My First Ever Book!
Please come visit me over at Laura Hilton’s blog, Lighthouse Academy. I’m talking about the research I did for The English Lieutenant’s Lady and giving away a signed copy of His Forgotten Fiancée!
Beth Erin interviewed me at Faithfully Bookish, and she very kindly is letting me give away a copy of His Forgotten Fiancée. Come check it out!
I’m over at Seriously Write today, talking about my experience writing my first book.
Come check it out! I make a Serious Shocking Confession about His Forgotten Fiancée, something I’ve never told anyone before now.
My first week as a published author* and my second guest post!
Come visit me at Petticoats & Pistols. I’m talking about my adventure is using a scythe to ‘harvest’ my lawn. My hero in His Forgotten Fiancée had to use a scythe, and I wanted to know what it would have felt like for him.
Spoiler alert: I survived. My lawn… well…
Plus, I’m giving away a copy of His Forgotten Fiancée!
*I keep using that phrase because I’m trying to make myself believe it. Eventually, I’m sure the reality will sink in. Maybe.
Found on a bookshelf in Indiana! Photo credit: Ann Mettert
I did it! I went to the store and had a Confirmed Sighting, in the wild, on the shelf, of a book that I had scribbled onto a yellow legal pad. And it looked like people might have even bought one or two. Inconceivable.
I will not admit to giggling madly when I saw my book on the shelf, but I might have burbled my excitement to the lady next to me when I asked if she’d take my picture holding my book.
“Oh, did you write that? Hmmn. I’ll have to take a look at it.”
When I walked away, she was reading the description. I did not look back, but I’m going to assume that she decided to buy it. Because that’s the way I want this Visit-to-the-store story to go, so there.
When I went to pay for my groceries (no, I did not buy a copy) I asked the cashier how her day was going.
“Well… I’m here,” she said.
“Hey,” I said. “Some days, that’s a victory.”
She agreed.
Then, because yes I was a mad, burbling fool by this point, I said It. “I just saw my first book for sale in the book department.” I might have beamed at her, if I’m being completely honest.
“Oh, that’s cool. What’s it called?” She wrote down the title and said she’d get a copy for her niece. And yes, I know, she might have been saying that to make me feel good, but by this point I was writing the Happy Ending of my Visit-to-the-store story, and in my version she rushed out and bought a copy.
Plus, we got to talking about stories and she was writing a story with her friend, and she loved reading Kresley Cole’s stories, and by the time she got through ringing up my groceries she was in a much better frame of mind than she had been at the start of our conversation, thinking of all the stories she still wanted to write. So there is that.
When you walk into a store and don’t see your book upon the shelves, there’s only one possible conclusion. Repeat after me: “I’m sold out!” -Julia Quinn
My First Ever Book!
Welcome to 2018!
I hope your year is off to a good start. Myself, I woke up as a published author. It doesn’t feel real. Maybe I should go get a tweed jacket, the kind with patches over the elbows. Real writers always seem to wear one of those. Presumably their jackets get worn down because authors are constantly rubbing elbows with the rich and famous? One can hope.
I’m starting off the year with a guest post on Christian Shelf Esteem. Please check it out! I’m giving away a signed copy of His Forgotten Fiancée!
Win an autographed copy!
Giveaway ends November 25, 2017.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Print copy, mailed to U.S. and Canada.
I received a box from Harlequin. My advance copies of His Forgotten Fiancée!
All right, so perhaps ‘battle’ isn’t the mot juste. But it made for a dramatic title.
Love Inspired published a Cover vs. Cover post on Facebook, comparing His Forgotten Fiancée with A Mother for his Family, by Susanne Dietze. I must say, her cover is lovely. I do enjoy a good Regency novel.
But does her cover have a kitten on it? It does not. Tsk, I say.
Srsly? No kitteh?
Do you prefer Regency elegance or cute kittens on a cover? Please go check out the covers on Facebook and share your opinion!
Read a sample of my First Ever Book!
Good news! The opening of His Forgotten Fiancée is now available on Overdrive! It is in eBook format. Does a Kindle device know to translate that? I need to investigate. If anyone knows the answer, could you let me know?
I love that you can sample a book and decide whether it’s something you’d like.
Samplers! I love samplers!
