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Free Book


Everybody likes free books, right? I know I do. That's how I found wattpad, and that's how I started sharing my stories, and that, is how I gained the courage to publish. Because my readers on there are awesome!

The first story I was brave enough to share on wattpad, was, A Friendships Love. I worked very hard to get it noticed. I prowled the forums and advertising pages, posting the link to my story as mcorona7, and mingling with both authors and readers alike; hoping that I would gain readers for this story I was writing. I told no one I knew what I was up to, you know, writing fictional love stories set in the 1800's, until, A Friendships Love was in the top ten of the wattpad charts for historical fiction. For some of you, it may mean nothing. But to me, I thought "hmm, I might have something here", and was very, very excited.

When A Friendships Love made it into the top five of the 2012 wattie awards as an Undiscovered Gem, I was stoked. I called my dad and told him that I was writing, and that my work was being noticed, and he said "That's great. Now how are you going to make money out of this?" My father, he was, and still is, a financial adviser, and his mind was always ticking.

I didn't think I would ever make any money from my writing. My mind doesn't work like my dads. Truth be told, I don't keep track of my writing in terms of dollar signs like that. And, before you think I must have loads of money to spare, no, I don't have that luxury. I have a job, five children to take care of and a husband who works very hard. I would love to make writing fictional stories a career. BUT, I am not made of the right stuff to track my every process and wheel and deal my work. So I take it as it comes, and progressively work towards my goal. Let,s just say I am doing bookie stuff everyday. I am quite busy with it now, just not rich.

I do have a plan. I am taking a relaxed, organised approach. Which inevitably has taken me full circle with my first book, A Friendships Love. I started by giving the book away, and we are back at that place again.

A Friendships Love has been for sale on Amazon an Smashwords for ninety nine cents for two years. Yes, I said 99c. A small price to pay for a new authors first work. It was a conscious decision, and I feel it has done fairly well for me. There can be improvements made. I self publish, so this is at my luxury. Actually I am re releasing the cover very soon. I signed off on it today, in fact.

My previous cover designer became too busy, and was moving in a different direction than book covers. So, A Love of Convictions cover artist made that cover to kind of match the first. Then, the same lady has recently made A Settlers Love's cover, and so then, A Friendships Love cover didn't match book two or three, so we changed the first. Now The Settler Series books all match. Did you get all that?

ANYWAY, A Friendships Love is once again being offered for FREE on amazon.com. I made this decision based on the fact that I have a few books out now, and I want people to pick up my work, and give it a go. But this time, there are far fewer typos than the version on wattpad. Actually, even though there are a few...it is my published version and I am proud of it. So, if you have read this post this far, you may actually be interested in trying it out, on me. I hope you do.

Make it count
Mel xx