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Valerie Anne Faulkner
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- Hometown:
- Port Richey, Florida
- About Me and My Book:
- Valerie is a woman of faith and enjoys life and all her blessings.She is not wealthy but is certainly rich. She is a typical American that has hurdles to jump and mountains to climb, but she never gives up. She believes in the promise of tomorrow.
"I Must Be in Heaven, a promise kept" is a true inspirational love story about two ordinary people that have spent an extraordinary life together, all because they fell in love.
Valerie Anne Faulkner's unique ability to tell a story,
combined with her own personal experience, is the
premise of this book. But the promise made one
lonely desperate night is the reason it had to be told.
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- http://www.imustbeinheaven.com
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Peer Review, has me"flying high."
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The Writing Life
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Treasured Moments Photo album
Bill and I met in the summer of 1962, while I was on summer vacation at my grandparent’s home in Florida. I was 12 and he was 16. He was the boy next door. I fell in love at first sight. I felt like I was in heaven that summer we met. He was a romantic, and even carved our initials in the bark of…
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Thanks for accepting the invite, and for checking out my site. Best of luck to you...
I didnt for a few years after losing Jeff but then I realized that he would not want me to grieve so much and so put up the tree. I'd always loved that time of year growing up. Of course then I lived in NH where the snow was covering the ground, and most of the houses had bright lights shining...had plenty of family and friends to share the holidays with....
It's different in the south where not many put up the lights and the ground is brown and bare....but I have my tree back up and lights on the outside....anyway, great to get to know you...shirley
I spoke with two agents and two publishers. All are positive about my book in progress and want to see a chapter and proposal.
I've had three agents in the past and none of them did anything for me. One was in NY City. Nothing. So I've been a go-to-publisher person since then.
We'll see what happens. :)
I see we're both members of FL Writers Assn. too.
Did you go to the annual conference that was just in Orlando? It was my third year there and I swear every year gets better.
If you were there, I wish we'd have met. It's always so busy with the seminars, networking, & catching up with friends we only see once a year.
Shara
Love the picture of you and the dog. I train service dogs when not writing.
Good luck with your book.
Pam
It has been proven oftentimes you are given selective information versus the whole picture. The publishing houses ultimate goal is to sell as many products and services as possible. As a marketer, I understand the concept marketing is one of the single most important task for any artist. With or without a publishing house backing you, no one is going to promote your work like you would or as their own unless you are raking in the big dollars. Every encounter is an opportunity to infuse my work into the conversations without beating the potentials over the head with it. Its just a matter or picking and choosing your battles or should I say chance encounters.
My first time out, I self-published with Authorhouse. The experience was good in respect to self-publishers offer complete packages. In which I used as a gage to create my own "How To Do List". Now that I am somewhat familiar with the process and a whole lot wiser (I stilll have a long way to go before I consider myself an expert) I have elected to launch my own publishing company. Plans include re-editing my first novel (by the way, was the single worst mistake I made in my early career, relying on a company person) to be re-released to coincide with the release of the sequel under my own publishing company. In a way, the process in no more challenging than going with a self-publisher. The main hurdles are to research and contract the individual services, i.e. editors, distributors. graphic artists, printers, etc. I have learned that some of the services you can negotiate better rates individually rather in a group package. It also affords you an opportunity to maintain more control over your work. Secondly, you retain ownership over your copyrights and you're not force to stay with a vendor, such as a printer because they retain the rights. You can bargain for more short-term agreements. Allowing you to opt out of situations which are no longer in your best interest. The list goes on and on. Just never loose sight, that you are the publisher now and the only person looking out for your best interest is you. Similarily, in order to avoid alot of pitfalls, you have to stay abreast of the publishing game and the many changes and challenges which could take place at the spare of a moment. You can accomplish this by joining as many industry mailing list (of interest) as possible. But be selective so you are not bombarded with alot of junk mail.
I will be releasing a "How To" book Spring 2008 (on my new label of course) on how to easily navagate this process.
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I look forward to the continual dialouge.
Happy Reading!
Sorry to take so long getting back to you. I finally received my release date for In a Heartbeat yesterday and I worked like an insane fiend finishing a free give-a-way and book trailer. Now I need to figure out how to fit them on my page here. *groan* [just kidding]
I live in Clearwater and love it.
How long has I Must be in Heaven been in edits? I'm just wondering because I have a full length novel under consideration at The Wild Rose Press. Does it very long to go through edits?
Have a sunny day ~ ;o)
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You're certainly welcome to join Book Place. Also, it's up to you if you want to start your own network. The best bet is to think of an area where there might be a gap and start a network to fill it. You mentioned POD and self-publishing. They're not necessarily the same. POD is print on demand technology, which small presses also use. If you submit to a small press or larger one and they publish your book, it will easier on you financially than to self-publish. As far as copyright is concerned, your work is automatically copyrighted. If you submit to a publisher, you'll want the finished product copyrighted, since you'll most likely get revisions. You can find some of them on my network. You can also visit the forum section and pose questions. Hope this helps you.
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