Love Yourself & Live Your Dreams

by Kristen James

Love Yourself! Amazon Kindle link.

Special Release!

Love Yourself & Live Your Dreams…  Why Not?

You have one life to live. You have one person to be.

Do you know your life is your time to shine? This ebook is about loving the person you are and living your life to the fullest!

Loving yourself starts with one small step, but it leads to healing, growth, confidence, opportunities and happiness. I lived in fear and held myself back until I realized each person, including me, has value and something special to offer the world. So do you.

Things became very clear when life knocked me flat on my back five years ago. If I didn’t love myself, who else would? I share how I broke through a glass ceiling of negative beliefs and how you can love yourself, believe in yourself, and live your dreams.

Let’s change I CAN’T  into  OF COURSE I CAN!

 

 

A Lost Creek…

by Kristen James

My extended family went camping this last weekend on the South Umpqua River and explored the area around our usual camping and swimming spot. We were surprised to find a tunnel under the road with a small fish ladder running through it and a pool in front of it. The site is actually marked as a salmon spawning habitat, and the spawn must have happened recently because I spotted a salmon head floating in the water. I wish the picture captured how beautiful the spot really is, but I’m more of a writer than a photographer. The water was blue and deep in the pool and green foliage surrounded all of it.

 

 

Here’s the view looking out from the tributary and pool.

We had a great time but the three days flew by. The spot where we camp is right next to the river, and there’s a channel carved into the riverbed rock. It makes a fun place to jump in and ride the current down for a ways.

 

 

We also spotted a new plant this year that looked rather ghostly.

My sister Karen researched it and found this interesting blog all about it:

http://seabrookeleckie.com/2009/07/10/forest-spirits/

It’s related to the blueberry plant! I’ll let you go read the post.

For my next adventure I’m headed over to Eastern Oregon. It always feels like a different state to me because it’s so very different than this side of Oregon. We have towering trees and streams while Eastern Oregon has scrub brush, desert and beautiful rock formations. Happy travels to everyone this summer!

Summer Writing News: Cassie’s Story, and Lights, Camera, Conflict!

by Kristen James

I’ve been plotting away on my current novel and slowly writing. Why slowly? This is my first sequel, and there’s a lot to live up to. I put Cassie, my main character, through a lot in the last novel, Embers of Hope. She lost her husband and was a roadblock to her friend Savanna. She’s been growing and is ready to move forward, but she still has issues and fears to work through. Even with that, I’m enjoying revisiting her story, and the other characters from Embers of Hope. You’ll get to see Savanna, Jason and Aubrey, and see what life holds for them right now. I’m also using Ocean View Stables from A Cowboy For Christmas, in case any of you wondered how things turned out for Brent and Missy.

Here’s the working description for the next book, More Than A Promise: Cassie’s Story.

Cassie escapes to Ocean View Stables on the Oregon Coast to cope with the three year anniversary of her husband’s death. She’s starting to dream about her future again and possibly romance. A safe romance, that is, where people don’t die. She runs into Ethan Caldwell, the cute boy who teased her through grade school. He sure grew up – into a man who’d catch anyone’s eyes. Now he’s a single dad to nine year old Isabel, who talks about her parents getting back together…as soon as her mom is out of rehab. Then maybe her mom can watch her while her dad goes on his work trips. Apparently Ethan has some kind of dangerous, secretive government job. This isn’t at all what Cassie is looking for! So why is she running full speed into another broken heart?

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Of course I’m holding back quite a few surprises too! I can’t wait to share the story with everyone… which means I need to get writing.

In other writing news, I’ve been releasing books in print and Nook. More Than Memories, A Miraculous Fate and In The Land of Huckleberries and Wokas are on Nook now. (Opens to a search page on B&N with my books.) The first two are available in print as well. You can read more about In The Land of Huckleberries and Wokas or read a preview from The River People, my other Native American story.

For other writers….

I’ve been working on another nonfiction book too. This one is called Lights, Camera, Conflict! It’ll show how to set your novel up with conflict in all the main elements. Conflict is the base of a novel so this book will provide a process to build a solid base for a captivating story. This one will be out in July or August.

I also wanted to share a blog post from Book Promoting 501 called, “How to Lose A Reader in 500 Words,”

and my guest blog on The Creative Penn called, “Book Marketing: 7 Ways to Grow Your Readership.”

I hope you’re having a wonderful summer! Share your adventure with me here or on Facebook. 🙂

Summer Time!

by Kristen James

If I could pause time, I’d pick June in Oregon. It’s so perfect this time of year. I’ve been planting and pruning and swimming in the river, and of course picking berries. Salmon berry season is over, and the blackberries are just now in bloom, but we picked 26 pounds of strawberries the other day and made jelly. I had no idea three kids could pick strawberries so quickly! The blueberries are getting ripe now too. I also planted yellow raspberries this year, and I’m really excited to see how they produce.

I was pretty proud when my son tried a new kind of popsicle a while back and said, “This tastes like salmon berries!” It was one of those moments when I thought, I’m doing this parenting thing right when he knows the flavor of a local wild berry.

In case you haven’t gone into a shady gully to pick salmon berries, they’re a yummy sherbet orange berry that’s lightly sweet. They’re mild like a raspberry. And they’re a bit like a treasure because you have to fight the stinging nettles to pick them.

Summer is magical not just because we get to run around in shorts and play outside, but because families get together so often this time of year. We gather together during the holidays, but there must be a different kind of special about summer gatherings. Because when you think of family time from your childhood, isn’t it the summer cookouts, camping trips and vacations? It’s hardly May each year when my youngest starts asking, “When are going camping?”

I could write all day about how much I love summer here, but it’s hot and sunny outside. It’s time to play!

Now Available – Recuperación del Agente M

by Kristen James

Recovery of Agent M in Spanish

Recuperacion de Agente M

Los Navy Seals no se dan por vencidos, nunca. No dejan gente detrás. Parte de su credo dice: “Mi Tridente es un símbolo de honor y herencia. Confiado en mí por los héroes que me han precedido, que encarna la confianza de aquellos que he jurado proteger. Al usar el Tridente acepto la responsabilidad de mi profesión y la forma de vida que elegí. Es un privilegio que debo ganarme todos los días … ”

El agente encubierto Jeff Ivanov está trabajando en Colombia para la División de Actividades Especiales, o SAD, utilizando tácticas asimétricas y no convencionales. La nueva inteligencia, sin embargo, lo cambiará todo.

El Comando Especial de Guerra de Estados Unidos a través de DevGroup recupera HVI, o Inteligencia de Alto Valor, desde el yate privado de un traficante ruso-checheno frente a las costas de Venezuela, llamado Nikolai Markovich. La nueva información de inteligencia indica que la agente de la CIA Lida M. no fue asesinada en Teherán, pero que se mudó a una pequeña isla frente a la costa norte de Venezuela.

La rehén se encuentra en estado crítico, y otra operacion de máxima prioridad puede ponerla en peligro. El presidente pidio que pongan las botas en el terreno lo antes posible.

Jeff Ivanov está llamado a liderar a su equipo anterior, SEAL Team 7, y trae consigo dos “hermanos” de las Fuerzas Especiales de Colombia. El equipo de Halo salta a la zona para llevar a cabo una misión de sigilo en el corazón de un campamento terrorista, empleando la tecnología más reciente y avanzada. El “paquete”, Lida M., puede estar en estado crítico, y como una mujer musulmana puede ser que no desee sobrevivir a esta terrible experiencia y enfrentar luego el deshonor. Pero los Seals no dejan a la gente detrás, e Ivanov considera que salvar a su hermana agente es una misión donde todo se vale.

Coming Soon

This is the cover for the Spanish version of A Cowboy For Christmas, Un vaquero para navidad, which will be released this fall.

 

Cuando su hermano alejado fallece, Missy se convierte de repente en la codueña indeseada de Rancho Marbella, cerca de Florence, Oregón. Después de la mala jugada que su antiguo jefe le hizo, Missy busca un nuevo comienzo. No tiene trabajo, y su reputación ha sido injustamente mancillada, de modo que esta parece ser la oportunidad perfecta—hasta que conoce al vaquero a cargo del rancho. Brent construyó su sueño a fuerza de perseverancia y con sus propias manos; él es responsable por todo lo que ocurra aquí. En secreto, se siente responsable por la muerte de su socio. Y no disimula que está convencido de que Missy no se quedará aquí por mucho tiempo. Las mujeres siempre se marchan. ¿Por qué ella ha de ser diferente? Ambos tienen un pasado que puede arruinar su futuro. ¿Puede él confiar en que ella se quedará? ¿Puede ella confiarle su corazón?