contests! contests! and sneak peak

Hello.

A sneak peak at what the paperback of Wingspan will look like, in theory :)

Also I will be working with the Book Vixen for an upcoming book giveaway.

http://www.thebookvixen.com/2012/10/guest-post-giveaway-with-author-jessica.html

This is her current giveaway.

It should be in December.

Also I am currently working with Goodreads on a giveaway of Deadly Deceptions!

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/34864-deadly-deceptions

Don't forget to enter!

I just LOVE this book cover and reading this book.

AND

My Facebook page giveaway!

A signed copy of the trilogy!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deadly-Expectations/239273106122736

For the Facebook Draw we will make a video of the draw and post it online (in theory!)

We'll put all the names in a bowl, stir it, then pick one.

Hopefully that sounds fair.

Thank you.

Shooting for end of November for Christmas release.

Thank you!

I'm rehashing old thoughts here as I take a break from my new project.  It's really taking wings and I'm very excited to be taking a momentary break from the Chronicles of Anna.  However, Anna is always in the back of my mind.  I am 40,000 words into book 4, Deadly Obsessions but I wanted to make sure book 4 is a complete departure from the main characters.  Anna, Paul and Jack may come back or they may not.

No, it was better to let them be for awhile.  I needed to close the book on them and let the dust settle for a bit before moving forward with Camille.  I hope that the family diagram for the book has been helpful.  It is not an easy book to follow I think for some, especially those looking for a quick fix.  I suppose it does that too but there is a bit of the Godfather in the Chronicles of Anna, the family.

Hopefully this has been a help to everyone.
We will soon have it up on the website but I didn't want to put it up somewhere too obvious and make those beginning the journey with Anna and Paul in Deadly Expectations figure out some of the ending and some of the beginning of book two and three.

I wanted to take a second and thank Sony, Amazon, Kobo and iBooks for their amazing creations that allow new authors, unproven authors, authors with unique ideas let their words take flight by placing them in their virtual stores.  What an amazing world we are about to invent here.  So many books, like songs, have a required rhythm or expected journey that traditional publishers have felt safe with.  A formula.  I feel that writing is going to enjoy a new beginning.  That we are entering a period of time very much like music was entering in the 1960s.  So many different ideas and characters and plot lines and wonderful imaginative flights are taking to the skies.

I hope that I can continue to allow the creative process to flow through me and into my keyboard as a way to express myself and please the characters I have created.  I wish for nothing else.  Except for you to join me on these future journeys.

My newest creation has just sprung to life.  What an amazing time this is.  Exhaustion from the last book and yet this new one demands my time.  Already the plot lines and character lines have taken shape.  I am surprised at how quickly this has formed.  Now I, like you, will sit back and see where they venture and who they become.

Oh, one more thing today

Sorry I haven't blogged since June.

In my defense, I was writing a book or two :)

FREE BOOKS !! Hard covers, autographed!

As part of the completion of Anna's lives in the trilogy of the Chronicles of Anna Blue Swell Books is giving away a signed copy of each of the three books to one lucky person selected at random who LIKES my Facebook page Deadly Expectations.

Simply go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deadly-Expectations/239273106122736

Push LIKE

And you're entered to win!!

Draw is December 15th, 2012.

Thank you for participating (hopefully).

:-)

Flying High in the UK

Two short stories that I wrote last year are selling very well, especially in the United Kingdom. From time to time, when I get a few minutes between writing my new novel, I take a second to think about why books sell and where.

The Landing is a short story that I left out of my full-length novel -- Deadly Expectations -- The Chronicles of Anna, Part I. Deadly Expectations was a six month book edit.  There were a lot of reasons for such a lengthy gestation. Nerves, experience, and direction for both the editor and myself.  One of the things we decided on was that this particular dream sequence didn't fit.  The editor loved the scene and felt strongly that it added to the novel. I felt we were way, way over sized and I had to cut cut cut. I think at the time the novel was 213,000+ words. Although it hurt to cut this scene out, we did, and the book quite frankly was better off for it. Cut, cut, cut anything that doesn't lead directly to plot development.

However, during this editing process, we needed to try some publishing things out and required a guinea pig.  The thought came up about the few thousand words of the dream sequence being a great story on it's on.  Why not tweak it and put it up for sale?

So we did, and I did, and there it is.  And it's a strong seller, especially in the past few months, which really surprises me because it was almost an afterthought. 

If you liked this short story and haven't read Deadly Expectations and joined the Anna Chronicles I strongly suggest you begin the journey.

The other strong seller for me, especially in the UK, is my short story, The Yellow Dress.  It is in fact an alternate universe.  It is a naval world, one similar to our own.  However, it is based on what I would call a feudal system, but with women in full participation.

I wrote The Yellow Dress to venture a bit into the romance world but also as part of a literary contest.  Unfortunately I did not win, however, I won with the tremendous experience this short gave me both writing it, editing it, and publishing it.  I wanted to show the difficulty for this particular woman in her deciding between love and her career; one that would satisfy herself and the other her family and her father.  

I'm glad people are enjoying her voyage and her ultimate decision.

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