I hope youβre having a fantastic October - itβs my absolute favorite month of the year. I love the cool temperatures and the colors on the trees and front porches.
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Short Stories
I have several Kindle Vella books that will be launching sometime in the next year. I created their covers today.
The first, called simply, βShort Stories,β will launch on November 1. The first story will be βEvacuation,β which was in my last newsletter. I will add stories as I think of them and write them.
Each chapter will be a completely different, stand-alone story. Expect to read stories about music, playing violin, vampires, fairies, time travel - all kinds of different themes that have called to me over the years.
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Aeronauts
The next story I have in draft form on Kindle Vella is a book I have been wanting to write now for about five years. An amazingly loud plane flew over my house on its way to Dulles Airport near Washington, DC. It shook my garage doors. I found out later that it was a Prowler from the Vietnam War. It jammed radar signals from enemies during the war, and gave the United States and advantage that way.
The plane was so loud, and it was going to be decommissioned and taken apart and put on display at the Udvar-Hazy museum which was about 10 minutes (drive-time) from my home at the time in Virginia. I of course went to visit it.
On the way to see the back room where visitors can watch the decommissioning of a plane, was a display along the walls in art-gallery form. It depicted hot air balloon flights from over the years. Some were of ancient stories of balloon flights in Eastern countries.
The next week, I happened to learn a story while visiting a Civil War historical home, about spies using hot air balloons during the Civil War, also not far from my home in Northern Virginia.
Having the prowler in my head, and the stories of the hot air balloons, a story was born to me. I just need to research more kinds of flight, make up names for the story, and write it all down. At this point in time, I expect this to be the story I write that will require the most research from me that I have ever done. I look forward to learning about all kinds of flight.
This is the cover I have made over the last year; I continue to edit it and tweak it:
At the time of this newsletterβs publishing, I hope to launch this book on November 1, 2024, on Kindle Vella. The first chapter is written, the second chapter begun. I want to write much more of it, though, before I publish it on Kindle Vella.
If you would like to read the first chapter and give me feedback, I welcome your help!
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Please give me feedback
I need feedback on my stories and book cover designs. As such, I created a book launch team on Facebook if you would love to join it!
Everyone who joins my book launch team will receive a free digital copy of whatever book they promise to read and give me feedback for. Youβll have exclusive first previews of my chapters and books. In exchange, I will ask that you please write a review of my book(s) on the day they come out on Amazon.
A review on Amazon is as easy as this:
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βGood book.β
Seriously. Thatβs a full review. Once a book gets 50 reviews, Amazon kicks the author up the chain to a place where they are visible to more folks browsing for that kind of book. You can see why I would love to have reviews on my books, canβt you?
Speaking of which, I will happily send a signed, free copy of my book, βMere Creativity,β to anyone who wants one. I will sign it to you if you will pay me the postage that it costs to ship it. (If I am mailing it to anywhere in the United States, I will use the low cost βMedia Mailβ rate. (Formerly called βBook Rate.β) It takes a bit longer to get where itβs going, but itβs the most cost effective way to ship a book.
In exchange for this book, I would love to have a review of it on Amazon, please.
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You can find me on Amazon, Amazon Kindle, and on many social media sites:
My Books:
βMere Creativityβ βSimple Book of Shadowsβ βFairy Techβ
My author page on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/JodiCrump
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