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So proud of this guys. Thanks for all your support and cheer-leading over the years.

Ghost Hand s the long-awaited first novel from award-winning  short story writer, Ripley Patton. Beatties Book Blog

THE COVER BLURB:

Olivia Black just discovered that her ghost hand, a rare birth defect, can do more than light up a room. It can reach into people and pull things out. Thing from the darkest depth of the human psyche never meant to exist in this world. 

Olivia can pickpocket the soul

But she can't control her ability, or the strange items it extracts, and the only thing between Olivia and the men bent on taking the power of her hand is a boy she barely knows and doesn't trust.

HIGH PRAISE FOR GHOST HAND

Ghost Hand s an exciting and riveting story which kept me turning the pages to find out the next tension-filled moment. I highly recommend it, both to YA readers and older. - Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer,  Mallory Anne-Marie Haws.

I'm usually hard pressed to give a book five stars, even ones that I love. But I think this one truly warrants it. From the very start, I was absolutely sucked in. - author of Cobalt City Rookies, Jeremy Zimmerman

It's hard to do something original in paranormal YA, but this author does just that - a teen with a supernatural birth defect. I really loved the book. - Tricia D. Grissom

Sat down and read the whole thing in one sitting - didn't want to put it down! - Author Lisa Sommerland

This novelstands alone – a story in itself – but there’s no doubt its readers will be hanging out for the second book in Patton’s PSS Chronicles. Buy a copy o Ghost Hand or your teens – and watch them disappear! - author Lee Murray

THE PSS CHRONICLES

Ghost Hand s a YA paranormal thriller now available in e-book and paperback through Amazon, Barnes & Noble n Kobo. It is the first book of The PSS Chronicles with the second to be released in 2013.

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I LOVE Contests.

I love entering them, I love running them, and I REALLY love judging them. So, as a way of celebrating the upcoming November 2012 release of my YA paranormal thriller, Ghost Hand, I have decided to run a writing contest just for YA-ers.

If you READ YA, and LOVE YA, and ARE YA, this contest is FOR YOU.

After all, who better to write the experience of being a young adult than young adults themselves? And now's your chance to prove what you've always known: that you can write better YA than most of the adults out there doing it. Plus, you could win a wad of spending money, a signed copy of Ghost Hand, and get your story published in Ghost Hunt, book two of the Ghost Hand series (coming in 2013).

Plus there will be random give-aways of Ghost Handy stuff from the pool of everyone who enters.

For more details on how and when to enter go HERE. 

And please spread the word to all your writerly young friends. 

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At the recent GeekGirlCon in Seattle, I attended a panel on Kickstarter. The panelists were Tristan J. Tarwater and Caytlin Vilbrant. Tristan has done several Kickstarters for her fantasy novel series, and Caytlin is a comic artist who has also done multiple Kickstarters.

INDIEGOGO VERSUS KICKSTARTER

The first thing the panelists discussed was the difference between Indiegogo and Kickstarter. While Indiegogo is open to international projects, for Kickstarter you must be located in the US to run a project. Internationals can back a KS project, they just can't create one. Indiegogo also does not use the "all of nothing" backing method that Kickstarter does. With Indiegogo, you get whatever funds you raise regardless of your initial goal. Indiegogo allows charity or "fund your life" projects, whereas Kickstarter only allows projects that result in a creative outcome or product. However, Indiegogo does take a larger cut of the funds raised (7% plus 3-5% Amazon charges) whereas Kickstarter only charges 5% plus the 3-5% Amazon charges. In the end, both panelists chose Kickstarter based on its lower fees and its popularity as it is currently the number one crowdfunding website in the world with approximately 6 million hits a day. Less cost and more exposure is hard to argue with.