My book is now available on amazon.com, Kindle, Kobo.com and at my estore https://www.createspace.com/3829973. Get it now. So excited, this was a lot of work and I am very proud of myself to have saw it through to the end. I have started on the first book in The Shape Shifter Trilogy entitled Shift. I should hopefully have it done by the end of the fall. You can check out the Prologue on my snip its page shown up at the top of this website. I am looking forward to putting out soon. Keep watching for a preview of the cover. Once I get more written I may add a excerpt from the book so keep visiting. I have decided the my publishing schedule will go as follows a romance novel and trilogy book and so on and so on. The next romance novel is already written, it just needs some editing. I am still looking for someone to do my covers, so if you know someone that is handy with a camera, computer graphic or just a great artist send them my way. Credit will be given for all artwork provided. If you have someone in mind send me an email. There is a questions and comments form on my home page. Will I have to get some work done Shift wont write itself.
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So two nights ago I typed the best two words a writer could ever type. THE END, that's right I am finished writing Remember Me. I have a few more chapters of proofreading to do that I will hopefully have done by the end of the day. I have been proofreading the book as I have been writing it, so I only have a little left to do. I am so overwhelmingly excite that I don't know what to do with myself. As soon as I get the book sent in to the publisher I plan to start focusing on my next book which will be part one of a series that I am going to do. Actually my new series is what has been slowing down the progress of Remember Me. Every time I would try to work on Remember Me, my new series characters would pop into my head and I wouldn't be able to work on Remember Me for days. But it is my rule that I can't start one project before finishing another. I am sure that the reason that the series was so heavily on my mind is because it happens to be in the genre of books that i have been reading as of late. Now that I am finished with Remember Me I can give my series my undivided attention.
I really enjoyed writing Remember me. The story took some unexpected twists and turns (I'm sure that sounds strange coming from the writer but as I have said in previous blogs I am just the writer the characters tell me what to write and I do. The characters became people that I really grew to love. I am sad to see them go. My the will come back some day or show up in some other book. However for now I bid them farewell and ado, It is time to get working on the next big thing. Look for Remember Me soon on Amazon.com and Kindle. I will keep you posted on the series bye for now I have work to do. That is how I want to start this blog off by wishing my son a very happy tenth birthday. I am getting so old. I remember the day I brought him home. But anyhow back to writing. So my computer crashed a week ago. Lucky for me I had enough sense to back up all of my writing on a flash drive and an SD card. Previous experiences have taught me well. (Yes my computer has crash before and I lost all of my work on that book. Minus the unfinished copy I had printed for editing purposes. Needless to say I'm still rewriting that book.) So now I am up and running again and all of my work was safe and sound on my two different modes of alternative storage. So I am getting back to work finishing up a few things so I can send my work in to Createspace.com. I really need to get back to work but today I'm feeling like a Bruno Mars song Oh well back to work. Oh yeah did I mention that summer break has started and all of the kids are home. So I guess you know that means I will work as much as I possibly can. While breaking up sibling arguments and cleaning up incredible messes that you wouldn't think a two year old was capable of. So much for not doing anything.
So I have had another great day. Well for the most part anyway. I mean I can't really help what my two years old does. (gotta love her anyway). So thanks to my very awesome mom, I have found someone who could quite possibly be illustrating my book covers for me. Go Mom. I so greatly appreciate my mom's enthusiasm about my writing career. I really just want to tell her thanks for how supportive she has been during this entire process. Thanks Mom Anyhow so I was outside a little while ago and the trees outside where alight with the flickering of lightening bugs. For some reason the sight of it put any image in my head for a chapter out of my next book. I am so eager to get to work on it so, I am in front of the computer preparing to pound out the last couple of chapters in my other book. I just thought I'd drop by here and say I had a great day, so I best be going I got work to do. Here is a song that brings As the title states I am almost there. Four or five more chapters and my first book will be ready to up loaded to createspace.com. I am so very excited. I have been struggling over the last few weeks to put pen to paper or finger to keyboard. However yesterday something just hit, I'm not sure if it was that my writers block finally lifted or if it was the fact that my own personal deadline is fast approaching, but I couldn't stop typing. I was up until two a.m writing. I finally made myself go to bed when I realized I was make too many typing errors. So now I am up and I have had a nice cup of coffee and I am back in front of my computer. I am almost positive that my desire to write so fervently has a lot to do with all of the great books I have been reading lately. I have been just soaking the good books up I finished the Watcher trilogy five days after I started it. That's right I read all three books in five days. Great job Karice Bolton. I have now moved on to a new series Keary Taylor's Fall of Angels series. I don't know but I think it's the angels that pull me in. Needless to say the last three series I have read have been about angels. Must be a good topic. So you see that must be where the urge to complete my first book has come from. It is just a basic romance novel, I already have my on science fiction novel series in mind and I have been working on it off and on over the last month. However I told myself that I could not give it my full attention until I completed the book I was already working on. You know one thing at a time. So after reading one science fiction romance novel after another my new characters have been screaming for their story to be told. But I had made a promise that I wouldn't move on to start something new until I completed task one. So I mentally decided it was time to finish up the novel I have been working on so that the series I have in my head can finally have its chance the be heard. I am looking forward to writing it. So with out further ado I must get back to work. Bye for now. This song just makes me feel good. Thought I should share it with you. My day had a great start. First of all I got to sleep in until ten am which hasn't been able to happen in a while. I was awakened by my loving husband who brought me breakfast in bed. My favorite part was the delicious coffee that perked me right up and got me out of bed. So now I am going to spend most of my day in front of the computer screen. I have some book reviews I need to write on goodreads.com and some work that need to be done on my book. I am trying to get it finished in a matter of about two weeks so wish me luck. BTW I have read some pretty awesome books in that last few weeks. Amy Bartol's Indebted was a great read. Read it in about 24 hours. If you haven't started reading the Premonition series you really should all three of the first book where amazing. The other series I am reading now is The watcher trilogy by Karice Bolton. Book one was Awakening great read, I read it in like two days. I started book two yesterday entitled Legions. I am at about 85% according to my kindle. What can I say when the book is good I cant put it down. My kindle goes every where with me. Picture me standing in my kitchen stirring a pot of boiling pasta with one hand and my kindle in the other. That is usually me, or I am sitting it the bathroom on the edge of the tub while my two year old is trying to go potty and I am reading my kindle. Sorry I can't help it great books and great authors do that to me. And what can I say there are a lot of great authors out there, and most of them are indie. Gotta love the Indie authors. I am well on my way to joining the club. So with that being said, I need to get to work. So I'll leave you with Florence and the Machine's Cosmic Love, because I am definitely sending love out into the Cosmos for all of the indie writers out there. So first of all happy belated mother's day to all mothers. Now on to my mother's day. I woke up to breakfast in bed that consisted of mushy cereal and weak coffee. Prepared by my oldest two children. My ten year old made the weak coffee and my son the soggy cereal (he poured the the cereal and milk before the coffee was done brewing.) Yum my husband asked if I was really going to eat it I replied absolutely. My babies made me that breakfast and by god I was going to choke it down no matter what. Isn't that what mother's day is all about really. After my five star breakfast, I received my homemade cards. They were so sweet they brought tears to my eyes. From that point on my day got increasingly worse. Both of my girls got a cold so all plans had to be canceled. My husband left for work and I spent my day doing what moms do best. Taking care of sick kids. My mother's day dinner was Kraft Macaroni and cheese yummy. My son spent his whole day on the computer watch old episodes of a cartoon the doesn't air anymore. The bright side is I finished editing the first seventeen chapters of my book so Yea me. All and all my mother's day was spent exactly the way it should have been. Being a mom.
I have been very lax over the last week or so and I feel horrible about it. I haven't updated my blog in a little over ten days now. I haven't checked my Facebook or Pinterest in just as long. Twitter has gone neglected as well. My writing has gone unfinished. The only thing that has not been ignore is my family. Not sure what is going on really. I guess I could blame it on all the other wifely and motherly duties I have but I'm not going to look for a scapegoat. No I am going to take full responsibility for this one. I am going to give myself a mental kick and the pants and get the ball rolling again. I was doing so well and I need to finish what I have started. Besides I have other characters in my head that are screaming out for their turn to have their stories told. So I have my headphones on Adele is blasting in my ear. The kiddies are occupied with movies and I am in front of the computer with a cup of coffee. All the makings of a bestseller right here in my head. Now I just gotta get it down on paper. Seriously considering not taking phone calls from anyone except my dear hubby. This first book mean a lot to me and it's time I give it the attention it deserves.
Sitting at my desk bobbing my head to 'Trials of the Past' by SBTRKT and I am finally getting some work done. Yay me. I have to meet my own personal deadline and get this book done by the end of next month. I guess you could say that is a blessing and a curse that I don't have a publishing house. If I did I would have an actual deadline. Some days I think I need that extra push the extra motivation. Then the kids reek havoc with my day and all of my plans for the day go out the window and I am glad I don't have someone down my back screaming at me to finish my book. But it's back to work for me. My little mini vacation is over. I am anxious to get this book out so that I can find get some feed back on my writing skills. My husband says that I should prepare myself for the good and the bad feed back. My only hope is that there is more good than bad. Well back to work go ahead and bob your head with me. I gotta get back to work. So I haven't been on in a few days due to the fact that I sprang my ankle and it was in possible to put my foot up while it was under my desk. So I waited for it to heal up a bit and now I back. I know what your wondering and no I didn't do it running on the treadmill though I wish I had. That would have be better that how I actually had. Yes this involves my dear darling two year old (what doesn't?) So earlier this week she was in rare form even for her. She was extremely cranky and crying and throwing temper tantrums and getting into everything. Well she managed to get in to laundry room and pour something on my ceramic tile floor. I you have a tile floor then you know how slippery they are when they are wet. Well as I was carrying her out of the laundry room I slipped and in order to save her from getting hurt I got hurt. I mean really what kind of mommy would I have been if I'd let it happen any other way? Anyhow now I have a wonderful sprang ankle so there will be no running on the treadmill for a little while. So very disappointed. But at least I can sit at my desk comfortably again so it's back to work now. Time to get productive. Yay. I did get I little reading done and some planning for some other books I'm writing, so it hasn't been all sitting on the sofa with my foot propped up on a pillow. ;) Not all anyway.
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