{Video} James Randi and Ghosts

{Video} Seth Raphael claims Randi's Million Dollar Challenge

{Video} The Million Dollar Challenge to Find Spirits

Can you win the million dollars?  The girls in our book triumphs!  Or do they?  Watch this video about the million dollar challenge:

Can you channel spirits to win the million dollars?

New Trailer for Romancing the Million $$$ Ghost!

This so freaking rocks....

They like us, they really like us!

So we're day two into the cover reveal and I'd like to share what I think of doing a cover reveal before a tour.  I would have posted yesterday but I ended up in the ER with colitis.  Ych.  So I'm on meds and catching up on work so forth on a chicken stock diet, nothing like it.

I'm really really happy with the way things are going so far.  My intention was to pre-buzz this tour with a cover reveal since we're not at Amazon yet.  I think it would be better of course to be at Amazon but we can't change things so this is what I'm doing.  I'm keeping track of website hits.  So far we've increased hits to this blog at least 750%.  If I have my math right.  Never was good in math.  But that's what it's looking like so far.  Because I was in the ER not able to promote a thing, I can't imagine what kind of hits I'd be getting if I could have sent out my own promotions.

On the other hand, the bloggers who have hosted us have been over the top fantastic.  The comments on these blogs will blow you away.  They love the concept, the cover and are saying they want to buy the book.  Even if we don't sell a single copy, that is enough to make my day right there.

Let me give you an example.  Here's what was on My Book Addiction and More yesterday:

What an interesting concept! I'd love to read the book. 

What beautiful cover art and a very intriguing synopsis. Looking forward to the read, thanks for sharing. Definitely going to enter the giveaway for this treat ;)

I do believe in ghosts - there is just so much more out there than my puny mind can fathom - so why not ghosties :)  

Is that the coolest thing or what?  I'm still out there promoting but those readers are like gold. ;o)

Romancing the Million $$$ Ghost Cover Reveal Begins Monday!

I am so excited.  The Romancing the Million $$$ Ghost Cover Reveal begins this Monday!  This cover reveal precedes the humungous blog tour coming up starting in October.  We don't have a release date yet, but this is mainly to start spreading the word the book is coming.  I want to thank over 60 bloggers for hosting us!  Drumroll please...here they are!

Monday, September 2 – Mom with a Kindle

Monday, September 2 – Laurie’s Paranormal Thoughts & Reviews

Monday, September 2 – Close Encounters with the Night Kind

Monday, September 2 – Blooming with Books

Monday, September 2 – Melissa’s Eclectic Bookshelf

Monday, September 2 – My Book Addiction and More

Tuesday, September 3 – Books R Us

Tuesday, September 3 – Freda’s Voice

Tuesday, September 3 – Margay Leah Justice

Tuesday, September 3 – Books and Needlepoint

Wednesday, September 4 – In Shadows

Wednesday, September 4 – Jersey  Girl Book Reviews

Wednesday, September 4 – Jody’s Book Reviews

Wednesday, September 4 – Midnight Thrillers

Thursday, September 5 – Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews

Thursday, September 5 – Read 2 Review

Thursday, September 5 – Gina’s Library

Thursday, September 5 – Books Books the Magical Fruit

Friday, September 6 – Inside BJ’s Head

Friday, September 6 – Bibliophilia Please

Friday, September 6 – Shhh…Not While I’m Reading

Monday, September 9 – The Book Connection

Monday, September 9 – Rainy Days and PJ’s

Monday, September 9 – Queen of All She Reads

Monday, September 9 – Deal Sharing Aunt

Tuesday, September 10 – The Top Shelf

Tuesday, September 10 – Moonlight Reader

Tuesday, September 10 – Alana Munro

Wednesday, September 11 – The Writer’s Life

Wednesday, September 11 – The Dark Phantom

Wednesday, September 11 – Authors & Readers Book Corner

Wednesday, September 11 – You Gotta Read Reviews

Wednesday, September 11 – The Dark Phantom

Thursday, September 12 – Paranormal Book Club

Thursday, September 12 – Literal Exposure

Thursday, September 12 – Community Bookstop

Friday, September 13 – The Busy Mom’s Daily

Friday, September 13 – Miki’s Hope

Friday, September 13 – Snarky Mom Reads

Saturday, September 14 – Melissa’s Midnight Musings

Monday, September 16 – Culture Shock

Monday, September 16 – Literary Winner

Tuesday, September 17 – Reading Lark After Dark

Tuesday, September 17 – My Reading  Table

Wednesday, September 18 – Bibliophilic Book Blog

Wednesday, September 18 – Mary’s Cup of Tea

Thursday, September 19 – Peeking Between the Pages

Thursday, September 19 – So Little Time…So Much to Read

Thursday, September 19 – Book Reviews by Dee

Friday, September 20 – Thoughts in Progress

Friday, September 20 – Review From Here

Friday, September 20 – Literarily Speaking

Monday, September 23 – The Road to Here

Monday, September 23 – The Phantom Paragrapher

Monday, September 23 – I’m Shelf-ish

Tuesday, September 24 – Bless Their Hearts Mom

Tuesday, September 24 – Cheryl’s Book Nook

Tuesday, September 24 – Beyond the Books

Wednesday, September 25 – Socrates Reviews

Wednesday, September 25 – Bibliotica

Thursday, September 26 – Melina’s Book Blog

Thursday, September 26 – My Cozy Corner

Friday, September 27 – Celtic Lady’s Reviews

Friday, September 27 – Cindy’s Love of Books

Friday, September 27 – As the Pages Turn

Putting the cart before the ghost...

I just had a silent chuckle (I wanted to laugh out loud but I'm too darn tired).  How many people start promoting a book like it's already published and the book is still in the editing stage?  I knew I was four nuggets short of a Happy Meal, but I'm racing around the clock trying to get this book ready for the cover reveal in September and the tour which starts the first week of October and I have faith everything will be ready to go when it's supposed to.  Call it positive thinking or definite signs I'm delusional just like I thought.

I wanted to post an update on where we are with this.  Everything is almost a go except the hardest part - editing and getting it up on Amazon.  I found a really neat website that puts up books for you on their website apparently free too - but I want to wait until you

can actually buy it.  And that's another thing.  The cover reveal might only have a link to this blog and not Amazon unless a miracle happens and the editing is finished in a couple of weeks and I can get it up at Amazon reeeeeeeeeeal quick.  I know someone who will format it for me and I'm thinking about doing just that because that's another headache I just don't want.  I will have to pay her but it's worth it.  I'll know more as I go along.  Between tours and working on this book, it's been crazy.  By 10 p.m. I'm a goner and here it is midnight now and I'm still at it so you can imagine what I look like right now - a zombie.

I'm just so excited about this.  As I'm going over edits, I'm reliving the book and omg I forgot how much fun that was to write.  I have more of a grasp of the characters this go around.  Where there were three of us writing this, some of the characters were taken over by the other two authors and I never really truly connected to them like I have done this go around.

There's Shiolah, of course.  This was the character I wrote.  Although I'm not really sure if she's my favorite character in the book (Henri wins hands down), I could really relate emotionally with her and I hope her part in the book is believable and likeable.  All of these women I'm about to mention including Shiolah are all spiritually challenged, right.  When Heide (one of the authors of the book) caught the words spiritually challenged, she wasn't all too sure she liked it because it sounded like they were misfits or something, but that's not how I interpret spiritually challenged. I see it like this.  The characters have these special abilities that are very spiritual but they just don't think they have the right stuff. And they figure this ghost hunt will put them on the map.  Shiolah knows she has talents but still doubts herself.

Then there's Ezra. I really like Ezra.  Heide wrote her character but Ezra is someone I'd want to hang out with.  And she has a resident ghost - Henri - who is a class act. He's lovable and quite a ladies man but he's fun and unpredictable. 

Ezra's friend, Brianna, who goes on this ghost hunt with them, doesn't believe in ghosts.  Gotta have a skeptic somewhere, right?  Brianna is full of herself - beautiful and she knows it - but her husband has died and she's searching for answers and takes them up on an offer to go ghost hunting just for something to do.

Then there's Brooke.  Heide wrote her character after the original author jumped ship on us and we had to rewrite her part and were very careful we didn't use any of this author's words so she didn't come back and sue us, lol.  Tricky.

Oh there's Peggy.  She's a Sunday School teacher and I believe Heide wrote her part, too.

Then there's Jerilynn, the grounded one and the one most psychic.  Pam wrote this character.

And Fenella makes the sixth woman to embark on this ghost hunt.  Fenella wasn't part of the original Spirit Seekers group.  She ended up catching a ride with them saying she had a golden ticket too.  But she is definitely a strange one.

Of course, there's Rodger Hawthorne III which is a looney tune because his wife died twenty years ago and he can't get over it.  Hence, the million dollar payoff will be coming from him if the girls succeed.  Once the girls arrive at the mansion, he's gone an awful lot which makes him very weird.

There's more but they're the main ones.  There's going to be sequels and the girls and I are tossing around ideas but nothing is sticking yet.  But I have  really fallen in love with these characters even though I'm a bit biased.  Especially Henri.  The ghostest with the mostest.  He's a mess.