The moment you all, at least I, have been waiting for is finally here!I have finally been able to publish “Summer of Exploration”! I have been waiting a long time for this to come and you all know that I have had a lot of sweat (at least in my fingers) that went into getting to this point! I also had a really good friend, Stephanie, that helped with revising and did a beautiful job of it! I can’t wait for all of yall to read it! I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it and by the end you are as excited as I am about the sequel that I am starting to work on at this time! I also hope that you all will follow along and help with any ideas about the sequel as I will be updating you all as to what is going on in Jessica’s life over the next year as I progress through the planning phase of the next book! I don’t want to give too much away but I want to have input from my readers on it as well! I want you all to have stake in the next book! I think that would be wonderful! Anyhow, I hope you enjoy “Summer of Exploration” and can’t wait to get started on the next one!

Love you all!!!!!!
XOXOXOXO
~-= Cin =-~

Hey there everyone!
   I just wanted to write about the book a little more! Since the last update, I have revised the book once again and have ordered the first proofs of it! I have another person right now that is almost done with their revisions and I will be doing one last revision after that as well! It is getting very close! I laid out the Hard Cover and the Softback both! I am not sure when I will do the e-book as there will be some changes to the pages before then and they are different enough it will take a little time to set it up. No biggie though! It will be out shortly after the revisions are complete for the printed books!

   I can’t believe how much it costs to get the books printed! I have set the price of the hard cover to 39.95 and the soft back will be about 26.95! It is over 270 pages long and took a while to create as you all are perfectly aware! Even with these prices on the books, I only get about $2 to $4 dollars a book! Seems I would be better off printing the books rather than writing them! Just kidding, I know it costs something to print them up.

   I have been thinking about the next book, whether it is the next book with Jessica, or if it is another book I have been thinking about writing. I am thinking about trying to find an agent or publishing company to work with. Anyone know anyone that works with Erotic Fiction that would take on another writer? Who knows. Just a thought I had recently.

  Anyhow, just wanted to update you on it, since there are a few people out there that have been waiting a really long time for this book to reach completion and I have let them down for years, but I seriously think it is going to be worth it! I really hope you all enjoy the book and I will update you all again in the near future when the print books are all available!

Till the next time!
XOXOXOXO
~-= Cin =-~

Well, it’s finally happened! I have put all of the chapters together and have gone through the first revision of the whole novel! I sent a copy of the book to a couple of my friends to revise it a little more and make sure that I didn’t miss anything! There is a LOT that has changed since the first few chapters were posted on this blog and there is a lot that I could have missed and I needed a few more eyes on it before I really messed something up!

As it stands right now the book is just over a 104 thousand words on over 270 pages! That is a lot for me since I usually just write short stories. But, as you know from four years of watching this book grow, this was a short story in the beginning that just begged to be turned into an novel! I kept adding new portions to the short stories, and even those weren’t really considered short stories when they ended up being over 35 thousand words each!

The first release of this book is going to be available on Lulu and Amazon as a hard back 6″ x 9″. The price is going to be about $39.95 as it is expensive to get one of these books printed at this size! The number of pages and the hard back with the cover is just really expensive if you don’t have a publisher! I believe even when priced at $39.95 I will only recieve about $1 – $2 for each book sold on Amazon (after they take their cut of course!)

I am thinking about offering this up with a personallized note and signature for anyone who wishes to help me out and buy this first edition directly through me for a little bit of a premium price (to cover shipping to me, and then shipping to you!) What do you all think about this option? Would you pay 10$ more for that? ($49.95)  It would really help me out and also, it would show that there is a following that would like to maybe see what happens in the Winter!!!!

Anyhow! Just thought I would update yall and let you know where we are with the book!  I hope you have all voted (if you are in the USA!) and hope that you are looking forward to the release as much as I am!

XOXOXOXO
~-= Cin =-~