Revisting Oral Fixation

I once wrote a blog dedicated to writers, and their oral fixations. Why it was important, and why we are all just really really weird. It can be found here:

http://www.angelakulig.com/2011/06/writing-process-demystified-2-oral.html

(Seriously, you need to read it. I just did and I even laughed at my own jokes. )

Stranger still is the number of people who find angelakulig.com by searching things like, "Do I have an oral fixation", and "I'm embarrassed by more oral fixation." Since for whatever reason it's such a big hit, I have decided it's time to revisit the topic. This time in the form of fictional characters, because even the make believe have oral fixations.

I believe it was the Twilight series that made me feel as though I had been SLAPPED every time a certain someone bit their lip. To this day I still inwardly recoil when I read it in other books (mine included) so I've been working on keeping track of original oral fixations. Things like pencil chewing, and fingernail biting are totally played out yo. So tell me characters you love and love to hate who have oral fixations. There are thousands, so don't worry, there will not be a test.

Don't Miss Out On Your Chance to WIN



Just a recap, I am having some awesome giveaways and you want to win--if you haven't entered yet stop being a rock dweller and do it!

Enter to win an ebook copy of Existence by Abbi Glines.

From Goodreads:
What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course.

Pagan Moore doesn't cheat Death, but instead, falls in love with him.

Seventeen year old Pagan Moore has seen souls her entire life. Once she realized the strangers she often saw walking through walls were not visible to anyone else, she started ignoring them. If she didn't let them know she could see them, then they left her alone. Until she stepped out of her car the first day of school and saw an incredibly sexy guy lounging on a picnic table, watching her with an amused smirk on his face. Problem is, she knows he's dead.

Not only does he not go away when she ignores him, but he does something none of the others have ever done. He speaks. Pagan is fascinated by the soul. What she doesn't realize is that her appointed time to die is drawing near and the wickedly beautiful soul she is falling in love with is not a soul at all.

He is Death and he's about to break all the rules.
Enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card.

All prizes are provided by myself--because that is how I roll.



Cover Reveal! OPTIONS by Abbi Glines

You guys know I usually don't do this. Because I don't pimp books by people just because I love those people. I have to love the books too, so when I heard Abbi Glines announced an awesome new paranormal series I made sure I got to be a part of the cover reveal! OPTIONS is making its way to our plane of existence February 2013. So here it is:

From Goodreads:
Two paths.
Two completely different roads.
Each one standing before me.
Each one holding a different destiny.


In life you're just supposed to choose one path. 
In life you're not given the chance at choosing one specific future.


Until now.
Until me.


Why am I different? I don't know. But I'm going to see those roads and walk down each one. When it's over I'll know which one to choose because I'll know my - options.

Abbi Glines is amazing. She has been one of my all time favorite things about 2012. Every book I have read by her I have enjoyed.

*The cover was designed by Stephanie Mooney from Mooney Design*

Abbi Glines is AWESOME, definitely my favorite author I discovered in 2012. Here is a list of all the books I have read from her, and this I can personally recommend.

Contemporary YA

The Vincent Boys & The Vincent Brothers: I honestly have no idea why I sat down to read The Vincent Boys. I had never heard of Abbi Glines and I read contemporary anything once in practically never. I can't even remember reading any before this outside of junior high, but I did and boy was that lucky for all of us!

Basically I love Beau and Sawyer and you will too. Just read it so I don't have to go all fan girly. Trust me, know one wants to see that.

Paranormal Romance

Existence & Predestined: It's no secret. I practically breathe para anything, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Existence is my favorite book by Abbi Glines. Death shouldn't be this sexy.

Want to WIN an ebook of Existence by Abbi Glines? Well, you can here. While you are at it check out my other current giveaway. (All prizes are provided by myself)



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Abbi is lots of descriptive A words! Make sure you stalk her properly!

Tell Me About Your Birth Order, & the Birth Order of Fictional People

So after talking to my father today about the car he was considering buying my "baby" sister I began to think about birth order and how it pertains to fiction and real life. Now, the man and I are both oldest children (who by the way bought there own cars) and I feel as though we are quite a lot different then our siblings. Our personalities are different, the way we feel about our world is different, and we live our lives differently.

How does this translate to fiction--are there stereotypes that appear in literature and would you say they are there for a good reason?

Now I want you to think about your favorite books. Tell me about the characters in them. Are they only children, oldest children, babies? And do you think that impacts the story and how so?

Comment here with your answer for a chance to win a $25 Amazon Giftcard or e-giftcard

Top #10 Things to Do While Twitter is Down

I don't usually blog on Thursdays, but since I'm quite sure only a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (or like Olympic soccer fans which is really the same diff) could make Twitter crash I would just get on with it before they get here and eat my flesh.

#10 PANIC!
Of course, why didn't I think of that!

#9 Look up all your best Twitter friends on all the other social media sites you don't love as much as Twitter.
I dig digi stalking.

#8 Check your Klout score, read why I think it is important, and give me +K
Dooo it!

#7 Add Books to your To Be Read Pile on Goodreads you can add Pigments of My Imagination here.

#6 Tell a real life friend about a real life indie author you usually support on Twitter.

#5 Get a really catchy (and horrible) song stuck in your head. I have supercalafrag--or however you spell it stuck in mine.
Kill it with fire.

#4 Ready your emergency supply kit in the unlikely event this carries on all day (or worse, into the night)

#3 Cook and eat something that did not come in a box, a paper bag, or from your mother.

#2 PANIC
Really should have seen that one coming.

And the #1 you can do while Twitter is down.....

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#1 Leave a comment on Angela Kulig's blog (and everyone else's you will read during your now copious amounts of free time) They will love you (and me) for it.

Yes, I Have Contracted the Deadly Facebook Author Page.

Being an author in the age of facebook is rough. You've got your name up there on the Internet where people can tell you exactly what the think of you, and facebook makes it easy for your mother to see what people think of you too. Author pages are the worst, because they are YOU and people get to 'like' you, and if they don't like you then you have to revisit all of those inadequacies left over from Junior High.

In the 6th grade, I was the far superior Queen of the Faeries in A Midsummer Night's Dream but that other chick had a better costume.

Wait, what was I talking about again?

Oh right, I got a brand new facebook author page last night and no one likes me. OK some people like me, but I'm a Libra, I like feeling popular. If I don't then there is all this ugly self doubt--which is funny you should see my horoscope for today. It actually says self doubt is a waste of my time! Which it is, but I never claimed to always be completely rational.

So save my splintering ego.

Check out my facebook author page and show me some love. When you are there you can even pick up your free Pigments of My Imagination book mark. They are awesome looking.

Also, big announcements coming soon! Like as soon as I quit being a coward soon. I hate deadlines with a newborn.

Need to stalk me elsewhere on the internets? Here are all the links you need. I'd love to stalk you too.

Somebody Has a Case of the Mondays

I've said this before, but writers should really be into this whole Monday thing. I mean, it's the one day a week where almost everyone on the planet feels as tortured as we always are on the inside. Instead there seems to be a lot of whine, moan, complain, coffee, rinse and repeat.

I mean, I get it. Once upon a time, I even liked Mondays. You would too, if Saturday and Sunday brought you two nine hour shifts of hell in local retail underworld. (GAP) But the thing is, editing is worse than Mondays. Editing is any day of the week and every day of the week. Can you guess what I'm doing right now?

I'm writing this blog! What did you think I was doing?

Seriously though, as I get Pigments of My Imagination ready for publication (by myself gasp, faint, sob!) I wonder what the statistics would look like for my life. It's something no writer wants to see. I am used to hearing shocking truths like the average person spends 40 years of their life sleeping, or the average adult spends twenty four months of their life in meetings. But editing? Well lets just say it's eating into my 40 years of hard earned sleep that is for sure.

By this weekend the first of the last of my beta readers will have their hands on Pigments and I am super excited about it. I just need to find one more, so if you dig finding and destroying commas send me a smoke signal!

Just to recap, Pigments of My Imagination is an eternal love story, (YA supernatural romance) and it's Monday.

Any questions?