Hi Everyone,
It’s been an awesome month filled with so many new things, it’s got my head spinning. I’ve been kept busy with preparing the paperback versions of my book through Kindle and Ingram Spark. It was a little bit difficult as I had to learn as I went along, but I got there in the end, and learnt some valuable shortcuts along the way.
The hardest part was that it was so time-consuming. After I had completed it and read it online, I then purchased a proof copy to check, which took a couple of weeks to arrive. I read it while highlighting errors (there were a few – hopefully I caught them all), before uploading revised version and rechecking online again.
As most of you know I have organised a book launch for family, friends and some fellow writers to help me celebrate finally finishing and fulfilling my life-long dream. So I spent a week nutting out all the details for that as per below:
Please join me May 6th, 2018 at the Rockingham Bowling Club, Cnr. Wanliss and Kent Streets, Rockingham at 1pm. There will be light snacks and refreshments, tea and coffee. There is full bar facilities if you want to purchase alcohol. Get a copy of my signed book for $12.99 plus a bookmark. Come down for a chat or even a quick game of lawn bowls. I hope to see you there.
Now comes the hard part – promotion! I’ve called and arranged for an article in the local newspaper. That should be coming out soon. I’ve also approached many book bloggers to give me reviews for my book and promote it on their website and social media pages. Good responses with that. I’ve still to hear back from a radio station where I was promised some air-time to help promote my book. It’s all happening folks!!
I’ve also been busy with my normal family life, social engagements, babysitting duties, monthly writing group that I oversee, critique partner, convalescing husband after an operation, and a new casual job helping out a friend with the bookkeeping for his new business. Whew… I barely have time for writing.
But I managed to finish the first draft of my new romance book in my Mature Love line of books. I plan to write two full days a week and work on promotion one day a week, so fingers crossed I can finish it and have it published this winter.
Here is the blurb – I hope you like it.
HAVING FAITH
“You think I should what?”
“You heard me, Faith. I think you should take a sexy, young, stud muffin and introduce him to Jacob as your lover.”
When my ex-husband announced he was marrying again after only a year since our divorce, I was shocked. I had always thought that one day we would get back together again. It was one of my most consistent fantasies – that he would come crawling back, begging for forgiveness, exclaiming that he ‘couldn’t live without me’.
Now it was just that – a stupid fantasy. Jacob’s text had certainly brought me back into the land of the living. The jerk!
And that wasn’t the worse part. Not only was he marrying again, but it was to a much younger, beautiful and intelligent woman. Oh, come on!
Nudging the big Four-O, I was feeling battered; my dreams of a reunion crushed, and my ego bruised. So okay, I allowed myself to be enticed by my best friend’s suggestion. Unfortunately, the only gorgeous young men I knew were married. Both of them.
Suddenly a vision of the bluest eyes and dark, barely black hair popped into my mind. I shook it away, but the familiar crooked smile lingered.
“So, who did you have in mind, Rachel?” As if I didn’t know. I thought to myself with an inevitable sinking feeling.
“Adam.”
She voiced the one name that had been hovering between us since the words, ‘sexy’, ‘gorgeous’, and ‘young’ had been mentioned in the same sentence.
Adam, was my best friend, Rachel’s much younger half-brother. He was like a little brother to me too, and we had spent a good portion of our teen years babysitting him. Although there was a ten-year age gap between us, we had both been extremely fond of each other and the friendship had continued, even after I had married.
Then something embarrassing happened on his eighteenth birthday. A night when everything had changed forever between us, and he went away.
But now he was back, and looking so good, it should be illegal. The soul-incinerating chemistry still bound us, and I was damned if I would play the older sister anymore.
P.S.
On another note – I promised I would share this book on my blog. I’ve met this lovely lady who has written a YA Fantasy novel. I haven’t read it as yet, but the blurb sounds enticing. Check out her website to read her blog or buy her book – Musings of a 20-something Author.
‘The Crown of Amiriel’ – by Shade Rachea
Warrior princess Raynin is the most powerful person in the Guardian Realm, despite having unstable powers. She’s also the most loyal. Her best friend, Prince Riley, is second.
After Raynin is named heir to the coveted Crown of Amiriel, the most powerful object in all the realms, the two of them are forced to flee the kingdom and seek refuge in another realm to avoid death. Soon, that realm is thrust into an unexpected war against a merciless king, for harboring the teens, forcing Raynin and Riley to make new alliances and learn to trust and rely on others.
With the help of their friends, Raynin and Riley must fight to stay alive while trying to get a grasp on their powers and find the Crown before anyone else. Only problem is, the king has sent more than one assassin after them and the Crown, making staying alive that much harder.
