An exciting day for me! Earlier today I pressed the little button that launches my next book out into the world! Well, almost. Parish, the sequel to Freakhouse, needs some funding to be polished up and ready.

If you have enjoyed any part of my endeavoures - my books, my blog, my tweets - or even if you think that you might start to, please click over to the Kickstarter. I have rewards for all budget types; if you want to pre-order your advanced copy of Parish, have a professional critique of your own creative writing, or just want to see your name printed inside of a real book, then there's something waiting for you! Rewards are available for as little as $1!

So please, if you've kept reading this far, please spare $1, and then please "like", "share", "retweet", "reblog" and any of that other fancy stuff to get us towards our goal. I need your help!

​https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anewell/parish-a-freakhouse-sequel?ref=creator_nav

My January goals are gradually coming together. Changes are happening here at Newellbooks - for the better, in my opinion. For starters, I've begun a members newsletter: Newell Club. How do you become a member? Well that part's easy! You simply choose to! No extensive interview or skill-testing question, no purchases or promises. You just fill in your email address and exclusive monthly content is yours! 

What's different about the newsletter than the blog? Well, first of all it will come straight to you, in your inbox! And, no, it will not be just a notice of a new blog post! This monthly newsletter will cover odds and ends about what goes on behind the scenes. I may do a character highlight, let you know about amazing artists I've come across, let you know what I'm currently working on, and of course, subscribers will be the first to know about up-coming events and contests. 

My plan is to have the newsletter be a fun space for those of you who want to be more involved with the goings on. 

So, if you've made it this far in reading today's blog post, I'm going to let you in on a mini-contest!

I mentioned that things are changing, but it's more than just a new newsletter. So what else has changed here at Newellbooks? You tell me! Browse the pages and see if there's something new.

The first three (3) people to send me the correct answer will win 30 days access to the work-in-progress chapters of ​Among Beasts. Just comment, email, or tweet me your answer. 

And, of course, if you're going to all that trouble anyways, why not join the mailing list? I'd love to have you!
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So many new things starting up this month, and I'm trying to keep motivated and positive as I plunge through it all. Not that it's been very difficult within these two weeks. I'm more so trying to keep from getting ahead of myself and announcing things too early. 

I will leave you with a little teaser though, at least for those of you who can answer the following question:

What is the significance of January 26th?

If you know this, then you have one hint as to the theme of some up-coming news.

It was recommended that I add Galen and Freakhouse to Barnes&Noble's Nook ereader before I move forward with other project advancements. And since both books are already sold through that company in print, I figured that adding the digital copies would be no big deal. So I started with Galen, which I'm not sure is the better idea or not. Again, it was never intended to be an ebook, in fact I don't think ebook devices were a thing when I started to pen it, so formatting it for a digital platform is always a huge pain in the butt. But eventually I got it up there. Next was Freakhouse which took no time at all (the way that it should be!). 

So there I am today, all ready to go, I just need to officially identify myself as a vendor and then I can press that little "publish" button...

...turns out I'm not eligible to be a vendor for Nook. I mean, they sell my print editions, but no ebooks for them apparently. Only 6-ish countries as actually eligible outside of the US, and Canada is not one of them. So, sorry folks, no Nook. But I will, however, keep everything uploaded in the event that the policy changes. 

In the meantime, enjoy the Kindle and Kobo editions, and if you don't have those devices, the old-fashioned paperback will ship to just about anywhere...

... just please don't ask me to deal with customs about it. I had enough of that last year!