Magenta Periwinkle's Blog, page 2

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so, it has been a good white since i wrote anything on my blog, and i have a fairly good reason... my blogger app on my phone doesn't work and I work two jobs, 14 hours or more a day,  which granted the lesser of my two jobs leaves plenty of time to write novels on small squares of paper, but not so much time to blog on websites that are blocked by security. why do I have two jobs? because I like torture... duh... so I have two because a year ago I thought it would be a good idea to have two jobs in order to pay off my debt that i accumulated when i realized that money didn't exist,... yep that's right, money is an illusion, and the security of savings is also a facade, and there is no point to saving money when someone could come in the next day and take all of your money, nor is there a point to buying things, as those too are at risk of being taken away, that leaves one last thing to do with money, and that is what i did for several years, I ate it... I ate at restaurants and used my credit card, and that worked out so well until one day i realized that whether debt/money/savings are real didn't matter what mattered was how it made you feel, and debt made me depressed. so, I work, and I write, and I watch Gossip Girl, which btw i am going to be so pissed if blair and chuck don't end up together, it is sort of like when lucas and payton got written one tree hill, that made no sense. so this blog today is just about getting some of the stuff out of my head. so today my best friend got married to this girl i really don't like, so much to the point that he can't even be my friend anymore, and that sucks majorly. makes me think of the taylor swift song, speak now, which ironically Taylor is playing in my home town right now, okay maybe a few hours ago, as i doubt tweens can be out until midnight. so now my question is where does a blog about nothing end.... things i've been thinking about... the evolution of cowlicks, what would be their purpose... any ideas

Temporary price reduction of Both Books

I have lowered the price of both Sentimental Bulls#*t and Cutting Class to $.99. The hard part of being an author is having people read your book and never knowing what they think. I honestly care, maybe a little too much, whether my book makes a difference in someones life, makes them want to live a day longer to finish it. I wrote the books because there weren't any on the shelves at BN like I was looking for. I wanted a book that for even a second would make me forget my troubles and would allow me to think someone understood. I used to turn to Sarah Dessen books for that, but the last ones weren't quite up to the task of saving my life. I want a book so grand that I live for the author to come out with another one. I'm currently without book, and currently not seeing any I am willing to pay 10$ for a temporary fix, I want my book to be one that people can by without debating whether it is worth the price, I want it to be available to anyone who needs a book, because it is the only reason to not sleep all day.

A Companion of Sentimental Bulls#*t.

Sentimental Companion now available as a Wikipedia book. This is a compilation of Wikipedia articles on the famous suicides that I used as the chapter titles in my book Sentimental Bulls#*t.

Diane Arbus- photographer, barbituates and slit wrists

So,
It has been a while since I wrote the first installation of my explaining the chapter headings in Sentimental Bulls#*t which is now available on both amazon and barnes and noble (bn having been a shock to me that it was on there since I had not taken the steps to put it there).

So, this is the blog about Diane Arbus and what I may or may not correctly remember about her. I should probably google her before writing, but that seems like cheating. I think she was the same photographer who was portrayed in a movie along with that british guy who was arrested several years back with the prostitute, and in this movie he is covered from head to two with hair, and he is clogging up the drains in the building complex each time he takes a shower. I think Diane is portrayed by that blood lady who was married to Tom Cruise, whose name I forget but I only liked her in that one movie with Tom where they are out westish, FAR and AWAY, I liked Tom in that too, might have been the last time I liked him in a movie besides the wonderful TOP GUN where he convinced me that he was in love with the female lead when really it was just the sound track that made the love look real. So back to Diane, she was a photographer and she swallowed a bunch of pills and killed her self. let me double check this on wiki...

That's right she took the cool pictures that looked like people in the circus. The movie I mentioned above was called FUR and starred Nicole Kiddman. I did just find out or refind out that she was depressed (duh) and that her body was not found for two days, as she lay dead in a bath tub. disturbing.

http://www.amazon.com/Sentimental-Bulls-t-ebook/dp/B004PLNNJ0

30 monkeys !!!

There are 30 instances of the word monkey inside SENTIMENTAL BULLS#*T !!! The new look inside features is now available on amazon for the the paper back version of the book.  That means 30 monkeys can now be found without even buying the book.

Those Who Favor Fire: to be renamed

So,
It appears that the title "Those Who Favor Fire" has already been used for a novel and thus I am going to use this as a good excuse to rename my second novel. Previously known as .... is a novel about a boy "P.B." who is the star of his high school football team and yet he doesn't quite fit in, he has blue spikes to his hair, he likes the most unpopular girl named Pixie (who is rumored to be the school slut) and most of all he is disproportionately angrier than the other members of the team.  P.B. thinks his anger may be the direct result of growing up without a father, as his father is in prison for burning down the local high school when he was the same age as P.B. . When his father is released from prison and his mother's high school journal resurfaces, P.B. must come to terms with what really happened the night the school burnt down.

So, what should I rename it?

"What really happened the night the school burnt down"
"One of those books that should be burned"
"Book burning"
"Biblioclasm "
"Libricide"
"A modern day book buring"
"to be burned unread"
"Girl name unknown"
"obsessed with hitler"
"pictures taken in a graveyard"

Tagging Sentimental

So,
I need help tagging my novel so that it will show up when people search for it.
The easiest thing anyone can do to help is to go on amazon and agree with the tags I already have there

 

 The place to go on the screen looks like this: 



Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.Click here to get started: Sentimental Bulls#*t 

I hate being right

So, It seems that I was right about my book title, SENTIMENTAL BULLS#*T is flagged as profanity and anything I post in a forum or in a review will be blocked, which means:

1. No reviews of my book if they include the title
2. No promoting my book in forums
3. No searching for my book by title
4. No including the title next to my name when reviewing other books or writing in forums

So If I change the name:

1. I will have to have a new facebook page, a new cover, a new paper copies, a new email address, and less sentimental attachment to the title.


ARG.
Just to be difficult I might just keep it and be the book that can not be named, it worked for Lord Voldemort.

Books selling

It is so surreal to think that there are actually people out there who I don't know who I will probably never know, who are reading my novel. What is even stranger is I might never even know what they thought of it, or even if they liked it, if it changed their lives even for just a second. Today I was regretting using the words "save a life" in my book description about how a good book can save a life. I hope that my reference is not taken as in the religious connotation of the word "Saved" as that is so far from how I meant it. What I mean is that feeling, when deep in depression when you go to the book store looking for a book to save your life, a book that can distract you for the next few hours or days, and give you a world where you feel so connected that the real world disappears. When I read I don't see the words, they disappear, and I become so caught up in the story that I forget my own problems, and some how see the world as a hopefully place. A novel can be just as powerful as therapy or an antidepressant pill. A novel can remind you that "true love exists," can remind you of all the Edwards of the world not that I think Twilight is the best example of love, but the options are endless. My only hope is that someday someone can see Dysan and think, gee I wish he was mine.

http://amzn.com/B004PLNNJ0

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4678909.Magenta_Periwinkle

So, seems I start all blog posts with the word "so"

So,

I need help tagging words on my book: SENTIMENTAL BULLS#*T.
Amazon will only let me have 15 of my own tags. :(.

Turns out promoting a book is a pain. But hopefully it will be worth it and some people will get to read my book.