Author Interview and Spookygirl

I have two things I want to mention today:

1) I'm featured today on Laurie's Non-Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews. You can read an excerpt and enter to win a FREE copy of my first book, Just You.

(If you're an author, I highly recommend contacting Laurie. She does a great job organizing and promoting these interviews.)

2) 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest winner, Spookygirl: Paranormal Investigator by Jill Baguchinsky, is available today! Check it out. Jill, I wish you much success!

New website!

My husband made me this awesome new website and I didn't even have to pay him.

www.rebeccawritesya.com

Isn't it pretty?

Agent News!

Today, I'm thrilled to announce that I have an agent. It's been a crazy week, a crazy year, and these past two months especially have been the most exciting, exhilarating, stressful months of my writing career. Being a finalist in ABNA has led me to this day.

My new agent is Carly Watters from P.S. Literary Agency  (info@psliterary.com). I'm so excited to be working with Carly. She's enthusiastic and attentive and she also has an awesome blog. She loves and believes in Out of Nowhere, just like I do, and I can't really ask for much more than that.

Official Announcement

Kobo Writing Life and Self-Publishing

Kobo Writing Life

I signed up a few weeks ago to be notified when Kobo Writing Life becomes live and I got a notification yesterday. I decided to opt out of Kobo on my Smashwords account and give KWL a whirl.

Easiest. Self-publishing platform. Ever.

It took ten minutes to publish both my books. Seriously. AND they will pay me in Canadian dollars. AND they will pay me direct deposit. AND their stats page is awesome. And on and on. Love it. Word of advice though...upload .epub versions of your books. Any other version looks wonky on their preview thingie.

So without further ado, Just You and Someone Else are now available HERE and HERE.

Self-Publishing

It's been about two and a half weeks since I self-published my books and let me tell you, it's been an experience. My sales have been modest but steady. I've gotten some amazing reviews/ratings and some "meh" ones. But the "meh" doesn't bother me. Not everyone is going to like my books and writing. They're not for everyone. Such is life. My skin is as thick as that steel-cut oatmeal my husband forces down sometimes.

Anyway, things are definitely going in the right direction with my self-pub experiment.

You can now buy Just You and Someone Else

Remember I said I was going to self-publish my first two books someday? The two books I'd "permanently" trunked? Well, after four days of formatting issues and torture, I finally did it. Just You and Someone Else are officially for sale. They are a series, by the way, and were written a few years ago. Right now they're just ebooks, but in the near future I also plan to publish with CreateSpace.

You can buy Just You HERE and HERE.

You can buy Someone Else HERE and HERE.