BLOG TOUR – LITTLE NANI REVISITED

            Thank you for visiting this wonderful blog today so you can know a bit more about Little Nani, her stories, her world, and her author. OK, her author is not as interesting as Little Nani, but what can we do? They go hand in hand, so please bear with her.

            Why are we here today? Because Little Nani is suffering a series of changes. “The Funny Adventures of Little Nani” was published for the first time last September 2012, both in print and in ebook form, on Amazon and Createspace. However, along the months, I started feeling less enthusiastic about my book, thinking that the cover was dull and boring, and also thinking that the stories could be improved, maybe going through some extra editing and proofing. So that’s what I did, and now I am much happier about the result and I trust that I will start getting many more sales. Why? Because I will make the books available not only on Amazon and Createspace, but also on Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, and Feed-A-Read.

            There will be also many different options to buy the books. Do you want to buy the whole set of stories? You can do it. Do you want to buy just some stories, the ones you think you would like? You can do it too, since I will publish the stories individually on Smashwords. So you see, different options to match different customers, different readers.

            Once all this is settled and the books are republished on all those retailers, I will start to do the same process with the second book in the Little Nani series, which will be available next Fall.

            Follow the whole blog tour since I will be announcing all the news in the different blogs!

Little Nani is a little girl who likes helping people. However, when she helps people the results can be a bit unexpected. Why is that? Little Nani is a witch! Or at least she wants to be a witch. With her magic wand, she will try to cast different spells to help her friends, but she won’t be successful all the time.

            Follow Little Nani in her funny adventures and meet her extraordinary friends. Funny ostriches, horses that love reading, super-fast turtles, grumpy zombies… Little Nani has lots of friends! You can also draw your own characters!

            Little Nani is willing to become a good witch. Will she manage to do it? Who knows? Read the stories and discover what happens next!

Cinta Garcia de la Rosa is a Spanish writer who has loved the written word since he discovered she was able to read books at age 5. Since then, she has become a bookworm and reads around 100 books every year. She also writes, every day, compulsively, even in the middle of the night. You cannot control when inspiration hits you, can you? She writes in English because she is convinced that in a previous life she was British, so writing in English feels more natural to her than writing in her native language. Yes, she is crazy like that. Cinta Garcia is the author of “The Funny Adventures of Little Nani”, a collection of short stories for children, and “A Foreigner in London”, a short story published on Smashwords. She is a member of Independent Authors International (iAi).

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From Rob: One of the first people I met in the Twittersphere was the lovely Cinta Garcia de la Rosa, an outspoken, wonderful, very talented (“aspiring”) writer. The first thing I did was read one of her short stories and told her “not only are you not ‘aspiring’, you are one heck of a talented writer.” And the most amazing thing is that Cinta is born, raised, and still lives in Spain and English is not her first language. Occasionally in her prose the reader is treated to the fact that her English is not perfect, but she is such a talent that the moments actually enhance the experience rather than detract from it.

When she honored me with a request to participate in her blog tour for her EXTRAORDINARY children’s book “The Funny Adventures of Little Nani”, a collection of short stories about the same sweet, recurring young character as she learns about the world around her, I jumped at the opportunity to host a guest post by someone who is sure to be a sparkling star one day!

I decided to ask her to write about the challenges and advantages of writing in a language that is not her native tongue.

Here is the answer from one of my favorite people (and authors) I have met along my journey. (Cinta will remind you, but don’t forget or neglect to leave a comment—commenting automatically enters you in her contest to win a signed copy of “Little Nani”—and each comment on a different blog entitles you to another chance)!

Advantages and Disadvantages of Authoring Books

in English. by Cinta Garcia

Right now I am very happy because I am a published author, and even though my books are not best-sellers (to be honest, they are not selling well but I hope that changes soon), at least I have achieved something big: people respect my writing now. What? What do you mean? Did people consider you were a bad writing before?

Actually yes. Why? Because I am Spanish and I write in English. I know it sounds crazy, but I don’t feel comfortable writing in Spanish. I have tried, and the results were rubbish. Yeah, rubbish in capital letters. However, when I write in English, it seems my words flow more effortlessly and I think I have managed to write some good stories. In fact, people already know me as the Little Nani author. I’m happy with that.

So, what are the advantages and disadvantages of authoring books in English? Well, the main advantage is that I can reach a wider and bigger audience. That would be impossible if I write just in Spanish. Besides, the biggest Indie Writing community in the whole world is English-speaking, so I guess you have to do what the majority does, right? Joining the Indie movement is a huge advantage, since every author is supportive of their fellow authors (with exceptions, but even the best families have their evil members), so you get even a greater exposure.

Disadvantages? Many. The first one is that people had a hard time thinking of me as a real author, since I was writing in a language different to my own one. Lots of people assumed that my writing wouldn’t have enough quality as to be published. And lots of people thought that my books would be a failure, even before they had the chance of reading something written by me. So I had to fight against those assumptions, and it wasn’t easy, because I felt pressed and stressed, I felt that my writing had to be really good so those people could stop mining my self-confidence as a writer.

Eventually, I finished writing my first collection of short stories featuring Little Nani, I published it, and people started liking my stories. So I feel pretty happy. And now I can say that the advantages are far better than the disadvantages. Not so many people think that I’m a bad writer now, and I stopped listening to the ones that still say that.

Thank you, Rob, for hosting me today! You know you played a very important role in my becoming a published author. If you hadn’t told me that my stories were good, I wouldn’t have tried to publish anything. Thanks!

GIVEAWAY!

Don’t forget to leave a comment, so you can enter the giveaway for the opportunity to win a signed copy of “The Funny Adventures of Little Nani”. If you leave comments in several blogs during the tour, you will get an entry for each comment. So don’t hesitate to comment!

LINKS TO THE BOOKS.

Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/3914481

Amazon (US): http://www.amazon.com/Funny-Adventures-Little-Nani-ebook/dp/B009YMBXJW/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in

Amazon (UK): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Funny-Adventures-Little-Nani-ebook/dp/B009YMBXJW/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Austenite78

MEDIA LINKS:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CintaGarciaRosa

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cinta-Garc%C3%ADa-de-la-Rosa-Author/333755993341596

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6470058.Cinta_Garc_a_de_la_Rosa

Amazon Author: http://www.amazon.com/Cinta-Garc%C3%ADa-de-la-Rosa/e/B009LHYYSM

Smashwords Author: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Austenite78

Website: http://www.cintagarciadelarosa.com/

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About.me: http://about.me/cintagarcia

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Askdavid.com: http://askdavid.com/reviews/book/children-book/3237