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My Indie Bookshelf

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Hey everyone! First post of 2024 and my first post since moving back to the UK! I had no idea I hadn’t kept up to date on my move, though I’m not surprised, I’m very bad at blogging. Unfortunately, it has been absolutely crazy these past few months. We are glad to be here, the kids are settling in perfectly, but it has been quite a rollercoaster.

I don’t want to dwell on any of that now. I want to share with you some positive news!

Today I uploaded my books onto “My Indie Bookshelf”. MIB is a website compiled of solely independently published books. It also has a database listing cover artists, editors, proofreaders, layout and typesetting specialists, and indie publishers – every service an indie author needs neatly organised in one spot!

One cool detail about MIB is the “For Fans Of” section. There are a couple of interactive options on the book pages. There is a space to add four or five images of books, films, albums, etc, that you feel readers of your books might be fans of. These options will help give possible readers a more informed idea of whether they want to read the books or not.

Which books, movies, music, etc, do you think readers of the Danethrall Trilogy might be fans of?

– GSKT

PS – click on the book titles below to be taken to their individual pages on My Indie Bookshelf. Thank you!

Danethrall – Rise To Fall – Ashes Remain

Bookmarks!

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Hello everyone! I posted this on my Instagram page and I thought I’d post it here as well. I thought I’d give an update about what I’ve been doing recently in the literary realm.

Writing has not been top of my list of things to do recently, unfortunately. On the rare moment I do sit down to type, I’ve been working on a lot of different ideas, not anything I’m ready to share yet, though. Honestly, I keep jumping from one WIP to the other so I’m really not getting a lot of anything done, haha.

Recently I made these cute bookmarks and ordered some of them from VistaPrint. I’m excited to see how they turn out. I figured if the writing isn’t coming to me, I could at least do a touch of marketing stuff. I’ll pop these in some of the local shops and see if anything comes of it.😆

Regarding the Trilogy, Danethrall is up to a whopping 29 ratings! It’s sitting quite nicely at 4.5 stars out of 5.😍 Rise To Fall has 3 ratings at 4.6 stars out of 5, and Ashes Remain also has 3 ratings at flipping 5 stars out of 5!!🤩

If you haven’t already posted a review or rating, I kindly ask you to.❤️ Each review/rating helps so much to get the books out there. When each book hits 50 ratings/reviews, Amazon’s algorithm starts promoting and advertising the books, so every rating/review counts.

Anyway, that’s it for now. I’ll post some pictures of the bookmarks when they arrive. Fingers crossed they turn out alright!

-GSKT

Front of bookmark
Back of bookmark

Update :)

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Wow! It’s been a whopping ten months since I last posted here. I apologise for leaving you in the dark for almost a year! There are three posts from April, May, and August saved in my drafts folder that I never got around to finishing (one that will most probably never see the light of day), but I am here today to share the links to my social media accounts that I don’t regularly update either, haha. You can click on the links below to be taken directly to the pages. 🙂

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

As for life updates, it’s been an absolutely miserable year. I’ve written a smattering of sentences and completed none of the projects I’ve started. One of the incomplete posts saved in my draft folder (dated 19th April) is titled “Next on the Horizon”. As you can imagine, it’s all about a project I started a couple months after Ashes Remain was published. It’s been a difficult year, again, and I’m glad to see the end of it. I intend to be reserved about the future considering the last couple years of chaos but do know that I am still writing despite it all, it’s just taking a while, haha.

– GSKT

Ashes Remain release day TODAY!

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Today is release day! Both the Ashes Remain paperback AND eBook are officially out! Feel free to rush off to Amazon and get your copy. 😉 Of course, if you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read the entire trilogy for free.

– GSKT

PS – My apologies for not making the announcement sooner – today was a bit more chaotic than usual. -.-

The best-laid schemes of mice and men

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Murphy’s Law has struck again! Ashes Remain was meant to be released on the 28th, but instead, the paperback was released today, two days earlier than planned.

When publishing with KDP, it can take up to 72 hours of review time before your book is up and out for purchase. With my previous books, it has taken the full 72 hours, so I assumed that would be this case with Ashes Remain. How very wrong I was. -.-

This time around, I decided to advertise my novel’s release day to try and build a bit of buzz, so, of course, KDP reviewed the book in 24 hours and now the paperback for Ashes Remain is officially out. 😛 I suppose worse things could happen – better to be early than late, right? (Especially considering I completed the book two YEARS later than expected). Fortunately but unfortunately, the ebook is following the original plan and will not be out until the 28th.

As always, thank you for your support, I appreciate you – and your patience – more than you could know!

– GSKT

PS – In other news, I made an Instagram account focused solely on books! Check it out here! I decided to separate my personal stuff and my professional stuff so that I can keep my private life private and so I don’t harass my friends and family with books promos all the time, haha.