Parcel on my doorstep & a 5 STAR review

Friday was a good day. It was the end of only two working days last week. 

Due to Bank Holidays on Tuesday & Wednesday last week, my company decided to close its doors on Monday too. As there was another Bank Holiday prior to the 1st and 2nd May - that is on Friday 27th April - we were home for almost for a week, however this is not something I wanted to share with you.

Coming back, a parcel waited for me. Not exactly on my doorstep, as my OH was home, but on the table in the kitchen. 

Yes, of course you know by the label, what I got. Or do you really. Opening it up was something I needed to wait for, as my OH had lunch prepared for us and although my fingers itched to open it, I waited as a good wife.

However seeing those beauties after opening the box I was even more excited. 

Sure I needed to put them out and take another picture. 
Oh, by the way if I didn't tell you already... My novel At the End of the Summer is available for order as a paperback too, if you prefer paperback over the Kindle. 

And then later, when I was checking and wandering through the Amazon, this 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

beauty of a review showed up on Amazon.co.uk.

 

A perfect ending to a good day...

Trying to avoid potholes

Believe me or not, there are three – looking back now - of the busiest months behind me. Everything collided on my head and – again, believe me or not – it was all my own doing.

I had it planned – most of it. And it was planned perfect, but then… Life doesn’t always play by the rules, right? I should have been used to it, yet I have fallen again, sometimes I can be so naïve. Not seeing all the potholes...

 

By now you already know I planned the publication date for my third novel way ahead. I marked 1^st May 2018 to be it. I scheduled almost everything, so that the publication date would go smoothly, with as much as possible notice to you readers ahead. Open pre-order possibility a month prior the publication date, so that the word would be out and around.

And after I made all the plans for the publication I managed to screw things up almost completely.  Instead of marking the publication date for 1^st May, 2018, I marked it for 1^st April 2018. When I tried to correct it, I got a ‘friendly’ notice from Amazon, that if I do that, I was about to lose the right for the pre-order for a year. I was, mildly saying – shocked.

With all my apologies to the Pict Publishing ladies, which already scheduled everything, I was advised to approach Amazon directly and explain them my honest mistake.

Due to almost every answer I got from Amazon was negative, I didn’t have my hopes high. But nevertheless, I wrote them a letter and surprisingly, got a very quick reply, letting me know that they understand the mistake I’ve made, however…

… they said that I need to correct the publication date myself and only after this will be done, they are going to be able to give the right for the pre-order status back to me.

PHEW!

I couldn’t believe it.

But they did as they said. I corrected the day, and the day after that, my novel was on pre-order!

So, April came. I worked my last day for the former company and started a new job a week later…

Boy was I in for a surprise…

#KindleCountdown Deal ~ from 3rd till 7th January

A deal you don't want to miss!

For 5 days only!

2 books

99p/99c each

Amazon ~ Caught Between Two Worlds

Amazon UK ~ Caught Between Two Worlds 

and

Amazon ~ All That the Heart Desires

Amazon UK ~ All That the Heart Desires

Holidays 2017

We... love to travel. And we love to spend our days off - summer holidays - on the Coast, so each year we decide what to do. To travel or to go to the sea side?

But this year it was different. Most of my two weeks holidays we stayed - at home. You see, we didn''t really make any plans on what to do, mostly because somewhere back at our minds (mine and OH's) we knew there are some things to be done at home. 

With both of us working full time and me having one hour drive each way, five days per week, we mostly run out of time to do anything at home or around the house. And there are a lot of things to be done, believe me.

And I so much 'love' when my OH's DIY projects include me. 

Luckily my OH has a nerve to do a lot of things on his own. He... has an idea and he sees how things will look when the project he plans will be be finished. But sometimes he has trouble executing the idea and that is where I have to jump in. 

Crazy right? But that's how it is. And I'm not bragging. 

So these last two weeks - of our summer holidays - were spent repairing the balcony leading from our daughter's room and the second project was extending the terrace outside our living room. 
Don't be alarmed, we still have a lot to do as two weeks time was just not enough to do it all, and of course, we took some time off too... 

To go to the Coast. We just love it there...

In the morning...

  

and in the evening... 

Ah, well... we'll certainly be returning soon... 

July's Ads

I know I'm not particularly good at promoting myself or my work. I have known that for a long time. I always know how to promote others but not myself.

Well, lets be honest. I just don't know how to 'honk my own horn'. It's not natural to me and although I'm trying to change, it's hard. 

Nevertheless, here are two ads I created for the month of July. I hope you'll find it interesting enough to click at least on one of the links supporting the ads. 😏 

So, I hope you don't mind me asking you to share the blog post to your friends, followers, etc...

The first ad I made was for my novel   Caught Between Two Worlds

UK   https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01NAQ25FR

US    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAQ25FR

The second ad I made is for my debut novel All That the Heart Desires

UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01FW23QTC
US   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FW23QTC

Blurb ~ WIP No. III ~ At the End of the Summer

And here we are... Wait. No. Wrong.

And so, here I am... 

My novel no. 3 ~ At the End of the Summer ~ is finished.

The countless number of MY edits ~ Checked and done.

Two professional edits ~ Checked and done.

Professional proofread ~ Checked and done.

Read through one more time ~ Checked and done. 

Blurb written? Yes. Number 1, #2, #3...etc... #7 and #8 and #9. 

I wrote different variations of the same story.

This is the last one - Blurb ~ Attempt No 9:

Caroline treats love as a game. She stopped believing when her family fell apart. At twenty-eight she focuses on her career as a freelance photographer and lets nothing stand in her way.

Guitarist and songwriter Joshua is the heart and soul of his rock band The Burning Ruins. To the outside world, his life is perfection. Except that Joshua has a secret and he keeps his emotions under wraps.

When they meet, their worlds are badly shaken.

In a summer that takes them from London to Wales and over Europe to the heat of Rome they are desperately trying to regain control, knowing nothing is going to be the same again.  Will the collision mend their badly cracked hearts or will it shred them to pieces?

So, what do you think? Interesting enough to make you grab your own copy and read it?