New cover!

I wasn't entirely happy with the first cover of my book.  Big sister to the rescue!  Suzanna and I collaborated and came up with a great cover that I'm entirely pleased with.  I feel bad for her, since all I did was give the orders and she did all the work, although growing up with me, she's used to it.  ;)

So now, the big reveal!

Before:

Eh.  It's just okay.  

Definitely looks amateurish, though.

And after the wonderful Suzanna got to it:

Is it gorgeous, or is it gorgeous?

The picture is one my husband and I took while we were visiting the Bahamas six years ago.  It still needed a bit of "help" to be cover ready, so Suzanna stepped in and perfected it.

What do you think?

Better?

Confession

My eBook did great during the three day free promotion.  In fact, it did better than I ever thought it would.  I actually went into the three days thinking it would be miraculous if I got 300 downloads, which would be 100 a day for those of you math challenged ones out there.  ;)

But, honestly, I didn't see how it was going to happen.

The main marketing tool I had was my friends and family on Facebook, so I figured I would get about 150 downloads (even though I was still secretly wishing for 300).

At the end of the first day, I was right around 125 downloads, which was amazing.

At the end of the second day, however, I was only around 215 downloads and knew things were winding down, despite my best efforts with what I had as far as marketing.

Halfway through the third day, there were around 275 downloads and I was just wishing to hit that 300 mark.  I had to go to work last night, but I checked the download count when I got home.

My grand total of free books downloaded was (*drum roll, please*)...378!!!!

I'm not sure what happened the last half of the third day, but somehow word got out or something and the downloads shot up!!  YAY!!!  I really can't believe it.  I've gotten so much positive feedback, it astounds me. I was also on the Amazon Top 100 Bestseller list for contemporary fiction for most of the three days (#74 out of about 1,400 free books).

So, if you were one of those 378, THANK YOU for your support!!

I'm currently having someone work on tweaking the cover a bit for me. I wasn't completely happy with the last one, so it's getting a makeover today (and yesterday).  When I upload the new cover, I'll also upload a new file of the book that has some editing changes that some very helpful (not being sarcastic) readers alerted me to.

I also need to do an author's bio page, which I have no idea what to say on that, but at least I found a decent picture of myself for it (one where I'm not surrounded by crying/screaming kids and not wearing a shirt stained by little fingers!).

Thanks for reading!  As always, feel free to leave any comments/questions and I'll get back to you!

First book

My first eBook came out this past Sunday.  I've titled it Just My Luck and I'm really surprised at how well it's been doing.  I decided to do a free promotion, so it's been free, through Amazon's Kindle Store, since Monday and that ends tonight at 11:59 PM.  Click here for the link.

I've gotten four official reviews thus far, although more through Facebook, and they've all been positive.  It's a book that, even though it's short, I'm very proud of.  It ended up coming together nicely.  Feel free to leave a comment or question for me and I'll get back to you within 24 hours!  Thanks for reading!