Just some updates…Kawilara 2, writer’s festival…

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So I just wanted to give everyone a few quick updates…

I have surpassed 52,000 words on Legend of Kawilara 2 and am just starting chapter 14. Things are getting interesting! Things are looking to be on track for the September release…I am hoping to have it done and ordered in paperback for the local Word on the Street Festival, which I am excited to announce I will be at on September 23! More details to come soon on that. All I can say at this point is there will be paperbacks of Kawilara 1 and She Wasn’t Allowed to Giggle along with bookmarks and other fun stuff.

Createspace also had a little surprise for me the other day when I logged on. Apparently She Wasn’t Allowed to Giggle sold four paperback copies in July! Ebook sales have been fairly steady with the usual summer decline but for a peak in paperback sales…I was definitely surprised, but happy. This little poetry book continues to keep me guessing, considering I am doing little marketing for it these days while focussing on the Kawilara series.

That’s all for now…stay tuned for more updates!

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About Lavinia

You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only on. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as ONE." ~ John Lennon ♥ I am a 23 year-old hippie who is just discovering what life really is. My heart is entrenched in novel writing. I am pursuing a dream of being a full-time novelist. It's the beginning of a journey that I have always dreamed of. I have risen from a dark childhood of domestic violence. I faced that monster in my closet and am now writing about it. I watched my mother be tortured for almost ten years. I stood before the remnants of the house her ex burned down in a drunken rage. I lived with the aftermaths and the damage it did in the years that followed. Now, I am chasing dreams and living my life to the fullest.Through my writing I want to be an advocate for domestic violence and child abuse, to speak out and be a voice.I am a single woman, a journalism grad, an author, a sister younger and older, a daughter to a survivor of a mother and my angel daddy. I have been writing since I could put a pencil to paper it seems. My first writings were short stories rewriting fairy tales in ways I envisioned them to play out. Poetry was something that intrigued me in junior high school. An interest in Shakespeare came in high school when I attended an outreach school in grades 11 and 12. I was permitted to study on my own and got to drift around with different areas on top of the curriculum already in place. Shakespeare and forensics became the two main things I studied there. It was through Shakespeare's MacBeth and an essay assignment that I got interested in the witch hunts and trials of the 16th and 17th centuries, igniting the idea for the Spellbound series, now renamed Legend of Kawilara. In 2011, I set a goal. After graduating from college, I set out to publish two of my books. One is my poetry book about domestic violence and child abuse, “She Wasn’t Allowed to Giggle” and the other is the first in a series, “Legend of Kawilara, Part 1.” My poetry book was self-published back in September and “Legend of Kawilara 1” was self-published in December. Journalism is not quite my thing, as I have discovered. All I really want to do is write my books. Wildflowers Scattered, Estranged: Memoirs of a Small Town Girl is my second poetry book, exploring the struggles of a young outcast girl becoming a woman in a place she feels she doesn’t belong, now available. Also to be released in 2014 is the Kawilara sequel. Remember Love and Give Peace A Chance ~ Lennon

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