And now I’m at a loss for words.
It’s been an interesting time to get to this point, and someday I’ll write about it. For now, I’d like to introduce you to my amazing cover, designed by the even more amazing and lovely Belinda Borradaile, to whom I’d like to express my profound thanks. You can find Belinda’s stunning artwork and her amazing writing at https://idiotwriting.wordpress.com/
All Good Stories is a romance novelette that was begun as a project for the A-Z April Challenge in 2014. It was originally written entirely off the cuff and posted on my fiction blog unedited.
As best friends, Xavier and Jupiter have always been supportive of each others’ romantic relationships. But when Jupiter meets Bob online, Xavier can’t help but feel he needs to come to her rescue. There’s just something about Bob. In the process of preventing Bob from wooing Jupiter away, Xavier realizes he’s been in love with her all along. Can he keep her safe and win her heart? And will he ever get to read her manuscript?
Join Xavier, Jupiter, and a quirky cast of characters in this fun romantic comedy novelette with a twist you won’t see coming.
A few kind comments from my beta readers. With sincere appreciation:
“You got a couple of laughs out of me, and seriously, I do not laugh when I’m reading.” ~ Maggie Wilson, Writer/Blogger
“A lot of fun!” ~ Bee Halton, Blogger/Poetess
“A fun, easy read. It had me chuckling many times.” ~ Jeanne Owens, author of Kismet and Tell, and Chronicles of Riss.
Since All Good Stories is less than 50 pages in length, I’ve decided not to print a physical copy. The release date is Wednesday, August 10, 2016. You can pre-order your eBook for just 99¢ at Amazon worldwide for automatic delivery to your device on that day. Please find it here:
USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JQWMQAE
Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01JQWMQAE
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01JQWMQAE
All Good Stories will be available on Kobo by its release date!
Please feel free to share this post on your blog and all over social media! Thank you! And happy reading!
September 4, 2016 at 11:42 am
Yay!! An amazing feeling 🙂
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September 4, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Thank you! 😀
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August 10, 2016 at 11:55 am
Congratulations, Linda!
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August 10, 2016 at 1:34 pm
Thank you, Erica! 🙂
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August 10, 2016 at 11:25 am
Congrats, Linda! I am so amazed at other bloggers’ self-publishing journeys. Now the work really begins!! I’m promoting mine too. I’m going to move mine up higher on my sidebar–good idea. Good luck!
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August 10, 2016 at 1:35 pm
Thanks a lot, Terri! I’m only just realizing what’s involved in promoting – it’s a bit intimidating, eh? 😛
Best of luck to you too! 😀
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August 10, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Thanks, we may all need to take care of each other. 🙂
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August 10, 2016 at 11:07 am
Reblogged this on and commented:
Linda has published a book! She is a great blogger, writer, and community spirit! Check her blog and book out! -OM
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August 10, 2016 at 11:15 am
Thanks for the re-blog, Cush! 😀
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August 10, 2016 at 11:16 am
No problem Linda. I hope you sell a million copies. 🙂
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August 10, 2016 at 11:18 am
😀 ❤
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August 8, 2016 at 11:07 pm
Congrats Linda! Wishing you much success. And just an FYI, you may want to think about a physical book. Even though short, it just won’t have anything on the spine. There’s nothing like holding your newborn book. 🙂
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August 10, 2016 at 2:13 pm
Thanks so much, Debby! 🙂
My next one will definitely have a physical copy. I’m looking forward to holding it! 😀
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August 11, 2016 at 12:23 am
🙂
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August 8, 2016 at 5:04 am
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Linda that is so wonderful. I’m so pleased for you. It must be so feel good after the editing and re-re-re reading I’m sure there will be more publications to follow.
I can know say I “know” yet another published (almost) author!:)
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August 9, 2016 at 10:13 pm
Why thank you, Miss Poppins! 😀 hehe
I’m still re-re-re-editing my epic saga, actually. This one is more of a test-run so I know what to expect. I still hope to get my re-re-re-re- (etc.) novel published before the year is out! 😀
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August 10, 2016 at 12:58 am
To think I’ll know a double published in one year author! Joking aside, Linda, your writing is excellent, and I’m always impressed, so I’m so glad your words will be out there in the big world for others to enjoy.
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August 10, 2016 at 1:49 pm
Thank you so much, my dear. 🙂
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August 8, 2016 at 1:44 am
Congratulations Linda. And also to B. You girls really rock and I’m so proud of you both!!
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August 9, 2016 at 10:10 pm
Thanks so much, Sue! 🙂
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August 7, 2016 at 7:22 pm
Congratulations!!
It’s such a wonderful opportunity and I’m really amazed you have managed to finish. I struggled – stopped at one hundred pages, it’s so difficult to push through, so I really admire that.
All the best for you – your novel – and your future!
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August 7, 2016 at 7:26 pm
Thanks so much, Nam! 🙂
In all honesty, this novelette is less than 100 pages. But it’s only the first of the five novels I’ve finished. 🙂 I hope to publish another before the year is finished. 😀
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August 7, 2016 at 9:07 pm
Well let’s wait and see then!
Even getting past fifty pages is an achievement in itself. You need so much dedication, time, will power 🙂
I’ll be sure to take a look when it becomes available 🙂
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August 7, 2016 at 9:18 pm
Thank you! 😀
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August 7, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Congratulations, Linda. Great news and wishing you much fun ahead! 🙂
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August 7, 2016 at 2:49 pm
Thanks so much! 🙂
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August 7, 2016 at 12:05 pm
Congratulations Linda! 😀
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August 7, 2016 at 2:49 pm
Thank you, Susie! 🙂
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August 7, 2016 at 8:16 am
Reblogged this on Musings on Life & Experience and commented:
Linda is publishing!
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August 7, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Thanks so much for the reblog, Patricia. 🙂
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August 7, 2016 at 5:27 am
Well done for all your hard work and best wishes for the future.
(Way outside of my usual zone, but after the blurb….well I just had to order a copy on UK Amazon!)
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August 7, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Thank you so much! 😀
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August 7, 2016 at 12:02 am
Bravo! Congrats–wishing you a cornucopia of success.
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August 7, 2016 at 2:43 pm
Thank you, Shadeau! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 9:14 pm
Congratulations!
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August 6, 2016 at 9:20 pm
Thank you! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 6:44 pm
Well done Linda! Congrats! and I love the cover, especially the parrot – ha!
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August 6, 2016 at 8:02 pm
Thank you, Paul! 🙂 The parrot on the cover was totally Belinda’s idea. 😀
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August 7, 2016 at 5:29 am
As an aside Linda, I did a guest post over at Mark’s today. https://markbialczak.com/2016/08/07/i-want-to-be-unhappy/ I would be honored if you had time to drop by for a read
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August 7, 2016 at 2:44 pm
I’ll see what I can do. Thanks for the link, Paul. 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Awesome cover! Congrats and good luck with the book. And thanks for quoting me as one of your blurbs 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 8:01 pm
Thanks very much, Jeanne! I appreciate your expertise in beta reading! 😀
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August 7, 2016 at 9:20 am
You’re welcome 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 5:54 pm
Congrats! Love your cover!
Mine releases 5 days later–tingle tingle!
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August 6, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Thank you! And congratulations to you too! 😀
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August 6, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Well done Linda , I have preordered my copy and eagerly await it!!
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August 6, 2016 at 7:59 pm
Thank you, Willow! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 4:30 pm
And so am I published! (Kinda!) 😀
An honour to work with you Linda, as much as the occasional need for you to run and duck. 😉
Lovely to see some of my artwork being put to good use. (and ofcourse plastered all over social media!)…
A great feeling really…. thank you my dear for the opportunity and having faith in me. Means a heap ❤
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August 6, 2016 at 7:59 pm
And an honour to work with you too, my friend. Hehe. One day I’ll go back and count how many emails started with “…you’re going to kill me, but…”
😀 It was all worth it in the end though, right? 😀
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August 7, 2016 at 8:14 am
…and I never did. Good thing we live a far ey? 😛
Yes, it was – believe it or not..I ACTUALLY enjoy it! 🙂
Collaborations are always interesting. To try also to replicate someones mental vision and sense of feeling for what they want, on a ‘canvas’, whilst crossing all the design t’s etc, is a passion my dear. You know, telling a story but not telling a story WITHOUT words! It pleases me to know, you feel, I did it the justice your writing deserves. 😀
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August 7, 2016 at 2:47 pm
That you did. 😀 ❤
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August 6, 2016 at 4:21 pm
Congratulations!!!!
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August 6, 2016 at 7:57 pm
Thank you, Pamela! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 4:02 pm
Reblogged this on Diary of an Internet Nobody. and commented:
The extremely wonderful Linda G Hill is about to publish her first work and I can’t think of anyone who has been more instrumental in nudging me in the direction of writing fiction than Linda, so I’m glad to present her introductory post here.
Congratulations, Linda, I wish you every success.
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August 6, 2016 at 7:56 pm
Thanks so much, Guy. 😀 Much appreciated.
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August 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Congratulations Linda x
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August 6, 2016 at 7:56 pm
Thank you, Barbara! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 3:46 pm
YAY! Congrats! You know I’m getting it! 😀
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August 6, 2016 at 7:55 pm
Thanks, Joey! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:56 pm
That’s such a good news, Linda 🙂 Congratulations 🎊 🎉 🎉
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August 6, 2016 at 3:05 pm
Thanks very much, KG! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:50 pm
Congrats!
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August 6, 2016 at 2:49 pm
Ordered BTW!
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August 6, 2016 at 3:04 pm
Thank you!!! That makes me (finally) a professional author! 😀
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August 6, 2016 at 3:13 pm
😁 yay!!
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August 6, 2016 at 2:41 pm
Congratulations! This is amazing Linda!love the cover!
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August 6, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Thanks so much, Ritu! And isn’t the cover great? 😀
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August 6, 2016 at 3:15 pm
It’s amazing!
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August 6, 2016 at 2:31 pm
Congrats!
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August 6, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Thank you, Teri! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Congratulations Linda. This is such good news, and well deserved.
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August 6, 2016 at 2:33 pm
Thank you, Dan! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:28 pm
Congrats!
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August 6, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Thank you, Jan. 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:22 pm
congrats. that’s an amazing accomplishment.
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August 6, 2016 at 2:28 pm
Thank you, Jim. 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:22 pm
Congratulations, Linda. You deserve to be published.
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August 6, 2016 at 2:25 pm
Thank you so much, Patricia! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Reblogged this on Fiction Favorites and commented:
Linda Hill who is the brains behind among other things Stream of Consciousness Saturday is now a published author as of August 10th. Amazon is open for pre-orders right now.
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August 6, 2016 at 2:23 pm
Thanks for the reblog, John. 😀
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August 6, 2016 at 4:39 pm
Surwa (My best NJ accent)
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August 6, 2016 at 7:59 pm
Haha! Nicely done. 🙂
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August 7, 2016 at 8:56 am
🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Congratulations! How wonderful your dream is coming true.
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August 6, 2016 at 2:22 pm
Thank you, Martha! 🙂
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August 6, 2016 at 2:18 pm
Congratulations Linda. Welcome to the land of crazies.
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August 6, 2016 at 2:19 pm
Haha! Thanks, John! 😀
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August 6, 2016 at 4:39 pm
🙂
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