Preorder The Towers now!

sooooooooo guess what? Everything is officially official....officially.

Now is the time to Preorder The Towers on Amazon!!!!

You can find the print version here
and the ebook version here

Pretty crazy right?
Let me tell you all a little story....
Seven years ago back in 2008, I wrote a short story for a friend's birthday gift about her in the future saving a place called The Towers. She loved it. Two years later, I entered that story in a contest. Of course, I didn't win the damn thing but the response to it was amazing...so I thought why not turn it into a real book?
A little while after that, I had something cool. Something I could be proud of. I had no idea what to do with it because I never thought that publishing was a possibility for me. But then my amazing cousin Mary Gibbs  turned me onto a small press called World Castle Publishing to which I sent my finished little sci-fi baby. After not hearing back from the other places, I was getting worried that nobody would pick my story up.
Until I got the email asking me if I was interested in a contract with World Castle.
And now, a year after I got that email The Towers is ready to grace the world!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your help along the way, everyone. I am so incredibly grateful of all of you who have lent me a hand over the years whether you were one of my trusty beta readers or someone who just simply liked my page. You are all amazing.

Still want to help me out?
-buy an ebook version of The Towers
-like/share my facebook page
-write on my facebook page wall
-share the amazon link
-start/comment on a discussion on The Towers amazon page
-write a review after the book release
-tell your friends!


The best thing anyone can do for me is drum up interest!
Once again, I wouldn't be where I am now without all of your help. Thank you.



Much love,
Natalie

Beach Bummin'

Ello chaps!

Just sittin' here in the beach house overlooking the B-E-AUTIFUL lake Michigan as I write this. No big deal, yo.
Hoping to get some serious novel-ing done this evening. I've been struggling a bit lately and I'm hoping some vacation time will get the creative juices a flowin'.
I'm also having a blast at my new job at Interlochen Arts Camp! Its been pretty chill and all the people I've met are amazing and just bursting with creativity. Its awesome to surround myself with people like that who can mutually inspire each other in their own art form.

Anywho, I'm done with my copy editor, Brieanna (who was totally awesome, by the way) and I am now waiting to hear from the proofers for round two! Hopefully the new novel will be hittin' the shelves soon!

okay, brb, going to the beach now......

~Natalie

writing the old fashion way on the beach :) 

now on facebook

Guten morgen!

I totally forgot to let you all know what I did the other day....I made a facebook fan page! Roohoo!
It felt so weird at first making one because I didn't want to be that person who has a fan page.... asking people to like a page about myself felt unnecessarily narcissistic. But apparently that would be the cool kid thing to do these days in the writing world. So go check it out, give it a like, and share it 'round and 'round!

On a different note, I am still in the (hopefully final) editing phase once more and am hoping to get some word back on The Towers sometime in the next four weeks whilst I continue on with Lost in the Middle of Somewhere. 

Peace, Love, and Reading!
~Natalie

Throw Back

Ahoy!

Still happily chugging along on Lost in the Middle of Somewhere at the moment.
But writing Jess's flashback to the 1970s got me thinking that I really want to do a whole period piece set somewhere in the past.

How cool would a 1920s Werewolf novel be? How about an 1850s ghost?

What's your favorite decade? I can't really choose. SO MANY CHOICES.

Happy Friday, everyone. Keep on keepin' on ;)

~Natalie

edit, edit, edit, repeat....

So after a few months of waiting, The Towers is now heading into editing with the publishers!
Hoorayyyyyy

So is this the part when I start getting fan mail and fan fiction and fan made movie trailers and buzzfeed posts called "25 amazing tattoos inspired by The Towers"?
One can only hope.....
I want to be humble and all... but c'mon, that would be pretty baller, right?

Anywho, I'm told that the editing phase goes by pretty quickly and I'll find myself going into print in no time at all :D

In the meantime, I've been writing like a madwoman on Lost in the Middle of Somewhere. That one is shaping up pretty nicely right now and is partially up on figment if you want to get a little taste of it.

Have a good night everyone!

xoxoxo
Natalie

On Pinterest!

Ahoy there!
So I've been moseying around the pinterest land for quite a while now. Until yesterday, all I did was waste time pinning cute clothes, cool DIY projects that I (lets face it) would never do, and probably ineffective life hacks.

AND THEN...!

I started a new board that was a little more productive called "writing" (duh.)

This one is pretty cool because it includes all kinds of inspirations for characters, places, houses, cars, clothes, hobbies...all of it!

Some of the notes are rather confusing (because nothing would ever be a surprise for you if they were understandable) but you will be able to get a glance at some of my brainstorming and musings for some of my works in progress.

checkity check it out!
http://www.pinterest.com/nbergerconqueso/writing/

Also,
For those of you wondering, The Towers is still hanging out on the editing room floor at the publishers waiting patiently for someone to come along and give it some love.
I know, I am totally anxious and sweating bullets here myself waiting for it to pick back up again.
Soon, my lovelies!!!!

xoxoxo
~Natalie

Song of Blue Winter

Hey there!
I've started working on a new screenplay yesterday that I'm super stoked about. Its way different than anything else I've ever written--certainly out of the norm for me. I'm not sure if I want to actually go out and produce it on my own in the near future, but we'll see how it turns out!

Also, I've been trucking away at my new novel Lost in the Middle of Somewhere. Still only sitting around 27,000 words, but it is on the way!
I've got all kinds of fun projects underway right now, and I'm super stoked about all of them!

Have a good week!!!

~Natalie