It’s been a while since I’ve had time to do one of these, but I had to pass these along because there’s some solid advice here:
How To Promote Your Books But Keep Your Friends
Marketing Your Novel: Pro Tips From A Newish Author
How To Promote Your Book Without Being Annoying
What about you? Any marketing tips you’d like to add?
“It means, Lizzie, that I find you interesting. And when you’ve seen as much of the galaxy as I have, and met as many people as I have, that’s really saying something.”
1 Line Wednesday
Topic: Page 16, 26 or 226
I’m wrapping up the final edits of Earthsinger, and the cover reveal is coming soon! In the meantime, you can go back to where the series began with a FREE copy of Windsinger today and tomorrow only!!
Meet the Elementals – a magical race that inhabits our world embodying the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Cecy is a “Twixter,” the half-human offspring of an air elemental, who doesn’t always fit in with the rest of our world.
In addition to her magical heritage, Cecy bears another gift, one which will lead her to Brad, a scientist who is studying a very strange phenomenon – one that might signal a far deeper problem and a danger to life as we know it.
Together, they stumble upon a mystery that affects them both, and discover that playing it safe means nothing when love and desire are in the air.
It’s not easy writing two very different books at essentially the same time.
See, I thought I had this all planned out. Considering the deadline for my first YA book that the publisher gave me, I assumed the follow-up book in the series would be on roughly the same rollout, giving me a few months after final edits on book one to refine book two before submission.
Nope.
They pushed the schedule up by three months from where I expected it to be, and whoosh! There went the time I’d planned to use on finishing up Earthsinger and getting a head start on Firesinger.
Crap. Continue reading
I have spent the last 30 days under major serious deadline pressure. And now….it just got worse. Some things have collided professionally, and I find myself without enough hours in a day (or cells in my brain) to get all the writing done that needs to be done. I spent almost all of Memorial Day weekend looking like that picture above.
Okay, that’s a lie. I looked more like this:
But I made headway, and that’s a start. The long and short of all this is….Earthsinger is going to have to get pushed back. I had hoped for a mid-June break on that book, but it’s now looking to be late July.
Readers, I apologize.
In my Once Upon A Time Fanfic, Adrift, Killian Jones is hit with a curse that completely changes the course of the last few years of his life. Emma gets thrown into a tailspin, facing a very altered Captain Hook who’s fought some very real inner demons and paid a heavy price for it.
This scene is from the opening chapter, set shortly after the Season 3 Finale, when Killian and Emma have made a tentative move toward a full-on relationship… Continue reading
He was ominously still. “Tell your men if they
touch her, I will kill them. Personally, and slowly.”
1 Line Wednesday
Topic: “Anger”
One of my friends sent me a new tee shirt and I love it!
And bonus: it got me through an ugly chunk of writer’s block. Hear me out.
I got stuck in a part of my story that just seemed…dull. Plodding. Predictable. This is supposed to be an epic story, for creep’s sake. Epically dull is not something people generally pay money for. Continue reading
What happens when an arrogant TV Show host with an iron stomach films a story about native cuisine – and then oversteps his boundaries with a magical creature? Let me tell you- it isn’t pretty.
Check out the hilarious – and somewhat disgusting – story for FREE on Smashwords!
Britt DeLaney 