Thanks for all your efforts, I hope you get a bit of a breather now.

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Thank you for doing that. :) And yes, I think I'm going to lay off the writing for a bit and do some reading. I have the book I want to get all lined up.

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I just checked goodreads. You put the blurb up and everything! You're brilliant. Thank you again.

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I enjoy doing that in my genre corner ^^ - it helps people out and I know the info is correct, heh. When you've got your Smashwords link, I'll update.

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Thanks so much for your hard work. I'll be donating as soon as the option is available

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You're very welcome. I was happy to do it.

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I'm looking forward to your smashwords delivery or your donate button. Thanks for all your hard work with this series. I hope you continue writing .

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An e-version is in the works. I'm waiting for the manuscript to be reformatted by someone who isn't me.

I'll definitely be writing more books. I'm working on a new one now. Also, I'll probably be writing more heroes short stories, as well.

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I'm sad that this will be the last of the series, but thank you so, so much for persevering and getting this book to us.

I haven't read the short stories you've posted, because I wanted to read them over the Christmas holidays but I'm sure I'll be reading Heroes' Reward much sooner than that -- I've been eagerly waiting to hear more about Lee and Taro.

Thank you also for making it possible for us to make a donation. You've worked long and hard on this, and it's nice to be able to offer you a financial token of appreciation for your efforts.

All the best,
Claudia

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I was very sad when I wrote the last page of the first draft of this book. Kind of an end of an era thing. I'll still be writing the odd short story, though, so it's not like I'll be completely leaving the world behind.

And I have a bunch of other ideas I want to write about, too. I don't know that I'll like any other group of characters more than I will these guys.

I am honoured and flattered that people like the option of paying. Thank you.

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One other thing people with paypal could do is just send you an amount of their choosing directly from their account. All they need is your e-mail address. :)

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The ways of paypal are strange and mysterious to me.

Thank you. :) I owe you a substantive email.

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Eeeek!!!! (this is Roshni by the way. Haven't been able to log in. As soon as I can I take advantage of all of this!)

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Or I can email the pdf to you, if you'd like.

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That would be amazing! I am 6 chapters in but a PDF would be amazing - thank you so much.

I can't believe this is the end!

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I think the Buy Now option worked! Thanks again, all your fans really appreciate that you made the effort to close out the series. I look forward to downloading it off Smashwords...

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That was a great ending to a great series- thank you for finishing the last book!

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You're welcome. :D

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Great way to end the series! Thanks again for writing!
~ Maren

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I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for telling me.

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Ah! I found out through GoodReads this was out and immediately bought it from Smashwords. Thank you for all your hardwork and dedication and I can't wait to read this!!

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Thank you so much. :D I hope you enjoy it.

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Thank you for finishing the series. I appreciate your dedication to your fans.

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You're welcome. I couldn't leave my readers with an unfinished story. They've been so good to me.

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I felt like it had been a while since your last book in the series, so I started to look for the publication date for the next one. Then I saw on your site that I hadn't come across the latest book because ACE wasn't publishing it. It was actually your series that started to convince me to take another look at ACE books (because their size, appearances, and placements in my local bookstore didn't suggest well-written adult book). I usually don't write to authors to tell them how much joy their book brought me (and I haven't even gotten to reading this one yet), but I wanted you to know how amazing your series is and that plenty of people agree with me. I wish that I were able to have a copy of your last book in print & bound (I like having the whole collection together) and I "donated" (I prefer paid, because you worked so hard on the book) the full $7.99 it would have been in the store because the book is worth at least that much. Thank you for doing what so many other authors wouldn't have done: you finished the series and made it available to us. You did more than just self-publishing; for all your time and effort you were basically giving it away to the people that cared about it. I hope you make more money this way and that ACE realizes they should have finished the series. Thank you. Good luck with your future ventures.

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I'm so glad you were so persistent in finding out about the last book. A disadvantage of self-publishing is getting the word out. I use Facebook, twitter, lj and my own website, but I keep getting messages from people saying they'd only now found the book. Of course, it took me a while to think of putting it on Amazon, because I'm an idiot, and I'm terrible at marketing myself.

Thank you for your kind compliments. They made me smile.

And thank you for the payment. It's truly amazing how many people choose to pay for the book when they can get it for free.

I never thought of writing to authors until people started writing to me. I've changed that habit since, because getting the comments is such a pleasure. Even the people who write to say they didn't like the book were so polite and sometimes funny and sometimes were an inspiration for change.

I've written this several times because it was such an important factor in writing the last book. I had had a plan from the first book and couldn't just leave it unfinished, I felt the readers were entitled to a complete series, and I would have always regretted it if I hadn't finished it.

Thank you.

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Hi Moira,
Can you stick a 20.00 button on your donate tab? I'd like to donate 20 but I don't want to have to do 4 5.00's!
Helen

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Hi Helen:

Wow. I'm blown away by your generosity. Thank you so much.

I've looked at the directions for changing the amounts on the donate buttons and it appears that I have to actually change the html code for the button, and given my complete lack of ability with anything more advanced than things like typing this email, I will screw it up in some way.

A friend of mine posted this: One other thing people with paypal could do is just send you an amount of their choosing directly from their account. All they need is your e-mail address. (Which is moirajmoore@yahoo.com)

If that isn't helpful to you, truly, I appreciate any amount you care to send.

Sincerely,

Moira

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Hi Helen: I keep saying thank you, but seriously, thank you for going to such effort.

I did look at kickstarter, on your suggestion. I've never heard of it. I'm not sure how it would work with a novel, but I'm definitely looking at it more closely.

Cheers,
Moira

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I bought it at Amazon, thank you for posting because I had no idea it was out. I usually just check back every now and again to see the status so imagine my happiness to find out it's available for purchase ;D

I can't wait!!!!!!

- CS Cusack

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Thank you! And I hope you enjoy it. I'm a little alarmed that you weren't aware that the book was out. I guess I'll have to post about it once in a while.

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So I was reading a story online... and discovered at the bottom of the page was a link to purchase a copy of the story. Wandered into Lulu and discovered it could be purchased as an ebook or paperback. Looked at the tutorial for the paperback option: http://connect.lulu.com/t5/Video-Tutorials/Video-on-How-to-Publish-a-Book/ta-p/31793 . It looks easy, doesn't seem to require pre-purchase of books, it says it can be sold through Amazon and Nook and whatnot...

Here is the story I was reading, and there is an option to contact the author at the bottom of the page, so you could contact Christopher if you want to know whether it worked/was worth it. http://www.crvboy.org/stories/cpl/s010/c01.html

So, should you want to do the paperback bit and this works for you, I'd love your final book on my shelf with the rest of the series. :)

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I've had a few people ask about the possibility of creating paper versions, and I've done just a little bit of research into it. I have to say that I don't feel good about the options, and there seems to be more complaints against the various companies than praise. Also, there hasn't been much of an interest in a paper version. Maybe I'll change my mind in the future.

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