Two novels published!

amazon.com/author/stevieturner


I am enjoying writing women's fiction and self-publishing.  My first novel  'The Porn Detective' tells of the effect on his marriage of a man's addiction to pornography.  It is available on Amazon.com or Smashwords for a very reasonable price.

My second novel is a humorous light-hearted look at several different characters who all meet up at a Pilates exercise class for the first time.  It's actually free on Smashwords, so click on the link below if you feel like having a bit of a laugh...

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/379611     The Pilates Class

I'm now working on my third novel, and can't wait to give up the daily grind and write full time.  While marketing my novels I am meeting some very interesting and supportive people, and kick myself that I wasted six months waiting for somebody else to market them!

Review of 'The Porn Detective'

Today I received the first review for my novel 'The Porn Detective'.  I'm pleased to have received 8.5 out of 10!  Looking forward to publication day......

http://theunleashedreviewboard.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/trb-speaks-on-the-porn-detective/

Building up a fanbase

After joining various social networking sites to promote my book,  I've come to the decision that Wattpad.com is the best.  You can put as little or as much of your manuscript on for reading as you want, and you can also build up your own reading list of books that interest you.  I only joined a week ago, but already the first three chapters of my novel 'The Porn Detective' have been read 151 times, and I now have 23 followers.  This all helps if eventually I decide to self-publish.

http://www.wattpad.com/story/8065198-the-porn-detective

Click on the link....

Click on the link below if you would like to read the first few chapters of my novel 'The Porn Detective' on Wattpad.  It's already had 64 reads, 5 followers and one vote after only one day!




http://www.wattpad.com/24602650-the-porn-detective

Wattpad.com

I've put the first three chapters of my novel 'The Porn Detective' on Wattpad today.  Already had 24 reads and one vote!  Please click on the link below to read and leave a comment. Thanks.

Stevie

http://www.wattpad.com/24602650-the-porn-detective

Finding an Agent

Update:

A few more months have passed, and at one point an agency debated for a week about whether or not to represent me (they eventually declined).  Since then a steady stream of rejections have started to dent the confidence I originally had in the novel, but at the end of July I had another interested agent.  She now has the manuscript, but I am now of the opinion that I would have more of a chance if I was a celebrity!

Several agents actually liked the book, but at the end of the day it 'didn't fit their lists'.  It's not about vampires, warlocks, aliens or spies.  It does not feature gratuitous sex or violence (one person advised me to 'get to the sex bit quicker'). It's about a man with addictions to pornography and alcohol, and the effect that these addictions have on his marriage.  Another agent congratulated me on an original plot, and another even asked me to 'pare down the action and concentrate on one or two issues'.  If I did that I would not have too much to write about.....

I think 'The Porn Detective' is a good read.  I've no intention of re-writing it to suit one agent who may then reject it anyway.  I like it as it is, and I hope the latest (and final) interested agent likes it too.  The roller-coaster of emotions I have gone through in the past few months waiting to hear back from agents is coming to an end.  There's a wealth of free tools to self-publish and market your own book, and at the end of the day you get to keep the rights!

So I wait and wait to hear the last opinion (some of them never reply at all), but have already saved my manuscript as an e-book ready for Smashwords........

Best wishes,
Stevie Turner