Welcome to my blog!
Come follow along with me as I venture through this quest of becoming an established novelist. Names, characters and places are all products of this authors imagination!
I am proud to announce that my first book was released earlier this week, A Castle Inside. Take a walk inside the Castle and see what you find...no it's not a haunted castle, nor one built in the early 13th century. It's a love story about those that live inside the lavish Castle that stands tall among the rolling hills in Iceland.
In a normal work day for me, I get up early and take my 3 darling kids to school. Then I come home to a hot steamy pot of coffee and my keyboard. I get 2.5 precious hours of alone time to spend on my writing before Kindergarten is released, then I am back and forth to school for the 2nd time. Now my girls and I are home for lunch then it's back to school in the afternoon to a 3rd trip back and forth to pick up my son. Now we're all home for afterschool snacks and homework. The next thing I know it is dinner time and of course bath and bed times....then I do have a few more precious hours to work. Then it's all the same the very next day.
Writing a book is like the weather, it could be warm some days as you have a lot of fun interpreting your thoughts into what you want others to think. Other days you want to stay rolled up in your pajamas and not bother with it because you want just ten more minutes of sleep. But on those warm days, once I've got it all down on paper the hard part begins. The days just repeat with the same old pattern, edit, cut, paste, edit, cut, paste. Months, yes months go by and finally....the overcast parts and the sun shines down upon your finished work. Now you have to bribe a friend to read it for you to see what kind of stupid mistakes you made on your first draft.
So feel free to follow along with me. I plan to keep an updated post about the month's trip to Nanowrimo land, along with updating how my work in progress of Blue Sky Exposure is coming along, along with the many other short story contests I partake in, how my home life intermingles with my professional life, and what kind of adventure my newest publication is taking me on.
I'm glad to have a friends and family that support me and encourage me to continue with my life-long dream! Thanks friends! Thanks family!
The book, A Castle Inside will be listed on Amazon.com by mid-next week. It apparently takes 15 business days to be listed on there, along with another few weeks of showing an insdie scoop and preview through there. It's an exicitng thing to search for myself on Amazon's website. As of today it is still not listed on there. I'll keep checking every day.
ReplyDeleteThe latest news on my self-publishing is exciting. Today I was interviewed by the Garden City observer & eccentric newspaper and they are going to write a story about my book, and how I self-published it to help me promote it! I had a photo op along with an hour long interview. The story should be in this week's paper. I will try to find an online link to see if I can get that out there for you to see.
It was a very exciting day, the first of many I hope.