The Iron Butterfly Series (Chanda Hahn)

So as my few followers know, I don't actually post about other books very often, but I have a point to make about this book.

I read +Chanda Hahn 's Iron Butterfly book in the 9th grade with my very good friend. I loved it, but I got so busy with life that I never continued reading the trilogy. My friend, however, he did. He read it and very highly recommended the second book. (He didn't know the third was finished until I found it and told him.) This week I've been dealing with quite a few things on my plate that have really been emotionally detrimental. And, if you ask my mom, she'll actually tell you it's been longer than this week. But one day in math while I was bored, (come on, who really enjoys math?? Not me.) I opened my kindle app on my phone and started re-reading the Iron Butterfly book. I exasperated some friends because for the next day or so, that was all I would do. "What are you doing?" Oh, just reading this AMAZING book. Anyway, after I finished the first, I finally, three years later, bought the second book. And finished that within a day and found the third one and bought it.

These books follow a young woman named Thalia and her adventure. She meets many friends . . . feels the whip of many betrayals . . . and is such an easily relatable character for me. If you look at my copy of the first book I have so many highlights for what I connected to my freshman year. Most of them still held true. I felt like Thalia is a girl who will be hurt again and again, but she finally finds how she's supposed to live without relying on really anyone but herself. Yes, she does lean on some people throughout the trilogy, but she finds strength within herself to live again and again. There are many parallels in this story with my life, and not only with the characters. Yes, I have my own Joss, my own frustratingly perfect Kael, my tough on the outside Bearen, and even the confusing Syrani. But I also have the painful memories of my own Septori, and to go to an extreme, I have my own painful Iron Butterfly that changes me whenever I encounter it.

I have read many fantastic books, but Hahn has written one of the most amazing in my humble opinion. I wholly encourage you to check it out. Read more here about the book and where to find it. Don't just stop with the first one, even though it is absolutely amazing. To get the full effect, you must read on.

Happy New Year!!

Brand new year, means lots of new opportunities. What are some of your goals?

Getting there !!

Last night I finished the second draft of World of Glass!!  Now I need to finish the series I'm SUPPOSED to be working on...
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NANOWRIMO 2015!!

Hey everybody!! It's my favorite time of year again! While the ghouls, goblins, and princesses wander through the streets, awake are the writers waiting to scream. At midnight starts the annual Nanowrimo competition!! Starting at midnight all of the writers all over the world begin writing their 50,000 words for the [Inter]National Novel Writing Month! So excited! I'm hoping to finish book three this month! If you're not participating, wish us all luck!!

Happy Halloween one and all!!

Mind Blown

Just realized that a novel is like an essay. I haven't ever seen this before.

Intro for an essay is equivalent to the character formation of the story.
"3 paragraph body " is the "3 main trials "
The conclusion or " why ", is just the " pull it all together in the story.

Don't judge me, I'm slow. ;p

While I'm posting,  thanks for all the support I've received and all the people who have spread my name.

Words from a friend

A good friend of mine just sent me these words out wisdom:

"A book can change, be rewritten, and even deteriorate. You can read it again and again with different meaning each time. A story contains the same book repeatedly, but can be seen from any angle, also changing it's meaning based on what you want it to be. The writer's intention is the only thing you can rely on for it never changes. Meaning, no matter how you rewrite the book, or interpret the story, the author writes for the same goal, no matter how bad, or changed, or old the book has become." - Robert Gordon

Hey guys!!

Super terrible at my blog. That'll be my next goal:  get better at the blog. If you ever have questions, Facebook is always updated.

In two days, I've written  11,581 words in my book. That is 17 single spaced pages. At the end of the first draft I had 68,412 words 120 pages. Right now I'm about 80% done and have 84,086 words and 139 pages. I love all of the changes and all of the additions I've made. My favorite part is learning more about my characters.

Rose Winters

I feel like this is an accurate description of me.

Revealing the Unknown

So, it's been 11 days since book two has been published. Woohoo! My mom's copy came yesterday and it made me super happy to see the picture on the cover. Spread the word ! Both books are available on Amazon. Thanks for all your support !

Facebook

Hey everybody! As of last night, we're live on Facebook!  Check us out! Just look up Rose Winters- author.

Thanks !

Problems

Alright, I'll start out with the good news. Revealing the Unknown will be coming out this April. It's all ready.

Now the bad news. I need help. Should I restart book three, or just continue what I have??  This is a very hard decision for me. Help ?

Been a While

Hey everybody !! It's been quite a while since I've posted. Lots has happened and I'm still writing ! The sequel to Beyond the Unknown should be being published in April. ( see above for more info ) I'm still working on My World of Glass and I really love it!! Thanks for all your support!

Temporary Poll

Hey everybody! So in light of getting my second book published and working on editing another one of my books, I've been wondering: What makes a good cover? I've never really read books by the covers so I don't know what people are looking for. So I have created a general poll that you can just take a look at right before you leave. It'll be open until my birthday and then I'll close it.


****If you would please, PLEASE, email me and explain your "other" choice that would be great! You can contact me on the right hand side of your screen and the poll is on your left. Thank you so much for your participation!

LABOR DAY SALE!

So, I wanted to give a holiday discount, and I wanted it to apply towards Amazon, but right now I can't. In the process of trying the Amazon, however, Here is the code for $1.50 off of Beyond the Unknown for this weekend:

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Just put this into your promo code slot when purchasing my book off of CreateSpace eStore. Thanks everybody!

Publicizing!

So we've finally been able to order posters for my book! The problem is, they're not extremely incredible. Just very simple. And on top of that, I still don't have many people interested in my books. I have had somewhere around 886 views to this site but less than 15 copies of my book. That worries me a lot because I don't know how else to make my book public other than word of mouth. Please share your experience with my website, and if you've read my book then that as well.

Thanks for everything everybody!

Jim Brickman In The Spotlight

Hey guys, this is Kyle Woodruff and if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be here. I owe so much to him and he's trying to get the chance to sing with Jim Brickman who is a singer he really likes. If he wins this competition, Kyle gets to sing at a Christmas concert with Jim and I was hoping you could all lend your support to him and check out his video. :) He helped me get published, now I am going to do my best to help him get on stage. Thanks guys! Love you all!

An Assembly??

Hey everybody. So I have been asked to do an assembly at an elementary school come October time (Thanks mom. You could have NOT bragged to your boss about me being published.) and I have no idea what to do. I think I want to have a PowerPoint presentation about how to outline a story. The principal and reading specialist at the school want me to get the upper grades excited to do the Youth Nanowrimo program that they're going to be doing. So I was going to give them tips on how to get their story going. I was also going to give out outlining packets as "rewards" instead of a signed copy of my book unlike most authors. My book is not a book for 4-6th graders.

I need your advice and help, everybody. Are there any frequently asked questions that need answering? Or whole "How the heck do you do this" things? I just need advice on how to TALK to small children. I'm at a total loss. Help!!

Almost Sequel?

This post has nothing to do with my recently published book Beyond the Unknown. Sorry. I do have a question for my readers that I really do need answered.

I wrote a book in April for "Camp Nanowrimo" called My World of Glass. It's a book I'd been writing since a few days after Christmas 2013 and I finished it a little bit into June. It was long and was pretty amazing if I do say so myself. Anyway, my problem is I want that book to be edited and made even more amazing, but I want to write the same book in a different character's perspective. Is this a good idea? Or should I just go through and do the alternating chapters thing? All I know is that if I did make them two separate books then Dessa's perspective would be book one (that's the book I just finished) and Demetri's POV would be book two. I love Demetri and want him to have his say and I want to write the book in his point of view but I don't know which would be easier or more practical. The book is already relatively long (for books I write, still relatively short compared to the world's standard) and it would probably double in length if I did Demetri's POV. But the thing is, I want to have this book with the same scenes and very little differences, just in a different character's POV. That's not how you do alternating chapters. I'm so confused about it! So I decided to go on and ask my blog readers for their opinions. Should I edit My World of Glass and add in alternating character's chapters and have the same scenes from Demetri's POV, or should I just write a "Part Two" almost sequel? What say you, world?

Barnes and Noble

Hey! Just found a few more places where my book is available. Right now you can get it from Barnes and Noble for a discounted price and to my Australia viewers it is available at Booktopia. I think this is awesome!

I also googled my book and found out that DC comics published some comics called From Beyond the Unknown. It was kind of crazy.

I'm excited for my book to be spreading so much! It's really cool. :) Thanks to all my readers!

Camp Nanowrimo/ 'My World of Glass'

So, this past month I've been participating in a competition called "Camp Nanowrimo". It is the mini-'summer' version of my Nanowrimo competition. In this one you don't get as many prizes, but you can set your own goal so you don't HAVE to write 50,000 words. And you get put into cabins with other people you can talk to. It's a lot of fun and it gets you ready for November.

I've been working on this book called My World of Glass since around Christmas time. One day when I was brushing my teeth the idea literally fell into my head. I could see all of my characters in my head and I heard one of them talking to me. Yes, it may sound schizophrenic, but it has created an awesome story. I love my main guy character (Though you don't learn much about him until near the end sadly) and I wish I could write the story in his point of view. Sadly, I can't. It would give everything away really quickly.

I love the idea of this story, though it is my only book I have written that I have not censored. Meaning there are three cuss words in there so far. Granted that's 3 in 50,402 right now, but that's more than all of my books combined. But they fit in and they are only used sparingly (the first time was referencing a place, the second time was for emphasis, and the third time Demetri actually corrects himself). The story is excellent, if I do say so myself, and the writing is my best quality yet. I absolutely love how it's all come together and the twists it has been taking. It's all amazing.

I have sold a few copies of Beyond the Unknown, so that's been fun, but what I'm disappointed in is how I know each of the purchasers by name. (Alright, one of them my dad knows better because they are coworkers, but still. I know them in a round about way) I was really hoping I could have sold one not to someone in Utah by now. That could have been really cool. Oh well. :) I am enjoying life and I am so lucky to have the support group I have. Thank you all so much!!


~Rose