The Price of Innocence Headed to Retail

It won't be long before The Price of Innocence on audio is up for sale.  It's passed quality control and is being prepared for Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.  Below is the retail sample for your listening enjoyment!  Stevie Zimmerman, Narrator.

Updated Version of The Price of Deception

Hopefully, this coming weekend, I will be able to finish upgrading The Price of Deception to take care of some glaring problems that have been reported to me by my readers in the United Kingdom via reviews on Amazon. It will correct the verbal address of duke and duchess to Your Grace and other references as needed. I apologize for those oversights on my part. (Yes, I'm American, but with my extensive English ancestry, I should have known better.) The Price of Love does contain the correct form of address. 

Amazon should automatically push the updated version to everyone's Kindle. I will contact them and make sure that happens. 

Next on my list will be The Price of Innocence. I'll go through the text and make any necessary updates. 

The Price of Love is currently at my editor and with three beta readers. Things are progressing, and I should be able to make the early October release. Thanks for your patience! 

After all is said and done, I probably will continue to Book #4, The Price of Passion. I'll make the final decision after Book #3's release. Frankly, even after 95,000 words continuing the family saga, it still isn't complete. I have too many unresolved love interests.

Have a great weekend dear friends and readers! As always, thank you for your support.

Fondly, 

Vicki

Tease Time

I'm in editing hell.  Nevertheless, I can at least take a break and share with you the subheadings to the chapters.  Let your imagination go wild!  

Prologue - Confession is Good for the Soul
Chapter 1    - A Buried Past   
Chapter 2    - No Patience and Deja Vu   
Chapter 3    - Like Father Like Son   
Chapter 4    - A Blessing or Thorn   
Chapter 5    - Right or Left
Chapter 6    - Convergence of Strangers
Chapter 7    - Season of Matchmaking
Chapter 8    - Prudent Caution
Chapter 9    - What is Truth?
Chapter 10  - More Than Tea and Coffee
Chapter 11  - Thwarted Plans
Chapter 12  - The Power of the Tongue
Chapter 13  - Tea for Five
Chapter 14  - Off With Your Head!
Chapter 15  - An Invitation
Chapter 16  - Brandy, Cigars and Secrets
Chapter 17  - Winner Takes All
Chapter 18  - The City of Light and Love
Chapter 19  - Family Heirlooms
Chapter 20  - A Graveyard of Bones
Chapter 21  - A Forgotten Man
Chapter 22  - A Smoke Screen
Chapter 23  - The Pleasures of the Flesh
Chapter 24  - A Sibling Tussle
Chapter 25  - An Emotional Guillotine   
Chapter 26  - No Time to Spare
Chapter 27  - The Day of Reckoning
Chapter 28  - The Aftermath of Truth
Chapter 29  - Intentional Harm
Chapter 30  - A Fork in the Road
Chapter 31  - A Final Pardon
Chapter 32  - Season of Change
Chapter 33  - Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

Another Update on The Price of Love

This morning I drove to Office Depot and had the book printed off (340 pages) for a grand total of $26.91.  Geesh!  That was expensive. My Epson printer at home would have gone through two ink cartridges, no doubt, costing me $48.  I guess I saved a few bucks.

To top it off, I had no highlighters around, so I went tromping off to look for one highlighter. How hard could that be since all the school supplies are out?  Purchasing one highlighter is an impossibility at this time of the year. They are bundled up for school in multi-highlighter packages. I ended up with a six-pack for $5.99.  Highway robbery.  Why can't I just buy one for a buck?  Well, I suppose I could look at this way, I have six highlighters I can use on six more books.

Next week, I'll be reading through the text on the printed page. I've stared too long at the book in MS Word format on a computer screen and can no longer see my typos.  There is something about looking at it in print that gives you another view.

Things are progressing, though I have this feeling it's not going fast enough.  October 1st is still my deadline for release of the eBook.  Print will come later, because I need to reformat it entirely and design the interior and back cover.

When I get bored, I keep fooling around with the cover.  Yes, I know I have one already, but I'm a Photoshop junkie of the worse kind.  I downloaded a new font today that's really curly-swirly.  I'm like a kid playing with a new toy.  I've even got stand-by covers that are totally different, too.  

Well, back to work!  I have five more chapters to run through Grammarly, and then I'm reading and holding in my hand six brand new multi-colored highlighters as I read 340 pages.  

Pray for me.

Fondly,

Vicki

Update on The Price of Love

The Price of Love is consuming my life. This is my third round of re-reading the text and making changes. Each day I'm working on it to correct, enhance, and make it a better read. In addition, I've been running it through Grammarly (a nifty online program you should try out). 

Hopefully, by September 9th, I will have it in the hands of my beta readers and real editor extraordinaire. I am aiming at an October 1st release in eBook and October 15th release in print (or no later than 10/30). 

Editing, at this point, really takes patience. In return, I hope you will continue to be patient as I work to deliver to you a good story that will make you shed a tear at the end. I'm hoping this one won't get thrown against the wall. 

All my best, 

Vicki

Teaser

Just writing, writing, writing. Pounding keys.

I'm developing Angelique (who you'll know as Jolene); deciding if I really want a love interest for her; fleshing out young Robert's character; and many other things in the plot.

The book is heavily focused on her life and those in her inner circle as she searches for her identity in London and Paris. Robert, Suzette, Philippe are more secondary characters, but definitely still very much a part of the discovery as the story progresses. It will be an interesting conclusion!!! Just wait to see how she does it!

The little kidnapped baby has grown into a very bold and opinionated woman, especially about her dysfunctional family...after all, she is a Countess! Questions to think about: 

• How is her identity revealed to her?
• Who will find out first who she is?
• How will she feel about her mother when they first meet? 
• Will she get along with her half-brother, Robert?
• Do you think she'll respect His Grace, the Duke, after breaking up her parent's marriage? 
• Will she be able to find Philippe in Paris? Will he even be alive? 
• How will she reveal the truth to her family what she knows and they do not?
• Will she love them or blame them for what happened to her?

You'll just have to wait to find out. Remember, it is The Price of Love.

I should be at 60,000 words by this weekend. My goal for this series has always been about 80,000 per book.

Let me add, that I've been adding quite a bit of the English lifestyle in the Downton Abbey fashion doing research such as the dining experience among the wealthy. One article I found had a wealth of information about the entire dining experience. It's a new era, with new fashions, motorcars, and changing social attitudes. 

Maybe in the days ahead, I'll post a few "draft scenes" to tease you some more.

My best, Vicki

Update on "The Price of Love" Release

I know it's been a while since I've posted, which really hasn't stopped the questions on Facebook, Blogger, or via email - when will The Price of Love  be released?

Finally, after months and months of struggling with this book, my muse (if there is such a thing) has returned to haunt my mind day and night.  I'm about half way through writing the book.

I didn't want to pursue writing this third book by force, and if you're an author you'll understand why.  When you struggle for inspiration, I don't think the end product is worth publishing. In addition, I know there are very high expectations on how this story turns out!  However, if the tale comes from your heart and you are moved by words and scenes in your mind, then it has a chance of being a decent read.  I owe that to you, my readers, to give you a conclusion that is worth the wait.

I'll keep you updated as things progress.  Should there be no more unforeseen life circumstances to prevent my pace (which have been many in the past year), I should have it out in the next two-three months.

Thank you for your patience and love of the series.

Regards,

Vicki