Only a Week Left to Vote for Me on Pepsi Refresh Everything!

So for the month of April I’ve been moving up the ranks on the Pepsi Refresh Everything grant program. I originally started at 195 and I am now at 112! Which is fantastic but in order to get my grant I need to move up to the top 10! So how do I do that? With your votes! Every vote makes a huge difference so please go to www.refresheverything.com/missmoxie  and vote!




You can vote once per day until the end of April so you have a week to go voting crazy. That's right there is only a week left until voting closes.  So go crazy this week, vote like crazy and tell everyone you know to go to www.refresheverything.com/missmoxie  and vote for my idea! I want to start a magazine that is going to make a true difference for teenage girls and young women but in order for that to happen I need to get this $25k grant. Your vote is what gets me to the top 10 and thus the 25k so please go vote. Every vote makes a huge difference and means the world to me.



Thank you so much for your continued support and for your votes in advance,

God Bless,

Grace Hatton – Best Selling Teen Author
http://www.gracehatton.com/

Ask Me Your Burning Questions this Monday at 2pm EST!

Hey Guys,


This is a quick post to let you know this Monday (April the 12th) at 2pm EST I will be doing an interview with Marla Tabaka on her radio show The Millionaire Mindset. Now I do interviews all the time but what’s great about Monday’s show is Marla is allowing call ins. So if you’ve ever wanted to talk to me personally or ask me random questions this is your chance!


You can find out more about the show at http://toginet.com/shows/milliondollarmindset and the call in number for Mondays show is 877-864-4869. Marla loves call ins because she likes her shows to be interactive so feel free to call in. It should be a good show and it’s your chance to ask me your burning questions.

I hope to hear you on the show and as always thanks for reading this post,



God Bless,

Grace Hatton – Best Selling Teen Author
http://www.gracehatton.com/



P.S - Please keep voting for my project on the Pepsi Refresh Everything Grant Program. I am now ranked at 121 but I really want to break the 100 mark so please go vote for me at www.refresheverything.com/missmoxie and vote again every day in April! Thank you for voting. Your support means the world to me =]

Make Sure Your Vote Counts!

Hey Guys!



So as you know from my last post I am entered in the Pepsi Refresh Everything Grant program and in just five days I moved up from 195 to 142! Thats a huge leap and if I keep moving up I will be in the top 10 by April 13th! If you’ve already voted for me thank you for your amazing support. If not please go to www.refresheverything.com/missmoxie  to cast your vote for my idea.

However I want to make sure your vote counts so when you got to www.refresheverything.com/missmoxie  you will see a grey button that says vote for this idea. When you click that button a pop up window will come up and ask for you to either use your Facebook login information or create a Pepsi account. In order for your vote to count you must enter one of these it doesn’t matter if you enter your Facebook login information or if you create a Pepsi account, you can choose whatever your heart desires but you must enter one in order for your vote to count!

Once you have entered this information it will take you back to www.refresheverything.com/missmoxie  and say something along the lines of Thank you for voting and will ask if you want to share the idea. If you see the thank you for voting statement then your voting counted but if you don’t see it your vote didn’t count!

Then when you go back each day to cast your new vote each day you enter your Facebook or Pepsi account information again in order to make your vote count! Let me know if you have any questions about the voting process and thank you again for your amazing support!

God Bless,

Grace Hatton
www.refresheverything.com/missmoxie

Please Vote for Me on Pepsi Refresh Everything

Hey Guys


So I have been blessed with a pretty amazing opportunity this week, as you may know as well as being a best-selling teen author, I am the CEO/Editor in Chief of my own online magazine. I haven’t really been focusing on the magazine that much because in order to get it out I needed funding. So back on March 1st I applied to the Pepsi Refresh Everything grant program. Every month Pepsi allows projects to submit their ideas to get fundings. In order to be entered you have to be in the first 1000 people to submit their idea. I was luck enough to get mine in as one of the first 1000 but even after that I still had to wait for approval.


For the month of March I’ve been waiting to see if my idea would get approved and amazingly enough my idea got approved! This morning on April 1st at 6am, my idea went live. So I am now in the running for a grant from Pepsi. However in order to get the grant I have to be in the top 10 in my category. How do I get to the top 10? With your help! The more votes I get the higher I move up the ranks so please go to www.refresheverything.com/missmoxie to see what my project is about and to vote for it.

I only have until April 30th to get into the top 10 so it would mean so much to me if you went on the site and voted. You can vote for me once a day until April 30th. Every vote on every day counts. You can also vote via the nice widget I am going to make at the end of this post. I will keep you updated as I move up the ranks towards the top 10. This is an amazing opportunity, I am blessed to be included in the this months round of amazing projects and I know with your help I can make it to the top 10.


Let me know if you have any questions and thank you so much for voting =]

God Bless,

Grace Hatton – Best Selling Teen Author
http://www.gracehatton.com/

Ode to Alice

Today is the release of the new Tim Burton movie ‘Alice in Wonerland’, personally I can’t wait to see it and I was going to see it today but my sister insisted we watched Valentines Day so my viewing of Alice in Wonderland will have to wait.


However with the release of this fun new movie, I wanted to discuss the character of Alice or more specifically heroines in general. As a writer heroines are quite fun to create because throughout history we have lived in a man’s world and as women we tend to be a tad more emotional. When a woman stands up for what they believe in, it tends to dramatic, non traditional and unexpected.

So in honour of Alice I wanted to share with you some of my favourite movie heroines of all time. Check out my quick list and let me know what you think and the list is in no particular order (in case you were wondering).

Mulan


Mulan was especially awesome. Brought up in a society where women were simply expected to marry Mulan pretended to be a boy so she could take her father’s place in the army. Mulan didn't take his place to escape her future marriage, she took that place in the army to save her father’s life. Now in the Disney version she goes off to become a national hero and land herself a cute captain. I am not sure how true that is to Chinese legend but either way Mulan was a pretty kick butt heroine and an amazing daughter.

Guinevere


Being an english girl the story of King Arthur is pretty much a part of my heritage. There are many stories of Arthur and Guinevere but my favourite is from the 2004 movie King Arthur. In this version Guinevere is part of the Woads, the true britons who are resisting invasion from the Romans and Saxons. King Arthur rescues her from a prison but once she is out she is pretty darn strong. She proves to be an expert archer and helps protect Arthur’s men. When it comes to the final battle she puts on her body paint, finds her fellow Woads and with Arthur’s knights takes down the Saxons. I like this version of Guinevere because it shows her as she probably was, a woman fighting for her country and not a complete damsel in distress. If you haven’t seen the 2004 movie King Arthur I suggest you watch it.

Eowyn


Eowyn is a character from Lord of the Rings, perhaps one of the best pieces of writing in history. In the books as in the movies Eowyn is the niece to the King Theoden. She is what they called a Shield Maiden trained to fight for her people however she is the last of her king and due to her King’s illness she cannot fight. Eowyn has a great love for her King, her people and country. After her King is healed, she defys all the rules and fights for Rohan anyway. In the last battle she even kills the Witch King, a nazgul one supposedly couldn’t be killed. Even though she loses her uncle and Aragon does not return her love not all hope is lost for Eowyn. If you read the books she goes on to rule her people for a time and then marry Farameir. With their union Gondor and Rohan were joined. So it all worked out in the end but it was her courage that led her to defy tradition, ride to battle and claim her glory.




Those are just a few of my favourite heroines, there are many more I could write about but those are some of the top ones for me. What did you think? Do you like my Heroines or Hate them? Let me know and if you’ve seen Alice in Wonderland please let me know what it was like. I hope you enjoyed this random post and you can look forward to more in the near future as I plan to blog my way through my next book.




Until next time, be blessed, stay strong and never give up,



God Bless,

Grace Hatton – Best Selling Teen Author

http://www.gracehatton.com/