Author of Epic Western Novel Alias Jeannie Delaney & Multidisciplinary Artist
Friday 26 April 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: THE BRILLIANCE OF KINDLE UNLIMITED
JO. B. CREATIVE!: THE BRILLIANCE OF KINDLE UNLIMITED: THE BRILLIANCE OF KINDLE UNLIMITED Fancy reading an offbeat western? A traditional, epic western trilogy with a twist? Alias Jeannie Delane...
THE BRILLIANCE OF KINDLE UNLIMITED
THE BRILLIANCE OF KINDLE UNLIMITED
Fancy reading an offbeat western? A traditional, epic western trilogy with a twist?
Alias Jeannie Delaney is a gripping epic western trilogy charting the life of a devastating and charismatic pants-wearing cowgirl. She's the fastest gun in the west, a great lover to both men and women, and this is her journey to find her true self on the American frontier.The e-book can be borrowed through Kindle Unlimited, a virtual library system, which will cost you $11.99c a month. A Kindle is smaller than a book, allowing you to read on your e-reader or the Kindle app on your phone or tablet from the palm of your hand. You don't need a Kindle to use Kindle Unlimited. You can use the free Kindle app on your phone or tablet with just a few taps. With Amazon's Kindle subscription service, you can access unlimited books for less than what it would cost you to buy one physical book per month.
A fair number of people on Kindle Unlimited have read Book 1, and some of these readers have steamed through it like a railroad train! If you have a self-published book on Kindle Unlimited, unlike Amazon itself, you can access the reader's progress through the book. Apparently when a reader likes Jeannie's story, they really like it, and can't put it down! What can I say?! This is telling you something that Amazon itself doesn't. You know nothing about your readers when they buy their books there. So Kindle Unlimited is very, very useful.
The Kindle version of Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 1 - Go West, Girl! is 78 cents and the paperback version in $9.84 depending upon your preference.
Here are comments from readers of Book 1:
I just grabbed my copy of "Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 1 - Go West, Girl!" on Amazon. The premise of a charismatic and skilled cowgirl on a journey of self-discovery is absolutely captivating. Kudos on the rave reviews and the unique twist you've brought to the western genre.'
Yee-hah! I'm enjoying this soooo much! Not just because of the story but also because of the quality of the writing, and the loving detail put into it. Clearly a lot of research - Kit Mackenzie writes as though she's actually been there. I'm relishing the nuances of her fab writing. I so enjoyed reading the novel in detail, and relishing the nuances of the fab writing. Rereading it and absorbing the world and the atmosphere she's created. It's a terrific story with strong characters (to put it mildly!) and a powerful arc. The writing is 24 carat gold.
I'm just reading the preview at the moment, it's great! I just love kit Mackenzie's descriptions of where Jeannie is, so atmospheric 😌 I've got to chapter 12 and loving it! A fascinating angle. Good on my phone too. This novel is a refreshing change from the usual western. Easy to read and I'm thoroughly enjoying it! Kit writes brilliantly, describing the American Plains in all their beauty as they were back then.
I'm already deep in Chapter 1 of the book and loving it!
A unique and fascinating Western theme. Kit Mackenzie has an enviable writing skill!
Five star reviews from Booksprout
I’ve just finished reading ‘Go West, Girl.’ It was a very good read - a real page-turner, or whatever is the right term on a Kindle. Your descriptions were so vivid I could imagine I was in Coyote Creek. I’m not sure whether or not I like Jeannie - I feel sorry for her that she is so unhappy, but realise it’s because she was ahead of her time, and getting frustrated as she kicked against the social rules of her time. I admire that she refused to accept the norms of times - and people like her made things much more equitable for us today. No doubt you’ll keep us posted re the next book.
A unique western read. well written and entertaining! Five stars. This is a different take on a western and I really enjoyed it. Jeannie is an independent woman focused on living her life on her terms before it was socially acceptable to do so. It is well written and entertaining!
Great western story! Not like any Western book I've ever read... Jeannie is best described as a difficult child. I love her grown-up character. She lives life on her own terms, not always liked but well-respected. I'm looking forward to more stories of her life.
Just finished reading Alias Jeanne Delaney. I found it a really fascinating and an interesting read. Quite extraordinary. Loved your ability to set the scene, making it feel as if the reader was there themself experiencing the scene and the surroundings. I know that you said it might not be my kind of book but I have to tell you that it is! quite unlike anything I have read before. Well done and I hope that it becomes a best seller. I look forward to the next instalment in book 2.
Sunday 14 April 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: MY BIG, BLACK DOG
JO. B. CREATIVE!: MY BIG, BLACK DOG: MY BIG BLACK DOG I've just come out of a rather nasty bit of brain explosion and the need to ...
Monday 1 April 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: DID THIS PERSON REALLY WRITE THAT GRITTY, SOMETIME...
JO. B. CREATIVE!: DID THIS PERSON REALLY WRITE THAT GRITTY, SOMETIME...: DID THIS SWEET HOPSCOTCHING STEAMPUNK GAL WHO LOVES THE COLOUR PINK & STUFFED ANIMALS REALLY WRITE THAT GRITTY, SOMETIMES DARK WESTERN...
Saturday 30 March 2024
DID THIS PERSON REALLY WRITE THAT GRITTY, SOMETIMES DARK WESTERN?
DID THIS SWEET HOPSCOTCHING STEAMPUNK GAL WHO LOVES THE COLOUR PINK & STUFFED ANIMALS REALLY WRITE THAT GRITTY, SOMETIMES DARK WESTERN? YES, SHE DID!
Hubby and I dropped in on Basingstoke's Milestones Museum's Cogs and Clogs Steampunk event in Hampshire recently.
Enormous fun! Loads of stalls, music and everyone dressed wild west punk, fairies, military, medieval, you-name-it... We were dressed to the nines - hubby as a befrilled sergeant in peaked cap and goggles who screams orders at rookies, and me as a glam pirate complete with small flintlock pistol. When I'm not a gun totin' westerner granny called Kitty Le Roy, I'm a pistol totin' pirate granny with the same name.
Milestones Museum is an indoor Victorian town setting open to customers to wander shop and factory settings. On one of the pavements are two hopscotch squares chalked up. Naturally we have to hop. He's tall and skinny, like a drainpipe, and he's good at hopping. I ain't. I used to be slim and beautiful but now I'm Rubenesque and beautiful. I've never hopped well and was terrible at school PE. (I'm great on a bike and striding briskly).
So hubby hopped like a good 'un and I sorta hopped on and off. (I'm not talking to him any more!) Never mind. Glad we did it. Good fun! And we filmed one another. Brilliant stuff. Hop scotching steampunk style.
Now, if you want to see it being done properly, here you are:
And there you have it. Ain't that great?
Another confession: I love the colour pink and hubby and I love Pig and Monkey.
Now, the point of this post is: Did this fun loving hopscotching, rather sweet gal (so my teenage twin granddaughters say, and I believe them) really write that gritty, sometimes dark and violent western? What? Really? Yes, really.
I'm either schizophrenic (shouldn't joke - I know all about mental health), or there are genuinely two sides of me. The dark side and the goofy, creative side. The goofy artistic side is predominant, but the dark side, when the mood strikes, comes crashing in. I had to write Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 1 - Go West, Girl!. I had no choice. This girl gunslinger - female gunfighter - who's the fastest gun in the west, had to be. My fascination for the wild west decreed that I writ1e the story of a devastating and charismatic pants-wearing cowgirl. I know her inside out. I know what she looks like, her qualities and her likes and dislikes. I wanted to be her, it turns out, because my own family - parents and siblings, and their wives - didn't understand me and tried to make me what I'm not and didn't want to be.
Jeannie is powerful. Magnetic. Charismatic, hysterically funny, scary. Terrifying sometimes. Tremendously stylish in male clothing. Sexy as hell. Tomboy beautiful. She looks like a beautiful youth, then she's figured out. OTT. Irresistible. She's bisexual. All things to everyone. I was horrendously embarrassed about her, which made things even harder. I tried to tone her down but it didn't work. Finding out just how much people appreciate her has made things so much better for me.
I wanted to be like her to make up for my largely alone position within my family. I managed to cope with that when I was young, but having children made matters harder and my mental health, exacerbated by childbirth and post natal depression, suffered, along with the drip drip of family pressures and opinions.
That's why I wanted to be Jeannie. That's why I needed to write her story and 'get her out there'. And that's why I have two sides to me. Which would I rather be? Both. Gladly.
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Wednesday 13 March 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: KINDLE UNLIMITED - STEAMROLLING READERS!
JO. B. CREATIVE!: KINDLE UNLIMITED - STEAMROLLING READERS!: Someone - or two persons - have finished reading Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 1 - Go West, Girl! on Kindle Unlimited at a rate of knots! ...
KINDLE UNLIMITED - STEAMROLLING READERS!
Kindle Unlimited, available on Amazon Prime, is an online platform that gives access to a library of books, audiobooks, and magazines. Kindle tracks the pages a borrower reads and the author can follow it and is paid per page. I've had a number of readers borrowing Alias and Hubby tracks along with it and reports back to me.
So far I've had several readers belt through it like a steamroller. Which just goes to prove how unputdownable it can be to the right reader. The 'right reader' is a pretty vague target. When target marketing comes into one's promotional plans, in some cases that's an almost impossible question. The 'right' reader for me is probably American or Canadian, but not necessarily. Some are UK. They are adult and usually, but not always, female. I've had many male readers enjoy it too. They could be adventurous or aspiring towards it. They can be well off, middle class or not so middle class. They can have hundreds of interests or barely any. Outdoorsy, possibly. Categorising Alias for Amazon was really tricky.
I've gained over two hundred readers - some from free download promotions, but what the heck, at least I'm being read! Over two hundred readers - two hundred and twenty, or something in that region - is pretty damn great when you think of the 'unique' and
'singularity' or 'extraordinary' status of my novel's subject matter (all those words have been quoted) - a devastating and charismatic cowgirl is the fastest gun in the west and a great lover to men and women. A gripping story of a cowgirl's journey to find her true self on the frontier. Sounds pretty good when I read that back!
Once upon a time, in the early days of being published, every time a book sold, we'd leap in the air and shout 'Yippee!' Not any more. Now it's 'Good. Excellent.' Almost complacent. 😄 Funny how things change so quickly. By the time August comes along, Book 1 will have been online for a year and hopefully Book 2 will have been published. A lot can happen in a year.
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