Who doesn't love magic, fantasy characters, a good mystery series based on the Sherlock Holmes style of detecting by a very bold female lead! There are hints of steampunk elements as well. That is strictly my opinion, of course, Victorian London, what more could you ask for?
This is an extremely engaging series that this author has created. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. She has also included a chapter or two from the second book in the series which I understand is ready for publication very soon. If you haven't had a chance to purchase it yet please do soon! Thank you, Nicole McKeon, and good luck with the series.
A Very Helpful Marketing tool for authors is to take advantage of FREE author profiles on the various readers websites that you come across. One of the oldest is Goodreads. If you haven't claimed your author account with them then you really should. It only takes a few minutes to add your current author picture, add your website information, connect your blog to the account and even upload a book trailer or two to your linked books. They even allowed me to create an author profile with just one book on Kindle Vella.
Then all you really need to do is follow some readers, other authors and once a month or so go online, write a couple of book reviews and perhaps a answer a couple of questions in the Authors Q&A section. It is a great way to connect with readers of your genre! I hope you will Like, Share, Subscribe to my own author profile as well as some of my book reviews.
I will be working on adding more in the future. in the meantime:
With everything happening during the holidays and me taking a tumble and breaking some bones in my arm and shoulder, updates on this website are a little behind. Also, I did not do as well as I had hoped on the prequel, dastardly deeds at the Dearborn theater, However I did pretty good I think. Of my 50,000-word goal I reached up to 36,000 words. And this story is not really hitting the novella slash prequel vibes. It is a full-blown story that will be available on Kindle Vella as soon as I get a little further into the story. It will introduce the two main characters Janie and Diane and how they got started on their train riding adventures. Stay tuned For more information.
Check out the article on L.J. Green on the North Florida Writers Tour - great article and a great FREE service in support of all North Florida published authors no matter the genre. This is just in time to help kick off the NaNoWriMo 2022 activities for the next book in the series, "Dastardly Deeds in the Dearborn Theatre.
https://northfloridawriterstour.com/lj-green-suwannee-county-florida-author
As a newbie fiction writer I am constantly learning new things. This particular project started off as a non-fiction history/biography/memorial book about the haunted, historical hotel in Lake City, Florida called the Blanche Hotel. It was in the process of FINALLY being renovated. They get the renovations almost done and, bam! covid hits and everything shuts down. But, hey, I still want to write the history book so I keep working on gathering information, reading about 40 years worth of old newspapers, spending a couple of days in the old county records vaults and trying to get the local historical society to back with either a grant or endorsement. Sadly, my research flounder as I ran out of resources and would need to travel out of state to finish off the biographies of those who began and ran the hotel for the first 55 years or so. Covid still happening and no one willing to take a chance on sponsoring another history book with limited appeal. [hey, it appealed to me and most of the long-time residents of the area] So, I decided to take all of that knowledge, create a pen name, and write a fictional story using real places and events as characters and parts of the story.
Thus, "Spies at the Blanche Hotel" was born. I have been working on it off and on for about 2 years now. Sadly, life intrudes and other needs and family have to be taken care of. I do meet some great author friends along the way who are helping with the editing and development, encouragement and the push to finish. Seeing a great potential for the main characters and loving history as well as mystery the way I do this has morphed into a possible series. The latest book cover I designed sparked ideas for 3 other story titles. One of which I will be starting November 1, 2022 for #NaNoWriMo2022
Very exciting but also I am very nervous. It will be a learning experience for sure. So, if you want to help a sister out please visit the first book on Kindle Vella - https://amzn.to/3gV5Dkj - at give it a go. The first 3 chapters are free and every new person to Vella is given 200 tokens for FREE to begin. Might as well toss them my way please!!!!! Thanks and good luck to all my fellow writers out there who will be participating as well. -@jolenemacinjax is my handle on the site https://nanowrimo.org/ #writers
Vanished by Nicole McKeon
