I did it again. I finished revising The Perfect Gift three weeks ago, and have since finished the layout and cover and have set everything up for printing. It should get reviewed by the printer tonight or tomorrow and then I'll order my first copies.
Ya know something? This is a darn good book! It's really fun to read and keeps your attention quite well. The plot-twisting story line surprises you often, you'll laugh several times and cry at least once (going off the average of the few people who have read it so far).
Anyway, I'm very happy with it, and that means something coming from my biggest critic (myself!), not to mention the decade-plus of teaching university writing.
If any of you dear friends (or strangers) out there in www-land would care to do me a big favor, please blog about my ChristmasNovels.com site. I want to move from Google's page two to one, and you can help me achieve that by including a link from your blog. I'll be submitting some online press releases tonight and tomorrow as well.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Christmas Book
I did it! I finished the revision of the free Christmas Book Gone but not Forgotten two days ago. The new title is Courage, Love & the Meaning of Christmas. And I must say, it's good! The first version was popular and seemed to keep lots of readers glued to the pages, but the new one is much better and even I'm excited about it.
Yesterday I read through the sequel, The Perfect Gift, to see how nearly ready it is, and was pleased to find it in very good shape. I'm sure I can finish revising that within a week, if not a few days.
I'm working on other parts of the project as well, like setting up Christmas Writing .com, which gets about 15,000 searches per month. If I can get to number one there like with my other two related pages, then that should bring in a lot of potential customers.
Anyway, I'll have to find other work soon, but it's great to have these things - what I really want to succeed at - in place and nearly ready to go!
Yesterday I read through the sequel, The Perfect Gift, to see how nearly ready it is, and was pleased to find it in very good shape. I'm sure I can finish revising that within a week, if not a few days.
I'm working on other parts of the project as well, like setting up Christmas Writing .com, which gets about 15,000 searches per month. If I can get to number one there like with my other two related pages, then that should bring in a lot of potential customers.
Anyway, I'll have to find other work soon, but it's great to have these things - what I really want to succeed at - in place and nearly ready to go!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Christmas Book
Eleven years ago I decided to finish a Christmas book project I had begun. I decided to finish it by Halloween. I finished a week early.
This month, I decided to repeat that same feat. Funny thing is, it's the same book! Three weeks was too fast! Not that it didn't turn out pretty darn good - many people reported that they totally loved it. Many others said they couldn't put it down till they finished. I got tons of great reviews on Amazon.com where it stayed up in the top 200 rankings for a couple years (which must mean that a lot of other books tied for first place, second, third, and about 200 other places, so who knows how many books were ahead of mine).
Anyway, I'm about half way through checking the revision so far and I gotta say...I'm impressed! I'm really loving it. It's so much better than the first version, and I've got plenty more to add to the last half of the book.
Anyway, I'll be selling it at FreeChristmasBooks.com. I'll give away the old version to try to draw in a lot of new readers and hope they return for the new and improved version as well as the sequel which is also nearly finished.
So if you want a great Christmas gift, please don't forget that everybody loves a great Christmas book. This one's fairly short (the original's 110 pages), easy to read, engaging and inspiring...if you believe all those comments on Amazon, and if I do say so myself!
This month, I decided to repeat that same feat. Funny thing is, it's the same book! Three weeks was too fast! Not that it didn't turn out pretty darn good - many people reported that they totally loved it. Many others said they couldn't put it down till they finished. I got tons of great reviews on Amazon.com where it stayed up in the top 200 rankings for a couple years (which must mean that a lot of other books tied for first place, second, third, and about 200 other places, so who knows how many books were ahead of mine).
Anyway, I'm about half way through checking the revision so far and I gotta say...I'm impressed! I'm really loving it. It's so much better than the first version, and I've got plenty more to add to the last half of the book.
Anyway, I'll be selling it at FreeChristmasBooks.com. I'll give away the old version to try to draw in a lot of new readers and hope they return for the new and improved version as well as the sequel which is also nearly finished.
So if you want a great Christmas gift, please don't forget that everybody loves a great Christmas book. This one's fairly short (the original's 110 pages), easy to read, engaging and inspiring...if you believe all those comments on Amazon, and if I do say so myself!
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