It's been a while...

I aplogize, it has been a while since I wrote on here. Life has been crazy!  We have seen some success with the book, but of course we would love to see more!!!!!  There are sure some tough critics out there, most of them being adults.  The young adults who have read the book have nothing but good things to say about this book, which is great to hear because that is who the book is for. 

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A Character and Our Progress

The Garth

This is the Garth.  He is one of the Characters in the first Marty Whimpel book.  Cute huh?  He has become our mascot.  He is on the back cover of the book and is my pic and Jim's pic for his profile on http://www.goodreads.com/ . 

He is a cute little character and is a differeent color than you would expect him to be.   If you want to find out more about him, read the book then let us know what you think!

We are slowly selling books, a few each day and it makes us feel good that Jim's book is finally getting out there and people are actually getting to read it.  Jim recieved his first piece of fan mail the other day from cute little Anna.  It made him so happy that he had to hang it on the  fridge!  He said it would hang there for a while and then he was going to scrapbook it! 

He is now working on the 2nd book.  He said that he is half way through it.  There is going to be a total of 7 books in this series and each one is going to be a color of the rainbow.  We can't wait to see them all sitting on a shelf.

Boxes of Books

We have ordered and have started to recieve boxes of books.  We got the first box a week and a half ago.  It was soooooo exciting to see Jim open it!  We have sold several copies already.  Yeahhhhh!  Thank you so much to those of you who have supported us through this whole process! It has been 6 years in the making and we are so happy to finally see the fruits of our labors!!!

Goodreads Give Away

Look to the bottom of this blog and there is a widget that shows the info for the givaway for Jim's book.  Make sure you sign up.  You can recieve a free autographed copy if you win! 

You can now buy the book in print!!!

The book is now finally ready for people to buy in paper back.  It is 422 pages long and a great story for kids ages 8-15.  I am an adult and I read it too and really liked it.  It can be purchased at  https://www.createspace.com/3480783  or you can go on to Amazon.com and order it there just by typing Marty Whimpel in the search bar!!!  Yeahhhhhhh!!!

We are now on Goodreads.com!!!! (click here)

We just set up an account on Goodreads.com.  If you don't have a profile on goodreads, get one on there because once the book is finally approved and on Amazon, we are going to set up a givaway on their site so you may win a free copy of the book!  Yeahhhhh!

Round two!!!!

They announced the Second Round Entrants for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest and Marty Whimpel is on the list!!!!  Yeahhhhhh!   We are sooo excited!  It went from roughly 5000 novels to 1000.  We are in the top 1000!!!  Now we have to wait until March 22, 2011 and they will announce the 250 Quarter-Finalists.

Amazon contest!!!

On Sunday we entered Marty Whimpel and the Curse of the Acne Pimple into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.  The winner gets $15,000 and a contract with Penguin Books.  Wish us luck!!!

Our Facebook Page

Yeahhhh, we got a facebook page.  Just search for Marty Whimpel Book Series.  "Like" the page and we will enter you into a drawing for one of the first copies of the book. The author will even autograph it for you!!!

We got it!!!!

The Proof copy of the book came in the mail yesterday!  We need to make a few changes, resumbit it, get another proof, and the it will be ready to order.   Yeahhhhhh!  Hopefully it is only a few more weeks.

Exciting News!!!!

We just ordered the proof copy of the first book.  We should be getting it this week sometime and once we approve it anyone can order it.  It is softcover and has about 420 pages.  We can't wait to finally see it in book form!!!