New Release, DISCONNECTED is finally out!!!

I am happy to announce that my latest YA novel, DISCONNECTED has been released, finally!!!
*Happy Dance*
I sincerely hope you enjoy it!
Thank you to my wonderful editor Ellen Larson and all of the Pencil crew!
Thank you again to all my friends at Absolute Write too.  I couldn't have done it without your support.
You guys rock!

Disconnected First Chapter

                               

Disconnected Book Trailer

Go Green and Celebrate National Mental Health Awareness Month!

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month so I’ve put together a list of non-fiction, memoir and fiction list for everyone to enjoy. I’ve also added a publisher’s list for those who are looking for more reading material and/or writers to submit their work to. Go Green and celebrate this month by reading more on mental illness and strengthen your awareness!

For Non-fiction:

Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder: a 4-Step Plan for You and Your Loved Ones to Manage the Illness and Create Lasting Stability by: Julie Fast and John Preston, PsyD (2006) Surviving

Schizophrenia, 6th Edition: A Family Manual by: E. Fuller Torrey (2013)

The Skipping Stone: The Rippling Effect of Mental Illness in the Family by: Mona Wasow (1995)

Hidden Victims Hidden Healers: An Eight-Stage Healing Process For Families And Friends Of The Mentally Ill by: Julie Tallard Johnson (2007)

For Memoirs
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by: Kay Redfield Jamison
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by: Marya Hornbacher
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by: William Styron
Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by: Stacy Pershall Manic: A Memoir by: Julia Hoban
For the full list please visit the Goodreads shelves on Mental Illness Books

For selected fiction, Stephanie Kuehn has put together a great list on YA Highway with categories including: Depression and Suicide, Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, Bipolar and Thought Disorders, PTSD/Complex PTSD and Impulse Control/Self Harm

And for those who are looking for publishers dedicated to publishing books on mental illness whether it’s for more reading material or somewhere to submit your book to, here is a short list of some places (NF: non-fiction, F: fiction):

Free Spirit Publishing: NF
Impact Publishers: NF
Beyond Words: F, NF
HCI Books: F, NF
Magination Press: F, NF
Zest Books: NF
Youthlight: NF
Rosen Young Adult: NF
New Harbinger Publications: F, NF

All publishers listed you can submit to directly without an agent. Enjoy!

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Disconnected Book Giveaway!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Disconnected

by Lisa M. Cronkhite

Giveaway ends June 17, 2014.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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Disconnected will come out this June.

BOOK BLURB:

Seventeen-year-old Milly has a huge problem on her hands.  She is being bullied by Amelia Norris. Day in and day out, Amelia torments Milly and even threatens to hurt her, but she can’t tell anyone—not a soul.  Milly’s reasoning—she does not want anyone to know where her tormentor lives.  They only share one thing in common.  Both co-exist as one in the same body.

Milly is so disconnected from her past that she feels compelled to find out what truly happened to her when her parents were still alive.  After a mysterious fire, she and Grandpa George move into Aunt Rachel's Victorian home where Milly then begins to unravel puzzling clues to her family history. Through dreams and scattered memories, Milly journals her breaking story, trying to cope by putting the shattered pieces back together, all the while resisting with her inner demon.  Amelia is determined to cut Milly out of the real world—literally.

Milly starts to wonder who her real family is after stumbling across Aunt Rachel’s notebook—having the intuitive sense that something terribly awful is missing.  All she had thought to be true now seems like one big lie.

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