R'Lee R. Coffey's Blog
October 9, 2014
Book Trailer :)
The official Trailer for Faerie Tale, Ashen :)
October 8, 2014
Faerie Tale, Ashen
On the outside, Ashen Black seems normal but on the inside she’s anything but. The problem is, an injury has left a Grand Canyon sized hole in her mind, leaving Ashen oblivious to who -or what – she is. Enter Knox Stoke. Tall, gorgeous, and one hundred percent not interested in Ashen’s instant affection, Knox is a mystery all on his own. One that Ashen doesn’t have time to puzzle out. Dealing with the consequences of her father’s legacy, Ashen rushes to understand why someone wants to hurt her and how she’s going to survive an enemy she doesn’t remember.
Available now on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Faerie-Tale-RLe...
Barns & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/faeri...
September 22, 2014
My debut novel <3
Faerie Tale is up for sale!!!
Paperback and Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Faerie-Tale-RLee-R-Coffey/dp/1502353253/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411345698&sr=8-1&keywords=Faerie+tale+ashen
Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/faeri...
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And on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/rLeerose
September 21, 2014
Wow …
My first book, Faerie Tale, is up for grabs tomorrow in print and digital. You can snag a copy at the links below.Promoting the little gem is another project all on it’s own. How do so many authors keep up with it all????
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TLGseries
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
It’s almost to much to keep up with!!
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September 20, 2014
Faerie Tale, Ashen: Cover reveal
Want to read the first chapter of Faerie Tale? Follow this link : https://www.facebook.com/notes/faerie...
Faerie Tale, available Monday, September 22nd, 2014!
The official Faerie Tale trailer. A minute and a half :)
August 31, 2014
Indie Writers publishing to soon
Amazon direct publishing and create space make it simple and free to publish any book you want whenever you want. Sounds awesome, right?
Wrong.
There’s a reason it takes a while for a book to come out. There is a process involved. Well, their used to be.There is one very big reason why I hate these programs and the idiots that think any idea that passes through their tiny little brains needs to be printed immediately.
1 out of 1 and a half books are not edited, polished, or revised AT ALL! “Authors” are publishing rough manuscripts without taking the time to run a simple spell check, grammar check, or anything! Really?! These self published gems appear penned by complete amateurs that dropped out of grade school or never paid attention in English class and it’s giving the rest of us a bad name.
Createspace and kindle direct publishing are quickly becoming a joke. Which is too bad because they really were a great alternative to traditional publishing.
August 29, 2014
There’s no such thing as a bad book … Uh, yeah there is!
There are such things as bad books – and by bad books, I mean the ones that appear written by twelve year olds. The ones that make you roll your eyes, shake your head, and dread picking up the damn thing to finish it because you can’t NOT finish it once you start. The only question is, how do these books make it through the publishing process? It’s mind boggling that such terrible books have caught an agents attention, made it to an editor, got picked up by a publisher and then pushed out into the public!
J.k Rowling wasn’t the best writer but her story was so great it didn’t matter. If she’d written Harry Potter in crayon on a piece of cardboard it still would have been epic. I’d like to say you actually have to try to create something great nowadays but according to today’s market that’s a big fat lie. Truth is, all you have to do is know someone that knows someone and you’re in, plot line be damned!
A list of known offenders are as follows: (the actual list is a bit longer, but I kept it short for blogging purposes)
1) The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. The book takes place in the future – how do we know that? Because everything is prefixed with the word ‘hover’. Hover board, hover car, ect. Now that’s invented. My other complaint? How many times can you write the word “bubbly” on one page? I mean really. It’s called a thesaurus. Use it.
Great story line – poorly executed.
2) Shatter me by Tahereh Mafi-. Now, I’m all about a book series with a strong female lead. Oh, wait. There is no strong female lead, just a weirdo that can’t see to figure out what she wants to say. Seriously, this is a total x-men rip off with way to many plot holes. Why is Aaron in love with Juliette to the point of being an obsessive Stalker? Oh, right. Because the author tells us he is. Constantly. Okkkkkkay. The only reason this book was published is because no one ever thought to write a book with most of the text crossed out.
Original, sure. Good, absolutely not.
3) Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz. Here’s a new take on writing. How about we chop out all the important stuff – like the main characters breaking up, how they feel, why they feel that way, ect, and focus on the unimportant things, like a three page jet ski ride. Then, we can squeeze in some of the important stuff – like the proposal, falling in love, the huge battle – into two lines of text. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Well, it isn’t. It sucks. The book sucks. The writing sucks.
And the worst part – it rattles on inconsistently for ten books! No, I’m not joking. They published nine sequels to a book that should have been tossed into the slush pile after reading the first sentence.
4) Fifty Shades of Grey by E l James. Not even going to comment. I think Katrina Passick Lumsden has done a great job with that one. You can view her full post by following this link. Be prepared to laugh.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215
These abominations overshadow actual good books that are well written, well plotted, and great reads. Many indie writers and self-published authors pen books a million times better than this literary crap – yet they remain unnoticed while the publishing world pushes this rubbish at us that would be better used to wipe our asses.
Agents and publishers- check out Scribophile. www.scribophile.com. There are tons of great, ingenious stories on there from authors that can’t seem to land a contract.
My picks for good young adult reading:
The Covenant series by Jennifer Armentrout
Anything Dan Brown has ever written
The Delirium Series by Lauren Oliver
Pretty little liars by Sara Shepard
Hush hush by because Fitzpatrick.
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Divergent
Good Adult Books:
Obsession by Jennifer Armentrout
The unit by Ninni Holmqvist, Marlaine Delargy
The Maze Runner series by James Dashner was good. Really good. It had everything- plot, climax, well written … But I didn’t like it all that much. Mainly because it wasn’t the genre I really like to read. So I would still recommend it because it was a good page turning book.
June 17, 2014
Word Candy
“Words from lips to paper part,
From pencil to parchment, a song from the heart.
Language is lyrics – from passion to pen,
Stories are scribbled of women and men.
Words are a melody you read with your eyes
Black and white letters have no disguise.”
- rrc
When words hurt worse then paper cuts
So … After taking a couple weeks to convince myself that it wasn’t my book that was the problem and it was, indeed, the lit agents, I decided to go trolling once again. The responses I got … not pretty.
The bad news: it is my book that’s the problem. And boy can those rejection letters sting like a bee on steroids. One agency even referred to me as Ms. Griffon. Last I checked, my last name was Carpenter … though that fact was over looked when I read the next line that stated, and I quote,
“I’m hesitant as to whether this is something I can successfully sell in today’s tough market for young adult books.”
Ouch.
Not to be over shadowed by:
“I am not enthusiastic enough to move others aside in order to champion this one.”
Double ouch.
I always used to think that the generic responses were the worst ones. Now I’m not so sure
The only question left, is how do I stop doing the one thing I love more then anything else when I clearly suck at it?
