Futile Research for a Greedy Soul

The big question on my mind has been: “How can I get exposure for my book?”  I’ve read so many articles and blog posts that my eyes hurt and my mind has been left spinning.   The answer I’ve come to: Who the frick knows!  I mean heck, if I knew, I probably wouldn’t share it with the rest of the world.  Actually, I know I wouldn’t share it.  I would never share any of the marketing techniques I use for my small business either.  I’m a greedy soul!  I like to keep things to myself and fester in my knowledge.  I’m the worst, I know.

But since my research proved futile I decided to study an example of someone who’s made it happen.  Speaking of eyes hurting, yes, I read Fifty Shades of Grey.   This research was also futile.  I just don’t understand how Fifty Shades of Grey has been so successful!  And a movie deal?  How on earth is this going to be a movie?  It’s a porno, right?  I can’t be the only one that sees that.  Definitely not appropriate for a movie theater.  I will admit that it was pretty sexy (but not when Christian is torturing her…ugh).  I don’t read erotica so I’m not sure if it’s superior to others in the category.  But I know it was poorly written…and not even that original, since most of the overall concepts are stolen from Twilight (which I really liked).  Somehow E. L. James has it all figured out though.  And if that is what readers want I know that my book is going to be an epic failure.  As Ana would say: “Triple Crap!”

Weddings Make me Sick

They really do make me sick…literally and figuratively speaking. Over the weekend I attended my fiancé’s step brother’s wedding.   I think working from home has subjected me to a weaker immune system or something, because whenever I’m in large groups of people I seem to get sick 70% of the time now.  So I attended this wedding and I’ve been sick ever since.  Which isn’t that bad because it’s fall and I’m drinking lots of tea and reading lots of books.  I’m a happy camper, minus my unforgiving runny nose.  Excuse me while I get a tissue.  So this wedding made me physically sick, but also everything about it made me hate weddings.  I have a love/hate relationship with the idea of planning my own wedding.  I have now been engaged for almost a year and a half and there are zero plans finalized let alone semi-decided.   Every day I plan stuff for our business and then every night I’d rather do anything beside plan something else.

It’s not that I don’t want to get married or don’t value the idea of marriage. The thing is, we’ve been acting like a married couple for years.  My fiancé and I just click.  The paper work is all that we’re missing.  Weddings are ridiculously expensive and pretty much all the same.  It’s boring.  It’s outdated.  It’s a waste of $20,000.  Geeze that’s a lot of money!  And no matter what everyone says, it’s all about the guests.  Everyone has something to complain about or something to suggest.  You’re putting on a party for people when you should be solely focused on celebrating your relationship.  The romance that should be the center focus has been sucked out of these ridiculous cookie cutter weddings.  Elton John wants to know if you can you feel the love tonight?  Not at weddings you can’t!  Eloping looks so good right now!  Somewhere warm and sunny, and away from everyone else would be a dream wedding to me.  I’m just sick of thinking about weddings.

No, no, no

My name is not actually Saxa Taylor, but that’s a story for a different day. Today is about announcing the upcoming release of my first book, The Curse of the Moira.  I wrote a novel several years ago and got turned down by dozens of publishers.  Discouraging?  Yes, absolutely.  I abandoned the book and stopped writing for a long time.  Instead, I threw all my time and energy into creating a startup with my now fiancé (yay!).  And once our company was up and running successfully I kept thinking about all those “no’s”.  No, no, no.  I had already proved doubters wrong  by starting a company right after graduating from college with little money and little knowledge of how to run a business.  Now I realize that every “no” is just more fuel to succeed.  So for the last two years I’ve been working on a new novel, and The Curse of the Moira is now almost complete.  I’m just putting the finishing touches on the artwork, editing, and formatting (it sounds like there’s a lot left to do when I put it that way, but I swear it’s almost done).  So without more delay, here is the first glimpse of what The Curse of the Moira is about:

In a world filled with darkness, three races clash. In this twisted tale of love, betrayal, and fate, you’ll follow the journey of a young woman as she discovers what it truly means to be a divinare.  She is the last of her race to be born with the gift of sight, but doesn’t know what this power entails. 

As symbols predicting the future ignite on her skin, she must journey across the realm to find the answers she seeks. But will she have time to learn the symbols’ meaning before chaos is unleashed?