Interview with Cindy White

Cindy Franks White is one of our most talented poets. I love her words, the way they touch your soul. So here is a bit of an interview with her. Unfortunately Skylynn Wicker was unable to do it due to personal reasons.

Tell me about yourself.

I am married to a wonderful man, 2 great kids, and 1 grandson with one on the way I am a animal rights believer. I have done rescue work with some really sad dogs, and have been able to give them new homes with lots of love, even was lucky enough to teach a deaf dog sign language and place her in a family that uses sign language. But my poetry is my heart’s blood.

So how did you start out as an author?

I don’t think I started out as anything but some sad kid who needed a way to vent or have to face a lot of severe consequences. I just thank Tabetha Jones for seeing something in me that I never thought possible.

Was it something you always wanted to do?

I had a few friends that told me I should write a book, but never thought it would be a reality.

Okay fun time…tell me the craziest thing you have ever done?

I jumped off a bridge into about 20 feet of water on a dare.

Would you do it again?

As scary as it was, oh heck yeah.

As I used to be the party girl you could say, are you a drinker?

I drink but not on a daily event, maybe a few times a year.

Do you enjoy staying in or going out?

I love going out and socializing.

Is being an author everything you expected it to be?

I am just getting used to being a published person. I know my friends think the world of me for going after my dream, and that makes me happy.

How hard is it to get published?

Well, since I got noticed kind of on a fluke, I really can’t say.

Tell me about the publishing company you are with?

I am with Phoenix Fire publishing, Tabetha and Eric are the greatest. They are no holds barred, honest, friendly and really funny also.

What do you currently have out that is available?

Through My Eyes by Cindy Franks-White

What works do you have in progress and can you share some details?

I am working on a book to dedicate to child abuse victims. These touch me deeply in my heart and are very hard to get out but they have a voice and need to be heard.

Do you have any advice for aspiring authors?

Never quit, you never know what you will achieve.

Find Cindy on Amazon Smashwords Barnes and Noble and Createspace Direct

                              http://www.facebook.com/CindyFranksWhite

The Effects of Being with Phoenix

With Phoenix Fire growing as a company I have been lucky enough to have a bright and brilliant team of reviewers, bloggers, betas, and authors, supporting and believing in the Phoenix cause. With new authors joining us, we have decided to start reaching out with promotions and advertising.

Now I have heard through the grapevine that we charge our authors for advertising, promoting, or even blog tours. This outrages me. I believe a publishing company should offer these things for their authors as a part of providing a service to them.

We have recently started by doing guest hosts on this blog. Allowing our Phoenix authors or even authors associated with the Phoenix family to write a guest spot and the rest of the week book them on blogs that are associated closely with Phoenix.

Another route we are working at is hosting each other on fellow authors blog spots, taking turns supporting and spotlighting one another. I believe that in this business we need to work together as a team to make a name for ourselves.

Now, throughout its time Phoenix has had its bad press, and I believe that is why the vicious cycle is starting once again. Our numbers are growing, and we are growing as not only as a company, but as authors. We do not charge our authors for any type of promotion, marketing, or blog spots. We provide pre release reviews, a launch party, swag goodies, book trailers, and now blog hosting.

The blogs that we are using right now to just start out with this new marketing idea are those closely associated with Phoenix. We will expand out to fellow authors, reviewers, bloggers, and even fans. It amazes me that people have nothing better to do than down a company for trying something new and starting small at it.

We have also taken on a Marketing Director and Pr Assistant to help us grow, and utilize every media and social outlet at our fingertips.

I do find it disturbing that there are people in this business that have nothing better to do than to slander people's good names and make posts about marketing promotions going on with a company that they are not involved in.

I also find it disturbing that there are people in this business that want nothing to do but to hurt others instead of supporting them. No wonder people find it hard to trust others in this business and always have their guards up.

Phoenix Fire Publishing will continue to do as we always have and that is take care of our authors. We will stand together against the adversity and laugh as they continue to look like fools. At the end of the day we know how our company works and our authors seem to be very happy.

~Bosslady~

An Evening With Cindy Franks-White

     So as Bosslady I have decided to allow my authors to do weekly guest spots and take over for an evening and write about whatever may be on their minds. During that week on other blogs I work closely with they will be showcased, reviewed, and interviewed. I think fans, fellow authors, and anyone who may be interested to get to know these brilliant talented authors I share this wonderful company with.

     So, tonight Bosslady is turning it over to the lovely and wonderful poet Cindy Franks White, author of Through My Eyes. 

     Hello, My name is Cindy Franks-White, I am a wife, mother and writer, but not always in that order.. lol.

     I started writing at the age of 12. At first it started with my friend Ken and I, we would use each other as sounding boards to see how things flowed. Somewhere along the way I took my feelings more seriously and began to write with my heart’s blood.  I began to write from deep down, feeling things and being forced by my mind to make it come to life. The only way I knew how was in poetry. I would love to say I could write a novel but I will leave that to the professionals. LOL. 

     I love to write, I hope that people will feel a deeper emotion, a connection to what I write and felt. If I made you laugh, cry, remember or hope then I have done what I have set out to do. My poetry comes from life’s events. These are things that have touched me deeply and in ways that I can’t explain except in my poetry.

     I am very excited to be on this incredible journey of writing and being an author. WOW, Me, published, that has always been a dream. And now I can say it has become a reality. I still feel like I need to be pinched, no volunteers please. I am just amazed that someone thought enough of what I wrote to say hey let’s give her a shot. I am truly humbled.

I thank each and every person, whether I know you or you were just so nice as to buy my book. I promise you the next one is going to wow your socks off. 

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Through My Eyes is available through Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, and Createspace Direct. For more information please visit Cindy's author page http://www.facebook.com/CindyFranksWhite

Tuesday April 9th Cindy will be featured on Inked Reviews with Rai Willis

http://www.tattooedreviews.blogspot.com

Wednesday April 10th Cindy will be featured on The Sweete Spot with Zoey Sweete

http://www.thesweeteness.blogspot.com

Thursday April 11th Cindy will be featured on Something Wicked This Way Comes with Skylynn Wicker

http://www.wickedlyreviewed.blogspot.com

Friday April 12th Cindy will be featured on Tabby Kats Krazy Korner with Tabetha Jones

http://www.tabbykatskrazykorner.blogspot.com

Through My Eyes

Phoenix Fire Publishing and Cindy Franks White for the debut release of her beautiful collection of poetry Through My Eyes. Take the journey with her as she tells a story from memory and allows you into a part of her world. Through My Eyes will bring tears, smiles, and stir deep emotions within....

Born Cindy Franks, got married to a amazing man and became Cindy White… I have two amazing children, one daughter 24 yrs old, married, with a grandson and a little one on the way, one son 17 years old and a semi-pro skateboarder. I am 42 yrs old, and have been writing for a very long time. Thirty two years to be exact if you don’t count the poem I wrote at 10… yes I can still remember the poem. I love animal of all kinds but am mostly partial to dogs. They are truly your best friend. I have done rescue work with some of the saddest dogs you ever wanted to meet. I am an advocate of the rescue and retraining of pit bull and Rottweiler’s. I was born in Maryland, moved to Virginia then back again, have been here for the most part ever since. I started writing to hide my feelings and emotions then it became a part of me. No matter where life took me I kept my book of poetry with me. It kept me sane for the most part. Now I am sharing them with you. I hope you enjoy and feel how I felt when writing them.

                                              http://www.facebook.com/CindyFranksWhite

Available in Ebook and Paperback!!!

Love Curse

Phoenix Fire Publishing not only promotes our own authors but every now and then we stumble across indie authors that wow our interest. Nadia Kim is one of those authors. We have the pleasure of spotlighting her today.

Nadia grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC. Her childhood was hard and her teenage years even harder. She faced challenges that molded the person she is today and provided good dramatic material for her novels.

Aside from writing Nadia had one other aspiration, to marry and have children. She is now married with three children. In her spare time she plays with her children, spends time as a family, plays softball and likes to watch movies and TV shows.

Nadia is of mixed heritage, her mother comes from a long maternal line of women who were born and raised in bondage and children of slave owners. Her father was from an aristocratic family in Syria. Both her parents have enriched her life by surrounding her with people of different diversities, religions, ethnic backgrounds.

As a child Nadia spent her time aspiring to be a writer and an actor. She took many acting classes and was part of many plays over the years. She also studied Kung Fu for six years during her teens and was a national champion.

Having spent many time writing short stories most of her life, Nadia finaly realized her dream of becoming a published author earlier this year. Her first novel Reflection was inspired by a series of events where she met someone who seemed to live a parallel life to her own.

She recently began to study Kabbalah which has had the biggest positive impact in her life. The changes have led her down a path to happiness. Nadia continues to write and has more stories to come.

Love Curse Blurb:

What would you do if you woke up one day and was able to do things you couldn’t explain? Would you think there was something wrong, perhaps that you were crazy? This is the life of Sidney. A teenager in high school, struggling with the adjustment of transferring schools, her life takes a turn for the strange. Fearing the idea of uttering the words to any one, Sidney holds her secret close to her heart. To add to the drama she struggles like most young women dealing with boys. Will Sidney crumble from the pressure of school? Or check in to a luny bin for thinking she was imagining the weird occurrences around her?

On the opposite side of time Joan is immersed in the world of Witchcraft, her powers begin to grow stronger after she is inducted into the coven her maternal line belongs to. But Joan finds herself conflicted when she is ripped from all she knows. Her new environment doesnt lend to her mastering her powers and whats worse, she is forbidden to use them. Joan’s deepest desire goes against what her mother and grandmother have commanded of her. Will Joan make the right decision and abide by their wishes, or will she rip the family apart with the plan she is putting together?

For more info check out http://www.facebook.com/nadiakimauthor

UpComing Releases

So with a new year brings a string of new releases for Phoenix Fire. We have some amazingly talented authors coming your way with some romantic vampires, badly behaving witches, wicked wonderlands, and three anthologies that will rock your world. So here is a bit of a sneak peek of what is coming in the next few months...


My Vampire In Shining Armor by Carlie Rose: Releasing January 2013

Blurb: Caroline is more than she seems. The road of her life has been plagued with abuse, until a certain immortal came her way. Damian is the man of her dreams, but he must fight to save her from the clutches of her brother, and then her father. Plagued by indecision, Damian fears for Caroline’s life.

If he doesn’t act soon, she’ll leave him and not in a good way. If that’s not bad enough, her father’s curse threatens to rip them apart. What will happen? Will they survive or will the curse destroy them?

Minivan Meltdown by Misty and Michael Burke Releasing Febuary 6th 2013

Blurb: Are we experiencing an American apocalypse? Minivan Meltdown is the combination of two poetry collections centered on this dark, contemporary theme. It is a husband and wife collaboration that brings to life the secrets of today’s middle class, both in our neighborhoods and in corporate America. Misty and Michael P. Burke would like to welcome you to the wasteland.

Blood Wrath The Draven Witch Series Book 3 by Zoey Sweete Releasing Feb. 28th 2013

Blurb: Renee Draven the witch/vampire hybrid sent to save the mortal realm has failed. She has been beaten, bruised, and left for dead. Half of her soul has been torn away with losing her true one and loyal mate William Angelo. Now, she must look inside herself and find the strength to avenge his death, while unleashing her wrath against Demon Queen, Demya; the one who tore him away from her loving arms. But Demya is only one of many demons coming to surface Renee will face. Old Ones will rise, and the King himself will lead them to chaos. Between battling the darkness that is slowly eating away what is left of her sanity, she must somehow survive the greatest battle she has ever faced. Will our heroine rise above the demons that are lurking after her, or will she finally meet her demise?

Blood Rite The Draven Dynasty Novelette Series Book 2 by Zoey Sweete Releasing Feb. 28th 2013

Blurb: ZoRon, the mighty ruler of Caeli and lead Guardian of the Light once protected all that was great and good. Betrayed by a warrior and his own daughter he banished them from Caeli creating Tarrak, the hell dimension that would soon erupt with chaos. The warrior was marked with a symbol for his treachery and the ruler’s daughter bore her own punishment in her womb. Book 2 of the Draven Dynasty will take you on the journey of how the dimensions were created and how the Angelo brothers were given their blood rite as warriors and protectors of the Draven Witch.

Cover Coming Soon....

Naughty Witches and Deviant Desires by Anna Lovelace and Zoey Sweete

Releasing March 14th 2013

Blurb: Paranormal Erotica Author Anna Lovelace joined by Zoey Sweete, the Author of The Draven Witch Series have come together to bring you six sexy stories of Witches Behaving Badly while unleashing their most deviant sexual acts on the hottest of paranormal creatures. Witches; powerful, sexual, and always getting what they want when they want it. Naughtiness is their game, care to join them for a spell? The Paranormal Realm is home to some of the most wicked creatures, kinkiest witches, deviant demons, and all the others that literally go bump in the night. Within these pages you will join our Naughty Witches on some of their trysts and tantalizing tales, of sex, spells, and dark encounters that will leave you lusting for more...

Fall by Jennifer King Releasing March 20th 2013

Blurb: Being promoted to project manager is a dream come true for 21 year old Julia Dayle (J.D.) Halstead. And her first project is to convert a turn-of-the-century schoolhouse into a B & B. However, an ancient secret hides within the walls of the schoolhouse.  A secret nightmare that could unleash the Furies of Hell and cause a Host of Angels to weep for the loss of one of their own. A secret that could scar J.D. for eternity.

Through My Eyes by Cindy Franks White Releasing March 29th 2013

Blurb: Through My Eyes is a collection of poetry that will show you joy, sorrow, pain, fear, and love. This particular collection, the inspiration was mood; it haunted me, until the words flowed from my fingers to paper. Each poem is an expression, letting my feelings come to life with words, allowing you to take a piece of those feelings as you read. What once was broken, now takes flight, so read the pages, take the journey and fly with each word that has spilled from my lips.

Witches Make the Best Sluts by Anna Lovelace

Releasing Spring of 2013

Blurb and cover coming soon

Turning Thirty Paranormal Fantasies Series by Misty Burke

Releasing April 6th 2013

Blurb and Cover Coming Soon

Misery Loves Company An Anthology of Dark Short Stories and Poetry

Releasing April 18th

Blurb:  

Misery Loves Company is a collection of dark poetry and short stories by various authors. Some are of scorned lovers, and broken hearts, others are tales of inner fears and darkest desires coming to the surface for the very first time. Misery Loves Company will take into the minds of some of the greatest authors, and catch a glimpse of their dark worlds, while they bring their words alive in this collection of misery at its best.

So that is all for now...but as we release a few I will update us with a few more here and there. We have plenty more where those are coming from!!!! I will also update the covers and the blurbs as they come in!!! Stick around we have a ton of fun coming your way!!!

Why Witches?

So Phoenix Fire has signed this new and upcoming author Anna Lovelace who just happens to love naughty witches, in fact her Sexy Brooms Series is about to release its second in line. Her first, The Witches' Secret, is not only hot and naughty but Anna Lovelace shows you quickly that these witches wear the pants in the story. Not only will Anna Lovelace continue her Sexy Brooms Series, she is also doing a collaboration with Zoey Sweete this Spring called Naughty Witches and Deviant Desires. There will be 6 hot naughty numbers where witches do a bit more than cast a spell or two on you. So for tonight Ms. Lovelace is going to take the floor and give us some insight on her witches and why they do what they do.

Thank you for having me on today, I am happy to tell you about my passion. I have a strange passion for writing about witches, and putting them into erotic situations. I enjoy writing about witches because they are powerful, magical, and the epitome of what a seductress should be. I like that they can make any man drop to his knees by magic, but choose to do it with their feminine wiles. Some of my stories feature good witches acting naughty, and some feature bad witches that have never been good.

If you ask people if witches are sexy, they may not see it. With my Sexy Brooms Series I plan on changing that notion. Witches can indeed be sexy and they can be a lot naughtier than a lady who is not of the magical persuasion. Keep that in mind when you read my tales of witches and their desires. I like an erotic tale with a story, a surprise, or a shocking moment. If you have just a whole lot of sex and no real storyline it isn't as much fun to read. I am not knocking you, if that is your thing. I am just saying I like for my tales to have a lot of hot sex, and a fun or scary storyline. The stories you read from me are not going to be normal witchy tales, and they aren’t going to be normal dirty erotica, so buckle up!

Along with my Sexy Broom series, Zoey Sweete and I are doing an anthology together where more witches and paranormal creatures get down and dirty. We both love witches and writing about their misdeeds, so that is going to be an anthology you want to pick up. My debut with Phoenix Fire is The Witches Secret, and kicks off the Sexy Brooms series. The Witch Comes at Midnight is right around the corner, and believe me when I tell you, it is not the story you are expecting. Thanks for reading guys!!

Also be sure to check out Sweete and Lovelace Designs where those beautiful covers came from and the the naughty witch page of course!

http://www.facebook.com/SweeteLovelaceDesigns

http://www.facebook.com/DeviantWitchesPlayground