It feels like it took forever to get The Princess Prophecy out into the world. From the idea to it finally being live was almost three years. And it’s not a long book. Procrastination isn’t my middle name for no reason. Of course it was the fear that made me do other things instead of the writing I should have been doing. Anything else was so much easier than getting words on the page and revising those words. No matter how many times I told myself the books can’t make money if they’re just sitting on my hard, I still put the writing off. Oh, I did some here and there. Wrote short stories for anthologies. Made notes on other stories. Plotted stories. Printed and reprinted manuscripts so I could go back and revise. But I still wasn’t doing the work I should have been doing to release works under my own name. Releasing under a pen name, that only a select four know, is so much easier.
But I did it! The Princess is finally out there on major retailers. The audio book is underway and hopefully will be up by April. I can’t wait to hear what my narrator does with the story. Luckily, she loves the story and her characterizations are great. And I’m not just saying that because she’s my friend. She’s very talented.
Now that I have one project off my plate, there are a whole lot more on there that need work. So next up is Almost Normal, book one in one of my urban fantasy series. That one has been done for ages too but it’s a lot messier than The Princess Prophecy was. This new one was written out order, before I started doing outlines. I don’t know what’s missing, what makes no sense, what scenes need to be added. But I’m slowly getting through it, making notes, revising sections, fixing the time line. It feels good to be doing actual work again and I know revising is work. However, I’m looking forward to writing new words, on a new book so that one can be finished too. Before that can happen I need to get Almost Normal off my plate.
Forgot what The Princess Prophecy was about? Here’s the blurb again and finally a buy link! It takes you to a page that lists everywhere the book is so you can pick your preferred store.
The Princess Prophecy
An ancient throne. An unknown prophecy. A reluctant princess controls the fate of the world…
Sophie thinks she’s a typical college freshman. She spends her days making friends and coping with classes, until her whole world changes forever. A group of strange men try to kidnap her, and the only thing that saves her is a long-lost friend who’s sworn to protect his princess…
Nathan tells Sophie that she’s not only half-alien, but she’s royalty on another planet. To make things more complicated, she’s forced to go to that planet to take the throne… or her entire kingdom will suffer.
As Nathan helps her train for her second life, she can’t help but fall for him. But when their ship comes under attack, she wonders if any of them will survive the journey.
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Congratulations and good luck.
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Congrats! Yeah, fear is something we all deal with in our writing careers at one point or another — we just have to wrestle with it until we are victorious 🙂
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Congratulations, Cindy. Good cover and the synopsis sounds intriguing. You’re going to get at least one sale — me.
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Sounds like an intriguing story. I also plan to buy. And I can totally relate to your procrastination reasons and tactics. But congratulations and great luck in sales!
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Congratulations on getting your book out, and on getting the next one ready for publication. I sympathize with you about procrastination. I much prefer revising over drafting. In fact, I have something to write today, so I’m waiting till tonight. It’s good to hear you say you’re writing a book out of order. I read a how-to book by a well-known writer who said one must NEVER write scenes out of order, because one cannot imagine the emotional state of the characters until the scene before has been written, and that one MUST plan scenes on note cards first. I wasted so much money on index cards, trying to write scenes and then discarding the cards. Some of us CAN do it the other way.
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Congrats on getting the book out there. Now the fun begins,marketing. Best of luck.
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Congratulations, Cindy! My first book will launch next month–exciting and scary! Love this writing life 🙂
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