E Van Lowe is giving away a signed set of his books: Never Slow Dance With A Zombie, Boyfriend From Hell and Earth Angel
Plus this cute YA prize pack containing a plush puppy, a heart mug, an ARC of Wintertow by Stephen Emond, devil socks, devil and angel duckies, RockStar Sweethearts, Red Hots Lip Balm, Bath and Body Works pocket bac, and travel size Pink Chiffon lotion, pencils and a Bewitching Book Tours bookmark
Plus this cute YA prize pack containing a plush puppy, a heart mug, an ARC of Wintertow by Stephen Emond, devil socks, devil and angel duckies, RockStar Sweethearts, Red Hots Lip Balm, Bath and Body Works pocket bac, and travel size Pink Chiffon lotion, pencils and a Bewitching Book Tours bookmark
Winner will be announced February 14th, 2012
To see the books you could win, look below!!!!
People always ask me how I got started writing for
television. Growing up in New York I had
no desire to write for TV or film. I
knew I was destined to become a playwright/novelist. I’m lucky enough to say I am a playwright and
a novelist, but most of my career has been spent writing for TV and some film.
This started when I finished college. I had written my first horror novel Child’s
Play under the pseudonym Sal Conte.
My mentor/professor from USC, Shelly Lowenkopf had high hopes for the
novel. And since he did, so did I. I envisioned getting one of those dream
advances. I would become a media
darling, taking up the author’s seat on late-night couches. That did not come to pass.
After Child’s Play was rejected by all the
major houses, I got the manuscript back from my agent. Dejected, I went to a newsstand and was
looking over paperback original horror titles.
Many of them seemed to be similar to what I was doing. I sent letters to a number of the publishers,
and heard back from Dorchester. I sent
them the manuscript and a few weeks later I received a contract in the
mail. The advance was $5000. If I wanted to write full time I needed a
writing gig that paid a whole lot more.
I was lamenting my situation to a friend who said “why don’t
you try writing for TV?” My brother and
I watched lots of TV when we were kids.
I mean LOTS of TV. LOL. Having
watched so much, I felt I had a good handle on TV, but I’d never seen a
teleplay. I’d spent two and a half years
at USC and not bothered to look at anything dealing with television.
The calling card for a TV writer is his/her spec
script. This is an episode of a popular
show that you write. You have to make
sure you don’t write subjects the show has already covered, and you have to
sound exactly like the show. That was
the challenge for me: fresh idea on a popular show, while capturing the
characters voices exactly. It’s not as
easy as it seems. You need a good
script, and a lot of luck to get the right people to read it.
Eleven spec scripts in, my luck kicked in. I met a producer at MTM, one of the major
production companies back then—Taxi, Bob Newhart and The Mary Tyler-Moore
Show. It was Mary’s company—MTM. The producer was honest enough to tell me I
was doing everything wrong. He mentored
me on writing a new spec script. The
script caught the eye of a few big companies.
Both wanted to sign me. Happy
days. I signed with Universal in 1985,
and haven’t looked back. For Universal
TV I wrote, He’s The Mayor, Charles In Charge and Knight Rider. One thing I knew when I started working was
one day I would return to writing books.
Books were my first love. What I didn’t realize is it would take
twenty-two years.
That’s how it happened for me. I kept writing and eventually got lucky. That, to me, is the formula for success as a
writer—if you keep working hard, eventually you will get lucky. The first four chapters
(pdf) of Boyfriend From Hell are available for free right now on my
website.
Readers can go to http://evanlowe.com/ and click on the Boyfriend
From Hell Sample link to get them.
If you like them, both Boyfriend from Hell and Earth Angel are available
on the purchase page. I hope you will
give my books a try.
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Books for the Valentine Giveaway!
Earth Angel
By E Van Lowe
Genre: Paranormal YA
Book 2
Heaven Can Wait!
Just because Megan Barnett recently defeated Satan, has a fantastic new
best friend, and has won the love of deliciously handsome, Guy Matson, doesn’t
mean her troubles are over. Far from
it. For Megan doesn’t realize it, but in
her possession is a powerful weapon, a weapon sought after by both angels and
demons and everything in between. They
will do ANYTHING to get it.
In E. Van Lowe’s humorous, romantic and thrilling sequel to Boyfriend
From Hell, Megan winds up in a gripping life or death battle to save herself,
the boy she loves, and all of mankind from unthinkable evil.
Megan Barnett has recently defeated Satan, found a fantastic new best
friend, and has won the heart of deliciously handsome, Guy Matson. But that doesn’t mean her troubles are
over. Far from it. For Megan doesn’t realize that she is in
possession of a powerful paranormal weapon, a weapon sought after by both
angels, demons and everything in between.
In E. Van Lowe’s romantic yet thrilling sequel to Boyfriend From Hell,
Megan finds herself in a gripping life or death battle to save the boy she
loves, and all of mankind from unthinkable evil.
Boyfriend from Hell
By E Van Lowe
Genre: Paranormal YA
Book 1
Aww, Hell No!
Fifteen year-old Megan Barnett and her single mom, Suze, have a special
relationship—they are friends, close friends, who do almost everything
together.
“But come on, guys, she’s my mother… Can I really tell her that while
we’re snuggled up on the sofa watching Spider Man Three, I’m secretly
undressing James Franco with my eyes? Of
course not…”
The special bond takes a turn for the worse when Suze decides to start
dating again. She hasn’t had a man in
her life since Megan’s father left ten years ago.
Enter two mysterious young men, Megan’s new classmate, sinfully
attractive bad boy, Guy Matson, and the dangerously handsome art dealer,
Armando. Before long Megan and Suze both
wind up in steamy relationships. But
neither of the handsome guys is quite what he seems. In fact, one of them is Satan, with his
sights set on a new bride. Megan has
precious little time to figure out how to stop him. If she doesn’t, either Megan or Suze are
quite literally going to HELL.
Boyfriend From Hell is the first book in the Falling Angels Saga from
the author of the gruesomely hilarious, Never Slow Dance
With A Zombie
YouTube Trailer: http://youtu.be/39hI9rmwI5A
Never Slow Dance With a Zombie
On the night of her middle school graduation, Margot Jean Johnson wrote
a high school manifesto detailing her goals for what she was sure would be a
most excellent high school career. She and her best friend, Sybil, would be
popular and, most important, have boyfriends. Three years later they haven’t
accomplished a thing!
Then Margot and Sybil arrive at school one day to find that most of the
student body has been turned into flesh-eating zombies. When kooky principal
Taft asks the girls to coexist with the zombies until the end of the semester,
they realize this could be the perfect opportunity to live out their high
school dreams. Now all they have to do is stay alive…
About
The Author
E. Van Lowe is an author, television writer, screenwriter, Playwright
and Producer who has written and produced such shows as The Cosby Show, Even
Stevens, and Homeboys In Outer Space. He
has been nominated for both an Emmy and an Academy Award. Van Lowe recently stepped into the young
adult fiction genre with his comedic novel, Never Slow Dance With A Zombie. It was a selection of the Scholastic Book
Club, and a nominee for an ALA Award. Boyfriend
From Hell is Van Lowe’s second YA novel.
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