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The Cinderella Story Best Seller and my 3 new book ideas

To celebrate Mother’s Day, I offered a KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) free promotion of my new eBook, The Cinderella Story: The Power of Shoes, which has been an Amazon Best Seller in its category and sub-categories.

There were 1,671 eBooks downloaded during the 2-day special promo, and I received 3 new positive reviews about the eBook here. So I consider offering the eBook worth it!

If you downloaded this eBook or have bought it, I’d love to know what you think and would appreciate a review at Amazon! You can post your review here.

I still have 3 more days during a 90-day period at KDP to offer my eBook free, so stay tuned!

What’s new

Right now I’m working on 3 new book ideas. The Cinderella Story: The Power of Shoes is the 1st non-fiction book in my series, The Cinderella Story series (Copyright 2015 Beth Jones www.BethJones.net).

My next book in this series is The Cinderella Story: The Power of Dreams (copyright 2015 Beth Jones www.BethJones.net). This will be a short, non-fiction eBook available at Amazon soon and I’ve decided it’s going to be an Amazon Best Seller, too!

My amazing graphic designer, Christine Dupre, already created the beautiful cover for it. Here it is below. I love it! What do you think?

eBook cover
Copyright 2015 Beth Jones www.BethJones.net

I’m also now working on my first FICTION book, Storm Tossed: A troubled woman finds peace with herself and with God in the midst of life’s storms.

This is way out of my comfort zone! My husband Ray has been telling me for years to write a fiction book. He primarily reads fiction, and says that people want to read fiction stories as an “escape” from life’s stressors.

Do you agree or disagree? Do you like to read fiction or non-fiction books?

I’ve already written a couple of chapters and am working on it today.

Last week, I had the eBook’s cover professionally designed after I chose the image at Istock and LOVE it! What do you think of it?

Storm Tossed ecover
Copyright 2015 Beth Jones www.BethJones.net

My 3rd book is called I love his hands: Reflections of hope & light from an imperfect marriage by an imperfect marriage.

It is non-fiction, shares things I’ve learned (the hard way!) from my marriage(s), and is for Christian women in difficult marriages, encouraging them to continue praying and to not give up.

In this book, I’m comparing marriage to the difficult art of creating traditional stained glass windows. I already chose the cover photo’s image for it at Istock, which you can see below. I’ll hire a professional graphic designer to do this cover, too. This book will probably be longer than the first two, so it will take more time to write.

stained glass cover for marriage book
Copyright 2015 Beth Jones

Please pray for God’s anointing on me to write these books~ His words, not my own, to encourage others and to give them hope through faith in Christ and the transforming power of God’s word.

What are you writing or reading lately? Leave your comments below.

May 14, 2015 by Beth Jones

Blog, Coaching, Faith, Spiritual Gifts, Writing

Shelley Hitz’s Author Audience Academy is open!

This year I joined my writing/business coach Shelley Hitz‘s writers’ training course, Author Audience Academy. Shelley is an amazing coach and instructor. The other students and I in the class are learning SO much from her.

My writing/business coach, Shelley Hitz

I’m blown away by the amount of valuable content she’s offering through this course! Her own Amazon eBooks’ success, as well as the great achievements in her personal life such as completing the Pike’s Peak Ascent, inspires me.

The Cinderella Story: The Power of Shoes
Design by Christine Dupre
Copyright 2015 Beth Jones www.BethJones.net

In just 2 1/2 weeks with Shelley’s coaching and instruction, I got my book idea, wrote the book, and published the eBook on Amazon. It became an Amazon Best Seller the first day! It is only $2.99 You can find out more and buy it at Amazon by clicking here.

You can do this, too!

I am part of the beta test group for Shelley’s training, Author Audience Academy. It is now open to the public! I want to strongly encourage you to enroll. You will get more than your money’s worth just from the first month of training, and the price will be going up.

Seating is limited to just 50 people, so I wouldn’t wait!

Just click on the graphic below to find out more info and to save your spot.

(This is an affiliate link. I only recommend products and services that I have personally used and/or highly recommend.)

April 6, 2015 by Beth Jones

Blog, Business, Ebooks, prayer, Speaking, Spiritual Gifts, Writing

Getting closer to launch!

I’m SUPER excited as it’s getting closer to my eBook launch time for my new eBook, The Cinderella Story: The Power of Shoes! My amazing graphic designer, Christine Dupre, finished the cover and did a BEAUTIFUL job!

I took an informal vote on Facebook and the cover below won the most votes. What do you think of it?

The Cinderella Story: The Power of Shoes
Design by Christine Dupre
Copyright 2015 Beth Jones www.BethJones.net

I’m using the other cover option Christine designed for my next eBook in this series called The Cinderella Story: The Power of Dreams. It was so hard to choose between the two, as they are so amazing and the vote was close. So I’m using BOTH!

Cover for my next eBook
The Cinderella Story: The Power of Shoes
Design by Christine Dupre
Copyright 2015 Beth Jones www.BethJones.net

My editor/formatter, Hanne Moon with Heritage Press Publications, has my manuscript. She’s waiting on the efile from the converter and it’s being converted into an eBook now and in mobi format for KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) on Amazon. You can independently publish on KDP to reach potentially millions of readers!

This is one of the fastest books I’ve ever written. I wrote it in 4 days!

Although I already had a lot of content from my signature talk with the same name, I had to do research, find Scriptures, write more and pull it all together. I didn’t think I could write it that fast, but God helped me and I did it! Woot!

My writing/business coach, Shelley Hitz

I’m in my writing/business coach Shelley Hitz‘s Author Audience Academy 3-month writers’ training, and she has motivated us to write our books quickly.

Shelley is a successful Christian speaker/author, who’s written over 35 books and her husband CJ has written books. She said together, they earn enough in royalties for their eBooks on Amazon to pay their basic bills! You can find her books at Amazon here.

Shelley did say during the summer, sales tend to slow down so she has other income streams, such as speaking and coaching. But when I heard she had this much success from eBooks on Amazon, I knew she was onto something and that I had to take her training! And I LOVE it! She’s an amazing instructor and coach.

Some of the other students in Shelley’s training program already have their eBooks live on Amazon, such as Lucille Zimmerman’s What Does God Say About Suffering, Ruth Snyder’s Learn Twitter: 10 Beginning Steps, and Mel Edwards’ The Bold Way: Find, Claim, Live Your Truth.

I can’t wait for mine to go live to share it with you! I’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready!

What favorite books/eBooks are you reading right now? Leave your comments below.

April 1, 2015 by Beth Jones

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I'm an International Speaker, Author of 30 books (and still writing!), traveler, wife to fire chief/paramedic Ray, and a blessed mom of 3 beautiful daughters, Heather, Eden, and Leah. I encourage women to use their gifts for God's glory, fulfilling their great purpose, and living a life they love. I help aspiring Christian speakers & writers to share their hearts' unique, powerful messages. The ocean is my happy place and place of peace and refilling. I love Jesus, my family, my cats Natalya and Nichodemus, traveling, chips & salsa, coffee, chocolate, nature, music, and art. My husband Ray calls me an enigma: I love to laugh and cry a lot. What about you? I'd love to connect more with you and hear how you desire to make more of an impact here for God's glory. Thanks for stopping by here. I pray you will find the hope, inspiration, and motivation you need to become all God created you to be. Dream big because we serve a big God!