LOOK OUT AGAIN!!!
Greetings all, and as usual a special welcome to new followers who have found me this week!
Updating slightly earlier this week, because I can’t contain my excitement - my cover art is done, and I’m doing my happy dance. It’s a wonderful and surreal feeling to see your name on the cover of your first novel.
But wait, that’s not all!
RULE BRITANNIA IS NOW OPEN FOR PRE-ORDERS!!!
Of course now all the hard work starts, but I’m super excited to be taking my book to the next stage. This weekend I’ll be finalising Rule Britannia’s Facebook page where I’ll share other snippets about the world of the story, as well as the characters.
I hope to see you there!
Like the Cylons, I have a plan. (Hopefully it works out better than theirs did.)
Apologies for the lapse in updates. Lots going on of course, but not too much exciting to report--yet. I will start updating and going over some very cool developments sooner than later!
1.) KOD Latest Update
Thanks again to my new readers and supporters. The narrative portion of the book has been given a pretty thorough once over and is complete in body. One more pass to go and it will be sent off to a professional editor. Things should rapidly speed up very soon... Well, at least on my end.
2.) Started new book!
While I’ve been waiting on some things to complete KOD, I have started a new book in earnest. This process is already going light years ahead of KOD and has been a blast to write so far. I will keep you updated and maybe even eventually dare to put up a sample somewhere.
3.) Promotional Author Website/New Art Work
The marketing side has begun. I have some movie posters and pull up/retractable banners for shows being made. I have recast some of the images you’re familiar with, but I think they are vastly improved and certainly more malleable for how I intend to market them.
I will also have an author website up soon. Once that happens, I’ll post about my next giveaway based on registering everyone through the website.
4.) NEXT ISSUE
The long promised guest blog. A possible school visit or two.
Until then, stay well!
At ease, faoii. There are no orders tonight, only words.
I am 28 years old today.
I know it doesn’t seem like a particularly important milestone, but look around you. Somehow, in one year, we have gone from The Last Faoii sitting on my shelf, consigned to gather dust for the rest of eternity to this. An entire army of people willing to lift a blade to make sure that it becomes more than just a dream. That it becomes something real-- a sword for our daughters to wield when it seems there are no more heroines. I had given up a year ago. I knew Faoii was a story worth telling, but had lost hope that it would ever happen. It was on a whim that I decided to try Inkshares for one final charge at an unattainable victory. Who would have thought at the time that so many would come to the call?
I don’t think I ever truly expected to be where I am now. I play many roles, depending on the day. I am a mental health activist, a political blog writer, a teacher, a sign waver... and a faoii. I didn’t expect to be these things-- Blades, on many occasions I didn’t even expect to see this birthday. But now I’m here, and I am, as always, eternally grateful to be able to say that I fight many wars on many fronts-- but there is only one where so many people stand behind me in the name of a tale that no one else but us can make happen.
I know that everything seems uncertain, faoii. Inkshares can’t tell me when our story will be published or even when they’ll request the manuscript that waits so tentatively on that shelf. It would be so easy to lose hope; to regress to where we were a year ago. But we will not.
I will continue to fight for this story until there is no more breath left in my body. And I am honored to have you at my side during the battle. In 28 years, I have never wanted to be anywhere as much as here. Shields up.
Faoii-Tahani
I am pretty new to this platform and am bumbling about (trying not to step on toes!) while trying to learn and understand how this all works. In the process, I’ve watched Donna Fung’s videos. Laughed & drank along with the good trio from Drinkshares. And, most of all, read lots of posts about crowdfunding do’s and do not’s.
Somehow in all of this, I gathered that crowdfunding a book is a lot of hard work and one needs exposure. Without much thinking, I decided to vend at I-CON 32 happening this coming weekend in Brentwood, Long Island.
I have my sales tax ID number. I had a banner made. I have copies of my books to sell. I have a few t-shirts to sell and maybe I’ll raffle off one, or two. I have some flyers for my books and I just finished designing bookmarks for my scifi book of short stories, and Fury From Hell, my book that’s currently in funding mode. But it feels like I’m missing something (other than an elevator pitch for each of my books...)
I would love any advice you can share about your experiences with attending/vending at genre conventions such as this: http://blog.iconsf.org/.
Also, if you have some flyers you want me to take, let me know! I can print some and hand out for you. If you’re in the NYC area, I can pick up flyers from you. Or, if you’d like me to have some of your books on the table, let me know that, too.
Best,
Rochelle