Kiya: Hope of the Pharaoh Blog Hop
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First I have to say: Congrats to Katie Hamstead for the release of Kiya: Hope of the Pharaoh!

Since today is the release day and Katie Hamstead is doing a blog hop I’m going to talk about Egypt.
I chose the implementation of Atenism since it’s something that appears in the novel and left me curious.
In the early years of his reign, Amenhotep IV lived at Thebes with Nefertiti and his 6 daughters. Initially, he permitted worship of Egypt's traditional deities to continue.
The relationship between Amenhotep IV and the priests of Amun-Re gradually deteriorated. In Year 5 of his reign, Amenhotep IV took decisive steps to establish the Aten as the exclusive, monotheistic god of Egypt: the pharaoh "disbanded the priesthoods of all the other gods...and diverted the income from these [other] cults to support the Aten". To emphasize his complete allegiance to the Aten, the king officially changed his name from Amenhotep IV to Akhenaten or 'Living Spirit of Aten. Akhenaten's fifth year also marked the beginning of construction on his new capital, Akhetaten or 'Horizon of Aten', at the site known today as Amarna.
Initially, Akhenaten presented Aten as a variant of the familiar supreme deity Amun-Re. However, by Year 9 of his reign, Akhenaten declared that Aten was not merely the supreme god, but the only god, and that he, Akhenaten, was the only intermediary between Aten and his people. He ordered the defacing of Amun's temples throughout Egypt and, in a number of instances; inscriptions of the plural 'gods' were also removed.

 Source:Wikipedia.
Okay now to what you came here, the hieroglyphic. Here it is:

Remember so you can be able to participate you have to sign up here to join in. All you need to do is write a blog post about Egypt and find the six hieroglyphs hidden throughout the hop. The first person will win a grand prize and she'll have a runner up too! So spread the word, get sign ups and let's make this fun.
But don’t forget to buy Kiya: Hope of the Pharaoh! I’m sure you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. Trust me!

 Okay now go visit the other participating blogs, below are the links:




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Awesome news from a friend.
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I wanted to make this post since I knew this news but I had to wait to the moment she announced and then I didn’t had the words.

My Bestie and CP Stacey Nash signed with Entranced for the publication of her novel Forget Me Not.

This was me when I heard the news from her:


This is important for me to say because many people would think that in a situation like this a writer seeking publication too would be jealous, although she would never admit it, and would not know how to react. At least I feared that. But I have to say with total honesty that I don’t have an inch of jealousy right now. I feel proud and happy.

Stacey has worked so hard to make this story perfect, she has made all that was on her hands to become a better writer every day and still does. She’s truly devoted to be a writer all her life. People that work hard always achieve their goals.

I feel so happy for my friend and for her story. It’s a story I love deeply and always knew it would be published that I feel like of course you want to publish it, it’s an awesome story.

So I think that sometimes jealousy of other achievements doesn’t get to us because friendship and love for the person and her work win the battle. So never be afraid of being jealous of your friends achievements, you'll never be.

Celebrate with me and Stacey please and follow Satcey to have more news of the publication of Forget Me Not:

On her blog: www.staceynash.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/staceynash
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StaceyLeeNash

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KIYA: Hope of the Pharaoh Cover Reveal
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Today is a big day! Today we are going to finally see the cover of Kiya: Hope of the Pharaoh.

This is a book I really love, I was one of the fortunate people to read it before release and I can say it made me laugh, sigh and cry.

Can you keep a little secret? It made me consider making a machine that could make fictional characters real. I'm crazy, I know but this is how much I love it.

Okay now for the big reveal! Here's the cover of my awesome CP and friend Katie Hamstead book Kiya: Hope of the Pharaoh.


It really is a beautiful cover; now to give you a hint of what is inside here's the blurb:

To save her younger sisters from being taken to the cruel life of the palace, Naomi intervenes and gives herself to be a wife of the erratic Pharaoh Akhenaten.
In the palace, Naomi finds herself thrust into the intrigues of the royal family, and has her name changed to Kiya. She becomes beloved by the Pharaoh, who declares that she will bear him his heir. But the Great Queen Nefertiti, furious with jealousy, schemes to destroy Naomi and even brings her fidelity into question, which could cost Naomi her very life.
Naomi must play the deadly game carefully. She is in a silent battle of wills, and a struggle for who will one day inherit the crown. And if she does bear an heir, she will have to fight to protect him as well as herself from Nefertiti who is out for blood. 

Yes, it's very interesting so I think you should add it to your goodreads shelves so you don't forget. There´s a widget to add it in the right.

Katie has planned a great blog hop to start the day of the release April 30th. So go visit her blog.

Don't forget to buy this awesome book on April 30th.



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Writing,rejection, hope...
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A huge part of being a writer is the dreaded part of waiting and facing rejection. Waiting is hard but rejection is like a bullet to your heart.

When you start dreaming about being a writer you never think about the rough pad ahead of you, you only think about the fabulous life you’ll have being able to write all the wonderful worlds you have in your mind. And why not you also think that everyone will love it as much as you. But then you start the dream, you sit and realize writing wasn’t as easy, but you go through it the best you can so after several blood tears you have your wonderful creation in front of you.

Well maybe it’s not a wonderful creation but you have hope and send it away to find its way into the publishing world. So there’s when the wait begin. There start the constant refreshing of your email for several days until you realize it seems it will not come as fast as you thought.

Until one incredible day you receive the notification that says “You got Mail!!” and your heart stops for the torturous moments it takes for the email to open, in that second you have fear and hope. Until you read and your heart collapses to the ground were you think you will never be able to pick it up.

But the thing is we have to accept it’s a part of the road to take our stories out in the world, as Stanley Ellin says:

“No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.”
—Stanley Ellin

After the rejection starts another process, the self-doubt, the idea of throwing everything away, the pain and the tears. But if this is what you love, what really moves you there, slowly filtering into the bad thoughts, will appear hope.

“Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.”
—Jennifer Salaiz

One thing I recommend and that had keep me going every time is having friends, writer friends, that understand, let you cry but then kick your butt and make you start again. Believe me I could never keep going without my friends and also my hubby.

Another quote on hope I love:

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”
—St. Clement of Alexandra

At last here is what I wrote and felt after a rejection, this is totally and completely mine:

“Sometimes my brain and heart amaze me. They just got hit and I feel like crying but my brain is planning and my heart is hoping.”
—Anabel Gonzalez



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Writers are not different from readers when reading.
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I have to confess something: I have an addicition to books. I can't stop buying or reading them. Right now my kindle is loaded with 165 books unread, If I dint't had a kindle my house would go like this:



Also I have this little mania. I hate to read second books in a series until I have already the third or four or the last one in my kindle. I can't stand cliffhangers, I'm just too curious to wait. Yes I realize I write those clifhangers too. So when I get my hands on all those books I can read two in a day. I just can't stop.





Yes I really look like this! Crazy I know!


Don't make me start with someone interrupting me in a huge emotional scene:
This killing-anyone-who-talks to me energy surrounds me and I have to stop my urges, breathe deep and say: Yes? Although my mind is: don't you see I'm reading?

When reading as any other person I get to those moments when you want to throw the book, when you didn't expected what was going to happen but I always pick the book up because it's that good to call me back.

Yes sometimes I read as a writer and analyze the technique, the words, the writing but when the book is so good I forget about the writer me and become just a simple reader enjoying the magnificent world and characters that are taking my mind in this fantasy.

I'm crazy or it happens to more people?

PS: Yes I love gifs, I have a problem with them and I will try to reduce the number of them I use.




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