Books for $2.99

In these interesting times, where we're stuck in our homes, the arts are a great escape: reading, writing, drawing, painting, coloring, playing music, listening to music, dancing... or whatever medium you feel in your heart and soul. 

To help with those of you who want to read a book, I have lowered the price of my books for the next month to $2.99 ($4.99 for "Darkness"). It's not a lot in royalties for me, but it's something I hope you can afford and will still help keep me and my family afloat. If I could afford to make my books free I would in a heartbeat. Unfortunately I have yet to be discovered in a big enough fashion. If you know of anyone else who likes to read stories that contain: action, adventure, twists and turns, love, heroes, vicious enemies, fighting (weapons and hand to hand combat), please share this post. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Here's where to find my books:

Amazon: amazon.com/author/amandaschmidt09

Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/artist/amanda-schmidt/478053737

Barnes&Nobles: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/amanda-schmidt

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/Search/Query…

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/amandaschmidt

One last thing. If you enjoy my books, please rate and review so other people will take a chance on me. Thank you so much!! Stay safe and take care!  😊

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Still writing... :)

I hope all of you are doing well, and are safe.  Figuring things out during all this has been a feat inside itself.  But I won't bore you with those trials and tribulations.  Instead this is what I've been doing to the best of my abilities.  With 6 people in a small home, quiet and not disturbed moments are fleeting.  But I have managed to:

Finish re-reading/revising Story 10 (which is 172,000 words), and it's safe to say it's going to get a bit longer... as expected. However, if feels really close to done. 

And Story 20 is finally a completed first draft which is 188,000 words (which translates into approximately 775 book pages.) So now I'm putting both of those aside for a bit before I dive back into them. 

I picked up Story 3 which is 157,000 words. This is actually the second book I started. (It's called story 3 because the sequel to Taken was Story two when I started this. I was at story five or six when I realized that I was titling them wrong. A story and it's sequels are still the same story. Luckily, I had forgotten to give a story a # cause I already had a title for it. So it sits in Story 2's slot.) Anyways. It seems to me that it was finished in a sense, but I there was more I wanted to write so the story wasn't done. I haven't looked at this story in quite a while so hopefully, i can bring it to a close and have it in my "ready for the editors so I can publish" pile.

I hope you're reading, writing, drawing, making music, listening to music, or whatever art soothes your soul.  Stay safe and take care!  😊  

Artwork of Sonia

My daughter was hogging my computer the few days ago, so I decided to try my hand at drawing.      I ended up sketching Sonia from "The Shadow Dragon".   I have to apologize for the dragon on her sword, I didn't do it justice because I am horrible at drawing dragons - which you can see.  Her head that I can see in my head is awesome. After I was happy with the sketch I decided it would be easier to see what I did if I colored it.   Not wanting to worry about if I didn't like it colored or  if I messed up while coloring, I photo copied my sketch and used pencils and pens to color it.  The next day I couldn't focus on my books so I took a picture of the sketch and uploaded it to my computer where I colored and gave it a background - this took me pretty much the whole day.  I do like the way it turned out minus the sword.  I again have a stupidly drawn dragon and the coloring isn't quite right, but other than that, I really like.  Hope you do too!    So here's my artwork:

Just an update

Just an update.  Over the last few weeks, I've been working on two books.  

I printed off Story 10, because this usually helps me look at the story with fresh eyes. So far, there have only been a few detail changes with wording and what have you. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the 173,500word story, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm almost to the parts that I have recently added/edited(heavily) so my happiness with this story could take a severe turn (I'm hoping not). This story has a title, but not a cover. One out of two isn't bad. 

I'm also working on Story 20. It was supposed to have come to end already. Only when I got to what I thought was going to be the end, one of the "not nice" people in the story decide that it wasn't the end. Which means the story is still growing.  I can kind of see where it's going, but things keep coming up - I'm not complaining, just informing. (Have I mentioned that I love writing.) So this story is currently 175,289words and growing.  

I can hear the echo of voices from a couple of other stories, but I hope they don't get louder just yet. 😉