First of all, I just want to thank each and every one of you who has read The Game Series (it's weird calling them that) of books and fallen in love with Jack F'n Carter. I appreciate all your excitement so much!
I get a lot of emails asking me how you can help spread the word about the books and how we can get them made into movies, etc. The whole movie thing is a completely different world that I wouldn't even know where to tell you guys to start. I mean, I do know where to start actually, but the last thing I want to do is harass anyone in the industry. Just the fact that so many of you want to see this series on the big screen is flattering to me beyond all belief. So thank you for that. Maybe at some point it will get optioned for film and i'll celebrate by eating my weight in peanut butter and chocolate ice cream and screaming so loud only mermaids could hear. lol :)
There are some things that you can do to help me (and ANY self published author really) that are really easy things like- write a review wherever you purchased the book from. Reviews on sites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble really do help potential readers make a decision on whether or not they'd like to get the book. Your reviews hold a lot of power. You may not realize that, but they truly do.
Talk about the book on Goodreads (if you're a member there) and encourage others to start reading the series.
And last, but definitely not least is WORD OF MOUTH. When you tell other people to read a series, they most likely will. Your word of mouth is my biggest blessing. When you talk about my books, you get other people excited. When you make those gorgeous little picture and quote things and post them, people get intrigued. You talk, people listen.
I appreciate all the help, support and love I can get. I've realized in this business that it doesn't only take a village to raise a family, it takes a village to sell books. I can't sell them all on my own. My voice only travels so far. So THANK YOU for all of your help. Thank you for helping spread my voice a little farther, for extending my reach to places I never could have reached on my own. I couldn't do this without you.
xox
Jenn
The Perfect Game (book #1) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C3M26TQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00C3M26TQ&linkCode=as2&tag=youaduautjste-20
I get a lot of emails asking me how you can help spread the word about the books and how we can get them made into movies, etc. The whole movie thing is a completely different world that I wouldn't even know where to tell you guys to start. I mean, I do know where to start actually, but the last thing I want to do is harass anyone in the industry. Just the fact that so many of you want to see this series on the big screen is flattering to me beyond all belief. So thank you for that. Maybe at some point it will get optioned for film and i'll celebrate by eating my weight in peanut butter and chocolate ice cream and screaming so loud only mermaids could hear. lol :)
There are some things that you can do to help me (and ANY self published author really) that are really easy things like- write a review wherever you purchased the book from. Reviews on sites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble really do help potential readers make a decision on whether or not they'd like to get the book. Your reviews hold a lot of power. You may not realize that, but they truly do.
Talk about the book on Goodreads (if you're a member there) and encourage others to start reading the series.
And last, but definitely not least is WORD OF MOUTH. When you tell other people to read a series, they most likely will. Your word of mouth is my biggest blessing. When you talk about my books, you get other people excited. When you make those gorgeous little picture and quote things and post them, people get intrigued. You talk, people listen.
I appreciate all the help, support and love I can get. I've realized in this business that it doesn't only take a village to raise a family, it takes a village to sell books. I can't sell them all on my own. My voice only travels so far. So THANK YOU for all of your help. Thank you for helping spread my voice a little farther, for extending my reach to places I never could have reached on my own. I couldn't do this without you.
xox
Jenn
The Perfect Game (book #1) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C3M26TQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00C3M26TQ&linkCode=as2&tag=youaduautjste-20
The Game Changer (book #2)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BYEGSQQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BYEGSQQ&linkCode=as2&tag=youaduautjste-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BYEGSQQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BYEGSQQ&linkCode=as2&tag=youaduautjste-20
The Sweetest Game (book #3)
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My mom passed away from cancer when I was 10, and I really had no way of dealing with it, aside from my family or seeing the school counselor. If there was a program (which I do know of now), when I was young, where I could maybe be around other kids who were dealing with the same issues as myself - that would have been great.
Like some kind of camp - where the kids can spend the week just being 'normal' kids... and forget about all the real world problems in their lives. But it could also be a place to talk about their loved ones and hopefully start to heal.
Also - the charity could help these families at Christmas time. I cannot tell you how many years we had nothing at Christmas time, due to the medical bills. It definitely made me realize the importance of family during the holiday season and not the commercial aspect of it all, which I'm so grateful for!
One year the hospital adopted our family for Christmas and we got loads and loads of gifts, it was such an unexpected treat (especially since Santa brought them all to us Christmas morning). It's the one Christmas that I will never forget (especially since my mom was able to come home for it, if only for a few days).
Ever since I broke my neck and became disabled myself with a nine-month-old daughter it has always been so hard to find housing that would accept my daughter, also there wasn't enough room for her and my caregiver.
We need housing that is large enough for the person in the wheelchair and their families. Usually they have apartments that are only one bedroom and sometimes two bedrooms. And then most of them aren't totally equipped for people in wheelchairs that aren't able to get to the sink, stove, cabinets and bathroom facilities large enough that have showers large enough for wheelchairs, toilets that are put in for lower or higher wheelchairs so that the people are able to be able to use them easily. You would be amazed at how many accidents happen just because they are too low or too high. Doorways and hallways that are wide enough for any size wheelchair and rounded corners for us to be able to get through them without banging our wheelchairs into the sides of the corners without moving back and forth a few times just to be able to get into the doorways to the bedrooms or bathrooms without banging the feet of the wheelchair or scraping your arms or hands on them. Spacious rooms because they are never large enough with the apartments here. Washers and dryers so that they don't have to go out in the snow to use a community laundry room. It's their home. They need to feel at home with their families with them.
I would love to have a playground for children in wheelchairs and for children who are not. Children need to learn at an early age about other people with disabilities and this would be a perfect introduction. I would have barbecues twice a month for the spring, summer and early fall months for everyone who lives there so that they can meet the other families, friends and extended family members.
There would be one community room divided into two parts. One half would be for people with disabilities meetings/parties and any other functions where families can attend even with the extended family members and friends. We all need our families and friends to help us through our good and bad times and to be included in our lives. The other half be a recreational area with exercise equipment, pool table, foosball table, a couple pinball machines and other games for adults and kids. Just some place for them to go to relax and have fun.
From one disabled person in a wheelchair with family to share my dream with other people in wheelchairs.