Do You Have 30 Seconds of Spare Time? I Need Your Help.
Hey there — do you have an Amazon account? ��Do you not mind blindly nominating something? ��Are you capable of finding a blue button and clicking?
Then I have the task for you!
Ladies and gentleman, my very first manuscript is officially part of a Kindle Scout campaign. ��It’s been a serious comedy of errors from the get-go, complete with an 11th hour, “Hey, your synopsis — your 500��word synopsis? — yeah, we meant 500 character synopsis.” ��But my fingers are crossed that all this mad dashing and nutty-ness will lead to something.
How does this work? ��My book is on a 30-day campagin and the Kindle Scout team will consider my book for publication after its campaign ends. ��While it’s a little more complicated than, “nominations = publication,” the more nominations I receive, the more favorably they will look upon said book.
So — please, please, please, look at this noise, I’m actually begging — click any one of the links I have going on, and click “Nominate Me”. ��That’s it. ��It’s as simple as that. ��If you have an Amazon account, you don’t have to sign up for anything. ��And — really — who doesn’t have an Amazon account these days? ��Even the Amish appreciate Amazon’s vast selection and convenience. ��Even Isis is like, “Death to America! ��But thank you, dudes in Seattle, for making Amazon.com.”
You can do a lot of things once you click that link. ��You can read my 500-character version of my synopsis (the 500-word synopsis is down believe), you can read a few Q&As, and you can stare at my picture in awe. ��Or disgust. ��You can also do none of those things and just click “Nominate Me”. ��Quite frankly? ��I’m not too concerned.
So do it already! ��Also, here’s my full(er) synopsis:
Is chick literature nothing more than easy beach reads, or can we learn something about ourselves through them?
Life hasn���t changed much for Katy Sinclaire. Years after she graduated college, Katy still lives with her old university roommate and still works at the same bookstore that she���s been with since she was a teenager. It is an increasingly unsatisfying life, but it is a life that she does not question. That is, until a chain of events forces Katy to confront the painful truth: she is going absolutely, positively, nowhere. She realizes that she needs to do something with her life, and now.
Only one problem: Katy has absolutely, positively, no idea what the first step should be.
The other problem? From her harebrained misadventures, to her chisel-jawed boyfriend, to her best guy friend (who is not-so-secretly in love with her), Katy���s life starts mimicking the very chick literature she mocks at the bookstore. Only life isn���t as predictable as a storybook, a lesson Katy is forced to learn as she desperately tries to figure out her purpose in life ��� if such a purpose even exists.
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On a serious note: I wrote this puppy way back in 2010. ��It’s been a wild ride since. ��I’ve probably queried over 150 agents over the span of four-something years, edited and re-edited, proofread until my eyes went cross-eyed, submitted to far too many contests. ��It would be really nice to finally give this book a proper publishing ground. ��I really do appreciate every single nomination — so your 30 seconds really would mean the world to me.
Okay, enough serious talk. ��Here’s a puppy clamouring over a cat:
