Are you an audiobook listener looking for a new fantasy romance tale to whisk you away for a few hours?
What about a tale of hidden ancestry, elemental magic, ancient grudges, and long-lost soul mate bonds?
If this sounds intriguing, I have a new opportunity for you. My fantasy romance novel, Aurie: The Last of the Fire Witches, is becoming an audiobook in the next few months.
Aurie: The Last of the Fire Witches is a story about Aurie, an elemental witch on a journey of self-discovery. Only, this journey is full of adventure, danger, and learning to channel her true power while on the run for her life.
If that wasn’t enough, Aurie learns she’s being tracked by Jasper, the mortal southern prince claiming she’s his long-lost soul mate.
Will Aurie find sanctuary and safety, or will grudges of the past consume her chance at a future?
The audiobook itself will be an estimated 8-9 hours, and is being created and narrated by the incredible Jacci Prior.
If all of this sounds like a story you’d be interested in, I have an amazing opportunity for you! As of February 3rd, I’m running a Kickstarter to bring this project to life. There are tiers for every budget, including an opportuinty to name a character in the next book in the series, Emrie: The Salvation of the Air Witches.
The Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now, (click here) and if you sign up to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live, you could be one of the first to back this amazing project.
My eternal gratitude for all of your help, every like and share helps this message go a long way.
In honor of it being my one year anniversary as an author, I’m putting my two best novels on sale for the month!
Awakening Fate and Poppy Curses and Emerald Skies e-books will both be available for $0.99 for the month of March across all online retailers!
Awakening Fate, book one in my urban fantasy twist on modernizing classic fairy tales, focuses on Nova, who is unaware that she is the descendant of Little Red Riding Hood. It’s a thrilling, quick read that will leave you hooked!
Poppy Curses and Emerald Skies is my Wizard of Oz retelling. Join Dori as she finds herself transported to a very broken Oz, an Oz that has been cursed by an Enchantress. Can Dori find a way to save the Guardians of Oz before it’s too late?
You can find these sales on Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books, and Barnes and Noble.
What are you still doing here, your next favorite book is only a few clicks away!
March 5th, 2025 will mark the one year anniversary of me becoming a published author. How did it go by so fast?
Honestly, it doesn’t feel like a full year yet, but at the same time it feels like it’s been decades. So much has happened in that one year, and so many lessons have been learned.
The first thing I learned, was that the moment that the sale page was live I had to start introducing myself differently. When meeting new people who would ask what I do, my go to answer used to be ‘My name is Chelsea, and I’m a stay at home mom of 3.’ I’ll be honest here and admit, even one year later, I still struggle to say ‘My name is Chelsea and I’m an author, as well as a stay at home mom of 3.’ Because, who gave me the right, am I right?
A year into this new career and I still feel like I snuck in to a room I wasn’t invited in to. But that’s not true at all, is it? I have written books (yes, bookS, not just a book. Wild, right?). I have written books, I have published books (3 to be exact), and I am in the works of writing and publishing more.
You can go to pretty much any e-book site and find my novels. I have reviews on them on Goodreads and Amazon, amongst other places. I am an author, and while it isn’t very much, I am a PAID author. Now, I’m nowhere near making a decent amount, or livable wage, off of my books. That’s not the point here. The point is that there are people out there, family/friends/strangers, who have given me their hard earned money in exchange for a book. I am a paid author.
I set a goal last year for myself. Sell 100 books before the end of December 2024. There were slow months, dead months, and months where I sold more than expected. Some months I spent a lot of time marketing, and some months I simply didn’t have the time. And yet, after all that, I ended the 2024 year with 103 books sold. Can you believe that?! Me! In my first year of independently publishing my own books, I sold over 100. It wasn’t even a full year, my book didn’t come out until March!
Just think of what I can accomplish in 2025 having two extra months to work from! The ability to apply myself even more, and maybe a few extra sprinkles of courage, and this year the only thing holding me back will be, well, me.
Speaking of lessons, I learned that there will be people that rave about your book, and moments later there will be people that have nothing but criticisms about it. There is nothing you can do about reviews. They are there for the readers (doesn’t take the full sting out of them, but know they will be all over the place sometimes).
What all did I accomplish in 2024? I published Awakening Fate in March, and then I followed that up by publishing Poppy Curses and Emerald Skies in June, and Discovering Fate in January.
I also managed to get my books into my local library, I sold a few at a town wide garage sale for full price ( I had doubters, but I did it!), and I rented a table at a Christmas market, where I finally reached my goal of selling 100 books ( I also sold 10 others that day, bringing me to 103 sold total).
I did all of that without any prior experience, and nothing but the shear determination of someone who was tired of doubting herself (where had that gotten me in life?). Instead, I turned doubt into believe in myself, and I accomplished life long goals.
This year? There will still be doubt (heck all of February was doubt), but I know now that I can push that doubt aside, invest in myself, and the sky is the limit.
So, March 5th I will be celebrating my one year author anniversary. I will take a moment to admire how far I’ve come, and then I will kick my own butt back to work, because I have characters waiting for me to guide them through new adventures.
I am an author. I write books. I believe in myself. Time to see how far I can fly this year.
Thanks for coming along for the journey. Below is the link to my linktree, the best place to find everything to do with me and my books!
The time has come! It’s publication day. The long awaited sequel to Awakening Fate is finally here for you! Discovering Fate is available on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, and Overdrive. I’ll have a link for you below!
What’s Discovering Fate about, you ask? Here’s a summary for you:
First, he took her parents and then he targeted her sanity. The only reason Nova made it out alive was because of Haven Conners. Now, James is back, and he is targeting the one person Nova has left that she can depend on.
Not only is James still searching for her, but this time he has help. Will it be enough to break her for good, or will Nova be able to break free from the darkness that is determined to end her?
With other descendants starting to show up, will Jax and Haven be able to keep them all safe? Or is this the ending that James has been hoping for?
Discovering Fate is the second book in Chelsea Biddiscombe’s Intertwined trilogy, a thrilling urban fantasy twist on modernizing classic fairy tales. Descendants of fairy-tale characters are being hunted down by an unknown evil. Will a savior rise to protect them all, or will they suffer the consequences of their ancestors’ behaviors?
One of the things I was able to do in 2024 was attend my first ever market as an indie author.
It wasn’t a book specific market, so I knew the chances of me selling anything was slim, but I wanted to push myself to give it a shot.
I had a goal. I wanted to sell one book to one reader. If I did that I would leave the market satisfied.
If I wanted to cover the cost of my table and the cost of the product, I would have to sell three books. As it was a small town Christmas market, that wasn’t something I was certain would happen, but I was going for the experience. Dipping a toe in, if you will.
During the first five minutes of set up I was scolded by an elderly lady for bringing a book that had the word ‘curse’ in the title to a Christmas market, and I thought that was how my day was going to go.
However, I was pleasantly surprised at the support I received. I ended up selling three books before the market even officially opened. In the end I sold a total of eleven books, with a handful of people taking my business card so they could find the e-book on Amazon (which at least one person did purchase that night.)
I was approached by multiple other sellers and told how professional my set up was, especially since I had never done this before. They told me they were impressed, and I couldn’t stop smiling.
Another bright spot that day was hitting my yearly goal for sales. I started publishing in March, and I had made it a goal to sell 100 books by the end of 2024.
During the last hour of the market I sold book 100, and then I sold book 101. The way that made me feel, I almost couldn’t talk. Honored and grateful for the experience, for the warm welcome from the community, and from the readers, I can’t wait to go back again next year to see friendly faces.
All of this to say to you -take that chance. You may not exactly feel like you fit in, but people will surprise you. Take the chance, and believe in yourself.
As for me, I’ll be making even more goals for 2025, so watch out world, here I come 🙂
Exciting news friends! I have a publishing date for Discovering Fate! The sequel to my debut novel (Awakening Fate) will be out as of January 20th!
In Awakening Fate, Nova discovers that she is the descendant of Little Red Riding Hood, and it’s enough to bring a murderer to her door. On the run, scared and alone, Nova finds Haven, a woman with her own unknown ties to the classic fairy-tale world. Will they find sanctuary before becoming victims of the wolf?
Discovering Fate (Book 2 in the Intertwined Trilogy) available January 20th, 2025.
First, he took her parents and then he targeted her sanity. The only reason Nova made it out alive was because of Haven Conners. Now, James is back, and he is targeting the one person Nova has left that she can depend on. However, this time he has help.
Will it be enough to break her for good, or will Nova be able to break free from the darkness that is determined to end her?
With other descendants starting to show up, will Jax and Haven be able to keep them all safe? Or is this the ending that James has been hoping for?
Discovering Fate is the second book in Chelsea Biddiscombe’s Intertwined trilogy, a thrilling urban fantasy twist on modernizing classic fairy tales. Descendants of fairy-tale characters are being hunted down by an unknown evil. Will a savior rise to protect them all, or will they suffer the consequences of their ancestors’ behaviors?
Wow, that second half of the year flew by faster than I would have liked! Good news for you guys, I’ve been busy while I was away! The biggest part of that was me writing Discovering Fate, the sequel to my book Awakening Fate!
It’s nearing the end stages on my end of things, which means I can officially set a publishing date for it, hurray! Look for that post in a few days!
I’ve set my goals for 2025 and let me just say it here, some of them are terrifying!
I have a new series to get out for you guys, one that has to do with elemental witches, and I already love these characters so much! I can’t wait to share that with you guys closer to the summer!
Of course, now that Discovering Fate is almost done, I also will be starting Attacking Fate, which is the final book in my Intertwined trilogy. The plan is the have the entire trilogy completed by July!
I also participated in my first market a few months ago (more on t his next time) and I can’t wait to sign up for more in the coming year. There is even talk of possibly attending the Edmonton Comic Expo as an indie author.
That’s it for me for right now. 2025 is going to be busy, but I can’t wait to see what magic I can make happen!
It’s been a bit quiet of over here, and that mostly has to do with the fact that I’m trying to put my all in to, not only finding new readers for Awakening Fate, but also putting my all in to draft 2 of Emerald Skies. I’m just over half way through, but it is taking up most of my spare time.
The goal is to finish draft 2, revise it one more time after that, and then send it off to my editor. I should be picking the publishing date soon for Emerald Skies, at this point I know it’s going to be in October at some point.
In other exciting news, I’m commissioning a couple of bookmarks! The goal for the end of the year is to be able to sell signed copies of my novels from my very own website, with maybe a piece of swag! Fingers crossed!
But, the more exciting news for you is that Awakening Fate is officially in the Kindle Unlimited universe! So, if you happen to be a subscriber and you are on the lookout for new authors, check me out there!
For now that’s where I’ll leave you! I hope you’re having a wonderful spring!
While I’m proud of my newly published novel, Awakening Fate (linked below), and I out in the mean streets of the internet trying to find new readers for it, I am also hard at work behind the scenes writing my next novel, Emerald Skies.
Emerald Skies is a fantasy/wizard of oz retelling that should be coming to you in the fall.
But what’s it about? Oz is a darker place than you may remember. It is a land that is protected by 4 fae princes. Each of the princes represents one of the following: the lion, the scarecrow, the tinman, and the wizard. They work together to keep the land and it’s people safe and in balance. Tragedy has struck and a pair of witch sisters have placed curses on each prince and the land, throwing everything out of balance.
Dori is a young adult who happens to be magical transported to this Oz late one night. She discovers a land of magic and mystery, but also a land that is hurting and a society that is living in the shadows. Follow Dori as she makes a few friends on the road, and finds that fate brought her there for a reason. Can Dori help her new friends break the curses laid upon them before it’s too late?
Where am I at with writing the story? I have started the second draft of Emerald Skies, it’s looking like it will be in the 80,000 to 100,000 range. It is a stand alone novel with magic, creatures, and a possible romance.
Follow along for more updates as Emerald Skies comes to life on the page!
For those of you wondering, the next book in my Intertwined series, Discover Fate, should be out in the new year.
It’s been about a week since my debut novel, Awakening Fate, went live and I’ve been on an emotional roller-coaster!
The fear that people were going to read it and hate it, or not even read it at all, was thick. I had a goal, I wanted to sell 10 books the first week it was out. My goal overall is 100 books by the end of the year, so 10 seemed a good kicking off point.
When I tell you I doubled that in the first week, and I was more shocked with every book sold.
Now, I know selling 20 books in one week isn’t life changing. And I’m well aware that it won’t be like that every week. It was the first week of my first book and I have a support system that wanted to see me succeed. I am forever grateful for that.
My goal seems small to some, but I’m keeping it realistic. I’m a stay at home mom who doesn’t have time during the day to do much marketing or promoting. My evenings are filled with trying to write my next novel, keeping up with social media, and getting to bed at a decent hour. Over all, not the recipe for selling tons and tons of books. I’m ok with that.
In fact, I have a new goal. When I publish my next book, which should be out in the fall, I’m aiming to sell 20 the first week, and I won’t settle for less! Growth. Learning. It’s all a process.
I wanted to share this part of my story because it’s not talked about enough. Would I love to sell thousands of books, of course I would! But I am an unknown author, who is self published, who has to maintain my own social media and marketing, who has three kids to raise and a house to keep together.
It won’t always be this way. One day when I release a book people will know my name, know they like my stuff, and maybe I’ll sell some pre-sales for that one. One day I’ll have time during the day to work on this writing career of mine, and I’ll get to bed at a decent time. (Or not lol)
I’m ok with starting here and growing. It’s the journey I’ve waited for my whole life.
And if I haven’t said it lately, thank you for being here at the beginning of it all!
Author Chelsea Biddiscombe 