Scribd did done me wrong.
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Scribd did done me wrong.
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What would you think if you woke in an unfamiliar place, with no memory of how you got there?
Suppose it’s a dream, and pinch yourself?
What if you can’t pinch yourself?
I have to rely on my ghostly buddies and a fake clairvoyant to help me solve a personally harrowing mystery and just when we think we’ve found the guilty party, the game changes. The real culprit’s convoluted plan is diabolical and shooting me was the first step. The next step could change the Gelpha world, and that would be just the start.
Poor Royal. He’s tolerated my interaction with dead people but never been happy with it. Now he has to take a real leap of faith. Now, if he wants to save my life and protect the future of three worlds, he has to believe.
Posted in Books, Ramblings, Whisperings
Tagged Dark Demon Rising, Linda Welch, paranormal mystery, Royal Mortensen, Tiff Banks, urban fantasy, Whisperings, Whisperings novels
Whisperings book seven is almost here!
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My holiday gift for Whisperings fans, The Midnight Choir, a Whisperings short story, is free on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, iTunes, Kobo, Scribd and Inktera. Hopefully, it will soon also be free on International Amazon sites. This little story was first published here on my web site, but the new version includes additional material. I hope you enjoy it.
(Disclaimer: Although I have set the price as zero, Amazon can and often does charge for “free” books on some of their international sites. I have no control over this.)
Time has rushed by so quickly. The end of another year, when people look back and reflect on what the year brought into their lives. As for me, the body is getting old and has forced me to acknowledge it has limitations, but the brain still works. I have family. I have friends who have stuck by me for years and new friends I’ve met online and in person. I can picture events which still make me smile when I remember them. As for the writing – as always it’s been fun, exasperating, stressful, tiring, and exhilarating.
On the writing side, Baelfleur, the sequel to Downside Rain was published in November. Tiff Takes on Halloween, a Whisperings short story, was published in October. I tried it on Amazon’s Kindle Select/Kindle Unlimited as an experiment. All the KU borrows were nice but at the end of the day, being exclusive to one publishing platform doesn’t sit well with me, so the little story will also appear on Barnes and Noble, iTunes, Kobo, Scribd and Inktera when the Kindle Select period expires in January. And while I’m thinking of it, a shout out to Kindle Select staff who have always responded to my questions/problems promptly. Believe me, if you had to work with support staff at some of the other publishing platforms, you’d appreciate the guys and gals who staff Kindle Select.
I almost forgot to say – last week I reached a personal milestone with the sale of my 75,000 e-book.
In January I found out my Scottie dog Duncan has cancer. The discovery resulted in me rushing to England in April and deciding to write a seventh Whisperings Paranormal Mystery.
Why did my dog having cancer make me rush to England? And why did it prompt me to write another Whisperings book?
Well, I wanted to go to England to see my 91 year-old mum. Husband and I planned to go later in the year, but I didn’t know how long Duncan had with us. His excellent vet estimated six months to a year. I decided on chemotherapy treatment for him, but chemo destroys the immune system which meant he couldn’t be put at risk for infection by having him in a kennel while husband and I took a trip. In fact, he can’t be with other dogs at all, or have his annual immunizations and rabies shots, and we watch him carefully during walks to make sure he doesn’t get into anything he shouldn’t.
I didn’t want husband to have to deal with Duncan getting sick, and of course I wanted to be with Duncan when the time came, so I whipped off to England earlier than planned and husband cared for Duncan while I was gone.
As for Whisperings. I said in my post To Be Or Not To Be that I didn’t know whether or not I’d write another Whisperings after A Conspiracy of Demons, and I didn’t have any plans to. But an odd thing happened when I learned Duncan has incurable cancer. I love my little dog and the news devastated me. I sat down at my computer and piled the whole thing on Tiff’s shoulders. I wrote about her discovering her Scottie Mac had cancer, her grief, and how she imagined the time to come when she would have to help him on his way.
At the end of the little piece, a bullet came out of nowhere.
I was pretty surprised. That wasn’t supposed to happen! I thought about it and before I knew it, I had an outline for Whisperings Paranormal Mystery book seven: Dark Demon Rising. I put it aside while I finished writing Baelfleur and the short stories but I’ll jump back on it after Christmas.
If you’re wondering about Duncan, he’s still with us and still going strong almost a year after the diagnosis.
So although 2014 began unhappily, it turned out to be a pretty good year. I hope 2015 brings good things, to me and to you. Happy Christmas, may the day be merry and bright, filled with love and good cheer.
Free is good!
Posted in Along Came A Demon, Ramblings
Tagged Along Came a Demon, Dead Demon Walking, Demon Demon Burning Bright, Demon on a Distant Shore, Downside Rain, fiction, Indie authors, Linda Welch, paranormal mystery, positive, publishing, self-publishing, The Demon Hunters, urban fantasy, Whisperings novels, Whisperings Shorts, writing.
Who wants free stuff?
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Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Amazon gift card, Downside Rain, Free stuff!, Halloween swag, Linda Welch, Whisperings, Whisperings novels
Will there be another Whisperings novel?
Posted in Adventures in Publishing, Ramblings
Tagged Along Came a Demon, author, Dead Demon Walking, Demon Demon Burning Bright, Demon on a Distant Shore, fiction, ghosts, Linda Welch, paranormal mystery, publishing, The Demon Hunters, Tiff Banks, urban fantasy, Whisperings, Whisperings novels, Whisperings Shorts, writing.
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