Thank You!

Jennifer has a new book release...

It’s been an exciting week for me, as Addicted to Love released on Friday. I’ve had such lovely support from friends, family and fellow authors. I’ve watched stats rise, seen tons of re-tweets and Facebook posts and I’m almost at the point where I’m sick of myself.

But not of my book, never my book. This is the first book I’ve published after a long dry spell. That dry spell was partially of my own making and partially due to circumstances beyond my control. It was filled with stress, self-doubt and dashed hopes. With this publication release, though, I am once again filled with purpose.

I also am filled with extreme gratitude for everyone who has wished me well and hammered home what a lovely community of romance writers we have.

So thank you!

And if you’ll indulge me one last time, I’m going to do a quick promo:

Blurb: Dan Rothberg struggled after an accident killed his wife and he nearly lost custody of his daughter. He can no longer allow himself to get attached to anything or anyone. Until he meets Hannah.
Hannah Cohen is a young executive with a meddlesome grandmother and a troubled brother. She’d like nothing better than to find her own Mr. Right, after too many Mr. Wrongs. A sexy older man with a teenage daughter was never in her plans.
As they navigate their relationship through adolescent attitudes and grandmotherly interference, they realize age is just a number and love can be right in front of them. But when the terrible truth of Dan’s former struggles is exposed, Hannah must decide if she can get past his deception and allow love to conquer all.

Buy Links:
The Wild Rose Press: https://catalog.thewildrosepress.com/all-titles/5133-addicted-to-love.html?search_query=jennifer+wilck&results=2
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Addicted-Love-Serendipity-Book-1-ebook/dp/B071HZQS4S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499096714&sr=8-1&keywords=jennifer+wilck
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/addicted-to-love-jennifer-wilck/1126454796?ean=2940157486310

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/addicted-to-love-13

Progressing while waiting

Ana reports...on waiting... and on progress

Two weeks, and I'm still waiting for promised Stormy Hawkins edits to arrive from the publisher.
I've not seen the cover, as well, but I do have a release date. September 27th.

I'm trying to stay calm. Stormy was rigorously edited before submission and acceptance, but I'm sure there will be changes and tweaks. Hopefully not to many.

I've gnawed some fingernails and started on my author website. I wrote a bio and decided to have a gardening and a recipe page on the website--to add content. I hired a graphic artist to design a website logo-banner. She'll also format one for Twitter and Facebook.

The under construction website is linked already to this blog. I clicked the header and was whisked to here like magic.

So some progress to report.
And some waiting.

A Work in PROGRESS

Debra is making good headway on her WIP.

It's been a good writing summer. Something that hasn't happened in a while. Last time I posted I was excited to report that I'd begun writing again, picking up a WIP that had been languishing. I am proud to say I've written almost every day since then. My word count is up to 48,700 with a target of 65,000, so I am extremely pleased with my progress. When I picked it up again in June, I was at 23,100. So in a little less than a month, I've recorded approximately 25,000 words.

Some days it's easier than others and I know just what scene I want to work on and where I'm going with the story. Other days it's a bit more like pulling teeth. Difficult and painful, but in the end I get there and am happy and relieved with the end result. Today (Sunday) I wrote about 1,500 words of a scene that I knew I wanted to include in some way, but hadn't exactly figured out how it was going to move the story forward.

I have been writing a bit piecemeal and not in chronological story order, and I was wondering how everything was fitting together, so I took a couple of days to do a read-through of what I had down. Other than that, except for a few tiny rereads just for continuity information, I've been writing and not rereading, editing, or revising. I think it's working well.

Once I've reached my word goal, I'll do a full read-through and begin the editing and revising process. I'm also planning on snagging a few beta readers for this one. I have a few questions in my mind about the story already, and I'd love the opinion of a reader or two. This will be a new step for me, so I'm nervous and excited at the same time.

In the meantime, I've also been trying to be more active with other aspects of my writing career, while I have the time here in the summer. My book Fourth of July at The Corral is on sale for #99c in the month of July. I've been posting and advertising on various outlets for that. And I'm also trying to be more active with my Twitter account. I'm trying to post something every day, although I don't always accomplish this. I've been posting new release blurbs from fellow Roses and sometimes just a what I'm up to at the moment type thing. I'm refraining from posting 'buy MY book' Tweets every day, but have plans to sneak those in too. At the moment, just trying to build a following and make sure my account isn't sitting there inactively. I'm still on the fence about Facebook, but I've posted a few personal and authory things from time to time there as well.

So, all in all, I'm having a lot of fun being an author again this summer. It's been a while since I've felt like one.

Until next time,

Happy Reading!

Debra
www.debrastjohnromance.com