Two new reviews, and an update on editing…
One of the downsides of being offline more often is, I'm not able to obsessively check for new reviews. So I missed two reviews for Confessions of a Zombie Lover, one a 3-star review from Nick Cato, who said my story was a "somewhat fresh twist on a tiring subgenre." You can check out the rest of the review here. (along with some other possibly interesting reviews for this month.)
Colleen Wanglund also offered her 4-star review, which I'm told will also be up soon at Monster Librarian. Colleen said, "While it can be tough to write something 'new' in the zombie sub-genre, I think Ms. Whitten has done an excellent job here." Read the rest of the review here.
This is fantastic to find two good reviews that I'd missed before, and I want to thank Nick and Colleen for reviewing my stories. Both noted in their review that they were coming into the story without reading G's first book, and I'm happy that neither felt like they were missing out on something. This was a frequent comment about the Campaign trilogy, that you really need to read the first book to make any sense out of the second or third. While the books have been reviewed favorably, and I consider them one of my my few financial successes, I also felt they failed my intended criteria of making every book a standalone episode. So G's second book is a success in that regard. Woot. (^_^) (more news after the cut.)
[image error]In other news, I've just completed edits on Job Interview with a Vampire and uploaded it to Smashwords. But I'm back in the queue a bit. I recalled seeing a single error in Sandy Morrison and the Pack of Pussies, and I decided to fix that one mistake and upload an updated copy. So it's a bit farther back in the queue. Both books should be updated sometime tomorrow, unless everyone ahead of me was submitting very short stories.
I'm also working on the edits for Adopting a Sex Doll and When a Sex Doll Dies. I've already gone over the changes proposed by editor Tracy DeVore, but I'm going back over the same stuff to read it aloud and make sure everything sounds okay. I did find a mistake mentioned twice in the second book, but it was very easy to correct, and I think the editor and publisher will be happier with this correction made to keep the story consistent.
And on that note, please let me remind you once again that Belfire Press is taking pre-orders on the limited print edition. Yes, there will be an ebook for all you ebook lovin' folks, but there will only be 100 copies of the print edition made for paper peoples. I really would like to help Belfire sell out those copies, but aside from buying 10 or 20 copies myself, I'm not sure what to do. I'm almost desperate enough to consider a boobies for books program, where I offer pics of my tits if I meet certain sales goals. But I'm sure there has to be a better way of selling book than putting my naked ass on the cover. And I should know, because that's my lily-white fanny gracing the cover of In the Grasp of the Devil. (Really didn't move a single unit, which completely blows hubby's theory about the selling power of my naked ass.)
Anywho, I got good reviews, and I've had some decent sales lately. Hopefully, as I roll out more of the archives in their polished third and fourth editions, I'll be able to get reviews and sales on them as well, even if they are older stories. After all, they're still new to people who've never read them before, right? Right, that's the theory.
Anywho, I'll post an update as soon as Job Interview With a Vampire is up. Because my vampire books have proven so popular with people, all of the archived vampire stories will take precedence before I work on the other stuff. Those among you who consider yourself fans of my vampire should be pleased to know that when I get back into writing, it will be the Vicky and her coven I cover in more of these short novelettes and novellas. Again, people seem to like these shorter episodes, so I'll try to cover more of the subplots in this way, instead of making a huge novel with a bunch of scattered subplots. (Which would only annoy folks anyway.)
Right, and now I'm off to do more editing. Because I love you people, even if you don't believe me.
