Winning!

Congratulations  to the two winners of a signed copy of Betrayal:

Emily Savant & Serenity Shield

I'd like to thank all the entries. Thank you all for your enthusiasm and interest in Betrayal. I will do another giveaway soon so check my blog for coming announcements.
Also I greatly appreciate all the readers who purchased an ebook of Betrayal so far. You helped make my debut novel's first day quite exciting. I hope you all enjoy the romance and magic of Betrayal, and post a review where you purchased and / or on goodreads.com
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Early Release - BETRAYAL is for Sale!!!

Barnes and Noble , Amazon.com, and  Smashwords.com have published my book today!

It's a little early but I'm so excited! You can sample Betrayal and purchase the ebook and finally enjoy the magic, romance, and scandal of Betrayal.

**Amazon.com will have the paperback available after April 1st.** The price is $16.99, which I wish I could lower, but Amazon has set that price in accordance with my page count.

If you do decide to give Betrayal a try, I'd love it and would feel most appreciative of you, if you left a review - whether it be positive or negative - whichever - as long as it's honest it's good feedback.

If you like my book, please, please tell everyone!  For a self - published author, it's tough getting the word out without a marketing team. Word of mouth can really make all the difference, so spread the word!

The giveaway is still going on Goodreads for a signed copy so good luck to everyone!

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BETRAYAL Giveaway

BETRAYAL Giveaway

The Betrayal giveaway, hosted on Goodreads, has been put on hold momentarily and is pending their approval because I'm trying to increase the quantity of books to be given away. So don't fret, the giveaway is still on! New End of Contest Date : March 30th.

Thanks to everyone who has shown interest in reading my debut novel. Best of luck to everyone!!!

Betrayal Release -The official word

Betrayal Release -The official word

I plan to publish at the end of this month, but both Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble don't provide the publisher with an exact date as to when the book will actually be available for sale.  I expect it will be the first week of April. No later.

I've received alot of emails from anxious readers who want to read my book, and want know the exact date, and as soon as I know for sure, everyone interested in purchasing Betrayal will know. I will make the announcement on my blog, so follow me:  mayandreemichel.blogspot.com , and send out an alert on my facebook page, so fan Betrayal: Mayandree Michel .

I'm really excited about the release of Betrayal thanks to the loads of enthusiasm from book bloggers who've been generous with their time to try out my book and post reviews, and the awesome bunch of readers that I hope will enjoy my story as much as I did writing it.

Still frustrated...


It seems that Goodreads, after readjusting the number of my ratings back to the five wonderful readers who have given my book a try (thanks guys), they've allowed the error to happen again and my book's showing bogus ratings and my avg is down again :(.


I did a little more investigating last night, and checked out the ratings of some other up and coming releases / author's ratings and found that the errors don't end with my book.
I just don't know how any author can have a honest presense on such the site. I want to be that type of person who says, "Oh, well, I'll just have to grin and bear it." , but I suck at being that person. Hopefully they'll get it together soon. I mean I love what the site has to offer. But it's just so frustrating ya' know.


On another note, I've been working my butt off to get the second installment of The Desendants written and I wrote around 8,000K last night! whoo hoo! I guess I work better when I'm frustrated. Mixed with several yummy cups of coffee w/ french vanilla flavored International Delights creamer. Who knows? I'm just glad that the second book in the Greek myth series is coming along nicely. I would really like to have it reader ready by Sept - Oct (fingers crossed!!)


I'm also working on another series, but it's just too early to devulge what the premise is on that one, but I think it'll be really interesting though. Thanks to my little storylines program from Writer's Cafe, I'm able to do some multi task - writing. Gosh I realy love that program.

Listen to Betrayal's Playlist
Click on link (only on webpage)

A little frustrated...


Just wanted to address a little problem that I believe Goodreads.com may be having with tallying my ratings.
Copies of my book were distributed to a total of seven readers to review. So far three have posted great reviews and two have given it high ratings. I really don't understand how Goodreads has a total of (11) ratings so far when only five people have rated it. My frustration came about when I saw that my average dropped from 4.60 stars to 2.09 last night??? 


With a little reseach on the Goodreads site, I came to the conclusion that their must be an error (although unknown to the engineers at Goodreads) that will be corrected soon. With so many books with the same name as mine, I guess this could be possible but none the less very frustrating for a new author trying to create some awareness about her up coming novel. I only hope that the members / visitors of the goodreads site, when perusing my novel will see that I've only been rated (5) times.


Don't get me wrong, I love the goodreads site! It's a great place to chat about what you love doing most: reading, and a phenominal place for authors to interact with their readers. I've made a few friends since joining a couple months ago and reccomend the site to everyone who loves to read. 


On another note, I want to sincerly thank all the Goodreads readers and bloggers who have shown such great enthusiasm and interest in my book. I wrote the book because I had a great story to tell. I appreciate those who have given it a try as well as the well wishers who send me an abundance of emails. I am so excited that people have read and thoroughly enjoyed my story and want to read it. I'm on cloud nine from all the praise and excitement.

Check out the Betrayal book trailer

Check out the Betrayal book trailer
I enjoy writing so much more than putting these things together. I hope everyone enjoys it. Thanks for stopping by.


                  

Where there is Love and Power, there is always

Betrayal

The Descendants Series



At seventeen, Cordelia is an ordinary teen with an extraordinary and frightening secret. A secret that induces vivid dreams which she not only experiences true love, but crippling fear while barely escaping with her life each night.

After a life altering event, Cordelia has an unexpected encounter with Evan, the mysterious boy from her dreams, who reveals who and what she is – a descendant of the Greek gods. At that moment everything she knows of her world is a lie, and she must leave the present and go into the past to assume the role she was put on this earth for – safeguarding her ancient empire amidst evil forces that toil hastily to destroy it.

In a race against time, Cordelia must decide if she is truly a part of this dangerous world, or risk defying the gods, and ultimately lose the boy who has put a claim on her heart.

Coming April 2011 (Amazon.com - Paperback & Kindle, Barnes and Noble for Nook, Smashwords)

So excited to debut the cover of Betrayal!!!

So excited to debut the cover of Betrayal!!!

I've been visualizing the cover to my novel for months, debating on which important aspects of the story to use. I couldn't be more happy with the finished product.

A special thanks to a phenominal graphic artist, Samantha Oyola, for designing such an amazing cover for my debut novel. Also congrats to Giselle Elyse Lopez on her modelling debut.

Cover Design by : Samantha Oyola  soyola100@gmail.com

Model: Giselle Elyse Lopez

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