As promised - the excerpt from my next book is now up! Check it out under the “next book” tab.
I hope everyone’s had a nice fall season and/or semester (for those of you who are in school). I’ve been pretty caught up in school myself and have had very little time for anything else these past few months. I wasn’t even able to do NaNoWriMo this year, which truly saddened me as it was the first year since 2003 that I have not participated :(. (I will, however, still be donating to them because I think it’s an awesome project and I hope to join in again in the future). But hey, I got 5 A’s and learned a LOT, so I guess busting my butt on school work was worth it!
As for my next book: it will not be released this month, as I had hoped, because…well, because that was a REALLY ambitious goal, especially given how intense this semester turned out to be! Lol. However, there IS a mostly-completed draft, I AM still working on it and it will be released sometime, hopefully in 2012. The excerpt will be up before the year is out! That’s a promise. In the meantime, I’ve decided to donate any proceeds from the December and January sales of Fear and Laundry to the Houston Food Bank and Meals on Wheels. So if you know of anyone who needs a last-minute gift idea or is getting an e-reader for Christmas, please don’t hesitate to suggest this little 99 cent book of mine! Ha, ha :).
Thank you all for what has truly been one of the most amazing years of my life. I will never forget it. Have a wonderful holiday and I will update again very soon…xoxo - Liz
Hi! Just wanted to let you all know I’ve been working, working, working on the next book and think I am THIS close to having a brand-new excerpt ready to post here. I aim to have the entire manuscript ready for my husband (always my First Reader) to read by the first week of August. I’m so excited to see what he thinks!
I’d also like to take a moment to say a “blanket thank you” to everyone who has given Fear and Laundry a chance, and an extra special thanks to everyone who’s gone to the trouble of contacting me about it in some way and/or rating or reviewing it somewhere online. Thoughtful feedback has been popping up all over the place lately and I can’t tell you how much it means to me. It helps me so much as a writer to know what you guys like, what you think could be better, etc… I wish I could hug every one of you who has said something. But that might be kinda creepy. So instead I’ll just try to return the favor by dedicating myself to improving as a writer and delivering the best stories I can ;). Thank you!
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Please disregard how sweaty I look - and also my awkward posture. I was like “Do I bend down? Do I not bend down? What’s going on here?” The whole experience was quite rushed and fluster-inducing. But she was oh so nice. No surprise!
I think I’ve become a little obsessed with the Goodreads website. I’ve spent oodles of time there lately, adding all the books I’ve read over the past few years to my account. I think I’m almost done. However, it doesn’t quite match my LibraryThing account. I know the two lists don’t HAVE to match exactly, but…I would really like for them to! Lol. I’ve also got 3 different TBR lists (one on GR, one on LT and an Excel file on my PC) that I need to somehow combine into one master, monster list. And I need to stop adding titles to all of these because I start to get anxious whenever I feel like they are getting too long. I mean, I start to feel like I won’t ever actually have time to read ALL of these books. And that just makes me sad.
I have issues, I know.
Anyway, as of yesterday Fear and Laundry is now available as an ePub download on Goodreads for the low, low price of just a dollar.
Speaking of pricing: one of the things that appeals most to me about indie publishing is the ability to set my own prices. In particular, I really love the idea of making books available for cheap and/or free. I don’t think Amazon and B&N allow indies to set their ebook prices at zero - although that would be awesome - but it’s cool that Goodreads does. I didn’t know that when I first put Fear out. I’m still editing my next project (still untitled) but am already thinking ahead to its release (I’m aiming for December) and am definitely toying with the idea of making it a freebie in some way, shape or form. Hmmm…
In other news: I saw Motley Crue this past weekend and they put on a great show! This Friday I’m going to Sarah Dessen’s signing. I’ve been waiting for this event to buy a copy of her new book, and am excited I’ll finally get to read it.
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