My short story Right Now is now available as an hour-long audiobook!
https://goo.gl/2kgyDK
Written and narrated by Sarah baethge.

They're on sale now!

The 2 audiobooks I narrated for Candy Michelle Johnson came out today!


Monkeys in the Wall by Candy Michelle Johnson
Episode 1 https://goo.gl/piHa4s
Episode 2 https://goo.gl/AUi35P

My Poetry is now on Audiable!

The silly vampire poem that I wrote a few years ago is now on audible.
20 minutes of the poem (yes I got a little carried away writing it)
and about 3 minutes where I explain my writing of it.

Amazon Keywords

This weekend I was playing with the keywords on my books to try and improve their search rankings. I did manage to get my book Radiant Shadows, Beginnings to get on the first page of results for Kindle in one category!
Looking at it though, I'm thinking that I could really use a more professional looking cover than the little handmade .gif I scribbled out one night back in 2014.
...
Ok, now I worked up a better one -->

I'm happy to Hear if you have any opinions on it.

Preparing for my book From Elsewhere that is coming out next July

Here's the Createspace preview for the book I intend to release next July: http://www.createspace.com/Preview/1247695
I am somewhat annoyed that there doesn't seem to be a way to set a future release date in the Createspace system.

I am hosting an Ask Me Anything session on Thursday

Do you have any questions you'd like to ask about my books or my writing? I'm colleting them now to answer on Thursday at 12/11 central.
http://authorsama.amafeed.com/sarah-baethges-the-illumination-query-is-now-available-ask-me-anything-about-718807

My newest book From Elsewhere is now available on pre-order at Smashwords and Google Play

Supposedly books do better when given a pre-order period. I'm somewhat skeptical, but willing to give it a try. My book From Elsewhere, I finished last November during NaNoWriMo. It becomes available next July on the 22 (because I like the #2 :P) I plan to put it on Kindle too but Amazon wont let me set up a pre-order period of longer than three months, so I'll set it up there next April.
It's a goofy alien story.
You can check out the free samples on Smashwords or Google Play.
Once there, if you're not ready to pre-order you can check out my other 5 that are available now. The two shortest ones are even free!

I got approved to put my books on Google Play

Three of my books are now on Google Play.

And to celebrate, I've made them free for the rest of July.

http://play.google.com/store/search?c=books&q=Sarah+Baethge

I'll be putting the others on there too. :)

Fixing up my eBooks

  

                             And I Was Hungry       Right Now    If You believe in Love at First Sight

I went and found new images for my 99 cent short story ebooks.

I also changed the price of my two full-length books to $2.99 and $2.50.

Amazon seems to be updating slowly so if you hurry you may be able to save yourself 49 cents on the more expensive one.

And of course, if you really want to not pay the whole less than $3.00 prices, they're all still free at Smashwords for the rest of July.

Want free books?

If you want a chance to grab some free books, Stephanie Jane is collecting a list of them right here:

Giveaway listed @ Stephanie Jane!

Finished filling out my Kindle X-ray

Now I've filled out the X-ray for all 5 of my books on Kindle.
So if you like the author's personal reasons and commentary on why parts of the book exist as they do, check out my books at Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Baethge/e/B009WVBI0O/

If You Believe in Love at First Sight is now on Smashwords

The Speed of Darkness short story, If You Believe in Love at First Sight is now free at Smashwords.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/874430

I finally have a copy of the book I've been perfecting for the last 5 years

Yes, I'm just silly-happy to finally have this in my hands but look:
http://amzn.to/2JTEehc

Reviews

Anthony Avina reviewed some of my writings.
 Here's a video review of my book Right Now. https://www.instagram.com/p/BkG9XZHF2D4/?hl=en&taken-by=authoranthonyavina
The written review of Right Now https://authoranthonyavinablog.com/2018/06/16/rightnowsarahbaethgereview/
And a written review of The Illumination Query https://authoranthonyavinablog.com/2018/06/16/theilluminationquerysarahbaethgereview/

Rafflecopter Giveaway of eBooks by Sarah Baethge

a Rafflecopter giveaway
You may get my new book, The Illumination Query!

Underground Book Reviews

Interested in Underground Book Reviews?
Please go to their page and click on the (check-mark/word vote) thingy to convince them to review my book The Illumination Query
https://www.undergroundbookreviews.org/book/the-illumination-query/

I just went to set up a Book Bub profile

Now I'm listed at Book Bub -http://www.bookbub.com/profile/sarah-baethge

I need some Book Bub followers!
I signed up and when they saw the publication date of my newest book they automatically set up a new release alert to be sent to all of my followers.
Which right now is basically just me. :P
Any Book Bub users care to follow me tonight?

The Illumination Query is now on Kindle

Need some Facebook likes

Haha, guess I still have a ways to go.
I was going to add a Goodreads tab to my Facebook page, but apparently I need 2000 likes before they will allow me to; meaning I'm still some 900 likes short.

so: if you haven't yet, could you like my Facebook author page? www.facebook.com/SarahBaethge
As thanks, you can get a Smashwords copy of my short story Right Now for free!

Getting my CreateSpace book ready

Here's the CreateSpace preview for the book of mine that will soon be published https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1244870

Latest News on The Illumination Query

Well.... I got a bit too excited by the interest by that Total Recall Press showing interest in The Illumination Query.
I had already signed their contract that left me responsible for only $15 and canceled the whole publishizer campaign when yesterday the TRP guy comes back to tell me that they can't get started on processing my book until I agree to another contract where I owe them something like $267.
When I objected they did at least let me out of the first contract.
So now instead of redoing the whole publishizer attempt to attract a publisher (I've already had the book turned down by all the agents I pitched it to) I'm going to go ahead and Self-Publish. Hey, I still like the story and have multiple sequels planned and partially written.
I may be big-headed enough to tell myself that The Illumination Query is equivalent to The Gunslinger and my Speed of Darkness books will be loved as much as The Dark Tower books, but whatever the truth may be, I am going to get it published. Probably in the next week or so, once I'm completely satisfied with the formatting.

I was interviewed!

I was interviewed about The Illumination Query at Beach Bound Books.
https://www.beachboundbooks.com/author-interviews/author-interview-sarah-baethge2077204

Get your ebook by me signed

Ever wish you could get an ebook signed by it's author?
I found this little program that lets me add a personal signature to your kindle copy of any of my books.
You can request my signature for one of my books here: https://www.authorgraph.com/authors/22niel

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 1-30, 2018 | http://publishizer.com/the-illumination-query/

Visit http://booklaunch.io/22niel/tsod1 for current book and author info

Crowdfunding for The Speed of Darkness, Book 1: The Illumination Query

is Going Live this June

Sarah Baethge is using the launch of her werewolf novel to bring attention to Protect the Wolves

(http://protectthewolves.com/)

What happens when you discover that you are helping evil, and when you can only turn towards the

people that you have hurt in the past when you need help?

‘If the only people wronged are monsters, does that make hurting them Ok?’ -Sarah Baethge

About the author: Sarah Baethge was born in Houston in 1982, and grew up in Texas and

Louisiana. She was an intern for Lockheed-Martin fresh out of high school when she graduated

with a National Merit Scholarship in 2000.

After a traffic accident in 2000, she began writing and self-publishing short fantasy and

science-fiction stories, starting with the original Speed of Darkness book. She soon took the book

down from Amazon and Smashwords because it began a bit too abruptly. Now her intention is to

improve the story with a prequel or two.

As her book/series is sympathetic towards werewolves, Sarah decided that the idea of raising

money to help wolves in the real world would be interesting to try. She found the organization

called Protect the Wolves and admires their efforts to defend the wildlife in Yellowstone and t

hroughout North America. She is curious to see if any of her fans will take advantage of the

opportunity she presents of making a small donation towards the protection of real wolves when

buying her book.

Overview of the novel: First, the book of The Illumination Query follows the story of Ronald

Carpenter as he gets help from a secretive company called The Eclipse. This company takes a

shine to him and lures Ronald into working for them in their attempt to capture and imprison

supernatural creatures. To prove his loyalty, The Eclipse has Ronald help them take their scientist

Dr. Nigel Hunter captive. Ronald and Nigel come to find out that The Eclipse is keeping unusual

animals that the average person would not consider real. The Eclipse is keeping these creatures for

medical testing because they have no legal protections and many of them, like werewolves, are

nearly human.

The story is now told from Nigel’s point of view. We see that he was working in a lab owned by

The Eclipse, but he was unaware of the supernatural test subjects. Nigel had recklessly tested a

procedure upon himself. The Eclipse higher ups decide that Nigel is as good as a test animal now,

and get Ronald to take him captive. Being held with the test creatures, Nigel becomes friends with

the beings he is being kept among. He and his new inhuman friends decide to try standing against

The Eclipse. Nigel’s only chance now is to get past Ronald.

Author Blog: http://sbaethge.blogspot.com/

Sarah Baethge’s Twitter: @22niel

Facebook Author Page: http://www.facebook.com/SarahBaethge

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/22niel/

Request an electronic review copy: http://goo.gl/nQs9RT

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Set up a pre-launch page

Ok, now I have set up a page to help prepare for when I re-launch the pre-order campaign for my book Ihe Illumination Query: http://booklaunch.io/22niel/tsod1 If any of you can help me, please sign up here so I know that I need to to get in touch with you.

Redoing this the right way

If anyone was even paying attention, yes I ended that pre-order campaign for my book. At least I postponed it...
I realized that I set it up too fast without preparing any way to get the word out about what I'm trying to do.

The Illumination Query on publishizer.com

Okay, I've finished editing the video and my crowdfunded publication campaign is live at http://publishizer.com/the-illumination-query/
I humbly ask you to pre-order a copy and to share the link.

Video on YouTube

Today I spent too much time putting together a YouTube video. I've just about given up on finding an agent for the first book in my Speed of Darkness series. I just keep telling myself that Stephen King's book The Gunslinger first came out through a minor publisher so I assume it had no agent either. And that is the first book of his Dark Tower series. So it's not hopeless for my Nigel Hunter character.

Roland Deschain eventually made his way into books that sold multi-millions of copies!

I've been looking at a website that I can use to pitch it to multiple publishers without an agent. One of the things that they require is a description on YouTube.
So for a couple of days I've been collecting free Chromebook programs to make YouTube videos. I already posted one trial that I made with a program that pastes a huge ad for themselves on top of the video, but that was bugging me, so I found a better editor that has no watermark.
And now I've made my video that's just over 2 minutes.
I still need to edit it a bit, but I'm pretty happy with the video now, and I think I can stop video editing for the day. Here it is:
https://youtu.be/v3aFFQ1nsHE

Reading Comparisons

I'm putting together a proposal for my book The Illumination Query in an attempt to attract a publisher for it. One thing that many people ask for is a list of comparable books.
I could quickly compare one of my characters to Lex Luther from Superman and my evil company The Eclipse to Oscorp from Spiderman and Weyland-Yutani conglomerate in the “Alien” movies. I figured my hacker group 'The Solar Flare was something like fsociety’ in ‘Mr. Robot’ (basically a fictional 'Anonymus'). And of coarse, having something of a mad scientist as the main character for half of the book, I had to mention Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’.
Not sure that I really had enough, I asked my sister if she had thought up any comparisons and she surprised me with two stories that I didn't know; The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Passage. So I decided that I ought to read these before I try to make the comparisons.
And I'm blogging right now because my Kindle batteries are dead...

My current writing focuses

Curious what I'm up to as an armature writer? Right now I'm doing 3 things.

1 You may have seen it on Twitter, there is currently a month long hashtag event, #storywarriors were @writeratops is asking different authors a new question about their current writing projects every day. I'm using it to build up the plot for my new time-travel book that I'm calling Alternate at the moment. you can see my answers here.

2 I'm probably making something of a pest of myself, but I'm trying to find a literary agent for the book I wrote last year that I call From Elsewhere. It's about an alien that comes to Earth.

3 I'm trying to put together an outline to describe the book that I actually finished in 2014 that I call The Illumination Query. I've nearly given up on finding an agent for it, but because I've toyed with the idea of writing a whole series that follows it with 5 or 6 stories called The Speed of Darkness I'm not giving up on it yet. I'm looking into how I may be able to attract a publisher to it without an agent, hence the detailed outline.

I have self published a few short works on kindle, and some short early works on Smashwords, but I'm pretty pathetic in my own skimpy promotion efforts; So I've decided that I need to get an agent or a professional publisher if I seriously want to sell my work.

Here we go (again....)

Well, tomorrow is #IWSGPit on Twitter. I'm gonna start attempting to ply my new story 'From Elsewhere' to agents for the first time.
My other book that I haven't published yet, 'The Illumination Query', I'll put out there too. I've almost given up on finding an agent for that one, but there could always be some small publisher who might be interested in it.
so wish me luck!