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If you would like to be part of the 'Pre-Launch Special mailing list' that gets to read the first five chapters of The Governess--Volume Three before it is released to the public, sign up today! Click here! (If you've already filled out the form once, you do not need to again. I've got you covered. :) Thanks!) Yes, I'm very excited that The Governess is doing so well. The USA is a larger, harder market to sell, but I'm very happy to say that Volume Two has reached #2 on all its genre rankings! This is what it looks like on my Amazon page: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423 Paid in Kindle Store #2 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Religious & Inspirational > Romance
Now all I have to do for Volume Three of The Governess is to finish up any editing my readers have pointed out, finish the cover changes, upload to Amazon, Lulu, and Kobo, and Voila! Finished! The plan is to release by Monday, July 29th! We'll see how close to that goal we get! If you would like to be notified when Volume Three is released and receive the Pre-Launch Special, sign up here today! http://elliseweaver.weebly.com/coming-soon.html
Yes, there is still work to be done on Volume Three of The Governess, but it is coming along nicely. My beta-readers are reading right now and will be back to me shortly with any needed changes to the content. Yay for readers! You have all be so amazing to comment on my website and on the online bookstores where you purchased your copies, so thank you! It means a lot to me that you would all take the time to do so. It also improves my chances of becoming better known out there in the millions of books available to be read by everyone. There is such a pile to be read, isn't there!?! So thank you for any help I've received! :)
So get ready all you romantics out there for a new adventure with me as I we move ahead into Pirate Bride -- Book Two in The Huntington Saga series novels. :) Happy Reading everyone! Ellise~ I've had a lot of activity on my website since I left on vacation. I'm back now and am trying to catch up. :) Volume Three is still on schedule to be released at the end of this month. I have had some wonderful feedback that I've added to the 'Comments' page. I really, truly enjoy reading your comments. Your comments encourage me that I do have a following out there. Without this feedback, and, of course, the sales (Holy Cow!), I would wonder about my ability at all. I think that the sales alone have encouraged me; however, the comments are a treasure trove! So thanks! :) I have to say that I've had one bad review on Amazon.co.uk, but I'm getting over it. I knew, going into this that I could not, and would not, please everyone. But I will continue to write what I love to read most. I always try to learn something from reviews though, and all I can say is, I need to stop being quite so wordy. Also, I don't think the person really understood that I split the book into volumes for a reason (one of her issues). Even though I have tried to end each volume well, the TRUE ending for The Governess will not happen until the end of Volume Three. Honestly, it even continues into Book Two and Book Four since this is a Saga. That's what sagas are, aren't they? But for those of you who like my style, I do pray for continued support. It means the world to me. Thanks for adding to my success, everyone! I truly appreciate it. I wish you all the success that you desire, as well. :) All my best, Ellise~ I've been so happy this month having shared The Governess with you all, and seeing that it has been received so well. It's been such a scary thing for me to do. I truly didn't know if I could do it. I've said before that writing and then sharing it, for me, is like dancing naked in the street and asking people to watch. Not very comfortable. I feel that naked! Yikes! (And not a pretty sight...) But I'm so grateful that you have received it so well. Thank you! Here are some of the comments that I have received from readers so far: love! love! love!, June 10, 2013 The Governess, June 9, 2013 Captivating, June 11, 2013 Feedback can be so inspiring to an author simply because we then know that what we are writing makes sense, let alone may have some worth. So thank you! I've just counted up all the sales of my book that I can find to count and came up with a grand total of 1,149 books in one month! Wow! Now I only wish that I had been able to publish sooner! I honestly don't know if this number is a good one for a beginner author, however, I'm thrilled! Haven't seen a penny yet, but I'm told to that next month is the month. :)
Thank you, everyone, for believing in me. Ellise I sooooo cannot believe that The Governess is at #1 on Amazon UK for Religious Romance!!!! Woohoo! Click here! Cannot believe it! How did this happen?
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,616 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I'm always excited about something! :) Ellise I didn't even know something like this existed on Amazon, but as I was checking out my book on Amazon tonight, I saw that The Governess is at #98 in the Top 100 of Kindle Christian Romance! I'm thrilled! Click here to see.
Thanks everyone for your support! Ellise How would I ever have guessed that my first week of The Governess being released could be this incredible??? Not me! I'm so thrilled that Carly and Creighton's story has been so well received! Thank you Romance Readers out there! I really appreciate your wonderful support! Also--to those of you who don't like romance, but you're my family and friends, and so you wanted to support me--thank you, too! ;)
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The big day is HERE! Finally! I'm so excited to share with you my book, The Governess. Click here to get started reading...
I just got my Proof Copy of The Governess in the mail!!!!!!!!!!! If you could hear me just now, you'd hear yipping and yelling cheers! I'm so excited that this is really happening! It's a REAL book! I'm taking it over to a friend who will be reading it for me. I'm nervous to hear what she has to say, but very excited too. She like the first three chapters, so we'll see. :)
Here we go! CAN YOU TELL I'M EXCITED??? Ellise~ Check out my book Preview here.
I'm so excited! I just sent off for my proof copy of The Governess--Book One : Volume One. It should be here in a week. I can't wait! Since I've never done this before, I figured I better take a look at it before everyone else does. :) I'm also creating a Kindle copy of The Governess. I really hope romance readers love my novel! :)
Have a great week everyone! Ellise I've just come up with an amazing idea (or so I think), but it's mostly come to me out of desperation. You see, after formatting my book, it comes to almost 700 pages. Yikes! The binding alone is going to be huge. At first, I didn't care because I've read tons of thick books over the years. However, I think it'll be costly that way. So, my wonderful new idea is (that so many of you have told me to do all along) to break The Governess into volumes. I don't know yet if it'll be two or three volumes. I have to find places to divide first.
So...I'm thinking that part of it can be published before much longer! :) I hope, I hope, I hope! I'm so thrilled, can't hardly stand it! Woohoo! I've gotta get back to work! Ellise So, I've been formatting The Governess for CreateSpace, which is a new experience and a half. Tedious, and yet fun to see what my book is becoming. It looks like a real book now. I've really got to reduce page numbers, but it won't be a significant drop. Oh well. I've read thick books before. Never stopped me. :) Well, here we go, onward and upward folks!
Have a great week everyone! Hugs, Ellise After talking with my amazing sister tonight, I've decided to just get my book out there. I'm so excited! It's finally here! This is the month! I'm determined...
So, with still more fine tuning to do, but not the huge amount that I'm going to have to eventually do, I'm going to finish this project up and get it out there for people to decide if it's worth it or not. Scary! But exciting still the same. :) Yay!! Ellise Okay. So I really did. I've just completed a run through on all 76 chapters of The Governess--some of them newly created. Whew!
So what's the prognosis? I have more work to do. :( I really can't put it out there yet. It still needs a ton of fine tuning, but honestly, I don't think I have the patience to do all the fine tuning it needs right now. I still think I'm going to get it out there this month if I can. I think maybe that a Second Edition would be a worthy effort after getting feedback out there in the real world. It might be crippling, but I've got a choice to make here. I'm not sure yet what it'll be. Publishing very soon--or waiting as I rewrite into one POV at a time. Sucks! But there you have it. :) Signing off for the day... Ellise P.S. By editing it, I never did chop it (which was one of the reasons I was supposedly doing the edit). At the time, the manuscript was around 184,000 words. Now it's 194,000. How did I do that? Yes, I guess it was the new chapters added in. ;D |
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