Chucklebeary Tales

Dreams CAN Come True!

From the time I started writing, at age five, I dreamt of one day holding my book and sharing it with everyone. And today that dream came true!

No matter how old you are or whether anyone else believes in your dream – keep going forward. I am blessed with some wonderful people in my life who helped me be brave enough to take my stories out of the closet and share them.

Here’s some photos of a dream coming true. I hope all your dreams come true. Never give up.

Look at the AWESOME art work for the cover – designed by my buddy, Jacob! Thanks!

Revised Plan for 2011

The first copy of Inside a Wish got lost in the mail for several weeks. The printers sent me another one a few days ago but this morning the original one showed up!

I finished the first draft of 2 Tonnes of SISU and am writing the first draft of my Christmas story. I had hoped to print them for Christmas but I now realize how much time and effort is required to finish a book ready for printing.

I will be making some changes to Inside a Wish before I approve it for printing and then work on Crisis Company. My other stories will have to wait for a while.

Life is always about choices. I planned to enjoy my retirement, but I have started another career instead! I still want time to relax and have FUN so I need to be careful not to do everything all at once!! (Even though I want to).

I promise to keep writing and publishing my stories, just take a little longer doing it!

Inside a Wish Proof is in the mail!

A proof is the first copy of a printed book. Everyone involved checks it over: the printer, the author and a few editors to make sure everything is perfect before the book gets printed for sale. You do not want mistakes immortalized forever!

Once we check over and approve the proof, Inside a Wish will be for sale as a paperback! YES! A REAL book you can hold in your hand, share with a friend and display in your bookcase!

Once I found the right system for getting my book into print, everything came together perfectly and very quickly!

So here we go again – waiting waiting waiting. Sometimes I wish for Jenny’s gift!

HAPPY ANNOUNCEMENT!!

After a lot of research, I have found an easy and inexpensive way to bring my stories to you in REAL book form – a paperback book you can hold in your hand! I will still be offering the E-book format, and am considering an audio version as well, where I read my story to you!

I expect the process of setting up the “print on demand” books will take at least a month as the printers send me a copy through the mail for my approval before setting my book up for sale. Print on demand means they only print a copy when someone wants one. No wasted trees or throwing out copies no one bought.

I am very excited about this. I planned to spend two weeks checking out my choices and updating everything. Looks like everything is coming together beautifully.

At this point, I cannot give you a price for the printed books, but my main focus is on sharing my stories, not making a profit.

You have a few weeks to purchase Inside a Wish and Crisis Company for 99 cents. I have copies of both my books, using the free Kindle App for my pc and am pretty happy with them.

I will, of course, keep you updated with how the printing process is going.

Thanks for all your support – special thanks always to my wonderful husband, my supportive daughter, and to Jacob for being there when I need encouragement to keep going!

Decisions Decisions

I am spending some time investigating and considering my publishing options.

I would appreciate any feed-back you would like to share with me.

Here are some choices:

1. Print on demand through amazon.com – they only publish a copy of my book when someone orders a copy. No wasted trees.

2. An audio book with me reading my story. This would be on a CD and I could sell it through e-bay. Would be easily convertible to MP3 format.

3. Self-publishing – I pay a printer to print copies of my book and sell them through e-bay with PayPal.

If anyone has experience with any of these options, comments, suggestions or opinions please let me know. You can contact me through Twitter @chucklebeary, e-mail mrs_chucklebeary@yahoo.com or by leaving a comment here on this site.

Thanks for the help!

Agents of SPRING!!

My latest book, 2 Tonnes of SISU introduces AINO (pronounced I know) and ANU (pronounced I knew) who are agents of SPRING: Society for the Protection and Relocation of Intelligence in the Near Galaxies.

Agents of SPRING only visit Earth for exceptional people because humans (as a group) are not very intelligent! lol

I plan to spend the next few weeks enjoying life (and catching up on some house and garden work),  then start my next story which will follow Aino and Anu and their buddies on a Christmas adventure.

My wonderful news is my eyesight has improved. Hopefully I will be able to finish some illustrations for my SPRING series or at least the book covers!