M.C. Frank's Blog, page 430
September 30, 2017
Get to know me tag
Tagged by the lovely @mishagerrick it was so much fun getting to know you better <3
Preferred name: M.C.
Zodiac sign:
Birthday: shortly before Christmas
Relationship status: Married (to the dude)
Pets: None right now
Wake up time: 10 pm
Coke or Pepsi: neither
Call or text: Hate calling, so text
Last person I called: My sister
Last person I texted: The dude
Chapstick or lipstick: chapstick
Number of piercings: nope
Tattoos: nope to the ninth
Tagging a few lovely new followers that I’d love to know better:
@heirsofnovember @coutelier @forlornraven @booksandcoff-ee @lizbeth-miranda
Repost @books_faith_love ❤ My review for No Vain Loss by...
Repost @books_faith_love ❤ My review for No Vain Loss by @mcfrank_author is about to go live!! Guys. This series is amazing. If you haven’t read them yet, please do! The story is so wonderful, I love the characters, and the overall message blew me away. So do yourself a favor, go buy these books and read them!! Again, thanks to MC for writing these fantastic books!
Lose Me + rainbow of hope
Lose Me + rainbow of hope
Lose Me + rainbow of hope
Lose Me + rainbow of hope
September 29, 2017
Do you know any writing hashtags or communities on twitter?
#MSWL - the Manuscript Wishlist tag, which only editors and agents can post in, is a tag that allows writers to see what editors and agents are currently looking for
#amwriting - for writers who are writing
#amediting - for writers/agents/editors who are editing
#tenqueries - a tag in which agents review ten query letters by saying why they rejected or accepted them (there are other variations of this)
#whattoread - book recommendations
#WIP - for writers and their works in progress
#querytip - tips for writing query letters
#litchat - posts about books and whatnot
#storystarter - a type of writing prompt tag
#askagent/#askeditor - self-explanatory
J.k. Harper
It’s time for us authors to realize that the people who act as if we’re worthless are expressing an opinion of their own (lack of) value and worth.
The above post is so true. Every word.
It’s so sad that it keeps happening to me as well, every day. And as I am unable to respont directly to the people undervaluing my work and me daily, now that I found this and it’s so well put together, I’m sharing the heck out of it. Please read! and share freely.
So you want to be a writer?
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready.
don’t be like so many writers,
don’t be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don’t be dull and boring and
pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don’t add to that.
don’t do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don’t do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.Charles Bukowski
Win Signed Copies of No Vain Loss
Exciting announcement, everyone!I’m giving away a few signed paperback copies of No Vain Loss, my science fiction novel about a world where Christmas doesn’t exists and kissing is forbidden.
Synopsis:
A soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix the great Clock for a celebration. He has no idea what to do.
A girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive.
A library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack.
The world hasn’t known hunger or sickness in hundreds of years. It has also forgotten love and beauty.
This is the One World.
The year is 2524.
Inspired by the short stories of Ray Bradbury, this futuristic young adult novel in three parts is set in a world where Christmas -among other things- is obsolete and a Clock is what keeps the fragile balance of peace.
Written in three parts, this is the breathtaking story of how two unlikely people change the world, and each other, one book at a time.
In No Vain Loss, the world is on the brink of the greatest war humanity has ever known. Lives will be lost. New truths will be revealed.
Recommended for fans of:
Hot soldiers (see Kdrama, Descendants of the Sun, and so on)
My True Love Gave to Me anthology, Christmas feels and aesthetic
Ray Bradbury-inspired scifi worldbuilding
YA dystopian/postapocalyptic novels
These Broken Stars series
Book boyfriends
A touch of existential issues Huxley-style
Star Wars-style action
Intense romance
Hidden libraries
Fight for survival
Forbidden kisses
Bromance
BearsReaders say:
Fast, Futuristic, Creative. -Yesha, Books Teacup and Reviews
My new obsession and yours too! No Ordinary Star reads like a love letter to humanity. -S. E. Anderson, author of Starstruck
This book is magic. -Alex Rowe, @captain.valour
I fell head-over-heels in love! -Drew C.
Oh, how I’ve already fallen in love with our two main characters, tin solider and match girl. -Rebecca RavenCurrent rating on goodreads 4.8 stars
Pages 230
Release date: 5 Dec 2017
Does it sound like something you’d like to read?
G I V E A W A Y
Preorder the kindle for .99 here: http://amzn.to/2gNO7zi and send me a screencap of your recept/confirmation (email here)
You will be automatically entered to win one of 5 signed paperback copies!Good luck!
Please.
Please review indie author’s books.
Just a sentence is fine.
You don’t need a big and detailed critique.
Reviews drastically raise a book’s visibility on amazon.
They directly influence sales. Every review. I’m not kidding.
It can take three, four, even five good reviews to compensate for the losses caused by just one bad review.
Indie authors are less likely to be picked up. Reviews are recommendations that attract potential readers.
Reviews can motivate authors, who often make little, or sometimes even no profit from what we do.
Every review helps.
It only takes a few minutes, but it goes a long way.
Please, on behalf of all indie authors, I’m asking you: review our books.
Please.
Co-signed. Even just ‘I liked this book’ is fine!!
(wait, no, Amazon has a 5-word minimum. I kind of liked his book. I really liked this book. That works! :D)
