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Forgive my lack of blogs for the last few days; we have been busy spring cleaning the house and laying new flooring and I have been tied up with writing business plans for the 9-5!
I will be writing a business plan for operation 'World Famous Author' now that the tedious jobs are done! I did manage to find time to write a few chapters on The Visitor though you will be pleased to hear! And, I am pleased to hear, there have also been some new sales of my books both old and new! For those of you in England, I hope you enjoyed your long Bank Holiday weekend - for those of you who are not, well... I hope Monday wasn't too terrible to you! If you click the button below, it will take you to the Amazon UK store where you can buy my existing books at bargain prices. For those of you outside the UK, please visit your country's Amazon store and search 'Whiskens' to find my work! Why not sit back and enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend with not one, nor two but THREE good books?
Danny Boy is just £0.77! The Hunter is also £0.77! The Boy, my newest release is a bargain £0.82! That's three great stories for just £2.36 !! Go on, you know it makes sense!! Head over to Amazon now and pick up a great deal! Journey of the Coven will be my first novel aimed at the 'young adult' audience. I have been doing some basic plotting of the story this week and the main characters now all have names!
I am opting for a Celtic theme on this one as it will be set in a kind of 'fantasy land' where humans are facing extinction and goblins, ogres and trolls rule the lands! I feel that Celtic names and folklore would fit in well in this world. I think I am going to have great fun writing this one and it will allow me to let my imagination run wild; I want to take young readers on a real adventure across a war-torn land... but instead of soldiers and governments, it is the goblins, ogres and trolls who are at war! There will be twelve 'elements' to the novel which will allow each member of the coven to tell a part of the journey across this strange and wonderful land. I hope it will really grab the younger readers and let their imaginations take on a life of their own! Danny Boy seems to be the story which has touched the most people; I've been asked by a few people if it is a true story. While I wrote it with my nephew in mind, because he was disabled and some of the sentiments (the strange looks you notice from people, and the sense of loss), however the story and the characters are entirely fictional.
It's available in the Amazon Kindle store for just £0.77 / $0.99 - please take a look, and if you like it then leave a review, like the lovely people below. Comments about Danny Boy: 5* "Beautiful and well written story about a true friendship! Brought tears to my eyes! Very refreshing and I look forward to more from this author!" 5* "Very glad I did (buy this), cracking little read (in a non schmaltzy way) that brings into perspective without preaching or talking down to the reader. Obviously very personal to the author - but no lesser a read for that." Hi all!
I will be a little bit quieter with my blog and 'networking' over the next couple of weeks while I spend some time on my writing. You don't realise until you're knee-deep how much time goes in to blogging, promoting and social media networking! It's taking up a lot of time which I need to spend on getting The Visitor finished, edited and published - I hope that you all understand. In the meantime, please do head over to Amazon and pick up my short stories - Danny Boy, The Hunter and The Boy. They are very reasonably priced and I have had a lot of great feedback on them. I have another plea - if you have, or do, buy them please, PLEASE leave a review on the Amazon page. I didn't realise until I released stuff myself just how important it is to have reviews showing against your book. I now make sure I always leave feedback on my book purchases, especially for new and upcoming authors. It's hugely important to have feedback on the Amazon page. Thank you for all of your support over the last couple of months. Don't forget to keep checking in and take a look on the Facebook page as well - just click the Facebook icon at the top of this page. Laura xx The Boy is the second short story in The Hunter series.
This book tells the story of Mary Beth's son, whose mother was abducted and murdered by a serial killer nicknamed The Hunter when he was just four years old. We look at the event and the subsequent path of his life from the boy's own point of view. What became of The Boy and what does he think of the Hunter and the brutal murder of his mother? Buy it now for just £0.82 / $1.00 ! Thank you to all of you who downloaded The Hunter yesterday - we made it to no. 9 in the Amazon Kindle Top 100 chart!
Please don't forget to leave a review once you've read it - I can't emphasise enough just how important it is for new authors like myself to have reviews. The Amazon review section is very simple to fill out. Simply go to the book on Amazon and scroll down to the review section. Just leave a star rating (1 for poor up to 5 for excellent) and a review which is 20 words minimum. This is hugely important as you comments can encourage other readers to download the book and help me achieve my dream of being picked up by a big publisher! Thank you! And don't forget, once you've finished reading The Hunter, you can get the second book in the collection, The Boy, for just £0.88 / $1.00! The Boy was released yesterday and is the story of the little boy first seen in The Hunter. What a great weekend for me as a writer! I finished the second story in The Hunter collection and to celebrate put The Hunter on for FREE. It has had downloads across the UK, USA, Canada, Japan and Germany and reached no. 9 in the Amazon Kindle Top 100 chart and also made a new sale on Danny Boy!
It's not over yet! You can still get your FREE copy of The Hunter until the early hours (Amazon is set to USA time) and you can get Danny Boy for £0.77 and The Boy for £0.82. Thank you to all you very lovely people! I hope you enjoy your downloads and purchases, please let me know what you thought of them and please, please remember to leave a review on the Amazon page! You still have a few hours left to download The Hunter for FREE!! It is currently no. 11 in the Amazon Kindle Top 100 chart (free, short stories).
Don't forget that you can also get Danny Boy for just £0.77 as well as my newly released follow up in the Hunter collection, The Boy, for just £0.82!! To find out more about the stories, click on the 'My Books' page on this website! To go to the Amazon UK store click on the button below! |