Hi all. I hope the weather is being kind, wherever you are. Here, we are experiencing what looks like spring. Besides a snippet today, I thought I’d share my first week Kindle Unlimited experience with Call Me Miz since my KDP dashboard is pretty thorough in showing what’s happening.
Units counted were evenly distributed between “borrows” from the KU program and regular sales. Added together, evidently they were enough to boost Miz into the Amazon Best Seller Category: #77 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > Two hours or more (65-100 pages) > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
I don’t know how close together series titles should be released, but since Miz #2 —Miz Spelled—is ready, I’m putting it in the KU program this week, February 19th (if all goes well with the formatting and upload).
This week’s eight lines—Missouri Hess #2.
from—Miz Spelled
Miz stood on her side porch, polishing an apple and staring at the heavily wooded valley between Hess and Buchanan land.
“Yep, still weird.” While she watched, ancient oaks aligned with younger maples, hickory, and elm, to widen the path to Shep’s property. Even though the wind was nonexistent this morning, the evergreens swayed as well, inviting her to visit the ridge beyond.
“Looks like something out of a freaking Stephen King novel,” Miz muttered and bit into the tart, Granny Smith; she stood frozen, her feet rooted to the porch floor as a silver birch beckoned to her, its bare branches twisting eerily.
“Why would I want to visit Buchanan’s place? Thomas doesn’t live there anymore; and even if he did, I’m done with him.”
Miz threw her half eaten apple at the offending birch as her words released a cascade of suffocating pain, smothering her in misery.
© 2015 Gem Sivad LLC. All rights reserved.
Miz Spelled Synopsis: (in progress)
It takes all hell breaking loose in Washington D.C. for hedge witch Missouri Hess to leave her mountain retreat and join her lover in the nation’s capital. Someone has unleashed a snake-eyes death hex against Thomas’s boss, Shep Buchanan. And if the spell doesn’t kill Shep, his own crew might.
Nothing in his military, shapeshifting, Special Forces background has prepared Thomas Hunter for the torture of jaguar mating-heat or the wrath of a furious witch. Though he’s on a mission in D.C., his beast wrests control, returning to the mate he left behind.
After Thomas delivers his own brand of healing, Miz returns with him to duty. They’ve got forty-eight hours to figure out the twisted magic at work—and time is not on their side.
In case you haven’t read Miz #1, yet 🙂
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Have a great week, everyone!!
gem
Congratulations on the success of Miz #1 … and great looking cover for #2! Loved today’s snippet. Beautifully written!
Beautiful writing, Gem, full of description that puts me right into the scene!
And thanks for sharing your KDP experience. All stuff I have no idea about, yet.
Congrats on Miz 1 doing so well! 🙂
Intriguing snippet with great details. (I have a friend who is a hedge witch — I need to remember to recommend this to her.)
This is just so heart breaking!
I love the description of the trees. Great job! And congrats on the sale ranking. What a wonderful accomplishment!
This is going to be a good one, too, Gem!
The snippet is full of the sort of descriptions you do so well, but I’m loving Sunny’s frustration in the blurb—I laughed out loud! 🙂
Wow! Congrats on your great ranking. I can’t wait for the next book. Your cover is AWESOME.
Gorgeous. All I can say is the trees spoke to me. You have a gift, Gem.
Congrats on hitting the bestseller list. I still have no idea what those rankings actually mean, but I hope it means you’ll be motivated to keep on getting those books out there! Love the cover and the snippet. Very poignant indeed.
Yay! Congratulations! Love the new cover!
Wow, quite the turnaround from the last snippet;). Intriguing set up that leaves me curious to find out more.
My one suggestion would be to maybe shorten the blurb a little bit. You tell me the key turning points of the story and I just wonder if there are any surprises left. As a reader it would make me hesitate a little to buy the book. It’s only a suggestion. No one else mentioned it, so it’s probably just me:).
Yep, I totally agree. I’m pruning some and trying to rethink the packaging. Thanks for the feedback!
Love the line where you describe how the scene looks like something out of a Stephen King novel. Great snippet.
I agree with Miz about the scene being something out of a Stephen King novel – that’s exactly what it looked like to me. Interesting story so far.
It did have that Stephen King/horror feeling to it as described. Or something from a twisted Land of Oz. 🙂 And intriguing, especially with her anger at the end. I want more!
Yay for the Miz!
Now that was absolutely wonderful!!! I was thoroughly engrossed in the details about the trees and her questioning the omens…love the story premise too. Thanks for the KU stats. I’ve stayed out of KU so far but I’m always interested in how others are doing. Great 8!
trees are one of my favorite characters. Nice!
Congrats on the book’s success. I loved the tree image.
I like the visual picture you’ve painted. Once suggestion, I had to read this line (ancient oaks, aligned with…) a few times to understand what you were saying; I think you should discard the comma after oaks.
Acch! I meant to type ONE suggestion.
Thank you. I think you’re right. My editor smacks me around for my odd punctuation habits and I did some creative “fixing” while posting this snippet. 🙂
Enjoyed the snippet. Great cover and title!!
Congrats on your books! This is a cool snippet. I really like the visuals you created with the living trees.