Is It Working As Intended?

Jun11
by LizzieBeth on June 11, 2011 at 12:36 am
Posted In: Blog, CSS, Facebook, Network, Networking, Online Presence, Social, Social Networking, Twitter, Website, Writing

scroll Let’s say you’re like me – still new to this Indie Author thing. You’ve set up the needed platforms to promote your work – Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and several other sources. You’ve created a blog and started posting whenever possible. Bit.ly has become your best friend as it is handy whenever you need to shorten links. Overall, you’re making friends and establishing that much needed online presence, although you know that you’ve a long way to go.

Everything seems to be going well and you’re quite content with how things are going, so far. You do your best to keep up with everything as each day goes by and you’re thinking that things are where they should be. Nothing seems out of order and you’re sure that you’ve done everything possible in making others aware of you and your writing. But have you done enough? ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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A Storm Came By

Jun10
by LizzieBeth on June 10, 2011 at 9:43 am
Posted In: Random, Storm, Thoughts, Weather

book hand monitor Last night, I meant to log off of the internet to work some more on my manuscript. I somehow got deviated from doing so due to the phone ringing. Mom had called to see how I was doing. When she calls, I can’t ignore it. Well, most times, anyway.

I remember hanging up the phone and sitting back down in front of the PC with the intention of continuing to write when all of the sudden the lights go out. Next thing you know, family from downstairs start running outside. You would think that with the way everyone was running around that the world was going to end. Ironically enough, that’s what the scene outside of my window appeared to be like for several minutes. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Current Giveaway Has Ended

Jun04
by LizzieBeth on June 4, 2011 at 2:51 am
Posted In: Books, Contests, Giveaway, Short Stories, Winner

Well, we only had one entry for the giveaway that I had going on for this blog. But it’s all gravy. There will be many more and countless other goodies to get out.

Congratulations, Beba Colon, on your free and signed copy of Closure. I’ll email it to you in just a little bit.

If you can post a review of it up on Amazon that would be lovely. It’ll give the story more exposure.

Thanks for participating!

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Sample Chapter: Careless

Jun03
by LizzieBeth on June 3, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Posted In: Books, Chapter, Excerpt, Preview, Rough Draft, Sample, Story, WIP, Writing

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I wanted to share with you all a sample chapter of one of the stories that I’m working on. I hope you all like what I have, thus far. Any thoughts/suggestions/critiques are always appreciated. It helps in allowing to make my writing better so that it’ll appeal to readers such as you. Thanks for taking a moment to read what I’ve written. (I cropped the post, since it’s a tad long. Just click on the read more and you can read the rest of the story. <3 )

 

 

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A Reflection Of The Soul

Jun02
by LizzieBeth on June 2, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Posted In: Random, Thoughts, Writing

I’ve been sitting here tonight enjoying a very peaceful, quiet night. Well aside from the television playing Final Fantasy: Advent Children in the background. It’s one of my favorite movies. The video game on which this movie is based on is definitely my most favorite game to play.

I’m sure you’re probably wondering what any of this has to do with whatever I’ll be blogging about tonight. In all honesty, it has nothing to do with what I’ve been mulling over while doing a bit of writing tonight.

Ironically, I’ve only gotten in 632 words of my manuscript. To most writers, that may not seem much. But to me it’s quite a lot, considering that I haven’t really haven’t had that much of a chance to really do some writing these last few days. Every time that I tried to sit down and put my pen to paper something always came up.

I’m not complaining, mind you. Far from it, really. This is more of a reflection of the things that can interrupt a writer whenever we sit down to pour our hearts and souls into the literature that we hope someone else will read some day and like what they’ve read. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Blog Tour De Troops

May31
by LizzieBeth on May 31, 2011 at 3:05 am
Posted In: Blog Tour De Troops, Life, Memorial Day, Supporting Our Troops

So I’ve had the luxury of actually having this place to myself tonight and have been enjoying the solitude and the fact that there’s no one to look over my shoulder or criticize.

I’ve been catching up on all the emails from IBC’s Blog Tour De Troops and occasionally going back to quite a few of the blogs and reading the new comments that have been posted in regards to the event/Memorial Day. It’s been amazing to read all the blogs that have been shared and to learn so much within these last four days. The support that’s been issued by everyone taking part has been phenomenal. It really has. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sometimes . . .

May29
by LizzieBeth on May 29, 2011 at 12:50 am
Posted In: Contemplating, Musing, Random, Thoughts, Writing

book I’ve been giving thought to a lot of things ever since I started this self-publishing experiment. Well, it started off as an experiment, anyway. The way I had it figured was that hopefully it would help me in becoming a known author.

Sadly, I’ve a long way to go before people really know of me. Sure, I’ve been around online for years, but aside from my friends and family and quite a few others that I’ve met along the way, people really don’t know that I’ve existed for so long. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Distractions

May28
by LizzieBeth on May 28, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Posted In: Distractions, Writing

distractions Distractions . . .

They come in all shapes and sizes. From people to objects, even the internet. And they almost always seem to pop up whenever I sit down to do some writing.

My worse distraction of all is Twitter. I confess that I always have a window open just for that whenever I’m online. And I shouldn’t, I know, but the invitation to peruse it is just too strong to ignore sometimes. Even when I tell myself that I won’t check it while I’m writing, I almost always do. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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This Little Thing Called Twitter

May27
by LizzieBeth on May 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Posted In: Network, Networking, Social, Social Networking, Twitter, Website

twitter logo [warning]I take no credit for the Twitter logo. It’s just a blown-up screenshot piece of my desktop screen that I took while viewing my Twitter page.[/warning]

It’s wonderful, isn’t it? So much so, that one could get lost in it for hours on end and lose track of what we’re doing or of what we meant to do.

I first joined the site back in May of 2009. I confess I was sketchy about it, as a lot of people back then said that it wasn’t that good of a social platform. I’m honestly glad that they were wrong. I’ve made myself a tiny little niche in all things Twitter and I think I’ll stay there for as long as it is possible. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Current Giveaway

May27
by LizzieBeth on May 27, 2011 at 11:51 am
Posted In: Blog, Books, Contests, Giveaway

Our current giveaway:

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