Fallenmore Blog Tour and Giveaway

I'm so excited to be a part of fellow author Lucy Swing's Fallenmore blog tour.

Don't forget to enter for a chance to win a signed copy of the series, and thanks, Lucy, for sharing with us your thoughts on writing and music!

Some like to write in silence, others with music in the background. I am a little bit of both. Sometimes I find it that when I have the music on I am not able to concentrate and once I turn it off, voila! I am a writing machine. Same thing happens the other way around.

For today’s guest post I thought I’d make the playlist with the most popular songs that I played while I wrote Fallenmore. I tried and I tried to get the playlist embedded so you could listen to all the songs right here, right now, but I have failed. So, I have written all of the artist’s and songs and at the bottom you will find a link to the actual playlist, in case you want to check it out for yourself.

1. 30 Seconds to Mars – The Kill

2. Within Temptation – Angels

3. Within Temptation – Our Farewell

4. Rob Zombie – Superbeast

5. Evanescence – My heart is broken

6. Aerosmith – Angel

7. Skillet – The last night

8. Within Temptation – Memories

9. Plumb – Stranded

10. Skillet – Whispers in the dark

11. BarlowGirl – Never alone

12. Within Temptation – Somewhere

13. Skillet – Comatose

14. Plumb – Damaged

15. BarlowGirl – I need you to love me (not on the playlist)

16. Plumb – Cut (not on the playlist)

Click here to listen to the playlist!
These are all amazing bands and I suggest you check them out, you won’t be disappointed!

 

You can purchase Fallenmore at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. 

And now for the giveaway! :-)

When two worlds collide

As you know, I teach music to over 500 kiddo's a week. Our school population went down this year, which opened up some time for me to work in the classrooms. This term, I'm working with the fourth grades, and the homeroom teachers and I decided to start classroom blogs. I'll admit that rarely do my two worlds collide, but when they do it's absolute dynomite!


The students' enthusiasm for the project is contagious. Some are emailing me from their homes with a new post, others are creating vlogs and posting them on youtube to use in their piece. I'm now meeting with students before school, during lunch, and on planning trying to get the pieces up and running.

This gives me an opportunity to go through basic grammar rules and discuss sentence structure in a fun way. But what I love most is that many of our students are excited that people value what they think ... they now have a voice and a way to make it heard. One class has already had 500 page views, which were seen in three different countries, and that's just in a week!

I'd like to take this a step further, and for that I need your help. If you are an author or a blogger, please take a moment to follow the three blogs below and comment on a post or two. Also, I might be contacting you to do a "guest post" that talks about who you are and how blogging is a positive influence on your life.


Here are the sites:

http://www.hartsclass.blogspot.com

http://www.hazzardsclass.blogspot.com

http://www.littletonsclass.blogspot.com

 Thanks so much for encouraging our children to express themselves through the written word!