In one of the interviews I had done, I was asked about what type of music/songs would go with Beyond the Eyes. Metallica–Enter Sand Man, was one of them. However, this song by Lifehouse-Whatever It Takes, is another one because whenever I hear this song, I always think of the scene when Nathan bares his feelings to Paige, and he actually tells her he’ll do whatever it takes to keep them together.
Here’s the song/video. Remember Paige is seventeen so these characters in this video don’t resemble Paige or Nathan, but the song fits the scene I just mentioned.
I thought I’d take a quick breather from working on marketing my book to tell you guys what a trip this is. I did three interviews and now I’m waiting to hear back on when they'll be posted. I’m also working on getting more book reviews. I think the hardest part for me is the waiting part.
My paperback is still in the formatting process. There were more formatting kinks that needed to be ironed out, so hopefully I’ll have it back within a couple days. Frankly, I can’t wait to get my ARC/proof copy. I’m so looking forward to holding my book in my hands. :)
So far this week, I posted my book trailer on Youtube, joined Goodreads, uploaded to Smashwords, and created an author profile on Amazon. Not to mention, working on marketing my book.
I don’t mind any of this really because it’s teaching me a lot about the business aspect of it, but the thing that sucks is, I don’t have time to write or go over my second book in this series.
I can’t wait to get back to it.
My characters keep imploring me to write about them, and I have to ignore their chatter.
Yeah, I know. That sounds nutty, but if you’re a writer, you totally know what I’m talking about.
Anyway, I thought I’d pop on really quick to tell you that now it begins. I just pushed the rock over the hill, and I’m wondering what’s going to happen next. I’m on the ledge looking down, watching what this rock I just pushed is going to do while doing the best I can to make it gain speed and alert people to it.
Speaking of alerting, I’ll letcha know when my interviews and book reviews are posted. Right now, though, I need to get ready for bed because I have a day job I have to go to in the morning.
It’s Sunday night, 8:28 to be exact and the sun is still shining. I’ve lived here in North Dakota for 6 years now, and I’m still not used to it being light outside when it should be dark. In my book, that’s just so wrong.
Yeah, yeah. I know. Most people love that it doesn’t get dark until like 10:30 at night.
Not me.
I’m the type of person who likes it dark at 6 o’clock and rather be cold than hot. In fact, I really don’t care for summer. Unless, it’s a mild summer. Otherwise, forget it. I don’t like the heat, and I don’t like the bugs.
Last summer was horrible here. I swear, one day we had like a hundred flies in our house and the mosquitos were bad too. Not to mention that stupid, freaky-ass tornado I told you guys about.
I’m not bitching really. I’m just saying.
Anyway, I do have some news regarding my book, but I’m not going to post it until I know it’s all good. So, there will probably be another post before Friday.
I’ve been feverishly working on reviewing my ebook and checking for errors this week. Now, I’m doing the same with my paperback book. It looks like though, I’ll be able to upload my book to Kindle & ebook in less than a week.
Yay.
So if everything goes well, my book may be available on Kindle & ebooks by this time next week.
*fingers and piggies crossed*
And then, hopefully my paperback book will be available within a couple weeks. I am going to get an ARC (advanced readers copy) before I ok it to publication, so that may take a week. But I rather it takes a little bit longer than to be mortified by something I wouldn’t be able to change afterwards. If that makes sense.
I’m going to be doing some blog interviews in the near future. I’m working on setting them up right now and will post each blog site I hopscotch to in this blog. There will also be reviews on my book and giveaways. I’ll keep you up-to-date on everything. I imagine though, marketing my book will be an ongoing process for a while.
Anyway, I still have a ton of things to do, but thank God it’s Friday. :)
Last Tuesday night, we were under a tornado watch.
Yikes!
It's almost been a year since our cute little town was hit by a tornado, including our house. It didn’t wipe our house out. Thank God. It did damage our roof and took down four of our trees. It was a scary experience that Kevin and I don't ever want to go through again. This is what our street looked like after the tornado.
When we were hunkering down in the basement, listening to the roar (yes, it’s true what they say: it sounds like a freight train barreling towards you), we heard several loud popping noises. We thought it was the top of our house being torn off.
It wasn’t.
Guess what it was?
Trees!
That’s right. The trees were popping out of the ground. I never in my wildest dreams imagined a tree would make that sound.
Poor, trees.
I love trees.
Our town lost like 1,500 trees in that tornado.
Now, almost a year later, we’re back into a tornado season, and it makes us very nervous. I hope and pray we never have to go through that again. I feel so bad for the people who went through a major tornado, like the people in Missouri. If I could have been there to help them, I would have.
So that was the beginning of my week, and then I heard from my formatting team. My manuscript is not formatting right to Kindle and epub.
As you know, I’m not computer savvy, so when I wrote my book in WordPerfect, I manually did most of the formatting, which screwed me in the end. LOL. Now, I have to go through the Kindle version of my book, carefully read the whole thing, and make notes where all the discrepancies are.
What a pain-in-the-ass.
That is some tedious shit.
But it has to be done.
Right now I’m on chapter eleven (I have 12 more chapters to go). On the bright side though (I always try to look on the bright side of everything), the errors will be fixed, and I’ll know what to do when I’m ready to publish my second book.
Well, I'm off to work. I hope you guys have a happy Friday and Memorial Day weekend. Be safe and have fun!
Last Friday, I ran across this video. When I watched it, I cried. It’s very inspirational. If you have five minutes to spare, I urge you to watch this. Be prepared though, it might make you cry.
I’m not going to lie, sometimes I feel like giving up, and I can totally empathize with this guy. But the thing is, when it comes to my writing and this paranormal series I’m putting out, I can’t quit. I love it too much. There are times though, when I get exhausted and wonder if I should continue to pursue this dream of mine.
But I’m a junkie–addicted to story telling. So much so, I’m hell bent on doing this for a living. Even if I have to sacrifice my time and sleep to make it happen.
I read the other day that writers are prone to madness.
*cringes*
Is this sadomasochistic drive I have . . .
Before I finish that sentence lets face it when you labor over a scene you seem to can’t-get-right, you totally want to pull your hair out and cry. But then something magical happens. Your heart begins to pound as an intense rush comes over you, your fingers flying against the keys, trying to keep up. Once you’re done, you feel giddy, drunk on the high of just writing a really cool frickin’ scene.
Oh yeah, baby.
That’s what I’m talking about.
*grins*
So again, is this sadomasochistic drive I have to become an accomplished writer, going to eventually make me looney tunes?
God, I hope not.
Can you imagine a home just for writers who lost their marbles? That would actually make a good story.
Maybe I should get a bag of marbles and give it to Kevin for safe keeping. :) Like Tootles (one of the Lost Boys) in the movie, ‘Hook.’ With age, he becomes senile and wanders around saying repeatedly that he lost his marbles. When Peter Pan is preparing to leave Neverland, the Lost Boys gives him a small bag of marbles. The marbles are Tootles. He lost them there. Peter Pan then goes back to London and gives Tootles his bag of marbles. In the bottom of the bag, Tootles discovers pixie dust, which he uses to return back to Neverland.
Bag of marbles + pixie dust = Neverland.
OR
Bag of marbles + the magic inside you = the life YOU create with your own two hands.
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