No seriously, I am very, extremely, completely, (insert adverb here), fond of the Happily Ever After. Just love it! Won’t even read or watch a movie that won’t guarantee me a HEA. Well … except for Gangster flicks. Every rule has to have an exception.
This may lead you to wonder… if Gen loves the Happily Ever After, but also loves writing about gangsters, how on earth can she reconcile the two? Well, given the theme of the Downey Trilogy is about a very moral cop who loves his gangster father, I think you should probably brace yourself for my even greater love of figuring out how two opposing ideas can live in harmony.
The truth is, it’s not about the HEA, it’s that I love a JUSTIFIED ending. And the HEA is justified in most plot lines when it’s been earned, just as the nonHEA is justified in certain endings, which in a way, if you…
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So much TRUTH
I’ve actually been sitting on this article for several months now, but I never published it because it came from a pretty dark place. This piece was sort of like Sauron’s ring for me. I was content to let it sit in the shadows and never speak of it and at one point I even considered destroying it. How did it come into being? Well, I was pretty damn disheartened when I could not find an agent or publisher for my first book The Notice. I spent months slaving away on that book and every person who read it told me it was wonderful. Maybe that was part of the problem. My mother cried like four times while reading it. I was 99% certain I had a bestseller in my hands and you can probably guess what happened: Not one agent wanted to read it. I could have written…
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Nah, I kid… (bahdumpbump)
Okeydokey, to your right is a new SubPage of the First, I Love You tab called FILY Quotes, where you can have a chapter by chapter snippet from the book, as previously shared on Facebook.
You will also find a new page called More about the Downey Trilogy which will contain little facts about all the characters, and not just the main six of the trilogy.
I also joined — actually I had previously joined and forgotten entirely I had joined (That’s so Gen!) — Networked Blogs which I guess aggregates all the different social media I am on. I kind of thought that’s what WordPress does here on this site, but heck whatever, whatever, the more exposure the merrier … oooh look at that, another unintentional reference to childbirth. Freud would be so proud.
Happy clicking my friends! And keep spreading the word, birds… without you, Indie authors cannot survive. You are like the doula, midwife and nurse to our little book-birthing process … to beat the childbirth theme to its last bloody twitch…
Lawd … is it 5:00 yet? ;P
So as my trials and tribulations continue in my desperate campaign to get Apple to categorize the book in the right Genre (which I RESENT having to further distinguish beyond Contemporary Fiction, but let’s at least get it out of the Plays and Poetry section … foresooth…)
Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah, remembered this exceptionally funny piece by Guy at the Red Pen of Doom. Take a gander.
War Stories from an Old Whore: Why I Went Indie.
Seems like … I was just saying something about this. Only this is better written and from a more reliable source. ;P
Anxious to get a peak at Second of All, the second book in the Downey Trilogy?
Well, wait no longer! I have posted the prologue in the tab to your right ——–>
It’s not terribly spoilery, but if you haven’t finished First, I Love You … well, why haven’t you? ;P
In other news, still haven’t figured out the delay on the genre mis-coding. But I have noticed everyone but Barnes & Noble sure do like that price drop. *Kanye shrug*
So I changed the price at Amazon two days ago, right? Went over to iBooks just now and, oh, look at that, Apple’s changed it to the same price, but STILL has the book in the wrong genre.
Good gravy.
I’m telling you the Non-fiction academic publishing world is way easier to navigate. I’d take a thesis review panel any day over trying to figure out what secret handshake I need to get this book out to its intended audience.
On that note … back to writing.
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” — The Godfather
Desperately seeking another me…No really. Anyone want to check out some of these sites for me?
The list of blogs I need to read and get the book out to grows and the neverending task of self promotion is so overwhelming. I know other authors who would never admit that (‘Never let them see you sweat, Gen!’) but I ain’t a feared of saying … oooohh this is why people get agents. LOL Between writing, editing, promoting, house projects, community events and parenting it’s amazing my bitch-o-meter is only at a dull purr lately. (Yes, seriously, this is me at low key.)
In other news, “First I Love You” is now available FREE to all Libraries from my distributer Smashwords. Yippee! I LOVE libraries! Super happy to support cyber-lending!
Have a happy hump day, fellow humans!
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So since Facebook is irking me something fierce (I still love you, boo … slightly less than before, but still) I’m putting the poll over here. Ta da! And also? I was thinking about putting the first six chapters — yes six! — of First, I Love You up here at the website. What say you, faithful few?
UPDATE! : I uploaded the sample in pdf format under the “First, I Love you” page tab. You can let your friends know they can get a larger sample exclusively here than at any of the retailers!
Genevieve Dewey 