Author Features

I'm tempted to play on words here. Author creature feature! Heh.

I've been featured on a fellow author's blog, George Straatman, who has some lovely things to say about me and Eden Fell. Check it out: http://georgestraatman.blogspot.com/2011/04/guest-author-lily-eden-fell.html

Thanks, George!

I will also be doing a feature on George Straatman and his horror trilogy, which will be posted either later today or tomorrow at the latest. So look for an interesting post soon about this horror author!

Explaining the Mid-Winter Contest

I've been getting a few messages with similar questions, so I decided to post a Mid-Winter Contest Q&A.

Mid-Winter Contest Q&A

Question: Why call it Mid-Winter? Why not call it the Christmas Contest?

Answer: On the world wide wide, there's a variety of people from different cultures and religions. On Facebook alone, I'm connected to a variety of people from all walks of life. Out of respect toward all cultures and religions, I decided to call this the Mid-Winter Contest. While the main theme of the contest is "in the spirit of giving," it's not exclusive to Christmas alone. Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Makar Sakranti, to name a few, are also respected.

Question: What do you mean everyone wins? There's only one first place prize!

Answer: A draw will be done with all entries for the first prize of autographed copies of Ethereal Tales zine and the Eden Fell paperback. Another draw will be done for the Eden Fell ARC (pdf) and the winning short story, Tearing the Wings (pdf). So, in conclusion, everyone wins :)

Question: Why PDF?

Answer: PDF, Portable Document Format, is a universal file format. No special software or devices (like the Kindle) is required to read a PDF.

Question: Why can't I see the entry form? Oh, wait, now I can...

Answer: I apologize for that. The code I used for the form, made it viewable in Internet Explorer only and I didn't realize that. I've since adjusted the codes and now the form is viewable to everyone, even iPhone users.

Okay, that's all the questions so far. If anyone has anymore questions, let me know!

Mid-Winter Contest!

In the spirit of giving, I've designed this contest so that everyone is a winner! Enter a draw for the chance to win many different prizes! No work required, just entre your name and email for the draw!

MID-WINTER CONTEST

RULES:

To enter just fill out the form here:

http://www.lilyauthor.com/contest.html

DEADLINE:

December 17th, 2010

PRIZES:

First prize is a big one! Autographed copies of Eden Fell and Ethereal Tales #9 which has my winning story “Tearing the Wings.” First prize winner gets BOTH mailed out them, gift wrapped and everything. (I won't put on a pink bow, don't push your luck). First prize will be mailed out by January 1st, 2011. Happy New Year's!

Second prize is either a PDF of Tearing the Wings or the Eden Fell ARC. You choose! Whatever you want!

About Tearing the Wings: This is a short story I submitted for the Ethereal Tales Christmas Competition and can be seen in Issue #9. Tearing of the Wings won first place! You can read an exerpt on the Shorty Stories page. http://www.lilyauthor.com/shortstories.html

These could be yours! Enter today!

***Winners will be chosen randomly. The sooner you enter, the greater chance of winning a prize. The first prize winner will be contacted about their mailing address, no need to submit a mailing address beforehand.

You Gotta Read Covers: Entry 16 Eden Fell

You Gotta Read Covers: Entry 16 Eden Fell: "Title: Eden Fell Author: Lily Cover Artist: Cinsearae Santiago Publisher: Damnation Books Buy Link: http://www.amazon.com/Eden-Fell-Lily/dp..."

Get ready to start voting on Sept. 15!

http://yougottareadcovers.blogspot.com/2010/09/entry-16-eden-fell.html

In Sickness and in Health

Well, looks like I have to take a sick day. It happens. I need to take a break, relax and take care of myself for a day. So, nothing new to report about the current writing project. I'll let you know when I feel better.

But not all is lost! The timing worked out well. I've received another review for Eden Fell from The Pen and The Muse. So I'm going to add this review to my website.

It's short but sweet. Check it out!

http://www.thepenmuse.com/2010/08/review-eden-fell.html

Eden Fell - Buy it anywhere!

Okay, not completely true. But! Eden Fell is now available on Amazon sites for several countries, not just the American one.

I've also seen a lot of online book stores in a variety of countries outside of Amazon and the US. I'd list them all, but it's a rather long list.

So, no matter where you live, you can now purchase either the paperback or the ebook :)

Encounter of the Fan Kind

The lovely Rosette, a fan of my writing, posted an amazing surprise for me on Facebook yesterday. She took a picture of herself holding a copy of Eden Fell which just arrived in the mail. (There was some discrepancy with B&N but it's all good now). How freaking cool is this?

This picture makes all my hard work worthwhile. I am honored and greatly touched to see her holding a copy of my book. Thank you Rosette!

Bitten by Books reviews Eden Fell - Four tombstones!

http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=22633

It pleases me to no end the reviewer truly *understands* the story :)

Now I need to figure out which portion to use as an excerpt for the review...

On a sidenote, I did try to tell the editor they inserted grammatacial errors into the manuscript, but I was falsely accused of being hostile. Oh well.

Book Trailer Review

Here's an interesting review of the book trailer for Eden Fell:

http://1stturningpoint.com/?p=3667

I chuckled a bit when I read this review. I find it funny she liked the trailer so much she wanted to see it as a full length movie trailer. Good grief, I seriously doubt any independent author has those kinds of resources.

But, in all fairness, the video was designed solely for the purpose of promoting the release. So perhaps it's past time to create a second trailer.

I just need more resources. What does everyone else think?

Another Review of Eden Fell

This one is quite nice, written by Christian Saunders and published in Morpheus Tales, Issue 8, Reviews Supplement.

http://www.morpheustales.com/reviews.htm

Click to enchance, page 13.

My favorite part is the last line. "This is chick-lit with bloody razors attached."

:D

New Review of Eden Fell

Check it out!

http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/2010/02/eden-fell-by-lily.html

Eden Fell - Scribd

Eden Fell is now available on Scribd, where you can read a full preview. For anyone who reads the preview, please leave a review and a comment.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24000744/Eden-Fell-by-Lily

Another Review of Eden Fell

An Amazon customer, who is also the founder of the Myspace group, Dark Fiction Guild, reviewed Eden Fell. I'm flattered and I appreciate the honesty involved - a rare thing these days.

You can read the review here: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3UOTJP0IUIR1H/ref=cm_aya_bb_rev

So Close

Last night, I finished the first draft of the short story. Unfortunately, once I was done, I realized I went over the word limit. 3400 words. I spent all evening shaving off 400 words. That's about a half of a page. It was really hard trying to be objective of my own work like that. But, I did it. Slimmed it down and the final word count is now 2998. Phew...

Now I will do what I can to polish up this word doc and start submitting. First submissin will go out to Morpheus Tales.

My fingers are crossed!

Also, Christian Saunders confirmed a review will be done for Eden Fell in Morpheus Tales, either January or April.

I'm looking forward to that :)

Just a few updates

Eden Fell and/or myself will be featured on two blogs in December. The book trailer for Eden Fell will be reviewed by a video reviewer in February. I'll post all links as they become available.

If you want to view the book trailer, you can see it here: http://vimeo.com/5765737

Review for Eden Fell

The wonderful Debbie Wiley has reviewed Eden Fell and I must say, it's very flattering and I'm quite humbled by this.

Read it here: http://bookilluminations.com/rev_eden_fell.html

This review is a huge relief for me. All this time I worried the story was too obtuse, too different, just... too much. It's fantastic to see someone else appreciate the story as much as I do.

Eden Fell on Kindle

You can now get Eden Fell from the Amazon Kindle store HERE.

Eden Fell is now live

Damnation Books has varitable pricing for all the ebooks today. You can get each one for as low as a penny.

Check it out: http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720293

Invitation to chat about Eden

On Wednesday, August 19th, I'll be hanging out at RoRRChatters to chat about Eden Fell, my writing, about myself. It's an all day event, so you can stop by anytime. You can sign up to the group for a day or two for this event only if you want.

About RoR: They started out as a group for romance novels but have long since expanded into all genres, including dark fiction. One of the co-founders is an author at Damnation Books.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RoRRChatters/

I will be posting info, quotes and excerpts as well as answering any questions. But don't worry, it won't be boring. I'll be silly, critical of movies I've seen and use lots of humour, because that's just the way I roll.

I hope to see you there!

And... it's alive!

As of last night, editing is officially finished. I survived the experience.

Damnation Books has updated their website with all the info for the September 1st release.

Damnation Books Website

Eden Fell is listed under Titles in the left side menu, and my bio is under Authors. They've given Eden Fell a violence and sex rating of 4 out of 5. I find that hilarious, I actually giggled when I found out.

Definitely check back on Damnation Books September 1st for a copy of Eden Fell ebook.

(Only 4.50$ for the ebook, shameless promotion, etc).