Happy Wednesday, Musers! I hope like me, everyone is getting back into the rhythm of work, school and writing again, carving bits of time to work on your latest and greatest projects. I am so proud of each and every one of you for your perseverance and dedication to this writer’s road!
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First, a big THANK YOU to everyone who has so kindly posted a book review on Amazon of The Emotion Thesaurus. Great things have happened as a result–the ET is #3 on Amazon’s Highest Rated List for Writing Books and I am sure that the rating helped the book get picked up by the University of Illinois for their Creative Writing program. Seriously, thank you!
Have you fallen for a book lately? If so, consider writing a review for it. 🙂 Writers more than anyone know the work behind those breathtaking worlds and characters so intensely original they sweep us right into their stories. I’m sure most of you know about the recent black mark caused by a select few who paid in bulk for fake reviews, but this should not take away from all the honest reviews out there, am I right?
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I also want to piggy back on this to also give our sincerest appreciation to those of who have purchased the Emotion Thesaurus book and then recommended it to other writers on industry listservs, critique groups, teachers and more. You’ve posted on blogs, mentioned it on forums and even written about it in newsletters. Word of mouth is the most valuable currency and we are overwhelmed by the generosity of our readers. The ET is a success because of you and we are determined to continue to work hard and bring you helpful new content!
And Speaking of New Book Content…
As Becca and I wind up what we’ve dubbed ‘The Discoverability Tour’ for the ET, we are turning our attention to the next Thesaurus Book. *cheers* I can’t tell you how excited we are about this! However, in the interest of sharing what we learned from our first attempt at launching a book into the world, we’re open to some future posts on Marketing if this would be helpful to readers. So, if you have specific questions you’d like us to answer/discuss about our choice to launch the book by sidelining it in favor of Random Acts Of Kindness For Writers, what we did to encourage discoverability, our marketing focus or anything in between, please leave them in the comments!
A New Thesaurus On The Blog? Yep!
It’s time to tuck the Character Trait Thesaurus into our sidebar and move to a new Thesaurus! Becca and I have picked something that we believe will help writers in a vital area of description. We’ll have the official introduction for it this Saturday, so check back. I will say this: it will help you build your characters!
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I can’t believe how far you and Becca have come since this first started. You really have created quite the phenomenon.
If you need a hand dealing with any of your overspill email or admin tasks, just give me a shout.
Good luck with your new book! Fiona xx
I can’t wait to add the next book to my collection. Perhaps, it won’t be long before I amass a shelf full.
Oh yay, a new one! Congratulations to both of you! 🙂
That’s wonderful! You are a great help to all of us writers.
I can’t wait to check out the new thesaurus too!
I’ve noticed the same thing about the spam. My blog doesn’t get nearly the amount of traffic that I’m sure yours does, and I still get those Anonymous spam message. Grrrr. Unfortunately, I’m using Disqus for comments and I think I have to open comments for everyone in order for it to work.
Spam is always a big problem, especially for a wildly popular site like this one.
Ooh! I’m all excited about this new thesaurus.
Wohoo!! Looking forward to it. Good luck!!
Another thesaurus? Yes!!
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Fantastic! Congratulations 🙂
YES!!!! Can’t wait to see!! Super congrats on making it to #3 again. Good to hear I wasn’t the only one who was getting those dumb Spam emails every single day. Yes, very annoying.
So excited for the new thesaurus! My copy of the emotion thesaurus is a constant companion to my laptop. Wherever I go, they both go.
It is wonderful to hear how much the ET is helping all of you! I hope that you guys will be just as satisfied with our other books as they come out, and our blog thesaurus content as well. 🙂
Blogger ate my comment the first time, so I’ll try again 🙂
I’m looking forward to the new thesaurus coming out, and also to your series on marketing. Marketing is an area where I’m very weak and I know I need to learn more about it before I have a book out.
Yay! A new thesaurus. You guys rock, seriously. Your ET is probably my #1 must-have writing tool on hand. I need to go leave a good review, so thanks for reminding me. Keep up the amazing work!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Looking forward to the new book! Even with all the paid for reviews, I still base many purchases on the reviews from Goodreads and Amazon. I read them and see if there is a theme running through them.
I know many authors declare they don’t leave reviews but I love leaving them for books. I love leaving them for friends’ books. So there! 😉
Great news about your new book. We’ve been getting lots more spam lately too. It’s really annoying.
I can’t tell you how helpful ET has been to me as a writer. Are you going to compile the other thesauruses on your site? Please say yes! My finger is ready to push the “buy” button. 🙂
Congrats on the success of ET! It’s a great resource and I looked at it just yesterday when revising a scene in my WIP. Looking forward to seeing your new thesaurus!
Aw gosh you guys–thanks! But this post is about thanking all of you! Really, Becca and I would be lost without everyone’s support of us. We can’t even begin to articulate what it means to us. 🙂
I hope the next thesaurus will help everyone with a new aspect of description–I’m looking forward to adding a new one to the sidebar! 🙂
Can’t wait to hear more about your new venture!
Wow! That’s exciting news, you two. I bet you are hard at work though!!! Good luck!
Woot! So excited for the next thesarus.
Turn off the anonymous comments and the spam goes away. I did that. Just let people know they have to be regisered somewhere if they want to comment.
A second book, I’m so excited. I love the first one.
I know I’ve said it before, but CONGRATULATIONS! You ladies deserve all of the success you’ve had with The Emotion Thesaurus and more. Can’t wait to hear the details on the new thesaurus!
Can’t wait for the new thesaurus and the new book!
I’m so happy for your success with The Emotion Thesaurus. I can’t even begin to tell you how it helped me as a fledgling writer! I kept sending people to your blog to use it. Now a new thesaurus?! Wowie! Zowie! I cannot wait!!!!!
I can’t wait for the new thesaurus and the new book. 😀
That’s great news ladies! Congrats. I look forward to the new book.