Guest Post: Being an Author, Top 10 by Sherry Ficklin + Giveaway

Filed in Guest Post , Sherry Ficklin , The HEA Lover Posted on February 8, 2011 @ 3:00 pm 15 comments
Today we have the pleasure to welcome Author Sherry Ficklin on Book Lovers Inc. Military Brats: After Burn is the first book in a new series and it is release this week! You can read our Sexy Lover’s review HERE. Check out Sherry’s plans if she ever become a ‘huge world famous author’. I have to say I’d like to do a few things from that list too *wink* . Stay tuned until the end, Sherry is offering a cool prize pack to 1 lucky commenter!
Being an author, there is a certain level of expectation from the people I meet. As soon as they find out what I do they assume I’m rich and famous. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Early on in my career even I had these preconceived notions about the life of a writer. I remember the day I got the call that I’d sold my first book. I was in the middle of doing laundry and I hung up the phone thinking, ‘I’m an author now. Shouldn’t there be someone doing this for me?’
Not to burst anyone’s bubble, but the sad truth is I still have to clean my own house, pick up the doggie poo in my yard, and even clip coupons. The life of a writer isn’t a glamorous one. Actually, it’s exhausting. But we do it because we love it. Which is lucky since we may never strike it rich with our books.
There are exceptions to this rule and it’s not impossible that my next book might land me a *big fat advance and major publishing/movie deal. The odds of me being struck by lightning may be close to the same, of course. But it’s possible.
And with that in mind I’ve compiled a list of the stuff I’m gonna do if ever I become a HUGE WORLD FAMOUS AUTHOR.

10. Cry on Oprah.

9. Refer to myself in the third person.


8. Sell my used crap on Ebay for a small fortune.


7. Buy a tiny dog and carry him around like a purse.


6. Use my name to get better tables in restaurants.


5. Throw a diva tantrum about the actress playing me in my lifetime bio-pic.

4. Hire someone to scrub my toilets.


3. Have a haircut named after me.


2. Walk into McDonalds and demand a Whopper with cheese.


1. Sneak into random bookstores and sign copies of my own books.

*big fat advances may be a figment of your imagination.

And since it’s Military Brats: After Burn release week, I’m giving away a cool prize pack to one lucky commenter. You tell me, what’s the one thing you’d do if you were suddenly rich and famous?

Thanks for stopping by and happy reading!

About the Book:

Reece Barnet and her father have just relocated to sunny North Carolina, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point to be exact. It’s another new town and another new school. But just as Reece is starting to fit in, a rash of bomb threats rocks her father’s experimental aircraft squadron. When the authorities track the threats to Reece’s school, she decides to do some investigating of her own. Unfortunatly, the more she digs, the more it looks like her new boyfriend is the culprit.

When the unthinkable happens and her father is rushed to the hospital, it becomes a race aginst time as Reece fights to protect her father, clear her boyfriend, and discover the suprising truth of the person behind it all!

About the Author:

Sherry is a full time writer from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is often only seen in blurry photographs.

Her teen fantasy series, The Gods of Fate trilogy, is forthcoming from Dragonfly Publishing. Book 1, Foresight, is now available. She also has a teen mystery series under contact with Rebel Ink Press. The first of that series, Military Brats: After Burn is being released this week

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Giveaway
Sherry is offering a prize pack to 1 lucky commenter
All you have to do is answer Sherry’s question or leave a meaningful comment about the post.
(You can read our full giveaway policy here)
Please leave us a way to contact you.
(Email in blogger profile or twitter name – no way to contact you – no entry).
This giveaway is open worldwide!
Giveaway ends on Saturday February 19th
and we will announce the winner on Sunday.
Good luck!
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About Caro The HEA Lover


Caroline is a HEA loving, yarn addicted French who's desperately hoping to get a HEA of her own. If she's not reading then she can be found knitting while listening to Audiobooks or watching Tv shows. Her secret addiction is reading websites that make fun at other people's expense (DYAC, Failbook)! Caroline also blogs at the Secret HEA Society with Susi.

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  • A Buckeye Girl Reads February 8, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    Not entering, just dropping by to say how much I loved this book. 🙂

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  • BooksforCompany February 8, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    If l was rich and famous l would take my family away on holiday and extend my house to have a room for just my books! lol
    Thanks for the giveaway
    booksforcompany @ gmail.com

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  • Reading mind February 8, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    I'll give something special to my family thanking them for all they gave me in these years and all the sacrifices they made. Also, I'll buy TONS of books in all the languages I can read!

    aliasgirl at libero dot it

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  • Danielle Gorman February 8, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    I would go on a vacation with my boyfriend.

    iqb99@yahoo.com

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  • Birgit February 8, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    First of all – I loved the things you'd do when you were a huge world famous author 😀 !

    Personally, I'd definitely get a personal assistant AND actually treat him or her like a human being (which a lot of celebrities are obviously not capable of).

    danaan at gmx dot at

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  • heidenkind February 8, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    Hm, I think I'd buy a castle. Not one in Northern Europe, though–one of those huge Italian Renaissance villas overlooking Florence. 🙂

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  • Leni February 8, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    If I were suddenly rich I'd pay off all of my bills, buy a house,car and enjoy it.

    lenikaye@yahoo.com

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  • Mel February 8, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    If I were suddenly rich and famous, I would invent a new word and hope it catches on as the latest buzz word!

    Mel S
    notanotherbookblog(at)hotmail(dot)co(dot)uk

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  • Sullivan McPig February 8, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    I'd demand that every restaurant where I go to eat will scrap pork off the menu on the day that I visit it.

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  • Welzen February 8, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    If l was rich and famous I would travel around the world, and I will buy book, book, and books.

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  • marybelle February 9, 2011 at 2:49 am

    Drop in the Queen of England for tea.

    marypres@gmail.com

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  • Sharon S. February 9, 2011 at 10:17 am

    how cool. I grew up in Jacksonville, NC a big Marine Corp town . We weren't a military family. If I was famous I would love to go to my HS reunions .

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  • Ellie February 12, 2011 at 8:48 am

    If I suddenly became rich and fabulously well-known, I'd recreate the famous Michael Jackson shopping scene of the infamous Martin Bashir documentary, only with books. I'd walk into the biggest bookshop I could find, grab a few handsome young men, give them all big trolleys, then wander round pointing at books and calling 'That one! Ooooh, and that one! Yes, and all of those!' This would continue until one of the poor guys dropped from exhaustion, or until I got hungry, or until I'd just covered the whole place! Whichever came first…

    Ooooh, now doesn't that sound heavenly? 🙂

    My email address is: emp501@hotmail.co.uk
    Thanks!

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  • Meredith February 12, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    I think I'd buy myself and family a home somewhere fairly remote to get away from all of the hubbub!

    meredithfl at gmail dot com

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  • Tore February 15, 2011 at 1:14 pm

    I would payoff my bills and go on a cruise. Please enter me in contest. Tore923@aol.com

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