Yes, we all know the beginning, middle, and end, but what is the throbbing heart of the story?  Some lean toward characters. Others lean toward plot. Some are sure the theme is why a story is provocative. I find that the answer is in alchemy. The mixture of every story element makes the thing sing as a whole. This undefinable balancing act is different for every work and makes all the difference. 

The Four Winds!

 Cece Barlow, has been up to all kinds of mischief. I want to check out my newest work, please follow the link: The Four Winds: Regalia of Power   . This YA fantasy serial will appeal to readers who love speculative fiction/historical mashups! Oh, and dragons, magic, ether, the Salt City, caravans, the Great Library of Constantinople, powerful magicians of Egypt...definitely not traditional Western fantasy.  

I wrote this serial with cool friends: Christopher Cheng, Chris Eboch, and Louise Spiegler!

Whoo who!  

Fresh New Cover and a Free Read.

Hey  Y'all! Weird and Wonderful has a new cover for spring. This edition has a slightly new start and is available for free on Amazon if you want to give it a read.  WAW is available for Free the weekend, Jan 23-Jan 27. My mom was a huge influence on my life, and I'm celebrating her birthday with this giveaway! 

Birthday Sale!

Hi folks!

Weird and Wonderful is on sale until my birthday on August 11.  99 cents! 

Here is a quote for you!

"Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful
Oh, Bennie, she's really keen."  Bernie Taupin

Plumb Crazy is free until Monday!

My book Plumb Crazy is free until Monday! Goats! Star Trek fanfic! Cosmic connection! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XB456SI   

Free until Monday

Grab a free copy of WEIRD AND WONDERFUL. Gin uses feng shui principles to send positive energy to her ill brother, hopes that her voice-over actress dream will ignite, and finds true love in the friend-zone. https://amzn.to/2FRZbYt . #austintexas #freebook #romance #heart

Thanks, 500!

To the 500 of you for grabbing PLUMB CRAZY on Kindle during the free offer!   You are the awesomenest!!!

FREE

Hi folks,

Haven't dropped in for a while, but I wanted to let you know I'm hard at work on a new novel. Yay!

To celebrate my new endeavor, I thought I would offer you the opportunity to read PLUMB CRAZY for free on KINDLE from October 2, 2018 to October 7, 2018. Check it out! Here is the link.

10 Heartfelt Love Quotes for Lovers, Dreamers, and Valentines

1. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.  Lao Tzu

2. "If music be the food of love, play on." William Shakespeare

3. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace." Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4. "Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements." C.S. Lewis

5. "Love pressed them hard, as thirst presses the dying stag to the stream; love dropped upon them from high heaven, as a hawk slipped after long hunger falls right upon the bird." Joseph Bédier

6."There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” Jane Austen

7. “How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon?” Omar Khayyam

8.  "All those beautiful powerful words, they were you!.. The voice from the shadows, that was you... You always loved me!" Edmond Rostand

9. “I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”  Charlotte Bronte

10. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” James Baldwin

For heartfelt love stories, check out Cece Barlow's books Plumb Crazy and Weird and Wonderful. 

Weird and Wonderful Blog Tour and Giveaway - Day 6

June 12th

Books Direct   Guest Post

The Cubicle Escapee  Review

"This book was cute but really real.  The emotions were believable and the character development was so real that you felt as if you could know the characters, they could be you… your friend… your loved ones.     We have all fallen for the wrong guy before and to me that dug deepin this story.  I loved Gin.  I was constantly rooting for her, I couldn’t put it down because I wanted her to have a happy ending."

deal sharing aunt   Book Trailer
Sascha Darlington's Microcosm Explored  Review

Weird and Wonderful Blog Tour and Giveaway, Day 5

June 9th

YA Book Divas    http://www.yabookdivas.com Promo Post

What Is That Book About     www.whatisthatbookabout.com    Promo Post

Laura's Interests     http://dogsmomvisits.blogspot.com/     Review

The Phantom Paragrapher     www.thephantomparagrapher.blogspot.com    Review
To Be Read   www.tobereadsite.wordpres.com   Review

Win a copy of Werid and Wonderful and a Doodle!

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Weird and Wonderful Blog Tour and Giveaway! Day 4

June 8th

Cinnamon Cindy's Book Blog     www.Cinnamoncindy.blogspot.com   Promo Post

Zili in the Sky   http://www.ziliinthesky.com   Review

Never Too Many To Read      www.never2many2read.boogspot.com    Promo Post

The Readdicts    http://thereaddicts.blogspot.in/  Promo Post

Win a free copy of Weird and Wonderful and an Original Doodle

http://gvwy.io/k7mf06o

Weird and Wonderful Blog Tour and Giveaway! Day 3

June 7th

Kindle and Me   www.kindleandme.com    Promo Post

CBY Book Club   http://cbybookclub.blogspot.com/    Promo Post

Madison Loveday    https://madisonloveday.com     Promo Post

I Read Indie      http://twimom101bookblog.blogspot.com/    Promo Post

My Crazy Corner      https://www.mycrazycornerblog.com/   Promo Post

Here is the link to win a free book and doodle: http://gvwy.io/k7mf06o

Weird and Wonderful Blog Tour And Giveaway! Day 2

June 6th

Reading for the Stars and Moon     http://readingforthestars.blogspot.com/     Promo Post

Bobo's Book Bank     https://bobosbookbank.wordpress.com   Promo Post

Mythical Books http://www.mythicalbooks.blogspot.ro/    Promo Post

A Lovelorn Virgo   http://alovelornvirgoblog.wordpress.com   Review

The Bookworm Chronicles     http://muretbookworm.wordpress.com    Promo Post

 5 Grand prizes: 1 signed copy of Weird and Wonderful and 1 original doodle.

Here is the link: http://gvwy.io/k7mf06o

Weird and Wonderful Blog Tour And Giveaway!

Blog Tour Schedule – 

June 5th

The Cozy Little Book Nook    http://thecozylittlebooknook.weebly.com/blog     Promo Post

The Silver Dagger Scriptorium     http://silver-dagger-scriptorium.weebly.com/   Promo Post

The Cover Contessa     http://wwwthecovercontessa.com     Promo Post

The Avid Reader      http://the-avidreader.blogspot.com     Promo Post

Lovely Loveday https://www.lovelyloveday.com     Promo Post

3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy,&,Sissy, Too!  http://3partnersinshopping.blogspot.com   Promo Post

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5 Grand prizes: 1 signed copy of Weird and Wonderful and 1 original doodle.

Meet the Author Day! April 29! 10 a.m. -12 p.m. Mounce Library, Bryan, Texas

Here is a page about me at the Mounce Library in Bryan, Texas.   Some of my awesome books will be for sale.  There will be Skittles.  I will also have my newest book for sale: Weird and Wonderful.  Come out and support local authors!!!!

Awesome Tee to Celebrate Weird and Wonderful!

Get one here! $14.99. :)  

Barnes and Noble B-FEST, College Station

Head on over!

GUEST POST at Janet Lee Carey's Dreamwalks!

I'm featured on @janetleecarey's blog. We chat about Art and the Crucible. Create in the midst of suffering. Enter to snag a copy of PLUMB CRAZY and more. http://ow.ly/10sTw6.

PLUMB CRAZY is available on the NOOK!

Happy Day!  PLUMB CRAZY is available on the NOOK! Yes, NOOK readers, you can load it NOW! Perfect for cozy winter days reading. Pour hot chocolate. Find a fuzzy blanket. Pull out the NOOK. Load PLUMB CRAZY and let the Texas summer warm you up! Here is the link!