It's Ms. Elysabeth's birthday and she is running a non-contest from now until Thursday (her actual birth date). Here's the deal. Anyone who signs up for the monthly newsletter that keeps you informed about the series as well as happenings in different states and emails Ms. Elysabeth at eeldering@gmail.com with their snail mail addy and subject line of JGDS Newsletter sign up will receive a state-related gift. So don't delay. Sign up for the newsletter and stay informed on what's happening with us and around your area. Get your free state-related gift. Hurry non-contest ends Thursday.
SNAFU fixed: (the low down on the SNAFU and the fix)
Well, it seems Ms. Elysabeth has fixed the little SNAFU she had. Here is the rundown of what was going on: Apparently, Living Waters Publishers was being a bit evasive about when she would actually be published and was keeping her in the dark about things. They had been having some problems since the beginning. Ms. Elysabeth had a feeling that something wasn't right, so she kept asking Ms. Aidana if she should get out of her contract. Ms. Aidana said to let things settle and that everything would be okay. Just to be patient. So Ms. Elysabeth let it slide for a bit. Then when Ms. Elysabeth asked about the company having booths in book festivals and particpating as such, she was told by several people in the company to whom she had sent emails that all her emails were going to spam and when they finally got the emails, she was told they would get back to her. No one ever got back to her and no one would give her a straight answer. So she was in limbo. Finally, she had told Ms. Aidana, she wasn't too happy and she needed to know what was going on and what direction to go in. Then Ms. Vivian popped up and started chatting with Ms. Elysabeth. Ms. Vivian is the owner of 4RV Publishing. After a couple of days of chatting with Ms. Vivian and being encouraged to return to chatting with Ms. Aidana, Ms. Elysabeth found her solution. Ms. Vivian and Ms. Aidana had been chatting and Ms. Aidana had told her that Ms. Elysabeth was concerned about things and she didn't know what to tell Ms. Elysabeth.
Finally on Saturday, May 10, Ms. Elysabeth and Ms. Aidana had a little chat. Things had been pretty busy during the week and so neither had been communicating with each other. Ms. Aidana told Ms. Elysabeth that she was fine at this point for her to request to be released from her contract with Living Waters Publishers. Come to find out the reason Ms. Vivian was encouraging Ms. Elysabeth to chat with Ms. Aidana was that she was interested in her series about us.
So the ball got rolling. Letters were sent and a request for release was made. The release was done and a new contract has been signed with 4RV Publishing and State of Wilderness, the first in the JGDS series will be released in August as scheduled. Ms. Vivian will be doing a virtual launch party for all her upcoming releases in the children's book areas including this one July 14-18 on www.writing.com - More will be posted as to where to go for that. There will be prizes, contests and lots of fun, so keep checking for a link to get you to the launch party. You have to sign up with www.writing.com before you can participate but it is free.
After the virtual launch party in July, there will be a live launch party release at Decatur Book Fesitval the end of August, Labor Day weekend. This will be for all books 4RV Publishing has released in the recent past up to the middle of August. So if you are in the Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia area Labor Day weekend, stop by the 4RV booth and meet Ms. Elysabeth, Ms. Vivian and Ms. Jacque. We are so looking forward to being there. There will be gifts, giveaways and items for purchase including the books. So definitely come see us if you are in the area.
Well we are out for now - the JGDS
I just found out yesterday, my cover has been placed in the Author's Lounge monthly contest for book cover of the month award. Check out the website and vote if you like the cover. There are only three nominations. 
