THE BRIDE'S BASKET: NEW!
He's waited for her...
#NewRelease Bk 3 The Bride's Basket @Cait London
Bk 1 The Basket Maker's Wife .99
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>>How it feels to complete a series you've always wanted to write:
I have just completed one of the most
interesting and difficult learning experiences of my long-term
career.
With the completion of all three books,
The Basket Maker's Wife/The Egg Basket/The Bride's Basket, the first
in the basket series, I am grateful for the journey. I am also
grateful for the outstanding reviews given to the books. Readers have
really responded to all three books.
These books were unusual for me, not
suspense, not contemporary romance alone, but relationships within a
family, and within three women, who formed a family. To develop those
three women, I used of Celtic structure of the maiden, the mother,
the crone. I have waited to write the books. They are filled with
emotion, hardship, and readers are responding with words like
"healing", "heart-warming". Some of the reviews
are very emotional, and encouraging. While I am grateful, for these
reviews, they were unexpected and most welcome.
The Basket Maker's Wife was already
written and waiting, by the time I wrote the two new books this year,
The Egg Basket and
The Bride's Basket. Each book is quite long by
some standards, and my life running parallel to the writing of those
two books was very emotional and complex. I think that came out in
each book. The wonderful asset about being a writer is: When you
can't change real life, you can create a fictional one that pleases
you, and your stories also give you a safe place to go to recover from real life. Each book is very different in style and content from all the other books in
my career.
I contributed heavily to the design
of the covers. It helps to be an artist, but the designer of all
three covers,
NajlaQamberDesigns.com, is terrific to work with. I did have a wonderful "family" of writers around me through this 3-book passage. Always ready to help, writers like
Jackie Weger, Donna Fasano,
CurtissAnn Matlock, and many others answered my marketing questions. Plus, I have a wonderful proofer and friend, who is a heavy reader and always ready to comment on my stories.
While I have written ahead on this
series, and outlined a book (that is not coming out anytime soon) and written some short stories around
the characters, I am also looking at other series. It's important for
me to settle into a story and into a series, prior to beginning.
The response to these wonderful reviews
was one thing, but there were other experiences too. I learned so
much about new marketing techniques, one of which is to build a
larger email list. I hope to share these experiences with writers
groups, if they are interested. Currently, I am building a new
website, but during the past few years I have had to rely on a blog,
to keep things simple and fast. I hope to someday create a series of
how to write fiction from posts within that blog.
I have much unpublished work right now,
and am hoping to get the books and short stories published. Frankly, I am missing romantic suspense. In my career, I've written across most of romance's subgenres, with the exception of sci-fi and fantasy.
Today, I am thankful for many
experiences, particularly with this basket series. So many writer
friends helped me with suggestions for different bumps along this new
publishing/marketing road. And that is how it feels to finish and publish a very different (for me) three-book series. I just wrote the stories within me.
