2014 Sum Up and 2015 Preview

2014 has been one heck of a year! I released seven books, four with Mary Smith. I had my first signing in Knoxville, TN at the TN Valley Author Event. I completed my Goodreads reading challenge, woohoo! Some of my favorite reads of the year are below.

 

2015 is going to be ah-mazing.

I have two releases in January, the fourth Oh Captain, My Captain book, Let's Be Crazy, and the next Bracing for Love series book, Nepenthe.

I don't have release dates yet, but I can tell you that (if all goes well) I'll release about ten additional books, solos and coauthored books combined. Mary and I have a few things up our sleeves. One you'll learn about soon, and the other is still to be determined.

Plus, in February, I turn 21 and I'll be going on a writing retreat with Mary!

I'll also be attending and signing at Penned Con in St. Louis, MO and Rebels and Readers Author Event in Huntington, WV.

There's no telling what else will happen in 2015 since I can't plan all the awesomeness. :) I can't wait to share it with you, though!

Happy New Year!

Monday's Book Spotlight

I haven't read at all since my last spotlight post. It's sucked and last night, I said to myself, "If you don't read something soon, you're going to lose your mind." I don't think I was being dramatic. So, I closed my WIP and opened up the Kindle app on my laptop.

Hello, lover.

It felt SO good to read something again.

Even better that it was a book I fell head over heels with. Enough so that it's on my favorites list and I already want to reread it. And that's why Loving Mr. Daniels by Brittainy C. Cherry is today's book spotlight. Read this book, y'all.

To Whom it May Concern, 

It was easy to call us forbidden and harder to call us soulmates. Yet I believed we were both. Forbidden soulmates. 

When I arrived to Edgewood, Wisconsin I didn’t plan to find him. I didn't plan to stumble into Joe's bar and have Daniel's music stir up my emotions. I had no clue that his voice would make my hurts forget their own sorrow. I had no idea that my happiness would remember its own bliss. 

When I started senior year at my new school, I wasn’t prepared to call him Mr. Daniels, but sometimes life happens at the wrong time for all the right reasons. 

Our love story wasn’t only about the physical connection.

It was about family. It was about loss. It was about being alive. It was silly. It was painful. It was mourning. It was laughter.

It was ours. 

And for those reasons alone, I would never apologize for loving Mr. Daniels. 

-Ashlyn Jennings

Things I Highlighted While Reading:
- You know what the best thing about purses was? They could carry around books.

- Why didn’t anyone ever throw reading parties? I would be all over that crap.