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A win, a gift, a trip

My book is now three months old! Man, they grow up so fast, don’t they? In the past month my little darling has actually won a contest! What??! It’s soo cool. I entered my baby into the Author Shout Cover Wars and she won! I got a cool little badge and everything The week after, another CBG author, Jordan Turbeville, won the Cover Wars with her book All is Fair. Go check it out!

The win won me a week of promo through Author Shout, which is always nice. They have a lot of followers and I hope some of that exposure will translate into sales. Speaking of sales, I’m impatiently awaiting some sort of quarterly report from Champagne Book Group. I still have no idea how my book is doing, but I’m pretty sure I’ve sold at least twenty. That’s good, right?

In addition to winning the Cover Wars I’ve also been interviewed by Adam Gaffen over at Cassidy Chronicles!

In even cooler news, someone sent me MOTHERFUCKING FAN ART!?!?!ASDGAFDSGFSGFDASGFDHG

LOOK AT IT!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!

Oh, and in less than a week I’ll be going to JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAN! Me and my goblin in crime are finally going on our honeymoon. SO HYYYYYYYYPED!

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A much needed break

My book has been out in the world for a little over two months now and currently has 4 ratings on Amazon (buuuu), 18 ratings on Goodreads (yay) and even one rating on Storygraph (what)! That’s twice as much as last month, but still not great. But, this is a marathon, not a sprint, and those numbers don’t really tell me how well the book is actually doing. I’ll hopefully receive my quarterly report from Champagne Book Group soon, and then I’ll have a clearer picture of sales numbers and such.

In those two months that my book has been out I have been on a writing break and not written a single word. I honestly have not been motivated to and I might have been wallowing in self-pity for a little while. What’s the point in continuing Kallie’s store if no one’s going to read it, right?

So, I’ve been focusing on other hobbies, reading a lot more and getting back into drawing. I made a character portrait of Ash that I think turned out pretty good and I’m redoing an old one of Buck that I was never really quite satisfied with. Next up is probably some more of the folks from the VyroGen crew. It’s been great doing something else completely and it feels awesome to finish a project in just hours and days, instead of months and even years. This break has been good for me and I feel ready to write again

Look at my girl Ash, isn’t she awesome!

In other news, Bok365 featured a story about me, which was cool, my book has been featured on QueerScifi and AwesomeGang, I’ve gotten a few reviews through Instagram and Siri Pettersen, yes THAT Siri Pettersen, had some really nice things to say about Let Slip the Beasts!

Oh, and we went to see the Barbie movie and it was AMAZING! I can’t wait to see it again!! And my outfit was so ADORABLE! I’m entering my Barbie era for real. Pink everything!

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Has it been a month already?

So, Let Slip the Beasts has been out in the world for a little over a month. In that time she has gotten 9 ratings and 7 reviews on Goodreads and 2 reviews on Amazon, which isn’t all that impressive. But I have to remind myself that this is a marathon and not a sprint. It’s going to take a while before the book gets proper traction.

In more positive news, my hometown newspaper, Lillesands-Posten, has written a really nice article about me. I’ll also be making an appearance in an industry magazine for booksellers and publishers. And a Norwegian SFF magazine has agreed to review my book. Let’s hope they like it! And and and I womaned up and reached out to a famous Norwegian SFF author to ask if I could send them a free reader’s copy of my book, only to find out they had already bought it!! So that’s pretty dope.

When I haven’t been doing book stuff I’ve been enjoying the summer, read some good books, seen Fattern live for the second time, celebrated Pride by going in the parade for the first time, had some great date nights with my goblin in crime, been to a great wedding and celebrated our second wedding anniversary.

We’ve also been playing way too much Tears of the Kingdom – which is actually my very first Zelda game! I’m really enjoying it, tho there’s so much stuff I have to learn and figure out as I play. I love that there are so many ways to solve the different puzzles and shrines.

Next up is the Barbie movie, which I’m really looking forward to. We’re seeing it on Friday and I have the perfect outfit picked out.

P.s. The trailer for the second season of Wheel of Time dropped today and I cannot fucking wait!!!

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She’s heeeeeeeeere!

It’s official! Let Slip the Beasts is finally out in the world and ready to be read by strangers. I’m feeling a lot of dreadticipation, as we say in Norway, at how my little baby goblin will be received. Of course, I hope everyone will love this book as much as I do, but I know it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. And there’s nothing I can do about that. All I can do is have the whisky ready when I read the reviews.

But it’s so weird to be done with this thing I’ve been working on for so long. I’m like “now what?” Now, I’m going to enjoy the summer and Pride and just have a great time and be happy knowing that I Did the Thing! I’m a published author!! It’s so WILD!!! Man, my teenage self would fucking die if she knew this would happen.

And when the weather cools down I’ll plant my ass back in my favorite chair and continue on book two. Reader, you have no idea what you’re in store for. For real.

Oh, before I forget! You can buy Let Slip the Beasts directly from the publisher Champagne Book Group, or from Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble! How fucking cool is that?! And if you do buy it, it would be real fucking cool if you left a review on Goodreads or Storygraph.

Holy release date, Batman!

You know when somethings seems to take a really long time and seems so far away and then suddenly everything is happening all at once? Yeah, so, my book is apparently being released in a week! That’s just 7 days, folks! WHAT?! It’s too soon, man. I’m not prepared for this at all. And the book is up on the Champagne Book Group site with a little countdown timer and everything. And you can pre-order it! RIGHT THIS MINUTE!! Check this link out The book, as I think I’ve mentioned before, will be published as an e-book first for a pretty nice price, and then I will hopefully get a physical copy in about 6 months time (but please support me by buying the ebook version even though you prefer physical copies…maybe you’ll get a cool little treat if you by both, who knows?).

Oh, and here is the new cover, designed by the talented Sevannah Storm. Pretty cool, right?

Odd has also been making a bunch of memes that I will be using for marketing purposes. If these don’t get you hyped for the book, I don’t know what will…

O frabjous day! Callooh! Galley!

Due to circumstances beyond my control my book did obviously not come out at the end of May. If it had there would have been a lot more activity around here, I can tell you that! But, I have received the galley of my book, which is the almost finished version of it, with some front and back matter – dedications, acknowledgements, about the author – and it looks almost done. It even has a COVER!!!! I’ll reveal the cover soon, don’t worry! There is just a little more work remaining and that consists of me going through the book one last time with a fine-toothed comb looking for misspellings and other errors and reporting them in an errata sheet. I’m so close to the finish line I can taste it!

I can’t wait to be done with the part of publishing a book and get back to the fun bits, which is writing. I’m about two chapters away from being done with my horror novel, and I think I’m around halfway done with the sequel to Let Slip the Beasts! Let Slip the Beasts is really cool, but the sequel is going to be even cooler and I’m so damn excited to return to it.

Oh, and I did an interview with two authors from Champagne Book group about my book, my inspirations and aspirations, video games and comic books! You can check it out here.

Hopefully I have even more exciting news soon. Byeeeeeee!

Things are finally hampening!!!

In my last blog post I listed the potential reasons for the copy edits taking so long…turns out it was a combination of 1 AND 2 – a lot of mistakes AND the copy editor having a lot on their plate (possibly due to the amount of mistakes in my book). I received the copy-edited manuscript on Tuesday, but didn’t open it until Wednesday and when I did…hooo boiii, I almost had my hair blown backwards, as we say here in Norway.

1785 revisions. 1785!!!! And I have to go through every single one by the coming Wednesday. In addition, I have to deal with a lot of repeated words, too many sentences starting with either a pronoun or a name (but that’s what you get when you take away all my gerunds, adverbs, fragments and filler words…Ma’am, those were my emotional support filler words!) AND the ending needs a teensy weensy bit of work.

After going through a lot of the revisions I’m pretty sure I don’t know how to write. Like at all. What even is a sentence? How do I word??

Help

Oh, and apparently the scheduled release date for the book is end of May! Just a little over a month!! I am officially entering panic mode!!!

In other news, I think I’m nearing the end of my horror novel, and I finally got to read Laline Paull’s new book Pod and it was AMAZING. Maybe I’ll write a review some time. It sure as fuck won’t be now. But go check it out, and her first book The Bees, which is my all-time favourite book of all time.

Byeeeeeeee!