Sunday, March 18, 2012

Release Update & New Endeavors

I hope everyone had a fabulous St. Patty's Day weekend! Personally, I try to avoid anyplace where I have to wait in line for a beer, so the hubby and I stayed home and celebrated by grilling outdoors. Not very Irish-y, but hey, any celebration is a reason to BBQ.

And before I get into any updates, I want to thank everyone who's recently commented on my blog, FB page, posted reviews, and sent emails letting me know how much you enjoyed reading PARALLEL. It means so much to me, I have no words other than 'thank you'. Since Tuesday, I've had close to 23,000 downloads.

As for PARADOX, everyone has been asking when the release date is and all I can say is, "I don't know." I know it will be sometime this week, but I don't have an exact date. Since I outsource certain things (i.e. formatting), I am at the mercy of the wonderful folks that provide these services.

In other news, I decided to band together with three fabulous authors on a collaborative author blog. Our blog, Spellbound Scribes, will feature anything and everything paranormal. Can you be too prepared for a zombie apocolypse? Is there a magic spell to get rid of unwanted facial hair? Should witches join union? Questions like these, as well as paranormal characters and books, will be addressed. As soon as the construction dust settles, we hope you take a chance on our joint blog and follow! We'll also have other paranormal authors featured as soon as we're up and running.

My guest post how pop-culture influences my writing (and that of my main character, Etta), will be on on Wicked Little Pixie on Friday, just in time to pimp the release of PARADOX! Don't forget to cheek it out!

We're coming up on the end of Round 1 of ROW80 and as for writing updates, well, that's been on the backburner as I've been working hard trying to get PARADOX released. Does it count if I'm drafting book 3 in my head? But my goal was to publish book 2 during this round, so it looks like I'm well on my way!

7 comments:

  1. Good luck with the 'final-push' toward publication, Claudia! I'm right there, too. I figure in the next two weeks. I've got to get out two ARC copies this week also. It's such a busy time.

    I can't wait to see Spellbound Scribes...it sounds great!

    Send me a link and such when Paradox goes live - I'd be glad to feature it for a day on my blog. Have a great week!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks for the reminder! I keep forgetting to send you the info for you blog :) As soon as it's out, I'll send you the link! And good luck to you too!!

      Delete
  2. First of all, congrats on the downloads. I was literally squealing when I saw that your book was in the top 100 today! SO EXCITING!!!

    Can't wait to see what you've done with the rough draft!
    -Kate:)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks Kate! I was up to #6 on Wed! Yes! I do hope you check out all the new changes (thanks to you)!

      Delete
  3. very well done you - excitment and dancing feet must be prevailing - all the best and enjoy the break - plotting in your head certainly counts:)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yes, dancing feet are now tired :) Thanks for all your support!!

      Delete
  4. Sounds like a wonderfully successful Round 1 to me! I hope novel 3 makes it safely from head to paper. ;-) Hope to see you in Round 2!

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.