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Zinnia Hope, author of multi-genres and erotic romances; also writing as J. Emberglass |
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Zinnia Hope, author of multi-genres and erotic romances; also writing as J. Emberglass |
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Thursday, May 31Important News!!! The Red Storm is now available in print! If you love fast paced fiction, romance, mystery, and science-fiction, check out the following link. Here's the direct link to the product page: http://www.lulu.com/content/838415 
Saturday, May 19Good news about The Red Storm! Many of you have asked when the print version of this novel will be available. On May 26th, you can buy the paperback from Lulu.com! Whoohoo!!! I'm so excited! In addition to this, the publishers of Lavender Isis.com , Melissa Wathington and Rachel Lindley, have encouraged me to submit The Red Storm to some bigger publishers such as IUniverse, Baen Books, and Ace Books. Yesterday, after a lovely phone conversation, these two incredible women have assured me of the rights returning to me should a publisher express interest in The Red Storm. I am stunned and very humbled at their belief in me as a person and a writer. Their thoughts about my fiction totally blew me away and made me truly realize that the readership out there does, indeed, desire books that are plot driven and character oriented. If you're a dedicated writer and need some writing resources, support, or want to submit something to their magazine, The Oasis, please visit http://www.lavenderisis.com/ and take a look around. Since I've never queried publishers or agents with something that has been previously published electronically and in print format, I will be working with Rachel and Melissa on a query letter to send out. As some of you know, I have an agent considering one of my other novels, so I'll need to contact her with the update. I'm positively escatic to be able to test the publishing waters (no pun intended if you've read this novel, rofl!) with The Red Storm and will publish updates in my following newsletters.
Tuesday, May 15I will announce the winner of this $80 bloodgem pendant/necklace this week! Hurry to enter! http://lavenderisis.com/theredstormbuy.html
Thursday, May 10I have some material posted at www.blog.myspace.com/zinniahope if you want to read and visit me. I've been posting imagees that inspire me at my regular myspace page too www.myspace.com/zinniahope Add me as a friend and leave a comment to let me know you were there.
Wednesday, May 9   
Through her Grandmother Arianna's example, Jordanne Saunders becomes the admiral of The Red Storm. Her maiden voyage is to transport top government officials for a meeting of countries, but crewmembers would just love to see Jordanne fall flat on her face. When she’s given her grandmother's journal, Jordanne learns that Arianna's demise was not an accident, and expert Delph hunter, Wesley Cofferdrake, aids her in piecing the enigma together. As the voyage progresses, disease and hysteria plague the ship, but through a strange twist of events that nearly costs Wesley his life, Jordanne discovers that Arianna’s murderer has been right under their nose the entire time! http://lavenderisis.com/theredstormbuy.html
Tuesday, May 1A special invitation to all avid readers and dedicated writers: Since I have a few days of leisure time between writing projects, I’ve been brainstorming. (Yeah, I smell smoke too!) Promoting on the Internet is a pain in the tushy. I hate it and many authors whether published by big NYC houses or small e-publishers have told me they hate it too. So, I’ve decided that I’m going to extend an invitation to something special for all avid readers and dedicated writers. I’ve been working in the professional fiction magazine market for quite some time. I’ve had that big NYC literary agent and I’ve dealt with overseas publications, faced the nasty, abusive editors, and had my work boomerang at me as well as the experience of cashing those big paychecks. From the time this special invitation reaches you until sometime Saturday evening, May 7, there will be a special loop chat going on at my Zinnia Hope Yahoo Group. What do I mean by special? I’m inviting you to discuss serious publishing issues. Whether you’re an aspiring author or a seasoned one, stop in this week, ask questions, and submit brief excerpts to me for critique—although NOT all submitted material will receive a critique. More will be discussed about this at my Yahoo Group. Some things that may be discussed • How to write a query letter • The pros and cons of writing for the erotic markets • Pet words and cluttered prose • The ups and downs of using the Net to promote • And much more! Then, all day Saturday, authors are permitted to post two promos each with a 500-word excerpt (that’s the maximum so don’t cheat!) along with your cover and the blurb. This is Saturday ONLY. As many of you know, The Red Storm debuted last Saturday at Lavender Isis Press. I want to promote, but I just can’t bring myself to pi** with Yahoo Groups and I don’t really feel that banner ads and the like do that much. By bringing in readers and authors to my group, I’d like to get some good discussion going about fiction and publishing, and in the process, show the quality of my material too. Time: From now until the chatter stops on Saturday, May 7. Upon joining the group (you can always unsubscribe later), a file will be sent to you about receiving a possible critique and the usual stuff about group etiquette. So, stop by for good discussions, camaraderie, find out how goofy I am, lol, and from time to time, enjoy an excerpt from The Red Storm and my up-and-coming titles. And if you know someone who might enjoy this, send them the information to join the fun.  Click to join zinniahope My Official Author Newsletter Click to join ZHnewsletter Rules for Critiques 1. All material submitted during this special chat will NOT receive a critique. I’m doing these at my leisure throughout the day or evening. 2. I will post your critique with your title in the FILES section of my group UNLESS you tell me in your email that you’d rather I send it to you direct. 3. I am very thorough and honest. If you can’t take criticism—I’m not mean, but will point out the good as well as the bad—don’t ask for a crit. 4. Don’t be upset with me if I don’t crit your material. See rule number 1. 5. Whether the material is from a short story, novella or novel, choose 800 words from a section that is giving you problems. Leeway is given for the sake of a scene, but please don’t abuse this and send me 1500 words when the gist of what is going on can really be finished in 900. I’m sure you get the idea. If you have a question email me at zinnia_hope@sbcglobal.net Rules of Conduct 1. Respect others participating in the discussions. We may not agree, but don’t be nasty or rude. If you want your opinion respected, then please exercise the same respect for those you are communicating with. 2. NO PROMOS except on Saturday May 7. Promos are blurbs, excerpts, covers, chat announcements, etc. 3. Signatures to your blogs or websites ARE permitted.
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