Stephanie Elmas's Blog

Well I did my first audio podcast recording the other week for The Indie Author Helpdesk. It's all about the ups and downs of being an indie author. Thanks to Chris Bell for all his support. Here it is:

http://indieauthorhelpdesk.com/episode2

FIVE FREE copies of The Room Beyond are out there for the grabbing on my first Goodreads Giveaway. Click below to add your name and good luck:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

Well the big day is finally here, The Room Beyond is out in paperback. So exciting! At last I can set up a Goodreads giveaway - hurray! Stephanie xx

Well The Room Beyond is finally on its first countdown on Amazon UK at £0.99 and US at $0.99. I've advertised it on some promotional sites, tweeted, facebooked. Now what do I do??!!!! ;-)

So next week I'm embarking on my first ever countdown promotion. The Room Beyond is going to be sold at £0.99/$0.99 from Thurs 6th Feb for a week. Does anyone have any tips on how best to promote this without breaking the bank?

I am very excited to announce that my suspense novel The Room Beyond has been chosen as part of the Amazon 12 Days of Kindle Sale. It is now available in the UK for 99p and the US for $1.61.

I am so excited to announce that my novel The Room Beyond has featured as one of The Bookbag's Top Ten self-published books of 2013. Here's the link:

http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/i...

Wow, this is so exciting, I've put The Room Beyond forward for its first FREE promotion day on Kindle. I've been Facebooking, emailing and tweeting like mad to let everyone know. Hope it will get me up the rankings :-)

The Room Beyond is my first novel and took me seven years to complete. I started writing it when I had a young baby and was supposed to be doing a PhD. The PhD was abandoned, two more children came along but I kept on writing! The writing actually happened mainly during my children's sleep times when I desperately needed to exercise my brain and jump into new worlds. After many agency rejections and countless rewrites I finally got my amazing agent, hhb agency, on board. I had a near miss with a really great publisher and then decided to go through the KDP Select route on Amazon.So here I am! The Room Beyond is a labour of love and I hope you'll love reading it as much as I loved writing it. x