Trade Paper of Farro Now Available!

Finally!

I have to say though, for all the waiting on the proofs, correcting

the proofs, and ordering yet another proof... It came out looking great. I'm a minimalist when it comes to design and art. If you weren't able to tell from my blog and cover, I like simple, clean lines, and I'm proud of the trade paper for possessing these qualities.

Here's a picture of my cat curled up with my book (for added cuteness):

So support the author and get your own hard copy today...

Either through Createspace

or through Amazon

Love,

Arreana

The Truth About Arreana

She's a shameless nerd.

The interesting thing about this claim is how popular it's become in recent years. I remember when being a nerd was a bad thing. When you hid the fact you programed games on your scientific calculator. We're talking the sort of nerds that in high school would clump together in a giant nerd crowd to talk about games, philosophy, and politics before college made it cool. I find that people that use the phrase "I'm a nerd" nowadays mean it as "I like Star Wars and zombies and bacon-related products, aren't I nerdy in a hip way?" or "I like manga and anime so much that I dress up as my favorite characters when I go to work." I'm a Revenge of the Nerds sort of nerd, the awkward, hiccuping female breed.

My husband and I went to high school together -- yes, we were high school sweethearts. Back then I always kind of considered him the leader of the nerds, the one-to-rule-them-all per say (to throw in an ironically nerdy quote). I, meanwhile, was the only girl who came to their nerdy gatherings. (At this point you may ask, what is a nerdy gathering? Back then it was playing Magic the Gathering, watching bad horror movies for the purpose of critiquing them, and taking turns playing Stepmania. Lan parties... Diablo II Lan parties, how I miss those days... but I digress.) So my husband was at the hub at these activities, and I was the only girl. A predestined match in my opinion.

We're still nerds to this day. We're big gamers, we talk politics obsessively, we get into frequent "math fights" that I usually lose. We use words in every day conversation that most people have never heard. We critqiue scientific experiments we read about (both of us being in the sciences, this is something of a habit). We're generally insufferable to the most normal people. Which is why I usually keep my nerdom hush-hush.

So most people don't know that I: love Minecraft, play games almost constantly (in the last year this has included, Fall Out NV, Dragon Age II, Dungeon Keeper I (my favorite game as a kid and one I'm enjoying replaying), Portal 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and a multitude of others). To top it off, I spend way too much time on reddit.com/r/gaming.

Meanwhile, I'm writing. The gaming, the bad movies, the card games, and political debates, are more a relief for my brain. When I'm tired, when I can take no more of my characters and need a moment to be me, I turn to Kyle and say, "Let's go get coffee and talk about dissections."

So now you know, rant complete. (But I still can't help liking bacon)

(Sulfur Update: Chapter 1-4 written.)

Sulfur Begins!

... and Farro gets promoted!

I've been so busy over the weekend celebrating my birthday and catching up on life that I've been a little MIA. I'm back now, with some pretty thrilling updates (at least thrilling for me!), I'm starting the promotion process for Farro this week and I've started writing Sulfur.

A note on the first, I've been contacting book blogs about Farro. The act promotes deep, uncomfortable memories of my very brief and wholly awful stint as a telemarketer. I experienced the same feeling when querying agents, with about the same amount as success. So far responses from the book blogs have been incredibly kind and helpful, invalidating my fears, and I hope they continue to be that way! I'm excited for their opinions -- good or bad!

The Bigger News -- and the thing you probably want to know most about: Sulfur has begun. I have wrote the opening line, the opening dialogue (spoken by Bomani), even the opening event (secret for now). I love starting books almost as much as I love finishing them. I love picking where I should start in the story and scraping that and starting later. Farro originally began the day Khensa was kidnapped from Junktown, and her subsequent months in the temple. After writing this however, I didn't like the feel of it, the drag and the flab, and so I said, "Screw it, we're just starting at the end of it." Low and behold, a beginning. With Sulfur, I had a similar work through. Originally it was to begin with "the gang" getting ready to depart on their big quest and heading out on their mission and evading guards and staying under the radar and ugh, when does it end? Bang, Sulfur starts in the middle of the desert.

But when do we get to see it?

After my Beta-Readers have had a chance to go through it and reply.

Wait, what? Beta-Readers? You have Beta-Readers?

For Farro I had two teenagers reading it and acting like my cheerleaders. They didn't make any changes despite the grammatical errors, they are just reading it for the fun of it. A couple more Beta-Readers have been added to the Sulfur list because they have asked to be included and I was only too happy to oblige. "Why yes, you may read Sulfur and critique it, as long as you wave a pair of proverbial pom-poms in my face while you're doing it." Oh Beta-Readers, like dogs nipping at me heels.

Bonus Chapter #2

So! Happy birthday to me!

To celebrate, here's a new bonus chapter!

Arreana

p.s. I'm off to dinner! Relax, be cool!

Farro Published

Farro is now available in the following formats:

Kindle Edition $1.99

Nook Edition $1.99

Soon (in the next week or so) Farro will also be available in trade paper for those of you that like to hold the book in your hand. I know I do. Many of you have probably already read Farro, if that be the case, please consider sharing Farro with a friend, leaving a review, or even buying a copy. Thank you for your support, to an indie-author like me it has meant the world!

I'm going to keep this brief. I have lots to do, including writing a Bonus Chapter to help celebrate the release! I'll also be diving right into the sequel next week. Lots to do before then.

Editing is done, Farro is published, I'm sleeping again. Oh happy day.

Love,

Arreana