Author Heather McCorkle

My fantasy novel, The Dragon Empire is out in eBook formats and the tour has begun! In celebration I'm doing a giveaway. You can win a signed paperback of your choice of one of the following books: The Secret of Spruce Knoll Channeler's Choice Winter Wonders  (includes a Dragon Empire short story) To Ride A Puca There are several ways to enter, from easy clicks to a fun scavenger hunt. Here's how: All over the blogosphere you'll find me answering the following questions: Why write from a dragon's point of view? Are the dragons in your book shapeshifters? What was the hardest part about writing this novel? The world you created in The Dragon Empire is very elaborate. How did you keep track of everything? Is this novel the beginning of a new series? And what can we expect next from you? Find the answers and fill out the form below for a chance to win! Each answer you find will get get you another entry. Don't have time for a scavenger hunt? T...

The Dragon Empire is releasing officially in eBook this February (and in paperback in March)! If you'd like to help me celebrate by posting about it, please fill out the form below and I'll send you everything you need. Once I've sent the info to you, feel free to post any time you can , in February would be great, but if you can't post until March or April, that's good too. Sorry for the form but it's SO much easier to keep track of than comments. Feel free to drop me a comment too though. :) Loading...

The Rise tour was a big success and the FREE promotion of To Ride A Puca that followed it was an even BIGGER success! All thanks to each of you. You wonderful peeps blew my hopes of at least 1,000 downloads of To Ride A Puca during it's free promotion out of the water and into the atmosphere. It reached #1 free books in Fantasy Historical the first day and clung to that position all through the second day of the promotion. I cannot thank you enough for that. I hope that each of you who downloaded it enjoys it and comes back for more. The winner of the appreciation giveaway is: a Rafflecopter giveaway Now for that great read I promised you! Full throttle suspense with a dash of romance  just released! Created by Cindy M. Hogan  has been set loose  and you're going to want to pick it up! Here's what readers are saying: "Created is Mission:  Impossible meets Bourne Identity, only better because Christy is just seventeen."  -RaShelle Work...

Today is the final day in the Rise of a Rector tour. I'm over at my good friend and fantastic author Angela Brown's place talking about a time when someone has risen to the occasion for me, and made me thankful. To spread the thanks to all of you, my historical fantasy, To Ride A Puca, is free on Amazon Kindle today and tomorrow . Download your copy, tell all your friends to download their's, then enter this contest below to win even more books! a Rafflecopter giveaway

I'm late, I know, but I had to celebrate the blog hop with my friends yesterday. I hope you'll forgive me! This picture ( designed by me ) inspired me this last week as I'm working on my new project. To see more of the photos that are inspiring this project, click here . Maybe you can guess what it's about. :) The Rise tour is winding to a close this week but I still have a lot of fun stuff planned, including the giveaway of my novel To Ride A Puca on the 2nd and 3rd, and the contest listed below. What inspired you last week? a Rafflecopter giveaway

Today's Rise of a Rector tour stops are special. I'm telling the scary story of how I survived getting kicked in the face by my horse, on Christmas day. For the first part of the story visit Jewelz at YA Book Diva Reviews , and for the second part of the story, visit the Reader Girls . I hope you'll stop by and say hi at both stops. And don't forget to enter the giveaway below and mark your calendars for November 2nd and 3rd to download a copy (or several) of my historical fantasy To Ride A Puca when it will be FREE on Amazon! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tomorrow is the big day where I'll be signing alongside several of my friends (Stacey Wallace Benefiel, Cheri Lasota, Chanda Hahn and Angela Carlie) at the Surrey Book Fair  in Surrey Canada. If you're in the area I hope you'll drop in and see us. I would love to meet some of you! Today for the Rise of a Rector tour Sylvia from the channeler series is over at my friend (and fabuloua author) Magan Vernon's blog talking about a scary moment in her life. Don't forget, in celebration of the release of  Rise of a Rector , you can enter the giveaway below and mark your calendars for November 2nd and 3rd to download a copy (or several) of my historical fantasy To Ride A Puca when it will be FREE on Amazon! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Today for the Rise of a Rector tour Luke from the channeler series is over at my friend (and fabulous author) Michelle Muto's blog talking about a scary moment in his life. I hope you'll stop by and say hi. Don't forget to enter the giveaway below and mark your calendars for November 2nd and 3rd to download a copy (or several) of my historical fantasy To Ride A Puca when it will be FREE on Amazon! a Rafflecopter giveaway

For today's teaser I'm going to send you over to my friend (and fabulous author) RaShelle's blog where she is hosting me on today's leg of the Rise of a Rector tour celebration. Today Eren from The Secret of Spruce Knoll is talking with RaShelle about a scary moment in her life. I hope you'll stop by and say hi. Don't forget to enter the contest and mark your calendars for November 2nd and 3rd to download a copy (or several) of my historical fantasy To Ride A Puca when it will be FREE on Amazon! a Rafflecopter giveaway

My muse: Fall is always an incredibly inspiring time for me, the colors, the smells, the tastes. It is my favorite time of year and doesn't last long enough. For those who don't know yet, I've caved and joined Pinterest (see my nifty sidebar picture) and I'm finding a lot of inspiration there. The fun part is, I can post pictures that inspire my writing. I'm loving it. But one does have to be careful about the rights of images that they pin. There are sites that approve Pinterest, such as Barnes and Noble, these are the safest to pin from. I plan on only using sites that approve it and my own pictures. My news: It's officially release day for the final novel in my channeler series, Rise of a Rector ! It is currently available in eBook and expected to be available in hardback in about a week. I'm deliriously happy and exhausted but in a good way. Today is the first leg of my tour and I'm over at Candace's Book Blog , or rather, Aiden is, to talk...

My goal last week was to finish the final rounds of editing on the project I was working on, and I did! *throws confetti and dances in it* Finally I feel as though I've broken free of the undertow and am starting to rise above water. Now I can relax and get ready for my release celebration and tour for Rise of a Rector coming up next week. I've been MIA a bit on the blog scene lately because I've had a lot to do domestically as well, what with moving to a new house and working on selling the one we're currently in. Plus, the holidays are coming, fast. Hang on to your pocket books peeps, it's just around the corner. But before that craziness starts I'm embracing my favorite holiday of all, Halloween! My tour for Rise won't be like most tours, of course there will be stops at other blogs and interviews, but here on my blog I'll be taking part in some Halloween fun. Check back next week for more on that. As for reading goals, I've been going slow be...

It's finally coming, the last novel in the channeler series, Rise of a Rector. Only a few more weeks, and you know what that means, it's time to prepare for a blog tour. From mid-October through the beginning of November I'll be all over the blogosphere talking about my novels, characters, doing interviews, and other fun shenanigans. If you'd like to join in and host me for a stop at your blog I would be eternally grateful and will send you a special thank you gift. To join in and have your blog be a stop along my tour please contact me at this link . To start off the fun early I'm doing a live chat tonight alongside the fabulous author Christine Fonseca on Twitter. We'll be chatting about our books, writing, publishing, and all manner of fun. And you know us, of course we'll be doing giveaways too! Hope to see you there tonight, 6pm Pacific Time. Click this link to join us!

Happy Monday! *ducks* My inspiration last week was still my wonderful trip to Hawaii. I think it will be inspiring me for a very long time. This picture is me (yes I have tattoos. I thought about photoshopping them out but decided not to. *waits for the gasps to die down*. For the kids, don't get them. I attempted having one removed once, WORST pain of my life, seriously.), Karen Strong, and Kathy McCullough . What inspired you last week? The winner of the signed copy of Lacrimosa is: Ivya Congrats Ivya! I've sent your information along to Christine and she should be in touch soon. Welcome to the final week of the To Ride A Puca tour. Today I'm visiting the fabulous author Susan Kaye Quinn . I hope you'll stop by to say hi and get extra entries into the contest. Speaking of which: This week is the biggest prize yet, a signed paperback of Saundra Mitchell’s fabulous YA paranormal historical about a girl who can see the future, The Vespertine and a signed ha...

Last week I had a much needed break from writing and now I'm totally recharged and ready to go. And it's a good thing because I have a writer's retreat coming up in less than two weeks! In Hawaii no less. Yep really. First I'll be spending a week there with my better half, then my writerly friends arrive and the work begins. I couldn't be more excited. And I also have a massive blog tour launching on the 21st for To Ride A Puca during which there will be epic giveaways of signed physical books by some of my very favorite authors. You won't want to miss a day of it, trust me! Which of course means I'll be checking in on the blogs participating~and on this one of course~to say hi to everyone while I'm enjoying the beach and sun. There will be new prizes each week with the Puca tour so be sure to stop by often. The entry form with be on each post here on my blog to make it easy to enter. And guess what, To Ride A Puca has released!!! It's available ...

In a matter of mere days, the hardback and eBook of To Ride A Púca will be hitting the stores! *faints* I have a lot of fun planned for the blog tour and I'd love for all of you to be a part of it. There will be great prizes each week and contestants will get entry points for each blog that they comment on that week, and even more entries for those blogs they follow. The tour will begin on May 21st and run through June 15th. My tour dates are full, but if you'd like to host me later, separate from the tour, I'd be happy to do that as well. Prizes will be awarded at the end of each week so those entering don't have to wait until the end of the tour. A new prize for each week will be given! Here is what will be up for grabs: Week #1 Prizes: eBook of BECOME by Ali Cross   (OMG, you've GOT to read this. This book blew me away) Sixteen-year old Desolation Black wants nothing more than to stay in Hell where it’s cold and lonely and totally predictable. Instead...

Today for the Channeler's Choice tour I'm over at author Judith Graves' site , and author Christine Fonseca's site. I hope you'll stop by and say hi. Now on to the fun! I'm so excited for Second Skin! As you know I've been eagerly waiting for it since I finished book 1, Under My Skin, last year. Thank you so much for joining us to celebrate it's release! Judith: Aww…thanks, Heather! You’ve been such a great support over the last few years and are a model of how authors helping authors should be our focus – as it’s our strength. She's humble and sweet. You've got to love that peeps! From the way Under My Skin ends, I'm guessing Eryn comes into her own a bit more in Second Skin. Can you tell us what the most difficult part of writing book 2 was? Judith: Eryn steps up to the plate in Second Skin, she doesn’t have much choice if she wants to save the souls of the humans residing in Redgrave. The creature of the week, a night mare / anc...

Last week my writing goal was to finish the chapter I was working on and start another new one I need to add to my work in progress. And I made it! But just by the skin of my teeth. Wait, what exactly does that mean? Hmmm, I may have to Google that. How did all of you do on your goals for last week? In side news, Giselle over at Xpresso Reads (one of my favorite review sites) has interviewed me and put together a lovely post for the Channeler's Choice blog tour. I love the header she made, it's GORGEOUS. Seriously, you have to click here even if only to see the header. But I hope you'll stick around to read the interview and leave me a comment over there because I'm giving away two copies of BORN OF FIRE to two people who comment at Xpresso Reads! :)

Today for for the Channeler's Choice tour I'm over at author Laura Pauling's blog where I'm giving away two eBook copies of Born Of Fire so be sure to stop by and enter! Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the Born Of Fire giveaway entry. Author Karen Amanda Hooper is also giving me a shout out on her blog and I hope you'll stop by there and say hi as well.  Atmosphere can make your novel exceptional or it can make it forgettable. How much you put in depends on what kind of reading experience you want your readers to have. A little can go a long way, as is often the case in some genre fiction, or more may be necessary, such as with fantasy or literary fiction. To be well informed in what is common for your genre you need to be well read in your genre. Of course you can always be original, but beware that such a tactic must be done exceptionally well to be well received. Writing Tip: Beware of the atmosphere you’re setting in your novel. For a richer at...

Today is an off day for the Creature Features (I'm doing them every other Friday now), but I wanted to let you know that something exciting is brewing for the Creature Features. It isn't my special project, though it will be soon, and it will involve a collaboration with a good friend. I can't say yet as the contract isn't signed, but soon, soon... Today for the Channeler's Choice tour, my good friend (and fabulous new author) Karlene Petitt is giving me a shout out over on the Critique Sisters' Blog . I hope you'll stop by and say hi!

Today for the Channeler's Choice I'm over at my friend (and fabulous author) Jessie Harrell's blog for a one-on-one author interview. I talk about my inspiration and a bit about the Special Project so I hope you'll stop by and say hi! And don't forget to click on the link on the right sidebar to enter the Channeler's Choice tour giveaway.