So my book is offically OUT!!! You can get a copy if you have a KOBO or KINDLE :
http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Echoes/book-8qenmve2oUaUT3LL0GpKTw/page1.html?s=-re9fMvfn0ya1HjdrKnr6Q&r=1
http://www.amazon.com/The-Echoes-Book-One-ebook/dp/B009M5F43M/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1351708290&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Echoes+Courtney+Gilbert
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Character Look-a-like
If I had to choose who my characters look like these would be my choices. Mind you, they may not be real life people :)
Terra from KH Birth by Sleep looks similar to Colton. Colton is more tanned and wears a head band.
Guy from Tales of the Abyss is almost Chase. Almost. I remember every time I thought of Chase in my story, Guy's appearance (but a bit different) would pop up in my head.
Don't know who this is, but she's a Final Fantasy Character. This would be my Niki expect Niki has back curly hair, but similar facial features.
This guy, which ever Final Fantasy character he is, looks like my Adam Ponto. Adam is a little slimmer, and obviously doesn't wear armour.
Last but not lease, this character would somewhat close to Keira's appearance. Keira has, blonde hair and the blue eyes, a little more tanned with some freckles. BUt this girl here does some justice, I'll have to find out what final fantasy she's from.
Just an FYI, when I wrote my book, I had actually never played any of the Final Fantasy games. It wasn't until I was explaining my story to a friend when they asked if I had played them. Lol. Of course I hadn't and he mentioned that I should probably get around to that. Not to mention I loved playing Tales of Synphonia, Zelda and other anime games. I liked watching Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z and pokemon. So you figured playing Final Fantasy would be right up my alley, BUT I had never owned a playstation, I owned a N64. We did have playstation 2 where I played Kingdom Hearts, but that was the closest game to playing Final Fantasy that I got. lol.
I'm out! Hope you enjoyed!
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Was it something I said?
Okay, to back track, this girl I know got a contract with Harper Collins for a book publication. I had messaged her about her success but she never replied. Mmm. Which is understandable cuz some people are very selfish and secretive about their success, fearing that someone will become more successful if they tell this secret. Selfish Selfish people. So I figured, you know, it's been awhile since I saw how she was doing with this book and BAM, she deleted me! Like, WTF!? lol. I thought we had a bond because we were both striving writers, trying to follow our dream.
Might I add though, what might have given her motive to 'unfriend' me.
The past year I've been editing my book, doing all i can to make it better. I had it on Authonomy which it did do well. (Until you hit the top 100 rankings) When you hit the top 100, that's where the daggers gleam behind everyones back, waiting patiently for the right moment to strike with the "One Star" rating!! *Gasp!* With Authonomy, if you are not commenting on people's stories using at least 250 words that praise everything about their work, then your book will never hit the top. Authonomy has a good concept but I'm not about faking my way to the top and to falsely praise people.
I had a different method. Once I got some pretty good writer advise on Authonomy, I decided to get and editor. Months past until I finally finished that draft with the editor. THEN, the library opened their 'self-pub' system which is where I can print my book and make it look like a real one! Yay!
Since then, I'm self published my book on Kindle and Kobo and I will be having a Book Launch at the end of this month! So of course this entire process of my printing my book, posting pictures, getting my own business name (2am Publishing) getting my book on kindle and kobo, about to launch my book. I could only see that her reason was, jealousy. Or am I being conceited? She might not have liked the fact that even though she got a contract to publishing, I was the one with something actually done, I was getting it published and out into the world and I had a ton of support from the Library, work, family and (hopefully) the press. I plan on trying to get LaSalle post to my launch and to really get from publicity from it.
Plan for now? Get an agent. Monday is a holiday but for Canadians. I'll be sending out my query letters. I plan to make some money with kobo, so I can have something to show something to say like, "I've made this much! See my book is marketable!"
Other than that, can't wait for bookfest! I now have a contact with the woman who is on the board of the Bookfest. Yeah, fingers crossed. I'm getting there!
-Courtney
Might I add though, what might have given her motive to 'unfriend' me.
The past year I've been editing my book, doing all i can to make it better. I had it on Authonomy which it did do well. (Until you hit the top 100 rankings) When you hit the top 100, that's where the daggers gleam behind everyones back, waiting patiently for the right moment to strike with the "One Star" rating!! *Gasp!* With Authonomy, if you are not commenting on people's stories using at least 250 words that praise everything about their work, then your book will never hit the top. Authonomy has a good concept but I'm not about faking my way to the top and to falsely praise people.
I had a different method. Once I got some pretty good writer advise on Authonomy, I decided to get and editor. Months past until I finally finished that draft with the editor. THEN, the library opened their 'self-pub' system which is where I can print my book and make it look like a real one! Yay!
Since then, I'm self published my book on Kindle and Kobo and I will be having a Book Launch at the end of this month! So of course this entire process of my printing my book, posting pictures, getting my own business name (2am Publishing) getting my book on kindle and kobo, about to launch my book. I could only see that her reason was, jealousy. Or am I being conceited? She might not have liked the fact that even though she got a contract to publishing, I was the one with something actually done, I was getting it published and out into the world and I had a ton of support from the Library, work, family and (hopefully) the press. I plan on trying to get LaSalle post to my launch and to really get from publicity from it.
Plan for now? Get an agent. Monday is a holiday but for Canadians. I'll be sending out my query letters. I plan to make some money with kobo, so I can have something to show something to say like, "I've made this much! See my book is marketable!"
Other than that, can't wait for bookfest! I now have a contact with the woman who is on the board of the Bookfest. Yeah, fingers crossed. I'm getting there!
-Courtney
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