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February 27 2021

Wattpad Here we Come!

Going to bed with reality-waking up with the dream.

Hanna Lewis is trapped in a loveless marriage. She constantly wonders whether she married the one, and envies her friends’ marriages more than she should.

On her birthday she makes a wish; to

know what it feels like to be loved deeply by her husband, Andrew. She wakes up with a new reality-a dream-one where she is no longer Hanna Lewis, but Hanna Stein.

Hanna falls crazy in love with Justin Stein, the cardiologist she is now married to. He loves her intensely and is everything she’s ever wanted in a man. But the harder she falls, the more she fears.

What will it do to her if she wakes up and is back to reality as Hanna Lewis again?

WATTPAD HERE WE COME!

If you are here through my newsletter, you will more or less what this post is about and can easily just scroll down to the bottom to join Wattpad and to start reading Finding Mr. Right.

If you follow my Blog, then you have no idea what I’m talking about or wondering why I’m releasing a book on a free reads platform. Carry on reading to find out why I had done this.

I know it says Judith Holstrom on the cover, but let me explain why that is.

I’m sure by now everyone knows that I’m writing under various pen names. If you didn’t know that, WELCOME TO THE CLUB!

Judith Holstrom is the pen name that I write my Mystery/Thriller and Horror titles under.

Why the Change?

Well, that is simply easy. I opened a Wattpad account in 2019 under Judith Holstrom and emerged all my pen names with her. There are various titles written by Judith Holstrom, but some are actually Isabella White titles.

Like Finding Mr. Right.

Why did I put this title on Wattpad?

It’s easy. It’s such a different title, a different concept, and I still have no idea whether this concept will do well because it’s so unique. It’s like a wish that sort of came true but went horribly wrong kind of book. Because she didn’t word her wish correctly, she woke up in an alternative world married to someone else and not her husband of the past twelve years.

I like to stick to realism, but it’s a difficult concept to do that.

That is why it’s on Wattpad, as I need a gazillion betas on this one to help me figure out if it’s a story going to do well out there.

Wattpad will give me a great idea of whether it will work or not.

I also am doing things differently this year. I need an agent. I’m sure all of you know that by now. If I wanted to take my writing further.

And Wattpad could help me to get there.

So I’m basically going to try to hit two flies with one stone on this one.

I’m also thinking of entering this book in the Wattys this year. It starts in June/July, I’m not sure, but you will definitely learn about it closer to the time.

So doing this differently and hoping for a better result.

The book is almost complete on Wattpad, and if any of you would like to go read this bizarre and unique story, please try it out. It went through the first round of edit, so not a lot of mistakes in this one. But there is a lot of story kinks to still sort out.

If you do not have a Wattpad account, you can easily open one with your google account/or Facebook, or any other account. It’s so easy.

Read Finding Mr. Right for Free!

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February 18 2021

Goodies for For Me Pre-Order

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I’d finally got a chance to sent out the first batch of character cards to all the readers that reserved FOR ME via my store.

Above is what they look like and below is the faces that I used. The character cards isn’t something that I’m selling so the images are perfect for you to print them out and create your character card. I’m thinking of doing a post on how you can easily do that later on. I think it will be a fun video and post for the future.

So for this month we’ve created character cards for Jake, Holly, Amelia and Armand. Super excited to see what the others are going to look like.

My Jake Peters. Jake is the MC of FOR ME, Not Holly. The entire book is his version of Imperfect Love. You will discover so many new things in this book especially how hard he crashed on Holly, and why he didn’t tell her everything that he should’ve told her. There are new scenes in his book too, to make it different and bigger than Imperfect Love.

I can’t wait for you to read this one. It’s one of my favorites.

Model for Jake Peters is Giulio Berruti (this man is just fa-fa-voom)

Holly Scallanger

I love Bella Thorne. I think she is an excellent actress and see her so clearly as my Holly. Her beautiful Strawberry Blonde hair is a natural and hates it when she colors it for a movie or anything that she has coming up.

Holly is the lucky lady that steals Jake Peters’ heart and you know everything else that happened.

Finds out how Jake is seeing Holly in his novel. Let me know what you think about Bella Thorne as my Holly.

Amelia Truman (Peters)

This is how I envisioned my Amelia, Jake’s sister. She is sassy, and always the life of the party but she is also responsible in her own way.

She always put herself in her big brother’s corner and stood by him through thick and thin.

What do you think about how I envisioned Amelia. You think she is the perfect fit? Let me know.

Armand Truman

Amelia’s husband. I always have a thing for sexy bald men, and this is how I envisioned Armand. He is soft, cuddly and handsome in his own way.

He does wear glasses too, but I couldn’t find this specific person wearing glasses.

He loves Amelia to death and I could see these two really next to each other as a couple. Let me know what you think about my Armand? Do you have anyone else in mind?

If I’m not mistaken, I think this is Chris Daughtry (the singer)

So next up is going to be Bernie, Leo, Gus, which is one of my favorite Dads’ in this entire world, and Mara, Jake’s mother. I already have my list of people who portray these characters. Maybe I’ll throw in one or two extra into the bundle.

These cards have a beautiful design to them and it’s something I hope you are going to love to collect them all.

I also gave the pre-order readers/reservers four chapters of my next vip Finding Mr. Right. I love that story so much and if you have read the first 4 chapters to Finding Mr. Right, let me know what you think.

It’s like Family Man, the movie where Nicolas Cage plays in, happening in an alternative life, and the MC Hannah is in deep with this new world.

I’ve been told that you need a box of tissues in order to get through the end, but I thoroughly enjoyed this rollercoaster. I’m actually thinking of trying to find an agent for this one, or another plan is to add it as a book on Wattpad and participate in the Watty’s this year with this book. Either way, you will be finding a way to read this baby.

Hope you enjoyed your goodies for this month and I will send more goodies next month the 15th of March.

Till next week,

Isabella.

February 11 2021

For Me Pre-Order

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Yes, it’s finally happening.

For Me, Jake Peter’s novel is on pre-order. The pre-order is exclusive to my store. Reason for it, is listed below.

I’ve decided to launch all my pre-orders from my store, reason for this will be covered soon in a video, but let me quickly go through them in this blog post.

There is always some sort of a snag with online stores. Google Play releases half of my draft pre-order and that accumulates really bad reviews. Sometimes a slip up happens and we also mis-upload the right copy, meaning that the sites release the draft pre-order. The list goes on when it comes to pre-orders and through that reason I have decided to launch them on a platform I have control over.

Why you should give my store a chance?

Reason is simply. It’s my store. You will get the copy immediately when it releases.

My store works a lot like all the other online stores when it comes to pre-orders. You simply reserve your copy by clicking the reserve button and leave me an email dress to get hold of you on a monthly basis during the pre-order stage so that I can deliver the goodies I’m building around the pre-order. It could be anything, from character cards, to desk and phone screensavers. From early chapters to even a story or two of an upcoming novel. Yip, you might get chapters from Sunset Island or my newest WIP Finding Mr. Right. The sky is the limit.

If you join my Patreon, you will get all of this for free, and each and every title I’m going to publish in the future. So For Me is included for free to all my Patreon supporters.

Each month around the 15th I’ll send you that month’s goodies. If you reserved your copy at a later stage, saying month two or three, not to worry, the goodies of the previous months will be available in the new newsletter too. So you do not miss out on the monthly goodies.

You get the copy a month earlier than all the online stores. So For Me will be released in August. The Pre-Order and Patrons will get it a month earlier. How cool is that.

Last but not least, you get a dollar knocked off when you pre-order. So special price for my store. When the copy releases on all the stores in August, the price will go up by a dollar.

Amazing Perks if you pre-order my books.

I will do a video soon speaking about all this to my readers. I’ll let you know when that is going to be available.

READY TO PRE-ORDER, RESERVE YOUR COPY NOW!

February 5 2021

Why I started on Patreon?

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I’m sure for those that have seen my latest newsletter, discovered that I opened an account on Patreon.

There are so many reasons why artists and authors open Patreon accounts but mostly it boils down to support. It’s another form of me selling my books, selling future products, and trying to give you more than what I can afford.

Opening a Patreon account is something that I wanted to do for a long time now, but I struggled to come up with a tier that I feel is a great deal for the support that I will be getting.

So below, is a few bullet points on what I thought my tier is going to be all about, or the start of things to come.

Get exclusive content and updates for ALL my 4 pen names. Adrienne Woods, Isabella White, Kristin Ping, and Judith Holstrom.

Behind the scenes content – Video (At least twice a month)
Get Early Access and my NEW eBook releases for FREE
Get Exclusive Short Stories
Exclusive Posts and Updates (at Least Twice a Month)
FREE Swag and Bonus Content
Q&A Direct one-on-one Connection
50% Fire Quill Publishers Shop Discount – On my previous eBook Releases

It’s all that I can think of for now, and I think it’s an awesome trade.

So if you like to support me, please follow the link.

Or you can watch the video below for a more detailed breakdown.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THAT I HAD BEEN GIVEN THE PAST FEW YEARS. I COULDN’T DO ANY OF THIS WITHOUT YOU, MY READERS, BUT I WANT TO GIVE YOU SO MUCH MORE….

TILL LATER

ISABELLA

January 28 2021

50 REVIEW COPIES UP FOR GRABS…

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For the month of love, I’m giving away 50 copies of my standalone novel, From a Jack to a King.

I’m definitely thinking to redo this cover. Reasons? It just doesn’t stand out among the millions of other covers. Although this one grabs the overall feel of the story, it just doesn’t work. So I’m going to give it in the next few months to my cover designer to rebrand.

I love this story and the readers who read the 4Ever series fell in love with Jack and Rebecca. She is a celebrity author, and he is a very hot chef. Jack owns the BOATHOUSE. Don’t let the name fool you, as it’s actually an exclusive yacht that he turned into a 5 star restaurant that is fully book for at least 2 years in advance.

He has agents standing at his doorstep, trying to turn him into a celebrity chef, but the lime-lite is not for him.

Find out how these two met and I have to admit. This book is seriously funny. I laughed out loud when I wrote it. There are scenes that will make you fall in love with the entire story. And no, I’m saying it in advance. It is staying at a standalone as I tied this one up beautiful at the end and there are no more Jack and Rebecca stories.

Read an excerpt below and grab your review copy if it sounds up your alley.

FROM A JACK TO KING

The movie “Nottinghill” with a dash of flames.

World-renowned author Rebecca Finlay seems to have it all—award-winning books, fame and fortune—but her reality is bleaker than the public eye sees. Widowed three years ago, she tries to juggle her celebrity status while raising her two teenagers. She never thought she’ find love again, until she meets Jack Priestly.

There are only three things Jack Priestly loves—his restaurant The Boathouse, his family, and his ordinary, private life. But when celebrity author Rebecca Finlay walks into his life with her beauty and the constant flash of cameras, he starts to fall, and hard. She is everything his heart has ever desired, everything he thought he’d never have again, but he struggles to accept the fame that goes hand in hand with who she is. Will he find a way to deal with the limelight that surrounds her, or will it drive them apart?

EXCERPT

Sitting as his desk, Jack raked a hand through his hair and groaned. But what he really wanted to do was bang his head against the wall.

He hated when Paul called him. Paul Weaver was one of the Boathouse’s more elite customers—a big hotshot at FireQuill Studios.

Jack didn’t watch a lot television, and he rarely went to the movies, but he’d have to have been born under a rock to not know that FireQuill Studios was one of the biggest production companies around.

Which only inflated Paul’s ego even more. He was an asshole, and he gave men a bad name.

But that asshole had just paid him five grand for a deluxe experience.

Paul hadn’t made that request in ages, so whoever this woman was, Paul must have had his eye on her for a while.

It had been Paul’s requests over the years that had made Jack consider pursuing the career his mother wanted. She’d longed for him to become a celebrity chef, and though there had been offers—Jack’s culinary skills were superb, right up there with the likes of Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay—that life wasn’t for Jack. It was too complicated, too stressful. He was hardly the type to dress up and serve A-list celebrities. If they wanted his food, they could come to his restaurant.

Apart from Paul’s requests, he was content with the Boathouse. Hence, he’d passed on every offer, and heaven help him if his mother ever found out he’d declined; she’d beat his ass three ways to Sunday.

He groaned and leaned forward to rest his head on his desk. He felt sorry for Paul’s date, because he knew exactly how the night would end, and what an ass Paul would be the next day.

Paul’s routine was to wine and dine them, then screw them. And in the morning, he’d say he’d had fun, but he wasn’t a one-woman guy.

And that was what pissed Jack off. He’d respect the guy somewhat, if he told his dates straight-up that he was only after a one-night stand.

Truth be told, he’d have told Paul to shove his money up his ass if he didn’t need it to get Adrian, Anna, and Bea here.

At least he had that to look forward to. Adrian had managed to persuade Anna to make the trip to New York, although she flat out refused to get on a plane.

Luckily, they’d found a forty-night cruise that left from Sydney and docked in New York, so in three months, he would finally be seeing his brother again. And they’d have an entire month to spend together.

Both Adrian and Anna had telecommuting jobs, so the Wi-Fi on the ship would allow them to keep working an uninterrupted schedule.

Jack had so many plans for that month-long visit already. It would be hard to squeeze everything into thirty days.

“You okay?” Masterson asked.

He lifted his head from the desk and eyed the new chef he was training to take Tony’s place. Just thinking about Tony soured Jack’s mood even more—the man was suffering. He’d gone over to Tony’s place a few times, and from what he saw, it was evident that this time around, Tony was not going to beat cancer.

What made it worse was that Tony had a family. Each time he paid him a visit, each time he saw the man’s loved ones, it just made him think of Kate.

She hadn’t been on his mind as much as usual since he’d seen the barefoot angel, and though he felt a twinge of guilt, more than anything, he wanted that woman to be real.

“Yeah. Just got a call from this hotshot executive who wants tonight to be extra special for him and his date.” He stood up and headed back into the kitchen to prepare pastries with phyllo dough.

“And that’s not a good thing?” Masterson frowned.

Jack understood his trainee’s confusion. The news should have made Jack happy.

“Not this one.”

“Hmm, what’s his deal?”

“You see that spot?” He pointed to the cozy, elevated alcove close to the kitchen. “Tonight, we’ll deck it out with finery, and that’s where the jerk will wine, dine, and charm a woman who won’t know what hit her, and then tomorrow morning, he’ll dump her like yesterday’s garbage.”

He punched the phyllo dough.

“I don’t think you are supposed to do that with phyllo.”

“I know,” he bit out, angry at himself. He threw the ruined dough into the trash.

“If you really don’t like this guy, why do you let him in?”

“Because the asshole pays a ridiculous amount of money, and I need to buy cruise tickets for my brother and his family. I haven’t seen my brother since the birth of my niece.”

“The Boathouse not doing so well?” Masterson asked, a hint of worry in his tone. Probably worried that he’d wasted his time in taking the job.

“No, it’s raking in cash as usual, but I just purchased another one, and it’s sucked me dry.”

“You opening another? Expanding the name?”

“In the future, perhaps. I’m not sure yet. Maybe I’ll just use it for what yachts are meant to be used for.”

“I’m sorry this guy pisses you off so much.”

“I’ll just do what I do best, then get him and his date out of here as fast as I possibly can.”

“I like that plan.”

Jack grinned and slapped his back. He had a feeling that they were going to get on like a house on fire, plus it didn’t hurt that the guy had skills in the kitchen as well.

Stepping over to the Bluetooth speaker, he switched it on, then swiftly connected his phone. With a couple taps on his screen, alternative rock filled the kitchen.

He needed to get his head on track. And with the special treatment he had to provide for Paul, he’d need classical music on in the kitchen. Which meant he’d be on edge the whole time while trying to be as professional as possible.

With a sigh, he got to work.

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