Friday, February 17, 2012

The National Network of Organ Donors

What's up everyone! This hasn't been a great week, but it's been a better week then last week. It's Friday, thank God. For some reason this week went by slowly to me. I just realize, this is my third blog this week (So much for someone who hates to blog, huh).

Okay, this is the last time I will speak about this. I've been deliberating over my mishap with my books, and I've decided to donate the money made for those books. Anyone who bought the unrevised version, money will be donated to the TNNOD.org (The National Network of Organ Donors). Anyone who knows me, know this is the kind of person I am. No one said anything, or complained about wasting their hard earned money on the unrevised versions. This is something I wanted to do. I have been a organ donor since I was 18, and I would recommend to anyone to be one. Life is so precious. I probably won't see any monetary profits until April, but when or if  I receive anything, I will donate, and hope to post the receipt online for everyone to see.

Let's keep the Houston (Whitney Houston) family in our prayers. Tonight and tomorrow is going to be the hardest time for them. Saying goodbye is never easy.

Enjoy life as if it's your last day. Love each other.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

APOLOGY

In my previous blog I forgot to say, "SORRY," to everyone who bought one of my books (Deja Vu & The Perfect Stranger). I have now revised the books and they are back on Amazon and allromanceebooks.com. I am deeply sorry for this mistake.

Monday, February 13, 2012

The Best Book Is An Edit Book

Hi everyone. I'm finally feeling much better than last week. Last week was a terrible week for me. I had been dealing with a cold which turned into the flu. This sucks being sick and my kids don't care in the least. My nightstand looks like a Target cold/flu aisle.

I'm in the process of taking down my books from Amazon and editing my work. I must admit my whole goal focused from editing my books to seeing my books published on Amazon. Wrong move. I have no idea when my goals changed but I can tell you this. I reviewed my work on Amazon Previewer (which I should've done when I first posted my books but didn't) and was horrified. Not by the story because I believe in these stories but by my use of punctuation (Yes I'm calling myself out). I'm totally shocked no one has written a bad review about this. I must admit no one is perfect. But as I read my books, I cringed and curse myself out. I'm smarter than this. Do not worry I am in the process right now of cleaning up my books better. For anyone out there who is deciding to publish your own books, if you can afford an editor I would suggest you do. Worth the money and saves you time. If you cannot afford an editor my only advice is to edit, edit, edit the best you can. Editing is so important. I believe in my work so I'm taking the time to go over each story. I refuse to put up another book until it's up to good standards. It bothers me for people to pay for something not up to great standards. I have no one to blame for this except myself. What I hope to accomplish with writing is growth. So I'm saying goodbye. No time to keep blogging I have another book to clean up.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO EVERYONE TOMORROW!

I would like to say how deeply sorry I am to Whitney Houston's family. Such a tragedy. Let's keep that family in our prayers. So many of us are leaving too soon. Let's love and take care of one another. Stop worrying about tomorrow and enjoy today. Tomorrow's not promised.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

I'm Published Now

Hey everyone! I've been fighting a terrible head cold since Friday. Ugh! Head cold or not, I refuse to let it stop me from publishing my books. I have two books up on Amazon: The Perfect Stranger, and Deja Vu. I'm waiting for the cover of Chocolate Sweets so I can publish that one on Amazon also. Chocolate Sweets will not be in KDP Select on Amazon, as Deja Vu is currently. I also have The Perfect Stranger on http://www.allromanceebooks.com/storeSearch.html
I'm currently working on my fourth book, which has no title yet. This book is about Beatrice and Christopher's story, which is part of the The Perfect Stranger series.


Okay so I've published my books on Amazon. The first step was done, but I totally chickened out when it came to tweeting about, how readers could buy my books. I don't know what happened to me, nerves I guess. But with the urging of a good friend on twitter (He knows who he is!) I tweeted to my 43 followers, and asked they retweet to their followers about buying my two books. I must admit without him I would still be sitting here, debating about what to do. Thank you KG!

I have to let everyone know, I'm not a big blogger. After writing for most of the day, I'm mentally exhausted, and forget to blog like I should. Sorry. I'll try to do better about this problem.

Be good and take care of one another.