I hope your holiday season was happy and blessed and you are looking forward to the new year. I am. God has blessed me and my family and we give Him all the praise and glory.
I've set goals for this year. They aren't resolutions since I'm pretty bad at following through. Goals sounds more positive to me. Resolutions seem to focus on the negative aspects I need to fix. Goals are looking to improve in areas the Holy Spirit has let me know to be listening for the Spirit's instructions on how to improve. My writing goals are pretty loosely outlined. Seeing the Life and Mark & Kyria's story (just a working title) finished and released by June. Write a short story and a devotion each month. Once the two novels are finished I'm hoping Janie from Cottonwood and her story are more framed in my mind. Also I have an idea for the third Stones Creek Novel. So we'll see what God has in mind for my writing in 2014. January comes and we head to warmer weather. We will be leaving on vacation for two weeks in the Caribbean. I can't wait. It's 14º today. I think that's enough said. I'm not going to be focusing on the novels until after we get back. Instead I'm going to do so re-formatting and corrections in the Stones Creek novels. They need fixed somewhat. I may do the same for the Cottonwood novels. I'm working on getting the print formats ready for distribution with Ingram. This would open large retail chains to carry my novels. I'm hoping to get some of the Christian book stores interested in my work. We'll see. There may be a couple of rerun blog posts during January. It's what I plan now. I had planned the same during November when I was working on my NANO but topics to write about seemed to pop into my head. That may happen in January also. We'll see. So Happy New Year and Praise the Lord for He is good all the time.
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Right now Redeeming Love is available since that's the one you all want right now. I'll be setting up the other novels as soon as possible. I have a quilt for my granddaughter to finish before Christmas now that Redeeming Love is available. I'll also have my print books offered through the website soon. At least as soon as I can get everything set up. For now click the link above and get a signed copy of Redeeming Love. OH, did I forget to mention that? Yes, only available by purchasing from my website will you get signed copies of my ebooks. Print as well when they become available. It's been a challenge this year to get this fourth book of my Cottonwood Series and PG's Redemption Tales series written. It's oh so close now. Here's the cover. We are in the editing stage and will be proofing during the next couple of days. Our goal is to have it available by the weekend in digital format. I'll post a notice here, on my Facebook Author page and send out an email to those who have provided me with their email address. I know this book is out much later than we had hoped. Writing takes time as does editing and proofing. That is not counting what life throws at you and your family. Pastor George has had an exceptionally difficult year. I'd like to take this moment to thank you for your patience as we worked to write Nell Shaw's and Timothy Dillon's story. It's our hope you will enjoy it and see God's hand in the writing and how the characters deal with what life throws at them. No one is perfect and these two are no exception. Also, I've been remiss. I have not thanked any of you who have been gracious enough to post a review on any of my books. Please accept my apologies and know that each one, positive or not is very much appreciated. There's always a, I won't say let down because it's not, when I finish writing a book. The creative work is done. Now the work, work starts. The people who help with the editing and proofing, and who I help in return deserve more thanks than I can ever give. As independent authors themselves, or the most part, many cannot afford to pay for professional editing and proofreading. Revenue from sales is simply not that great. We do our best to find and correct errors but some always slip through. In our rush to finish and release Redeeming Love the number of beta readers is fewer than normal. One of the joys of our digital age is the ability to correct mistakes in the ebook formats as well as the Print On Demand files. I always welcome identification of errors by readers. For this reason I've developed a new page on my site. Errata Form gives my readers a quick and easy place to let me know about any errors they might find. I thank you in advance if you choose to contact me with typos you might find. In the future I plan to give a small thank you gift of a devotion or short story only offered to those who fill out the form. With my focus on writing full length novels I'm putting the reward on hold. I hope you understand the delay. Well, it's time to get back to Redeeming Love so we can release the Kindle and other digital formats by the weekend. Again, thank you for reading my books and if you've reviewed one or more THANK YOU EVEN MORE. As you probably know, I went to Miami the weekend before Thanksgiving to receive my award from Readers' Favorite. Healing Love was awarded the Silver Medal in the Christian Historical Fiction category. The Miami Book Fair was going on at the same time. It made for a fun weekend. As you probably know, I went to Miami the weekend before Thanksgiving to receive my award from Readers' Favorite. Healing Love was awarded the Silver Medal in the Christian Historical Fiction category. The Miami Book Fair was going on at the same time. It made for a fun weekend. There were many other authors in attendance and it was quite fun meeting them all. I've come back with lots of contact information as well as some books they were giving away. I gave away copies of mine as well. One of the highlights was the restaurant right next door to the hotel; Catch of the Day. It is a seafood restaurant with both indoor and outside seating. I ate every meal there except for breakfast on Friday. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes seafood. Wonderful. Here is another of the winning authors. Remember the TV show ER? Well that's Eric LaSalle. He was so very gracious in standing there for I don't know how long and allowing us to get our picture taken with him. So there's my 3 seconds of fame. Now it's back to the keyboard and getting Redeeming Love ready for release. We are hoping it will happen in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned.
From the sun and warmth of Miami then back home for two days and off for the 9 hour drive to the freezing north. We went to my sister's for the holiday. She lives in Duluth, MN. I'd rather it was Miami. |
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