/> Adventures in Writing YA: May 2013

Thursday, 16 May 2013

'Genevieve' is published & I'm off to Disney!

So after many trials with the kindle convertor mashing all my text into a strange and indecipherable language unknown to man, I have finally got a 'clean' copy of 'Genevieve' available to buy on Amazon and Smashwords. Hopefully it will be distributed to B&N, Apple, Kobo etc in the next couple of weeks.

Here are the links:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Smashwords
 
Here is the blurb:
 
Paris, France 1793

Growing up in the court of King Louis XVI, Genevieve enjoys a sheltered privileged life with the gardens of Versailles as her playground, until on the eve of her nineteenth birthday, the king is executed and all hell breaks loose.

As family members and close friends fall prey to the Revolution, Genevieve turns to the one man who promises to help her; the shadowy figure in court, and friend to the elder brother that betrayed them all, but is Sebastian worthy of her trust or will he too betray her?

Genevieve has a choice to make, one that will change her life forever. Go it alone and try to escape the murderous streets of Paris, or join Sebastian, forget her nightmares and start a new life… an immortal life? 
              
And now I've got this done... I'm off to pack our suitcases. We're off to Disneyworld Orlando!
 
 
There's been so much on my plate the last few weeks, but now... finally I can get just a little bit excited :) So I'll be back on June 3rd, hopefully tanned, probably not very rested and ready to get writing WitchHunt! Yey!


Monday, 13 May 2013

Life, Time and Action!

Strange title? Yeah I guess but it sums up my month!

Life... because my life is crazy right now. I know you are fed up of hearing about my house move saga, but that is pretty much responsible for taking over my life right now, and since the chain fell apart all we've been trying to do is get a sale before we go to Florida on Friday! We had a second viewing over the weekend and currently all I am doing is watching my phone and crossing my toes... I can't cross my fingers as I need them for typing LOL!

Time... because I am running out of it! I simply do not have enough hours in the day to look after the kids, keep the house super, super house viewing, perfectly tidy, write, edit and promote my books and get everything ready for our two week trip to Disney. I just want to hibernate, but instead I am publishing 'Genevieve' tomorrow and have a list which fills an A4 pad of things that need to be done by Thursday! I just hope that 'Genevieve' hasn't fallen prey to my fractured brain and that everybody likes it.

Action... well it's time for action isn't it lol? So far today I've not done so badly. I've done a final read through and edit, then uploaded 'Geneieve' to Smashwords and checked the formatting for kindle and epub copies. I have emailed my small army of lovely bloggers who I am hoping will help me promote a little, while I'm away. In fact any help will be appreciated so if you blog or tweet or FB and want to copy my links, read my books and comment... that would be great. Just because I've not been online much doesn't mean I don't care... I do. I care a lot, but at the moment my kids and my family have to come first. I need to get us moved and settled and then I can concentrate on my books!