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Author Interview approaching: Carrie Bedford
Hi everyone
I’m very pleased to announce that in coming weeks I’ll be interviewing the lovely Carrie Bedford, author of “The Aura” a paranormal mystery. Carrie is a fellow author published in the same category as I and I’m really looking forward to learning more about her.
The Aura is selling nicely and I’ve started reading it, a good read!
Please welcome her, and check out the Aura!
http://www.amazon.com/Aura-Kate-Benedict-Paranormal-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00MV3HQL0/
Author Interview – Coffee Books and Art
My first author interview went live yesterday. Thanks to Coffee Books and Art for hosting. If you want to learn more about me, and how and why I wrote Gypsy Hunted, here is the inside skinny:
http://sarityahalomi.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/vbt-blog-tour-for-gypsy-hunted-by.html
Book Blast: Gypsy Hunted
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Gypsy Hunted by Andrea Drew: Book Blast & Giveaway
The first post in my book blast from Goddess Fish Promotions. Thank you!
Today, I am hosting a book blast post for Andrea Drew as part of the Gypsy Hunted book tour hosted by Goddess Fish Promotions. Gypsy Hunted is a paranormal (psychic) thriller released October 28 in eBook and in print late November. Click on the banner to visit other stops on this tour.
Andrea will be awarding a $20 amazon gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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Reluctant psychic Gypsy Shields—she prefers the term “intuition consultant”—finds herself in trouble when, on her way home from a blind date, she interrupts a kidnapping in progress. She attempts to intervene, and her heroics are repaid with a collision between the attacker’s van and a brick wall. She awakens in the hospital, paralyzed on her left side and unable to speak. This also means she’s unable to share her…
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Gypsy Hunted by Andrea Drew
Wow thank you so much you’ve made my day with this review 🙂
On the way home from a blind date, psychic Gypsy Shields tries to intervene during a kidnapping and runs into a brick wall, literally. Awakening in the hospital with her left side paralyzed and unable to speak, she is unable to share information about the kidnapping with the police, at least in the conventional sense. Using telepathy she contacts her niece, who then contacts detective Connor, Reardon, the very man she was on the date with the night she was injured. Gypsy senses a little extrasensory ability in Connor, but he has too many walls built up in defense. Can she breach those walls in time to save a life?
Gypsy is a likeable, and more importantly, believable psychic. Great characters add to the suspenseful plot
Book Blogger Tour Cometh
I woke up today here in Melbourne Oz to a host of emails from Goddess Fish Promotions. I’ve got my work cut out for me answering questions for various blog tours but I’m excited! I’ve started answering my first questions today, to be released on November 5 on the Coffee Books and Art Blog (Sarit Yahalomi) and have a book blast happening on October 30 two days after Gypsy Hunted’s amazon release.
Bring it on!
Another detailed review…
Another detailed GoodReads review of Gypsy Hunted my debut novel a suspense thriller
Thank you Brenda 🙂
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1070734443?book_show_action=false&page=1
My first beta reader review on GoodReads and I am elated…
Why? Well not only was the private feedback excellent constructive feedback on how I can improve it prior to release but the lovely John, an ex independent book seller left a five star review on Good Reads, my first! I don’t feel so nervous about sending my debut novel out into the world any longer :-)….
Gypsy Hunted
Literary agents and Amazon pre-orders
I’m sorry readers I know it’s been a while since I posted. It’s been nearly two months which feels like a lifetime ago. What’s happened since then and why the absence? Well, primarily commercial work (I write copy as well as professional resumes and cover letters and have done for many years now) combined with three children (6,9 and 16) and plugging away at my manuscript.
Why so long? (Maybe it hasn’t been that long in the scheme of things but it sure feels like it from where I’m sitting)
I’ve been editing and finalising Gypsy Hunted my first novel/fiction title. What that means is email exchanges with my US based editor Therese Arkenberg, I send her 10-20K words and it comes back with changes, some comments. Things like “Include an action beat here” or “Connor sighs again. Is he human or is he eey-ore?”
That’s taken time. As has writing the final scenes. The scenes were already written but after collaborating with my editor, we realised that there wasn’t enough of the psychic factor in the ending, after all Gypsy Hunted is a psychic suspense thriller.
So now after what feels like a mountain of writing and editing, it is done and stands at 61,000 words. I am currently checking it for typos and giving the manuscript its 423rd read through 🙂
On the literary agent front, an agent has asked for a copy of the full manuscript, which was an unexpected surprise, so watch this space for announcements. If there’s no announcement then I guess you know this was yet another rejection as none of us like to broadcast them. Do we?
A couple of weeks ago Amazon quietly notified me of the brand spanking new pre-order function brand spanking new woohoo! This means us self published independent authors can sell copies from amazon pre-release.
I loaded up my cover, description and a draft manuscript and it went live to the amazon store on 2 September. Release day is Oct 28 2014
You can buy Gypsy Hunted for 99 cents prior to release day here
So far it’s ranked nicely selling around 25 copies in as many days. Will be interesting to see what happens on release day and whether I’ll get a surge in amazon ranking or it will remain the same.
If I don’t blog again before release day, I’ll talk to you all again on Oct 28!
Andrea Drew Author 