeps. Mia is first and foremost a nurse however and she encourages Evan not to give up on his life. She coaxes him to return softly with her voice, music and at times her touch. She has no idea who she is actually summoning though, the man in bed 8 is known to his co-workers and family as ?The Beast? for good reason. Teetering on the brink of life and death Evan is ready and willing to accept his destiny and make his way into the depths of hell. But when he feels the magnetic pull of Mia?s presence, hears her luring whispers, feels the electric voltage of her touch on his skin, he knows he?s not going anywhere... not until he sees the face of magnetic woman that's been caring for him while he waits paralyzed on the edge of life and death in the darkness of his mind.