ARC copies + Preorder Time!

I’ve been trying to write up this little post since I got my books a few weeks back! Well my ARC copies – Advance Reader Copies! But at first I was just so excited and then once that lessened a bit I wasn’t quite able to put the excitement down on ‘paper’, so to speak.

The book is so pretty and it’s so weird to have an actual book. It’s been so long in the making it’s almost hard to believe. After all the editing and re-writing and just general stuff that takes way longer than one would think – it’s an actual book! And this isn’t even the hard cover  which I’m thinking is going to be even more awesome!

Here are some photos of the books! Just because!

Don’t you just love them? They’re even prettier for reals neither my camera nor my photographing skills really dosen’t do them justice!

Can’t wait for April 10th!

If you want to pre-order a copy (or two, books make great gifts) you can do that at any of these retailers!
Amazon
BAM
Powell’s
Indiebound
Ebooks
Google Books
Apple iTunes
Kobo

I’m Swooning…

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a few weeks but life has been busy and I haven’t had much time for reading, writing or blogging (which let’s be honest I’m not even good at when I have the time). Anyway, some people might know this from Wattpad or Twiter but for the rest of you I got news: THE HARD MATE (read it here or here) is being published by Swoon Reads! YAY! Super awesomeness!

So you want the story? Well it all started a long time ago when I wrote the book and got a lot of amazing comments and support from everyone over at Wattpad. Then about a year ago I found the Swoon Reads page and decided to give it a try and posted my manuscript there. Then a little ways back I got some emails from Swoon Reads and at first I was just like “whatever, they’re just verifying stuff” and then they wanted to video chat with me. At this point I was like getting excited, I was like “Mom, some publishing people might really like my book, cool huh?” but I didn’t think I was actually that big of a chance. Video chat conference – which was a bit scary at first – goes on for like TEN minutes and they’re talking about the contract and how much they like my book and I go “You mean you really want to buy my book?” and they go “YES”! Then I spent like most of the video chat being overwhelmed but super happy. That was September. Since then I’ve filled out a lot of papers (and discovered tax forms are no fun), talked about the editing process, shared some of my ideas for changes, they’ve shared some of theirs and so on.

I also got a bunch of Swoon Reads books in the mail last week, which on it’s own is enough to make a book lover like me Swoon!

Welcome to the Swoon Reads family!! Awww!

The books are:

Velvet by Temple West

The Boy Next Door by Katie van Ark

A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

Love, Fortunes and other Disasters by Kimberly Karalius

Broken Hearts, Fences and Other Things to Mend by Katie Fin

They all seem awesome. I’ve already finished Velvet and The Boy Next Door and I’m going to try to review them here before I read the others (when I do I will link them to this post). Next up I’m thinking Love, Fortunes and other Disasters but we’ll see.

Anyway, safe to say I’m super excited. Soon my of my school stuff will be done for the semester and during NaNoWriMo I plan on writing at least the 50,000 and maybe more (I broke my record and wrote 10,000 words in one day last week). I still can’t quite believe I’m getting PUBLISHED, even though it’s been two months! I guess it might feel real when I actually hold my book in my hands!

Before I forget; I want to thank the people that voted The Hard Mate and me, both on Wattpad and over on Swoon Reads! If it wasn’t for all of you guys the book might never have been finished or been about to be published. So lots of thanks and hugs from me to all of you!

Swoonread article!

Book on Swoo Read

On Wattpad