It's not easy

I've learned the hard way that it's not easy going the self-published route. Sure, you get your books out there quicker, but competition is thicker, and you have to work 1000x harder.

Once self-published, you become more than "writer" you are now writer, publisher, cover designer, marketer, editor, artist, trailer creator, manager, and more.

submitting your book to publisher after publisher and being rejected over and over again, VS. struggling to excel. My though is this: us writers have a choice to make when we first start our adventure, almost like playing the "Game of Life" we can wait for someone to believe in us and hire us, or we can believe in ourselves so much that we sacrifice ourselves for the cause.

both choices have their ups and downs.

You can get around the hardships of having to do EVERYTHING when going the self-published route, but that costs money, not much if you do a little research, but I haven't spent a dime after the 300 for my first book, so that's another option, but reality is, i'm not a jack of all trades; I need to start hiring people to do what I can't... or learn how to do what I can't.

I guess we will always have options, but whatever road you take, I hope you make every step count.


Love,
Luke-Dakota

Leaves of Autumn

Coming in June is a story of love as a toy and the people it so strongly affects.

Adriana is looking for an extra pay check to pay off her medical bills, and Wesley just wants to build up his acting resume; neither subject is looking for anything else when they decide to become test rats for Harmonyschoice.com

                Wesley is being paid to be an actor and become the complete opposite of Adriana, and Adriana is being paid to put her heart up for sacrifice in order for others to have a more accurately compatible match-up from Harmonyschoice.com

                Eventually, Wesley and Adriana aren’t just thinking about the money; they have quickly fallen into a strong love, but what happens when the truth is revealed and a year of lies sits out on the table between them?

Was their time together just like autumn; beautiful and breath-taking but only leading to the death of winter?

In June of 2013 comes a love story as beautiful and as ominous as the Leaves of Autumn with an ending that will certainly pull your heart strings and leave you broken down in tears.

 

 

 

The Book's cover will more than likely change, but this will give you all an idea of what Leaves of Autumn is all about. I will post the next cover when i get it sent to me, but for now, this is the cover:

Here is an exerpt from the book:

Wesley’s eyes search the room and notice a brunet who’s admiring a statue of an angel from back in the days of kingdoms. He makes his move. “She’s beautiful, isn’t she?” Wesley touches the statue’s arm.

            “Heavenly.” The brunet jokingly agrees, “I’ve never been too fond of old-fashioned things, but something about her catches my eye.”

            Wesley meets the woman’s eyes. “Eye catching.”

            The woman seems to have lost her breath, and Wesley laughs to himself inside. This is why acting gives him joy; provoking emotions with emotionless lies is an innocently sinful rush. “My name’s Wesley, and yours is…”

            “April.” She accepts the hand-shake and a relationship is ignited. Little does she know, it is a relationship with every intent to expire by the end of the night, but it has her hooked with hopes of more.

            They talk and flirt with each other for a while, and he leaves her to “get them some drinks,” but like the pig he pretends to be, he never returns.

            Wesley moves from April, to Friil, and then to Victoria. With each new victim he gets closer and closer to crossing the line, but he always leaves them waiting for more. He dances around the room like an angel of heartbreak and he loves every minute of it.

            Then, he sees her: Miss. Adriana Elizabeth Sanders, and a new kind of game begins.

Leaves of Autumn (preview)

Official Release Date:     June 10, 2013



Read a Preview Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKdofAQfQKs




Thank you.

<3

Love,
Luke-Dakota Massey

My newest book is here!

To George D. Melvin is finally out. You can buy it on Amazon by clicking the link below.

 

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another project to add to the list

I am so excited about this new novel I am working on. I am still working with Poison and my short story, Patient: Michael K. Peters, but this new novel I am working on is also on my list of things to work on.

I am taking this story a lot slower than most things I write. It has been two days and I’ve only written 4 paragraphs. This is a new process of writing that I am trying out. I already wrote a timeline and I’m still working on characterization, themes, and all that good stuff. But as for writing, I write a paragraph and then I read it over and fix things as I read until I read the paragraph 3 times by itself and 3 times with the paragraph before it and don’t stop to make a single change.

I think this is helping me become a better writer. I don’t think that there is a perfect process to writing, but I like and want to try writing in new ways. It exercises different parts of my writing skills.

That is about all I want to say about my novel. I am too proud of what I have accomplished that I cannot risk letting the story fall into another’s hands so I can’t really give anything away. But I can say that this novel ties into Poison. I want all of my novels to be placed into the world I am creating inside of my mind. The stories don’t even tie other then the fact that they happen in the same universe. This is how real life is, and I want that aspect to be a part of my writings.

Well, wish me luck.

Love ya’ll,

Luke-Dakota Massey