Grab it up today on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple and others. Don’t forget to tell me about what you think of it in a review!
And, if you post a review where you purchased it, then copy and post your review in the comments below. I’ll take the first ten reviewers and draw one at random to send them a FREE print copy of Infinite Enigma!
Happy reading!
I think this just might be my very favorite part of being a self-published author…eeeekkk!
Just look at her! Isn’t she gorgeous!
(Keep talkin’ as I stroke the computer screen…)
Seriously, this is probably the number one reason why I choose to keep the control over the series. This way I get to make this series everything I dreamed it would be without anyone else’s sausage-fingered hands in it.
No offense to my sausage-fingered kindred (yes, I have man-hands) but they’re very strong and purposeful!
Getting to design my own cover is so much fun. I love thinking it all up, telling it to my amazing cover artist at Sylvia Designs, and seeing the next baby to complete my family!
I truly love looking at these covers, it’s like magic…imagining something up and then seeing it created, something long, long planned.
It’s such a reward, but a very close contender to hearing what you all think about the book (good or bad!) and I love to hear details!!
It’s wonderful to be able to create something that causes emotions in others and they react to that. I can pull them into that world and they become part of that universe. What does it do to you?
Reviews are more precious to me then money. If you can take the time to write words (ratings are nice, but I want to hear your words!) Tell me everything!! You’re not just this passive lump on the couch ingesting my words…
But your mind dances with my words!
Tell me, is it this dance:
Or this one…
Okay…so I watched a lot of Seinfeld.
What happened there? I’ve side tracked from my original purpose….
Ooooohhh look at my shiny new cover!
I can’t wait to hold it in my man-hands and add it to my bookshelf! While we wait for that, and for my amazing editor to shine it up, here’s the Amazon preorder link so you can be sure that as soon as I release Infinite Enigma, you will get it!
Oh and, as always, I give my loyal readers on my mailing list a discount so from now until the release March 1st it will be $5.99 for everyone who has waited so long for book 5. But March 1st it will be $6.99, so snatch it up!
And, please, please, please if you can leave me a review they make me so happy, and, if you do enjoy it, pass it on to others!
Go! Spread the word!!
Back to work on book 6, Infinite Curse…stay tuned and go grab my two latest releases to pass the time.
TRACEY!!!
With the assistance of my two-year-old, your name was pulled out of the hat. Congratulations, Tracey, you have won the paperback set of the Infinite Series (books 1-4). I’ll reply on your comment with my email address and you can send me your shipping address at your convenience.
To all who entered, thank you so much for reading Infinite Faith and leaving a review. Whenever I see I have a new review I wish I could personally thank each person who takes the time to write one. I know how hard it is to take that time out and I actually find reviews so hard to write myself. I’m so pleased with how Infinite Faith has been received. It’s a relief to see that my readers like where I’ve taken the story.
Sorry if you didn’t win this time, but rest assured, I will make the same offer when I release Book 5 for the complete paperback series.
~Lauren
Many readers have told me that after reading the series on their readers, they want to purchase the entire set in paperback to have for their collection. So in celebration of finally publishing Infinite Faith Book 4, I thought it would be a great idea giveaway A WHOLE SET (Books 1-4) in print to one worthy reader. Infinite Sacrifice Book 1, Infinite Devotion Book 2, Infinite Loss Book 3 & Infinite Faith Book 4, valued at $57.84 + shipping, will be yours for free!!!
They look so pretty all together and feel so good in your hands!
In order to enter the giveaway:
This giveaway will be over June 1st in order to give people time to read Infinite Faith. Winner will be picked at random and notified June 1st through this blog. If you win, I’ll request an address to where they will be shipped and will let you know when you should expect them. Due to shipping costs (these books are heavy!) this giveaway will only be eligible for my US fans…sorry 😦
And let me clarify honest review. You can say whatever you would like about Infinite Faith and you can still win the set of Infinite Series books. To repeat, winner will be picked at random, not based on how glowing their review is. This will be a good way to get lots of reviews up so that people can find out more about Infinite Faith (good or bad) before they purchase it. Plus I LOVE to hear your feedback!
*On a side note, I apologize to all my nook readers since it took an extra day for Infinite Faith to be published. It’s live now and click here for the link. I’m going to keep the at $4.99 until tomorrow so that you all get a chance to get the deal.
~Lauren
And with it, my long-awaited release of the fourth book of my series, Infinite Faith. I’m very proud of this book and hope you will all enjoy it.
You can purchase it right now (and take advantage of the one-day $4.99 discount price of the ebook) at the following locations, simply click on the link:
Nook, Googleplay, iBooks and Sony will be up shortly.
Please take the time to leave some much needed reviews on this new book. It helps me so much! Thank you so much for your patience and support. I have the BEST fans!
Happily, this is not the last book. Infinite Salvation (Book 5) is already in the works and stay tuned for updates on its progress. It will most definitely be the caboose of my series and, with a tinge of sadness but so much joy, I look forward to completing the series.
~Lauren
Hello my lovely fans,
I’m pleased to say I made the pre-order deadline by one day and Infinite Faith is up on pre-order on Amazon here.
This is the first time I’ve used pre-order so this is new to me. Self-publishing is a constantly evolving process much of time leaving me to play catch-up on the new technologies and options.Because I don’t want my fans to loose out on the one-day sale I planned on release day I’m setting the pre-order price at the release day sale price. The price will go back to $5.99 on May 2nd so grab it up before then!
~Lauren
I’m so happy to say to all my patient fans that Infinite Faith (Infinite Series Book 4) will be released May 1st!
It has taken longer than I predicted due to the ENORMOUS restoration project that I’ve taken on which I’m still slaving away at on weekends, but that is another story and another book!
Infinite Faith was originally going to include three past lives, but after much thought and feedback, the story can’t end here and a fifth book is needed to complete the story. I know that is welcome news for many of you that have begged for the Infinite Series to go on and, after writing much of the third life of Infinite Faith, I realized that as much as you might plan a book, its characters develop a life of their own and take the story in their own direction. I was going to deviate from the original story format since I thought it would be exciting, but it just didn’t feel right. Therefore, Infinite Faith will include two fantastic lives, it’s on its way to being published and I’ve got some of Book 5 (Infinite Salvation) finished already!
Enough about that, I’m sure what you really want to see is the gorgeous cover S. Frost Designs created for me. This might be my favorite cover yet!
I also want everyone on my website to have a heads up that the eBook will be $4.99 instead of $5.99 for the first day only, so mark that date on your calendar (but I will still send out a reminder mass email that morning). I want you all the get that deal since it’s the only time I discount the later books. In return for the discount, I would be so appreciative for honest reviews since they are so important for new releases. Thanks so much for waiting for this fourth book and for your awesome support!
The results of the cover updating poll were close. Even though the poll leaned more towards keeping the original covers (which makes me happy that so many people loved them!), people emailed and left blog comments who couldn’t vote through the poll that they wanted to see it updated. So I started working on the free ebook redesign I won from the amazing Sylvia Frost and here it is:
(Drum roll please…)
Old cover (I do still love you):
New cover:
Ta Da!
Of course, I couldn’t stop from doing the whole series after seeing this one. I love how it still gives me the same feeling the original did, but it just adds a little more pizzazz. Sylvia went straight to work redesigning the rest of the series (no, I’m not going to show you Infinite Faith yet, but it’s sooo pretty!) However, I will show you Infinite Devotion:
(Cue the fireworks..)
Old Cover:
New Cover:
And here is Infinite Loss:
(Light the cannons…)
Old Cover:
New Cover:
Sylvia gave me three different mock ups to decide between and one of them appealed so much to me that we decided to put it on the back cover of the paperback version. I loved how they gave the ghostly impression of her past lives.
Well, please let me know what you think! Do you love them or are you still attached to the old ones?
(PS-I haven’t changed them all over on my distributors yet so if you love the old ones you can go by a print copy of them still.)
Maybe one day I’ll make a special edition of the original covers, but all I want to do right now is stare at these beauties! I can’t wait to hold them all in paperback form!
And to anyone who is looking for an extremely professional (and patient) cover artist, I highly recommend S. Frost Cover Design.
I better get back to writing Infinite Faith now…
I realize that guessing your blog’s password three times is a good indicator of blog neglect. I feel terrible that things have gotten so busy that I’ve had to drop updating this blog. I used to love coming here like my weekly therapy session to vent/celebrate my latest writing/publishing adventures. The support I found from other authors and readers on here truly helped me grow and I thank you all for that.
Life just sped up for me this last year. The kiddos are growing and changing almost everyday and I have to keep evolving with them in order to keep the balance of nature in our house. Yet, the thing that consumes most of my free time is a huge project we took on last Christmas that had always been a dream. It has proven to be a much bigger project than I could ever have imagined. We decided to purchase a lovely old gingerbread Victorian on the Jersey shore that needed to be restored to its former glory (I’ve been watching way too many Nicole Curtis-Rehab Addict episodes…it’s all her fault).
At first, we thought that we could purchase it and hold off on the major work for a year or two, but that was before we found knob and tube wiring 😦 Then everything had to be opened up and we found other delightful problems of course. Fast forward almost a year and not much has progressed due to many different issues I won’t go into now. But here’s a peek of what it pretty much looks like throughout the house:
Just like getting my books out, it is a labor of love that I take very seriously and devote most of my time to researching and planning. I’m obsessed with trying to bring this house back to 1890’s even if it means finding 1890’s salvage from Ebay and Craigslist to make it that way. I spent the last year going down for day trips—a two hour drive each way—with my infant in tow, measuring and planning what needs to be done. Not to mention finding a whole antique tin ceiling, 1920’s gas stove, old barn siding, hand-hewn beams and old plumbing fixtures to the delight of my contractor. It has truly been an adventure of a whole other kind with funny stories, treasure hunts, trial and error, and lessons learned. Halfway through all of this, I decided I needed to document everything for a different type of home improvement book, that will illustrate the changes, but will be told in a storytelling way. To combine two great passions of mine will be exciting. I strive to put books out that I would love to read and I can’t get enough of home improvement shows/books, focusing on restoring old homes and giving DIY tips along the way.
Even though the house restoration is taking up a huge part of my life right now (especially since we keep getting thrown curve balls that call for creative fixes), I have managed to carve out an hour of writing/researching a day. And I am so happy to announce that I’ve finished writing the second life of Infinite Faith. That might not sound like a lot, but at nearly 100,000 words it could easily be a novel on its own and the first life of this book clocks in around 75,000 words. This is still only a first draft and I’ll need to do the proper beta reads and revisions on it, but it’s progress and I know my loyal fans have been patiently waiting for this next installment so it might help them wait a little longer for the last life of the book to be written. I’m already cracking open my research books for this next glimpse of history and hopefully the house project issues will die down as things start to fall into place and I can get more writing time this winter.
So, please forgive me for all of my neglect and delays. I still love writing my series and promise to keep sculpting it. Can I give an exact time that it will be released? Not yet. I never expected this last life to be so long, but my stories sometimes take me in unexpected directions. This next life will most likely take me on a similar journey. I can only promise that I won’t put this fourth installment out until it is everything I’ve dreamed it to be. Thank you all for being so patient and supportive (and sending good vibes to my little gingerbread house is also greatly appreciated).
The Infinite Series 