This is very exciting as uploading it there and getting it right was a bit scary for a newbie at this self-publishing business like me, so I’m delighted to find it was relatively easy to do and is now a finished product available in the Kindle store.
This is especially because Kindle was the beginning of this whole self publishing journey for me in so many ways. It was seeing the Amazon Self Publish Guide on my tablet that inspired me to bring the draft of the novel out from the virtual darkness of old computer discs and revise for this millennium (yes, the first draft was actually written last millennium!!).
So now having it on Kindle is like a major part of the journey achieved, and a major…
I wish for you a dragon’s fire
To breathe freedom to you
To raise you up on crystal wings
Far away from darker lands
It seems the purest souls
Are tested most these days
As though in exchange for generosity
Come ravages and pain
And so I cry to the heavens
Not this, not this again!
Let this dear friend find
Safe passage home
Victorious and complete
Hear me universe
Hear me now!
The essence of the earth to rise and comfort you
The essence of water, to quench your soul’s thirst
The essence of air, to gift you wide expanses
The essence of fire, to burn away all pain
I invoke all the elements
To be with you now
And bring you back to us safe
And healed in body and soul.
“Looking for romance authors who want to promote their work on both sides of the Atlantic during the month of September.” Great opportunity for romance writers!
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Where this impish angel sits
Directing the circus
As our humble Queen
Creating games and mischief
Keeping spirits high
And teasing those held dear
With smiles and fun in mind
I owe her much
For her support and care
As many others do
My best and dearest friend
A wordsmith and a muse
Please raise a glass of what you wish
To make her blush and squirm
As we thank her for all she does
Thank you, Ionia, for everything you’ve done for me and every other author that has been blessed to cross your path.
Totally awesome review about a totally awesome author! Sarah M. Craditt, Anne Rice, and Dickens all in the same breath. Go to Sarah’s blog now and find links to purchase her novels St. Charles at Dusk and The Storm and the Darkness.
So, something incredibly cool happened to me this week. And its just Monday!
It started a few weeks ago when Becket, who is the endlessly interesting and endearing assistant of Anne Rice, posted on his page that he was interested in knowing what other indie authors were working on. He is getting ready to publish his own stories, and has been very supportive of the indie community as a whole. I responded with some info about my novels, and a link to my Amazon Author Central profile. He replied that he had read the sample offered by Amazon (you can’t adequately imagine my surprise at that), so I offered to send him a copy, and he accepted. He was incredibly kind and gracious about the whole thing, and of course I was completely useless to the world for the rest of the day.
Here is the fifth installment of Ten Top Lists of What Not To Do by John W. Howell of Fiction Favorites at http://johnwhowell.com and Marie Ann Bailey of 1WriteWay at http://1writeway.com . These lists are simu-published on our blogs each Monday. We hope you enjoy.
10. Do not attend any kind of service on Sunday, if you were a judge at a Texas Chili cook-off the day before.
9. Do not use the collection plate to make change from a twenty, even if that is all you have.
8. Do not think you can just close your eyes for a minute, even though you think you never drool in your sleep.
7. Do not pinch your youngest so that you can go to the crying room, since someone may see you do it and call the authorities.
6. If you are attending a service where it is acceptable to vocalize agreement with the minister, do not say “damn right” when you feel the urge.
5. Do not try to stifle a cough or sneeze using the hymnal as a deflector, even if you have done so before.
4. Do not think you must sing the loudest during the hymns; this is especially true if you can’t sing.
3. Do not compliment the minister on his sermon if you slept through the whole thing, you will only invite that observation.
2. Do not ask for a carry out if your church has a coffee social after the service, even if you brought your own thermos.
1. Do not honk your horn, yell obscenities at, or gesture to your fellow parishioners, even if they cut you off leaving the parking lot.
Is it August yet? OMG, it’s August! Yes, I’ve been lolling in the luxury of not having to meet a WORD COUNT for the past few days. Methinks it’s getting harder, not easier, to cough up 50K words, even if a third of those wind up on my blog or someone else’s blog :) NaNoWriMo in November will come soon enough and I might have to do something completely different for that word challenge. In the meantime, I’m still trying to decide what to do between now and then, besides the usual blogging, reblogging, commenting, tweeting, facebooking, and just general making a nuisance of myself. While I try to sort this out, let me revisit my RCC goals and see where I’m standing (or sitting or squatting as the case may be).
My Goals
(1) Get off my own back. I actually think I’m getting better at this. I did manage to push through to 50K in Camp NaNoWriMo but I was prepared to lose honorably, without any loss of pride. Any number of words I wrote was more than what I had started with and I could live with that. (But I’m glad I didn’t have to.)
(2) Set up a schedule of posting that gives me time to write, but doesn’t make followers think I’ve fallen off the face of the earth. I still haven’t sorted this out, and I’ve missed a number of tantalizing writing prompts on The Community Storyboard. If you haven’t been over there, do pay a visit. There’s plenty of great reading even if you not incllned to write.
(3) Get organized. That may have to wait another week or two. Here are my excuses: (1) my kitchen is in the last throes of being remodeled. I’ve been living without a kitchen sink for over a month now, and nothing makes me feel more disorganized than a unorganized house. Fingers crossed that the remodeling will be done by mid-August. (2) I have a business trip next week–a road trip no less with two other people meaning virtually no down time for the introvert that I am. (I admit that blogging has brought out my inner extrovert, as well as a few other inner things, but in the physical world, I am truly an introvert).
(4) Write the third novel in my series, The Widow’s Club (working title). OMG, I actually met this goal! And this is what I’ve been like since.
So I’m done for July. Hopefully I’ll have a schedule (eventually) for regular blog posts. Please stay tune for Monday’s Top Ten Things Not To Do posts that John Howell from Fiction Favorites and I collaborate on to give you all a chuckle for the beginning of your week.
Marie at 1 Write Way 