May it be, everybody.

[authorsahunt]

Hi, BookTalk.

I'm S. A. Hunt, and I'm addicted to coffee. I'm also a fantasy/horror author and a veteran.

Oh, questions! How convenient.

Yes, I am male or female. (Probably male.)
I'm originally from Georgia, US but recently I've moved to Lexington, KY and now I'm having trouble figuring out why.
Hobbies and interests. Well, I used to play a lot of video games until I started knuckling down on my writing, and now just about all I do is write, socialize online, and go outside for exercise when it's not snowing like mad.
What sort of books do I enjoy reading? Well, I like to read just about anything if the jacket and a few pages catch my eye. I tend to gravitate toward dark-fantasy and horror novels with dark, dreamy covers, adventure travelogues, and humorist memoirs.
How did I find BookTalk.org? Lots of wandering around bumping into things. Mostly Google.

I'm an advocate of indirect promotion, so I won't bore you with self-plug posts. I try to save that stuff for signatures and profile pictures. Feel free to ask me questions, I will be around. Once I'm firmly ensconced in your midst I will probably try to come by a few times a week when I'm not slaving away over a hot laptop torturing imaginary people.

If anyone's interested in the book in my signature, it was inspired by Stephen King's Dark Tower series and it's been downloaded more than a thousand times since I put it up on the 21st. I'm very proud of it, there's a sequel coming, and that's the last chestbeating you'll hear from me.

(If you're wondering what the subject of this post means, it's a greeting from my novel. The appropriate response is "May it never end." The expanded greetings are "May your journey be more than your destination," to which one replies, "May your journey never end.")

[OliviaFuller]

Mmmm Morning coffee can be the best part of the day

Welcome. I'm new too... but your first post subject is much better than mine!

[authorsahunt]

So Olivia ... I see you write romance. Do you often stray outside your written genre when you read?

[OliviaFuller]

I'm a sucker for happy endings but I do read outside of my own genre.

I love a catchy story that keeps me on my toes, so whatever genres those stories might be in is what I gravitate towards

[authorsahunt]

Sounds like my own preferences. I like your first cover there, by the way. That's an eye-catching image.

[OliviaFuller]

Thanks! I have actually been thinking about my first cover and whether or not I should change it because it's not a stereotypical romance cover, but everyone I've asked has liked it.

You are another vote in the affirmative

I just checked out your book too and I also like the cover. Much more eye-catching than mine! (But I am always second guessing myself... Aren't we all?)

And on the original subject, as far as reading, I thinking it is usually good to have varied tastes.

[jennyk1991]

Hey olivia, your books look interesting and i think i might pick them up. One question though, because i often have the tendency to bite off more than i can chew, how many books are going to be in the wicked game series?

[OliviaFuller]

Just three I'm working on the third one now.

And thanks a lot! I hope you enjoy them!

EDIT:
And I forgot to add that you can actually pick up the first one for free on Smashwords this week as part of Read an eBook week.

[Chris OConnor]

Excellent intro! Welcome to the community.

I'm a coffee addict too. I buy Dunkin Donuts whole beans and grind them for ever pot of coffee I make. And for espresso I buy Starbucks espresso grinds. Once you've become accustomed to quality coffee you just can't drink the cheap stuff again.

[authorsahunt]

I love Dunkin Donuts. I actually just got a bag of DD the other day and I was amazed at how good it was. I had forgotten.

The best coffee I've ever had though, hands down, inexplicably, was a little pouch of Kona blend from a local Kangaroo gas station. They have the little foil pouches the employees use to brew coffee for the truckers. I got some and brewed a half a pouch in my drip.

I never could get into espresso. The Italians drank a lot of it on our camp in the sandbox, and the local Italian eatery there had frozen espresso (which was actually extremely good).