Lots of excitement today as we get chapter one ready to post!! Also had a Skype meeting with Jmann93 who designed me a MUCH better book cover for Inside a Wish.
All this is coming SOON!!
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My favorite part of writing is finding out what happened next. My second favorite is to hear someone else enjoyed the story!!
All my editors repeated the same thing – good story and well written. They caught a few spelling errors (big surprise) and some rough patches. So I have a few things to correct and smooth over before we go to “print”.
June 1st is coming!! Inside a Wish will be ready for download on Amazon.com in NINE DAYS!! To celebrate the publication of my first book suitable for all ages, I am planning to give away some prizes next weekend!!
More details on Inside a Wish and my celebration every day!!
Very happy to report I am writing the last chapters of CRISIS COMPANY and expect to have the first draft finished this weekend.
Then I will be able to focus on Inside a Wish. Planning some fun things while we count down the days to June 1st!! The date Inside a Wish will be published on Amazon!!
Very excited and happy!! First report from one of my editors is in!!
Here’s a quote from her –
It was a great kids book. Easy to follow, loved it. I can’t wait for the next one.
Still expect to be ready to publish on June 1st!!
Just finished CHAPTER FIVE of this new and exciting story!! Really enjoying the writing and finding out what happens next!! Something terrible just happened!! Hopefully tomorrow things will be better and my characters will figure out how to fix things!
Did not get a lot of sleep last night!! Have three new stories knocking at my brain asking to be written!! Finally managed to work out an agreement about order and started one today!
This is the one I promised for my grandkids – mostly for the boys this time!
Chapter One is done and also some research. Very exciting!!
This one is also suitable for all ages. No swearing except from some of the flying characters! No violence.
I am very pleased to announce Inside a Wish will be going out to my editors tomorrow. Hopefully they will not find many errors – I did use spellcheck!!
I am well ahead of my deadline to have the books ready for the end of April!!
I do not want to rush my editors so there is no change to the planned publication date of June 1st.
This is SOOOOO exciting!!
After reading the requirements and information on amazon.com, I plan to publish Inside a Wish as a download available to everyone.
Using Amazon.com will make things safer for all of us. You will not have to trust me with any personal information and I will not have to share mine. Also, I can use the time for more writing, rather than sending off copies of my book to everyone who asks to read it.
I plan to charge a mere 99 cents to download my story. Much less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks!! I think that small charge is worth making my book available easily and safely.
If anyone has experience with amazon sales, please let me know any tips or warnings you feel might be useful. You can contact me through a comment here on the blog (all comments must be approved so I can keep yours private if you wish), or send me a tweet on Twitter.
Inside a Wish has 18 chapters and I have just finished ploishing chapter 9!!
When I started ploishing I wondered if I would ever get finished. I rewrote chapter 1 about 50 times – just did not come together. But once I felt happy with it – the rest of the story started flowing well.
On schedule to have the book ready for the wonderful people who volunteered to read it through for me – check it all makes sense!! Should have it out to them the end of this month and plan to publish on June 1st!!
Feeling pretty optimistic!!
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