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Hello, my pen name is Julie Elizabeth Powell and would like to offer mobi files of the non-fictional account of what happened to my daughter and the years between her first and second deaths.

Goodreads link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

Title: Slings & Arrows
Genre: Non-Fiction
Rating: All
Blurb:
Nobody expects to lose a child but when it happens what can we do? In the sea of grief that seizes the soul how can we swim against the tide? But when that loss is compounded in each minute of every day, what do we do then?

Slings and Arrows is a story about the consequences of a moment, a moment, which separates a mother and daughter in ways impossible to imagine.

It charts their parallel lives, each suffering, one knowing, one not.

It is brutally honest; an account filled with bewilderment, guilt, anger and pain yet it also holds the key to hope. That whatever happens, the bonds of love can never be broken.

Please post reviews on:

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slings-Arrows...

Amazon USA: http://www.amazon.com/Slings-Arrows-e...

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

Please message me for a copy through email.

Thank you

Julie

A very good memoir - heartbreaking.

Thank you. I'm trying everything I can to secure, not only some positive feedback on all my books, but sales too - it seems that only a few actually like my work - and boy, am I grateful for at least that! Just can't generate much interest. I've followed advice and done everything I can, maybe I'm not engaging folks enough?

I can't stop writing and I think my work is great :) so does that make me a fool, misguided or egotistical?

Thanks so much for your support and I'm delighted you like my books.

Rant over - been a long day and I'm tired - and I've been rejected again by an agent. Not that I really want one, or a publisher, as I like to be in control, I'd like to be able to concentrate on writing, as all this marketing and promoting is like hitting a head against a brick wall that has millions of spikes attached. It's a distasteful thing to have to do - maybe it's being English, it's just not me. Maybe if I had an agent, they'd do that awful stuff? I think I'll stick to writing and maybe one day...

Gee, I'd better sign off, rambling...

Julie wrote: "Thank you. I'm trying everything I can to secure, not only some positive feedback on all my books, but sales too - it seems that only a few actually like my work - and boy, am I grateful for at le..."

Julie, I do admire your persistence in promoting your work and as I thoroughly enjoy your books, I'm only too happy to do all I can to help. Hence, the shares on facebook and any other chance I can..pinterest comes to mind.
I had a moment the other day when I thought
"Oh God, I hope she doesn't think I'm stalking her..." but I'm very aware of how hard you try to promote your own and other people's writing and so want to help.
Sorry to hear about the publisher ....rejection is a bummer, even when you can talk yourself round. My 27 year old son knows all about this - he goes to so many auditions, but just doesn't seem to get the breaks. He perseveres, as you do, because he has to act...as you have to write.
Keep on writing, because I want to keep on reading :)

Thanks, Angela - share away, I'll never think of you as a stalker, I'm very grateful for all the support.

I do have a Pinterest account and use it when I can. There are so many 'things' out there, that it's impossible to keep up.

Hope your son gets his 'break'. Thing is, I'm getting oldish now and would like to be a success before it's too late.

I'm working on several projects at the moment and still trying to find that time machine. The Harry Potter wand is defective!

Thanks - really, thanks :)

My understanding, which is secondhand as I've never gone the tradition publishing route, is that even if you are picked up by a trad publisher, you have to do all your own marketing and promotion. That and having the dire need to do my own covers cinched my decision to indie publish.

Yes, you're probably right, Sophia *sigh*. I do love the control of self-publishing and I love designing my own covers. The worse things are editing, re-editing, editing...and marketing - both seem impossible and unrewarding.

I'm sure there are particular gremlins waiting (after hiding it) that typo, just when you publish.

I do want to be an 'Indie' but would love access to the 'hype machine' because otherwise, I can't see how many of the books that are on bookshelves without it.

Can't stop writing so I'll keep on...

And if anyone wants to read my books...:)

Julie wrote: "Thanks, Angela - share away, I'll never think of you as a stalker, I'm very grateful for all the support.

I do have a Pinterest account and use it when I can. There are so many 'things' out there..."

Hey, Julie - no more of the "oldish" and "before it's too late" talk! One is never too old to hope that things will work out.....

Thanks, Angela :)