My rather ridiculous work schedule continues unabated! So I have to admit that due to the lack of time and some mega headaches, I have not been able to write many new posts over the past week.
However, all is not lost! Not only do I have a lot of posts scheduled to be published over the next few weeks (SCHEDULING IS THE BEST FEATURE ON WORDPRESS!!!), my very patient friend has also published Part Two of my LEARNERS AT LOVE Series. Incredible! When it is live on Amazon, I will tell you all about it!
I came home tired on Wednesday evening and found a beautiful surprise waiting for me on WordPress. The amazing Ashley Peterson, the creator of Mental Health @ Home, had reviewed Part One of the series, entitled “We Hide What We Hate About Ourselves”. I can’t tell you how much it encouraged me to see Ashley’s review! Take a look at what she says about the book in her post below:
https://mentalhealthathome.org/2020/02/19/book-review-we-hide-what-we-hate-about-ourselves/
I am very grateful for all of the support and encouragement I have received. I have been making little tweaks to my manuscript over the past couple of weeks, trying to make sure any spelling or grammar mistakes are corrected, and adding a few details that will link to Part Two and Part Three.
Who would have thought that writing longer fictional stories and seeing them in paperback form would be so exciting?
If you have a novel in you, go for it! Please do. Even if only three people ever look at your book, I cannot tell you how rewarding it is to see your story become something real. The hilarious thing is, my friends and family are asking me to sign their copies. They are loving the idea of Melody Finch being a published author.
I am not very technical, but hopefully the link to the Amazon page showing the Kindle version has carried over. Or…if you go to Amazon and type MELODY FINCH, you will see the book available in Kindle and Paperback.
Thank you again Ashley, and all the other gorgeous bloggers who are just so awesome!!!!
Oh! I’m off to go look now! buy me a copy of it! Yay! 😀
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❤ ,<3 ❤
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Just bought my copy. Will read it and review it once I’m done 😘
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You’re very welcome! I look forward to reading the second part!
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Thank you so much Ashley!
My friend had to help me out again. I had an idea for a cover for Book Two which Amazon Kindle Direct did not like at all! lol – now i understand why graphic designers are so highly sought after!
The Kindle of Book 2 is live and I am waiting for the paperback to appear.
I keep updating Book 1…now that I have the paperback, my red pen is crossing out passages and circling errors! I find it much easier on my eyes to look at the paper page than a glaring screen.
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Amazon can be very picky. I just downloaded book 2 and am excited to read it!
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Thank you Ashley ❤ ❤ ❤
Without spoiling anything to do with the storyline….book 3 is going to be the one that is a hard read. I hope book 2 is more enjoyable. I have another 30,000 words to write for book 3 which I am looking forward to…when I have time! I have lots of ideas of book 3, it's just making sure that I do my research. Book 3 will have lot more of Annabelle's experiences with mental health professionals. So I am going to ask some colleague to help me make sure it is accurate.
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It’ll be quite the epic trilogy!
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I am really pleased the way it has worked out. Spitting the story into three helped me to think about where Annabelle was coming from and where she was going and what she had to face up to and get help with before she got there. It has been so interesting to watch her grow.
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Congratulations! I know exactly how you feel – I felt the same way when I got my first review of Zion.
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It’s so very encouraging!
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Totally!
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So excited for you.
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Thanks Gary! It’s been an interesting process.
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Well done for finally getting it out there! So proud of you 🙂
I was considering publishing my latest book through Amazon kindle & paperback as well – does it accept PDF files as long as you’ve got the editing finished? Did you have to lay it out as if it was A5-sized paperback before you submitted it?
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