Category: My Books

AudioLark Taking Questions at Romance University

Today my audio publisher, Jennifer Fedderson of AudioLark, is talking about Listen Up! Romance Audio Books Increase Author Profits over at Romance University. She asked both myself, as the author of Where She Belongs (which she is giving away on her blog post at RU), and Renee Chambliss, the narrator of two of my three books on audio, to pop in and also contribute descriptions of our parts in the process.

If you’re at all interested in getting your books into audio, or if you love reading audiobooks and want a look inside the process, please pop over.

Greece Is The Word

I’ve been holding onto this information for weeks! I sold Greek translation rights for BORROWING ALEX to Anubis Publications in Athens for publication in mass market paperback and ebook for distribution in Greece and Cyprus. As you can tell, I’m super excited that BORROWING ALEX has found its first foreign market.

Essentially, this will be the first time one of my books will be published in mass market format rather than the larger and more expensive trade paperback format. The print run for the comic book edition of HEAD OVER HEELS was larger than the Greek print run for BORROWING ALEX, and comic books are a form of mass market, but the Greek edition of BORROWING ALEX will be the first time one of my books will appear in narrative form in mass market—just in another language.

What makes it more fun is that a friend of mine also sold one of her books to Anubis. I’ll let her out herself, if she happens to read this blog post. We didn’t find out until a week or so ago that we had both been approached.

Everything has happened so fast since I was contacted by the publisher a month or so ago. Oh, it might have been January. I had several hoops to jump through to prove to the Greek authorities that I am a Canadian citizen for tax purposes for 2012, so I won’t be double-taxed. Every sale to a different country comes with its own learning curve, and the Greek sale was no exception. Unlike when I sold HEAD OVER HEELS to Japan and only needed to fill out a form and basically certify myself, for Greece I had to get Revenue Canada to write a letter on official letterhead stating that I am a Canadian resident for tax purposes, and I also had to get a Revenue Canada representative to fill out and sign a Hellenic tax form. Turns out you can do this all through the mail, but I had no idea how long it would take to accomplish. I received the letter from Revenue Canada quicker than anticipated, and yesterday I sent off all the paperwork for tax purposes to the manager of Anubis Publications.

Like with the Japanese sale of HEAD OVER HEELS, the sale of BORROWING ALEX came out of the blue, as a result of Anubis first approaching Amber Quill Press, which published the first edition of BORROWING ALEX. So if anyone has questions about how to go about finding foreign markets for books for which you hold those rights, alas, I don’t have the answers. I would like to get my books into more foreign markets, so this is something I will have to investigate sooner or later.

For now, I’m thrilled that the Greek translation has been accomplished, and apparently I should be receiving my author copies soon. When I do, I’ll post the cover.

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Sneak Peak and Give-Away at RomCon!

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Today I’m at the RomCon Contemporary blog providing a Sneak Peak at WHERE SHE BELONGS. At RomCon, you can also enter to win a free copy of the audiobook. So if you didn’t win yesterday’s draw on my blog, have no fear. You have a second chance.

Yes, I know, I’m generosity itself.

Please hop over to RomCon to participate in the give-away. Comments left here will not qualify today, as RomCon picks the winner this time, not moi.

P.S. It takes a few moments for the site to load from the links in this blog post. Have patience! It will load.

Celebrating WHERE SHE BELONGS Audio Release With a Give-Away!

The audiobook of WHERE SHE BELONGS releases today from AudioLark and is available from the AudioLark website as well as Audible, iTunes and Overdrive (fine print – I don’t know if it’s available from the third party distributors TODAY or in a few days, but I will update this post with links as I find out.)

But wait!

I’m celebrating by giving away a copy of the audiobook (8 hours and 6 minutes of listening pleasure). All you have to do is leave a comment for this post and you’re entered. Entries will be accepted until midnight tonight. You can listen to a short demo at the AudioLark website. Sooner or later I’ll get around to posting the demo to my website, but not today—I’m too busy celebrating!

Tomorrow morning, I’ll choose a winner through computer-generated random draw and contact the lucky person by email with instructions for how to download the book. Don’t worry about leaving your email address in the comments section. I’m the only person with access to the comments and email addresses on my dashboard, and I do not harvest email addresses for newsletters or whatever other drivel I might wish to foist upon you (but I’m Canadian, so I won’t and don’t). If you want to sign up for my newsletter, you gotta do it yourself (easy-peasy link on my Contact page).

Also, please note that only comments left at Muse Interrupted (ie. my blog) qualify as entries for the audiobook give-away. If you’re reading this post through a feed at Facebook, Amazon, Goodreads, Twitter or another social network, please note that you need to leave your comment on my blog to enter.

If you want to read the story blurb, check out this post.

Print excerpts can be found here, here, here and here. I’m nothing if not generous in the excerpts department!

Thank you for your support and good luck!

Driven

For those interested in the upside and drawbacks of SBK laser eye surgery!

Today I spoke to the clinic that did my surgery in December. The bad news is that if my eyes remain at 20/30 vision (which means my distance eye can see at 20 feet what a healthy eye can see at 30 feet), then my prescription won’t be “bad enough” (meaning my cornea or lens or whatever they operate on isn’t thick enough) to qualify for a touch-up. If I get a touch-up with 20/30 vision, there’s a chance I might lose the distance vision I have. So…I might have no choice but to suck it up and get glasses for driving and walking the dog (when I feel the need for the latter).

The good news is that I’m only at the three month recovery point, and my eyes might improve before the six month point that they have to wait before performing any touch-ups, anyway. The likelihood that my distance vision will improve when it has been steadily declining since the day after the surgery…I don’t know what the likelihood is, but I don’t have a lot of confidence that it will improve. However, I did go through that heavy bout of dryness, so I’m holding out hope that my vision will improve.

Also, it might take 7 or 8 months before my vision has stabilized. Now I understand why the clinic provides free touch-ups up to two years after the surgery.

I’m in a wait-and-see mode. But I do feel better about it after talking to the clinic consultant on the phone this morning. I am really nervous about losing the distance vision that I have achieved, so…we shall “see,” haha.

By the way, I just heard about a type of contact lens that you wear only at night, and it reshapes the cornea so that you can see during the day. That sounds pretty cool. Maybe that’s something that will work for me. Or I could suck it up and get driving glasses and then fake that I can read street signs while walking the dog.

Over time, you do get used to not being able to see as well as you could with contacts or glasses. That doesn’t mean I’m happy about it, you understand.

Now, tomorrow is the release date of the audio book of WHERE SHE BELONGS! That’s some news I can get behind. I’m holding a celebratory party and give-away TOMORROW on the blog. So pop back here Tuesday, March 20th and leave a comment in the post that will go live on Tuesday, March 20th, and you’ll be entered to win a copy of the audio book. Note, comments left on this post don’t qualify for the contest. Just tomorrow’s post. So be sure to check back.

Note, you can comment on this post and tell me to suck it up, or say, “Poor Cindy,” but the random number generator which will choose the winner of the audio book unfortunately will not be affected one way or the other.