PR IS STALLING THE PROCESS, YUK!

Murder can be a laughing matter, but the PR business is not.  We are not having fun with this part of the process.  People think it's the rejection issue that bothers someone, but that isn't the case.  At least not with us.  We're finding it's learning to whom we should pitch our book and how.

Fortunately most people we've approached have been positive, but we need to expand our list.  Recently someone told us that the book would make a really exciting movie.  OK, now where do we go?  Is it a lawyer, a production company, a director?  Maybe all of the above, but which one would be more effective?   Ah, so many questions.

The best part of this process is learning new things and meeting people.  That is truly fun!   Now we're ready to move on.  While we are struggling with this PR business, our second novel, which is hugely suspenseful and based on fact, is languishing on the shelf until we can finish promoting "Stone Cold".

We welcome all ideas and of course wishes of good luck.

Longing For our Sharaz & Chocolate Cake

Boy, were we eager beavers when we sat down to work this morning.  It was a glorious, spring day in New York, and all systems were "GO"!  It is now three-thirty and sadly, all systems are "gone".  We managed to laugh a lot, and  go out for lunch, sans wine.  Oh boy, do we need a mentor!  PR is definitely not our forte.  We're beginning to think we are far more productive on rainy days with our Sharaz and chocolate cake.  Hey, at least that keeps us smiling.

It's Here!

A lot of excitement here!  A big carton was delivered today, and you know, no one can resist opening a mysterious box...neither could we.  We didn't wait long enough to drag it inside.  Right there on the door step we ripped it open.  The first thing we saw was the vibrant cover of "Stone Cold" jumping out at us.  As you can imagine, we were thrilled to see the book in print.

Now the really hard part begins.  No more messing around.  We need to publicize it like crazy.  All suggestions and assistance welcome.  Please guys help us spread our words.

HELP, HELP!

Everyone tells us we need to publicize our book on Twitter...but we don't know how.  We are feeling so dopey, that we resorted back to our chocolate cake and Sharaz!  Can someone please save us and give us a brief tutorial?

We're Creeped Out!

We are definitely getting creeped out.  It seems little by little many of the details in our plot are coming true.  Just yesterday there was an article in The Times about the same scary event that is the underpinning  of our plot. Guess it's true that life follows fiction.   It's very weird, we didn't think this would happen so soon.  Beginning to feel a bit like witches.  (No comments please.) Wait a minute, does that mean the good stuff works out too? Now that would be great for these two authors.  When you read the book, you'll see what we mean.

LOVE THOSE RAINY DAYS!

When overwhelmed with editing corrections, we love the rainy days.  At least we're not missing gorgeous weather.

Just got our proof back from the ePublisher and we're shocked at all the new errors they have made.  It's challenging enough when we make our own mistakes, but when they, in their effort to help, create new ones, it's daunting.  We had to reread the entire book...again.  This time, for a new perspective, we read it backwards.  Hey, it worked!

At least we're learning a great deal about the editing process and even somethings about the tech process.  For example, any of you who are even thinking of going this route, one important point:  If you use any Italicized fonts, be sure to overcompensate at the beginning and end of the sentence by adding an extra space.  Somehow when we got the book back, anywhere we had Italics, there just was no space between words.

Why the Sake and Sushi photos?   People need sustenance, right?  And sustenance is a major part of our writing process, especially the Sake part.  It releases those creative juices.  Yup, this writing gig is definitely fun!

At Last: Our First Novel!

 Available March 1st or Sooner

 Kindle, IBooks, The Nook

We've committed our first murder and loved every minute of it!.  Never realized how diabolical two women can be until they become partners in crime...legally.  Yes, we spent long hours creating wonderful characters, only to either kill them off or make them into sinister murderers, and it was such fun.  Hard work, yes, but great fun.

We sat at our computer with glasses of Shiraz and chocolate cake, laughing over our plots, our characters and even some of our sex scenes.   There was never a moment of strife, that is, until the editing stage.  Maybe that's because there are two of us.  We highly recommend working with a partner because it all but eliminates the traditional writer's block.  We'll discuss this and all aspects of writing a novel, in greater detail in the succeeding blog, since this is our first "get to know you" entry.

As we begin our next novel we will give you a blow by blow account of our travails.  We have always said a video camera should have been trained on us throughout the process.  This time, sharing with you will provide the accounting of some of the challenges, processes, and immense joy, not to mention the yummy snacks.

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