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Hey Friends! It's hard to believe it's almost November and The Destined Divines has been out in the world for two weeks now. Reviews continue to come in. I'm so thankful to everyone who has picked it up. <3 Once you've finished reading it, please consider leaving a review, because reviews help the right readers find my book. <3 Thank you again to my wonderful ARC readers & ARC team! I sincerely appreciate your support! If you're new to my writing journey or haven't gotten a chance to check out the book yet, here's what some readers are saying about it. |
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INDIEGOGO This week, I signed copies of The Destined Divines and packed them all up with book goodies for my Indiegogo contributors. If you're a contributor, you should get yours soon! Thank you again for your love and support. Because of you I achieved my dream. |
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RELEASE PARTY If you weren't able to make the release party earlier this month, no worries. You can watch it on Instagram's IGTV. | | |
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CHARACTER ART In case you missed it on Instagram, here's the wonderful character art that @arcticpaintbrush did for the cast of The Destined Divines. Top row: Landen Reed, Meg Daly (main character), & Gage Moore. Middle: Tommy Williams & Jade Evans Bottom row: Wynne Hughes, Jacen Blackwell, & Delia Jones You can check out more about each character in my Destined Divines Guide on Instagram. All you have to do is click on the button and scroll down to the character art post. |
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Book 2 During NaNoWriMo this year I'm working on book two of the Divine Witches Duology. However, I'm a bit of a rebel this year, because I've already started drafting it. So far I have 26k written. |
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I hope to finish it in November and send it to my CPs in December. I'll continue to keep you posted on it. I'm also trying something different with book mapping. A while back, I did a book map on paper to help me color code and see the two POVs. Unfortunately, some things have changed so I need to redo it. So I decided to try it in Excel again, but differently than I have in the past. In the picture above, I've made columns to represent |
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each act of the story. Act 1, Act 2A, Act 2B, and Act 3. I plan to fill out the columns by using the plot points I have on my sheet of paper and color coding it for the two POVs, but I'll also add in the changes. This way, if I need to change or move anything around later on, I can. So in a way you could consider this a skeleton outline. But I'm mainly using it to keep track of the two POVs with each story beat and the timeline. |
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If you'd like to try book mapping (a bird's eye view of your story), check out the TWO FREE templates on my website. |
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FIRST CHAPTER You can read the entire first chapter of The Destined Divines in the Readers' Library of my Members' area. | | |
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ORDER NOW The Destined Divines is the first book in the Divine Witches duology. Full of twists and turns, unique magic, suspense, a touch of romance, and endearingly flawed characters, this YA Paranormal Fantasy is perfect for fans of Sarra Cannon’s, The Shadow Demons Saga, Libba Bray’s, The Diviners, and Kim Chance’s, Keeper. | | |
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October In October, I read the last episodes of Brittany Wang's fantasy serial On Wings of Ash and Dust and highly recommend this fantasy adventure serial. I also really enjoyed Sorcery of Thorns. |
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You can now add The Destined Divines to your TBR on Goodreads and follow me as an Author! | | |
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*** DISCLAIMER: *** All images used in the aesthetic above are not my own. They are inspirational images that I found on Pinterest or covers of books I've read this month, so they are the property of their respective owners. If you are one of these artists and want your artwork removed please email me. |
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If you have any questions on my projects, books I've read, or writing, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. I'm happy to answer your questions! Also, if there's ever anything you'd like to see in future newsletters, please let me know! |
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Until next time... Keep reading...writing... and dreaming. :) Always, J.J. |
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