Third 'Darkness' Teaser

How do you like this new teaser? It's one of my favourite quotes from the book. :)

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Teaser Tuesday

Hi! I just realised I shared my second Darkness teaser everywhere but here last Thursday! So here it is! It's from Isaac this time. My friend found this pic to use, and even though Isaac is covered in tattoos, we liked it so much that we decided to use it :)

Isaac works in a Gym and that's where his relationship with Megan will start to develop!

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Vlog #1: My first video blog! Learn a few things about me and my book!

una publicación de Ella Preuss - Author.

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Teaser Thursday!

Hi lovelies! 

Today I bring you my first teaser EVER! I really love this quote from Megan; I think it shows her vulnerability really well. Meg has promised herself she'd tread lightly around guys she could fall for... and along comes Isaac, ready to shake the foundations that support her. 

Special thanks to Cathleen Tarawhiti for the awesome stock she lets us use! http://cathleentarawhiti.deviantart.com/

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This Inspired Me, #1: Megan and Isaac

Hi, lovelies! So, for today I decided I'd start this feature where I'll share things that have inpired me in my writing process. I'm gonna start by sharing things about Into the Light, but I might move on to other projects later on. 

One thing you should know about me: I LOVE TV. Like, if I could marry my TV, I would. I have this ancient TV set back home with buttons to change the TWELVE channels it has, and I've forbidden my mum to throw it or give it away. It still works! AND it's a colour TV, why should we get rid of it just cause it's old? It was my first TV and I love it. I always joke I'll get a tattoo of it someday, so who knows...

I'm even studying to become a screenplay writer at uni! (I actually enrolled to the Photography major, but writing's my thing, so I switched. Still love my Nikon, though.) 

Suffice it to say, I watch tons of hours of TV. Thank goodness for the Internet. I watch everything right after's been aired on the States (or the UK or wherever). 

So, naturally, a lot of the things I watch end up sparking something in my head. Take a look at the pic below and guess which show I wasn watching while outlining the series. 

YUP. You got it! I'm a huge Teen Wolf fan! I'm slowly converting my friends, too. People really miss out on this genius show, just because it's about teen werewolves and it's from MTV. I even had to trade with one of them: I'd start watching Arrow and he'd start TW (Thanks Bocha, BTW! I'm a HUGE Arrow fan now! Just had to stick till the end, cause the first episodes can be quite boring.)

So, all of the TW cast invaded my mind while I started imagining my story. These two aren't the only ones that inspired me (physically and emotionally... Holland Roden looks gorgeous when she cries, and my Megan sure does that a lot!). Almost all of the TW cast is represented in this series, with a few characters from other TV shows making appearances too. As a matter of fact, Allie and Charlie, Megan's best friends (and the protagonists of their own novels!) are not drawn from TW actors. But, you'll see them soon. 

Can't wait for you to read their story! And if you haven't watched Teen Wolf yet, or if you've rolled your eyes at it and labeled it a "teen, Twilight-y sucky drama/romance" show, you're WRONG! Let me tell you, that if I ever get the chance to work in the writers' room for a show like this one, I'll drop everything and take it! Their scripts are INSANE. Can't wait for season 4! 

xo, E

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New project: A New Adult novel!

That's right! I'm writing a New Adult Contemporary novel titled The Darkness That Haunts Us, yay! 

It'll be the first in a series of stand-alones that I'll be self-publishing or publishing with a small digital press. When the time comes, I'll see what I can do. 

It's the story of 19-year-old Megan Albert, a community college student with serious trusting issues. She feels that the universe must truly have it in for her and it becomes increasingly hard for her to open up to strangers.
Tired of feeling weak, she enrolls in a self-defense class, and very soon she finds that her teacher will stop at nothing to turn her into a stronger version of herself.
Isaac, the 21-year-old self-defense teacher, looks like the villain in a gang movie. His appearance rattles Megan, and yet, he sees how badly she was hurt and takes it upon himself to help her tear down her walls.
The question here is, will Megan let him in?

I'm setting a goal of 50k for this book, out of which I've already written 17k! In ten days! Is that awesome or what? And I really like what I've written, it's not pure crap that'll have to be edited out later. I'll share snippets of it as I progress with the project.

The idea is to write about Megan first, then her best friend Allie, and lastly, Allie's brother and Megan's friend, Charlie, to complete the trilogy. I've outlined a novella too, about Megan's ex, Ryan. When I started planning their backstory, his reasons for leaving Megan sort of bombarded my brain, and I wrote them down just in case ;)

I'll be blogging about my journey into self-publishing, so stay tuned! 

xo, Ella

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