Artist, Writer & Wild West Woman
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: SMORGASBORD NEW BOOK SPOTLIGHT – #WESTERN #WOEMEN'...
JO. B. CREATIVE!: SMORGASBORD NEW BOOK SPOTLIGHT – #WESTERN #WOEMEN'...: I'm delighted to share this post from Sally Cronin's blog Smorgasbord. She kindly offered to feature my novel so I'm sharing her...
SMORGASBORD NEW BOOK SPOTLIGHT – #WESTERN #WOEMEN'S ADVENTURE – GO WEST, GIRL! (ALIAS JEANNIE DELANEY BOOK 1) BY KIT MACKENZIE
I'm delighted to share this post from Sally Cronin's blog Smorgasbord. She kindly offered to feature my novel so I'm sharing her blog on my social media platforms. We started our blogs around the same time years ago and her's is really popular! 😄 I'm not surprised!
Smorgasbord New Book Spotlight – #Western #Women’s Adventure – Go West, Girl!: (Alias Jeannie Delaney Book 1) by Kit MacKenzie
A pleasure to share the news of the first book in a new western women’s adventure series. Go West, Girl!: (Alias Jeannie Delaney Book 1) by Kit MacKenzie – A gripping story of a cowgirl’s journey to find herself on the American frontier.
About the book
Cowgirl Jeannie Morgan grows up to have a phenomenal gun hand, a powerful persona and a fluid sexuality.
Many men and women desire her. But can she be herself in a land she loves but where an incalculable number of men fear her and want to kill her? She’s killed twice in self-defense and she’s desperate to kill again for revenge. On the other hand will her power and sexuality be the death of her?
In Book 1 of this crack shot western trilogy meet Jeannie growing up as a rebellious child to become a woman who is devastating and charismatic, tough as a miner’s boots and her gaze kills just by looking at you.
One of the reviews for the book
claire bradleigh It was almost like being there!
I really enjoyed this book. The descriptions were vivid and obviously well researched, I just loved the actual feeling of plodding through the old wild west on the back of a cart. The main character is lively and fun, so I really look forward to finding out more of her story.
Read the reviews and buy the book: Amazon UK – And: Amazon US – Author Website: Kit MacKenzie – Goodreads: Kit MacKenzie – Blog: Jo-b-Creative – Twitter: @clutton_jo – LinkedIn: Kit MacKenzie
About Kit MacKenzie
I’m a writer and artist living in beautiful Hampshire, in the UK, with my soulmate hubby and our lovable cat Lulu. The writer Jane Austen lived in Chawton, half an hour’s cycle ride from us, and we often have picnics near her home.
I’ve been fascinated by the wild west since my teens – strange, considering my own bucolic English environment – and writing a novel was among the zillion things I wanted to accomplish.
That became reality when I committed to writing Alias Jeannie Delaney, the life story of a female frontier hero who’s the fastest gun in the west – a cowgirl, outlaw leader, jailbird, deputy sheriff, and ultimately a powerful rancher and mayor and posse member. Even after finishing this mammoth three-book epic western, I feel I have more stories to write about Jeannie.
I’ve published anecdotal articles in various newspapers and magazines, and I’ve always been bemused about this, particularly when I was paid!
I learnt to fly straight and level at seventeen and travelled solo around the States by Greyhound Bus in my late twenties – I’m very proud of those events – so my desire for adventure, shared with my husband, is uppermost in my mind. I adore my family and they are my greatest fans.
Thanks for dropping in today and it would be great if you could share the news of Kit’s book around the usual haunts.. Sally.
PS - APOLOGIES FOR THE POSSIBLY STRANGE LAYOUT BELOW ON PUBLICATION - THIS HAPPENS WHEN SHARING A POST FROM ANOTHER PLATFORM
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A charity organisation supporting the LGBTQ+ community.
(I'm supporting Stonewall & they are posting links to Amazon & Alias Jeannie Delaney on their social media posts).
A pleasure to share the news of the first book in a new western women’s adventure series. Go West, Girl!: (Alias Jeannie Delaney Book 1) by Kit MacKenzie – A gripping story of a cowgirl’s journey to find herself on the American frontier.
About the book
Cowgirl Jeannie Morgan grows up to have a phenomenal gun hand, a powerful persona and a fluid sexuality.
Many men and women desire her. But can she be herself in a land she loves but where an incalculable number of men fear her and want to kill her? She’s killed twice in self-defense and she’s desperate to kill again for revenge. On the other hand will her power and sexuality be the death of her?
In Book 1 of this crack shot western trilogy meet Jeannie growing up as a rebellious child to become a woman who is devastating and charismatic, tough as a miner’s boots and her gaze kills just by looking at you.
One of the reviews for the book
claire bradleigh It was almost like being there!
I really enjoyed this book. The descriptions were vivid and obviously well researched, I just loved the actual feeling of plodding through the old wild west on the back of a cart. The main character is lively and fun, so I really look forward to finding out more of her story.
Read the reviews and buy the book: Amazon UK – And: Amazon US – Author Website: Kit MacKenzie – Goodreads: Kit MacKenzie – Blog: Jo-b-Creative – Twitter: @clutton_jo – LinkedIn: Kit MacKenzie
About Kit MacKenzie
I’m a writer and artist living in beautiful Hampshire, in the UK, with my soulmate hubby and our lovable cat Lulu. The writer Jane Austen lived in Chawton, half an hour’s cycle ride from us, and we often have picnics near her home.
I’ve been fascinated by the wild west since my teens – strange, considering my own bucolic English environment – and writing a novel was among the zillion things I wanted to accomplish.
That became reality when I committed to writing Alias Jeannie Delaney, the life story of a female frontier hero who’s the fastest gun in the west – a cowgirl, outlaw leader, jailbird, deputy sheriff, and ultimately a powerful rancher and mayor and posse member. Even after finishing this mammoth three-book epic western, I feel I have more stories to write about Jeannie.
I’ve published anecdotal articles in various newspapers and magazines, and I’ve always been bemused about this, particularly when I was paid!
I learnt to fly straight and level at seventeen and travelled solo around the States by Greyhound Bus in my late twenties – I’m very proud of those events – so my desire for adventure, shared with my husband, is uppermost in my mind. I adore my family and they are my greatest fans.
Thanks for dropping in today and it would be great if you could share the news of Kit’s book around the usual haunts.. Sally.
PS - APOLOGIES FOR THE POSSIBLY STRANGE LAYOUT BELOW ON PUBLICATION - THIS HAPPENS WHEN SHARING A POST FROM ANOTHER PLATFORM
Facebook Jo Ballantyne
A charity organisation supporting the LGBTQ+ community.
(I'm supporting Stonewall & they are posting links to Amazon & Alias Jeannie Delaney on their social media posts).
Thursday, 4 January 2024
MY READERS ARE FINISHING GO WEST, GIRL & LOVED IT!
MY READERS ARE FINISHING GO WEST, GIRL, AND LOVED IT!
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One of my readers contacted me recently, telling me that he'd finished reading Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 1 - Go West, Girl! and how much he'd loved it. I'm delighted! I'd suggested to Brian (my reader) that he would highly likely not be the kind of person to enjoy it, but the reverse is true.
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I'm finding out just what people really think of Alias Jeannie Delaney.
It's a long novel. Three hundred and eighty-five pages to be precise, so people who bought it initially may only be finishing it now, depending on their reading habit or how fast they read. Books 2 and 3 will be of similar length.
Then there's content.
It begins with a bit of an eyebrow raising bang. it's a very gritty and, in places, intense story about a devastating and charismatic bisexual cowgirl who's the fastest gun in the west. The story follows her life and journey to find her true self and some of the chapters are - shall we say - quite graphic in the sexual department, but relevant to the plot. She's persecuted for who she is but I've injected humour into the story to temper the grit and add texture. I think it's worked. I hope so, and people haven't been put off by the content. Readers are telling me how much they love my descriptions of place, and that they feel as though they are there.
I've had such lack of confidence over the years as to whether anyone would want to read it in the first place, then how readers would react to this rather singular, gritty story containing a fair amount of credible swearing, that it's seriously done my head in. So hearing from people who've enjoyed it and want to read the next book is panacea to my mind.
I'm surprised over who's enjoying it! People who I'd have thought would be the last people to want to read it, do so, and that really surprises me. When hubby and I started marketing this first book we had no clue as to how to go about it and who my readers would be. Hubby has learned a tremendous amount about advertising that we put to good use. As to my readership, because Jeannie is bisexual we assumed that the majority of readers would be LGBTQ, feminists and female. Not so. I've had a fair number of men enjoying it too.
When you're advised to place your work into a niche for marketing purposes, that was really hard because it didn't seem to fit into anything, and there were no novels that were anything like mine to see what niches they occupied. They consisted mostly of romantic or traditional westerns. In the end, we managed to find the right keywords for Amazon and we changed the title wording on my Amazon page. The novel went from somewhere in the depths of the basement in Amazon's listing charts up to the attic. I'm feeling much more positive about it now.
I'm now in the depths of finding reviewers for it. In order to be read, one's novel needs positive reviews. I have a few but I need more, and I've managed to contact bona fide reviewers as well as other readers who will happily read it when we put it out for free. PA hubby is also experimenting with various Amazon advertising tactics. He's good at this, and working out Amazon algorithms.
Last but not least, I'm going to be sharing some spoilers. Haven't done that for a while... 😉
Facebook Jo Ballantyne
A charity organisation supporting the LGBTQ+ community.
(I'm supporting Stonewall & they are posting links to Amazon & Alias Jeannie Delaney on their social media posts).
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