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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

2017 Pitch Wars Pimp My Bio


I'm not going to lie, I've been terrified to post this which is why I'm doing it after submission opened. I'm Hailey Niederhauser, but I plan on writing under the pen name Racheal Ross hence the blog (which don't judge too harshly, it's been awhile...). Ok, so, on with why you're here. 

Susceptible
                            



Susceptible is my YA Sci-fi Romance (light on the Sci-fi, heavy on the romance).
  • As I said, heavy on the romance. It's what I love.
 
  via GIPHY (I was a Twilight teen and I'm not ashamed)
  • Experimental genetically determined marriages (try having your pre-teen maturation class come with that bomb dropped on you)
  • Let's just say I throw a wrench in the arranged marriage trope. Shhh.

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  • I've also got the rebel boy and the best friend (yes a love triangle. I'd say I'm sorry, but I totally love them).
  • And humans genetically altered to turn into predatory animals, hence the very pretty melanistic leopard in the aesthetic.
  • And we can't forget this (the non love interest kind)


















 Because best friends are what get us through everything.

I have an entire playlist for this book, but this song is probably one of the strongest matches.




About Me As A Mentee

Learning to take criticism was a hard road for me, until I'd gone through it a fair amount of times and took a step back. I was astounded by the improvements I had made as a writer. I've also experienced one of the harshest critiques any writer can ever get when a professor told me it was time to shelve the novel I'd spent years slaving over. I cried, and I raged against the idea, and then I picked up my iPad and wrote the first chapter of a new idea I'd been playing with in my head and that's how Susceptible was born. I love this story and its characters. I love how they took the story from me when they had plans of their own. But because I love it, I want nothing more than to perfect it and do what it takes to share their story with other people. Which is where you amazing mentors come in. I hope that one of you will fall enough in love with Savannah, Jack and Will and help this story reach its full potential. 

About me

 So now that I've teased some of Susceptible and hopefully haven't scared you all off. Here's some things about me...
  • I write YA and NA romance across a wide array of sub-genres
  • I'm a mom of 5 crazy but wonderful blondies. 
  • I married my high school sweetheart (although the sweetheart part is questionable 😜 He's obnoxious, but I love him)
  • I found writing as a teen when I needed it most and it mellowed/focused my racing mind.
  • I have a BS in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in Psychology.
  • I have a strange love of human biology.
  • I have a love/hate relationship with the reactions I get from people when I tell them I don't like chocolate, but I love chocolate milk and hot cocoa. (Although please don't let this exclude me from being picked as a mentee. I'm mostly normal otherwise, I promise). 
  • I have a Mini American Eskimo named Jasper (got the name because it rhymed with Casper and he's all white), but then I got a Bengal cat and I wanted them to get along so I named her Alice so they wouldn't have a choice, but now no one believes me that his name wasn't intended to be a Twilight reference. 🙃 
  • And now we have a puppy named Izzy that we're supposed to be selling, but she's adorable and it hasn't happened yet

Can you blame me?

Books/Authors who have had a major impact on me
  • J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter (who wasn't impacted?)
  • The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (their stories were a huge factor in inspiring me to write in the first place)
  • Jennifer L. Armentrout especially her Lux series, but pretty much all of it. She's an amazing writer and I aspire to write as fast as she does.
  • Richelle Mead I 💜 Adrian and Sydney so much!!!
  • Can't leave off Twilight. It was my first exposure to YA romance and I've never gone back.
  • Fallen series by Lauren Kate
  • The Violet Eden Chapters by Jessica Shirvington
  • Wendy Higgins!
  • Katie McGarry
  • Melissa Landers
  • Honestly, I could go on forever because I just love books
Susceptible Playlist
  • Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye
  • Ho Hey by the Lumineers
  • Change Your Mind by Boyce Avenue
  • Every Breathe by Boyce Avenue
  • More Things To Say by Boyce Avenue
  • Find Me by Boyce Avenue
  • I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz
  • Icon For Hire's entire album Scripted
  • It's not you by Halestorm
  • In Another Life by the Veronicas 
  • Like We Used To by Rocket To The Moon
  • The Waiting One by All That Remains
  • Coming Down by Five Finger Death Punch
  • Nothing Like You And I by The Perishers
  • Monsters by Matchbook Romance
  • Be Still My Heart by the Postal Service
  • Whatever It Takes by Pillar
  • Never Look Back by the Nearly Deads
  • I Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor Swift
  • Listen To Your Heart by DHT
Then the best friend got her own aesthetic because it was fun and I really love her.