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November 18, 2015
Basic Marketing for Writers 101
Okay, I know I'm probably not the best person in the world to hold a course like this, but I'm not the worst either, and let's face it, writers need help. So, I'm going to go over some things we all should be doing to help increase sales.
1) Have an online presence. Yeah, if you're here, you probably already know this one. If you can afford it, have a website with a dedicated URL that goes something like yourauthorname.com. If not, get a free site without a dedicated URL or a blog or something where people can find you if they do a simple search.
2) Update your online presence as soon as you have any news to update it with. New book release? As soon as you have a cover, slap it up there with info on the particulars. As soon as you have buy links, get them on there, too.
3) Create a social networking presence. The more people see you out there, the more likely they are to be able to buy your books. It doesn't have to be hard and it shouldn't be a major chore. I use Facebook and Twitter. I'm already on FB all the time and I try to remember to get to Twitter a few times a day. It helps that my FB page status updates feed my Twitter page.
4) Network. And by network, I mean get your butt out there and talk to people. NOT about your books - at least not at first. Interact with them about stuff. Make friends by leaving comments and responding to comments. 'Like' posts and pages on FB. And for godsakes, be REAL. People can spot a fake coming from a mile off. If you're real and friendly, the people who like you will tell other people about you and your books.
5) Goodreads. If you aren't a member, get thee hence. As soon as you have a cover and a blurb and a tentative release date, get your book listed. Even if it's months out. Then when people hear about your book, they can go to Goodreads and put it on their Want to Read list, which will remind them when your book actually releases.
6) Take advantage of your Amazon Author Pages. Yes, pages plural. US and UK - unless you can write in other languages, then do DE or IT or FR or JP or whatever other country. I can't wait until Amazon let's me do a page in Canada and Australia.
Yeah, all this in addition to making sure your book is edited into the best piece of reading material it can be, and in addition to having an awesome cover that will draw people to your work. All this in addition to actually writing the books. It's worth it. Because it'll bring sales. And I don't know about you, but no sales makes for an inability to create more books around here. I talked on Monday about the money side of things, and my investment so far, but the financial well is not infinite and when it goes dry, there'd better be something flowing in from somewhere.
So, get out there and market. And if you're already doing all of the above and still not seeing sales? Well, I'll try to talk more about that in another post. Meanwhile, hold tight, stay the course, and keep writing books that you can then put through the machine. Sooner or later, the sales will come. We would just all prefer sooner rather than later. Right?
Any questions? Suggestions? Ideas?
1) Have an online presence. Yeah, if you're here, you probably already know this one. If you can afford it, have a website with a dedicated URL that goes something like yourauthorname.com. If not, get a free site without a dedicated URL or a blog or something where people can find you if they do a simple search.
2) Update your online presence as soon as you have any news to update it with. New book release? As soon as you have a cover, slap it up there with info on the particulars. As soon as you have buy links, get them on there, too.
3) Create a social networking presence. The more people see you out there, the more likely they are to be able to buy your books. It doesn't have to be hard and it shouldn't be a major chore. I use Facebook and Twitter. I'm already on FB all the time and I try to remember to get to Twitter a few times a day. It helps that my FB page status updates feed my Twitter page.
4) Network. And by network, I mean get your butt out there and talk to people. NOT about your books - at least not at first. Interact with them about stuff. Make friends by leaving comments and responding to comments. 'Like' posts and pages on FB. And for godsakes, be REAL. People can spot a fake coming from a mile off. If you're real and friendly, the people who like you will tell other people about you and your books.
5) Goodreads. If you aren't a member, get thee hence. As soon as you have a cover and a blurb and a tentative release date, get your book listed. Even if it's months out. Then when people hear about your book, they can go to Goodreads and put it on their Want to Read list, which will remind them when your book actually releases.
6) Take advantage of your Amazon Author Pages. Yes, pages plural. US and UK - unless you can write in other languages, then do DE or IT or FR or JP or whatever other country. I can't wait until Amazon let's me do a page in Canada and Australia.
Yeah, all this in addition to making sure your book is edited into the best piece of reading material it can be, and in addition to having an awesome cover that will draw people to your work. All this in addition to actually writing the books. It's worth it. Because it'll bring sales. And I don't know about you, but no sales makes for an inability to create more books around here. I talked on Monday about the money side of things, and my investment so far, but the financial well is not infinite and when it goes dry, there'd better be something flowing in from somewhere.
So, get out there and market. And if you're already doing all of the above and still not seeing sales? Well, I'll try to talk more about that in another post. Meanwhile, hold tight, stay the course, and keep writing books that you can then put through the machine. Sooner or later, the sales will come. We would just all prefer sooner rather than later. Right?
Any questions? Suggestions? Ideas?
November 15, 2015
Crunching the Numbers at Year One
Looking back, I made my first payment for self-publishing expenses on 11/5/14, so I figured this was as good a place as any to do a number crunch.
With the last couple bills paid (Monday morning when the banks open, hopefully), I have spent just under $5000 this year bringing four books to market. That's about $3K under what I thought I'd be spending, so I have that going for me.
It works out to roughly $1200 a book on average. That's for editing, cover art, marketing, print copies, postage, etc.
To date, I have made just over $1300. (Well, $1100. Amazon pays 60 days out, so I haven't seen the money from Sept, Oct, Nov yet.) More than I thought I would at the beginning of this journey, but less than I had hoped. The CFO is pleased, which is a good thing.
I've sold 946 books. That's about $1.40 a book.
Of those 946 books, here's how the sales break down:
Dying Embers - 496 (55 books a month avg)
Accidental Death - 414 (69 books a month avg)
Wish in One Hand - 31 (3 books a month avg)
BloodFlow - N/A
I'm blaming the disparity of book averages from the first two books and the third on the inability to secure a ENT ad. I had huge sales jumps for DE and AD from their ads. Needless to say, we're a little disappointed in WIOH's performance so far, but I've heard that with paranormal books, you don't really start seeing beaucoup sales until the third book is released. Basically, we'll have to wait until late summer of next year to see if that's true. (Second book due out Feb or March. Third book Aug or Sept.)
All in all, I'm pleased with the first year. Not content, mind you, but pleased overall. I've learned a little about what works and what doesn't. I have my good days and my bad days. Such is life. I've felt the thrill of a good review and the butthurt of a bad review and the utter confusion of a bad 5-star review. :eyeroll: :facepalm: :headdesk:
And I've enjoyed the smooshy hugs and support from my friends, family, and readers. Thank you, all.
With each release, I hold my breath and hope this will be the one that takes off and takes the others along with it. You'll see that BloodFlow is N/A up there. That's because it just became available for pre-order and doesn't officially release until 11/24. So, while the money to pay for it has gone out for the year in question, the money coming in will have to be tallied with next year's fundage. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Hope that helps you if you're thinking about jumping into self-publishing or that it was at least interesting if you're not. If you're already in the thick of it, please don't take these numbers to mean anything compared to your numbers. Each of us walks our own journey through the self-publishing jungle.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll answer what I can.
With the last couple bills paid (Monday morning when the banks open, hopefully), I have spent just under $5000 this year bringing four books to market. That's about $3K under what I thought I'd be spending, so I have that going for me.
It works out to roughly $1200 a book on average. That's for editing, cover art, marketing, print copies, postage, etc.
To date, I have made just over $1300. (Well, $1100. Amazon pays 60 days out, so I haven't seen the money from Sept, Oct, Nov yet.) More than I thought I would at the beginning of this journey, but less than I had hoped. The CFO is pleased, which is a good thing.
I've sold 946 books. That's about $1.40 a book.
Of those 946 books, here's how the sales break down:
Dying Embers - 496 (55 books a month avg)
Accidental Death - 414 (69 books a month avg)
Wish in One Hand - 31 (3 books a month avg)
BloodFlow - N/A
I'm blaming the disparity of book averages from the first two books and the third on the inability to secure a ENT ad. I had huge sales jumps for DE and AD from their ads. Needless to say, we're a little disappointed in WIOH's performance so far, but I've heard that with paranormal books, you don't really start seeing beaucoup sales until the third book is released. Basically, we'll have to wait until late summer of next year to see if that's true. (Second book due out Feb or March. Third book Aug or Sept.)
All in all, I'm pleased with the first year. Not content, mind you, but pleased overall. I've learned a little about what works and what doesn't. I have my good days and my bad days. Such is life. I've felt the thrill of a good review and the butthurt of a bad review and the utter confusion of a bad 5-star review. :eyeroll: :facepalm: :headdesk:
And I've enjoyed the smooshy hugs and support from my friends, family, and readers. Thank you, all.
With each release, I hold my breath and hope this will be the one that takes off and takes the others along with it. You'll see that BloodFlow is N/A up there. That's because it just became available for pre-order and doesn't officially release until 11/24. So, while the money to pay for it has gone out for the year in question, the money coming in will have to be tallied with next year's fundage. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Hope that helps you if you're thinking about jumping into self-publishing or that it was at least interesting if you're not. If you're already in the thick of it, please don't take these numbers to mean anything compared to your numbers. Each of us walks our own journey through the self-publishing jungle.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll answer what I can.
November 11, 2015
BloodFlow - the Blurb
Ir's coming down to the wire. I'm reading through BloodFlow to make sure it's the best book it can be before I upload it for pre-order. And everything else is falling to the wayside - pretty much. I'm making food and doing dishes on a regular schedule. And that's about it.
I haven't read a book that wasn't mine lately. I haven't dusted or vacuumed. There's clutter here and there. Thank goodness I have an understanding Husband. One who cleans the litterbox and does the laundry, so those two necessities are taken care of while I'm deep in the editing cave.
But enough about me. Let's talk about BloodFlow...
Here's the Blurby McBlurberson (aka back cover copy):
Prove you’re an American! Join your elected officials and get implanted today! The highest levels of the government believe Project Hermes is the best way to control America’s immigration problem. A simple microchip carrying a citizen’s information will allow officials to sort out who belongs—and who doesn’t. Harmless. Unless the chip carries more than just information.Agent Miranda Kruz of the Terrorism Task Force has reason to believe something is very wrong with Project Hermes. People are dying and the clues all point to a microchip implant. But Randi’s superiors don’t want anything or anyone interfering with their pet project. They’re threatening her job, her loved ones, and her life to keep her from revealing their secret. With the help of medical examiner, Vic Hammond, and electronics engineer, Jack Davis, Randi has to uncover the truth and make it public before anyone else is targeted for death. Locating the madmen behind these executions will be hard enough—stopping them might just be impossible.
It's been a long haul with this book. And this was the one that was a scary behemoth called Nanotechnology when I finished the first draft. I snipped a lot of scenes that didn't contribute to the plot or didn't move the action forward. Now it's weighing in at about 108K. And it's BloodFlow.
I hope I did the story justice.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do so you all will have something to read soon. =o)
(And there's a contest for a $10 Amazon gift card on Monday's post. Go forth, do some sharing, and enter.)
I haven't read a book that wasn't mine lately. I haven't dusted or vacuumed. There's clutter here and there. Thank goodness I have an understanding Husband. One who cleans the litterbox and does the laundry, so those two necessities are taken care of while I'm deep in the editing cave.
But enough about me. Let's talk about BloodFlow...
Here's the Blurby McBlurberson (aka back cover copy):
Prove you’re an American! Join your elected officials and get implanted today! The highest levels of the government believe Project Hermes is the best way to control America’s immigration problem. A simple microchip carrying a citizen’s information will allow officials to sort out who belongs—and who doesn’t. Harmless. Unless the chip carries more than just information.Agent Miranda Kruz of the Terrorism Task Force has reason to believe something is very wrong with Project Hermes. People are dying and the clues all point to a microchip implant. But Randi’s superiors don’t want anything or anyone interfering with their pet project. They’re threatening her job, her loved ones, and her life to keep her from revealing their secret. With the help of medical examiner, Vic Hammond, and electronics engineer, Jack Davis, Randi has to uncover the truth and make it public before anyone else is targeted for death. Locating the madmen behind these executions will be hard enough—stopping them might just be impossible.
It's been a long haul with this book. And this was the one that was a scary behemoth called Nanotechnology when I finished the first draft. I snipped a lot of scenes that didn't contribute to the plot or didn't move the action forward. Now it's weighing in at about 108K. And it's BloodFlow.
I hope I did the story justice.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do so you all will have something to read soon. =o)
(And there's a contest for a $10 Amazon gift card on Monday's post. Go forth, do some sharing, and enter.)
November 9, 2015
Goodreads Listing and a Contest
It's the little things that kill.The Goodreads listing for Bloodflow is now live. Go forth, if you are so inclined, and Want to Read it. Feel free to share it. In fact, if you share the link to its Goodreads listing somewhere (your blog, your FB page, Twitter, etc.) and then come back here to put the link to your share in the comments, I'll enter you for a $10 Amazon giftcard drawing. I'll pick the winner for this drawing on the day I announce the book is live at Amazon - at which time I will begin another drawing. Cuz what the hell, right?So, what do you think of the cover? Does it say thriller with political, medical, and technological elements? God, I hope so, because I'm running with that sucker. How do you like the tagline - It's the little things that kill?
In case you missed it, here's the blurb:
Prove you’re an American! Join your elected officials and get implanted today!
The highest levels of the government believe Project Hermes is the best way to control America’s immigration problem. A simple microchip carrying a citizen’s information will allow officials to sort out who belongs—and who doesn’t. Harmless.
Unless the chip carries more than just information.
Agent Miranda Kruz of the Terrorism Task Force has reason to believe something is very wrong with Project Hermes. People are dying and the clues all point to a microchip implant. But Randi’s superiors don’t want anything or anyone interfering with their pet project. They’re threatening her job, her loved ones, and her life to keep her from revealing their secret. With the help of medical examiner, Vic Hammond, and electronics engineer, Jack Davis, Randi has to uncover the truth and make it public before anyone else is targeted for death.
Locating the madmen behind these executions will be hard enough—stopping them might just be impossible.
I hope you all are as excited about this book as I am. =o)
November 6, 2015
Egg-free Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Mocha Frosting
Not that I have anything against eggs, but here's a recipe I found hiding in my recipe binder, and it was super easy, so I made it. I don't usually post recipes here, but what the heck, right? Enjoy!
Egg-free Chocolate Cake
2 cups sugar2 cups flour½ t salt2 t baking soda½ c baker’s cocoa powder2 c water1 c vegetable oil2 T white vinegar2 t vanilla
Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl, sift together dry ingredients (including sugar) until well combined. Add remaining wet ingredients. Beat until smooth by hand. Pour into ungreased 9x13” cake pan. Bake for 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool and frost with below recipe.
Chocolate Mocha Frosting
6 T margarine (melted)¾ c baker’s cocoa powder1/3 + 1/6 c milk2 t vanilla4 ¾ - 5 ½ c confectioner’s sugar1-2 T cappuccino mix to taste
In a large bowl, beat together margarine and cocoa powder until combined. Add milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth (or as smooth as you can get it.) Add confectioner’s sugar one ½ cup at a time and beat until smooth before adding next ½ cup. Continue to add in sugar until you reach the desired consistency. At about halfway through the sugar, add in the cappuccino powder with the powdered sugar. Start checking consistency at 4 ¾ cups. I reached my desired thickness at 5 ½ cups. Too thin, add more sugar. Too thick, splash in a little more milk. Spread on above cake as evenly as possible. Will be a thick layer of frosting.To achieve 1/6 cup, fill the third cup measure to about half.
November 4, 2015
Cover Reveal - Wish in One Hand (v 2)
Hey All.
My brain is pudding, so I'm not sure if I mentioned that I was having a new cover done for Wish in One Hand. (Probably did, but pudding.)
Oh, my old cover was okay. The artist gave me pretty-much what I asked for (kinda, sorta). But what I had in mind didn't translate well and apparently, it wasn't blowing anyone's skirt up. Too old-fashioned, perhaps? Not in keeping with current-day readers expectations of what a paranormal cover should look like? Probably. I'm still hooked on the old fantasy covers of my youth.
Anyway, like I said, no one was getting their skirts blown up and sales are way off expectations, so I figured finding someone snazzy to do my covers couldn't hurt. Plus, I needed someone to do the rest of the series covers so they'd have some continuity. (And for price, she undercut the hell out of the other guy anyway.) So, without further gum-flapping on my part, here's the new and improved cover of Wish in One Hand...
Sparkly! Let's give a round of applause to my new cover artist extraordinaire: Jessica Allain. She rocks.
The new and improved print cover is still in the works, but this one has been uploaded to Amazon. Give it 12-24 hours and it'll show there, too.
Oh, and since I have a new cover, I changed the blurb.
‘Be careful what you wish for’
In hindsight, Jo Mayweather should’ve taken those words seriously back in 1926. Of course, spoiled brat, flapper-girl that she was, Jo probably would’ve made the not-so-clever wish that turned her into a genie anyway.
Being endowed with phenomenal power may have its perks but, for the most part, life’s been a pain in her tiny hiney. After running into a ‘slash first, ask questions never’ genie, her problems only worsen. Some demented thing is making wishes that can’t be granted and djinn are dying. Now, instead of freeing her brethren from their bonds, Jo has a killer to neutralize.
If she’d kept her mouth shut ninety years ago, she wouldn’t be in this mess. But she’s got a job to do despite some reject from a bad B-movie trying to ruin everything she’s worked so hard for. Too bad this time doing her job might get her killed.
Or worse—enslaved again.
Here's hoping this sparkly new stuff attracts some readers.
My brain is pudding, so I'm not sure if I mentioned that I was having a new cover done for Wish in One Hand. (Probably did, but pudding.)
Oh, my old cover was okay. The artist gave me pretty-much what I asked for (kinda, sorta). But what I had in mind didn't translate well and apparently, it wasn't blowing anyone's skirt up. Too old-fashioned, perhaps? Not in keeping with current-day readers expectations of what a paranormal cover should look like? Probably. I'm still hooked on the old fantasy covers of my youth.
Anyway, like I said, no one was getting their skirts blown up and sales are way off expectations, so I figured finding someone snazzy to do my covers couldn't hurt. Plus, I needed someone to do the rest of the series covers so they'd have some continuity. (And for price, she undercut the hell out of the other guy anyway.) So, without further gum-flapping on my part, here's the new and improved cover of Wish in One Hand...
Sparkly! Let's give a round of applause to my new cover artist extraordinaire: Jessica Allain. She rocks.The new and improved print cover is still in the works, but this one has been uploaded to Amazon. Give it 12-24 hours and it'll show there, too.
Oh, and since I have a new cover, I changed the blurb.
‘Be careful what you wish for’
In hindsight, Jo Mayweather should’ve taken those words seriously back in 1926. Of course, spoiled brat, flapper-girl that she was, Jo probably would’ve made the not-so-clever wish that turned her into a genie anyway.
Being endowed with phenomenal power may have its perks but, for the most part, life’s been a pain in her tiny hiney. After running into a ‘slash first, ask questions never’ genie, her problems only worsen. Some demented thing is making wishes that can’t be granted and djinn are dying. Now, instead of freeing her brethren from their bonds, Jo has a killer to neutralize.
If she’d kept her mouth shut ninety years ago, she wouldn’t be in this mess. But she’s got a job to do despite some reject from a bad B-movie trying to ruin everything she’s worked so hard for. Too bad this time doing her job might get her killed.
Or worse—enslaved again.
Here's hoping this sparkly new stuff attracts some readers.
October 30, 2015
There Are Rules
Hi there. Jo again. B.E. asked me to explain the Rules to you guys, so here's the short version:
When the gods created the djinn race, they imbued us with a boatload of power. And saddled us with Rules so we wouldn't ruin the world. Makes sense to the us rational djinn. The Efreet? Not so much. Anyway, as near as I can tell, the big Rules are basically
1) No harming of the Master by direct wish.
2) No killing by direct wish.
3) No messing with time.
4) No messing with free will.
5) No unmaking the Universe.
6) No stealing another genie's sanctuary.
7) No raising the dead.
Simple stuff on a grand scale, but not nearly enough to keep wayward genies from getting into trouble, so the Council governs a set of rules that are kind of arbitrary and subjective. Things like 'no public displays of magic' and 'don't do anything to out the djinn race to the world' are pretty good ideas. Others, like 'don't talk about the Efreet' are pretty stupid. But all governing bodies tend to make stupid rules here and there.
Of course, there are ways to circumvent some of the Rules and the rules. Want to kill a human but can't wish for it? Drop a tree on them. Stab them. Shoot them. Mundane and non-magical is hunky-dory with the gods, I guess.
Obviously, since the gods made them, you can't break the Rules outright. Breaking the rules, on the other hand, is easy. I'd know. But, if they catch you, breaking their little rules comes with a steep punishment. And who wants to wear a fur coat for centuries? Not me.
So those are the Rules. I'm not exactly an expert, but I'm the only one who'd talk to B.E. about them, because talking about them is... you guessed it... against the rules. Big surprise there.
If you could have one wish, what would it be? Not that I can grant it, but you never know. What the Council doesn't know won't hurt them. (And they're not exactly internet savvy, so I'm not too worried about them finding out here.)
If you want to read more about me and my adventures, pick up a copy of B.E.'s book Wish in One Hand. It's on sale until Halloween night.
When the gods created the djinn race, they imbued us with a boatload of power. And saddled us with Rules so we wouldn't ruin the world. Makes sense to the us rational djinn. The Efreet? Not so much. Anyway, as near as I can tell, the big Rules are basically
1) No harming of the Master by direct wish.
2) No killing by direct wish.
3) No messing with time.
4) No messing with free will.
5) No unmaking the Universe.
6) No stealing another genie's sanctuary.
7) No raising the dead.
Simple stuff on a grand scale, but not nearly enough to keep wayward genies from getting into trouble, so the Council governs a set of rules that are kind of arbitrary and subjective. Things like 'no public displays of magic' and 'don't do anything to out the djinn race to the world' are pretty good ideas. Others, like 'don't talk about the Efreet' are pretty stupid. But all governing bodies tend to make stupid rules here and there.
Of course, there are ways to circumvent some of the Rules and the rules. Want to kill a human but can't wish for it? Drop a tree on them. Stab them. Shoot them. Mundane and non-magical is hunky-dory with the gods, I guess.
Obviously, since the gods made them, you can't break the Rules outright. Breaking the rules, on the other hand, is easy. I'd know. But, if they catch you, breaking their little rules comes with a steep punishment. And who wants to wear a fur coat for centuries? Not me.
So those are the Rules. I'm not exactly an expert, but I'm the only one who'd talk to B.E. about them, because talking about them is... you guessed it... against the rules. Big surprise there.
If you could have one wish, what would it be? Not that I can grant it, but you never know. What the Council doesn't know won't hurt them. (And they're not exactly internet savvy, so I'm not too worried about them finding out here.)
If you want to read more about me and my adventures, pick up a copy of B.E.'s book Wish in One Hand. It's on sale until Halloween night.
October 28, 2015
Halloween Week Sale
Saturday is Halloween, so what better week to put the genies on sale?
Go forth and get your wish on.
And yes, the cover will be changing soon, but the words inside are the same.
The genie Josephine Mayweather’s father gave her for her 18th birthday tricked her into trading places 90+ years ago. But hey, everything should be peachy for an immortal gal with phenomenal power, right? For Jo, immortality is more than lazing around wishing. When she’s not rescuing brethren who don’t always want to be saved, she’s juggling a halfway-house for the humanity challenged and an antiques business dealing in previously genie-owned goods.
When some demented being starts murdering the very people she’s trying to save, she almost wishes she’d chosen the lazy life.
Too bad for her, she can’t sit back and let this maniac ruin everything she’s worked for. All she has to do is stop a super-powerful supernatural killer and hope the Council doesn’t shut her down for breaking rules she didn’t even know existed. It’s either that or sit and watch her brethren die as her life collapses around her. Good thing for djinn-kind, Jo’s daddy didn’t raise her to back down from a fight, even if this battle could get her killed.
Or worse—enslaved again.
Go forth and get your wish on.And yes, the cover will be changing soon, but the words inside are the same.
The genie Josephine Mayweather’s father gave her for her 18th birthday tricked her into trading places 90+ years ago. But hey, everything should be peachy for an immortal gal with phenomenal power, right? For Jo, immortality is more than lazing around wishing. When she’s not rescuing brethren who don’t always want to be saved, she’s juggling a halfway-house for the humanity challenged and an antiques business dealing in previously genie-owned goods.
When some demented being starts murdering the very people she’s trying to save, she almost wishes she’d chosen the lazy life.
Too bad for her, she can’t sit back and let this maniac ruin everything she’s worked for. All she has to do is stop a super-powerful supernatural killer and hope the Council doesn’t shut her down for breaking rules she didn’t even know existed. It’s either that or sit and watch her brethren die as her life collapses around her. Good thing for djinn-kind, Jo’s daddy didn’t raise her to back down from a fight, even if this battle could get her killed.
Or worse—enslaved again.
October 25, 2015
Blurb Reveal - BloodFlow
Hello Everyone!
I finally finished the blurb for BloodFlow* and I thought I'd share it here first. But before that, here's the cover again:
And here's what the book's about:
Prove you’re an American! Join your elected officials and get implanted today! The highest levels of the government believe Project Hermes is the best way to control America’s immigration problem. A simple microchip carrying a citizen’s information will allow officials to sort out who belongs—and who doesn’t. Harmless. Unless the chip carries more than just information.Agent Miranda Kruz of the Terrorism Task Force has reason to believe something is very wrong with Project Hermes. People are dying and the clues all point to a microchip implant. But Randi’s superiors don’t want anything or anyone interfering with their pet project. They’re threatening her job, her loved ones, and her life to keep her from revealing their secret. With the help of medical examiner, Vic Hammond, and electronics engineer, Jack Davis, Randi has to uncover the truth and make it public before anyone else is targeted for death. Locating the madmen behind these executions will be hard enough—stopping them might just be impossible.
I hope that gets you as excited about this book as I am. I should have the final edits back by the end of the week. Then all I need to do is fix that stuff, do another read-through for typos, etc. and then I'll be able to upload it for pre-order.
And once the editing is done, I'll be able to format it so I can have a page count, so I can do the print cover. Yay.
Thanks again for all your support. And since you've been supportive, you get to know that Wish in One Hand will be on sale for 99c from Wednesday to Saturday this week. If you haven't snagged a copy, now's the time to do it.
*Blood flow is, of course, two words. But for the purposes of this cover and marketing materials, I think BloodFlow works better - at least for me. And I'm the boss of this publishing thing. (Well, except for the multitude of people who tell me whether I've succeeded or failed i.e. the readers.)
I finally finished the blurb for BloodFlow* and I thought I'd share it here first. But before that, here's the cover again:
And here's what the book's about:Prove you’re an American! Join your elected officials and get implanted today! The highest levels of the government believe Project Hermes is the best way to control America’s immigration problem. A simple microchip carrying a citizen’s information will allow officials to sort out who belongs—and who doesn’t. Harmless. Unless the chip carries more than just information.Agent Miranda Kruz of the Terrorism Task Force has reason to believe something is very wrong with Project Hermes. People are dying and the clues all point to a microchip implant. But Randi’s superiors don’t want anything or anyone interfering with their pet project. They’re threatening her job, her loved ones, and her life to keep her from revealing their secret. With the help of medical examiner, Vic Hammond, and electronics engineer, Jack Davis, Randi has to uncover the truth and make it public before anyone else is targeted for death. Locating the madmen behind these executions will be hard enough—stopping them might just be impossible.
I hope that gets you as excited about this book as I am. I should have the final edits back by the end of the week. Then all I need to do is fix that stuff, do another read-through for typos, etc. and then I'll be able to upload it for pre-order.
And once the editing is done, I'll be able to format it so I can have a page count, so I can do the print cover. Yay.
Thanks again for all your support. And since you've been supportive, you get to know that Wish in One Hand will be on sale for 99c from Wednesday to Saturday this week. If you haven't snagged a copy, now's the time to do it.
*Blood flow is, of course, two words. But for the purposes of this cover and marketing materials, I think BloodFlow works better - at least for me. And I'm the boss of this publishing thing. (Well, except for the multitude of people who tell me whether I've succeeded or failed i.e. the readers.)
October 23, 2015
Cover Reveal - BloodFlow
I don't have a blurb finalized yet, but I couldn't wait to show you the cover, so here goes:
Think Michael Crichton meets Vince Flynn with my own style and flair.
And don't forget - Accidental Death is on sale right now for 99c. Snag a copy today. If you already have a copy, tell your friends or give them a gift. It's never the wrong time to say "I love you. Here's a book about murder." ;o)
Think Michael Crichton meets Vince Flynn with my own style and flair.And don't forget - Accidental Death is on sale right now for 99c. Snag a copy today. If you already have a copy, tell your friends or give them a gift. It's never the wrong time to say "I love you. Here's a book about murder." ;o)
