Sheila Deeth's Blog, page 85

While I was away... Amazon clarifies its review policy

While I was away...

Amazon removed some of my reviews and explained in an email that this was "because you received compensation for writing the review." Feeling somewhat disturbed since I have never received any compensation for reviewing books, I pressed the "help" and "contact us" buttons on Amazon and asked what they meant. Amazon were very quick and helpful, and very patient with my repeated requests for clarification. So here, for anyone else puzzling over the mystery of the vanishing re...

While I was away... (and don't miss Gypsy Shadow's 3rd anniversary celebration!)

While I was away...

Two houses changed color across the street (were my neighbors trying to confuse me?)

Our baby dandelions grew up into teenagers (dandelion lawn... perhaps that's why the neighbors are trying to confuse me?)

The freezer magically emptied (grown up son stayed home and didn't starve, much to our delight)

Washing baskets overflowed (but grown up son did his own washing. The overflow is just our stuff brought back from vacation)

Email accounts tried hard to overflow ("only" 900 face...

While I was away...

While I was away in England...

Divide by Zero came out on Kindle (US: http://www.amazon.com/Divide-by-Zero-ebook/dp/B0090NFH56/, UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Divide-by-Zero-ebook/dp/B0090NFH56/) and in paperback!!! (US: http://www.amazon.com/Divide-Zero-Sheila-Deeth/dp/1600763405/).

Stonegarden offered me a contract for Infinite Sum, the sequel to Divide by Zero. Husband told me to stop dancing around the room and smiling but I couldn't.

I earned a whole $5 from my writing (royalties for the last...

A Witchly Treat

Author Jody Gehman's visiting my blog a month from today and talking about the curious magic of daring to dream. Meanwhile I'm reading her YA novel, Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft. And you can too. It's free from Smashwords in celebration of the dark of the moon, so just go to https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/177500 and get your free ecopy.

Here's a blurb to entice you: Enjoy!

Falling in Love, baking a magical cake, fighting an evil necromancer—it’s all in a day’s work for Audrey Oliver, sev...

Writing, Journaling, Chronicling

They used to tell me all writers keep journals, but I never succeeded. We're supposed to write every day they say, filling diaries with tales of events that make up our lives, but I'd rather just live them. We chronicle dreams in our notebooks, record every passing idea, and write stories on napkins during dinner... But that was never me. The stories whisper in my head, or spill into drabbles, or bubble through words to the surface when my fingers tap the keys. So many stories, so little time...

Dividing by Zero while my infinite to-read list slowly shrinks

I'm celebrating Divide by Zero's release by re-releasing my Inspired by Faith and Science books on Amazon. So now I've got an author page that makes me look amazingly prolific--if only I had a sales page to justify it! Still, at least being published in print has persuaded me I'll have to confess...
I am an author! A dream fulfilled!
I'm also a reader and reviewer of course, so here are some more book reviews as I work on slowly shrinking that to-read list...

Starting in the past with Reid...

Perception coming soon

Lee Strauss's YA novel Perception is due for release on September 12th. It's the first in what sounds like a really intriguing series, set in the not-too-distant future in a world of extreme climate, natural disaster and impending war. The book blurb promises the novel will explore the clash between faith and science, and how differences can separate us as enemies or ally us together, adding "in the midst of betrayal and personal crisis, there's room to fall in love." Sounds good to me.

I was...

Divide by Zero has arrived on kindle !!!!!

I just typed my name into Amazon and found Divide by Zero is there, on kindle, with my name on its gorgeous cover and a "look inside" feature that tells the story I wrote. Wow! There's something really scary, really thrilling, really amazing about that. I think I need lots of coffee and chocolate to celebrate. Thank you Stonegarden !!!!!

While I drink that coffee, I suppose I really should write something too. So I'll add some book reviews and coffee recommendations to my blog. Here are books...

With thanks to Amazon

I finally released three of my Inspired by Faith and Science books on Amazon Kindle, dreaming they'd automatically link the the Createspace versions in the Amazon listings and all would be well. I can now report all is indeed well, thanks to the excellent customer service at Amazon's Author Central. The books didn't link but I clicked on those little blue "contact us" words as I viewed one in Author Central. I chose "other" as my question type, selected "I want to link different editions of m...

Feeling eFestive

[image error]



The eFestival of Words opens on Friday and there's a great schedule of events, chats and workshops.


Click here to download a digital pdf guide, including all schedule information, the complete list of finalists for awards, guest bios, and more...

No new registrations after 1200PM EST on August 17th, so go to the Welcome Center and get your (free) registration now (click on Register, in the middle, just under the banner). Don't forget to sign up for the Drabble Workshop too, Friday August 17th a...