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Blog postI'll probably fluff this out from time to time. I have been mostly focused on getting my entry ready for Pitch Wars. As a result, I hadn't thought about participating in PimpMyBio. But here goes --
Who am I?
I am a mom of two, a 13-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son. I work full-time outside of the house as an attorney. I have degrees in law, of course, and multiple degrees in business.
Our household is a British-American one. More specifically, I am -
Blog postI have entered the cover of Janetta and the Book Thief into a book cover contest at www.beautyandbook.com. The book with the most votes in each category will be displayed at the Frankfurt Book Festival for voting for overall best cover. Please consider heading over to the site and voting for Janetta and the Book Thief. Just enter "Janetta" in the search box to display the book's page and voting link.
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Blog postAlthough this post is about Janetta and the Book Thief, my newest book, I am first taking a few moments to address my delay in posting.
I love writing stories and experimenting to build my skills. I find writing stories to be not only a fun and rewarding past-time but a truly therapeutic endeavor. As of late, I have had little time to spend with my writing because family situations have required all of my time. However, I am first and foremost above everything else - a mom. So, as I -
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Blog postAs I am sure others did, I read today how the Loch Ness Monster hasn't been spotted in eight months. That, understandably, has many people worried.
If you've never been to Loch Ness, it's a must-have-experience to take a boat ride out onto the loch and look for Nessie. Hopefully, Nessie, if she exists, is just taking a little break and will be back.
I am a Nessie fan and fondly remember my visit to Loch Ness many years ago. From the boat, it's easy to see how Loch Ness -
Blog postThe day has come. My twelve-year-old daughter is now cooking and baking.
The day before yesterday she made banana bread that she had learned to make at school. She needed some help, but she accomplished the majority of it on her own. It was a proud moment for her when the banana bread came out of the oven. :)
The recipe was likely different than the one my mother used. My mother probably didn't use whole wheat flour or yogurt in her batter. But one bite of my daughter's -
Blog postAlthough publication is still some months off, I am making progress on The Peerless Seer's War, the third book in The Emaleen Andarsan Series.The cover artist is working on the cover. She has submitted some draft designs that I am very excited about. I just can't wait to reveal the cover!I am also close to finishing my revising of the draft. When I do, it will go to my editor. Once the draft is with my editor, I will pick up work on book 4 (no title yet). I said "pick up" because I've
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Blog postWell, it's not quite Bingo, unless it's the "coverall" game. 😃
Here's how I play -- Amazon shows me my weekly book sales of the paperbacks by geography (the ebooks don't show on this tracking). The page displays a map of the United States that's divided up into 100 sales regions. The regions in which I have book sales are shaded - the darker the shade, the more books sold. Of course, I like to see dark shades because that means lots of readers and I want to reach a lot of -
Blog postIn the first and second books in The Emaleen Andarsan Series, Emaleen has lived in locations in New York State.You might guess that I live in New York State and if you did, you are correct.
In the third book, Emaleen relocates temporarily to a hidden location outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Why would I choose this location, you might ask? I did so for two different reasons. One is that when I was very young, I lived in a small rural area outside this city and I have fond memories of that -
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Blog postOne of the reasons that I am writing the Emaleen Andarsan Series is to empower girls (while at the same time not alienating boys - Emaleen is a tomboy). Specifically, I wanted a storyline in which a female protagonist is destined to be the most powerful of her kind in a world of magic. Also, I wanted her to be able to change her world for the betterment of others.
At the same time, I wanted to make the story realistic. The magic system I chose requires the caster to do more than jus -
Blog postNow that the Emaleen Andarsan Series e-books are back to being widely distributed, to assist readers to find the books at their favorite e-book retailers, I will be using universal links in my advertising and informational posts. Clicking on the universal link will provide a clickable list of an e-book's page at retailers that are selling the books.
The link for The Peerless Seer is:
https://www.books2read.com/u/bWKlRM
The link for The Peerless Seer's Gambi -
Blog postWhen I started this blog, I had intended to include some posts about being a mom. However, all of my posts thus far have been about my indie writing journey. So, here's my first mom post.
This one is on dealing with tweens and back talk. It's so annoying when it happens and it's so tempting to get mad. But I read somewhere that the best thing you can do is to refrain from engaging. The only thing you'll do if you do engage is to start a fight. Instead, the advice is to have a prepla -
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Blog postRecently, I tried an experiment. I removed my books from a wide selling platform (Amazon, BN.com, IBook, etc.) and opted to publish in Kindle Select. For those of you who don't know, this is an opt-in program for books published through Amazon Kindle. Only those books opted into the Kindle Select program are available on Kindle Unlimited ("KU") and can be borrowed through the Kindle Online Library ("KOLL").
I was attracted by the idea that people could read -
Blog postMay my inspiration be limitless
May my typos be few
May my consistency be flawless
May my pace be just right, too.
May potential readers find me
May they read my books to the end
May they post good reviews for others to see
May each recommend my books to a friend.
Most of all, let me find great joy
Along this path, I have chosen for me
Let me write amazing books that others enjoy
And finally, let m -
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Blog postWith determination, I wrote (or tried to write) through much of the day on New Year's Eve. I had a self-imposed goal to meet. It was to finish the first draft of the third book in my series before the end of the year. I hadn't yet finished because I had been having trouble finishing that 'last chapter.' I wanted it just so, and nothing I wrote was making me happy. But with the deadline in sight, it all finally clicked.
It was in the last hour of 2016 that I met my goal of finishing -
Blog postThis is about that "last chapter" in the first draft manuscript of a book. It's that chapter that ties all sorts of events and thoughts together. It's where the conflict (or a subconflict) continues to crescendo, climaxes and then resolves (one way or another). However, even though I'm calling it "the last chapter" it is really my second-to-last chapter and the action will be spilling over in part to actual last chapter.
You might wonder why I am talking about th -
Blog postWhile I was driving from store to store today for my holiday errands, I started to think about how readers find the books they read. But I'm not writing about that topic in this post. It's about a side trip that my mind took that I am about to share.
It was about what I will call "The Library Game." That name is really a misnomer because it's not really a game. It's really a random way of finding interesting books in the library.
The "game" starts wi -
Blog postThe Emaleen Andarsan Series, my fantasy book series for children 10+, is intended to include five books. I am currently working on the 3rd book in the series, entitled "The Peerless Seer's War." The draft manuscript currently has 78K words, with two chapters left, and a big event to occur.
I hope to finish the draft before the holidays, during which time I will prepare for the holidays, enjoy the company of my family (my husband and two children), and steal away time here -
Blog postI'm a little late posting the continuation of the original post. But finding time is difficult between working full-time outside of the home during the day, mothering my two children (which includes homework duty), and trying to find time to write. Adding to matters in this interval was the distraction of reading many books of other authors and the posting of reviews for some of them. I'm actually still working on the project as there were many, many books that interested me. However, a break t
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Blog postIt's been almost a year since I published my first book (December 9th, 2015). Over the last few days, I have been musing over the past year's events. To my surprise, I've realized that since I started my journey to become an author, I have learned a few lessons and made a number of observations.
This is the first of a series of post in which I will identify 12 such lessons/observations. I will address them in no specific order of importance.
1) Inspiration is everywhere -
Blog postWelcome to my blog. I am a mother of two, a lawyer during the day, and author by night and weekend.
My first novel was The Peerless Seer, the first of the Emaleen Andarsan Series for children ages 10 and up. This idea for this series came to me in a dream. After discussing the idea with my two children, a girl who was 11 at the time and a boy who was 9. They agreed to be part of my creative team, and we began to discuss story ideas. Although I wrote the story myself, they have parti
Books By B S Gibbs
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The Peerless Seer (The Emaleen Andarsan Series (Fantasy Series for Kids and Young Adults) Book 1)
Nov 24, 2015
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The Peerless Seer's War (The Emaleen Andarsan Series(Fantasy Series for Kids and Young Adults) Book 3)
May 10, 2017
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The Peerless Seer's Gambit (The Emaleen Andarsan Series(Fantasy Series for Kids and Young Adults) Book 2)
Jul 31, 2016
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