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Do You Want to Be Special?

Do You Want to Be Special? In this post I’ll give you three ways you can be special–at least to me.

Do You Want to Be Special? Your First Way

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Your first way is to be special is to simply simply subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here. Over 1,700 people already subscribe and they’re all special to me.

“What’s in it for me?” you may ask. I would, if I were you.

I give away free books with every issue. This is important if you love books These are my books (Zombie Turkeys, and others, and the books of other authors.

Another way to get free books from me is to click here. I give away eight free books of mine with every newsletter. But you’ve got to join first. Plus, I tell you about events, I give you free short stories, and more. The newsletter comes out twice a month, but you can reduce that to monthly or even bimonthly.

Do You Want to Be Special? – The Second Way

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This way leads you closer to my heart. How?

“The way to an author’s heart is through reviews.”

That’s right. Read one of my free books you picked up and leave a review on Amazon (click!) and/or Goodreads (clickity!)

It doesn’t have to be long. One sentence works fine. It doesn’t have to be a good review (look at my one and two star reviews). It’s just that you care enough to tell me what you think.

That’s why I think you’re special.

Do You Want to Be Special? The Third Way

My First Fantasy Book

This way makes you most special to me. Less than four thousand people in the world are in this category. But you can be.

Just buy a book.

These two are .99: Zombie Turkeys and Secret Supers.

These are $2.99: Zombie Detective, My Undead Mother-in-law, and Oops.

Villain’s Vacation and Secret Supers in Space are also $2.99

All these prices go up by a dollar on March 1st.

Paranormal Privateers is $5.99

Then there’s my Christian Bible help books: The Gospel Medley, and Revelation Devotional for $6.99.

Have a preview of the spines of the trilogy above.

My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – Characters

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Front and back Cover of Magic Arrives

I just made progress on Magic Arrives! So far I’m 100% complete on the Characters phase. I’ve got about 71 characters so far, including magical dragons, talking dogs, gorillas, and intelligent dolls.

Magic Arrives Progress – Scene List

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I just made progress on Magic Arrives! So far I’m 100% complete on the Scene List phase. That’s 100 out of 100 scenes.

Progress – First Draft Words

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I’m done with the first draft of Magic Arrives! I’m 100% complete. That’s roughly 112,00 words out of my goal of 100,000. Oops. Overshot.

Line editing – done

I’m done with the self-edit. I sent it to my editor, Dori Harrell. She did the line editing. I’m went through that and approved the changes. Now Dori is doing the final proofing.

I created the front cover, back cover and spine with my illustrator, Sean “Fuzzy” Flanagan.

Then there’s the small matter of uploading it to Amazon and publishing it there. Finally, I order paperback copies so you can get your copy here, directly from me, as less than Amazon.

Get Your Free Books By Clicking Here!

Let me know if I make you feel special here.

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My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives Progress Update

My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – I just made progress on Magic Arrives! Read how I’m writing it and get a free book below. I give a complete status update for you below.

How to Get a Free Book From Me

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One way is to simply give me ideas for my fantasy book, Magic Arrives. Should I have dragons? Elves? Trolls? Dwarves? (Or dwarrows, for those in the know.) Click here to give me a piece of your mind. If I use your idea, I’ll give you your choice of my books.

Another way to get free books from me is to click here. I give away eight free books of mine with every newsletter. But you’ve got to join first. Plus, I tell you about events, I give you free short stories, and more. The newsletter comes out twice a month, but you can reduce that to monthly or even bimonthly.

My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – The Snowflake Method

My First Fantasy Book

I rediscovered the Book Progress app in Word Press and I decided to use it to report on the progress of my first fantasy book, with the working title, Magic Arrives. The app asked me about my writing method and I decided the Snowflake method is the closest to my process. I work on multiple parts at a time. Here’s the overall structure:

  • Story StructureDone!
  • CharactersDone!
  • Scene ListDone!
  • First DraftDone!
  • EditingIn progress
  • Proofing – To do

My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – Story Structure

My First Fantasy Book

So far I’m 100% complete on the Story Structure phase. I’ve captured my plot for this book, and the next two books in the triology.

Have a preview of the spines of the trilogy here.

My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – Characters

I just made progress on Magic Arrives! So far I’m 100% complete on the Characters phase. I’ve got about 71 characters so far, including magical dragons, talking dogs, gorillas, and intelligent dolls.

Magic Arrives Progress – Scene List

I just made progress on Magic Arrives! So far I’m 6% complete on the Scene List phase. That’s 6 out of 100 scenes.

Progress – First Draft Words

I’m done with the first draft of Magic Arrives! I’m 100% complete. That’s roughly 112,00 words out of my goal of 100,000. Oops. Overshot.

What remains to be done

I’m done with the self-edit. I sent it to my editor, Dori Harrell. She did the line editing. I’m going through that NOW. Then Dori will do the final proofing.

I’ll created the front cover, back cover and spine with my illustrator, Sean “Fuzzy” Flanagan.

Here are the covers:

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Front and back Cover of Magic Arrives

Then there’s the small matter of uploading it to Amazon and publishing it there. Finally, I order paperback copies so you can get your copy here, directly from me, as less than Amazon.

Get Your Free Books By Clicking Here!

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Get Your SciFi and Fantasy Books on Sale Today – Advent 2

Get Your SciFi and Fantasy Books on Sale. Why? I’m giving gifts and on sale books for the 25 days of Advent.

Where? Click right here to check out fourteen books. Dig in and look at the books you can get from this blog. But hurry! Only 24 days ’til Christmas

Get Your SciFi and Fantasy Books on Sale – Part 2

The first click is on the Zombie Turkeys Kindle promotion below. You can download it right now:

I’ll give you more details about the book further in this post.

Get Your SciFi and Fantasy Books

The second click you need to get an ebook copy of Secret Super is right here. After clicking, you’ll be able to read how four seventh graders in a special ed class got super powers.

With great power comes great responsibility!

Get Your SciFi and Fantasy Books – Here are Audiobooks

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Simply join me in our weekly newsletter and you’ll be automatically be sent free books and short stories every month.

Aside from ebook copies of Zombie Turkeys, I also offer copies of the first my audiobooks.

The My Undead Mother-in-law Audiobook – Free Sample

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By joining Audible, you can get all my audiobooks for free. Here’s a link to join, click here.

Here’s the link to a free sample of the audiobook:

Get Your SciFi and Fantasy

My mother-in-law’s a zombie. And she has anger-management issues.

My mother-in-law, Diane Newby, zombified by accident. She still volunteers at her church bake sales and cooks pot roast for her daughter and son-in-law, Ron Yardley. What ticks her off is when people don’t treat her like a normal human being – with glowing red eyes and super strength and speed. And if she doesn’t get her own way, look out. She explodes and leaves broken plaster and body parts in her wake. Nothing stops her: not brick walls, the federal government, or middle-aged spread.

But the world’s most powerful criminal plans to control zombies. His only problem with zombies is that they have way too much free will. He has a solution for that. But will it work with Diane Newby?

The world divides into pro-zombie and anti-zombie factions. Battles break out everywhere. Which side will you take? Who will live and who will die?

You might not survive this audiobook. But at least you’ll die laughing.

Zombie Turkeys

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em — they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country.

As Sam tracks down the zombie turkeys and how to eradicate them, his editor, Lisa Kambacher, nags him to turn his stories and expenses in on time. During their years of working together, Lisa has mellowed from bitchy into an irascible pinchpenny. Lisa snipes at Sam for plebeian writing but uses her intelligence to pursue the lucrative carnivorous turkey story.

Sam and Lisa ricochet across the landscape, tracking turkeys and fleeing the bloodthirsty hordes. Careening from shell-shocked grocery store owners fighting turkeys crawling out of refrigerators, to machine-gunning turkey farmers, to secret militia, Sam and Lisa doggedly report.

Throughout the turkey apocalypse, they dare ravaged cities, plow knee-deep in gore and corpses, and upload streams of zombie turkey video news to the world.

With paranoid militias clashing with the federal government and unkillable turkeys, Sam and Lisa doubt their ability to survive. Sam and Lisa have no superpowers. If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not listen to Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to find out what happens.

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