March Cover Release!

Oh my goodness it's March!

    Do you know what that means?! A little over a month until the release of my second book!
The Secret Vows is coming out on my birthday in April! And do you know something else?! I decided to do a cover release of the book! Right now!

    Surprise!!

Without further ado, I would like to welcome you to the cover of the second installment of the Fearless Series; The Secret Vows!

(Cue the suspenseful music, please...)


                                                                      The Secret Vows

Sunday the 17th

Hola!

As you guys know, I've been editing The Secret Vows for awhile now. So far my first-edit drafts are done! I've gone through and fixed spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, and changed around some sentences and stuff in the plot. A couple friends that I go to school with also looked over it for me and helped edit.

I love them for doing that! I think I'd go crazy if it weren't for all their great advice!

Unfortunately, for me, the editing isn't done yet. :(

I'll be honest, editing isn't one of my favorite things to do. It can be really stressful looking back on work and trying to make everything perfect. But the outcome success is far better then then the stress of it all because of the well put together product.

So anyways, I've been going through the paperback proof copy and making marks and what not in it and then going back on my computer document and changing them. (The computer document is what is sent in to the publisher to be made into the book.) Right now I'm probably only six chapter into editing in the paperback, and I just started going through and changing the document version.

It's time consuming, and I've been procrastinating a little, but I am pushing myself to get it done. Like I said, the edits aren't fun but they are very important in a book. :)

So I guess it's good that my winter vacation is this week. Now I have time to go through and edit my book like it needs.

*Sigh.*

That's pretty much it for The Secret Vows. I'm hoping to extend the book length a good 20-30 pages after all the edits are done. But we'll see where that leads us once I'm done with the editing process. :)

I've also got some news about it that I'm not quite ready to share right now, but I am excited about it.

Let's save that for another post. ;)

Until next time guys,

-B.C. Doyle

Some Great New Reads!

       

 

So I've been investing a lot of time recently reading some great books that I found on Goodreads!

So I've decided to share some with you that I think are a must read! These books really captivated me and made me craving more! I'll give the title, author, cover, and summary and a link to Goodreads too! That's how excellent these books are!

Here we go!

(In no particular order.) 

The Secret Vows

It's hard to believe a week has flown by already!

I have been working on self-editing the second installment of The Fearless Series; The Secret Vows since the beginning of January, and right now a I have a few people in my school working on it as well. If it weren't for their help I might be going mad trying to seek out all the spelling and grammar mistakes in it. Thus for, spelling has been all right but grammar...well I'm no whiz.

So anyways, The Secret Vows is being edited as we speak!

Once more I have edited the design of this blog. I know, I know, I can never seem to make up my mind as to when I'm leaving it be. But I love this design, and I think we've got a winner. On the side bar you can see that I have a five-chapter preview of 'Til Death Do Us Part on Figment.com. (Figment.com is the website that helped me get published. It's a site I hold dearly to me.) So if you're interested in reading part of 'Til Death Do Us Part, you can!

Also, I have added a 'share it' tab so you can share this site on Facebook and Twitter if you have one! If you do share it, I'd be so appreciative! I'd love more followers for this site, so feel free to share away! I've also added my editors blog to the side bar; There For You Editing. She's been such a huge help not only editing 'Til Death Do Us Part but also advertising the book! So stop by her site and read away! She's such a great person!

Explore my blog a little more, I've moved the 'buy it' tab to it's very own page labeled 'buy' on the top! You can still buy it on this site, and you can still mark who you'd like me to sign it to. It's up to you, though. :)

That's it for this post!

--B.C. Doyle

Writing Conferences

Hello once again my blog-buddies!

I haven't really been on a whole lot to talk, but I did switch the site design up a little bit as you can see. One day this site is going to look professional, but I'm still a newbie when it comes to site designing, so this will have to do for right now. :)

I wanted to talk about writing conferences in this post, because I was a part of a writing conference last March.

I have applied to two different writing conferences this year; The Pen in Hand Writing Conference that is held in Little Falls, New York and the Breadloaf Writing Conference that is being held in Middlebury, Vermont.

Guess What??

Guess what guys???

So last weekend I finished writing the [first] draft of The Secret Vows! I know what you're thinking; "The first draft??" Well my reply to your thoughts (and yes--sadly--I'm communicating with your minds, lol) is, yes, the first draft of The Secret Vows. You see, after publishing my first book ('Til Death Do Us Part) I now know how to better prepare myself for my second publication. I've learned a lot from my first publication, so this one will be ten times easier.

And here's how;

I've got News!

So I'm excited to say that I'm almost done writing The Secret Vows!

I've got about another ten or twenty pages to write, plus there will be a ten or twenty page preview of the third installment of the Fearless Series. (So really I've got about forty pages to go all together, but that's pretty damn good to me!)

I've also got a little surprise that I'll announce when the time comes, involving both 'Til Death Do Us Part and The Secret Vows! Getting excited yet? I know I am!

Unfortunately the surprise won't be announced until another week or two...but I promise it'll be worth the wait! (Well maybe not...??)

Anyways, I just wanted to fill you guys in quickly. I'll keep you posted. :)

-B.C. Doyle

Progress Report!

Hey guys!

I just felt like posting something new tonight. I'm in the writing mood, and I figured it'd be a good idea to do some updates on things. Last post I talked about how much praise I've been getting on 'Til Death Do Us Part, so I thought it'd be a good idea to tell you about some of my other writing projects.

So here they are!

Recent Fame!

So my books been out for [almost] two months now. (It'll be two months on January 7th) and recently some new people have been congratulating me about my publication!

When my book was first published, I didn't really think it was that big a deal. No matter what I'd be on the same schedule, so I didn't really feel any different. But the praise I've been getting means a lot to me because it makes me feel more accomplished than before.

Not many sixteen year olds can say that they published a book, so I'm ecstatic that I can!

Before I didn't think it was a big deal. I didn't really tell a lot of people, because, honestly, I didn't think many people would care. Not people in school, anyways. But to be congratulated on my dream to become a published author, it makes me feel pretty good. I've successfully done something with my life that makes me who I am; not just B.C. Doyle, but Barbara C. Doyle--your [almost] everyday, typical, sixteen year old junior in high school.


--B.C. Doyle
     ---Barbara C. Doyle

Some Great Reads+My New Obsession

So I'm happy to say that in December I sold a total of five paperback copies of 'Til Death Do Us Part!

      I know that five probably isn't that much to you guys, but to me--being a new author who has no idea what she's doing--five is like five thousand. So it made me jump when I was that I sold five books, because I was so happy I'd managed to sell that many--and all at once, too!
      So if any of you guys bought my book, thanks a billion! It means a lot to me that something I worked really hard on is being read. :)
      I'd like to just give off some names of authors and books that I've read recently and love!

Happy New Year!

                           I can't believe that it's 2013 already! It seems like 2012 flew by!

      Anyways, I'm back! I've been working on The Secret Vows some more over winter break, and I really like how it's coming out so far. I'm only on page one hundred and four right now, but my goal is to get around one hundred and sixty to one hundred and eighty by the end of January. I don't think I'll have a problem meeting that goal. :)
      As you guys can tell, I updated my blog. I got bored and wanted to change things up for the new year so I decided to pick some warm colors. I think it turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself. I can tell you right now that I'm not computer whiz or anything, so I'm still learning how to design the sites and all that. The cover photo of my book and author bio took me about half an hour to create.
      Yeah....don't ask.
      Anyways...
      I've been searching for an image for The Secret Vows and I think I found the perfect one! It's got the same girl as the first one (which I was afraid I wouldn't find) and it fits my book so well! I'm really excited to see what the cover looks like! I even put together the back of the cover, writing the book summary/synopsis. It's getting real, and I'm getting excited!
      I posted the book synopsis on The Fearless Series page for The Secret Vows if y'all are interested in reading about it. (If you haven't read 'Til Death Do Us Part then DO NOT read the book summary for The Secret Vows. Just fair warning.)
      For right now I think that's it.
      My holiday break was really great. I got to see family I don't usually see and I stuffed my face in food. Christmas was a good day. (Minus getting drug across the floor by my brother because I stole his candy. But I got some Kit-Kat out of it so it was worth it.)
      Comment about how your vacations/holidays were/are if you want!

      Thanks guys!

          --B.C. Doyle