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There comes a time when decisions need to be made. Is it better to enroll in KDP Select and offer freebies, or not?
So far, I've got Forever Young: Blessing or Curse still enrolled, as well as Girl of My Dreams.
I took my most recent romantic comedy, Her Handyman, off the program, but may put it back on later. I have mixed feelings about offering freebies. After a free event, I do get more sales, but then I wonder if some readers notice it's available free for Prime members, which means it will probably be free for everyone else for five days, somewhere along the line. That seems a double-edged sword.
Anyway, I'll see how the system goes, and learn if any other alternatives present themselves.
In the meantime, I'm not completely neglecting other sources, since two of my books, Killer Career, and Two Wrongs, are still available on all the Smashwords sites, as well as on Amazon.
For excerpts and buy links to all my books, you're welcome to check them out at:
http://morgansbooklinks.blogspot.com
If you aren't on Facebook and following my page, you may not know this -
Freebie coming up this Friday, Saturday and Sunday - April 5, 6 and 7
That's right -
Forever Young: Blessing or Curse for Kindle/or PC will be free on those days. If you don't have a copy, be sure to click and get one before it goes back to its usual $2.99 price.
Here's the link:
http://amzn.com/B006MO28CQI'm over halfway through the edits for
Blessing or Curse, the companion sequel to
Forever Young: Blessing or Curse .Blessing or Curse contains 5 different stories about 5 very different people taking the Forever Young pill. Each story has some sort of romance, but is much more than a typical romance.
You'll see when I start sharing excerpts.
Morgan Mandel
http://www.morganmandel.com
I'm getting things done a little at a time. Lots of year end/beginning stuff to sort out. I usually throw my bills into a folder each month. At the end of the year, then I figure out which ones I really need to keep. Most get shredded or thrown away. I could do this chore more often, such as every month when a new bill arrives, but what fun is that? Or, I could go paperless, but for some odd reason I like to see the bills right in front of me, though I pay them online. I guess I'm still half in and half out of the old and new ways of doing things.
I'm employing the same approach to my editing of
Blessing or Curse, the sequel to Forever Young: Blessing or Curse. After a while, my brain freezes from too much thinking, and I have to stop and go to
Facebook, or some other place to thaw it out.
Still, I'm getting there.
Blessing or Curse has 5 stories in all, and I'm halfway through editing the third one. Hopefully, I can finish it today, then only 2 to go.
I'd hoped to have this book finished sooner, such as in December, but I underestimated the Christmas busy-ness. Lots of fun and un-fun stuff kept getting in the way. My target now is February publication.
Everyone will know if I make my goal, because I will spread the word far and wide!
A peek at what Blessing or Curse is about:- Consuela's husband has Parkinson's. Will the young pill help him?
- Ezekial suffers from E.D. Will the pill cure his curse?
- Police officer, Mike, has let himself go. His physical is coming up. Maybe the pill will help.
- Dee Dee wonders if her husband is cheating. Will the pill make her more attractive?
- Sherri's washed out as a model. Can the pill re-ignite her career?
Stay tuned for the answers! |
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Blessing or Curse
by Morgan Mandel |
Since I'm in the last legs of finishing up
Blessing or Curse before sending it off to my editor, Helen Ginger, I thought I'd share something about it, and a small excerpt, which may change in the editing process, maybe not.
What
Blessing or Curse is:
Blessing or Curse is the sequel to the science fiction thriller,
Forever Young: Blessing or Curse. This book can be read as a standalone or part of the projected three-book series.
In the first book, the emphasis is on a 55-year old widow, who takes the young pill turning her back to 24. All should have been wonderful, but then she makes a discovery which has her fleeing both from the villains and the law.
Blessing or Curse, the new book, is chiefly a romance, with a smattering of science fiction, since no one yet has invented a Forever Young pill. It's broken into five separate stories depicting how the pill impacts the lives of five test market subjects, and whether or not their choice was the right one. These participants come from differing ethnicities, ages and classes, yet all have a reason to be young. The loved ones of these characters are also at some point in the stories impacted by the test subject's age reversion.
Here's the lineup of stories:
Desperation forces Consuela to order the Forever Young pill to cure her husband, Diego, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease; but will the cure become a curse?
Ezekiel, an African-American male with E.D. difficulties, sends in for the young pill to prevent his lady love, Luana, from discovering he can’t get it up. Will the pill draw her closer or drive her away?
Strawberry blonde model, Sherri’s popularity is fading with her looks. The pill can bring her fame and fortune, but what about love?
Overweight Chicago Police Officer Walinski must pass a new physical or lose his job, along with his canine partner. Will the young pill provide security, when danger lurks in the line of duty?
Downtrodden going-on-sixty housewife, Dee Dee Marshall, suspects her husband of infidelity, and will do anything to keep him, even take an experimental pill. What she really needs is self-confidence.
A Sneak Peak at the Consuela and Diego's Story:
First Trial Run - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Consuela & Diego Morales
Ah, the wonderful love they’d shared. Why must it end this way?
“Diego, eat,” Consuela Morales said, holding out a spoonful of puree to her shrunken, wheelchair-bound husband. His dry parched lips remained obstinately shut, his gray eyebrows furrowed. He wanted to die and she didn’t blame him. God help her, sometimes she wanted him dead too. Till death do us part seemed a long time to live with half a man.
Placing the spoon into the jar with a klunk, Consuela gazed morosely at her husband. Mamacita, God rest her soul, had warned her not to marry a man twenty years older, but the ripe, chestnut-haired Consuela had paid no heed, choosing passion over common sense. Diego of the raised eyebrows, straight black hair and cocky mannerisms had fevered her blood, making her come alive as no other man could.
She remembered the exact moment he’d strode into the basement of her friend, Isabella’s brownstone. As their eyes met, her heart raced beneath the confines of her ample breasts, almost drowning out the background sounds of New Year’s Eve TV reveling.
Quickly averting her eyes, she whispered to her friend, Isabel, “Who is that studly guy?”
Isabel glanced at the new addition and frowned in concentration. “Oh, that must Diego, Alessandro’s cousin. He broke up with his girl and asked if he could come with tonight. He’s hot, if you go for father figures.”
“My father never looked that good his entire life. That man steams. I need to cool off some.”
Hope you enjoyed the Sneak Peak. If all goes well, this book will be available on Kindle in December, fingers crossed!
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By request, today we'll do a Pitch Your Book session. How it works is simple. Just leave a short pitch a/k/a elevator pitch in the comment section. The shorter the better, or readers will get bored and skip over yours!
Leave a buy link and a website or blogspot link, if you wish, but don't clutter with zillions of links, or I'll have to cut yours, since it will spoil the continuity.
I'll pitch
Forever Young: Blessing or Curse.
A 55 year old widow takes a pill to be 24, then makes a shocking discovery which has her fleeing for her life.
http://amzn.com/B006MO28CQhttp://amazon.com/author/morganmandelOKAY, YOUR TURN
All those pesky little details an author better get right, or else--
Late afternoon yesterday I noticed all our early blooming daffodils, both in the backyard by the kitchen window and by the fence, had fallen over. I thought that may have been due to the strong winds, but just in case it was from the heat, I gave the ones by the kitchen window some water.
This morning, both sets of daffodils had sprung back up, so my conclusion is they didn't like the heat, but revived during the night because it was cooler.
Daffodils do not usually bloom in Illinois this early, nor do forsythia bushes, green grass, and other tulips happen yet. We also don't usually have bees circling our backyard, ants on the sidewalk, gnats in the air, or mosquitos flying around, not to mention 80+ temperatures this early in the season. This year is an exception, which I've heard is due to a jetstream.
If you were writing a book with a setting near Chicago, Illinois, and the timeframe of March, unless you were specifically mentioning this year, all the things I mentioned above wouldn't be here. Instead, to ground your readers in a story, you'd mention snow starting to melt, or grass still brown, if you even see it peeking from the snow. The temperatures would typically be in the 50s, or if you're lucky the 60s. You might see a few buds on the bushes, or daffodils or tulips beginning to come up, but not blooming. The insects would also be few and far between.
When I wrote Forever Young: Blessing or Curse, I had to check certain details also, such as when the rose bushes bloom, and when they're dormant, what the temperature is in Scottsdale, Arizona compared to Flagstaff, even what time it's sunset in that part of the country. Though I'd taken a trip to Scottsdale in April, 2011, and garnered much information which proved useful, that didn't mean what I witnessed in April was typical for other times of the year in that area, or even in Flagstaff.
Fortunately, the Internet is a great source for learning such pesky little details. An author needs to get them right, because, God forbid, if they're wrong, a reader will notice.
What other pesky little details should authors be aware of? Can you share any you've encountered when writing a book?
By the way, the thriller I mentioned, Forever Young: Blessing or Curse, is on sale on
kindle at 99 cents through March 24, 2012, after which it returns to $1.99. It's also available at the regular price of $1.99 in other electronic formats, and is in
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Just a short detour to my
Blog Book Tour today for my romantic thriller,
Forever Young: Blessing or Curse, where my topic is: Are Your Friends the Same Age As You?
Please stop by at
http://lesleatash.com/ and tell us about your friends.
Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Today, we're offering readers a sample of what's available. All you authors, please post a very short elevator type pitch (blurb) about your book and provide a buy link, so everyone can go out and get it. Only one each, please.
I'll start with mine. You knew that was coming. (g)
A 55 year old widow takes a pill to be young again, and may not live to regret it.
http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Young-Blessing-Always-ebook/dp/B006MO28CQOkay, now everyone that's an author jump into the comment section. And everyone that's a reader, get over there too so you can find something to read!
Morgan Mandel
http://morganmandel.blogspot.com/
I've been on a blog book tour for over a month promoting my paranormal romantic thriller, Forever Young: Blessing or Curse. That's because a tour raises Search Engine Optimization for a book and/or author, and in the process reaches out to other readers and authors along the way. I wouldn't think of releasing a book without going on a tour.
If nothing else, awareness of my new release is raised by my constant references to the tour on egroups and social media sites. Anyone I come into contact with online has to know by now I have a new release. Not only that, when I Google Morgan Mandel, many of the tour stops show up in the search.
What about you? Tell us one of your methods to promote a book. It can be the same as someone else's, if it's also your favorite.
IF YOU REMEMBER, PLEASE HIT THE PLUS SIGN - ANOTHER WAY TO PRMOTE!
Would you like to be young again knowing what you know now? Forever Young: Blessing or Curse is now in Print, also on Kindle, Nook, other Smashwords venues. See more buy links at http://morgansbooklinks.blogspot.com
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While about 80% of my sales are through Amazon (I recently had a couple on Amazon Germany, woohoo!) I do get steady sales on B&N, Smashwords, and a few other sites. I think it's best to be widespread.