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Hot Summer Book

My Dear Ellie has been called a Hot Summer book on BoatingonLi magazine. Yay! Hope many readers add my book to their summer reading piles and enjoy the sun while reading about the best friends Cassie and Ellie 🌞📚

You can check out the link here: https://boatingmagli.com/2020/07/03/s...

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Published on July 06, 2020 08:57 • Tags: summer

New Book Promo: Eleanor's Travels

Hi!
I’m excited to announce that my book, Eleanor's Travels, is part of a Books2Read Promo with other great authors!
https://books2read.com/rl/newbeginnings

Share this promotion with anyone you think would love to find their next favorite book!

Thanks so much for your support. Happy reading!

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Published on May 22, 2021 09:58 • Tags: books, summer

Summer heat and writing

Hi everyone,

I hope that you are managing well in this heat (it has been quite warm up here in Toronto). I have been taking a break from writing after releasing my newest book, Sleeping Beauty no more, but I have been busy in other ways.

I am still learning about writing and marketing, so I signed up for a few online seminars. The latest one I attended was yesterday by a NYT best selling author. The author shared some interesting insights about how to write a bestseller, but one thing he said resonated a lot. He said that in order to shave off years from your learning curve, you must find yourself a mentor in your field. I think that is a great piece of advice in any career.

The other thing he said was about the role of setup and payoffs within the story. I feel that intuitively I have been including a lot of the things he said in his presentation, which was a relief. My main takeaway from his talk was about editing ruthlessly and giving the novel time to rest before looking at it again.

I wanted to do a blog post about an animated movie today, but my brain refuse to cooperate in this heat, lol. I also have been reading a lot, which I desperately needed after writing on a strict schedule for months. My mind needs to wander in new worlds. I finished the Red Queen series and enjoyed it a lot.

My mind is still ruminating over a new book idea. Namely, a ice queen retelling in an dystopian world. I haven’t written anything like that before, so I am still brainstorming. I think the term is world building? It will be more complex than the setups I had in my previous novels. I will take my time with this one, but like I mentioned in my previous post, I already made the cover and selected the title.

I sense a pattern in how I start a new project, and for me, it tends to be a certain theme I want to explore. For my first book, My Dear Ellie, it was friendship. For Divine Error, it was a career crisis . For the Stone Mermaid, it was forbidden love. And the newest one brewing in my mind, a dystopian world. We will see how it pans out. Usually, even I don’t know the final outcome.

The weather is forecasted to be cooler next week, so hopefully I will write the blog post as I planned. I hope that you are staying cool (or warm, depending on your part of the world).

Take care 😊

Update: I just received a notification that My book, Sleeping Beauty No More, is part of a new Books2Read Promo!
Find your next favorite book at https://books2read.com/rl/KoboAugustW...

Another Update: My book, Sleeping Beauty no more, is featured in the august edition of Bookish magazine 😊 Please check it out:
https://online.fliphtml5.com/cmebw/vodk/

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