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All posts by: Carlie Yates

I always swear I will be better about this

I realized I haven’t updated in a hot minute. I have had some setbacks with rewrites, mostly needing to get out of my own way. I wrote a new chapter...

NEW BLURB TIME

As this story is changed to a four person point of view novel, the blurb needed changing as well. Thank you Christa Stewart for your help with this! CALIFORNIA STARSstandalone...

Revisions are the worst!

Okay, so really, they’re not. I have a LOT of rewrites to do with California Stars, changing it from a one person POV to four, each of the friends getting...

Welcome 2024!

Looking back, 2023 is the first year since my debut novel in 2019 that I haven’t published anything. It feels…weird. But that’s okay. Onward and upward, and hopefully California Stars...

…and suddenly Little turns 18

Eighteen looks far different for us than other families. While they’re looking at college or graduation or a new apartment, we are dealing with SSI and guardianship. Jake is such...

Come on in and cover me

California Stars has a cover! California Starsa standalone New Adult Contemporary Romance by Carlie Yates Seth has his life all mapped out for him before he even entered the world....

Adulting or the lack thereof

I have been working on California Stars doing some revisions to tighten it up and such. But other than that, I’ve been slacking hardcore. I’ve done a lot of reading,...

Smashwords Annual Summer/Winter Sale!

I’m excited to announce that all 10 of my novels (ebooks) will be promoted on Smashwords for the month of July as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Be sure...

It’s Blurb Time!!

California Starsa standalone New Adult novel by Carlie Yates Seth had his life all mapped out for him before he entered the world. His parents had thought of everything, leaving...

The verbal pitch

Have mercy, this has got to be the hardest part of being an author. Someone says “What’s your book about?” and you freeze. Or at least I do. Except with...