This past week a new friend, who is a fellow author, published her second book and it is available on Amazon. I had the good fortune to be a beta reader for it and hopefully my puny contribution helped.
L.M. Ironside is the authors moniker and she just published her ebook Crook and Flail. It is the second book in her She-King series about Hatshepsut. It is wonderful to read. I encourage all those Ancient Egyptian historical fiction readers to pop over to Amazon and check it out. The reviews are great.
Which brings me to my WIP. I need to finish it. Libbe (L.M. Ironside) was good enough to give my new book a glance and she gave me some wonderful tips and a lot of food for thought. So now I have to hurry up and get it done and available. You see...she is writing her third book and it is on Akhenaten...Ack!
So the race is on to see who is first to get their book up. Of course I don't want just any old thing up, I want a perfect piece...so perhaps Libbe will be the winner in the speed competition. I have this awful tendency to constantly edit my edits. If I remember correctly a fellow blogger once wrote a wonderful post on turning off that awful inner editor...time to reread that post and put the suggestions to work.
So Happy Friday everyone!
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Just remember, it's never going to be perfect! :)
ReplyDeleteDon't tweak your novel to death. That's what editing is for...just write it.
ReplyDeleteJo...I will tweak it to death, cause I am a perfectionist that is OCD. But I am trying real hard to learn to stop. Maybe with this novel I will finally do it...stop that is. Thanks.
DeleteDon't worry about perfect, just getting the words on the page. Then you'll have plenty of time to revise!
ReplyDeleteAlso, you're the lucky winner of Amalia Dillin's novel "Forged by Fate" from my blog contest last week. I couldn't find your email address, but you can email me (thorntonstephanie at hotmail dot com) the address you want the book sent to and I'll send it your way. Congrats!
Stephanie, thanks for the pep talk! You are such an inspiration, a teacher, a mom, a blogger, and now published author. Wow...you did it! "Happy Dance for a fellow Panaddict" so I am trying to do just that...get the words on paper.
DeleteOh and I received the book and am reading it, loving it and taking notes. Thanks again!
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ReplyDeleteDebra I've nominated you for the Shine On blog award see my blog 5/10
ReplyDeleteI have been swamped and low on internet connection time so I just saw your comment...am running over to your blog to see what you nominated me for! Thanks Jo!
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