CamelliaCarroll

Good news! Second edition print copies of Blood Bargain and Blood Marriage are now available on Amazon and IngramSpark!
          	
          	Potentially bad news: BOTH THESE TITLES, except for the first couple chapters, WILL BE LEAVING WATTPAD ON APRIL FIRST!! TIS OFFICIAL!
          	
          	Thanks everyone for the lovely support for these works. You’re amazing.

CamelliaCarroll

Good news! Second edition print copies of Blood Bargain and Blood Marriage are now available on Amazon and IngramSpark!
          
          Potentially bad news: BOTH THESE TITLES, except for the first couple chapters, WILL BE LEAVING WATTPAD ON APRIL FIRST!! TIS OFFICIAL!
          
          Thanks everyone for the lovely support for these works. You’re amazing.

CamelliaCarroll

Question for you all— my goal for this year is to start posting a chapter a week, at least, of SOMETHING. Would you all want to see maybe 3 different in-progress works that will be updated at different paces, or more of a consistent update speed for one thing?

CamelliaCarroll

@AprilJester I do!! It’s very helpful ❤️ it just so happens that fight scenes are my least favorite to write haha
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AprilJester

@CamelliaCarroll -- Do you still have the graph thing I sent you? 
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CamelliaCarroll

@AprilJester about six chapters left on Ambrosia Rising!! Honestly, most of it is written, I just have to kick my own booty through the fight scene.
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CamelliaCarroll

Welcome to ONC Season everyone! Good luck to all of you participating-- I've got my work started, but I'm not sure I'll be able to hold myself to the 40k limit... It'll be a challenge. What are you all writing for ONC?

CamelliaCarroll

@AuthorESElias Oh that sounds wonderful!! I’m so excited to read it ❤️❤️
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AuthorESElias

@CamelliaCarroll I'm working on a contemporary sci-fi and I'm going to see if I can give it romcom vibes. xD
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CamelliaCarroll

Heads up for all: Blood Bargain will be LEAVING WATTPAD at the end of the year. The first chapter or two will remain as a sample, but after that the book will only be available as a paid print or digital copy. 
          
          I have bought my ISBNs, I am working on a new title page illustration for the front cover of the book, and I’m ready to re-release it in print! This will also include a few minor edits to the text to improve flow, but nothing significant.
          
          Thanks all! If BB is on your reading list, make sure to check it out before the year ends ❤️

SeraDrake

@CamelliaCarroll - I like the way Lulu gives decent royalties if an author uses the Lulu store rather than buying through a retailer such as Amazon, but wow, high distribution fees. I'm actually thinking of making an unillustrated, bare-bones paperback edition just so some people can afford the paperback. $25 for a trade paperback seems steep to me.
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SeraDrake

@CamelliaCarroll - I'll look for them when they're available. (I'm doing revised editions in part because of advice I received on tweaks that my novel urgently needed, partly because I need a 2025 publication date to qualify to enter a few real-world contests, including the 2026 Passionate Plume awards)
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CamelliaCarroll

Rest assured, they will be back, and congrats on the revised edition launch!
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CamelliaCarroll

Just got back from DragonCon and went to some awesome writing panels while I was there!! Was also thrilled to do a mentor session that was incredibly helpful and gave me a lot to think about. Some good things are coming in the next several months. I feel it in my bones.
          
          Hope you’re all well and had a lovely Labor Day weekend!

CamelliaCarroll

Hi everyone! It’s the first update in a while.
          
          I hope you’re all doing well. Did anyone enter the Wattys? Best of luck to you all! I’m hoping to be back with more regularity posting the last bits of Ambrosia Rising AND a revised Blood Memories, but we’ll see how it goes. I got a new second job that I’m very excited for, and I’m also working on some offline projects. 
          
          All the best ❤️❤️❤️

SeraDrake

@CamelliaCarroll - Which reminds me. I need to finish reading the books I bought from your Lulu storefront and review them.
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SeraDrake

@CamelliaCarroll - I did. I not going to advance to the longlist, though - my novel has no hook, the pace is not fast or immediate, there's not much commercial potential from a Wattpad perspective, there are no easy/popular tropes to speak of, it's LITERARY FICTION, there are no cliffhangers, and it's basically the exact opposite of everything Wattpad wants. I mostly just entered it because it was eligible and I felt like being obnoxious.
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CamelliaCarroll

Blood Memories will be down for an undetermined amount of time for workshopping and editing.
          
          This is a very personal book for me, and I want to make sure it is exactly how I want it when the time comes to release the whole thing.
          
          Thanks for your patience and support, everyone ❤️

CamelliaCarroll

@Mummy_Whale Thank you so much!! That’s incredibly sweet of you and I’m so glad to hear that you enjoyed the books.
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Mummy_Whale

@CamelliaCarroll I just finished the first two books and I am enthralled with how the stories were spun.Looking forward to reading Blood Memories too!
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