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    <updated_at>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:24:30 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love the setting of the American frontier, and it doesn't matter to me if the story is taking place early in the 19th century, when the &quot;Far West&quot; was Ohio or Kentucky, or late in the century, when the railways and telegraph lines had tied the country together. I think what draws me (and what I put into my own books) is something of the spirit of dogged optimism: the belief that people could put their own roots down, and build something fine and meaningful for themselves, even if sometimes it seemed against the odds.<br/><br/>Celia Hayes<br/>To Truckee's Trail &amp; The Adelsverein Trilogy<br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262445.Adelsverein_The_Harvesting_Book_Three_of_the_Adelsverein_Trilogy"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-eARI4xvL._SL75_.jpg" title="Adelsverein  The Harvesting - Book Three of the Adelsverein Trilogy by Celia D. Hayes" alt="Adelsverein  The Harvesting - Book Three of the Adelsverein Trilogy"/></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5270501.Adelsverein_the_Gathering_Book_One_of_The_Adelsverein_Trilogy"><img src="http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg" title="Adelsverein the Gathering - Book One of The Adelsverein Trilogy by Celia D. Hayes" alt="Adelsverein the Gathering - Book One of The Adelsverein Trilogy"/></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5270502.Adelsverein_The_Sowing_Book_Two_of_the_Adelsverein_Trilogy"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517GY7sKZSL._SL75_.jpg" title="Adelsverein  The Sowing - Book Two of the Adelsverein Trilogy by Celia D. Hayes" alt="Adelsverein  The Sowing - Book Two of the Adelsverein Trilogy"/></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2552658.To_Truckee_s_Trail"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C7auoFD2L._SL75_.jpg" title="To Truckee's Trail by Celia D. Hayes" alt="To Truckee's Trail"/></a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:17:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I put my first historical &quot;To Truckee's Trail&quot; on Kindle a year ago in December, when the Kindle program first was offered. It took about three days of effort to do, since their process for it was very buggy. Last month, I put all three of the Adelsverein Trilogy on Kindle too - it was much easier the second time around, and I would appear to have had some Kindle sales... but have yet to actually see any royalties from Kindle sales, so have no way of knowing if it were worth the effort or not.<br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:50:39 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hi, Chester - I do historical novels about the American frontier! You might also want to check out the Independent Authors Guild (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.independentauthorsguild.com">www.independentauthorsguild.com</a>) where a bunch of us ornery independent sorts have clubbed together to do joint marketing stuff, and general advice and support!<br/><br/>Celia Hayes<br/>Author - &quot;To Truckee's Trail&quot; and &quot;The Adelsverein Trilogy&quot;<br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.celiahayes.com">www.celiahayes.com</a>]]></body>
        
    
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