Update on WILD CONVICTION! Thanks to supporters, readers, fans!

Just hit 31% of the goal for publication!

I am at 233 pre-orders, which is 31% of the goal Inkshares sets.

I am hoping to get to 250 pre-orders by the end of this month--in 5 more days, 17 more orders. I am doing a random giveaway at 250 pre-orders of gifts that are clues that relate to the novel.

I am donating from my own funds to the Flash Fundraiser challenge for UNCF, which supports African Americans and other minorities with college scholarships. At $33 for UNCF ($1 for every pre-order I get during my Flash Fundraiser for UNCF.)

I am also still supporting the Mission of Grace from my own funds, which provides for essentials and financial support to those who have needs. At $233 now for Mission of Grace.

Thanks for your support and for telling others about WILD CONVICTION!

Thank you, Daryl, for your perceptive comments! Yes, Twilight, though dedicated to doing the right thing, is unaware of how she “unintentionally” perpetuates inequality, until Chapter 5. Then, like you, she chooses “examining,” as you state, her life. As GrandMama tells her: “Awareness opens the heart’s passage to Freedom.”

My KUNM Women’s Focus radio interview about WILD CONVICTION addresses the topic of privilege awareness (as well as other topics, such as creating “new stories” through “new language”). I hope to have a link to that interview to share soon.

 

And then there’s the complex Jackson Canon…

 

Thanks again for adding to the WILD CONVICTION discussion and for your interest and support! I think it is so cool to have a Discussion aspect on the Inkshares website and that you, Daryl, and other WILD CONVICTION readers are contributing with super comments to that discussion.

 

I can’t wait to get this novel published so I can share how Twilight gains awareness, develops altruism, manages secrets that endanger her life, deals with threats from people living and dead, and lots, lots more!

Hello Readers and Supporters of WILD CONVICTION!

Exciting news! WILD CONVICTION was selected as the STAFF SYNDICATE PICK for July! This is such an honor and so thrilling! 

Thank you to Inkshares, to the Staff Syndicate Lead Avalon Marissa Radys, and to the members of the Staff Syndicate!

Also, I was interviewed about WILD CONVICTION on KUNM radio’s Women’s Focus last Saturday, July 18.

And, I am getting super comments about GrandMama’s letter from so many of you! Thank you!! If you haven’t gotten your letter yet, it will be in the mail soon!

Finally, if you know anyone who might enjoy receiving the letter with gifts, please tell them to pre-order. Everyone who pre-orders gets the "actual" letter with gifts from GrandMama. 

One of my friends suggested that ordering a copy of my novel could be a gift to someone else, including teenage women and men. (She mentioned how the letter states: "Sixteen is power.") So, the gift recipient would soon receive something tangible and important--the letter with the mysterious gifts tucked inside--and later, the novel when it is published.

Thank you all again for your support! Best wishes! Mary 

Hello Wild Conviction readers and supporters!  Here’s an update:

As you know, Chapters 1 and 2 have been posted on my Inkshares page. You might want to read them again if you haven’t in awhile, as I have made some important terminology changes, which you will also see in GrandMama’s letter.

I have been sending out this “actual” mysterious letter from GrandMama that holds two life-threatening secrets and actual physical gifts, and with a wax seal. The contents of this letter is Chapter 3. If you haven’t yet received your letter, you will soon!

For those of you who want a bit more after receiving the letter, I have posted two more chapters, Chapters 4 and 5.

I still need many more orders, so I am doing what I can to get that support! Thank you again for your support!

If you can continue your support by encouraging your friends to pre-order my novel, I would be most grateful. Tell them that if they don’t have wild conviction, it’s time!

Also, I welcome your comments in the Discussion or in the Reviews.

In hopes of capturing your attention:

Chapter One, An Exchange: A mysterious birthday letter sets Twilight forth into discovery about herself. She meets a young man who offers her an interesting exchange.

Chapter Two, The Canon Effect: Twilight accompanies the young man to see someone she doesn’t want to see.

 Chapter Three, GrandMama’s Letter. This chapter IS GrandMama’s letter with the secrets. Look for one drop of blood and for information about the doe and the tree.

Chapter Four, The Plea. Look for a famous literary figure (before he was famous), who really was in Memphis at that time to see his brother who’d been injured in the explosion of the Pennsylania steamer on the Mississippi River, then taken to Memphis.

Chapter Five, Hypocrisy’s Hints: Look for the leap to how Twilight begins to face her hypocrisy.

Thanks again!  Mary 

Hello Wild Conviction readers and supporters!  Here’s an update:

 

As you know, Chapters 1 and 2 have been posted on my Inkshares page. I suggest you read them again if you haven’t in awhile, as I have made some important terminology changes, which you will also see in GrandMama’s letter.

 

I have been sending out this “actual” mysterious letter from GrandMama that holds two life-threatening secrets and actual physical gifts, and with a wax seal. The contents of this letter is Chapter 3. If you haven’t yet received your letter, you will soon!

 

For those of you who want a bit more after receiving the letter, I have posted two more chapters, Chapters 4 and 5.

 

I still need many more orders, so I am doing what I can to get that support! Thank you again for your support!

 

If you can continue your support by encouraging your friends to pre-order my novel, I would be most grateful. Tell them that if they don’t have wild conviction, it’s time!

 

Also, I welcome your comments in the Discussion or in the Reviews.

 

In hopes of capturing your attention:

 

Chapter One, An Exchange: A mysterious birthday letter sets Twilight forth into discovery about herself. She meets a young man who offers her an interesting exchange.

 

Chapter Two, The Canon Effect: Twilight accompanies the young man to see someone she doesn’t want to see.

 

Chapter Three, GrandMama’s Letter. This chapter IS GrandMama’s letter with the secrets. Look for one drop of blood and for information about the doe and the tree.

 

Chapter Four, The Plea. Look for a famous literary figure (before he was famous), who really was in Memphis at that time to see his brother who’d been injured in the explosion of the Pennsylania steamer on the Mississippi River, then taken to Memphis.

 

Chapter Five, Hypocrisy’s Hints: Look for the leap to how Twilight begins to face her hypocrisy.

Thanks again!  Mary 

 

Hi! Exciting news! My pre-order campaign officially began on June 1, and today, June 22,  we reached 100 pre-orders!  I want to thank everyone for your support and for recommending Wild Conviction to others! Many hundreds to go, so please keep recommending! And I’ll be thinking of each of you in gratitude as I celebrate!

Hi! I have a TV interview in the morning about my novel, Wild Conviction.  Wish me good luck! You, my supporters, readers, reviewers, are my Champions! Thanks for you support of me and my novel Wild Conviction! 

Thank you, Reader Writer, for reading and for writing this wonderful and supportive comment! Your words have given me a boost just when I needed it, as I am working steadily to launch the pre-order campaign on June 1!