Sunday, September 29, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013
The Phoenix Project Series free Kindle eBooks Days!
Get the Kindle eBook for free on these dates:The Phoenix Project
Sept 20-21
Oct 14th
Nov 17-18
The Reformation
Sept 21-22
Oct 13th
Nov 17-18
Friday, September 13, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Helping out the local artists: Michelle Roberts Design
If you're interested in heartfelt, handmade crafts check out these Messenger Birds, crafted by a talented young friend of mine.
If you're as impressed as I am, vote for her in the Martha Stewart American Made Choice Awards.
Go crazy and use your votes for her. I did...
Here's the link: Messenger Birds
Friday, August 23, 2013
Second Edition Paperback is ready!
The Phoenix Project
Authored by M. R. PritchardEdition: 2
The Phoenix Project Book 1
The United States is crumbling under the weight of the worst recession in decades, and The Reformation has been causing a stir. It started with promises of overthrowing the election under the premise of change. But change starts where we least expect it in Phoenix, a small lakefront town, hidden in the backwoods of upstate NY.
Andie's life is about to change forever. She thought making it home was the hard part, but much worse is to come. She needs to find her family, she needs to find out what's happening to her town, and she needs to find someone she can trust.
Paperback $12.99 (Includes sneak peek of book 2!)
Kindle eBook $1.99
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
The hardest part of being a writer
I've had this blog post written and in the archives for a long time, waiting for the right time to press publish. I guess now is as good a time as any since most of it still applies.
One Writer's Dilemma:
What's the hardest part of being a writer?
Time, recognition, money.
The list can go on and on and on.
What's hardest for me?
Telling people.
Not just any people, people I know.
I haven't even told my mother.
True story folks.
True story folks.
I've been a closet writer for almost a year now. I have three completed novels under my belt and I have plans to get started on two more this year.
No, they aren't published, yet, but soon.
Which excites and scares me.
No, they aren't published, yet, but soon.
Which excites and scares me.
Why?
I can sum it up in one word:
Failure
Failure
It's not that my writing may not get recognition,
or that big publishers and agents continue to shoot me down.
or that big publishers and agents continue to shoot me down.
It's the failure in the eyes of people close to me that scares me the most.
It's that moment when you walk into a room and everyone eyeballs you and things get all uncomfortable and awkward because they know you've done something different.
But no one wants to talk about it.
Because you're not a super success.
But no one wants to talk about it.
Because you're not a super success.
That's my fear.
That's why I haven't told my mother, or most of my closest friends, or even my co-workers.
My New Year's resolution was to tell everyone what I've been doing.
Now ask me if I've done it...
Nope.
I know. I know. I need to grow some balls.
Until then I'll just continue drowning my worries with liquor.
What part of writing do you find the hardest?
(Update -- my secret has been out for about 5 months. That doesn't make it any easier. The self-doubt is still there, but at least I finally told my mother )
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