Cross-posted from Violet & Ruby!
Wellington Prep . . . where dark secrets and dangerous lies are meant to be found out.We have an *official* release date to share!
Dominate (Wellington Prep #1) will release on
March 11, 2011! We'll provide all the links on that day (it's not available for pre-order), but you'll be able to purchase it via Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com for your e-reader devices. They will be priced at $2.99. (Um, can you say "killer deal!")
Dominate will be a perf weekend read, so that's why we chose Friday as "The Day."
As we've mentioned, it's not going to be available in physical stores. It's the first e-novella (a shorter form of an e-novel) installment in the Wellington Prep series. You'll have to download each e-novella to keep the juicy mystery and the horse-centered drama going. Each e-novella will add up to a complete e-book. :) We've already come up with titles for the next two and we can't wait to share them! Plotting and writing these have been a blast for two besties like Kate and me.
So, YAY! We're veeerrry excited and hope you are, too! The blog will be filled with fun posts and giveaways that week--def keep checking back!
It's beyond exciting to be bringing you the first project from Violet & Ruby Productions!
Kate wrote this post and I wanted to share it with all of you! Find the original post here. :)
VIOLET AND RUBY, BFFS 4-EVER!
So, this website is the first visible evidence of me and my best friend going into business together. It’s like a childhood dream, owning a company with your BFF. But as you grow up, it seems like a really, really bad idea. You think about the fights you might get in—over money, who gets to make all the decisions, who is better at doing whatever and who is jealous and why. You worry someone might get hurt and, ultimately, you worry that you’ll ruin your friendship.
But you know what? I've never had that worry about Violet & Ruby. And there are two reasons why.
One: I never knew the true meaning of “best friend” until I met mine a few years ago. Sure, I’d had friends I’d worn friendship bracelets with, or made BFF friendship notebooks with—notebooks that declared “best friends forever!” But this girl, she means so much more to me than a bracelet or a notebook. When we hang out, I never get bored or annoyed with her and wonder when she’ll leave or when I can go home. I can spend all day and night with her and call her when she gets home and still have a marathon phone call with her. We finish each others’ sentences, love the same things, own many of the same items of clothing, and get asked almost everywhere we go if we’re sisters.
Two: I met my bestie DOING business. We were in business together first, and became best friends later. We were partnered together, long distance, as author and editor on a series called
CANTERWOOD CREST. We started talking on the phone once in a while about things non-Canterwood-related. But then something life-changing happened. I learned I was going to have to get a spinal fusion surgery. Even though I’m an adult, the idea of surgery on my back terrified me! I told my friend over the phone, who also happened to have had that same surgery—and she was amazing. Even though she was nervous for me, she talked to me all about her experience and made me feel so much better and like everything was going to be all right.
During the time I was out of work to recover from surgery (two months!), and even though one of us lived in Brooklyn and one in Florida, we talked every day for at least a couple hours a day. We planned the time in advance, both made tea before our calls, and spent hours talking and laughing and telling each other things about ourselves that we’d never told anyone else. Eventually, we visited each other and decided we couldn’t live so far apart. Just three months later, we were both living in the same exact neighborhood in Brooklyn!
We decided to start Violet & Ruby one night when we were painting our nails. We have a ton of beauty rituals that we do together all the time—facemasks, mani/ped
Not, lol. 8+ hours later over 2 days, I'm getting close to finishing taxes. Yay!
That's the biz side of writing--the numbers and figures. I can't do math to save my life. I failed math in 6th and 7th grade. Not even a tutor or my friends could save me. :)
But I'm almost done and then . . . I'm outlining INITIATION and working on DOMINATE with Kate. Soooo exciting to have a new series to work on. Violet & Ruby Productions is going to be putting out the hottest, most fun e-book novellas for tweens and teens.Be sure to follow us on Twitter: @Violet_and_Ruby
I can't wait for you guys to read our first project! Be sure to scroll below and leave a comment (it can be anonymous if you like) or email me with a question for our PINKY SWEAR novella. How cool would it be to see your question in print? We're already getting a lot of great questions about friendships, so keep them coming.
xoxo
Cover copyright © 2011 Violet & RubyYay! Kate and I are very excited to share the cover and title for the first novella in our upcoming e-book series, WELLINGTON PREP. The title is
dominate. :) It will be available soon for download from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com for a killer price. Get your e-readers ready!
Here's the teaser again:
Wellington Prep: home to the notorious Jasmine King. And if you think Jasmine's a mean girl . . . meet the one who taught her everything she knows.
The release date will be coming soon!
Happy Saturday!
do i have to have a kindle to read the novella? i am so excited for the first one to come online
This is really cool! I don't have a Nook or Kindle, though. Is there any other way I could read it? Well, eventually I'll find a way to read it (I think there's a free Nook app thing for PCs). Congrats!
Hey, I'm super phyed to read it, but I don't have a nook or kindle. Some people on horsemystic say you can pay for it online and then just print it out. Is this true? I hope so!
<3, DancingQueen
Cool, i cant wait to read one of those. I dont get why people are so excited about Nooks and kindles and eReaders, i personally HATE that kind of thing. I like having an actual physical book in my hand to read. Know that we shouldnt be reading to our kids on an electronic device, no we should be reading to them from a real paperback book, somethng that they can keep and cherish forver. Electronics break and cost a lot but books, if cared correctly, can last a long time.
When will it come out and will it be on your website???