Fall is in the Air

Fall is in the air! It's October and temperatures here in Louisiana are already dropping. I was curled up in bed with an extra blanket, turning off my fan, and even tucking my head away. Yep, Fall is certainly here. I love it!

What's your favorite season?

We are pulling out the seasonal smelling candle waxes to melt, not that we didn't melt them before, but now it feels more authentic, ya know?

What is your favorite Wax Melt?

This season also put me in the mood to cook-more like bake! Just something about this time of year gets me pumped! Surely, I am not the only one? I have already cooked Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies, Pecan Bars, and Cherry/strawberry Kuchen Bars. Each day something different and amazingly enough each day it gets finished. Haha got to love family. I wouldn't be able to eat all this on my own.

What do you love to cook or eat during Fall?

With Fall here I know the end of the year is really close. I mean, I can almost see it! We are just three months away from 2016 and I think that's scary. I swear this year just started the day before yesterday, but apparently I'm wrong-don't tell my husband. Anyway, it's time to get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas, wrap up all the little things you've been putting off all year long, and take some time to reflect upon this year and think about the next. But I'm just going to take this one step at a time, right now I am going to focus on tying up lose ends.

One thing I want to finish is my reading. I have a Goodreads reading challenge and as of right now it is 17 of 52. Yeah, that is a huge difference. I am far from my end year goal and it isn't look pretty. So I am going to focus on reaching 25. I can at least do that. That is 8 more books! 8! I know so many people in their sleep who could do that, but that is other people. You should really never compare yourself to someone else. Go at your own pace, my husband always says. So 3 months, 8 books! I can do this!!

What book have you read lately?

Another goal is to finish and name the next book in the Pulse World Series! I am currently on writing page 245. I don't know why I can't just write a short story? Nooooo it has to be over 200 pages. Haha But I know I love to read a longer book so I bet plenty of y'all love it too. You're welcome. Once the final word is written and I send it to the amazing ladies that have become my editors and mean critiques I hope the name will make an appearance. I will keep y'all posted.

And if any one is wondering I am still working out, just doing it a little differently now. I will post about it later.

Enjoy the cooler weather while it last, I know I will.

-Brenda Franklin

Pulse World stories

The Pulse World, though finished for Elizabeth and Virgil in The Pulse Trilogy (A Steady Pulse, Barely Beating, and Flat Line), is still alive and kicking. There are an array of characters that we have yet to truly learn about. Along with stories that are begging to be told. Such as people's histories, how certain couples ended up together, the story that started the war between brothers, and what about some of the adventures of Annette and Andrel?! If you don't know the characters you are missing out! Grab your copy of A Steady Pulse as an ebook for #FREE at Barnes and Noble or a paperback.

Anyway, this is where I am at. I am struggling to figure out what story to tell first. Two are currently colliding with one another, though one is in the led I am beyond excited to get them out! First drafts are so much fun but they are always the messiest and require the most attention. There is so much detail and connections you have to make sure line up within each other, especially when writing scenes that run parallel in another book.

I don't want to give too much information, but I will say this. One story takes place almost a year after the Pulse Trilogy, while one runs parallel to the Pulse Trilogy revealing what happened to a character that should have perished. I know, that could be a few different people, but if you have read book three, Flat Line, I am certain you guessed who. :)

There is plenty more to come, and both of these stories do not have release dates. So I am saying 2016 for now until things become more certain.

See you soon!

Brenda Franklin

The Pulse Trilogy

(Paranormal Romance Trilogy)
A Steady Pulse Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble

Barely Beating Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble

Flat Line Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble



Guardian, A Fated Pairing
(Paranormal Romance)
Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble

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We lost Kelly Franklin on January 24, 2014. It was an unexpected loss in our lives and she is greatly missed everyday. Kelly's two daughters are now under the care of her ex husband's Aunt.

My In-Laws, Kelly's parents, proceeded to go to court to get Grandparents' rights of Kelly's daughters on Wednesday, June 24th 2015 after over a year of trying to see them and facing one challenge after another. Now, the court is sending my In-Laws and nieces to be evaluated.

We will do whatever it takes to reestablish our family ties with these girls.

It's never easy to lose a family member such as Kelly, but we shouldn't have to lose her daughters, as well. We do not want to take these girls away from the family they have formed with their Aunt. We just want the ability to see them and have these two little girls back in our lives.

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Today's read

The Edge Chronicles book 1, Beyond The DEEPWOODS

by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. 

I haven't gotten too far into this, but I think I'm going to love it. The description, the lands, the stories. Just the first Chapter alone is enough to draw you far enough into their world that you don't want to come out for days.

When I read books I read them in little bursts. I can't help it. Some books I read from beginning to end in a day or so, while others I will read a few chapters and step away, only to come back a few days later to read a bit more. It just depends upon the books.

Are you the same way? What books can you remember that you started and stepped away from and why?

Tess Gerritsen books are the perfect example of this for me! I can only read a few chapters and then it's a bit much. I have to step away and process what happened in her books.

But so far, the Edge Chronicles book 1 I feel that I will mostly post this blog and then dive back into the world around Twig. I just wanted to jump on and prove that I was still l alive to all those wondering. :)

Happy Reading everyone.

-Brenda Franklin

Happy Friday

Happy Friday!

There is something about Friday that puts a smile on my face. On this day I start work at a local Ice cream shop, Marble Slab, until the afternoon on Sunday. It's a fun place to work. Honestly, you can't not be happy when you work around ice cream all day. :D What makes you happy about Friday?

Yet again my family has finished two new puzzles “F is for Feline” puzzle title in which two 5oo piece puzzles are placed together in a box with no picture. It has a fun back story to a crime and you have to solve the crime with the two puzzles you are given. It truly was a lot of fun. It's one of those Mother daughter things we love to do in our free time. And my mum has gotten good. :)

Okay, there is a new rule around the house. I am not allowed to buy more books until I finish some of the ones I own. I guess that is a fair deal. I have to try and curve my spending habits one way or another. :) I guess my husband doesn't know that I can read like a crazy person.

As I was writing that last line. My husband looked over my shoulder and said new rule, every 10 books you can buy a new one since you read so fast.

….... He is so cruel.

So my list of books read already is Suddenly Supernatural book four: Crossing Over.

5/5 stars! I love Mrs. Kimmel's Middle Grade books featuring medium-in-training Kat Roberts. So far there are four books in this series and they are filled to the brim with humor, teenage struggles, crushes, and friendships. :)

That's one book down! Nine more to go!

I am also currently reading The lightning Thief and The Flame in the Mist. Review coming for The lightning Thief SOON.

Reading in June

Reading in June! There are so many books on my Bookshelf that I can't keep up. From Working at the Ice Cream shop, writing my next story, and trying to keep sane, I find it hard to relax long enough to read. But I will read these books!!! My list is short this time so I will succeed. :)

The Search For WondLa

When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her, for she knows that other humans exist, because of an item she treasures—a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl, an adult, and a robot, with the strange word, “WondLa.” Tony DiTerlizzi honors traditional children’s literature in this totally original space age adventure: one that is as complex as an alien planet, but as simple as a child’s wish for a place to belong.

Breathtaking two-color illustrations throughout reveal another dimension of Tony DiTerlizzi’s vision, and, for those readers with a webcam, the book also features Augmented Reality in several places, revealing additional information about Eva Nine’s world.


The Flame In The Mist

Fiery-headed Jemma Agromond is not who she thinks she is, and when the secrets and lies behind her life at mist-shrouded Agromond Castle begin to unravel, she finds herself in a chilling race for her life. Ghosts and misfits, a stone and crystals, a mysterious book, an ancient prophecy—all these reveal the truth about Jemma's past and a destiny far greater and more dangerous than she could have imagined in her wildest fantasies. With her telepathic golden rats, Noodle and Pie, and her trusted friend, Digby, Jemma navigates increasingly dark forces, as helpers both seen and unseen, gather. But in the end, it is her own powers that she must bring to light, for only she has the key to defeating the evil ones and fulfilling the prophecy that will bring back the sun and restore peace in Anglavia. 

The Lightning Thief

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction — Zeus' master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop him. Most of all, he must come to terms with a father he has never known, and an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a friend.







Three books, that's my goal. I will try and do them within the week. It's time for some nice, long me time. I am going to curl up in bed and read all day and night. haha, don't you ever feel like that? What are you planning to read this month? Any suggestions for my next read? Not that I need anymore due to the stacks of books next to my bed. LOL

-Brenda Franklin

the Pulse Trilogy is almost done. :)

The Pulse Trilogy is nearing a close. Once I get Flat Line in my hands I am going to give it one last review before releasing it and then it's onto the next project. There will never be an end to the Pulse World. I look forward to exploring the mystery behind certain characters, but at a later time.

It has been a fun adventure writing about Elizabeth and Virgil. Honestly, It might not be the last. You may glimpse them again in the near future. :)

And as I wait for Flat Line to get here I am reviewing over Guardian, A Fated Pairing line by line to turn it into a paperback. Fourth paperback! Yeah!! Cross your fingers that it will be available in October.

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Brenda Franklin

Purchase my products from the links below

The Pulse Trilogy

(Paranormal Romance Trilogy)
A Steady Pulse Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble

Barely Beating Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble

Flat Line Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble



Guardian, A Fated Pairing
(Paranormal Romance)
Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble