So cool!!!

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I have made the decision to try out Amazon.com’s KDP Select program, which means that I have to make my books exclusive to Amazon.com for 90 days.  So they have been removed from Smashwords.com and BarnesandNoble.com.  I’m super sorry for any inconvenience this causes anyone, but I wasn’t getting much in the way of sales from these venues and KDP Select looks like it might be interesting.

FYI, if you don’t own a Kindle, you can download the free Kindle software to your computer, your smart phone, your tablet, etc.

Elle

This coming month, March, I’m taking part in a couple of promotions to launch the War of the Fae series.  Book 1 was published at the beginning of February and Book 2 will be published by the first week of March.  Beginning March 1st, I’ll be part of What’s Your Story Book Reviews March promotion.  I’ll be posting on March 19th, but all month long other authors will be contributing too.  Check it out!

15-Stop Book Blog Tour

I’m also taking part in a 15-stop book blog tour.  Here are the participants.  Please check out these amazing book bloggers sites and join their list of followers.  If you like their reviews, be sure to follow them on Goodreads.com.  You won’t be disappointed!  Just click on their banners below and you’ll be brought to their home pages.

Hey readers!  Just a quick update on the progress with the War of the Fae series.

Book 2, Call to Arms is in the last week of editing, hopefully (okay, so maybe 10 days), so I see a publishing date of March 5th, which would be about a week before my previous estimate, so I’m happy about that.

Book 3, Darkness & Light, is started now.  I have 28,400 words in the first draft so far.  In this series my word count tends to be in the 85k-90k word range, so I guess that makes me nearly 1/3 done.  Yay me!

I’ve gotten a couple of ‘official’ reviews on Amazon for Book 1, The Changelings, and they’ve both been very complimentary 5-stars, so I’m super psyched.  These are from readers I don’t know.  I’ve also had lots of unofficial reviews from editors, friends, and family who also seem to really like it.  I have high hopes for this series.  I hope my readers love the characters as much as I do.

So that’s the latest.  Thanks for reading.  To check out the Amazon reviews for The Changelings, click here.

xoxo, Elle

I published The Changelings a week ago in a quiet launch, meaning I told no one it was coming on that date.  I had scheduled the publishing date for February 11th and it went up February 5th.  I had a few books purchased anyway, no doubt as a result of the promotion for Wrecked which was published on January 2nd.

I received my first review on Amazon.com today from a reader I don’t know – meaning she’s not a book blogger or someone who I’ve asked to read the book.  I’m very happy to say it’s a 5-Star!  I can’t re-print it here, since I don’t have permission to do that, but you can read it yourself by clicking HERE.

Thank you readers, for taking the time to read and review.  You rock!

Elle

Hello dear readers.  Just a quick note on the War of the Fae series and what’s going on with it.

I recently published War of the Fae: Book 1 on Amazon.com without doing any promotion.  I have the book with an editor from a big publishing house who is doing a read and response on it, so there may be a second version with some minor changes – but the book was copy edited and drafted out several times, so I wanted to get it out there.  I’m very happy with it and the initial response I’ve gotten from readers is that they LOVE it, so I’m super psyched.  I’ve sold a few copies but do not yet have any reviews, other than what has been emailed to me personally.

Book Two is done as well, but in the middle of some copy editing.  No matter how hard I try, I still can’t find all of my own errors.  And then there’s that bad habit of ‘telling not showing’ that sometimes rears its ugly head in my writing, so I have someone searching the draft for those things.  I have March 11 as the publish date on Book 2, but I’m pretty sure it will be out before then – in February, in the next couple weeks.

Book Three is being drafted right now.  I’m fast with my drafts, so even though it says April 11 as the publish date, I’m quite sure this one will also be out much sooner than that.

So that’s the newest of the news.  I’m very excited about everything and pleased at the feedback I’ve been getting, and nothing makes writing easier than having fans saying, “Hurry up!  I want to read more!”

Elle