Just a little something buzzworthy....

Good evening all. I don't have much to say tonight, except that I pretty much took the night off of working on promoting and all that stuff. I've been burning the candle at both ends this past week and it is catching up with me. At least I have eight or so books out there that people have purchased for all of my efforts so far. Thank you!

I am planning a free book give away on Goodreads. Hopefully that will generate some buzz as well. I have some other avenues of advertisement that I plan on using but I plan on using those a little later.

I do have a request for those who read the book. Please rate and review it for me on amazon.com, on  goodreads, on any other site you can think of. That will help too. As much as writing and getting my book out there is a success, YOU folks are the reason anything becomes popular or successful. Remember that!

The problems of being a 'starving artist' or 'struggling author'

Hello readers,
Here's an update on what's going on in the world of Michelle. Last night I purchased some business cards to pass out to people who might be interested in my work. It beats the method I've been using at work, which is writing down my website and telling people to go check it out. I'm a struggling author, gotta do this self promoting somehow.

Next, today I entered the title of my book into the search bar @ Amazon.com and they have the paperback listed. That's happy news. It means it's out there for people to stumble across. The kindle version was pushed back due to an error on the creators part. (Forgetting to include an author, namely yourself is a pretty stupid thing to do.) Luckily they caught my mistake, so happy news there.

And finally I am proud to say I am up to 6 copies of the novel sold. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have supported me in this step and like I have said before, I hope that you all enjoy reading Cursed and the Damned as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

Until the next folly or accomplishment,

-Michelle

Day 1 of being a 'published' author

Well folks, I just updated my account status on goodreads.com and now I am an 'author' by their standards. That is good news! I so far have sold 2 books and the book hasn't even been out for a day. That's even BETTER news! As I've said before, this isn't about me getting revenue even though that is an added perk, it's about making people love what I've done and love the worlds that I've created. I hope everyone that has an opportunity to pick up my book will enjoy what they read. That is the TRUE reward for this. I also want honest feedback, I want to know what everyone thinks of it. With that I leave you with the news that I have updated my website. Also I will show you the entire cover here.

Hardcover Released!

Well folks, I finally did it and before the end of the August! I can now safely say I am a published author. Thank you all to those who helped me out and inspired me along the way. Here is the link to the site

http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=Cursed+and+the+Damned&categoryId=100501

The other versions of the book are soon to follow.
-Michelle

Hard at work on designing my own cover layout.

I figured while I was waiting for Emily to come back with the next round of color, I might as well get to work on actually putting the cover together. Tonight I spent some time working on the cover for the hardback edition of the book. So far it's looking good and I have quite a few pieces in place, including the barcode for the book. All I really need now is the correct picture and the text on the back of the book and we have that one finished. The paperback version may be a bit different, I'm not certain yet, but right now, we're coming along. I'm not going to post the entire cover just yet, but once it's all done. I'll give everyone a sneak peak.

Dear God, is the author insane?

Well I'm a little late getting back to you folks on this. I did get some pics, which most of you saw on my Facebook page and I did get the cover art pencils from Ron, which totally made my Con this year. Also during that time I also found out that the first revision of my cover had been redone. I of course love it. Still needs another revision, but hopefully this will be the last one and then onto making the book cover and going from there. Which means soon I'll be putting myself into overdrive to get this blasted thing out there.

In other news, I started yet another project, which brings my current total to 3. (4 if you count the one we're about to see finished) I really need to focus on just one work, but when so many things inspire you, it's rather hard to just focus on one writing project. In some weird way, multitasking like this helps me in ways I have yet to figure out. I suppose if I get tired of writing one, I can jump to another. Maybe that's why I do it; to spice up life.

Well until next time
-Michelle

Well tomorrow is the first day of the Comic-Con. I hope to have fun, but I know for certain I should be picking up my first purchase for this year. Tomorrow I'll be picking up the pencils for the book. Am I excited? Hell yes! I'm certain to get some pictures so stay tuned for those:)