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Showing posts with label Redemption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redemption. Show all posts
Friday, June 19, 2026
Sunday, December 28, 2025
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| The Wedding Vow series |
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| Heartless |
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| Redemption |
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
REDEMPTION, short story FREE PROMOTION for Thanksgiving 2023!
My short story, REDEMPTION, is free on Amazon 11/23/2023 ~ 11/27/2023!
Free with Kindle Unlimited!
He fell in love with her the first time they met, on her wedding day. The more he got to know her, the more mistakes he made. If he did not hurry to redeem himself, the others would sweep her off her feet!
This is a romance novella set in fantasy medieval time period. There are a few curse words, but no explicit sex scenes.
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| Redemption |
Monday, January 10, 2022
Writing Career II
I just put REDEMPTION and I TAKE THEE for free during Christmas on Amazon.
Did free advertising on Snicks List for REDEMPTION. Did no advertising for I TAKE THEE. Even forgot to advertise the holiday sales on my own blog.
Sold 24 free copies. Not Bad!
However, only sold 172 pages read on Kindle Unlimited. That was what I wanted. People said even if the book is free, as long as someone is a member of Kindle Unlimited, free pages read still counts as real sales.
And then I put FROM THIS DAY FORWARD as $0.99, hoping people reading I TAKE THEE would pay for book 2. That was what online forum recommended. I sold nothing 😞😢
Keep your day job, NaNaKo.
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| REDEMPTION |
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| I TAKE THEE |
Did free advertising on Snicks List for REDEMPTION. Did no advertising for I TAKE THEE. Even forgot to advertise the holiday sales on my own blog.
Sold 24 free copies. Not Bad!
However, only sold 172 pages read on Kindle Unlimited. That was what I wanted. People said even if the book is free, as long as someone is a member of Kindle Unlimited, free pages read still counts as real sales.
And then I put FROM THIS DAY FORWARD as $0.99, hoping people reading I TAKE THEE would pay for book 2. That was what online forum recommended. I sold nothing 😞😢
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Keep your day job, NaNaKo.
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Writing Career I
Wondered how good this award is. Would it really help with sales and reputation?
I entered the competition with REDEMPTION, in the novella/short story/poetry category. It wasn't a good category, but REDEMPTION is not long enough for the full-blown Romance category.
I didn't get the award. Of course. The category is not for romance short story. The winners were poetry and short story collection.
I don't write long stories because I'm bad at prose and descriptions. Even when I'm reading, I'd jump ahead to actions and dialogues. If I find the description important, then I'll go back to read it.
I entered the competition with REDEMPTION, in the novella/short story/poetry category. It wasn't a good category, but REDEMPTION is not long enough for the full-blown Romance category.
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| REDEMPTION |
I didn't get the award. Of course. The category is not for romance short story. The winners were poetry and short story collection.
I don't write long stories because I'm bad at prose and descriptions. Even when I'm reading, I'd jump ahead to actions and dialogues. If I find the description important, then I'll go back to read it.
And that's why I didn't win this year, and maybe never.
Keep your day job, NaNaKo.
Keep dreaming about becoming a multi-billionaire bestselling author.
Or is that a nightmare?!
Keep your day job, NaNaKo.
Keep dreaming about becoming a multi-billionaire bestselling author.
Or is that a nightmare?!
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Kimono Competition
I accidentally participated in the kimono competition for Kanto Region and World event. They were asking for foreign competitors in my Japanese class. I noticed the application deadline had already passed, but they said it was fine. So apparently they were desperate for any foreigners to participate in the competition. I turned in the application, just for fun.
World competition is not the entire world. It was really only Japan.
I was in the Foreigners Division.
I learned so much about dressing the furisode (long-sleeved kimono). Furisode kimono is for young unmarried girls. When the kimono teachers asked me what type of kimono I wanted to wear for the competition, and I answered furisode, the teachers were kinda taken aback. In their minds, they were thinking, "How old is she? She is not young or unmarried?"
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| Kimono World Competition 1 |
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| Kimono World Competition 2 |
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| Kimono World Competition ticket |
For Kanto Region competition, there were four foreign competitors. I came in no. 3 (trophy on the right).
For World competition, there were two foreign competitors. I came in no. 2 (trophy on the left).
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| Trophies |
This experience really helped me with my stories.
The kimono teachers know how to sew and mend kimono. They also got up and close when they taught me how to tie all the ribbons around. For my Redemption sequel, I'd like to have a seamstress character, and she got up and close to measure a man to make him clothes.
Two of the foreign women competitors married Japanese men. I'd like to have this in The Wedding Vow series. A man and a woman came from different countries. She dressed in the traditional clothing of the man's country. He was completely mesmerized by her beauty and stammered and couldn't say anything coherent to her.
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Redemption
My short story, REDEMPTION, is available for sale on Amazon!
Free with Kindle Unlimited!
He fell in love with her the first time they met, on her wedding day. The more he got to know her, the more mistakes he made. If he did not hurry to redeem himself, the others would sweep her off her feet!
This is a romance novella set in fantasy medieval time period. There are a few curse words, but no explicit sex scenes.
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| Redemption |
I really want to write book II. In fact, I already started book II, and this short story is the prequel to it. It was just that, book II had too many people and too much happening. I was on page 150+ and got lost on the timeline and couldn’t move things forward. So I stopped book II and wrote this prequel, which happened about twenty years before book II.
Sigh, this is why I write short stories. I can’t write huge epics; I get distracted and lose track 😞
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Redemption
My short story, REDEMPTION, is available for sale on Amazon!
Free with Kindle Unlimited!
He fell in love with her the first time they met, on her wedding day. The more he got to know her, the more mistakes he made. If he did not hurry to redeem himself, the others would sweep her off her feet!
This is a romance novella set in fantasy medieval time period. There are a few curse words, but no explicit sex scenes.
The male characters in the story are based on my brother-in-laws. They somehow give off medieval hero vibes. I am ever so lucky to have them as models 💖
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Redemption
My short story, REDEMPTION, is now available for sale on Amazon!
Free with Kindle Unlimited!
He fell in love with her the first time they met, on her wedding day. The more he got to know her, the more mistakes he made. If he did not hurry to redeem himself, the others would sweep her off her feet!
This is a romance novella set in fantasy medieval time period. There are a few curse words, but no explicit sex scenes.
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| REDEMPTION |
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