NOTE: to give you an idea of what I'm working on this week... * proofing the audiobook for
Faery Swap * finishing a Mindjack short story for the Telepathy Anthology * finishing final proof - edits on First Daughter * starting Debt Collector Season Two
First a summary, then more details below... SUMMARY NEW RELEASE:
Faery Swap on Audiobook!
FOR THE KIDS
Faery Swap on Audiobook Warrior faeries can be very stubborn.
The Faery Swap by Susan Kaye Quinn, Draft One, Critiqued Following Roni Loren's advice, I'll be endeavoring to use more of my own pictures and appropriate Common Use pictures, rather than trolling the internet for images.
MG novels (50 - 60k): Hunchback Assignments — 63k Dark Life — 62k Clone Runners (not published)-- 60k The Familiars — 58k Artemis Fowl — 56k
The Faery Swap (not published)-- 55k
Then he said, «Oh and
Faery Swap.
But what about
Faery Swap?
As these things often go, the editor loved
Faery Swap, but it didn't make the cut for their 2014 lineup.
Because waiting around to be discovered on a shelf is the 20th century method of book discovery, not the 21st — and I plan to use all of the 21st century ways I know to get
Faery Swap out into the world.
Wishing you success with
Faery Swap.
Indie Publishing
Faery Swap I could have submitted
Faery Swap to a dozen (or more) agents or a dozen (or more) children's publishers who take direct submissions.
Writing
Faery Swap I actually wrote
Faery Swap over two... Read More
Best case scenario would have
Faery Swap published in a couple years, possibly reviewed by a big journal, and maybe on the book shelf for 3 - 6 months at a select number of B&N s around the country.
But I'm also betting that over those two years, I can get
Faery Swap into as many (if not more) children's hands as I could waiting for that shot at a journal review or a spot on the shelf for a few kids to find it by accidentally browsing past it.
Today, I'm going to talk a little about my decision to indie publish
Faery Swap, and thoughts in general about publishing indie middle grade books.
Tomorrow, I'm going to announce
that Faery Swap, my middle grade fantasy, is live in both ebook and print!
I jumped on the chance to submit
Faery Swap to them — I buckled down, did a major revision, polished it, had a beta reader go over it, and submitted.
I'm sending
Faery Swap on Tour, and it's not too late to join in (see form below)!
I'll be giving away 2 paperbacks and 5 ebooks of my middle grade fantasy,
Faery Swap!
In addition, the bundle includes more tales of faerie encounters — from USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp's Royal,
Faery Swap from Susan Kaye Quinn, and Emily Casey's The Fairy Tale Trap.
Engineering) into your classroom, sharing her background in science and engineering and talking about her book,
Faery Swap, where warrior faeries steal mathematical knowledge from humans to enhance their magickal faery powers.
Not exact matches
Fourteen - year - old Finn is tricked into
swapping places with a warrior
faery prince and has to find his way back home before the dimensional window between their worlds slams shut.
What if a
faery tricked you into
swapping places and now there's only one body but two souls that need it?