Oops, I’ve Done It Again

Storm of Blood final coverWell, not so much ‘oops’ as ‘Hey there, loyal readers, would you like a new book?”

Today I hit ‘publish’ on both Amazon and Smashwords for my new young adult urban fantasy/paranormal novel ‘Storm of Blood’. As you may or may not know, it is the first full-length novel starring Tina Storm, my Australian teenage demon hunter who also appeared in the short story collection ‘Storm Front’ (available for free on Smashwords and hopefully soon to be free on Amazon)

Smashwords is available immediately, of course. Amazon will take about a day to show up on, and a bit longer for the international sites. Smashwords sites like Barnes and Noble and Diesel will be available in a few weeks. I’ll let you know when it’s available in your favourite format.

Here’s the link to the Smashwords site for Storm of Blood.

Also, Storm of Blood will be free on Smashwords until the end of May if you enter the following coupon during check-out:

EA42K

The coupon expires on May 31 2013, so if you’ve been waiting patiently for this novel now’s your chance to grab it in .mobi, Word, epub or whatever your favourite format is.

 

Storm of Blood Cover Reveal

Once upon a time I was contacted by a just starting out artist named Cameo Anderson who wanted to draw me some fan art of Tina Storm. I obliged, and you can see this work on art on my Fun Stuff page. After I saw what Cameo could do, I asked her to draw me some more artwork for use as covers.

Today, I am revealing the finished art work.

Ladies and gentlemen and kittens of all ages, I present to you:

Storm Front (Storm Force short stories)

Storm Front final cover

 

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and

Storm of Blood (Storm Force #1)

Storm of Blood final cover

Both of these covers are drawn by Cameo. Please support her by visiting:

http://www.wytheria.com/Cameo/ – Illustration portfolio
http://www.wytheria.com/sporepalace/ – writer’s blog/website
https://www.facebook.com/sporepalace?fref=ts – Facebook

Storm of Blood is on Goodreads!

Storm of Blood is on Goodreads!

Add it here.

Add iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I haven’t put the cover up yet because it’s not final. Also, I put the book on Goodreads because I have been tossing back and forth on whether or not I really want to publish it. Even after paying for custom cover art and editing. Why? Because I’m not sure I want to do this self-publishing thing anymore.

This way I HAVE to publish it. Because one of the things I hate is when self-published authors put their books on Goodreads then never publish them (for whatever reason ).

I will not be one of those people.

Storm of Blood is coming. Soon.

My Experience of Working with a Professional Copy Editor

  • They will not change your voice.
  • They will not improve the overall general standard of writing.
  • What I mean by that is they will not comb through each sentence and rewrite it for you. If your writing is shit, it will still be shit. it will just be readable shit.
  • They will catch the majority of typos and grammatical errors.
  • They will fix your punctuation according to the accepted style.
  • They will tell you when your sentence just sounds stupid.
  • They will check to see how colloquial your slang is and if it is understandable.
  • They will tell you to rewrite, but will not rewrite it for you.
  • They will make sure you don’t use stupid speech tags (SORRY, K!).
  • They will research the correct terminology and make sure you’re not saying something stupid and/or incorrect.
  • They will laugh at unintended innuendos.
  • They will tell you when you’re being cheesy.
  • They will tell you when they want it to be better.
  • They will teach you about your own weaknesses, but this does not mean that you won’t need an editor ever again.
  • They will not be offended when you do not accept a change. After all, they are only advising you. You have the final say on your own product.