Rising Book 1: Resistance is Now Available!

Today is the release event for my latest novel, Rising Book 1: Resistance! I'm so excited to finally get to share this with everyone. :D It's also the start of the blog tour--you can visit the awesome Barbara Kloss's blog to check that the first stop on the tour.

All Alphonse wants is a quiet summer at home before his final months at university. What he gets is a half-dead stranger on his doorstep and the task of delivering a package to the leader of his home country. Not long after he boards a train toward the capital, he's attacked by knights, elite soldiers of the neighboring king.

Alphonse is temporarily rescued by Mairwyn, a mechanic with a haunted past and a deep hatred of knights. Together, they attempt to carry out Alphonse's urgent errand, only to learn that if they fail, countless people will die.

And even if they succeed, they may not be able to prevent the war that lurks on the horizon.

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Rising Book 1: Resistance is now available in:
Ebook format:

Amazon (Kindle)

Barnes and Noble (Nook)

Smashwords (everything else)


Paperback:

Amazon



To see the book on Goodreads, you can go here: Rising Book 1 on Goodreads


And finally, you can still read the beginning of the book here.


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Thanks to all of you for your encouragement and support through my process of working on this book. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it!! You are all awesome! I hope you have a fantabulous day. ^_^

My Kindle Book is Now Available!

That was SUPER fast! I didn't expect Amazon to have my new book available so soon! Only the Kindle version is available at the moment--the paperback will be coming soon, and I'll let everyone know when it's out--but if you want to check it out or share the link or anything like that, you can see it here:

Confessions from the Realm of the Underworld (Also Known as High School)

I am giddy. And nervous. But mostly giddy. :D

ETA: I'm also planning on uploading it in other ebook formats, and I'll let everyone know how that goes, too.

Thanks to all of you for listening to my rambling through this process. It's been--and will continue to be--a lot of learning for me.

(And within the next few days, I'm going to try to do a blog post unrelated to publishing--I want to talk about my all-time favorite cartoon and what it's taught me as a writer. Yes, a cartoon. :D Stay tuned for that!)

Welcome to July!

The first of July starts a month of craziness in my neck of the woods! This month, I have quite a few things happening and goals to meet. I plan to write half a novel. It's the sequel to the book I spent over a year writing. But I figure I've succeeded at NaNo in the past and written a whole book--I can do half in a month, right? Right!?!? O_O

(I should note that half of the book is probably going to be between 50,000 and 60,000 words.)

Next, I'm prepping my book, Confessions from the Realm of the Underworld (Also Known as High School) for publication at the end of the month. I'm waiting to hear back from my editor and from my final beta readers. My illustrator (the most awesome, patient illustrator anyone could ask for) sent me final sketch designs for the cover this morning and is going to start coloring it now. I'm so excited about this. I still have so much more preparation to do for this book and its release in the next couple of weeks.

My hubby starts his new job this week, and my sister is getting married in a week, and there is probably something else I'm missing. I suppose it's good that all of these things are happening when my kids are out of school for the summer, because I don't have to worry about starting up homeschooling again until next month. ;)

Plus, you know, I need to keep up with the blogosphere as much as possible.

What are you all doing this month? Any goals or plans? Vacations? Anything else? What's up in your life?

Buy a Book Day Results

Thanks to everyone's support in our "Buy a Book" day this past Friday, our rankings on Amazon soared upward.  We reached #499 in bestselling books on Amazon that day.  Considering there are millions of books on Amazon and considering that we had been wavering between 50,000 and 200,000 in bestselling books that week, this is incredible.  We were incredibly amazed and touched at all of the help and encouragement you all gave.  Thanks to all of you for making our Buy a Book day a success!

Here's a screencap of our peak ranking: