The amazing Kathy Fish, who is taking over the literary world one flash at a time, has done it again! She’s written a novel in a paragraph and the smart folks at Quick Fiction have snagged it. It’s up right now. Check it out: WATERMELON. I bet you can’t read it just once!

Writing is lonely work, maybe the loneliest of all arts. First, you spend months laboring over a novel, then you search frantically for a publishing outlet, then you sit and wait. After all that hard work, you wait and wonder if anybody’s even reading what you’ve written, or if they ever will.

Already, I’ve been fortunate to receive two very thoughtful and kind reviews. (My thanks to Single Titles and Happily Ever After Reviews for those!) I’ve also had a couple of people drop me an email to let me know they read and enjoyed the book. (A special thanks to those readers, too!) I am very grateful for all the feedback I’ve received, and it’s probably more than an author should expect for her debut ebook.

If you’ve read my book and would like to offer feedback without writing a full email or review, however, the internet and most retailers make it very simple. You can easily rate Secrets of the Lotus on the following ebook retailers:

Amazon
Books on Board
Mobipocket
Fictionwise
All Romance eBooks

You can also rate Secrets on Goodreads. If the spirit really moves you, write a two or three line review on my page at Lyrical Press. Every rating may help somebody else find my book, so if you’ve got a second to click a few stars, please do!

Just a quick note to let everyone know I’ve gotten a new review of Secrets of the Lotus by Happily Ever After. Secrets gets three tea cups and a heat rating of one. I’m pretty much okay with that heat rating. If you’re wondering why, check out my blog post from about a month ago: 28 days and the dreaded subject.

Anyway, check out the review for yourself: Happily Ever After Review.

My thanks to the folks at Happily Ever After for reading and reviewing! I’m thrilled to know it when people read and enjoy anything I’ve written, so please, don’t hesitate to send me an email if that happens to you. You can reach me at michellegflye@gmail.com. Hope to hear from you!

Hi all! Well, I’m one week post publication and staying as busy as possible to keep from obsessing about my book. After all, it’s in your hands now. I wrote it and edited it and subbed it over and over again until it found a home. Now you have to do the work!

As a side note, I did enjoy my first ever “book release” party, which basically just means I went down my Christmas card list and invited everybody and we had a great time eating and drinking and toasting my book. It went by too fast, though! Here’s a picture of one of the decorations I created for the occasion (I’m kind of proud of it!):

So what am I up to? In no particular order:
—Finishing up the first draft of my work-in-progress, hopefully this week. Then the long, arduous rewriting process begins!
—Pulling out an old draft of a novel to see if it has any possibilities.
—Editing for Dark Recesses. I have two really chilling stories waiting for my tender attentions. If horror is your thing, keep an eye on darkrecesses.com over the next few weeks. There are some really good fiction pieces coming your way!
—Figuring out what to do with my promotional postcards and bookmarks. Any ideas? Drop me a line at michellegflye@gmail.com.
—Playing with my kids! We’ve only got a little over a month left of summer!

Ha! Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun. Yes, Lyrical Press has released my book a day early, so if you need something new to read for the fourth of July, check it out. I also found a new review, and though the title is wrong, the reviewer was very complimentary. You can find the review here: Single Titles review. If that review so impresses you that you simply must have the book, go to this site: Secrets of the Lotus. And when you’ve read the book, drop me a line and let me know what you think. If you don’t have my email, you can get in touch with me at michellegflye@gmail.com. Or leave me a comment here. I’m looking forward to hearing what you think. I’ve waited a long time for this!