The sale yesterday was very successful, and I'm thrilled to have the book in the hands of so many new readers. Now it's time to get back to work on revising the sequel. I'm beginning to believe that I just might push up the publishing window to late Spring. We'll see how things go.
As always, thanks for reading.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Valentine's Day Promotional Sale
All day today, Hollenguard is free on Kindle. Get it while it's hot!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Piers and Me
Piers Anthony has written about Hollenguard in his FeBlueberry newsletter.
I held off writing about this until now for a few reasons, the largest of which was my growing excitement bordering on alarm that Piers Anthony was actually reading my book.
A little background, first. Piers Anthony has had a giant impact on my literary life. The first book I can ever remember reading was Vale of the Vole, and I had to be about 8 years old at the time. It was just before I moved from where I'd grown up, and fantasy novels became a way for me to deal with the fact that everything I'd ever known had just changed drastically. I've since read several Xanth novels, On a Pale Horse, and I'm currently reading his Mode series, starting with Virtual Mode.
So Hollenguard carries a lot of his influence. Piers Anthony has always been supportive of young writers, as evidenced by his exhaustive work on his website chronicling places where you can go to get your book published. Back in July I sent him an email, and on the same day I heard back. Sorry, he said, but he was heavily involved in proofreading some of his work and would be until the first of the year.
The fact that Mr. Anthony had written back to me in the first place was awesome in and of itself. After the first of the year I thought I would send him one more letter, asking how his proofing was going and whether I could share my story with him. To my delighted surprise and horror he replied that, yes, he was between novels and would be happy to read it.
You can read his reaction in his newsletter, linked above. I've really grown through this interaction with Mr. Anthony, and it gives me encouragement to forge ahead with what I started. I hope one day to be able to pay this forward to a young author, and give him the same encouragement that Piers has given to me.
Thanks, Piers!
I held off writing about this until now for a few reasons, the largest of which was my growing excitement bordering on alarm that Piers Anthony was actually reading my book.
A little background, first. Piers Anthony has had a giant impact on my literary life. The first book I can ever remember reading was Vale of the Vole, and I had to be about 8 years old at the time. It was just before I moved from where I'd grown up, and fantasy novels became a way for me to deal with the fact that everything I'd ever known had just changed drastically. I've since read several Xanth novels, On a Pale Horse, and I'm currently reading his Mode series, starting with Virtual Mode.
So Hollenguard carries a lot of his influence. Piers Anthony has always been supportive of young writers, as evidenced by his exhaustive work on his website chronicling places where you can go to get your book published. Back in July I sent him an email, and on the same day I heard back. Sorry, he said, but he was heavily involved in proofreading some of his work and would be until the first of the year.
The fact that Mr. Anthony had written back to me in the first place was awesome in and of itself. After the first of the year I thought I would send him one more letter, asking how his proofing was going and whether I could share my story with him. To my delighted surprise and horror he replied that, yes, he was between novels and would be happy to read it.
You can read his reaction in his newsletter, linked above. I've really grown through this interaction with Mr. Anthony, and it gives me encouragement to forge ahead with what I started. I hope one day to be able to pay this forward to a young author, and give him the same encouragement that Piers has given to me.
Thanks, Piers!
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