Kat Halstead

Vibrant

Reaching

Yearning

Howl

Crying

Glowing

Enwrapped

Dusty

Lost

Discovery

Slithering

Temptation

Redemption

Heaven

(c) 2013 Kat Halstead

Picture found at: http://www.makeyousmile.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/sunset-wallpapers-3-arizona.jpg

Watching
Waiting
Anticipating
Breath catching
Heart racing
Knuckles white
Is this real
Is this true
Fingers cold
Tears hot
Throat raw
Heartbeat on fire
It’s true
It’s real
Nights of restless sleep
Long gone
Relief
Joy
Intensity return
Discarded
Against the wall
Feverish
Explosive
Calm
Grateful

(c) 2013 Kat Halstead

Image is from http://dallasgalocksmith.com/raindrops-background&page=7

It was everything
It was nothing
We screamed for joy
We cried in confusion
Arms entwined
Legs joined
Memories cold
Promises warm
Heartbreak hot
Once, first, always
Remembered
Forgotten
Nothing left
Except pictures in a
Faded scrapbook

Poem (c) 2013 Kat Halstead

Image from http://lovewallpapers4u.blogspot.com/

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For today’s blogfest I’ve decided to share a scene from my novel Hello Again that takes place between David and Lexie.

Enjoy!

The sky was black, the yellow light of the street lamps glowed against the postcard perfect view of downtown. Lexie was in her bed, listening to the sounds of the hotel. Trying to relax and fall asleep. She had a major scene to film in the morning after all. Yet something was keeping her awake. Something was brewing inside of her.

It was different, something she couldn’t put her finger on. Her heart was racing, her toes were wiggling. She could feel a pit in her stomach. She wished that David would knock on her door. That something would pull them together. That something would begin.

She was trying to wish for something to happen, when she suddenly felt a chill wash over her. She sat up in the bed; sure she’d just felt something touch her. Something felt unsettling. Something felt as though it had just happened. Her stomach knotted even more as she grabbed for her key and her hoodie. She quickly made her way into the hallway and found herself outside of David’s door, knocking like a mad woman.

He opened the door, his eyes heavy with the start of sleep as he saw her, looking at him, as if begging him for help without any words. “This is going to sound silly, but I think my room is haunted.”

David studied at her for a moment before opening the door wider, “Come on in, it doesn’t sound crazy at all.”

“It doesn’t?” Lexie was surprised, “Why?”

He showed her the screen on his laptop, where he’d been reading about the hotel and the reports of ghosts. “See.”

“Whoa, that’s just, yikes.” She felt a chill ripple through her body; she wished he would wrap his arms around her.

David sat in the chair and looked at her, “You can take my bed, and I can sleep on the floor.”

“I can’t put you out.” She was sitting on the bed, thinking of how soft if felt, how easy it would be to fall into it. “We could share the bed; Joey and Dawson did it all the time on Dawson’s Creek.”

David couldn’t believe she made that reference. “If you’re okay with it so am I.”

Lexie wasn’t sure if she was going to be able to fall asleep but maybe if she did it could be the best night’s sleep of her life.

David stood on the other side of the bed, pulling down the blankets, as he mirrored Lexie’s movements. It was a moment that felt oddly comfortable as they both got into bed.

Lexie turned on her side, looking at David. Thinking of how silly it was to be nervous about lying next to him. Thinking of how easy it would be right now to give in to temptation and kiss him. Wondering if it was possible for him to kiss her back, for them to make love, for whatever she was feeling to be felt by him as well.

David couldn’t believe how amazing Lexie looked, even though she was in pajama pants and a hoodie. She was beautiful. Part of him wanted to pull her closer, to kiss her. To remove each layer of clothing and explore her body the way he’d been thinking about a lot lately.

But he knew he couldn’t; well that he shouldn’t. It would be a terrible thing if he tried, even fathomed doing so. “Sleep tight.”

“You too,” They both rolled to their other sides, their backs to each other as they tried to fall asleep, even though they both had the same dreams, desires and fantasies. Neither could bring themselves to ruin the friendship in the still of the night.

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Now go and check out the other awesome No Kiss scenes from the rest of the Blog Fest hosted by Frankie Diane Mallis.

I’m going to try and write a poem every day for the month of January (and if I can, perhaps beyond). I’ll be posting a picture and using that as my prompt.

just once more
holding on
not ready to let go
knowing the end
tears falling
final caress
don’t go
I must
good-bye

Poem (c) 2013 Kat Halstead

Image is from http://my.opera.com/kxitijv69/albums/

Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve.

I myself spent the evening at home, working on a doll house. I will be blogging about it later so check on back soon.

So let’s make this quick and easy cause I bet you’ve got a lot more hopping to do today so you can get to work on those resolutions!

I’m giving away a copy of my latest novel Stranger in my Bed.

Also when you comment by answering the question provided in the rafflecopter (and leave your email address) you will then be entered to also win the following prizes:

1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

2nd Grand Prize: A $300 Amazon or B&N Gift Card

3rd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack that contains paperbacks, ebooks, 50+ bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more! (US ONLY for this prize)

When you’re done with the rafflecopter, please check out the other sites in the hop via the linky.

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Merry Christmas!

Have I got a treat for you, a Christmas inspired Novella that is only .99 cents on amazon.com.

It’s a story I originally wrote years ago, let sit around waiting for the right time. Which felt like now to be released.

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Yay! It’s the Holiday Season, which means about now everyone is in need of a little break! Well blog hops are the perfect way to take a little break, right? I want to thank Drea Becraft from the blog hop spot for hosting this awesome hop. Over 140 Authors are hosting giveaways.

This hop I’m giving away a paperback copy of my newest release Stranger in my Bed, which is the sequel to Hello Again.

Since it’s the Christmas Season, one of the things I love and adore the most is the music, so I’ve created a spotify play list to share with you all that you can access here.

Here is one of my favorite scenes from Stranger in my Bed, where Jasmine Saint meets Gregory Blossom for the first time:

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I love this season! I adore almost everything about it from the music, to the food, to the decorations.

Here are some of my favorite decorations I’ve got this year.

This is my glass multi-colored owl. I got her last Christmas when I did a total Owl theme on my tree.

This is our Denver Broncos ornament I gave my boyfriend our first Christmas together back in 2009.

This is a Tinkerbell the boyfriend gave me back in 2009. On the other side she says naughty and is wearing a sparkly green outfit.

Here is our tree all lit up with the small village below it. I just love the way the lights and the colorful ornaments pop against the white tree.

For this giveaway I’m going to let you pick which of my 3 books you will receive.

Secret Fantasy, Hello Again, or Stranger in my Bed.

When you comment you will also be entered to win the following:

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I spent a good chunk of my day putting this together, plus last night making the tree.

The tree I made using a dowel and a lot of pipe cleaners. I went with Pink and Purple for a couple reasons 1) their the colors I’m trying to use the most of in my own Christmas decorating and 2) I could only find neon green ones in my stash, I used all my awesome green tinsel ones last Christmas. Then I added gold curling ribbon, but didn’t curl it so it looks more like the wire ribbon popular on trees. The ornaments are some teal plastic flower beads I’ve had in my stash. The star is just a wood cutout painted pink with some silver glitter added.

The gift bags I found on printmini.com, except they were plain white so I played with them in gimp until I got the right pink color I wanted and added the reindeer. Then when I was putting all my printables into a word file one printing is better than five after all, I changed the colors on 2 of them to Pink and Teal.

The couch is one I’ve had FOREVER, like since probably 1989. It used to be a nice rose pink but it had long since faded and it was several different colors. I had painted it a quick layer of black paint a while ago and then the other night I added some hot pink (same pink for the star on the tree actually).

The Christmas cards were ones I scaled down to size and used some cute graphics I found online that just seemed to fit the style I was going for rather than the old Victorian styles I had seen on several mini printables.

The movie posters were images I found, scaled down to size and when I was putting them in word, I added a boarder around them so it looked like they were framed.

I’m really glad I finally got to do this, especially for Christmas. I’ve been looking at my dolls in their said little box, waiting for something to happen with them and finally I got this scene set up. I do have a few other scenes I want to put together with other pieces I have including a kitchen scene, shopping scene, and an outdoor scene.

If you would like copies of the printables I made, just let me know. I’ll be uploading them soon to my website.