I finally got a copy of my first book as a 6x9 size real book. Holy crap it's big! I mean I know we like that line in a romance book, but this is about a book so try to get your mind out of the gutter for a minute and check out this book with me! 

Now, that is no longer the case. With the e-books easily available, it isn't always so easy to know how big a book is. So we have to buy books or choose to read a story based on the cover and the blurb. (Which is what I should've been doing as a kid, but kids don't always measure things the way adults do. LOL)
As price always matters to adults (but not to a kid who had a one book limit), ebooks are usually cheaper with more bells and whistles added (such as images, links to inspiring music, and added lines of poetry or quotes. And don't forget the links to more books!) So my big thick, 8 hours of entertainment for the average reader, sized-book is only $3.99 as an e-book or FREE to read on Kindle Unlimited where as the list price for the 6x9 edition paperback is $17.64. That's still cheaper than a movie which only lasts about two hours. 
In case it matters to anyone who writes, I charge $.99 for each 10,000 words in a story. So A Pack Forms is broken into 8 parts and would be about $8 if purchased individually. But I cut the price in half if  you wait and buy it all at once!
(Do I sell the short read paperbacks? No, not really, but as it lends credibility, I still craft them. I suppose if you thought you had to have them, they sell for $6.50 each. But I'd wait for the complete volume and buy it at way less cost!)
The book hangover will be just as good as the movie hangover, I swear it! Oh wait, I don't have a movie yet! Don't laugh, I can dream. I'm thinking anime style. What do y'all think? I just need to find an artist who works for free...

Draoithe: No Negotiations is Now Publishing! Part 4 is now available. (Only $.99 each or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!) The conclusion will publish next weekend! For all of you who wait until it's all posted before you read, the complete volume will be ready on Dec. 12, 2020. That is the last complete volume that I will be able to publish this year! So for everyone who reads, Thank you sincerely. I am most Thankful for my Readers! The list for books publishing next year is available at OpheliaKee.com! ​

Kings Wilde is what I've been working on over the Thanksgiving Weekend! I managed to add 5800+ words to this miniseries and if I am honest, that is what I intend to work on the rest of the weekend. While the scene flows in my mind I need to write it. In case you were wondering, No. Sadly I do not participate in NaNoWriMo. If I could, I might do well. I have written over 100K in one week before. (90% of Dread Allies was done in 5 days in July a few years ago.) It's my day job that stops me. I had the week off for Thanksgiving, but that was the only week off this month. I'm not sure if I could squeeze in enough writing to craft a book around the day job so I 'll just have to squeeze it in around everything else the way I always do. Maybe someday!

I gotta run! The thrift store book cases are calling to me. I only have a few books! (Laugh, y'all know that ain't true.) If y'all read, please be kind and leave your reviews! Indie authors will love you for it. I am forever thankful for my readers and their kind reviews. 
Happy Thanksgiving!
Be Careful!
Happy Reading,
​Ophelia Kee

I did the coolest Thing Friday evening! I did a live radio interview with the guys at Chat and Spin in the UK. It was a FREE publicity bit about Draoithe: Arctic Fox. I absolutely had an amazing time with it. I was asked to come back on the air in January and do another one!  I posted it to my desk in case you want to check it out later! They are always looking for other creative individuals to interview and promote so if you need a bit of publicity, check them out. You can hear my interview at https://chatandspinradio.com/listen-again/ FRIDAY 20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY'S EVENING & LATE SHOW (PART 3). I am the first interview on this part.

Draoithe: Arctic Fox 
Duncan O'Sullivan was once a Druid king, but when he shifted as a fox, he knew his life had to change. Eventually, his need for a mate pushed him to leave his home and surrender his crown in search of the one woman who was crafted by the magic to be his everything. When he found her bathing in a loch in Scotland, he knew her immediately and set out to claim her. But her own king killed her after an accident without a thought or care and then simply gave her to him. Duncan had to find a way to rescue her from death and turn her as a fox. Turning her was only the beginning, winning her was the true adventure. Keeping her for himself when a vampire struck with bloodlust also craved her made him question everything he thought he understood.

Arctic Fox hit #1 in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Reads on Amazon! 
This book is only FREE this weekend! So grab your copy while you can. This is the book I was interviewing about with Chat and Spin Radio last night! It's an awesome short read story that gives a bit of background for two of the main characters in the Draoithe saga. Grabbing it for Free this weekend is a great way to step into the dream and get your feet wet in the immortal kingdom of Draoithe. 

Every good Fox king is a bit of a voyeur by necessity, but Artie grabs Duncan's attention in a way he never expected.

My stories are 18+ with HEA's guaranteed. I write adult fantasy paranormal romance in stand alone miniseries. I write long and publish short, but I collect the parts and publish them as stand alone novels for those who need it all at once.  There are currently over twenty miniseries in the saga with several short read and novella stories as well. ​I publish one short read each week. And now that Amazon has given indie authors the ability to collect their stories into series, I am currently working on that. I have managed to get the first seven volumes and the prequel collected into series along with some of the short read stories. So bear with me while I continue the process and improve my presentation. All the stories are FREE to read on Kindle Unlimited. If you have a subscription check them out! 

Draoithe: No Negotiations is currently publishing. Part 3 is now live on Kindle and the paperback will be out soon! This miniseries has 5 parts only so I am just at the midway publishing it! This is a good quicker read at about five hours. Gaspard is back but he's hurt and the one who shot him is his lifemate, only she has been turned dragonsworn. Find out how Luke uses that craziness to his advantage in the 18th volume of the Draoithe saga.

The life of the indie author is crazy business all the time. I hope you got your fix for behind the scenes of the dream. If you have any comment, suggestion, question, or remark, please don't hesitate to leave me a message. If you read, please be kind and leave your review. I gotta find a ham for Thanksgiving! Happy Holidays.
Be Careful!
Happy reading,
​Ophelia Kee

My authorwalk has been a strange long journey. I have enjoyed every minute of it including the weird and frustrating aspects. Super excited to let you know that the miniseries Draoithe: The Ruiri Complete is available on Amazon. But you should by the saga in one book rather than Kindle's boxed set as it is less expensive that way!
I found Facebook shops recently and decided to build one. I mean it sounds good. More exposure for the books and one more chance for people to see them. It is not a perfect fit though. I tried posting my books, but I got a lot of random rejections from Facebook. Apparently, the robots think my shifter characters are me selling real animals. Sigh... I applied for the situation to be reviewed, but I don't hold out much hope.
No matter. I shall persevere. Many of the books are located in the shop and do link directly to my Amazon Author page. When you click the link, it takes you to Amazon where you can purchase the paperback or the ebook from Kindle. So that was nice. Too bad all of my books aren't there. Once again there is simply no substitute for a website. (Get a FREE Book when you subscribe!)

Draoithe: No Negotiations has begun publishing. Part one is available and part 2 has been uploaded to Amazon. I am waiting on the review to be able to say it's live! While we wait for it, check out the blurb...
Gaspard Gautier is a gryphon on a mission to save other gryphons and add them to the dwindling numbers at the Gryphon castle. After a recent failed negotiation with his son, his personal life is in shambles yet he embarks on another mission with a crisis of conscience. The vile situation he finds upon locating two new gryphons is like a scene from a horror movie until the real nightmare begins. The woman he has searched for his entire life shows up only to think he caused the evil she witnesses. He tries to explain, but the gun in her hand leaves him no room for negotiation. He wakes up weak and disoriented in Draoithe’s infirmary barely still alive. Convalescence is going to take a few weeks he doesn’t have and the woman who shot him is now his dragonsworn servant. With his mission a failure and no way to negotiate with his commanders about the timeline he will fail to meet, he finds himself in the midst of a midlife crisis. She is everything, and he must find a way to claim her even though relationships with the dragonsworn are forbidden and punishable by death.

FREE this weekend, Part 1 Draoithe: Smoke of the Fire. Grab a copy before it returns to normal price at Midnight Monday evening. Fuego was a dragon knight, but somewhere along the path of his life, he lost the ability to feel emotion. He lived in a world of color as if he himself were black and white. His only hope for correcting his situation is to find his Valkyrie. Scarlett was kidnapped and turned into a canine shifter, but she was already an accomplished fire mage. When she meets Fuego, it’s love at first sight.  There’s only one small problem. Her fire wishes to combine with his when they get too close, and their love affair threatens to burn down the house. They need some serious help resolving the highly combustible nature of their attraction.

Sneaking an advance announcement: Draoithe: Arctic Fox will be FREE next weekend. (11/19-11/23) It will never be FREE again. This is a one time only deal! I mean it. This short read is worth getting. The story of what happens when Fox finds Artie is a good extra story. Get inside the mind and learn the secret insecurities of the Fox king. Happy Holidays a bit in advance. We need it this year!

I have to run. Desdemona Laveau, the voodoo priestess is demanding her fifteen minutes of fame. If you are wondering, she is a peripheral character from Draoithe: Synner and Sainte, but she has a pivotal role to play in rescuing Percival Dragan Ban from Talamh Liath. So I gotta write. If you read, please be kind and leave your review and check back in later to get more updates on the dream.
Be Careful!
Happy reading,
Ophelia Kee

Gaspard Gautier is a gryphon on a mission to save other gryphons and add them to the dwindling numbers at the Gryphon castle. After a recent failed negotiation with his son, his personal life is in shambles yet he embarks on another mission with a crisis of conscience. The vile situation he finds upon locating two new gryphons is like a scene from a horror movie until the real nightmare begins. The woman he has searched for his entire life shows up only to think he caused the evil she witnesses. He tries to explain, but the gun in her hand leaves him no room for negotiation. He wakes up weak and disoriented in Draoithe’s infirmary barely still alive. Convalescence is going to take a few weeks he doesn’t have and the woman who shot him is now his dragonsworn servant. With his mission a failure and no way to negotiate with his commanders about the timeline he will fail to meet, he finds himself in the midst of a midlife crisis. She is everything, and he must find a way to claim her even though relationships with the dragonsworn are forbidden and punishable by death. Draoithe: No Negotiations Part 1 is now live! The saga continues in Volume 18.

A Fin knight searches for his betrothed only to learn that she has died in a barn filled with immortal victims who are being hurt and used as part of a horrible experiment. There is little he can do for her, but his long ingrained code of chivalry demands he save the others. When he seeks help and returns to rescue the ones he can, he finds his true life mate. She was turned as a canine shifter with drugs and needs his help to learn how to fit into a world suddenly filled with immortal fairy tale creatures. He is conflicted between grief and amazement. He must overcome the conflict of conscience that is blocking him from learning if still waters run deep and decide how to seek vengeance for not only his betrothed but for everything, or risk losing it all. Draoithe: Still Waters Part one is FREE this Weekend! Step into the dream and enjoy the escape.

The day job still interferes with my authorwalk and my dreams of video books are still floating on the horizon like puffy clouds. But the publishing continues. I made promises not to quit until the story was told. I'm not giving up. Things might just take me a little bit longer than I want.
If you have only just now found the dream, welcome. Stop over at opheliakee.com and grab your free book. (The Thread is the prologue to the saga.) If you know others who enjoy adult paranormal romance, word of mouth is still the very best compliment.
I did learn a bit more about ads and am looking into trying some more of that as I gain the ability. To all of you have been faithfully following my walk and supporting the dream, Thank You sincerely. 

The man was an idiot. That was the only reasonable explanation. Palladin was young for an archangel, but he wasn’t dumb. He’d found his light. He knew the truth that the older archangel was refusing to see. 
Phanuel had walked away from the one woman who should’ve been soulbound for him. He’d been mad with grief. Sure that was obvious. But a thousand years? 
He had to be an idiot. Hiding away licking his wounds in the Lan Damhan just proved that the man was mentally unstable.
Palladin plunged his sword into the body of the grotesque attacking him. He fought the surging tide of immortals whose magic had been damaged with his back to the other archangel whose skill with the whitest blade rivaled his own. They’d both ran toward the fight as archangels did. That proved that the man was still a man at least.
“You’re a fool, Phan. Lyta is amazing, and you should hear her side of that story instead of shutting her out.” Palladin grunted as he used his foot to push the body of the grotesque off of his sword while ducking the hammer swung at him from a big hulking part-bear shifter. 
“Shut up, Adin. She sentenced my cousin to the void. He was my best friend. She never even considered the price for that. How could she be my soulbound? You just don’t understand.” 
The older angel was breathing hard as he too fought off a drooling eagle headed monster that was intent on attacking Gwen’s unfinished home. One after another stepped up attempting to end them.
Outtake scene from Draoithe: Strange Visions by Ophelia Kee. This story is still in the writing stage with only about 30,000 words. It's coming likely in late 2021.

I gotta run. The last story is still messing with my writing on other stories. Enjoy the weekend! As always if you read, please be kind and leave your reviews. Indie Authors will truly appreciate you if you do!
Be Careful!
Happy reading,
Ophelia Kee

I can't tell you how excited I am that KDP has added the manage series feature for independent authors to be able to group their works together. I took advantage of it last night and grouped several miniseries together.  Check these first five titles out! The rest are coming as I revise and publish!
Draoithe: Tantalu *Prequel
Draoithe: A Pack Forms Volume 1
Draoithe: The Council Volume 2
Draoithe: Magic Calls to Magic Volume 3
Draoithe: Dragons Come Volume 4
Draoithe: The Ruiri Complete and other miniseries will be grouped together soon! 

As you all know, I made a mistake when I first began publishing the books and uploaded my manuscripts as 8.5x11 books as I was learning. I continued it because that size is much less expensive to produce, but have caved to the belief that the 6x9 size is the accepted standard book size. So if you collect the paperbacks and want the standard version, look for Draoithe: The Ruiri Complete Volume 5 edition 2 along with it being added to the Draoithe Series Saga on Amazon. This is exactly the same story only it is in a differently sized book. All of the parts were already 6x9. so it made sense to offer both especially when the 6x9 allows for expanded distribution and the 8.5x11 does not.

Draoithe Magic Calls to Magic Part 1 is FREE from Oct. 29-Nov 2. Be sure to grab your FREE copy before the hourglass drops all of its sand! Vampires arrive at Draoithe and the dream is no longer all about shifters! If you grab a copy, let me know what you think. Or better yet leave a review if you can. I love to hear what you think. 

The day job does suck the energy to write and focus on my books. I do so wish that I had the luxury of being able to dispense with it, but at least I do something I'm good at that I can take pride in even if it's no longer what I would choose to do. Sigh... Merch is still a sore point. And that's why I'm pushing back once again on any kind of audio/video book or podcast. I want to do all of that so much, but there is only so much time in a day, and I still want to write. So... If it matters to anyone, I have added nearly 10,000 words to the last title in the series. No, the other 'last' stories aren't finished, but that's okay because I write the scenes as they come to me, not necessarily in the right order. LOL. I do see the end, so I guess I'm working with the results in mind to be able to obtain the goal. I am taking a week off from publishing new titles so I can get the series organized correctly on KDP! Wish me Luck! No Negotiations will begin publishing next weekend! Gaspard Gautier is back!

Saoghail Elias stepped into Enrith as the new Ri tuaithe. He was too young and dumb to be able to do the job. He knew it. His father hadn’t given him an option. 
He'd pissed the man off. No real surprise there. How was it his fault that King Elias’s mistress preferred his cock to his father’s?  Whatever. Only he was in nowhere and seriously missed the court.
The old king of Enrith died. His son was a bastard and only six years old. The snot-nosed brat wandered around the castle irritating the men at arms crying over his dead father. He would have to do something about the kid. He should’ve killed the boy and deleted the threat, but Vadi was just a kid.
None of Elias’s men at arms were happy to have been shipped off to the backwater castle on the edge of Connacht. The kid wasn’t faring well at the hands of surly men. Saoghail sure as hell was in no mood to babysit the boy. Murdering the little guy felt far too gruesome, though.
Saoghail sighed. Forget the kid, what was he doing there? He was a second son. He knew next to nothing about running a castle...

Okay I have to run away and get some work done. Happy Halloween and enjoy the weekend! Remember to be kind and leave a review when you read!
Be Careful!
Happy reading,
​Ophelia Kee

Draoithe: Midnight Magic the complete miniseries Volume 17 is now available as an ebook and is coming soon in paperback. This is a monster 12 part miniseries that encompassed nearly 110,000 words. I write long, but I edit short. Compiling the parts to create the novel is arduous, tedious and requires the use of two computers to get it published. It's a crazy affair, but I got it done. I hope you enjoy Julian's Story. It's a bit entwined with a couple of dragons, a wizard and his wisdom, and as always there are cameo appearances from other characters in the saga.

Julian Gypsun used to be a young man on his way to becoming a contractor. Everything changed when he died and was resurrected as a wizard’s familiar. He was immortal and far better off physically than he had been as a human. Still, he was trapped with his life chained to a giant of a wizard who had no problem abusing him in every way imaginable.  Julian was powerless to stop it without ending his own existence. That is until he was yanked bodily through his own portal, transported to Draoithe, and assigned to babysit the visiting dignitary, Amazon Warrior Princess Zephyra, and try to convince her that her people should ally themselves with Luke and Draoithe.  That sounded easy, but it wasn’t. He liked her. He had no clue how to act on that. Best to avoid that altogether. Keeping her safe just might equal his death. (Please see her warrior princess title.) She was old and so far out of his league.  Worse, she liked him and was determined to have him. He can’t even consider that. She has no idea how broken he really is. 

This story is heartrending, funny, steamy, and just lovely at the end. It has become one of my favorites. If you side with the underdog, then this is the paranormal love story you need to read from the saga. This was also just the perfect image for this excerpt. Drake is midnight green. Lorelai is midnight blue. I am Super in love with Pixabay free images.  Now that it's finished and all published, I'm kind of sad that this story is done. I had a lot of fun writing this one. As you all know, I never pay for reviews so I will humbly ask that if you read any of my works or any other indie author stories that you please be kind and leave your review. It's okay if you read and don't like it. Just be kind and state why. What turns one reader away from a story is often the exact reason that someone else will choose to read it. All reviews are good reviews if they are honest  and kind. 

I want to try something. I make money from Kindle and the Amazon platform. It is not more than gas money and sometimes not even that much. (Full disclosure, I have never earned more than $75 in a single month. At this point, I am a hobby indie author who would love to be a full time author, but the day job is a must. At my age, it will likely be that way until I retire if I ever can. LOL) But I have never enrolled The Thread in the exclusive program. I mean I give that title away as a pdf from my website so... I think I am going to publish it wide and see what happens over the holidays. It is only $.99 to buy as a short read e-book. It's the prologue to A Pack Forms. I am just curious about the level of response I might get on say Google Play as they have recently made quite a few changes to their platform. I am still not willing to run Google ads nor do I run Amazon ads. Facebook at a dollar a day is all I can afford to risk. If I am going to publish it there, I might as well post it to Kobo and Barnes and Noble. Let's see what happens. 
I am still working on video books and podcasts. I will definitely make some noise if I ever get it released. If I ever get merch figured out, I still want to do that too. If I only had more time, money and less day job. LOL.

Gotta run. The housework still must be done on the weekends! If you read, please be kind and leave your reviews. I catch up with you next weekend. 
Be Careful!
Happy reading,
​Ophelia Kee

Draoithe: Midnight Magic Part 12 is posted to Amazon! It will release this weekend! I am super stoked to be publishing the end of this 12 part miniseries. Julian gets the girl, and she's a hell of a warrior with a mission. The saga isn't over but you have Julian and Zephyra's love story. I shall endeavor to get the complete miniseries compiled into one volume up next weekend for everyone, who like myself, can't stand to start a series and then wait for the next part. Let me know what you think if when you read. I love to hear from you so ask the questions, offer the suggestion, and make the comment.

Draoithe: Weaver's Tale is FREE! This weekend.  Araack Kniid the spider shifter king of the longest purple bought a lie in his youth. It tainted his life and bled out into his kingdom causing a wasting effect that could see the destruction of his realm. Will he slide irrevocably into the fade as he faces the obstacles of a long life, or can he discover the truth and save both his realm and himself before it's too late? Pick up your copy of the first part of this novella short read set in the dream. It goes back to regular Price after Midnight Oct. 19th so don't wait.

The duet short read Draoithe: Still Waters has been revised and the new improved cleaner version is now available from Amazon. Meet the Fin knight Leevi Tykander. He journeys far from home seeking his lost betrothed only to find her deceased and his true lifemate in a crazy medical torture facility run by Peter Elliot. Can he overcome his grief and confusion and claim the beautiful coastal wolf shifter Sophia? She was turned by injection and needs his help to navigate immortality. But crossing the friendship line could push the sexy Fin man away as he struggles to discover his own place after her rescue. 

The short read trilogy, Draoithe: Smoke of the Fire has been revised and updated for a cleaner read. The red dragon, Fuego, has drifted through the centuries feeling nothing. He even swears fealty with no hope of having emotion return to color his life. Meeting the fire mage Scarlett changes everything, but the passion that sparks between them might literally burn down the house. Can he learn how to love her and claim his Valkyrie or will their love affair rain fiery destruction onto Draoithe?

The latest and greatest Storyboard previews and book trailers can be found at the OpheliaKee channel. Head over to YouTube and subscribe to watch new story material. Video Books are in the works and podcasting is still being toyed with. I would love to go faster, but I do have the day job I must slave away in. So bear with me and my crazy indie author journey. I think I might have it this time. It has been a long year trying to learn how, but I might have gotten it. I hope y'all will check it out and let me know what you think.
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I wish I was successful enough to be able to live in the dream. Sadly, that is not yet my reality. Who knows? It may never be my reality, but it is the ultimate writer's goal for me. Considering that, I want to speak on the subject of hard work.
I am a tiger with the soul of a mule. I have worked hard my whole life. Even if I'm not working for someone else, I'm always working for myself. I spent almost 10 months fully immersed in the dream and still have not learned all I need to know. What I can say is this: Self-Publishing as an entirely indie author has been an enormous challenge and a hell of a lot more work than any day job I have ever had. Even now that I am technically only a part time indie author, I still likely work harder at that than I do my professional career. (Part of that is due to the fact that I have been in my profession for over a decade and I have only been a published indie author for a couple of years now.)
Self-publishing is easy. It is so easy that I wonder why I didn't do it sooner. There are quite a few step by step tutorials out there to explain how to upload a book to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, ibooks, and Kobo, so I will leave that to others to explain. Suffice it to say that when I first began publishing it was not quick. (It actually took me three days to upload one ebook, LOL)

What I have spent the most time on learning is marketing and promotion. This is an enormous field with tons of information and avenues of approach. I don't profess to understand it all. I might actually need to get a specialty degree to even begin feeling as if I had any expertise. Here's where I am at the moment:
*Everything I do for free I label as promotion.
*If it costs me money, I consider it marketing. 
I don't have a lot of money so I do far more promotion that marketing. I do have a $1 a day ad on Facebook that runs all the time. I also spend money on marketing through Awesome Gang on occasion and take advantage of their email list. That's about it in the spend category. (I have learned that I can drive traffic to my website via Pinterest, but I have left off doing that as it did not result in increased book sales as my books are all on Kindle. It seems that there are too many clicks to make in that.)
I craft my own storyboards, create my own story excerpts, build my own book trailers, and post my links on social media all myself. I did recently purchase a tool called KDROI to help me with posting my FREE books to Free promotional sites. All the Pinterest pins, Tumblr and Instagram images and Facebook and Twitter posts are pretty much me. (I have tried using some help posting to social media from Writers Pay it Forward and All Authors with varying degrees of success. I have left off that in favor of the ads on Facebook purely due to lack of funds.)

My current belief is that paid advertising is an absolute necessity if you want to get your books out to a wide audience to grow your brand and increase sales. I am no heavy hitter like Ms. Force who can run Google ads with confidence, but I do know that advertising plays a very serious part in the success of self-published authors. I also believe that until I finish my first series, that sinking money I don't have into marketing is not something I am willing to do.
The Draoithe Series Saga is nearing completion. When I begin to write and publish the next works is when I will begin investing in more marketing. I want a lot of titles available on my website before I try spending money. That way readers will know there is a lot to choose from when they consider my stories. If they like them, there is more as well as different stories. 
I also want a wider variety of free promotional materials available for readers to review on social media sites and my website. If there is a total dream experience in place including podcasts, video books, book trailers, storyboard previews and excerpt/quote cards available in multiple venues, I truly believe that will aid me in making my dollars go further. So to that end, I continue to write the blog and offer insight into the behind the scenes of Draoithe and my experiences as an Indie Author. 
Enough of my crazy life. As always if you read, please be kind and leave reviews. I will write again next weekend. Don't forget to grab that FREE short read Draoithe: Weaver's Tale.
Be Careful!
Happy reading,
 Ophelia Kee 
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The publishing of Midnight Magic is coming to a close. I am waiting on Amazon to review part 11. This miniseries has twelve parts. The end is near. Part 12 will release next weekend. So that means that the full volume will come out in two weeks. If you have been waiting until all parts were published or you wanted only to read it as a novel, the wait is nearly over. If you pick up any part of the saga to read, let me know what you think. I'd love to hear from you.

Draoithe: Dragons Come volume four has finally launched the 2nd edition as a 6x9 paperback. For those who don't know, I am pure indie and do all of my writing, publishing, and marketing on my own. When I first dove into the deep end of self-publishing, I had no idea what I was doing, but I could do it. I did it all wrong and made a ton of mistakes. When I could not figure out how to publish the books as 6x9 standard paperback book size, I decided to simply publish them as 8.5 x11. It was fine like that. I was learning. (They are kind of cool that way.)
Only being a non-standard size meant that they were ineligible for expanded distribution and the wrong size for the book shelf. So I decided something needed to give and I had to break down and publish the stories as a second edition in the size they should have been. So as I go through the early stories and let Grammarly aid my editing for a cleaner story, I am also reformatting to release the stories in the proper book size. Volumes 1-4 and the Prequel are now complete. Just a few more to go. LOL. #don'tfearmistakes

LINKEDIN.COM
SELF PUBLISHING vs Publishing House - Look At The Numbers.
This post is a follow up to a recent discussion I was involved in. IT IS

I read this article on Linked-in the other day explaining the breakdown in earnings between traditionally published and indie published authors. Needless to say, indie authors earn way less than traditionally published authors. That's okay. Because it is offset by the fact that there is no need to suffer through query letters and rejections. As an indie author, I can publish as often as I like, as many titles as I want and best of all readers can simply read to their heart's content. There is no waiting until the publishing house is ready, or giving up any of my rights as the author to sell or promote my work however and whenever I see fit.
So what if I don't get a big payout up front? I'm happy with waiting for my royalties. Advertising is entirely up to me and I don't have the added stress of needing to meet artificial deadlines or the potential hassle of losing the contract due to low sales or something else outside my control. It might not be the way to go for every writer, but so far, my authorwalk is still indie all the way. (Also I secretly enjoy publishing and the creative side of marketing even if I am not good at it and have limited marketing funds. LOL)

Weaver’s Tale Part 1 will be FREE October 15-19. Just in time for Halloween. Grab the first part of the 4 part miniseries, meet Araack Kniid, the warlock spider shifter, and Calvin Birchard, the wizard. Both men spend years learning and improving themselves in their desire to be worthy of a mate. Old lies and impossible fantasies must be overcome in order for them to finally have a life worth living. Step into the dream and meet the rulers of the Longest Purple. 
Author's note on Weaver's Tale: My mother said, "Just don't go adding spiders to the saga." Vampires and angels were okay, but spider shifters were just too creepy. Sadly, the scenes began to play out in my head immediately. I knew Araack Kniid and Calvin Birchard right away and sat down to write exactly what she said I should not. No disrespect, Mom. I had to write this novella length miniseries because until I write a scene that I see, I can't get it out of my head. Almost Noir, but not quite. This one is a fast paced read set in the Netherworld. Adult content and themes. Happy Halloween!

Working on the video book for The Thread! Still no fixed release date, but I am super excited! The project is rolling along. I am hoping to have it up by Christmas. If you are not subscribe to OpheliaKee on YouTube, you might want to take a moment and hop over and set yourself up to get notified when the video books come out. Book trailers and ads are posted there already. Check it out and please give feedback. I love to hear from readers.
Merch is still a big fat no go. GRRR.... I am not giving up, but the tech does sometimes seriously stress me out. Patience. My authorwalk has taken me in strange directions many times before. That's okay. I will prevail or die trying. Lol. So overdramatic. Debating a wikipedia page next too. So long as we are being extra...

Enough of the silly business. I gotta get back to writing, editing, publishing, and marketing. If you have questions or comments hit me up. As always if you read, please be kind and leave your review. Indie authors especially will love you for it. 
Be Careful!
Happy reading,
​Ophelia Kee

I had to take a short trip to El Paso to visit family for an important event. I was only there for two whole days, but I remembered exactly why I do not wish to live there again and will only visit for short trips. The dryness of the place is simply too much. There are a few people there for whom I will still walk through fire. I would prefer if that was not necessary, but you do what you have to do for the ones you love and who love you. While I was there, I was able to publish Part 10 of Draoithe: Midnight Magic. As nice as my Note 8 is, getting the proper embed codes to link through and publish a book is still pretty difficult compared to what my laptop is capable of so I finished the link through in Part 9  after I got back.
Being Back in Florida, I realized that writing short is better for publishing due to editing and revising, but it's also better for producing video books as well as for podcasting. It takes a while to record just one chapter. Recording in parts makes it easier to correct mistakes as well. I don't like to fly, but it did allow me to get to my destination quickly. I prefer long stories, but short stories aid my ability to get a novel length idea ready to publish.

I won't lie and say the flight was perfect. I never feel that way after flying. It always makes me extremely tired. Jet lag is real and debilitating.
Like jet lag in my real life, I don't want my enthusiasm for writing and self-publishing to become stale like old air plane air nor do I want to stress over the money they aren't bringing in. So I am continuing in my hunt to find reliable methods of promotion to the masses. Lack of funds for that endeavor are always shocking. I am looking forward to more paid advertising and adding merch to the website. I am still on track to craft the video book and begin production on a podcast. Add in my real life professional career that still pays my bills and you can see how easy it is to blow off the books and never finish the saga. 
I can't allow jet lag to stop me, so I decided to write the blog even though it might need serious revising edits. LOL. I am too sleepy and must get other things accomplished today despite the awful jet lag. 
If you read, remember to be kind and leave your reviews. Until next weekend,
Be Careful! 
Happy reading, 
Ophelia Kee

Part 9 of Draoithe: Midnight Magic is currently publishing! I write adult paranormal fantasy, so be warned. Adult content, themes, and language. If you've been looking to start a new series, Draoithe might be the next one. This series saga is a bit of a long one. That just means that you can stay immersed in the dream longer. Volume 17 will finish publishing in parts and the complete miniseries volume will be available by the end of October.
There are over 20 novel length miniseries along with several short read stories available in the saga. Check out what is available on my Amazon author page. All of my stories are currently exclusive to Kindle so that means that they are all FREE with Kindle Unlimited! Read to your heart's content!

Julian Gypsun used to be a young man on his way to becoming a contractor. Everything changed when he died and was resurrected as a wizard’s familiar. He was immortal and far better off physically than he had been as a human. Still, he was trapped with his life chained to a giant of a wizard who had no problem abusing him in every way imaginable. Julian was powerless to stop it without ending his own existence. That is until he was yanked bodily through his own portal, transported to Draoithe, and assigned to babysit the visiting dignitary, Amazon Warrior Princess Zephyra, and try to convince her that her people should ally themselves with Luke and Draoithe. That sounded easy, but it wasn’t. He liked her. He had no clue how to act on that. Best to avoid that altogether. Keeping her safe just might equal his death. (Please see her warrior princess title.) She was old and so far out of his league.  Worse, she liked him and was determined to have him. He can’t even consider that. She has no idea how broken he really is.

I think it's late and time for me to try to get some sleep. I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow! 
If you read, please be kind and leave your review.  As an Indie Author, I can't tell you how much it means when someone lets me know they liked a story I wrote. Thanks people. It matters.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.
Be Careful!
Happy reading,
Ophelia Kee