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Novel recently released!

TaraTara
edited June 2009 in - Writing Tales
Hi, everyone

I'm a newbie to the TB group. Just wanted to share that my novel - The Dream King released recently and is doing well. It was released by Red Rose publishing and is the first in a trio of tales of three mages who oversee all magical, mythical operations on Earth.
So, far is gotten a good review and I'm hoping to receive more. It's doing well in the Urban fantasy genre list. If you'd like to check it out. Here's a link:
http://redrosepublishing.com/bookstore/product_info.php?cPath=23_70&products_id=428

Thanks for letting me share my good news.

Tara ;-)
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  • LilyCLilyC
    Hail and welcome Tara.

    The book sounds fascinating. Well done, and thank you for sharing your news. It encourages us budding writers.

    Enjoy TB. ;)
  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    Hi, Tara. Best of luck with the book. Is it on Amazon, too?
  • WordyWordy
    Welcome, and congratulations on having a novel published. Inspiring stuff.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    congratulations on the sale!
  • NefertariNefertari
    Well done Tara.
    Nice name for a publishing company I am at present struggling with my entry for the last month's WM poetry comp about a red rose.
  • cekaceka
    Congratulations, Tara (theme tune from Gone with the Wind keeps filling my head!, I think it's called Tara's Theme) on your book, may it be the first of many. I'm going to check out the link now and read all about it!
  • pippiepippie
    Congratulations its very inspiring to hear of your good news and the novel sounds interesting too.
  • DwightDwight
    Well done, Tara, and welcome to Talkback.

    Ceka, could you be thinking of Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago?
  • cekaceka
    No,Dwight, although thank you for reminding me of that, I love that one too! It's definitely Tara's Theme (I just looked it up) and it's the music at the very beginning of 'Gone with the Wind'
    There is a place called Tara in Ireland too!
    Off-subject, sorry Tara!
    well done to Tara!
  • KazKaz
    Well done, Tara, and welcome to TB.
  • Phots MollPhots Moll
    WElcome to the site and congrats on having your novel published.
  • ClaudiaClaudia
    She hasn't been back though! Looks like she only joined to tell us about her book.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    oh, how many people do that! It does get to me.
  • cekaceka
    It's just the way it is, Dorothy. TB isn't for everyone.
    (Aren't we all enough for you? :(
    People do come in and stay in ... I did, Lolli did, KJ did (our anniversaries are a-comin' up!) and loads and loads of great Talkbackers since then.
    We is all just diff'rent and don't all drink CyberTea!
  • dorothyddorothyd
    Yes I know and I care for each of you who have stayed.
  • LolliLolli
    FAnk you for dat one Dorothy. :D (are you ever called Dotty, doro, dolly or deedee?)
  • JennyJenny
    Lolli - I very much doubt it!
  • dorothyddorothyd
    Whoo, there's a question ... mother in law used to call me Dot and I hated it. She found out I hated it and stopped it. At work I am Dee because it is simple and easy. One person in this world calls me DeeDee. My aunt, also Dorothy (I arrived on her birthday, so had to have her name, work that one out...) is called Dolly. I never have been.
  • StirlingStirling
    Makes you wonder how these people think. Oh, lets advertise my book on a random writing website, you never know might get a few sales (not!)
  • LizLiz
    My mum was called Dorothy, Dorothy. She was lovely. She hated to be called Dot though! I like the name. (Dorothy, not Dot!)
  • dorothyddorothyd
    my mother in law used to say things like, 'I hate it when people shorten names, it's not right' then call me Dot, next door one side Shell (for Michelle) and the other side Eth...
  • LizLiz
    Forgot to say, I sometimes call you D when I don't have much time or my dyslexia is playing up (tired) and I don't want to type too much, hope you don't mind...
  • DaisyDaisy
    Didn't see this thread before. If you pop back sometime, then congratulations on the book, Tara.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    D is fine, I often sign notes to friends as D
  • StirlingStirling
    I know the feeling, if someone calls me Fifi I turn psychotic. I don't mind Fe, but I'm no bleedin' poodle!
  • CarolCarol
    Stirling no one could think of you as Fifi!!!! :)
  • dorothyddorothyd
    thinking about this, I wonder why I don't abbreviate Antony's name, or my Mayan guide's long spiritual name either. TBH, Xnac would be easier to say than Xnaczivatha but I don't do it. I was going to say this is a historical thing, but Edward IV is known as Ned ... so it isn't that. I think it's the person. See Jenny's comment above about my name. I'm just not a Dot or a Dolly, somehow.

    Question then, to discuss - do you grow into your name? I think somewhere else on the board I mentioned Dave's not being called David and if they are a David, you don't shorten it and you find they are a different person to a Dave. My aunt insists that her grandson Terry became a Terr(or) because of his name. I don't think so but - how many people are like their names?

    Sunday I will be visiting a Felicity. It means happiness. She tells me she has hated her name for all her 86 years and she is not a happy person. (Her father gave me a message for her that she brought him happiness, though).
  • StirlingStirling
    I decided to take a look and my name [Fiona] means white or comely - gaelic/celtic in origin. Make of that what you will!
  • heatherheather
    Clearly a marketing ploy by Tara, I would say, but I don't really have a problem with that, provided people don't swamp or nag.

    It beats a writer colleague of mine who emails me constantly to let me know all of the different ways I can buy her book, which way will give her the most money and ends the mail with 'please help'. I wouldn't mind if she was selling it for charity, but she isn't. I was going to buy it, but I'm less inclined now!
  • DwightDwight
    Stirling, I would say: if you're not white you must be comely. Or vice-versa. Or both.

    I don't have a problem with advertising a self published novel, especially in forums (fora?) where you might land a sale or two. And Tara might not have been back because she's busy writing.

    My mother was Dorothy too, Dorothy, and as far as I know she was never called anything else - repeatable, that is: she had an impish sense of humour.
  • LeeHLeeH
    edited July 2009
    Is it just me or do you hate when people just pitch up and join just to pimp their story and then do nothing else. I'll buy anyone on here's book, but such blatant bumbling makes me dodge it in a heartbeat. Going off activity she has simply touted. I've flu which might excuse me anger,
  • JennyJenny
    edited July 2009
    It's disappointing when people pretend to have joined TB as contributing members but disappear after advertising their books.

    Do you think this forum has been suggested by publishers - possibly those who advertise in WN/WM - as a suitable place to hype books?

    Hope you feel better soon, Lee.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    I have to say I agree with all the anti-selling comments. You should come onto a forum to contribute, not to sell. Lee, i do actually hate it, as you do. We all go 'welcome' and stuff and they go again. Unless we get to know someone, we aren't inclined to buy their book, are we? Get well soon, BTW.
    Some time back it was proposed that when someone arrives, we tell them a little about ourselves, so they don't feel left out when we carry on talking, as it were. I've long since given up on that, as about 1% stay and they find out about us by staying. There are profiles if they want to know more. Otherwise, it's wear and tear on the fingers for nowt!
  • Stan2Stan2
    Well done, tara. Keep posting tara!
  • CarolCarol
    You can soon tell if they intend to stick around- even if they don't post- by looking at their visit count and when they last visited. Tara has visited 7 times and the last one was on the 5th July- it is now the 30th. She hasn't even come back onto this post since posting it, so you really do have to take it as she only joined to post book details.

    I'd like to hope we were wrong. but...
  • LeeHLeeH
    We're not. ... .
  • LeeHLeeH
    I've only been about6 for 5 months and have read about successes and folks woes, It just annoys me people like that who think we're stupid lol, she's done more damage than good.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    edited July 2009
    Again, I agree with you. And am VERY glad you are one who decided to stay.

    It's just occurred to me, if anyone comes on here and puts 'new release' or some such title on their thread, we ignore it. Should have realised that Ms Wynne-Jones was trying it on, you don't put 'encouragement' when you are new to a site. Unless you want to put both feet in it, as Hayley did with Claudia and hastily retired from the board...
  • LeeHLeeH
    If your interested you'll read more. Dorothy at first I'll admit I thought you a nut job but reading more into what you do from your links opens things up and has made me a little more open to the way that I see things. What I'm getting at is if folks want to they'll hunt more.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    Hey, look, honesty! I like that. Yes, those who stay will look further, join in, make themselves known to us. It's screamingly obvious to me who doesn't stay, they don't tell us which genre they write in - and we all specialise in something, somewhere - they tell us nothing about themselves and they do not contribute to any threads, fun or otherwise.
  • LeeHLeeH
    That sounds bad as a re-read it. What I meant was, you got me to go look into the things you talked about through your links Dorothy.
  • ClaudiaClaudia
    [quote=LeeH]Dorothy at first I'll admit I thought you a nut job [/quote]

    That really made me laugh, Lee! I was very wary when I first encountered our Dorothy - but, like you, I realised how much there is to learn from that lady! ;)
  • StirlingStirling
    edited July 2009
    Well I have to say that the first six months on here I felt like an outsider. I know newbies have come on here and claimed there is a 'clique', but the reality is that just like in a real world community you only get what you put in.

    I'm sure 'selling' is against forum rules.

    Back in a mo', just going to find the sticky.
  • StirlingStirling
    Sheesh - I'm blind! Found it eventually:

    "Commercial postings are not permitted. They are not a vehicle for press releases, adverts, or any other solicited or unsolicted commercial communication."
  • dorothyddorothyd
    OK, next time someone comes on only to promote their book and no indication, like Barry for example, that they will stay and keep us updated and informed, we report the post. Barry has been a great source of encouragement, with his blow by blow descriptions of the ongoing process. This 'one off' posting to boast of a book has been annoying me for some time. I hide it well, though, don't I?????

    Stirling, it's odd, I never saw you as a newbie, it must have been your feelings, because you joined in, you became part of TB almost immediately, in my eyes anyway.
  • StirlingStirling
    I think sometimes it's an adjustment thing! Getting to know people, especially when everyone else knows each other. I'm also a member of AW, but I still prefer TB because it has a family feel to it.
  • DwightDwight
    Yes, very much an adjustment thing, Stirling, and managing to make brave contributions when the messages are flying from well entrneched members who all seem to know each other. It can appear cliquey.

    I like to have a more relaxed view on 'casual members' who drop in, especially if they are keen to publicise their book. That is how you do it, surely, by being proactive in finding outlets? Everyone was quite right to tell her she was welcome. And I stand by my guess higher up that Tara might be dead busy. Heaven knows, I myself am on TB far too much for my own good... when I should be spending my pc time on my writing. It's just that it's fun to be with nice people and sharing writing ideas.

    So chill :).
  • LeeHLeeH
    I believe there is a difference between being pro-active and whoring lol
  • LeeHLeeH
    Saying 'Ello, just swinging by here as I have a new book out that you may be interested in' is different to doing it slyly.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    No, Dwight, no.
    I have 40+ books to write, a business to run, a course (just got the first paperwork this morning) but I don't use that as an excuse not to be on here. If you register and post, you have time, if you mean to stay. I don't think these people have any intention of staying. If I had several hours to spare, I would track back through the entire register of members and find those who never posted at all after registering, those who left after 1 posting (often a book) and those who stayed for such a short time you know we didn't suit. The other 2, why bother? is my question. We are more likely to buy a book from a devoted loyal TBer whom we know than someone we don't, who never comes on here again.
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