Release Day for Traitor Savant! (and attack of the stats junkie)

So, I've been busy the last week with spreading the word for my Traitor Savant release day joy and for the freebie run for Rebel Elements. Now I'm sitting back and hitting refresh a lot--my hard-earned reward!

Equally as cool as watching the sales and free downloads add up is watching my books find their way onto various Amazon lists. Here are some highlights from the day thus far:

Title: Rebel Elements
Status: Free
Amazon Top 100 Lists: 4

#24 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Science Fiction, Fantasy & Scary Stories > Fantasy & Magic

#3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Science Fiction, Fantasy & Scary Stories > Fantasy & Magic > Coming of Age

#10 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Science Fiction, Fantasy & Scary Stories > Fantasy & Magic > Sword & Sorcery

#32 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature and Fiction > Science Fiction and Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic

Title: Traitor Savant
Status: New Release
Amazon Top 100 Lists: 1

#50 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Sword & Sorcery

Amazon Hot New Releases Lists: 3

#9 on Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen and Young Adult > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Sword and Sorcery

#55 on Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen and Young Adult > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy

#65 on Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen and Young Adult > Science Fiction & Fantasy

#25 on Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Fantasy > Epic


Though most of the lists my books get on are in the Teen and Children's categories, I just love seeing them on the Epic Fantasy lists, too. How tautological!

Cover Reveal: Traitor Savant, Second Seal of the Duelists

Sequel to Rebel Elements

Second book in the Seals of the Duelists series

Available September 20th for purchase

Buy the first novel here

An unexpected torture

Funny thing about going about your business. We get so caught up in doing the ordinary that the obvious escapes our notice.

Late last night, I loaded the dishwasher, wearing my handy dandy, long, pretty pink rubber gloves. The children had already gone to sleep, and I wanted to make sure everybody had clean breakfast bowls in the morning.Finished with my loading I did what I do every time. I ran the water and flipped the switch for the garbage disposal.

But something was wrong. The disposal made a loud crumbling noise at me. I instantly worried that my daughter had dropped a peach pit inside it, not knowing they weren't supposed to go down disposals.  I turned the angry monster back off. With a double check glance at the switch to make sure the disposal was a really, really, really off, I reached my gloved hand inside to feel around for that peach pit.

Can you guess what's going to happen next? I sure didn't.

I had left the water on. The scalding, burning water. As I wrangled my arm down the disposal, the mouth of my glove shifted beneath the flow of the hot water. It poured down my glove and surrounded my fingers. I yanked my hand up out of the disposal to try and rip the glove of finger by finger. That doesn't work very well when the inside of the glove has suction due to water replacing the air around my hand. It does, however, empty all the hot water out of my glove, by pouring it down my arm. Oh goodie.

Eventually, I got the glove off and held my scalded arm beneath a nice cool stream of water. Three applications of aloe vera later, the burning calmed down enough to let me sleep.

There is an upside, though. For some reason, I reached down that disposal with my right hand. And I'm left handed. So I'm not completely stymied today. Typing isn't fun, though. Every time my fingers bend, they sting. So I'm using voice recognition.

I've been under rather a lot of stress lately. I guess this just shows how distracted I'm getting. But, onward and upward. I have so much to do, it would be a real shame to flip out now.