Greetings
- Debra Renée Byrd
- Delaware, United States
- Deborah Hawkins, penned Debra Renée Byrd, began writing after a blank book project in elementary school and never stopped, fashioning stories based on her favorite TV shows and movies before creating more original works. She studied at the University of the Arts and Florida State University before settling down and graduating from Temple University. She now resides in her hometown of Dover, DE, where she spends most of her time at work or at church. She loves fantasies, superheroes, is a trekkie and a brown coat. She loves television and lives for Final Fantasy video games, having collected most of them. She has read a myriad of authors, and her favorite authors change whenever she finds a new book that changes her life... "When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl...well, you know the rest." -Tracey, Firefly, "The Message"
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Thereafter Update
Hello!I normally don't post on Thursdays, but I thought I'd throw a little support and promotion out to the wonderful author of Hereafter, Terri Bruce, who has had a nightmare of a time with her publisher regarding edits and publication of her sequel Thereafter. If you have been following her story, please visit her page here for an update and to support her if you are able.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Monday Update
So I left everyone with a fairly depressing Friday post, so I thought it only fair to say I had a good weekend. :)Saturday I was on double duty at the local Filipino-American Fiesta. The choir I'm in had to sing, and my sister and I had a Zumba class to teach near the end. Both went very well, and the food was great! I got my annual halo-halo, which was PACKED with food stuffs this time around. I hadn't digested by the time Zumba came around. >.<Sunday, after being so tired from Saturday, my cousin, sister, and I decided to take a day off, but since my cousin & I are on the Praise & Worship Team, we had to do that first. Then, her dad asked us to surprise one of our sister churches and sing with him there, so we were back on duty. lol It's a tiny church, so they were already halfway through their service (whereas ours was probably still doing annoucements), but we sang, and then we got to the message.The pastor read from Psalm 118 and focused on the 23rd (I think) verse: "The stone that the builders threw away is now the most important stone." It was the title of the message that hit me right away: Rejection leads to your Elevation.Having had the rug pulled out from under me with this whole job situation, it meant a lot to me from the jump that had I gone straight home from my own church, I would have missed that strong and subtle piece of encouragement. So, I'm going to keep my head up and wait as patiently as I can for the something better that's in store for me.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Quick Update & A Scavenger Hunt/Cover Reveal!
Hi all!
Brief update to let you know what I'm doing with life. :)
If you're wondering why all's quiet on the Writer's front, the A to Z Blogging Challenge is happening, and I chose to do it. If you're interested about all things my life, slide on over to http://debmcksatoz.blogspot.com to catch up. Today is G, so I will have that up some time today. I will be talking about Getting old. ;)
One week from now, I will be participating in the amazing Terri Bruce's cover real tour of the second book in her Afterlife series: Thereafter! The first book, Hereafter was an awesome introduction into the life (of lack thereof) of party girl Irene Dunphy after she ran herself off a bridge under the influence of alcohol and her journey with a young necrophile (well, ew, not necrophile...necro-fanatic? I made that up.) who wants to help her move on to the actual afterlife. There are great concepts of every day life happenings, such as ghost cars in those HUGE spaces some people leave behind cars at a stop light, or ghost bars in places where buildings were torn down but nothing replaced it.
For the cover reveal of Thereafter, Terri has decided to do a scavenger hunt tour, where each stop will provide a line from the new book with a highlighted word. Putting all of the words together will reveal a big clue about the new book, and all participants will receive an excerpt of Terri's favorite part of the book! So be sure to check that out next week.
Brief update to let you know what I'm doing with life. :)
If you're wondering why all's quiet on the Writer's front, the A to Z Blogging Challenge is happening, and I chose to do it. If you're interested about all things my life, slide on over to http://debmcksatoz.blogspot.com to catch up. Today is G, so I will have that up some time today. I will be talking about Getting old. ;)
One week from now, I will be participating in the amazing Terri Bruce's cover real tour of the second book in her Afterlife series: Thereafter! The first book, Hereafter was an awesome introduction into the life (of lack thereof) of party girl Irene Dunphy after she ran herself off a bridge under the influence of alcohol and her journey with a young necrophile (well, ew, not necrophile...necro-fanatic? I made that up.) who wants to help her move on to the actual afterlife. There are great concepts of every day life happenings, such as ghost cars in those HUGE spaces some people leave behind cars at a stop light, or ghost bars in places where buildings were torn down but nothing replaced it.
For the cover reveal of Thereafter, Terri has decided to do a scavenger hunt tour, where each stop will provide a line from the new book with a highlighted word. Putting all of the words together will reveal a big clue about the new book, and all participants will receive an excerpt of Terri's favorite part of the book! So be sure to check that out next week.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Quick Voiceless Update
Hello!
I wanted to stop by before the week ended, because I did say I wanted to post at least once a week. Last week I got a cold, from which I thought I had recovered by Saturday, so I went out, taught my Zumba class (I'm a Zumba instructor lol), and felt good. Halfway through the day, my voice starting cracking. At a party later that night, it was completely froggy. By 2am Sunday morning, I was mute. And I still am. I also have bronchitis. Yay.
So there has been a lot whispering, a lot of bad sign language, and a lot of jokes. Family is great (sarcasm). Hopefully my voice recovers. I feel quite useless at the moment.
Anyhow, Christmas was good. Got money, Justin Bieber perfume (it smells really good), and Game of Thrones Season 1! Ooh, also PJs, why aren't I wearing those right now? I forgot that quickly about them.
I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas, and I hope to see everyone in the new year. :)
I wanted to stop by before the week ended, because I did say I wanted to post at least once a week. Last week I got a cold, from which I thought I had recovered by Saturday, so I went out, taught my Zumba class (I'm a Zumba instructor lol), and felt good. Halfway through the day, my voice starting cracking. At a party later that night, it was completely froggy. By 2am Sunday morning, I was mute. And I still am. I also have bronchitis. Yay.
So there has been a lot whispering, a lot of bad sign language, and a lot of jokes. Family is great (sarcasm). Hopefully my voice recovers. I feel quite useless at the moment.
Anyhow, Christmas was good. Got money, Justin Bieber perfume (it smells really good), and Game of Thrones Season 1! Ooh, also PJs, why aren't I wearing those right now? I forgot that quickly about them.
I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas, and I hope to see everyone in the new year. :)
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