Finished A Guy's Dream Come True and working on a new YA sequel

After finishing A Guy's Dream Come True a few weeks ago.  Here's where you can find my books:

Smashwords

Amazon

Update:

I've started the new draft of  a sequel to my YA book, City of Fury.  The sequel is called School of Fury.  I'm going to write about what it would be like to come back from saving a world to finding out the world you knew is completely different, but you haven't changed.  You're a few weeks older and a lot wiser than you were when summer started.  You left to find your parents and ended up in the middle of a planetary war.  Now, summer's over and you want to turn in an abbreviated version of the best summer ever report and introduce all your friends to your new boyfriend, but everything's different.  Completely and utterly different.  

So far, it's a fun story.  I want to write about culture shock, the environment and figuring out where you belong.  

Hope you enjoy my newest romance novel.  I'll be back to writing the 4th Guy novel later this year.  It's called, A Guy's Last Request.

Have a great weekend!

Beta Readers needed for my new book, A Guy's Dream Come True

Hi - I'm working on the final draft of my third romance novel, A Guy's Dream Come True, and need beta readers to give me feedback.  If you're interested, let me know!  I'll return the favor someday!

Breathe

Hi everyone - having fun this summer?  I've been working on my Young Adult book, School of Fury and letting my third "Guy's" romance breathe before I do the final rewrite.  Ok, I was a little lazy on writing School.  I worked out a couple of chapters and have been doing some planning for the shape of the book.

Basically, I've been letting ME breathe a little before the rewrite for my third romance novel.  I'm feeling good.  Strong, ready and excited to make the book a terrific read for you!

Thankfully, I don't have a need to do any major plot overhauls.  I like the way this story played out.

I took 2  days off this week and earlier today I was tempted to try to get the book out by next weekend, but I am going to slow down, check carefully for typos or repeated sections and then check it again.
And Again.
And Again.

Once I publish "A Guy's Dream Come True," my writing schedule actually gets intense.  Before the end of the year, I plan to carefully check my first 2 books for typos and repeated sections based on reader reviews and feedback (THANK YOU).  I will be working on "School of Fury" and hope to publish it before Summer 2014.

My fourth romance novel, "A Guy's Last Request," is going to be a lot of fun to write.  I have a deadline of Summer/fall 2014 for the completed draft.

That's the plan.

Enjoy the summer!

Breathe!

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Smashwords Shawna Hansen books

Enjoy!

Pride in Ownership

Indie authors can take pride in the new Smashwords' Indie Author bestseller lists on Publishers Weekly.  Indie Bestsellers

Smashwords keeps pushing the boundaries of Indie books and establishing itself as the place to be as an Indie writer.  Every point of contact that I have had with Smashwords has been encouraging to me as an artist. 

My experience with Smashwords has been A+++  My books are really getting out there.

When I first started out in 2011, I thought Amazon would be the major player, but I feel like Amazon is tip-toeing around trying to keep the publishers on top and the indies can scramble for the crumbs below.  I don't feel any pride in ownership with Amazon, but I feel extremely proud to see my books distributed worldwide on many different devices and in many channels with Smashwords.

I know Amazon is doing the same thing, but why don't I feel any pride in ownership?  I just don't feel like Amazon knows what to do with Indie writers. 

Hurray for Indie writers and the new bestseller list!  I'm going to shift my focus to not only publishing on Smashwords, but being a Smashwords consumer!

Eat, Drink and Be Merry!

A friend of mine gave a speech at his birthday party and said we should live our each day as if it is it our last -- we don't know when, but one of the days of our lives WILL be our last day.

Tell the ones you love, you love them!  Spend time with them.  Enjoy each minute.

In the world of writing and rewriting, as you work through a manuscript, do you practice this philosophy?  Do you write each page as if the book may end on the next page?

Do you write each chapter completely as if it were the end of the book?

Or do you just live and enjoy each moment of the writing process?

If today was your last day, did you write the story you wanted to write?  Did you get to the important parts of the story or did you nitpick over and over and over through a scene that you may delete later anyway?

If you only wrote the story you need to write on your last day on this planet, what would it be?

School's out!

While I'm letting my new book draft breathe for a couple of weeks before starting editing/rewriting, I'm starting the sequel to my young adult SF book, City of Fury. 

The new book is called School of Fury.  After everything that happened on Fury in the first book, Anjie and Kaz return to Earth so Anjie can go to high school with her friends.  Unfortunately, she's in for a shock:  she's been gone for 20 years! 

Times have changed and Anjie has not.  Anjie's friend, Kaz, a native of Fury, has seen what happens to a planet when war and greed take control. 

Learning about the environmental movement on Earth and the changes Earthlings are making in caring for our planet is going to be a great adventure!