One Year Anniversary
WE DID IT! 🎉❤️🎉
Today is the one year anniversary of The Gifts of Life. One year ago today on July 21st, 2018, a few weeks before the trial HSC exams, I released my first book online on Amazon and Booktopia. It has been a very mixed year, with some months selling much better than others and many different highlights such as my signing days, the times where I was in the newspaper and that incredible experience of winning, not just one, but two awards including a Global Award for Australia. All in all, I think it has been a pretty amazing year so far.
And I couldn't have done any of it without your support. Thank you from the deepest part my heart! ❤️
However, with my first book now bringing in a small audience I need to improve and increase my writing. I would like to announce my second book "Cold Hands"
Cold Hands is not a sequel to The Gifts of Life (which is what I am currently writing at the moment), instead I've been listening to feedback from friend and reviews and decided to create a smaller, more down to earth story that takes place here in Australia. At the time of this post, it is being assessed by many large publishing companies, so I don't know when it will be releasing!
I wanted to incorporate philosophy and have been heavily influenced by Alan Watts in Cold Hands' narrative. It is a young adult, slice of life, contemporary Australian drama confronting issues surrounding mental illness, modern relationships, suicide, equality, addiction, terminal illness and the LGBTQIA community inside a 75775 word-long (which is 100,000 words shorter than my first book) journey that will thrill, shock and awe readers.
The WORK IN PROGRESS synopsis is:
"Tyler McBaker hates his life! He hates his abusive alcoholic mother, his best friend’s descent into the drug world and unfortunately, his peers in his final year of high school. He’s sick of his melancholic life and would love more than anything to end it. However, before his demise he meets Amberley, the new girl. Through her talkative energetic spirit, her overall positivity and her openness towards the people around her, Tyler’s hateful thoughts begin to lessen. Yet, what hides beneath Amberley’s brave smile and cold hands is so shocking that Tyler learns the true virtues of what it means to be alive!"
It's a little depressing at first, but I can assure you that its overarching idea is about living in the moment because we never know how long things will truly last. If you liked 13 Reasons Why or The Fault in Our Stars, this book is going to be even better.
Thank you all again and I hope we can celebrate together! Happy One Year 😁🙌🎉
Today is the one year anniversary of The Gifts of Life. One year ago today on July 21st, 2018, a few weeks before the trial HSC exams, I released my first book online on Amazon and Booktopia. It has been a very mixed year, with some months selling much better than others and many different highlights such as my signing days, the times where I was in the newspaper and that incredible experience of winning, not just one, but two awards including a Global Award for Australia. All in all, I think it has been a pretty amazing year so far.
And I couldn't have done any of it without your support. Thank you from the deepest part my heart! ❤️
However, with my first book now bringing in a small audience I need to improve and increase my writing. I would like to announce my second book "Cold Hands"
Cold Hands is not a sequel to The Gifts of Life (which is what I am currently writing at the moment), instead I've been listening to feedback from friend and reviews and decided to create a smaller, more down to earth story that takes place here in Australia. At the time of this post, it is being assessed by many large publishing companies, so I don't know when it will be releasing!
I wanted to incorporate philosophy and have been heavily influenced by Alan Watts in Cold Hands' narrative. It is a young adult, slice of life, contemporary Australian drama confronting issues surrounding mental illness, modern relationships, suicide, equality, addiction, terminal illness and the LGBTQIA community inside a 75775 word-long (which is 100,000 words shorter than my first book) journey that will thrill, shock and awe readers.
The WORK IN PROGRESS synopsis is:
"Tyler McBaker hates his life! He hates his abusive alcoholic mother, his best friend’s descent into the drug world and unfortunately, his peers in his final year of high school. He’s sick of his melancholic life and would love more than anything to end it. However, before his demise he meets Amberley, the new girl. Through her talkative energetic spirit, her overall positivity and her openness towards the people around her, Tyler’s hateful thoughts begin to lessen. Yet, what hides beneath Amberley’s brave smile and cold hands is so shocking that Tyler learns the true virtues of what it means to be alive!"
It's a little depressing at first, but I can assure you that its overarching idea is about living in the moment because we never know how long things will truly last. If you liked 13 Reasons Why or The Fault in Our Stars, this book is going to be even better.
Thank you all again and I hope we can celebrate together! Happy One Year 😁🙌🎉
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