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The novel I (might?) let go

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This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series All my novels

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I am surrounded by young adult authors. That is, authors writing for young adults. Like, surrounded. Where I live, on the Internet—to find another author writing to an adult audience is actually a challenge most of the time. Plus, I know (ish) a lot of very, very successful YA authors—awesome agents, big book deals, best sellers. So I get lots and lots of chances to think about whether YA is for me.

The answer is usually no, not really.

Except for this one time.

The book stats

Title: Slash and Burn. Maybe Scorched Earth. Maybe that will be the sequel.
Genre: YA post-apocalyptic (Not dystopian. There is a difference.)
Inspiration: A very vivid dream, inspired by the TV show Falling Skies, shortly before Nano 2012. As in, like, weeks.
Writing dates: November 1 – 20, 2012.
Length: 69,265 words.
Back cover copy: The war for Earth is over. But the battle’s just begun.

In a depopulated post-apocalyptic California, 17-year-old Adrienne Lucas has finally found some semblance of normalcy in a collective farm led by her father. Then newcomers arrive, promising a return to the comforts from Before. Adrienne’s father represents the voice of reason against the newcomers’ siren song—until they silence him forever.

Adrienne’s devastating loss is compounded when she discovers the man she’s loved for years, the man who saw her father as practically his own, the man who lives in her home as part of her family is also the man who betrayed her father and sentenced him to death.

Now Adrienne will destroy them all. Starting with him.

Or, in video form:

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What I learned from this book

Well, obviously, I learned that I can write YA. It was nice to take a “break” from the strong voice of I, Spy, with a different voice. Interestingly, it was still in first person, present tense, and still had plenty of humor, but it was a very different tone. I hadn’t written anything remotely speculative in over a decade, so it was kind of fun to go back to that. And of course my husband is big on emergency preparedness, so it was fun to use him as a consultant.

But probably the most important/interesting thing I learned from this book was letting go. A week or two after I finished it, I opened it up again to export from my trial version of Scrivener, and . . . I just didn’t really “feel” my novel. It was a rough first draft, of course, but something was (and still is) missing for me, especially the passion and the drive to go back to it.

Funnily enough, I’d kind of forgotten about that over the last year and just came across my posts about that as I was trying to track down my final word count. I slotted the book into my production schedule down the road, but . . . we’ll see. It’s a cool story, but as I realized (quoting Natalie Whipple): “this business is too hard to waste effort on something you don’t 150% love.”

What do you think? How do you rekindle passion for an old project?

COVER IMAGES: Girl: Self-portrait by Kelsey; Fire by Marion Doss;
Blood drips: Pooling Blood by Joleene Naylor; all via CC

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Works, News & Contests

Character Arcs is here!

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Subplots

We’ve finished our series on subplots, but we haven’t touched on one of the most important types: the character arc, the character’s emotional journey of growth. And that’s because I’ve been working so hard on the book about that very topic.

Hooray! It’s here!
COVER

On Kindle and in paperback

With more formats coming soon!

“Amid the vast number of books that focus on the what and why of character arcs, Jordan McCollum has created a refreshing guide that demystifies the how. Any writer interested in learning more about how to create a realistic character arc and smoothly add it to their story will benefit greatly from this book.”

—Becca Puglisi
author of The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression

WHY DOES YOUR STORY MATTER?

CHARACTER ARCS show the events of our story are worth reading about.

In most works of fiction, the major characters don’t just experience the events of the plot—the story changes them. They learn and grow, ultimately succeeding at the climax of the story because of all they’ve gained. Even the greatest plot in the world can ring flat if the character’s internal journey isn’t dramatic enough. For a character to truly resonate with readers, he should change and grow over the course of the story.

CHARACTER ARCS will help you:

  • Give your readers a powerful experience in any genre
  • Discover your character’s arc: their internal, emotional journey.
  • Implement that character arc to make your readers root for your character.
  • Keep your story moving by using external plot events to prompt your character’s internal growth.
  • Revise your character’s arc for maximum impact.
  • PLUS a special chapter on using character arcs in romances, family dramas & other relationship stories.

Far from a write-by-numbers manual, this approach examines the basic mechanics of character change to show you how to apply these principles in your own work, with numerous examples.

Add power and resonance to any story—master character arcs!

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Publishing, Works

Anatomy of best seller

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Hey, guess what! I can now add something really awesome to my résumé. I have attained the (dubious?) honor of an Amazon best sellers list.

Well, actually, a whole bunch of Amazon best sellers lists.

It’s kind of a long story, so here’s the shortest version I can tell. I wrote my prequel novella, Mr. Nice Spy, with the intent of giving it away as a freebie. And I did that. Some. But I had it for sale most of the time. With my new release coming up and the Bookmarked Bargains event two weeks ago, I decided to try to make it permafree on Amazon. I lowered the price on Smashwords, Kobo and my site and put out the word to report it to Amazon price matching. Some other authors told me Amazon would not match those sites, so I kinda figured, what could I do? And said the bargain price was still 99¢.

How many sales does it take to hit a category best seller list?

Not very many for the paid lists. The first day of the event began and the sales began rolling in! By the time I hit about 25 sales, I checked the book’s Amazon listing and there it was! I was a best seller in the categories of Espionage and Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue.

MNS best seller rankings

Jump for joy!

As my sales continued, my book climbed a bit higher on the charts—my one claim to fame might be that I outsold Valerie Plame’s novel for about an hour 😉 —but eventually my sales dropped off in the evening. I figured that was probably natural, and they might pick up again in the morning. Or they might not. I was just thrilled to have made it once.

The next morning, my sales were still level. I didn’t move a single unit all day, though my other book, I, Spy was still selling. Finally, in the afternoon, I saw this tweet:

I virtually patted this poor soul on the head. My book was 99¢, silly. But then another person tweeted it:

At this point, I thought maybe I should check it out. So I did. And there it was: free.

And there it was: top. ten. on the Free Espionage list.

MSN best seller free ranking
(At the peak.)

I’d missed this in my sales report page because the “Free Pricematch” column is so far to the right that it wasn’t automatically showing on my screen, and I actually didn’t know it was there. When I checked, I’d already moved hundreds of free books.

I watched the numbers climb all day. In the end, through that weekend, I “sold” nearly 1000 free books (983, to be exact). I got as high as #3 on the FREE Espionage books list, and I also ranked on several other lists: Free Thrillers; Free Mystery, Thriller & Suspense; Free Romance Mysteries & Suspense; Free Romantic Suspense. So that’s two paid lists (that I know of; I didn’t think to check these things before it went free) and five free lists. It also broke into the top 5000 paid books and top 500 free books on ALL of Amazon.

This kicked off one of the more awesome weeks of my life. There was so. much. freaking. awesome in this week that I can’t do it justice in one post. Okay, I couldn’t do it justice in any number of posts, but it’s going to take at least one or two more to try.

Just to whet your appetite, here’s a quiz: I also A.) took a ride in a private plane, B.) got to know a former CIA officer, and C.) spent an entire day evading the surveillance teams pursuing me while making dead drops, social engineering and figuring out how to survive in this city.

Oh wait, it’s D.) all of the above. (And yes, B and C are related. And no, no part of this is exaggeration, though it is a tiny bit of marketing.) Well, and E.) had a new niece, but really, a new baby to love is better than the other stuff, so it isn’t fair to compare.

What do you think? Do you ever look at Amazon best seller lists?

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Works, Writing Life

Lucky! Number! Seven!

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This entry is part 8 of 13 in the series All my novels

After a maaajor crash and burn novel, I needed to quit writing, perhaps forever. And then fall (the season) came, and with it, NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month.

To this point, I’d never done a full NaNo. I made a sad attempt in 2006, but stalled out in the first chapter. In 2010, the year before this, I did a “Half-No” where I added 25,000 words to my ill-fated sixth novel. I’d written a book pretty quickly before: 90,000 words in 8 or 9 weeks, spanning over November (2008), but I started in October (five years ago today, in fact!), so it couldn’t count as official even if my word count was enough.

I like to challenge myself, so doing NaNo wasn’t enough. I heard of Candace Havens’s “Fast Draft” method, where you write your first draft in two weeks. I finally found the right characters to use for an idea that had been bouncing around in my brain for over a year, sketched out a plot, threw that away, took a deep breath, crossed my fingers, and dove in.

The book stats

Title: Bloodstone
Genre: Uhh . . . action/adventure romance, I guess? It’s a lot like National Treasure.
Inspiration: Umm . . . I think it was partially inspired by a History Channel pseudoscientific special on Vikings in the Americas. Also, some notes on a passage of scripture.
Writing dates: 1 November 2011 – 14 November 2011
Length: Just over 78,000 in the first draft; sitting at 85,000 right now.
Elevator pitch (or a little bit longer than that): Professor Cora Warren has an archaeological dig to conduct; her student Jack has his own agenda: an unbelievable archaeological theory. But it’s not his theory that challenges Cora’s faith the most—until they unearth an artifact that will drag them through a thousand years of incredible history, give them both a reason to believe, and bring them face-to-face with a secret society hellbent on keeping the treasure and the glory for themselves.

Dude. I love this book.

107/365 [Flying Fingers]

What I learned from this book

First and foremost: as soon as I got up on November 1, I dove into this book. AND WRITING WAS FUN AGAIN! It had been two years since I’d written something that I loved and enjoyed, and had it flow. I’d forgotten the joy of drafting, and how much my soul needed that creative energy. I also got to revisit one of my favorite conflicts in romance: forbidden love!

To date, this is the longest I’ve gone from initial idea to actual writing. In fact, I was sure I’d given up on that idea, that it didn’t have the spark or passion I’d need to sustain a novel. The characters I’d initially sketched out for the idea just didn’t connect with me: the “hero” had such an obvious agenda he came off as flat before I ever even gave the guy a name. Having let the ideas percolate so much—and building on something that has as much background as Vikings in America—gave me a lot of fuel to write very fast!

And speaking of writing fast, I wrote real fast. I wasn’t sure if I could really do the Fast Draft method, especially since I don’t write on Sundays, but sure enough, I hit “The End” on November 14, averaging 6500 words a day. This was majorly helped by my first ever writing retreat, where I wrote . . . darn, my records are on my old laptop still. But it was many words. Plus, I got to be there to receive the acceptance letter for what was to be my first published novel (third manuscript), and to get to share that news with friends in person was very cool. (There may have been a request for a cartwheel. I may have fulfilled that request.)

Writing fast also had some other advantages. I thought I’d end up with a super sloppy first draft, and yes, in some ways I did. However, having the entire novel in my head helped me to weave together threads that I probably wouldn’t have seen otherwise, instead of dropping them and fixing it in revision. It really felt like weaving a novel, like all the craft and structure mechanics I’d spent the last four years beating into my head were really coming together. It was far from perfect—and I think it’s going to have to undergo a second round of revisions still—but it was surprisingly good.

COVEROne of the craft and structure mechanics that really came together for me during this time was the concept of the character arc, and most especially how I needed to use that arc at the climax. This was a major craft breakthrough for me, and I’m excited to share it with you in Character Arcs, coming next week! (You can add it to your Goodreads now. Just sayin’.)

This novel was also the first time I got to experiment with different timelines, something I love to read. I watched National Treasure to analyze the structure of the genre and I was struck that the beginning of the movie is a flashback (uh, sort of?) depicting part of the history of the secret/legend they’re pursuing. I ended up using three storylines throughout: one in Puritan times (the first time the stone is unearthed), one in the mid-nineteenth century (forming the secret society), and one modern (finding stone, coming up against secret society, romance, character arcs and more). Plus a scene in Viking times (remembering the creation of one of the clues).

Man. I love this book. I’m going to love it so much more when it’s shiny and perfect. Sigh.

Tell me about one of your favorite manuscripts!

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Works, Writing Life

I am novel number five

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This entry is part 6 of 13 in the series All my novels

Since I had so much fun writing the sequel to my unpublished, unsubmitted, unrevised third novel, I decided to do it again. Yep. That thing you’re never never never supposed to do? I did it twice. With the same book.

I’ve told you I’m nuts, right?

This time, the idea for the book came about from reading a novel. In the book, the heroine defeats the villain in a finale sequence where she’s forced to kill him—alone. The police accept her story, fortunately, but I had to wonder . . . what if she were lying?

Some bright ideas...

The book stats

Title: Saints & Sinners
Genre: Romantic suspense
Inspiration: a what-if question based on an awesome book.
Writing dates: August-October 2009.
Length: About 75,000?
Elevator pitch: Hours before the wedding, the bride is kidnapped. The kidnappers’ grudges—and betrayals—run deeper than at least one of their own realizes. Can the groom find the truth—and his bride—before it’s too late?

What I learned from writing this book

It was really fun to be inspired by a friend’s awesome novel. The circumstances of the scene in that book (and the only reason I’m not naming it is because this gives away the ending) are very different from the scene it inspired in mine—so much so that I doubt you’d notice even if you read them back to back. It’s always pretty cool to take your inspiration and riff on it to become your own thing.

This was my first book to be plotted with Larry Brooks’s Story Structure (from the summary on his blog; his book Story Engineering wasn’t out yet). I found this sort of challenging, in that I felt like I had to kind of . . . putter around for a while until it was “time” for the First Plot Point. Importantly, with this book I realized that my first drafts tend to run about 70,000 words—so when I’m timing out my story’s milestones, I shouldn’t use the final word count (which might be closer to 85,000) to place them. (Man, I wonder what that will look like in revision.)

This was also my first, and so far only, book with more than three POVs. I think it got up to five: the hero, the heroine, the hero’s sidekick (without whom, the hero would get to do some really awesome listening via telephone), the villain, the villain’s sidekick (ditto, plus his motivations aren’t comprehensible without this—and several other spoilery reasons).

Another big lesson with this book was the value of writing against a timer. Racing the timer made this book go faster for me. I don’t know if that’s why, but I did manage to finish this book within one year of starting the first book in this trilogy.

Bunch of PapersThree books in a year. It’s a feat I now know I could replicate—but I probably won’t. I’ve got enough manuscripts sitting around, waiting to be edited!

I think it was good for me to get all those books done, though. As I finished this book, I started feeling very sick and tired—so much so that getting the last few chapters done was a challenge. Turned out I was pregnant with my third child. Between some burnout from writing so much, submitting the first novel in the trilogy for the first time, and all my “creative” energies going elsewhere, I took a big break from writing new stuff.

Looking back, part of me wishes I’d taken a longer one and skipped my next novel.

What do you think? What’s the most you’ve written in a year?

Photo credits: “Some bright ideas…” by DaMongMan,
“Bunch of papers” by Seiichi Kusunoki, both via Flickr & CC

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Writing Life, Works

What you should never, ever, ever do

This entry is part 5 of 13 in the series All my novels

(Unless you want to)

After I finished my third novel, my next idea was to continue the adventures of the undercover agent/priest (now no longer undercover, of course) and the parish secretary (who quit).

Yep. I wrote a sequel to a book I hadn’t sold. Hadn’t even revised. I knew enough about the publishing industry by now to know that this was stupid. But I also knew enough about the publishing industry to know that I was in a very special phase of my career: one without contracted deadlines, publisher pressures, and reader expectations. I could really do what I wanted.

Pretty awesome time!

Writing

My co-author finished her parallel novel to Saints & Spies, and wrote a short story sequel, but from there she had no desire to write another parallel, so I was on my own again. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to stretch my own words and ideas to novel length, but (woot!) I made it!

The book stats

Title: Finally settled on Saints & Agents
Genre: Romantic suspense
Inspiration: an entertaining idea for a scene that would be uncomfortable for my characters. The scene never made it in the book.
Writing dates: January – April 2009. Editing in January – March 2011.
Length: About 75,000?
Elevator pitch: Happily ever after didn’t last nearly long enough. Now both working for the FBI, the exes may need one another to track down a pair of Irish terrorists. But getting in with the criminals—and working side by side with the one that got away—is even harder than breaking up the first time.

What I learned from writing this book

The joy of a sequel! Yeah, okay, that’s said with some sarcasm—sequels aren’t always easy. There’s a lot of pressure to do it the same, but, uh, different: hit the same emotional notes, have the same or similar characters, develop similar-ish conflicts—all while writing something that’s new and different enough to satisfy readers.

This book is the first time I used an “alpha” reader. My co-author and I wrote scenes together and showed each other our progress along the way. (Yes, the book that was to be my first published novel was actually drafted in Google Docs in 2008. Crazy times, eh?) She became my alpha reader for this novel, but it was a different relationship. Rather than creating our world together, she became a sounding board and semi-audience (although I relied on her for input with her characters’ actions).

I re-learned the importance of subplots and secondary characters. I had to work hard to tie in all the characters I loved from the first novel (well, all the ones who weren’t in jail). But I also had a new cast of secondaries—and, of course, new antagonists. This book was the first time I used the villain’s POV—and it made a world of difference! In a book where the protagonists spend much of the time not knowing what the villains are up to, it’s very hard to keep the tension going (don’t get me started). If you can add the villain’s POV—as I did in revising this novel, since it was already in 3rd person multiple POV—you can help to inject all the scenes with more tension and every 10th grade English teacher’s favorite thing, dramatic irony.

Good IdeaPossibly the most important lesson I (re)learned with this novel is that I will always be able to find another idea. I was most of the way through Saints & Spies believing it was a stand-alone when this idea came to me. I dismissed it at first (no sequels before sales!), but I fell in love with the story, and I had to do it. Not only did I have an idea for a novel, but I also had enough ideas to finish a full-length one by myself. Hooray!

What do you think? Have you ever done something you should never, ever, ever do in your career?

Photo credits: notebook—Tony Hall; idea quotation—Celestine Chua

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Works, Writing Life

Third time’s the charm

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This entry is part 4 of 13 in the series All my novels

I kept on writing in spite of my too-short and too-broken first novels. And as it turned out, the third time was the charm. This new project completely changed my writing career.

QUICK REMINDER: to receive your bonus reads for the book blast, you must email me your receipt! jordan at jordanmccollum.com

El Padre y la ViudaAnyway. My best friend and I were chatting one day about a friend of hers who became a priest after college, and what it would be like to choose a celibate life at a young age. The conversation wandered off into paths of foreign soaps with Catholic priests pursued by young women (namely Ballykissangel and Abrázame muy fuerte). Sometimes these fictional priests would fall in love and leave the ministry, and my friend and I speculated what would happen if a priest fell in love.

That night, my mind returned to that theme. What if, I wondered, he wasn’t really a priest? For the first time, my mind went to what would later become my favorite fictional question: what if he were a spy?

I emailed my friend and within a day or two, we’d sketched out our stories and begun parallel novels: mine following the adventures of Father Undercover and the parish secretary, and my friend’s following the story of a teacher at the parish school (who happened to be Father Undercover’s sister) and a seminary candidate.

The book stats

Title: Finally settled on Saints & Spies
Genre: Romantic suspense (my first contemporary-set novel!)
Inspiration: a conversation with my best friend
Writing dates: 22 October 2008 – early December 2008. And then editing until February 2010. Seriously.
Length: Maxed out at 101,000, but submitted at around 90,000
Elevator pitch: An LDS FBI agent must go undercover as a Catholic priest to root out the mob in the parish—if he doesn’t fall for the parish secretary first.

What I learned from writing this book

Man. What didn’t I learn from this book?

From the initial writing, I was reminded what it was like to fall in love with a story. It had been nearly a year since I’d started a new project, and my enthusiasm for my previous books was as mired down as their plots. I realized I could write a book in a contemporary setting, and I learned how much fun it was to co-author. The best part was always writing the scenes with all four of our main characters interacting. My friend and I still squabble like our sibling characters when talking about a scene where they have opposite agendas 😉 .

But probably the farthest-reaching lesson I learned was how useful plotting really is. With four MCs, two main plots, intersecting subplots, shared scenes, etc., planning out our stories in advance was a must. The actual plotting took me less than a day and I was still very excited about the story. The actual book was very different from the original plot—we cut the rival mob that was the main plot entirely—but having a guideline in place was an amazing revelation. It didn’t stifle my creativity; the outline enabled it.

This book became my first submission, and thus my first rejection. That, right there, says a lot.

I would not give up. Editing the book again taught me more than I’d ever learned about writing. I went through each scene to perform a tension check, ensuring there was some source of tension in the scene, striving to weave in more interactions with antagonists, bringing out the suspense. I took my heroine from a crying waif to a proactive former policewoman. I learned how to better write character emotions from the inimitable Margie Lawson.

sandsnotes

I learned how much real work it would take to get that book from first draft to publishable (my secret sauce of writing). It took more than a year of work after the rejection to get it that way.

After I finally learned what editing was, this book became my first contest win. Then it became my first acceptance from a publisher. And one day, it will definitely be available. Once upon a time, that day was going to be last month, but it isn’t now. Which is okay, too—because if you saw the dates above, I started this book five years ago and often I’m not sure I want to look back at where my writing was back then!

But, hey, if you do, you can read that prizewinning chapter right here on my website.

What do you think? How did you learn about the importance of planning, or editing? How many novels did you write before you had one ready to submit?

Photo credit: el Padre y la Viuda (the Father and the Widow)—Carlos MuLec

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Works, News & Contests

The I, Spy Book Blast is here!

To save her country and her secrets, CIA operative Talia Reynolds must sacrifice the man she loves—but your choice is much easier! Just buy a copy of I, Spy during the book blast AND receive awesome prizes!

UPDATE: You know what would be cool? If I included, you know, purchase links. Here you go! Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords, and here on JordanMcCollum.com!

What you have to do

Step 1: Buy the book any day from September 19 to September 22. Any retailer will do! Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords, and here on JordanMcCollum.com!

Step 2: Email Jordan a copy of the receipt (jordan at jordanmccollum.com). Yes, even if you buy the book from Jordan’s site, we need to know you want to receive the freebies.

Step 3: Wait with bated breath.

What you’re going to get

EVERYONE who participates gets fabulous prizes, including 13 free books and samples from wonderful authors!

The fabulous prizes!


a free copy of A Body in the Backyard (A Myrtle Clover Mystery) by Elizabeth Spann Craig
a free copy of Rose, Undercover (Dead Roses #1.1) by RaShelle Workman
a free copy of Anasazi Intrigue: The Adventures of John and Julia Evans by Linda Weaver Clarke

a free copy of Writing Your Family Legacy by Linda Weaver Clarke (Isn’t she awesome?!)
a free copy of Secret Sisters by Tristi Pinkston
a free copy of Dead Running by Cami Checketts

a free copy of First Kiss (Confessions of a 16-Year-Old Virgin Lips 1) by Cindy Hogan
a preview of A Change of Plans by Donna K. Weaver
a sneak preview of The Witnesses by Stephanie Black, out next month!

a sneak preview of Pocket Full of Posies (Hostage Negotiation Team #3) by Julie Coulter Bellon, out next month!		 Christmas ornament
an exclusive look at “I’ll Cry for Christmas,” a short story by Rachelle J. Christensen
a free copy of Mr. Nice Spy (I, Spy Prequels) by Jordan McCollum
PLUS!

An exclusive sneak preview of Spy for a Spy (Spy Another Day #2) by Jordan McCollum

Note that all freebies will be in electronic format. I will try to match the format to the format you bought if you purchased an e-book; if you purchased a print copy, I’ll send the freebies in PDF (unless you specify otherwise).

What if I’ve already bought I, Spy?

First of all, THANK YOU!! If you take a picture of you with your copy of I, Spy (or the cover on your reading device) and post it somewhere public on the Internet— Facebook (or maybe on Jordan’s Facebook page), a Tweet, Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, sky’s the limit—send Jordan the link and you can have these fabulous prizes too!

So spread the word! The more, the merrier!

As always, many thanks to my wonderful friends helping to spread the word: Cindy M. Hogan, Stephanie Black, Kathleen Brebes, JoLyn Brown, Rachelle J. Christensen, Julie Coulter Bellon, Cami Checketts, Tristi Pinkston, Nichole Giles!

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