Contest

So I know a few of my facebook friends were wanting paper copies and since I am so excited about publishing my first book I thought I would do a contest.  I am in the process of double checking my book before I publish it in print. I just feel in hard copy it needs to be extra edited...part of my 'obssessiveness' I guess. So I hope to have it ready to buy in book print next week.

On to the contest. In hopes of getting my book out there anyone who shares the link to my book on facebook or posts about it on their facebook page encouraging others to read it come here and leave me a comment letting me know you shared it. I will out all of the names into random.com and choose a winner. The winner will get a signed copy of my book.

So share the link or comment about it then comment on here and let me know you shared my book. The contest will be up until I get my book completed for print (Should be at least through the weekend). If you have allready shared it or posted about it on your page feel free to come here and comment. You don't have to post about it again. If you tag me in your post I will automatically enter you.

Once I have the winner I will notify on here then you can email me your address or we can meet up in person if you live near by.

Here is the link to the book on amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-Madilyn-ebook/dp/B00A31PKVU

Thanks Everyone!!!

Cover

Also thought I would share my cover since I am just too excited!!!!

Published

Boy has it been awhile....Writing a book is the easy part, the hard part editing and formatting to be published. I was lucky enough to have a great friend who was willing to help edit for me and give me some feed back on the book I wrote. I started the long journey on publishing on kindle a few weeks ago. I got everything ready(I thought) just waiting to get the final edits back from my friend and do my read over.

That was last week. I out the finishing touches(or what I thought was the finishing touches) on it last Wednesday or so. Fast forward to this weekend when I prepare to oublish to kindle. I used a website to prepare it for book print(one that is printed when ordered) that was also suppose to format to kindle. Everything I wrote was formatted for a print book.

I follow the websites directions and download then upload to kindle the edition that was supposed to be formatted for kindle. SURPRISE-it wasn't. So I spent the weekend and Monday adding page breaks, taking away things that aren't needed in e books, and polishing all of the chapters to adhere to kindle formatting. Come Monday I pressed the publish button. Silly me, I forgot to add myself as the author so it was sent back to me. Today I fixed that correction and resubmitted.

Before I feel asleep I decided to check, just to see if it might be up, totally didn't think it would be since I had just submitted it less than twelve hours ago. Lo-and-behold it is kind of up. LOL. What I mean by that is if you search my name on kindle my book pops up. It is not available to be bought yet, but just doing that serach and seeing MY name and MY book come up is such a feeling that I am not sure I have the adequete words to describe it. Needless to say I am unbelievably excited and undeniably unable to go to sleep.

So if anyone out there whats to see my book and read the description, but be unable to buy it yet here is the link!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-Madilyn-ebook/dp/B00A31PKVU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1352276105&sr=1-1&keywords=stephanie+jarrell

Sleepless Nights

so my first book is complete, minus editing and revisions which i have started. im updating from my hone which for some reason does not believe in proper grammer, so sorry beforehand. i am in love with the series i have started and have even started the second book. i find myself starting to work on them late in the evening when my household and school duties are complete and they suck me in. i end up spending half the night up working on them. i intend to post a preview of a chapter  from the first book titled ,coming home, soon. i hope one day i can have at least one person as excited about my book as i am. it is so refreshing to do something i love.again sorry about the grammer and punctuation issues, next time i will be sure to post from my computer.

The beginning

In school I loved creative writing classes and assignments-heck I even loved writing reports. I have started many books but have never gotten past one or two chapters. Recently after finding out I would be losing my job that I went to college for I decided to stop making the excuses and just start writing. Currently I am about 35,000 words into my first book.

I have found writing to be so liberating in a time that is filled with stress for me. Within a matter of months we bought a new car, I ended up in the hospital for a week and off work for several weeks, find out my department at work is being shut down, and I began graduate school. Writing has been such a release for my feelings during this time.

I am hoping to have my book finished and edited soon!!! Even if I only self-publish it will be an accomplishment that I can look back and say 'I wanted to do something, so I set my mind to it and did it'. I plan to use this blog for some feedback on tidbits from my book before I attempt to publish it. I hope that everyone who reads my book, whether it be one or thousands, comes to love my characters as much as I do.