Slightly Sick: Bed-Ridden and Writing / Special Edition Cover Sneak Peek

So I'm beyond not feeling too well, yet I have reason to smile. The Dark World: A Delacroix Novel is being viewed by more than just my friends and family (which was my only goal, to be honest), and is steadily increasing as word spreads.

I can't believe it.

It's available for Nook, and Barnes and Noble is currently selling the physical copy on their website, as is Amazon.com, and many other online and offline bookstores.

I'm waiting for my readers to finish it up, and all I asked was that they write their reviews from where they bought their copy.

I'm just...in disbelief.

A book signing is scheduled at my local library for April next year and that is when I plan to unveil The Dark World: A Delacroix Novel's Special Edition.

The Special Edition comes with a sneak peek of the sequel, THE IMMORTAL'S GUIDE, something I plan to have finished by then.

I'm just overjoyed and cannot believe the response I've gotten, the support.

It's almost overwhelming.

And I have a co-authored novel in the works with a fellow friend of mine, so be out on the look for more news about that. :)

Happy writing!

-Sheron Parris (S.C. Parris)
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And I figure I should put up the cover for the Special Edition: (After the jump.)

The Dark World, a bright world, and blogging.

Just gonna keep this one short...ish.

 

That's my lovely friend with her copy of THE DARK WORLD. Been promoting it like crazy on Tumblr and Facebook, been getting a lot of interested responses, which is all but good. Asked my friend to write an honest review once she's done. Also, a lot of people are suddenly asking me about the publishing process. Having used CreateSpace and Smashwords, myself, I'm not sure I have any real advice to give. :) But I do my best.

And this, my friends, is a little excerpt from the book, that's been floating around the web for a while:

Excerpt from The Dark World: A Delacroix Novel - Chapter Three: Letters

Someone Shoot Me - I've been out of commission for too long.

No more I say! I'm back, with a vengeance, might I add.

I've been a busy bee getting my book self-published. (Fellow family members and friends were hounding me for it for far too long!) So it's available on amazon.com and my e-store.

Gotta update all my websites.

Oh and I started my first day of work yesterday. Working with kids is amazing.

-Sheron Parris

Review for The Dark World

So I log onto Facebook today, prepared to see what notifications await me, when I see a wall post on my wall from a friend who'd brought a copy of the Dark World a month ago.

This is her amazing review (I couldn't believe she wrote it, honestly.):

A truly amazing & inspired writer's fantasy of the "other world" of vampires has come to life in this mind-bending and hard-to-put-down book. You really see the characters come to life and the settings feel so incredibly realistic, it's like your very own movie. Creative, mysterious, suspenseful; all but boring. I literally have to snatch it away from my boyfriend so I can finish it.

I love it. The simple prolouge will have you hooked by page two.

This book earns a fabulous 5 STARS hands down !

It's simple, you'll look at other Dracula stories and movies in a completely different persective after reading The Dark World.

Kudos to a very good book.

And with that, I get some rest. Night, writers. :) It's things like that ^ that make me love what I do.

Late-night editing

I decided to pass the time by continuing my editing on The Dark World. It's going well thus far. I've realized how...terrible my writing was when I was 16 (and wrote the first draft of the The Dark World), and how I've now grasped the concept of showing the story, not telling it.

It's made writing such a joy, honestly.

:)

Just wanted to do a quick update, I hope you all are well.

<3 Happy Writing.

By the way, my mind has been taken over by zombies. They are everywhere. My boyfriend is always playing some zombie game, I got him hooked on The Walking Dead (the tv show), and I finally got him to watch this anime that came out last year called Highschool of the Dead. It's...it's really annoying, now actually.

I don't know, zombies just don't do it for me. Doesn't help with the zombie nightmare every single night where I'm trying to run but feel as though I'm being miserably held back.

Anywho, yes, zombies are taking over everything in the media...etc. I'm not a fan. Vampires...always my cup of tea. They're just more...there's more of a story there depending on how you want to do it. With zombies...if you change it up too much, they're no longer zombies and there no longer becomes a point to them. Y'know?

I'm rambling.

Back to editing.

:)

Editing The Dark World

It's going well enough. :D Watching The Powerpuff Girls as well which is doing wonders for my nostalgia.

Though I must stay, looking at my book after how many years and going about editing it in a different way, I'm awfully glad I'm editing it this final time. I've grown a lot as writer since I wrote the very first draft, so I find myself sighing heavily, highlighting what's wrong, and then quickly correcting it.

I hope others like it. By the second book, the story should make more sense. :)