The Cowboys are coming!

Yes! I just finished polishing the Cowboys Don't Sing story. It's a menage book m/f/m and oh my goodness these cowboys are hot! Break out the sex toys, because they know how to please a lady.

I am feeling kind of proud to have finally finished. The book ended at around 90k and is one of the longer stories I have ever finished. I will be submitting it to the publisher sometime this week and hopeful to see a Summer publishing date if they decide it is good enough.

Crossing my fingers and toes now! Hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend. :) In other news, I will be participating in a group scavenger hunt to celebrate Gabrielle Evans birthday! I am happy to be part of this epic occasion and you all will get more news and the official link on April 1st when it starts!

Spring is coming

Those darn daffodils are blooming and to me it's just another sign that Spring is coming. Actually I think this is the official week that Spring begins. With this time of year, I get a whole lot of responsibilities that pop up.

My day jobs go crazy. For thoe of you who don't know, I work 6-8 part time jobs at any one time and am a writer and a mom and a wife. Weekends get crazier between working and the kids sports activities.

I still have to do my taxes, but in due time it will all get done.

I'm still working on my contemporary cowboy menage romance, Cowboys Don't Sing. It's hit novel length and I'm still writing on it. I'm not sure when it will finish but I think it will be done right around Summer 2013. I've been working on it full time for 2 months now but the rough draft is nearly finished.

Hope to tell you more or share an excerpt soon.


Lots of love,
Missy Lyons
www.missylyons.com

The price of an ebook and me as an author

Just an fyi: I've gotten a few people who mention price is too high or just right on my books as part of their review or even email me or my publisher, and I hear this same complaint across the board on big name authors as well.

Price is out of my hands. Seriously.

When a publisher is involved I have no control over the price. And seriously there are a lot of people the cover price has to pay salaries for. I get a percent but they still have to pay the distributor, the cover artist, the editors (usually about three), the publisher, and any number of other people from the person who answers the phones at the office to a receptionist.

Smaller publishers  or Indie Publishers tend to have smaller staff and therefore lower prices than most of NY. Indie Authors are the ones who are giving away most their work for free, or for 99 cents.

I have felt for a long time this is lowering the value of books, and the authors hard work to be done too often. This isn't to say that I don't do it myself. I try to give a free read once or twice a year as a thank you to my readers but I don't usually do it to spice up my own sales because I think it's ineffective for me.

I am very thankful for the people that do support me and buy my books, and those people help put food on my table. I can't continue to work in this business if I don't get readers who buy my books, however I really don't have control over the pricepoint. Actually there is a lot I don't have control over, the cover art, the blurb, all of it is something the publisher has it's hands on. I'd like to say I control the story, but even that is subject to my editor's beliefs and the publisher's publication guidelines.

I am happier working for a publisher than not. I don't want to be creating my cover work, hiring editors and am not so controlling that I have to or want to micro-manage every mind numbing detail of the writing process. Things aren't going to change in that regard. I can't have all my writing time taken up by these kind of details which I have never enjoyed.

So, please try to be understanding that the complaints about pricing aren't landing on deaf ears but I have no control over that. I really don't.

And as much as I'd like to say it doesn't affect me, it does. I try not to put myself in my books but every book I create has a little bit of me in it. Whether it took a year or a month to write. I'm still not as fast a writer as a lot of my peers and I don't expect to ever get there, but saying the book is not worth what you might spend on a cup of coffee or a hamburger at McDonald's is rather insulting when I spend three months to a year on a novel length book that will only sell for around five dollars. Which is still way less than the big League books are selling for. Every 50 Shades book is $9.99 just for the kindle copy and I paid it to be able able to read the book. As the author, I get pennies of my book sales which are not even close to the same league as those guys.


So, I'm sorry I can't fix it but please don't ask me to take a paycut either. So go ahead and slam me for bringing it up, but this kind of thing is not always spoken about and I love my readers, I really do, but this is like complaining the sky is blue, because it is.

It's GIVEAWAY time!!

Well, it's nearly time to do a giveaway. I would like to thank everyone for all your support and love. I am really only a midlist author, but I love it when I get fanmail and people who recognize my name and begin to chat about my books.

My Facebook fanpage is growing slowly and it's hit a landmark at 250 likes last week. I want to do a giveaway when it reaches 275 of a signed book and again when it reaches 300. All you have to do to be part of it is to like and share the page.

https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMissyLyons?fref=ts 

The giveaway will take place once I rach the magic number of likes, so please feel free to share it and help it grow.

Also if you want more details about the giveaway you can check out the event I created here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/443557945714118/

Today I will be writing more cowboys, but I hope you'll consider joining. Thanks again for all your support. :)

Lots of love,
Missy Lyons
www.missylyons.com

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The Cowboys are one step closer to being done

Progress update for the day. I managed quite a few new words. But there is still a lot left to do to wrap up the Cowboys Don't Sing Story. This is the sequel to the Cowboy's Don't Dance. While the heroine in that book was a professional dance teacher, this heroine is a country western singer.

There are a few parallels but this is a completely new direction for me in this series. The wolves and the paranormal stuff is going on the background and the cowboys don't know that the wolves aren't ordinary wolves. This is purely a contemporary western romance book with two men, and one woman.

It started out at 40,000 words this morning and ended at 45,000 words this evening. It's coming along nicely, and I'm hoping to get this book done in the next week in the roughdraft form. It will probably take me another week to self edit it before I can let anyone see it, even my beta readers, but it should be a good book.

What's cooking at my house

So, I decided to work on updating you guys about which books you might be able to expect next in line. I have a few nearly done but they all take time to get through the writing process and ready to submit but here's the list I have and they may be released not necessarily in this order.

Cowboys Don't Sing is at 40,000 words
Goal to finish the book is 55,000 words

Cowboys Don't Play is at 2000 words
Goal to finish the book is 45,000 words

The Billionaire's Fake Fiance- 2000 words done
Goal to finish the book is 45,000 words

Shark's Claim  is at 2000 words
Goal to finish the book is 45,000 words

Discipline and Desire is at 2000 words
Goal to finish the book is 45,000 words

Halloween Hunt II is at 500 words
Goal to finish is at 45,000 words

Halloween Hunt III is at 0
Goal to finish is at 45,000 words

Halloween Hunt IV is at 0
Goal to finish is at 45,000 words
Not sure what to call the next few stories, but I will come up with a title as they evolve further or ask you guys for help if I can't.

Untitled m/m #1: 8,000 words

Untitled m/m #2: 500 words

Untitled m/m #3: 8,000 words

I thought you might be interested in what's going on and what you can expect down the pipeline from me in the next few months. If I am really lucky I hope to wrap up the cowboy story in the next two weeks with a lot of hard work and dedication. After that, it's really about which characters are yelling the loudest to get their story written first.

Hope you all have a great day and if you have any questions just ask.

Bound by Desire is now free

I am pleased to announce Bound by Desire is now free for a limited time at almost everywhere. So what are you waiting for? Go out and get your copy today! If you liked it and want to say thank you, then leave a review or some feedback for me. It would be great to hear what you think so when I write the next book I can keep those comments in mind.

I am working on the sequel now, so it shouldn't be long before you see the next book in this series. Club Desire is all about the BDSM lifestyle and the people who love it. :)

Here is the link for Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Bound-Desire-Club-ebook/dp/B008AQ53TO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1362148934&sr=8-2&keywords=bound+by+desire+missy

Bookstrand

http://www.bookstrand.com/bound-by-desire

Barnes and Noble

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bound-by-desire-missy-lyons/1017482421?ean=2940044207288

Itunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/bound-by-desire/id590561503?mt=11

All Romance Ebook

https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-boundbydesire-825401-147.html

Smashwords:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/171055