Hi ,
Welcome TEAM MEDUSA!
Most of you have downloaded and grabbed your book from Bookfunnel through the certified ARC email, but if you haven't please take a moment to check your inbox or spam folder for an email from [email protected] that looks like this:
Here's your BETA review copy of Taking Medusa ARC!
It is not a BETA copy, but I just didn't double check to see that the email from Bookfunnel was updated. It is the ARC, so please do grab your copy from that email. Each ARC reader has their own unique link, so don't share it or you won't be able to grab your own copy.
Taking Medusa's Hardcover is now launched, you can copy and paste your reviews to the hardcover copy page, as they don't accept reviews on pre-orders so the ebook reviews will have to wait until October 3rd. To go directly to the Amazon review page this is the link: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review/?ie=UTF8&channel=glance-detail&asin=1732247587
You can share that you're reading Taking Medusa with your socials, feel free to use these images!
And if you've finished reading you can share one of these!
Here's the folder to grab your star rating and share the good word of beloved books with other readers! You can make your own, I've got one without a rating on it, and blank check marks if you want to fill in your own! I've also got just the tablet with Taking Medusa if you want to make your own share image for your reviews.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fLSV6QsO2X_WuL8QK0-NXzcOePbaymM_?usp=sharing
Here's our very first review on Goodreads!
Thank you, Lawanda for reading so fast and catching a few more errors that weren't caught in the first few rounds!
And if you have finished the book and reviewed, please point me in the direction of the review since sometimes Goodreads or Amazon takes time to load things, and I'm SUPER excited to know your thoughts on the book. Simply reply back to this email.
If you are still in reading progress. Please do take note of the updated/corrected errors mentioned below. I apologize if any of these typos bring you out of the story, but they have been corrected, and if you find new ones, please do let me know and I can get them fixed up and your name will be added to the Book Heroes page at the back of the book if you're okay with it.
Current Book Hero Mentions: (If you do not want your name mentioned, you are part of the ALL the book heroes mention. If you are okay with your name mentioned, please say so when you email me with any typos you find in the ARC or when you send me a link to your review. Thank you!)
Ketty, Thomas, Michelle, Harleem, Crystal, Clare, Books_N_Tea, Sandy, Nathan, Erin, and all the book heroes who took a chance on me.
I'll tell you a secret, I finished writing the book a few years ago... and was too nervous to share it with anyone. I told my mom about the book and she was anxious to read it, but I didn't even let her read the book. YOU are one of the very few people that I've shared the book with, and I'm nervous and excited, and I hope you love it as much as I do. I'm pretty much just diving in the deep end releasing this book this year. I had planned on waiting until I finished writing book two to plan a launch for it, but when I saw the premade cover that matched it so perfectly everything kind of just rolled out from there!
I've updated a few more errors to the ARC copy, so if you've downloaded your copy from 6/14/23 onward then it should be fixed, but if you downloaded before then you'll still see these errors/typos.
If you spot an error, please email me and I can fix it for launch all I need is the sentence the error is in, and I can search the document. No need for location numbers. I'm pretty sure there are probably only a few left after all the ones I've already found, but if you are on the BETA team, it means your copy still has those errors in it.
Including these:
Errors updated as of 6/14/23
Prophesy has been updated to prophecy (one is a verb and one is a noun, all instances in the book are noun, so it's been updated! Thank you to Ketty for catching this!)
Mavron's ink the hid us to (that hid us)
snake's poison to snakes' poison
sung that song to sang
one instance of Posedion being spelled incorrectly, Poseidon.
no one elses to no one else's (Thank you to Sandy for catching these!)
nic to nick
two polls to two poles
retch to rend (Thank you Nathan for finding these!)
Also changing the style choice of ALIVE to alive, and adding asterisks for new scene.
lie down your life to lay (lay mean to place something down flat, lie means to be in a flat position) This one gets me sometimes and I have to keep on reminding myself the Lie Lay Laid, haha. Thank you, Erin, for catching this one!
Lightening to lightning
where ever to wherever
reason to enough -> reason enough
Errors updated as of 6/10/23
smoothering me instead of smothering me
ricking instead of tricking
or getting instead of forgetting
hardest instead of hardness
I tired instead of I tried
one more change instead of chance
a limb instead of limp
treat instead of threat
between out lips instead or our lips
the crone lets you, instead of the crown lets you
my muscled instead of muscles
If you find errors that are not these, please let me know!
**Also, when you do email me about typos or errors, please also let me know if you are okay with me using your name in my thank you page that will be including in the final file for launch.
Add the book to your Goodreads here: Taking Medusa (Dark Gods Rising #1) by S.M. McCoy | Goodreads
Review on the zon here: Review Your Purchases (amazon.com)
Here's Bookbub: Taking Medusa: A Greek Myth Monster Retelling (Dark Gods Rising Book 1) by S.M. McCoy and Sky Robert - BookBub
I'd love it if you could make a note of which tropes you recognize in the book, favorite quotes, or even other books/authors that the book reminds you of.
Every little bit helps me to be able to appropriately market and find the right readers for the book!
I have closed up the ARC team, so the only people I will accept from here on out are those referred by someone already on the ARC team, or my PA, Clare.
If you know a book reviewer that you think would be perfect for this book, please let me know and I'll give them an invite to the ARC team! Or you can send them this link to the ARC form: https://forms.gle/AsBRnsVk1tgzEw2C6 or just send them the Instagram call to action here: Stevie McCoy (@authorsteviemarie) | Instagram But please REMEMBER to tell them to include that they were REFERRED by: (this is a new field added to the form)
The Booksprout campaign is now open. So, if you've joined the Booksprout team, and want to add another book to your profile, you can join my team here: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/team/24550/sm-mccoys-review-team
and grab the book here: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/120941/taking-medusa-a-greek-myth-monster-retelling
Thank you for being part of my launch team!
The book is set to launch October 3rd 2023, but I will be getting the print book up and running in the next week or so, and I'd love for your thoughts on the zon once I get it all set up!
Here's a look at some character art going to be included with the print books!
ArtPrints ARE ordered, by the very same printer that does the art prints for Sarah J. Maas, so we know they are going to be pretty and fit right inside the 6X9 Hardcover with ease! It can be hung up on the wall, used as a bookmark, or added to the reader's journal.
Stickers!
I've ordered the 3x3 sticker of the art for Team Romantasy! So those will also be shipping out soon. But, I'm still debating on making the Dion sticker or not, so you tell me if you like the Dion Sticker from my own art (Yes, I'm a newb at coloring art... and I guess my insecurity prevents me from adding this to the book bundle. So.... you let me know if you like the Dion Sticker or not. And I'll go from there.)
Chat soon my loves!
I finished making the hardcover! The colors are duller (because it's CMYK print coloring not digital coloring, so it'll show up differently when printed, and between you and me... I plan on getting a gold leaf kit and adding gold leaf to the covers I sign from my author store! <3 I think it'll look pretty!
And for those of you who made it this far, just an FYI... I will be putting together a PR book box bundle with this hardcover, the art print, and the sticker(s) and will be doing a drawing from the ARC team to give out at least one, but more if we reach a certain number of pre-orders. These pre-orders from my author store will be the only ones with gold leaf foil hand applied by me, signed, and including the art print + stickers.
Perhaps you want to grab one yourself, and if you win the PR bundle you can do a giveaway with your social following to gain more followers!
Please do share the book with readers/bookstagram so we can make this launch a booty-shaking blast!
https://books.steviemarie.com/takingmedusa
Happy reading!
~Stevie
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Author store: https://payhip.com/brokenbookspublishing
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