Donovan M. Neal's Blog, page 6

You’ve finished your book. Now what?

When I wrote my first novel. It took me seven years. Seven years of toil, mistakes, lessons learned both good and bad. It took me quite some time to develop an understanding of the publishing business, and how to position myself to accomplish my publishing goals.

Now after writing two novels and curating hundreds of links, and using my experience I have finally completed a book that I think helps starting indie authors. Using the lessons learned and summarizing those lessons into eight...

Give it to God.

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Updates abound!

Fans have been demanding it, and now the time has come to deliver. Ladies and gentlemen I am happy to give a taste of the new audio book for the Third Heaven: The Birth of God.

Once again Angelo Di Loreto has done a fabulous job of capturing the voices and emotions of the characters in the book, and its my pleasure to work with him again in bringing the book to life. We an expected release of early June. I can’t wait for you to get your hands on the book.

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In furt...

Author interview with Keanan Brand

On occasion I like to introduce my reading audience to authors similar to myself who are writing in the genre of Christian Fiction. Today I am happy to present such a person in author Keanan Brand author of the book Dragons Rook

So tell us about your book. Why did you write it and who is it targeted towards?

This book is twenty years or more in the making. It began as a short story I wrote after a weird dream in which a girl falls asleep while ill and travels to a strange land where the...

Struck by edititous: I am better now.

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted anything. One reason is that I’ve essentially, been consumed in the release of the new book and what turned out to be a frustrating experience.

To make a long story short I uploaded a “dirty” (i.e. not fully edited) version of the book on pre-release. And it went out before I uploaded the newer “clean” (edited ) version to Amazon.

According to Amazon, my readers can get the current version of The Birth of God updated on their kindles. Per Ama...

The Third Heaven: The Birth of God is released!

What would you do for love? The sequel to the best selling book The Third Heaven: The Rise of Fallen Stars is finally here! Heaven stands decimated by war. Lucifer’s exile places mankind at the center of the mad angel’s plot to overthrow God.

Meanwhile, Michael must now take on a mantle of leadership that he did not seek and is tested to see if he is worthy of the title of Chief Prince.

Yet a conflict eats at him as he wrestles with his sworn duty to Heaven and his obedience to God; torn ove...

Big thanks to the Plymouth District Library!

I wanted to say thank you to the city of Plymouth and their District Library for the invite to this years Local Author Fair. Had lots of fun and met some great fans and made some new ones!

Afterwards I was able to meet up with a couple of wonderful ladies to chat author stuff

The smiles belong to authors Parker J. Cole, andRaelee May Carpenter.

Great day!

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The new Birth of God Trailer is out!

Have you picked up your copy yet? The Third Heaven: The Birth of God is available on Tuesday March 31st 2015!

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Take aways from God’s covenant of circumcision

Below is a scripture from Gen 17:1 I’m just sharing some devotional thoughts from my reading.

Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision

17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old theLordappeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,2that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.”3Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him,4“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.5No long...