Miriam Khan

Well, so far The Lebrus Stone has had a four star review, and today, this review was added on Bestchicklit: What we say – review by Charlotte Foreman: The Lebrus Stone appealed to me as soon as I read the blurb and I downloaded the book as soon as it became available on Amazon. Crystal is a feisty main character; she’s strong, yet a jumble of emotions beneath the surface. She’s haunted by the death of her parents and driven by a natural urge to uncover the seemingly unattainable details about her childhood. It’s the promise of the Locke’s knowledge that leads her to Blacksville and the foreboding Thorncrest Manor. The atmosphere at the family home had a real gloomy, Beautiful Creatures-esque air to it, which I adored and was probably my favourite thing about the book. Crystal’s feelings towards the handsome Cray had me hooked and I loved the undeniable pull she felt towards him, regardless if he was bad for her or not. Their interactions, at first, are strained and I person...

The Lebrus Stone was re-added to online sellers such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble with correct formatting and removed typos. Again, I apologise to those of you who may have purchased the previous e-book upload with the slight errors. My next mission now is finding reviewers. I would be sending the e-book to any reviewers for free. :) M

Yes The Lebrus Stone was published on the 28th of November after a hectic month of editing and tweaking and fussing day and night until my eyes were hard to open from being so sore and dry. Unsurprisingly, the book still ended up with a small amount of typos. As you can imagine, I panicked. But....there was a formatting error with all the online sellers, so this gave me the chance to make the corrections before my publisher re-added it to websites such Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The polished version was added last week. I would like to apologize to anybody who may have bought the copy with the infrequent typos. I'm really sorry. Hopefully they aren't too distracting. Hmmm. I have to say, after six years of writing and polishing this book, I think I was expecting fireworks or something after being published, someone to jump out of a cake and scream congratulations. But I haven't even been handed a sparkler; a match. I haven't been given one of those really miniatu...

Wow. The two cover and trailer reveals these past two days, have created some interest All this before the book has even been released. Thank you. It's very flattering, but it's also making me nervous. The pressure to live up to any expectation has doubled. Still, I knew it was a good idea to have more than one cover reveal. I'm so glad those who arranged them agreed and allowed it Thank you Lovingthebooklauch and Itchingforbooks. The next reveal is on the 15th. A week later. Bit of a gap, I know, but we could reach those who missed the first two. Before then, on the 14th, it's a book blitz. I might add something extra to it, like an excerpt. The prize I will be supplying will be the same. I wonder who the winners will be from these recent reveals. It would be great to be able to give everyone who entered the draw a necklace, to everyone who contributed and showed an interest. But alas, I don't have that kind of money to even try. Forgive me....

I need to start posting a lot more on here. Since the cover reveal for The Lebrus Stone is on Tuedsay with the amazing ladies at Lovingthebooklaunch, I thought I could add some character photos and the soundtrack on here, rather than wait to throw them at promotional events. For now here's Cray and Crystal:

I've been away from all social platforms this year. I have had a lot of changes in my life to deal with, such as those mentioned in my previous post. I won't go into the sordid and rather boring details ;) Anyway, I'm not only footloose and fancy free. I am eagerly finding ways to promote my book: The Lebrus Stone. I have managed to find a nice Ukranian young man from Spain who has made me a very professional looking trailer. I have also arranged three cover reveals and a book blitz for the month of November. The book is expected to be released mid or the end of November. I know what you're thinking. Why three cover reveals? Well at the time I didn't realise you just arranged one. I'm new to all this. Those arranging them for me have said they are fine with it. I figured it would be a way to gain the most exposure before the release date. Anybody who missed the reveal the first time would have a further two chances. Plus I like to be different. :) ...

Well as soon as it hit January the 1st, I was back to being single, back home with my parents, and looking for full-time employment, as well as somewhere to rent. ALONE. I'm now not an editor for the small publisher. They changed their minds a month ago. It was probably because I wasn't choosing to edit what they kept sending me, which had only been about five or seven books to consider. Still, it felt like things I had agreed to without thinking about it properly, had been resolved. And it seemed I was being shown how these kind of commitments weren't really needed as part of my goals. Not at the moment anyway. I decided not to continue with in my freelance editing. It was just getting too much. I wasn't getting paid enough for all the hours put in. However, I might take it up again on the side casually someday, just as a way to contribute. I have written two novellas recently: a sci-fi romance, and a historical romance. Right now I'm concentrating on fi...