The torture of delayed gratification!
One of the things I personally find hottest in a love scene is some teasing delayed gratification. I like it when the hero makes his lady squirm a bit.
What`s not hot is writing a book and waiting for 45 days to see if it will be published. That`s a LONG time to build some anticipation and then to have a bucket of water thrown all over you at the end? Not sexy.
Fortunately, I have the means to rectify my situation all on my lonesome, without any assistance from Kindle Scout. You guessed it, they passed on Fair Market Value, so it will be self-published later today. It should show up sometime tomorrow, so please wait until Tuesday if you want to pick it up. It'll be free for one day and I want to ensure you guys get a copy for no charge at all. You've been so incredibly patient and supportive (especially the amazing Shannon.)I regret making you wait so long when I could have done this months ago. Oh well, had to try, right?
What have I learned from this? Well, not much. I intend to keep trying to be published but not in this particular format. (Beware Entangled publishers, I'm coming for you next.)I probably won't do the Kindle Scout thing again because I think nominations should be open to everyone, not just the American audience. Also, I'm just not social media-savvy enough to draw attention to my books. Nominations determine whether they will even look at publishing and mine really didn't have much buzz. Totally my fault for not being as pro-active as I should have been but still, mucho-disappointing.
Anyway, watch for Fair Market Value on Tuesday. No more teasing. I promise!!
What`s not hot is writing a book and waiting for 45 days to see if it will be published. That`s a LONG time to build some anticipation and then to have a bucket of water thrown all over you at the end? Not sexy.
Fortunately, I have the means to rectify my situation all on my lonesome, without any assistance from Kindle Scout. You guessed it, they passed on Fair Market Value, so it will be self-published later today. It should show up sometime tomorrow, so please wait until Tuesday if you want to pick it up. It'll be free for one day and I want to ensure you guys get a copy for no charge at all. You've been so incredibly patient and supportive (especially the amazing Shannon.)I regret making you wait so long when I could have done this months ago. Oh well, had to try, right?
What have I learned from this? Well, not much. I intend to keep trying to be published but not in this particular format. (Beware Entangled publishers, I'm coming for you next.)I probably won't do the Kindle Scout thing again because I think nominations should be open to everyone, not just the American audience. Also, I'm just not social media-savvy enough to draw attention to my books. Nominations determine whether they will even look at publishing and mine really didn't have much buzz. Totally my fault for not being as pro-active as I should have been but still, mucho-disappointing.
Anyway, watch for Fair Market Value on Tuesday. No more teasing. I promise!!
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Oh! Are you going to add it to the GR database? I'm still going to review and pimp!
Pimp away, my friend, pimp away. I hope you enjoy it. It should show up in the Goodreads database soon.
Just wanted to say good luck with the new book, can't wait to read it!, I shall pimp out too to my friends in the UK, but have to say a huge thank you goes to Shannon for promoting this book, she went all out!, it was wonderful to see, I'm only glad she's using her powers for good and not evil...
Thanks Janey for your kind wishes and for the UK Pimping. You have all been so supportive and PATIENT! And yes, Shannon has promoted FMV like mad. I feel so bad that all her hard work still couldn't rescue my book from the Amazon slushpile. Hope you enjoy it. And thanks again for trying to nominate it. You rock.
Tamara...I've been keeping up with this Kindle Scout and I've since voted for books with the HOT label and they still didn't get picked up. They must not be publishing many of the choices.
Good Luck with Entangled, we'll all be pullin' for you!