Good News Everyone!

Violet Part 1: Margarette has a cover, and it's almost ready for publishing! This is extra good news to me because I get to go back to my series after Margarette releases.

The cover reveal will happen soon!

NaNoWriMo 2013 - Done!

I can finally blog! NaNoWriMo is over!!!
I have so much to edit and rewrite and add and cut and paste... but it feels great to have reached the 50,000 words mark.

Now I can go back to finish this Violet book that I've been working on with Mr. K LeMaire. We have a cover and everything!

As for my next book, The Thirst Within Part 2, it's coming! The beginning, the middle and the ending are all written. I just have to fill in the gaps.

Wait! No. My next book will be a novella. From The Thirst Within series. A Part 1.5 type of thing.

Thanks, NaNo!!
http://nanowrimo.org/

iPhone cases

The Thirst Within is on an iPhone case! Get yours at 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/GenReyGifts

And ask for 15% off using the coupon code:
JOHIJENKINS

Potted Rambutan Trees

And now for a little break from prequel writing and editing and the quest for majestic covers:

These are my baby rambutan trees. I'm assuming you know what a rambutan is because you must've googled something like "rambutan tree", otherwise you wouldn't have found this page (amiright).

So I plan to keep rambutan trees inside my tiny apartment in Chicago. Rambutan is tropical, you say? So is my apartment inside. But it's a tree! you say... Well, so is my avocado tree and it's chilling in the pot in the background.

I'll keep you posted on this rambutan experiment.

TTFN

Birthday Giveaway!

This week, from Monday August 19 to Sunday August 25, in honor of my birthday, I will be donating 100% of my profits of all book sales to the organization Maullidos de Esperanza (“Meows of Hope”).

Link to Resurgence: http://amzn.com/B00AUL2E4O
Link to The Thirst Within: http://amzn.com/B00C4MD7MA

Maullidos is a nonprofit organization (registry no. 320061 under Puerto Rico law) whose goal is to spay/neuter and vaccinate a large colony of abandoned and stray cats in the city of Mayaguez, PR; to control overpopulation and improve the stray cats’ life quality. They also provide foster while the cats are recovering from sterilization, and work hard to find forever homes so that the kitties don’t have to return to the streets. In the year since they’ve been working, the couple that runs this fantastic operation has rescued 70 cats, of which 39 have been adopted (spayed/neutered), and the rest are in foster waiting for their turn.

I’m a total animal lover, and this colony of cats in the general area of where I grew up, so the efforts of this organization are very close to my heart.

For more information please check out their pages:
www.facebook.com/MaullidosDeEsperanza and www.facebook.com/gatoscementerio

BONUS! Like my Facebook page (facebook.com/JohiJenkins) and you’ll be entered for a free autographed copy of The Thirst Within! 

Enter up to four times here!

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Cover reveal!

The Thirst Within's cover has been revamped! And with it, I'll be offering paperbacks in the next few weeks.

All other books in the series will have the same look.

http://amzn.com/B00C4MD7MA

Covers, paperbacks and newsletters

I've been working to get the covers of both Resurgence and The Thirst Within redone in preparation for... prints! I'll be offering paperbacks of both books for people who like to hold books in their hands or just like to stack their bookshelves. The ebooks will also have new covers and I'm excited to do a big reveal soon. Stay tuned! Also, I'm considering the possibility of a newsletter. Some sort of mailing list to announce new books, talk about books, or just tell bad jokes when I've got nothing else to say. Let's keep in touch! (oooh)