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My good news: A couple months ago, I joked to an author friend that I would die of old age before my book reached 50 reviews on Amazon. Over the weekend, my book received its 50th Amazon review. So that was awesome :D.
J.C, That is great news! Yippee!!Alexis, Good luck with your author profile!
Marie, Congratulations on your accomplishment!!
Alexis wrote: "J.C. wrote: "Something good happened to me today - one of my colleagues caught me to tell me he'd just finished my first book, he'd bought all the others, and been blown away by the writing...*happ..."LOL! :)
Marie wrote: "My good news: A couple months ago, I joked to an author friend that I would die of old age before my book reached 50 reviews on Amazon. Over the weekend, my book received its 50th Amazon review. ..."
...I havta ask...are you dead? :)
I was so excited when I discovered that my 2nd fiction novel (in a trilogy) Chasing Rhinos took Gold in the suspense category at the Global eBook Awards. Now if I only was better at promotion
Faith wrote: "I was so excited when I discovered that my 2nd fiction novel (in a trilogy) Chasing Rhinos took Gold in the suspense category at the Global eBook Awards. Now if I only was better at promotion"Great news, Faith! I love awards, especially when someone we know wins. Nice to know you!! Solid advice from Alex.
Good news, Everyone! Keep up the good work!
J.C. wrote: "...I havta ask...are you dead? :)"Still here :). It's a halloween miracle!
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This is what I needed today.
Dwayne wrote: "Twice while completely alone today I let my emotions out. The first, I laughed until I hurt. The second, I cried my eyes out. This is what I needed today."
Yup, some days are like that, Dwayne.
Hugs, Sue
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Awe, shucks, Dwayne! You just made my day!! More Hugs
A good laugh, a good cry, and a good piece of chocolate are all good things for the soul.
Chocolate Cake???? 0-0Where?? Yum!!
Glad people are having good things happen in their lives. On my end, a bunch of good things happened today.
We ran a promo over the weekend (it ended yesterday) and it went better than expected.
Two weeks ago (tomorrow), we released our first book in almost 2 years and it's doing better than expected.
I bought a new printer to replace our old decrepit one. It cost less than I expected and it was easier to set up than I expected.
I was forced to give up my old much beloved cell phone (I've had it for 10+ years) because the network won't support 2G phones anymore. I was given a free replacement, and it's working out better than expected (however much I hate to admit that).
Said new phone made me laugh until I hurt myself. I didn't expect that at all.
The weather here today was gorgeous and ... better than expected.
It's my co-author's birthday. (I did expect that.) She's on a trip which is going ... (you fill in that part).
I spent the morning with my best friend. That was entirely expected and better by far than all the rest put out together and then some.
Other good and/or great things happened today. But overall, my day was ... ;-)
Something good happened to me, people. I got two good reviews for one of my books. And if you're like me, that creates a big, happy smile that will be glued to your face for the rest of the day!
I just got my first copies of my 3rd book and they look amazing! Squee!
Thomas wrote: "I just got my first copies of my 3rd book and they look amazing! Squee!"That's always an awesome moment :) congrats!
Oohh that's really cool! Fingers crossed for lots of downloads and exposure.
Alex wrote: "I've just had my something good today, I've had a sale of my book, in, of all places, the Netherlands.I wonder if it's from a certain lady in this group.
if it is, thank you so much, but yay or na..."
Amazon sucks! My buys are supposed to be secret. It wasn't a Support-A-Fellow-Author-2-be-kind buy. I downloaded the Amazon sample and liked it. Will be reading and reviewing soon.
So. I've had a bit of an intense last 24 hours. I'm a very idealistic person and the state of the world and what I feel we're heading towards had me growing a bit weary and disillusioned. (No, I'm not going political on you guys, I swear lol. This is leading to something.)
But believe it or not, feeling so down and blue and thinking about all that headache-inducing stuff led to me FINALLY figuring out how to end my book because I FINALLY (did I mention finally) figured out what the main conflict of my story is.
I have the meet cute.
The romance.
The sex scenes.
And I love the interaction between my characters but I was missing the conflict, the tension. I THOUGHT I had it figured out, but I was wrong. However I finally figured it out last night.
It will require major rewrites to the story but hey, nothing good comes easy. :)
So that's my something [bleep] awesome that happened today.
Alex wrote: "It's alright Alexis, I only suspected it was you because I saw from your profile and site that you're in the Netherlands, otherwise I'd never have known.Thank you anyway, it means more that you on..."
Don't mention it. :D Did you manage to fix all the bloopers?
Alex wrote: "I did (at least I fixed all the major ones, I can't guarantee there aren't a few of those irritating little ones that hide no matter how many times you check the book)Fingers crossed the book is n..."
Even authors with huge budgets don't catch them all. Not saying we shouldn't all strive to deliver top notch work, but sh** happens right? I caught my favorite romance writer repeating the same sentence two times in a chapter a couple of days ago lol.
But yeah, fingers crossed. X
Alexis wrote: "So. I've had a bit of an intense last 24 hours. I'm a very idealistic person and the state of the world and what I feel we're heading towards had me growing a bit weary and disillusioned. (No, I'..."
Isn't it amazing how you can write and write and still not be clear about the central conflict? Happy you found yours! I found mine after years of working at it. Yea!
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Alex wrote: "I did (at least I fixed all the major ones, I can't guarantee there aren't a few of those irritating little ones that hide no matter how many times you check the book)Fingers crossed the book is n..."
Yes, that's be great. Would you need my email to send the corrected version?
@David Allen: years?? Wow! Well better (suoer late) than never.
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I had both cookies and ice cream today. Yes, I am thrilled by the same things that thrill five year olds and I am proud of this.
Dwayne - Very nice of you to take the time to send that message to the coffee shop. Too often people only take the time to write when they have something to complain about. Hugs!!Christina - Also have the mind of a 5-year-old, I'm with you!! Hugs!!
Hey everyone! Today my students created compliment bags. We silently distributed compliments to one another throughout the day! The look on my students faces, as they read their compliments, made my day!
Jasmine - What a beautiful idea!! Kudos to you!!
Christina: Cookies AND ice cream?! No fair!Jasmine: That's an awesome idea! We need more of that kind of thinking!
My husband told me that I'm not like everyone else. It doesn't sound like much, but in the context it was incredibly sweet. My giveaway is going really well. I get to spend the day with all of my kids and we just might play video games all day. I have a lot of good. :)
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Dwayne wrote: "I've been married to my wife for five years as of today!"Happy Anniversary!
Dwayne wrote: "I've been married to my wife for five years as of today!"Happy anniversaryto you both. That certainly classes as something good.
Happy anniversary, Dwayne. Wishing you many more wonderful years together.
Happy anniversary, Dwayne! And thanks for the reminder. I need to send the same message to my sister and her husband.
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For November, it's sure a gorgeous day out there. At least in my neck of the woods.
It's singles day which means all my favorite stores have great sales. Awesome. A book related thing.. well, I haven't been writing anything so I spend my day creating cute teasers and other graphics that I will be blasting all over come release week.
Alex wrote: "Alexis wrote: "It's singles day which means all my favorite stores have great sales. Awesome. A book related thing.. well, I haven't been writing anything so I spend my day creating cute teasers an..."Thanks! They are pretty cool if I may say so myself. I've also made two covers for books I haven't even written yet, lol. I hope these writing blues pass soon though. ^_^
How is the fire and ice promotion going?
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And I managed to reach 60 likes on FB. I want to reach 200 likes before release date and we're getting there slowly but surely lol!