GOOD NEWS!
Hello, hello, hello!
Boy, I'm just brewing with excitement here I can hardly contain myself. I just found out the good news last weekend. I wasn't really expecting it, but the email confirmed what I'd been wishing/dreaming to happen for a very long time hence why I started dabbling in writing fanfiction to help me work on my writing skills. And indeed it has helped me a lot over the course of the years since I first posted my fan fiction story online nearly a decade ago.
I became a member of an online social forum for aspiring writers, and on a whim I decided to join one of the many contests to help members work on expanding their imagination and whatnot. Anyway, my story wasn't picked as one of the winners for the category I submitted it to, and I thought that was the end of it; my story didn't win so the chances of my story being included in an anthology book being published by the site's moderator & owner would be nil.
Well surprise, surprise. I was having one lazy July 4th (Sunday) afternoon when I decided to browse on by to the site and checked my messages. Turns out one of the two messages in my inbox was from the moderator/owner congratulating me because my story was picked as one of the stories to be included in the anthology book!
I was ecstatic after reading that email. I had to re-read it countless times to be certain that I didn't read it wrong. Heck, I even showed my folks and sisters the email because I was having a hard time believing it.
I was so giddy with excitement that I ended up posting a status on Facebook and Twitter, but I didn't tell them what the "surprise" was because the book anthology won't be available until July 15th!
Now I'm counting down the days until the official publication date. It will be available on Amazon. I'll provide the link once I know it. BTW, it's a vampire book anthology in case you're wondering what genre it is about.
Boy, I'm just brewing with excitement here I can hardly contain myself. I just found out the good news last weekend. I wasn't really expecting it, but the email confirmed what I'd been wishing/dreaming to happen for a very long time hence why I started dabbling in writing fanfiction to help me work on my writing skills. And indeed it has helped me a lot over the course of the years since I first posted my fan fiction story online nearly a decade ago.
I became a member of an online social forum for aspiring writers, and on a whim I decided to join one of the many contests to help members work on expanding their imagination and whatnot. Anyway, my story wasn't picked as one of the winners for the category I submitted it to, and I thought that was the end of it; my story didn't win so the chances of my story being included in an anthology book being published by the site's moderator & owner would be nil.
Well surprise, surprise. I was having one lazy July 4th (Sunday) afternoon when I decided to browse on by to the site and checked my messages. Turns out one of the two messages in my inbox was from the moderator/owner congratulating me because my story was picked as one of the stories to be included in the anthology book!
I was ecstatic after reading that email. I had to re-read it countless times to be certain that I didn't read it wrong. Heck, I even showed my folks and sisters the email because I was having a hard time believing it.
I was so giddy with excitement that I ended up posting a status on Facebook and Twitter, but I didn't tell them what the "surprise" was because the book anthology won't be available until July 15th!
Now I'm counting down the days until the official publication date. It will be available on Amazon. I'll provide the link once I know it. BTW, it's a vampire book anthology in case you're wondering what genre it is about.