FIVE SENTENCE FICTION - DELICATE

Yesterday, I posted my first FIVE SENTENCE FICTION, which is when I had found about Lillie McFerrin's blog. [ http://lilliemcferrin.com/  ] She does it on a weekly basis [on Mondays], so going forwards I'll endeavor to respond on her site each week, and then post it here for your feedback and participation.

Her word for this week is DELICATE and here's my endeavor

What is DELICATE really, but a word?

When you would first look at five-foot-two, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, hundred pound Mary you would see a demure petite young woman; a woman incapable of harming a fly.

But today is quite different, for today you see her being lead into the police stationed hand-cuffed for murder; the murder of a blind date which started out wonderfully, but turned terribly wrong the moment he walked her home and they reached her door.

It is there he forced himself in as she opened the door, immediately closing the door behind him and dragged Mary to the bedroom where he began to rape and have his way with her.

As soon as the rape began, Mary managed to reach into her knee-high boots to pull out the knife she kept there for protection and then shoved into her rapist's heart, turning his face into a look of horror when he realized what the DELICATE creature he had in front of him had just done.

FIVE SENTENCE FICTION - RINGING

Here’s what I wrote in response to Lillie McFerrin’s Writes - 5 Sentence Fiction for this week using the word “RINGING”. I’d love to hear your responses to the same.

ONLY A DREAM

    All I want is to escape to a place where I can have peace and quiet; and perhaps, that why I use      those noise blocking headphones when I get home; but, alas, the noise of the crazy day at work keeps RINGING in my ears, from which I desperately want to escape.

      So, I decide to watch one of my favorite old TV programs online on NetFlix using these same   headphones to hear the audio.
     
      You would think this should be enough to stop this outside annoyance from RINGING in my mind, but it doesn’t.
     
      All I want to some peace and quiet away from the Rat Race I which I apparently must live in, and now what happens; the RINGING starts anew, even louder than ever.
     
     Then instant I finally decide to cast away the headphones from my head, I wake up; it has all been a dream, a dream from the days I had to work and this racket had been a reality I had to face each day; but now, being retired for three years, it’s sheer bliss knowing I can have the peace and quiet I had always wanted to have then.

Would love to get your feed on this as well as your own 5 sentence fiction using the same word RINGING.

Lillie McFerrin has her site at  http://lilliemcferrin.com/ 

Your welcomed to take Lillie's challenge as well.

UPDATE ON MY STATUS

Hi All

It's been a wonderful hectic eight days since my last post. My debut YA Paranormal romance novel, "I Kissed a Ghost" has just gotten a superb review with 5 STARS. It has also received 45 "LIKES" so far. Naturally I've been promoting this achievement for past three days. Here's the link to read the review for yourself.
http://www.amazon.com/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

Remember, you can read several UNEDITED SNIPPETS from the book here. Look for the heading "GHOSTLY WHISPERS."

I'll be starting a new section here will be consist of a 5 sentence flash fiction involving a key word. Would love to hear your feedback on what I've written. I'd also like to see what you can do with the same word.

SORRY FOR THE DELAY - THINGS HAVE BEEN HAPPENING

Hi ALL,

A lot of things have been having since my last post. To start with I apparently won the poll I’d mentioned last time, my debut novel tied for 2nd place, which hopefully will mean sales it begin to happen.

Someone had alert me to a problem on Amazon. The problem could be seen when someone would try to view the pages. When they tried they would see multiple fonts on a page. I had promised myself not to scroll down on Amazon to see the ranking of my book until the end of this month, when I did I saw no indication of any ranking at all. The problem did not get corrected until Jan 19th and I’ve been BUSY trying to get the word out that the problem had been corrected.

At least it got corrected before people needed to order copies of my book to the group read my book won the poll for.

Since then I found out my book got nominated for another poll, which ended a day sooner than listed. I contacted the person in charge of this poll and advised her about the situation, which has resulted in the poll being extended another day, ending at 11:59PM tomorrow, January 23rd. The results than been listed briefly and has since been closed until the voting is over. The results showed my book in 4th place needing 8 votes to tie for 1st place, and 9 to win. I’d therefor would like for everyone to consider voting for my debut YA Paranormal/Time Travel/First Kiss romance novel entitled, “I Kissed a Ghost.”

The link for the poll is: http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/77493-february-botm—-general You need to be a member on GoodReads and the group to vote [if you’re already a GoodReads member it only takes a moment to join the group.]

The link to Amazon for my book is:

http://www.amazon.com/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031 The book is also available on Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de Amazon.es Amazon.fr Amazon.it

 

And if anyone is interested in reading several UNEDITED SNIPPETS of the book, they on this blog with the heading of “GHOSTLY WHISPERS.”

 

As far as my second novel is concerned, I anticipated I’ll be returning writing it the beginning of next month. The manuscript is for a still untitled Contemporary Romance with a Paranormal Romance back story interlaced throughout the storyline, it currently has 75 pages [formatted for a 6 x 9 pages] and approximately 21,500 words.

 

THANKS for being one of my followers and for your support.

I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN EVERYONE HERE

I know, December 29^th had been the last time I posted an entry where I stated I wouldn’t look at the sales ranking for my debut novel, “I Kissed a Ghost.” However since then I changed my mind to wait a full month before looking at it. 
 
From my last entry until this past Thursday [Jan 9^th] I’d been busy marketing my book. On this day I found out to my surprise someone had nominated my book for a poll on GoodReads. http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/77255-february—-whatever-reads-the-2-books-with-the-most-votes-will-win …

So if you’re already on GoodReads, I’d truly appreciate it if you’d consider voting for me. However, to actually vote for me you need to belong to the group the poll is on http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/29900-paranormal-addicts-newbies—-paranormal-romance-urban-fantasy

It’s a good feeling when an author gets nominated, a feeling which can only be surpassed by winning. The top two vote getters are selected for the group’s read for February. Naturally the moment I found out about my being selected I started to spread the news about it. Only after I did this, did I get a message from someone who pointed out a problem existed when you went to view pages of my book on Amazon. It showed the pages of the book having multiple fonts on one page; which might be the reason apparently no one has bought the book yet. To see the problem I’m speaking about, here’s the link to my book o Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

I’ve reported the problem and been advised this situation is being worked on, and everything should be corrected in the next few days.

With my dream of becoming a published author fulfilled, can my dream of being a bestselling author also be fulfilled?

With all this happening I’ve decided to put writing my next novel on hold for a while longer, this will definitely become the case such happen to be selected in the poll.

THANKS for your support and being a follower.

Hoping everyone here and your families will have a VERY Happy New Year.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE

I know it’s been nine days since my last post, but I’ve been EXTREMELY busy marketing it especially since being surprised when my book appeared on Amazon as soon as I’d approved its release, instead of the several days I’d been originally advised.

The link to my debut YA Paranormal/Time Travel/First Kiss romance novel is http://www.amazon.com/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

The novel is also available on Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de

Amazon.es Amazon.fr Amazon.it

 

I’ve visited Amazon.com a few times already, however I haven’t looked at the sales ranking yet; and I’m not going to until after New Year’s Day, Wednesday, January 2^nd after lunch. I want to see know well my initial marketing efforts have done. Before I began to write this entry, I checked the number of “LIKES” I’ve received so far every day around this time, and at last count I’ve received 21.  Hopefully, this will, when I check my sales ranking on Wednesday it will show a “decent” figure.

Since my last post I’ve also returned to writing my next novel, and have only written one additional chapter, and the word count so far stands at approximately 21,500.

The only thing different in the way I’m writing this novel is I’m formatting each page as I write, and what I get is a page resembling an actual page out of the book it. My goal each day I write is to type two such pages each day I write. I’d like to be finished writing the first draft by the end of April, before I begin the re-reads and editing.

Thanks for being with me as I made my maiden journey to authordom and continuing on to its marketing. I’d like to do blog interviews and perhaps a guest blog somewhere.

Lastly, I’d to invite everyone to follow me on

TWITTER = http://www.twitter.com/mypennameonly

FACEBOOK= http://www.faceboo.com/mypennameonly

Wishing all my followers and your families a VERY Happy New Year

MY DREAM HAS FINALLY BEEN FULFILLED

Things are happening at an unbelievable rate now. No sooner did I post my previous entry than my doorbell rang. UPS was there with the PROOF COPY of my book in hand. Needless to say I had been totally surprised as the item must have been shipped so fast that the tracking information didn’t have a chance to appear on my account.

The excitement didn’t stop there, I called CreateSpace to advise them I’m ready to release the book, they walked me through the finalization steps for the book to appear on my e-store so I can sell the book more directly; and the instant I pressed “publish my book” it was there. At this point, I had been advised it would take a few days for the information I entered for my e-store to cross over to Amazon.com.

From the moment I typed the first word of my manuscript until the moment my finger typed the final period, the experience can best be described as being on a roller coaster--an experience which I wrote about on website/blog and duplicate on my three other blog sites.

So with this my dream of becoming an author has finally been fulfilled, because my debut novel, a YA Paranormal/Time Travel/First Kiss romance, entitled “I Kissed a Ghost” has at long last been finally  released.

You might say my day couldn’t get any better, but, it did…WHY?  Because, when for curiosity sake I decided to check Amazon.com for my book, it was already there, available for everyone to purchase and enjoy. [Naturally, I couldn’t believe this, so I called, and became ecstatic when I got inform my book is indeed LIVE.

 My book is currently available on Amazon at

http://www.amazon.com/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

England/U.K.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

 It will also be available shortly for

Germany

http://www.amazon.de/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

Spain

http://www.amazon.es/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

 France

http://www.amazon.fr/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

Italy

http://www.amazon.it/Kissed-Ghost-Robin-Leigh-Morgan/dp/1480030031

For those who live in any other country you’ll have to use the Amazon site you normally use to ordering your books. I expect to have the Kindle edition available in a few weeks which will increase the distribution area to those countries that can get Amazon kindle for their geographic area.

If anyone is interested in having a better idea of what my book is about, and to read a little of it, I’ve posted several UNEDITED SNIPPETS here on my blog, under the category of GHOSTLY WHISPERS.