Showing posts with label Self-Published. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self-Published. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Ima share my world, just a little

Ok, so I was kind of freaking out last blog. Remember, the whole WHAT AM I GOING TO DO, AHHHHH! That sound familiar? Well, I've chilled out *fistpump* I'll have to edit the format a little, and there were a lot of typos I didn't catch, but since I'm self publishing I've got nothing to worry about :D
So, today, I had fun with my new camera. It's a Canon PowerShot SX130 IS, if that means anything to camera-knowledgeable people out there. It's very professional looking.

Ok, so on to random pictures of random things. That's what blogs are for, right?

Here's my dog being a weirdo.
I think my brother had a brownie.
Hence her staring.


Guess where my brother was standing.


My dog wouldn't look at the camera.
So I went and found the fish.
They ran away at first, then came back to get their pictures taken.
The big orange fish is Yoda, and the little one is still unnamed.


Here's the tree in my front yard. Pretty, no?


And here's the flowery tree thing in my sideyard


And a dandylion. The shoes are my sisters, btw. I thought the picture would come out cool that way.


There's Kyle with Darkest Ebony. They're friends already :D
In the background is my good friend Mr. iPod and Chuck.
Chuck is my alarmclock.
I threw him at the wall once and for three days he was dead.
On the fourth day he kept beeping.
Then I took his batteries out XD


The back cover of DE. It took about ten minutes to do, but I think it looks nice 8D


LOOK!!!
ISBN number.
It's on private right now, but soon if I look it up on Amazon.com it will come up.
Too cool.


I went to Borders today and bought a couple of books I'd been dying to get copies of.
(In order from top to bottom)
If I stay- Gayle Forman
Paranormalcy- Kiersten White
NightShade- Andrea Cremer

If you haven't red these books, I strongly reccomend them.


And, last but not least... *drumroll*


My laptop, Eva.
I've written ALL my books on it. I don't know what I'd do without her.

So that's it for now. I'll probably post more pictures tomorrow, if I feel like it. Definitely more on Tuesday :D If I'm not too busy reading CoFA to put pictures of it up, of course.

Peace, Love, and Vampire Diaries peeps!!!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok. So I'm still trying to grasp this... but Darkest Ebony got self published.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGHOWOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGURGLEFLURGLE*FLAILS*
*restrains self*
Yep. My birthday is on monday, so my parents had it self published for me. I have a copy of my book sitting right in front of me and I can't stop picking it up and messing with it. It's super surreal.

See that?
That's my book.
In print.
*screams and pulls hair out*

I'm probably sending mixed signals. Am I happy or upset or whatever. The truth is, I'm kind of numb. Like, totally in shock. Like seeing your own grave or something. I really wanted to get it picked up by a real publishing company and go through all that, and self-publishing is a pretty good way to see that you don't get published unless your book does phenomenally well. However, I'm thrilled at the same time. It's absolutely insane to see your book in print sitting next to you.

Yeah, that's DE sitting on my bookshelf. Right next to City of Bones. EEEEP.

Oh, and you might notice that I've actually got relevant pictures on my stuff up. What's up with that?
Well, because I got a camera too. Awesome, isnt it?
And the good news is I know how to work this one. So I'll (hopefully) be putting pictures up more often. You know, pictures I didn't find on the net.
And so, because I'm trying to keep my mind off the fact that my 'natural market' for publishing is hosed and the fact that I'm actually a published author (daunting 0-0) I'm going to put up some random pictures I took today.
This is my dog Bella looking confused.
Actually, I just shouted "Hungry" (her trigger word meaning "I'm going to feed you now.")
She looked right at the camera though. Hehe. I feel mean, but she's sleeping now.


And here's Bella making a dumb face. She does that a lot.


Here's a picture of my bookshelf. I'm going to have to get another one soon.


And here's my quote (famous around my house ;) Writers are dreamers with eyes open.
My mom decided my wall needed redecorating and put it up. I, personally, adore the font.

So thats it ^-^ Very epic. I'll blog again after I chill out a little, so laters peeps!!!