The Generations Blog tour begins Tomorrow. I'd like to thank the bloggers who are participating.
Monday: http://bellebooksx.blogspot.com/
Tuesday: http://klearsreviews.blogspot.com/
Wednesday: http://k-booksxo.blogspot.com/
Thursday: http://readingawaythedays.blogspot.com/
Friday: http://www.wovenmyst.wordpress.com
We are running a contest. One prize is an ecopy of Generations the other is a signed printed copy of Generations. The winners names will be drawn from all the entries. To gain entries: you must 1. comment on each blog post (each comment gets you one entry into the drawing. 2. tweet the blog post that day with the hash tag #generations (each tweet earns you another entry.) and 3. post a link on facebook to the blog entry.(Allowing you yet ANOTHER entry) The winners will be announced during the Virtual Launch Party Saturday at 6pm est on USTREAM. Good Luck and I hope you enjoy the blog tour :D
As with every project I work on, I have a playlist for Generations 1: Book of Enlightenment. Generations is the first project that I began back in 2008. Some of the songs were added in revisions, but I think the feel of the book speaks through the playlist. If you love the book and playlist as much as I do, you can purchase all these songs from iTunes and find the playlist on my page: ping/miacastile.
Thunder - Boys Like Girls
Borders - The Red Threat
White Room - Eric Clapton
Party At A Rich Dude's House - Ke$ha
Someone Like You - Boys Like Girls
Shattered - O.A.R
World Of Changes - Demi Lovato
In Your Eyes - Jeffrey Gaines
All The Time - OneRepublic
I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
September 11, 2001 I remember. . . that I was eight months pregnant with my beautiful daughter, and on bed rest. nothing fit me, I waddled when I walked, was in my first year of marriage, and saving to purchase a home. I woke up that Tuesday morning preparing for a day of soap operas and day time talk shows, but only found I was coming into the Today show just after the first plane had crashed into the the tower. (I usually caught the last hour of the today show.) I watched the second crash and frantically tried to reach my husband, or my sister, my dad, or my grandmother. No one answered the phone and I was panicked. I lived thirty minutes away from my family and I wasn't allowed to drive, so instead of driving over to their house, I blew up their phones. I cried, I freaked out, I questioned what kind of world was I bringing my daughter into? What kind of world did I live in? I prayed, for all the souls lost, and the souls left behind in shambles.
that the silence in the sky that followed was like nothing I had ever seen before or since. It was surreal, almost as if we lived in a parallel universe where America really had enemies. Before the attacks it was just a story on the news. After the attacks it was real, the victims had faces, names, stories, and then we heard about the people, who were stuck in traffic, overslept, missed their flight, and the expressions on their face of disbelief, that "that could have been me."
that it was a different world, we had a different outlook, and it changed us. We grew up fast, and learned that the world can change in an instance. I'm proud to be an american, and will honor those who have passed on.
