Everland Growth Explodes in February!

I admit it. I am not a very good blogger. It seems that at any given moment I have more on my mind than Twitter can handle but not nearly enough to post a new article-length update every couple of hours. Facebook tends to provide that adequate, instant in-between.

Speaking of Facebook, our page "Everland: A Fairy Tale" rocketed from 147 likes to nearly 1,100 at the time of writing this in just over 30 days through a creative mix of outside the box thinking, free download promotions, and of course having a set of awesome products to offer! We even commemorated our 1000th Facebook Like with this lovely little banner, created with assistance from our always amazing digital artist Jennifer Bradley featuring the same girls from our eBook covers but in different poses!

(The black space at the lower left is where Facebook places the profile image in front of the Cover Banner. You can view it as it is meant to be seen at http://www.facebook.com/TheEverlandFoundation)


 I loved it so much that we created a second slightly different banner for our website's homepage.

On January 27  "Everland Volume 1 (officiallywritten as the Roman numeral 'I'): Opal's Book of Winter" launched as our first Kindle title. Just over 2 weeks later, Everland Volume 2 (again, Roman numeral 'II') followed. In addition, we took it several steps further when we released both titles in ePub format, allowing us to make our books available for Kobo, Barnes and Noble's Nook, and most exciting of all Google Play.

What makes Google Play so exciting is all of the integration potential that in just a few short days has been made possible between it, Google Plus, our website EverlandOnline.com which just got a nice little bit of remodeling and even this blogsite. Google and its products have what I for one would consider a fairly steep learning curve but the effort so far has been well worth it. Our new Google Plus site, by the way, is at http://plus.google.com/+everlandonline1


All this of course is a month's worth of hard work and self-instruction oversimplified into just a few short paragraphs. Before I wrap up this article, please allow me to once again thank 3 of my biggest supporters:

Tonya Wooten, whom I have known since 2006. She was the first person who let me borrow her laptop during my first deployment to Iraq and was also the first person to read my first ever outline for what would become Everland.

Mylene Somers, an extrmemly loyal supporter from Canada, introduced me to Kobo. She writes glowing reviews for me everywhere she can with no compensation other than my unending gratitude.

and finally, at least for now, my digital cover artist Jennifer Bradley whose work is being displayed on every eBook cover so far.

And now, it's back to work. "Everland Volume 3: Crystal's Book of Summer" still has some ways to go and July will be here before we know it.

Until next blogpost, happy readings and writings everyone!