band | A Platform of Sorts

Hi, everyone! First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who kept my family and my dad in your thoughts and prayers yesterday. He came through his surgery with flying colors and is currently in recovery.

Now that that’s over with, it’s time to prepare for this weekend! Friday and Saturday are the 2nd Annual Authorfest in Denison. Last year was so, so, so much fun and I can’t wait for Friday to finally roll around!

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Not to mention, I’ve got a lot of brand new books to sell!

My goal now is to get through this weekend. It’s going to be great and I’m really looking forward to it, but it’s also going to be a lot of work. It’s funny, a few months ago, life was a bit slow, just kind of going along at its own pace, and now I’m scrambling to keep up! That’s a good thing. I’m really, really excited about everything that’s happening and new books and my sister coming home and new adventures and meeting new people.

I’m also thrilled that Boy Band has been on the top 10,000 Kindle Bestsellers list for a whole week! I don’t normally come out and ask this, but if can sell 28 more copies in the next week or so, I will have hit a personal milestone. If you know anyone who likes boy bands, any preteens or teenage girls who like fun, innocent romance, or anyone who just loves to support indies for $2.99, please tell them about my book. This is the beginning of a huge dream come true, and I can’t thank you all enough.

http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Band-Jacqueline-Smith-ebook/dp/B00WFSE0Z6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1429591957&sr=8-2&keywords=boy+band

However, I do warn you that I’ve had a few readers let me know that the Nook book has some wonky formatting issues. I have sent an email to the NookPress people to find out what the problem is, so until then, I apologize for any reading discomfort or inconsistencies.

On a more positive note, I went back to working on Cemetery Tours 3 last night and I’m just as in love with my characters as I was throughout the first two books. I can’t wait to finish this one and finally get it out there! It’s going to be awesome.

Much love, y’all.

Well, it’s here! April 21 and Boy Band is officially available on Kindle, Nook, and on Amazon.com! It will be available on BarnesAndNoble.com and probably iBooks shortly. I say “probably” with the iBooks because I swear, I have never gone through more aggravation trying to get something done than uploading Cemetery Tours to iBooks. It is a pain in the butt.

But I didn’t come here to gripe about my lack of iBooks skillz. I’m here to celebrate!

It’s pretty cool. This is a book I never planned to write. It wasn’t even in my head when I began writing it. It all began with my friend, Savannah (http://savannahrohleder.blogspot.com) telling me that she was participating in National Novel Writing Month and that I should sign up also. At first I thought, “No way. I hate being timed. Besides, I should write because I want to write, not because I feel pressured.” But the more I thought about it, the more I began to realize I was looking at it all wrong. NaNoWriMo wasn’t just a stupid trend. It was an actual opportunity that encouraged people all over the world to write. How could I possibly think that was a bad thing in any way? Besides, it might be nice to take a break and write something new, something that I probably wouldn’t have written otherwise.

May I just tell you I am so glad she talked me into signing up?

I’ve had more fun with this book than I could possibly have imagined when I first signed up for NaNoWriMo. I went in thinking, “I probably won’t publish this… I might not even finish it…” which might sound bad, but really, it freed me up to write the story the way I wanted to write it, as though I was the only one who was going to read it. And I ended up loving it. There was no pressure, no expectations. Just freedom, and as you know, freedom is the one thing I covet most (Except for maybe a date with Richard Armitage).

Now, here it is, April 21, and the NaNoWriMo project that never should have been is a book. The third book on my resume. And I couldn’t be prouder of it.

Thank you to all who encouraged me, Savannah, Hannah, Kit Kat, and especially my sister, KJ! I couldn’t have done it without you!

The Kind of September is here to stay, y’all!