by Pat Bertram
Member since:
October 4, 2007

DAUGHTER AM I HAS BEEN RELEASED! LET'S PARTY!!

October 14, 2009 02:31 PM EDT (Updated: October 15, 2009 08:09 PM EDT)
views: 142 | comments: 96

Welcome to the Daughter Am I cyber launch party! Tonight I am serving No Wine, Just Champagne. (Tee hee. A bit of No Whine humor.)

Here are some games to keep you occupied:

Play Book Invasion. Can you beat my score? Shouldn’t be hard since my score is 0. Click here to find the game.

Play Memory by the Book. Click here to find the game.

Play Daughter Am I Soitaire. Click here to find the game.

And back by popular demand: Wombat Mahjong. Click here to find the game. 

Other activities to keep you occupied:

Read the first chapter of Daughter Am I. Click here to find the chapter.

A gift for everyone!! Download free samplers from Second Wind Publishing. Click here to find the free samplers.

Read the first 30% of Daughter Am I free at Smashwords or buy any ebook format, even Kindle. Click here to find Smashwords.

Click here to buy Daughter Am I at Second Wind Publishing, LLC.

Click here to buy Daughter Am I at Amazon.
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Comments: 96

Sandre M. Oct 14, 2009, 2:52pm EDT
Woot! Congrats and thanks for the invitation! I'll be back by then!
Angela A. Oct 14, 2009, 3:04pm EDT
I probably won't remember knowing me...
But, congrats on the release!
Marge H. Oct 14, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
Yay!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like an intriguing novel.
Wendy C. Oct 14, 2009, 3:22pm EDT
Congrats Pat!
A. F. Stewart Oct 14, 2009, 4:38pm EDT
I'm too tired to think of something pithy to say, so I'll just say Congrats!
Sheila Deeth Oct 14, 2009, 4:59pm EDT
The calendar's marked, but we all know how good I am at keeping track of calendars. Congratulations Pat. Great news. Great day.
Sheila Deeth Oct 14, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
Just went to play the game. Better not tell the boys.
Lawrence U. Oct 14, 2009, 6:05pm EDT
Congratulations, Pat!
Pat S. Oct 14, 2009, 6:49pm EDT
Congrats, Pat!
Erin O'Riordan Oct 14, 2009, 7:22pm EDT
Octagenarian gangsters? The plot sounds quite intriguing, Pat. Congratulations on another new release! I'll try to make it there tomorrow!
Jill Lynn A. Oct 14, 2009, 7:29pm EDT
Congratulations on another "hot off the press" novel :-)
Wanda H. Oct 14, 2009, 8:09pm EDT
I'll be here, I absolutely promise! I set my alarm to remind me. Congratulations on yet another great release! I'm stoked to read DAI soon.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 7:56pm EDT
Wanda, you better come! I wrote three paragraphs just because you told me to, so you owe me! :)
Wanda H. Oct 16, 2009, 3:25pm EDT
Ha! You owe me for the fun you had writing those 3 paragraphs. giggling insanely
Congratulations on your newest publication...WAY TO GO...
Off to see all the published works at Second Wind Publishing, I keep forgetting to check in on them...
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 7:55pm EDT
Human, Katherine, if you really want to check out the Second Wind authors, download the free samplers. They include the first chapters of every book published by Second Wind.
Vivian A. Oct 14, 2009, 8:58pm EDT
Yay! Sorry just sneaking in under the deadline. Congrats Pat!!!
Trish A. Oct 14, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
Congratulations!
Pat Bertram Oct 18, 2009, 8:27pm EDT
Thank you!
Vivian A. Oct 14, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
Darn! It's tomorrow. I won't be available, so just pretend I'm here.
Pat Bertram Oct 18, 2009, 8:27pm EDT
I pretended you were here. You were the life of the party.
Angel sent from God Secret Sisters Oct 14, 2009, 9:04pm EDT
Wow Congratulations!!
I ll try to make it...
Pat Bertram Oct 18, 2009, 8:27pm EDT
Great icon, Janet! Glad you stopped by to grace the party.
Angel sent from God Secret Sisters Oct 18, 2009, 8:31pm EDT
Thank you I had to find something for halloween ! :D
Rand Phares Oct 14, 2009, 10:27pm EDT
Bookmarked.
JOHN BECK Oct 14, 2009, 11:08pm EDT
I'm at a convention and seminar, but I'll send the flowers and one bottle of Porto.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 7:54pm EDT
I got the flowers and Porto, John, thank you!
Jan S. Oct 14, 2009, 11:39pm EDT
Woo hoo! Congratulations, Pat! I admire your writing and this book sounds like a winner!
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 7:53pm EDT
Wow! Thank you, Jan.
P.W. Dowdy Oct 14, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
I'll be working then out here in Pacific Time. Everything about the book sounds fully dramatic... and my guess is that it will be a page turner.

Congrats!.
Pat Bertram Oct 18, 2009, 8:26pm EDT
I sure hope you're right, P.W.! Thank you for stopping by my party.
Ken C. Oct 15, 2009, 8:21am EDT
Good on you Pat...another "rite of passage" with the release of another book. Sure, I'll buy one. Hey, I'm a customer and patron. How about that?
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 7:53pm EDT
Ken, I can use all the customers and patrons I can get. It's hard to work one's way to the bestsellers list if one isn't selling!
Beaker (just Beaker) Oct 15, 2009, 1:32pm EDT
Congratulations! Wishing you many happy readers and positive reviews!
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
Someone sent me an ecard. I thought it would add a bit of humor to the party!

Congratulations card.
Wanda H. Oct 15, 2009, 3:42pm EDT
Great card!!!
Marge H. Oct 15, 2009, 4:21pm EDT
Funny card. Is it still as exciting as the first time you had a book released?
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 7:52pm EDT
Marge, actually it's more exciting. I have a lot more connections, more people know of me and my books,(at least online) so it's been fun talking about the book. (Shhh. Here's a secret. Don't tell. Mostly I'm just glad that it's finished. No more editing. No more second guessing myself and my editors. It's a great relief.)
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 7:57pm EDT
Thank you everyone for the congratulations! Now let's have some fun.
Rand Phares Oct 15, 2009, 8:00pm EDT
Congrats, Pat!
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 8:11pm EDT
Thanks, Rand. When is your book going to be launched?
Rand Phares Oct 15, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
Cute ecard.
Rand Phares Oct 15, 2009, 8:13pm EDT
My book should be relased first quarter next year.
Rand Phares Oct 15, 2009, 8:13pm EDT
Heavy editing going on now, with Beth at the helm.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 8:15pm EDT
Have you started planning your launch party? I bet you'd end up with a humdinger!
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 8:16pm EDT
Incidentally, Rand, you're one of the first people I was ever able to keep straight when I joined gather. Must be because I kept checking your stats for FCC every day! I'm not sure I ever thanked you for that, so thank you.
Rand Phares Oct 15, 2009, 10:35pm EDT
you're welcome. it was a fun time.
Deborah J Ledford Oct 15, 2009, 8:18pm EDT
Cheers to the hardest working writer I know.
I'm so thrilled that Daughter Am I is now available, Pat. Congratulations on this new release. I know this will be a great success.
Sherrie H. Oct 15, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
Congratulations! I love the colors and design of the cover.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 8:26pm EDT
Thank you, Deborah! I sure hope you're right. I haven't worked this hard just be remain an obscure writer lurking in the back alleys of the book world.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 8:29pm EDT
Hi, Sherrie! Don't ask me how I got those colors, because I don't know.

It's odd, but More Deaths Than One printed up worse than I wanted, instead of the cover everyone has been seeing here, the purple lettering and night-vision-goggle green painting, it printed up as raspberry sherbet pink and emerald. Very strange. But that same peculiar printing process took this cover and made it so much better -- a gorgeous deep blue turquois with purple shadows in the sky.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 8:39pm EDT
I posted a bunch of jigsaw puzzles on my blog, but here's one I saved just for Gather:

Jigsaw puzzle #1
Jan S. Oct 15, 2009, 9:06pm EDT
I just did the puzzle. It took me six minutes. I'm such a slacker.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:11pm EDT
Do you want one that's harder?
Nancy N. Oct 15, 2009, 9:08pm EDT
Hey Pat, I've been reading DAI most of the day. It's really fun and I love those stories that Teach tells. Your talent is awesome. I don't want the book to end.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:13pm EDT
Nancy, how wonderful! Both that you like the book, and that you say the one thing dearest to an author's heart -- you don't want the book to end. I never understood the page turner mentality. I always wanted to write page stayers, where people were sad to turn the page because that meant they were one page closer to the end.
Jan S. Oct 15, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
I know this feeling: "where people were sad to turn the page because that meant they were one page closer to the end. " I hate losing my new-found friends at the end of a book. Sometimes I try to delay it.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:14pm EDT
I loved that feeling, too, Jan, and so that's the sort of book I wanted to write.
Nancy N. Oct 15, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
Sorry about that I am in EDITING mode. Had to edit my comment. Sigh. Hope I hear from Avalon Publishing soon I really understand the desire to get published so I can stop with the editing.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:16pm EDT
In this brave new world of publishing where it's hard to find a readership for a book, that is truly the best thing about being published. It says, more than anything else, THE END. At least the end of the editing. It's the beginning of so much more!
Nancy N. Oct 15, 2009, 9:13pm EDT
Another thing I like about DAI is all the research you did with the guns, gangsters, Capone and different things that took place during that time. It's so interesting. I don't think I've ever read a book that has so much intriguing information.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:19pm EDT
How funny that you say that. I entered DAI into the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, and my prize for being a finalist was a review from Publisher's Weekly. Imagine how freaked I got when that review showed up on Amazon a couple of days ago! To think it's been lurking in the depths of cyberspace waiting to glom onto the published book all this time! The point being, PW hated all the information -- the reviewer said it made the story drag -- so it's nice to know that the story doesn't drag.
Nancy N. Oct 15, 2009, 9:29pm EDT
The dialogue is crisp, not draggy and you intersperse movement and action with the dialogue. It adds dimension and makes the characters more real. Remember, Tony Hillerman was told to cut out "all that Indian stuff." A good book is not a bunch of characters running around a plot. A good book is one that lets the reader know the characters and backgrounds, good backgrounds like yours. Forget PW.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
Thank you. I do like my old gangsters. If I were ever to do a sequel, it would be with them. I found them hilarious.
Jill Lynn A. Oct 15, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
Good title. Gorgeous cover. Gratifying first chapter. I predict greatness all around.

Congratulations, Pat. Go get 'em.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:48pm EDT
I so hope your prediction comes through, Jill. I'm ready. I just wish I knew how to go get 'em. But I'm trying!
Beth H. Oct 15, 2009, 9:48pm EDT
Pat, woo hoo! Congratulations on another published novel! Is it still exciting to see your book available for the reading public?
Beth H. Oct 15, 2009, 9:49pm EDT
That is, still exciting, even though it's not the first?
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:57pm EDT
The first wasn't really that exciting -- it took too long, I had to many obstacles to overcome, got too many rejections, was too worried that people would think I was full of hot air -- I participated in so many writing discussions where I more or less acted as if I knew what I was doing that I wondered if people would decide I hadn't a clue. But this -- this has been pure fun. I love getting a chance to talk about my books!
Angela A. Oct 15, 2009, 9:50pm EDT
I'm sad to hear there's no chat...
But, I'm glad you're celebrating.
I stopped by to say congrats again. But, then I have to skedaddle.
I really have to get some stuff done.
See you next week.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 9:51pm EDT
I'm glad you stopped by, Angela, and sad that there's no chat, but glad that I have something to celebrate, and sad that you have to leave.
James R. Oct 15, 2009, 10:25pm EDT
Congrats, Pat. I'm sure it's another fine book. By the way, I finished "A Spark of Heavenly Fire" and liked it a lot. I'll plan to write a review when time permits.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 10:35pm EDT
That's wonderful to hear! (Or rather see.)

See, we should do a Wombat Review Writing Month. A lot of us have reviews to write!
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 10:58pm EDT
Thank you everyone for a wonderful evening! It's a joy to be able to share the moments of my life with friends.
Wanda H. Oct 15, 2009, 11:33pm EDT
I agree about the review writing month. And yes, I forgot the time difference! I so messed it up. I'm hanging my head in shame. My only real excuse is that I worked on my Phantasmagoria entry all day. It was such fun having a project to work on.

Pat, I loved the first chapter, the puzzles, the games and everything. Can't wait to get my own copy.

Congratulations on your wonderful book.
Pat Bertram Oct 15, 2009, 11:48pm EDT
Wanda, you didn't miss the party. You've been in and out all day like I was. And anyway, the puzzles and games was the party. Thank you so much for all your support. Just think, one day we will be celebrating the launch of your book!
Beaker (just Beaker) Oct 15, 2009, 11:56pm EDT
I liked the ecard too.

Is there something you feel that you've learned with this book that you can use to make the next one even more fun to write? I'm hoping maybe with each book the process gets a little smoother, but maybe that's just wishful thinking. Not that I'm anywhere near publish-ready right now!
Pat Bertram Oct 16, 2009, 12:48am EDT
Beaker, Each book is harder for me to write than the last because I know more and so am less willing to just throw words on the page, because I want to write something I've never written before so each time I have to teach myself how to write that particular book, and because I have so much less free time.

Oddly enough, despite the heavy demands of research, this was the easiest and most fun book to write. I outlined it (mentally) in a single day, the missing pieces of the story -- such as why the gold was buried -- came to me in a serendipitous way without my having to go looking for them, and the characters came to me fully developed.

I sure wish my WIP was that easy! I still can't figure out why I am having such a problem with it. Maybe because I have so many other things on my mind -- I always wrote to get the story out of my mind, and if it's not in my mind there's no story to extract. I still think there will come a day when I just sit down and start writing for fun and forget the other complications such as trying to introduce my books to the world.
Lisa "Queen Wombat" F. Oct 16, 2009, 2:52am EDT
Congratulations, Pat! Sorry I'm late -- but I haven't missed the party, have I?
Pat Bertram Oct 16, 2009, 11:05am EDT
Of course you haven't missed the party. The great thing about virtual parties is that they are forever!
Judi F. Oct 16, 2009, 10:03am EDT
Woo hoo! Congratulations, Pat!
Pat Bertram Oct 16, 2009, 11:06am EDT
Thank you, Judi!
Tracy Fabre Oct 16, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
Pat, I am belatedly congratulating you on your third novel. This one sounds really intriguing (and I have More Deaths Than One sitting on my kitchen table right now waiting to be read).

Brava!
Pat Bertram Oct 16, 2009, 8:53pm EDT
Tracy, not so belatedly. The book just got published!
Tracy Fabre Oct 16, 2009, 9:29pm EDT
Hey... I was a day late. I know late! Late is a friend of mine! Er...
~Sia McKye~ Oct 16, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
Congratulations Pat. I love the premise, as you know. Great set of characters and there's actually a love story in there. :-)
Pat Bertram Oct 18, 2009, 8:24pm EDT
Sia, I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of the book! I sure hope you'll like it.
Beth G. Oct 17, 2009, 8:13pm EDT
Congratulations on your new book being released, this sounds like a really interesting novel!
Pat Bertram Oct 18, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
Thank you, Beth. I had fun writing the book. I hope people have fun reading it.
Larry W. Oct 18, 2009, 12:29pm EDT
congrats.
Pat Bertram Oct 18, 2009, 8:23pm EDT
thanks.
Woot! The best things about cyber parties is you can stop by anytime and never miss a party because it's always available. Congrats to you! I wish you much success. I'll have to add this to my must read book.
Pat Bertram Oct 18, 2009, 8:23pm EDT
Renda -- I like that about the internet. It's timeless. There is no past. Everything is now. Thank you so much for stopping by my party!
Sharon B. Oct 22, 2009, 7:07pm EDT
I have over 10,000 e-mails....so please bear with the generic comment... thanks for sharing
Beverly M. Oct 24, 2009, 8:44pm EDT
I'm late, I'm late. I know you had a great time, though. Congratulations. The book sounds interesting.
Pat Bertram Oct 24, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
Beverly, the beauty of the Internet is that the party is always going on! Thank you for stopping by. It was nice seeing you again.

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