Today marks the first birthday of my debut novel Secrets & Charades. She had a long gestation period. Twelve years from concept to publication. Ten years in the writer’s womb doing rewrites, submitting proposals and receiving about 20 rejects. (The exact number escapes my memory. All new mothers forget the painful parts.)
My award. I am so blessed.
Labor began when I won the Editor’s Choice Award in 2014. This resulted in two more years of laborious rewrites and editing with two wonderful book labor coaches Molly Really and Andrea Merrell.
Before my baby arrived, I had to wait for the Cover Design and do marketing to announce its release. I post the ultra sound photos of famous actors and models who represented my characters.
Talked about the historical content.
When the Cover Design was finished, I posted it on my social media so everyone could see the cute outfit my novel would be wear.
The big day came, March 15th, 2017 we had a wonderful launch party where I gave gifts to my guest to celebrate the arrival of my baby. A few weeks later I had a live launch and my guest cooed over my darling. Recently, Secrets & Charades won the Maxwell Award. A proud mother moment.
A year later it still has decent ratings. A sibling will arrive in May. My Contemporary Romance, New Duet is different from my Historical Romance. They will compete for my marketing time. Although we all know the newborn gets the most attention. Hopefully, by 2019 there will be some more Historical Romances joining my book family. I imagine a few contemporaries as well.
Oh, Secrets & Charades is being cloned as an Audio book coming soon. I am so excited. (More on that in another post.)
Thanks for stopping by and helping me celebrate and reminisce.
The Giveaway
I am giving away one autograph copy of Secrets & Charades and a $10 Amazon card to one lucky winner. Share this blog on your social media and post in the comments on the blog that you did, and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. Be sure to leave your email written as myname at my server dot com. I’ll contact the winner next Friday.
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I loved this story. You did a great job!
Thanks, Kathy.
Thanks, Linda and Beth. You three are awesome supporters.
So excited for you that I couldn’t resist sharing your post on my FB page, Cindy. Have a great day celebrating! bethz at new.rr dot com
I shared this on my Twitter and Facebook. This is such wonderful news. Congrats, Cindy!