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I’m so excited! My book “Once…” is finally ready for the world to read. I had hoped to get it done earlier — like immediately after “Eens…” was published — but I had to learn a lot about marketing and publishing to do this right.
Here are the details:
Damsels in distress, curses, echoes of faery tales and tragic love affairs swirl together in sixteen stories found in a dragon’s lair by a curious half-fae.
Unexpected changes to reality causes more than one damsel to turn into a strong, independent woman who takes charge of her own life.
A collection of short stories about Faerie and the fae that live in the human realm. A few of the stories had won competitions and all of them had enchanted readers.
Learn their secrets and enter the realm of the fae…
ISBN EPUB: 978-0-6399476-2-4
ISBN Paperback: 978-0-6399476-3-1
Publication date: 23 May 2018
Available on most online retailers.
Also available in Afrikaans as “Eens…”.
The above two links are UBLs.
What are UBLs? According to Draft2Digital/Books2Read:
Universal Book Link (UBL)
UBLs give you one link that leads to every online retailer selling your book.
And when your readers click on that link, they’re shown a list of everywhere your book appears online, so that they can choose the retailer or eReader that works best for them
One link. Every bookstore online.
Awesome. Now for the excerpt from “Once…”:
Mortals cannot perceive the veil unless they are invited to – or extremely gifted. For centuries, Man and Fae have been kept apart, for nothing good ever comes from them mixing. The collection of The Adventures of Saphira the Faery Dog is proof of this.
Still, there are magical creatures that side neither with Man nor Fae.
Dragons are such creatures. They hold the knowledge of both worlds. Some even collect it in the written word, keeping it safe in their lairs.
An inquisitive half-fae once broke into the lair of a dragon known to hoard books. The knowledge she found was too much to keep to herself…
Here are a few tales, myths and legends from Faerie. Some may sound remarkably similar to legends held by mortals, while others are… well… as otherworldly as the fae themselves.
I posted a promotional tweet earlier:
I also made a couple of twitter images with quotes from the book that will work well with the data in the above tweet:
So awesome! (I know, too much caffeine.)
I have a couple of awesome blogging friends hosting me over launch week.
23 May
Interview with Rhonda Gilmour.
Book Blast on Michelle Athy‘s blog.
Interview with Rebecca Douglass.
24 May
Book Blast on Jennifer Lane’s blog.
Interview with Diane Burton.
25 May
Interview with Roland Yeomans.
Guest post on The Manuscript Shredder.
Book review by Pat Garcia.
26 May
Book Blast on Tizzy Brown‘s blog.
27 May
Book Blast on Elements of Emaginette.
28 May
Guest post on Juneta Key‘s bog.
Book Blast on Beverly Stowe McClure‘s blog.
Book Blast on Patricia Lynne‘s blog.
29 May
Book Blast on Sandra Cox‘s blog.
30 May
Book Blast on Nick Wilford‘s blog.
31 May
Book Blast on Jacqui Murray‘s blog.
Interview with Debs Carey.
2 June
Interview with Ellen Jacobson.
Remember to visit them!
I also made a book trailer on Adobe Spark and loaded it on YouTube.
So much fun! I learned a lot this past week.
Do you need more?
Here it is!
Perhaps a bit blurry at this size, but it’s the back cover for the paperback!
Going a little overboard? Mm… I won’t add my author bio or photo 😉
I hope to see you all around social media this week! I hope I didn’t forget anything…
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Congratulations! You’re all set. What a great lineup of blogs you have for your release week! I’ll post images on twitter with your prepared text that whole week! Thanks for stopping by my blog today and for offering to interview me on Aug. 5. I’d love that and appreciate it so much.
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Thanks, Cecelia 🙂 I’ll email you soon.
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Congratulations! Wow, you’ve been busy. Tweeted!
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Thanks, Juneta 🙂
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Congratulations, Ronel!
You have a great line up of blogs on the tour… I hope to pop in along the way! 🙂
Off to tweet!
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Thanks, Michelle 🙂
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Yay! Go get ’em girlfriend! I’ll see you in about a week.
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Thanks, Jacqui 🙂
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Congratulations on your book release! I tweeted it out.
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Wow Ronel, you have been busy! Congratulations! 🙂
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Thanks, Debbie 🙂
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Congratulations on your book release 🙂 I’ll retweet a few posts for you over the next couple of weeks, and I hope it goes well 🙂
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Thanks, Louise 🙂
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Congratulations on the release, Ronel. My post is all ready for tomorrow. I’m thrilled to be helping promote your book and have ordered my copy on Kindle earlier today.
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Thanks, Tizzy 🙂 I hope you enjoy reading it.
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Fantastic news, congratulations!
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Thank you 🙂
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