In the Mood is doing great on Apple

Right now, In the Mood is #1 in free contemporary romance, #7 in free romance, and #41 in the whole Apple freebie bookstore. I hope the exposure will help sell my other books, most specifically Seeing Spots.

More Apple

In the Mood and Seeing Spots are now up on Apple. In the Mood is free.

More adventures of Grievous

Quite a while back, I posted my youngest's earliest Star Wars writings. He's still writing Star Wars books, and here is an excerpt from his latest, The Revenge of Grievous:

A long time ago in a galaxy far away there was a cyoborg who ruled an army of millions of thasands of droids.

He was evil and his name is Grievous! He was ploting to dortroy a army called the Rebel Alliance and they were good! He was a comander.

Obi-one Kenobi a Rebel was trying to kill him! But a wepon called a Lightsaber, well Obi-one only had one and Grievous had foar! Obi-One had no cance of wining the Battle!!!!!!!!

My favorite part is the eight exclamation points at the end. I just find that totally adorable for some reason.

The handyman can

I suck at around-the-house stuff, and now that I no longer have VH, some things don't get done unless I hire someone to do them. Today the handyman came and did all sorts of useful stuff, from getting the garage door opener and a toilet to work again, to putting up new curtains in the library (the old ones were there when we moved in, and I've hated them for two years, but never got around to taking them down because they had wooden valances that had to be removed from the wall). He also put together two new kitchen chairs, turned on my gas fireplace, and hung up some pictures. My long list of chores has been done, and I'm a happy girl.

A pleasant Saturday

I had a nice day today. We cleaned house in the morning-- I enjoy having a cleaner downstairs, but I particularly love it when my office and the library are neat, since these are two places where I spend a lot of time. So everything was cleaned, and I was a much happier person.

Then I picked up the two cousins, who live nearby, and brought them over for the afternoon. You'd think that would complicate the day, but they actually keep the boys busily occupied with Legos and running around, so this makes my weekend easier. I worked on editing All the Way (an upcoming short story) for quite a while. Meanwhile, the dogs were in heaven-- they believe children are sheep, so they stationed themselves outside to watch the four boys and keep them safe from any wolves that might wander into the yard, as sheepdogs are meant to do. The more children we have in the house, the better they like it!

New covers!

For my upcoming Christmas novellas (hopefully to be out by November!), by T.M. Roy of TERyvisions:And for the sequel to Seeing Spots, hopefully out in early 2012, by Tara Shuler:

Some new pictures

...of Impulse and his owner, my oldest:

"Yes, I do know how to wave. Now hand over the treat, kid."

"Why is this kid always hugging me? Is it just because I'm fluffy and totally huggable?"

"Again with the hugging! Sheesh!"

"'Elp! 'Elp! I'm bein' repressed!"

Seeing Spots...

is now available on Smashwords for 99 cents. Hopefully it will make its way to Apple and other platforms soon!

In the Mood- free!

In the Mood is now available on Smashwords for free. Hopefully it'll wind up free on Amazon as well, eventually...

Apple store, yet again

Finally found the top 100 chart on iTunes-- they don't show a book's ranking on its page, the way Amazon and B&N do, which makes it hard to figure out how your book is ranked unless it's in the top 100 in some category. Today I found the romance chart, and found that Isn't It Romantic? is currently ranked #30. Thank you, lovely readers!

Apple again

Isn't It Romantic? seems to be doing very well in the Apple store now that it's been raised to 99 cents. It's on the front page under "romances under $5," which no doubt helps its ranking immeasurably. All I Ever Wanted comes up on the front page of "hot romances," too, so it's probably still selling nicely as well.

I need to get more books up on Apple ASAP!

Yay for Apple sales

Smashwords just updated sales for its affiliates through July 30. Between July 22 (the date it received premium status) and July 30, All I Ever Wanted managed to sell 500 copies via Apple, in five different countries (the largest amount of sales was in the US, followed by Great Britain). Why on earth didn't I get on Smashwords before??? Obviously it's time to get in gear and get the rest of my books up!

#1? Really?

So according to this site, All I Ever Wanted was #1 on some iBookstore romance chart at some point. Hard to believe, since that book has earned a big $2.54 on Smashwords so far, and isn't my biggest seller anywhere else, either. I'll be curious to get my statement (far in the future!) and see what exactly happened there.

Still, it makes me eager to get some other books up on Smashwords. More platforms mean more sales!

Wow

I finally realized I could look at my books on Apple's bookstore by checking iTunes. (I only have two up so far.) I was pleased to see that Isn't It Romantic? has 743 ratings, but since it's free, I wasn't terribly shocked. I was startled, however, to see that All I Ever Wanted has 50 ratings. On B&N, one doesn't get a lot of ratings compared to sales. It makes me wonder if AIEW is selling like gangbusters over there, or if iBooks just get a lot more ratings for some reason.

In any event, I need to get the rest of my books up over there, as they are clearly selling to some degree, at least!