So excited about So There!

So There! is now being sold on Create space and Amazon! Check it out! Share the news with your friends! You won't be disappointed when you read So There! But again I'm bias about this book! Here's a link to it! https://www.createspace.com/3674106

Music to Books

I always had this idea of taking different bands and using all their songs to come up with a story line. I'm hoping one day to do it even though I know it will take a lot of research and planning but I just love the idea so much. I even started with the songs of Bare Naked Ladies but I only picked a few of their songs. I think the best way that I'm going to do this if I use all of the bands song to make the story and not just a few on them. This idea actually came about when I was listening to Bare Naked Ladies' song, "One Week". It has always been one of my favorite songs. I'm thinking that I'll just write a short story with the song "One Week" to get started and in the mind set of using lyrics for the idea of a whole book. I've always had a song or two in mind when I start stories but the books aren't based off the song just a line or two that I really enjoyed. An example of this is A Fine Frenzy's "Almost Lover" I love the line "Luckless Romance" and I used that as a base for one of my stories. I already knew from the beginning that the relationship is doomed. I'm always having that happy endings and just once I want to leave to reader wanting more because a lot of books do that to me. Anyways, be on the look out of the short story based on "One Week" because I'm going to start it soon and put it up on here. It will have all of the nonsense of the free style rap in the song. The characters will eat chicken and watch X flies in the dark!
Three Fors, Andrea

The Identity Crisis of Me

So my name's Andrea Danielle Tracy. I love my name but when I first was working with my sister on a cover for my book we were trying to come up with a different name for me. We both agreed that you really wouldn't buy a book from a girl named Andrea Tracy. So we tried many variation of my name and adding words to make my name sound better. Some examples: Andrea Danielle, Annie Danielle (which is why my twitter account has this name), Danielle Almond (Almond after the street we grew up on) and Alla Mine (just because it sounds like "all of mine"). We even went on an anagram site to see what the letter of my names would come up with. My whole name came up with "ARRANTLY ACE DEADLINE"  which doesn't make a very good name. We got a little sidetracked by the anagrams of our names the best probably being,  WELL! UNHINGED RACISM just because we thought it was the funniest of all the names we tried. I've been known by many variation of my name growing up I was Andi, then Annie, sometimes Andi Dandi but I was always Andrea Tracy. You wouldn't be able to find the on my Facebook because I'm not the only Andrea Tracy in my family. I had a cousin marry someone named Andrea, I didn't worry about it until after I was having a bad day and I wrote that on Facebook when another cousin of mine confused me with the other Andrea who's married while I am not. This just added to my crapping mood so I changed my name on Facebook to the nickname my sister gave me, Annie. I always had my middle name and look nothing like the other Andrea so I still wonder how we could have ever been mixed up. It won't happen again. I use the name Andrea Tracy on my book covers but inside so everyone knows which Andrea Tracy did it I write my whole name right after the book title. Just my way of being myself because I don't want any confusion. 

Three Fors, Andrea

So There!

I think I finally got it as close to perfect as possible. I've edited and edited over and over. I've had others read and give me advice and I think that really helped! I had to do a lot of formatting and reformatting even after I finished with the story itself. It takes a lot of work to Self-publish. You almost always have to rely on yourself to make the book as best as possible. It's really no one else responsibility even if it was published by a real publishing company with an Editor, I know I would still be responsible for my own book. I know I make a lot of mistakes when I write and I miss a lot of them while editing but I edit  until I'm completely happy with the book. I wouldn't want to send out something that is beyond crap. Anyways, this post is supposed to be about the fact that So There! will soon be available in paperback! Don't miss out on an awesome read. I might be bias though....
Three Fors, Andrea

The Three Fors

First off, "Three Fors" stands for "Forever and ever, for now and for always." I came up with it when I was about fifteen years old. It was going to be for a story I was writing at the time but it didn't pan out very well but ever since then the Three Fors have always stuck with me. I'm hoping one day I can write an epic love story where the couple says that they will love each other, "Forever and ever, for now and for always."  I'm Andrea Tracy and this blog some other pages I have made is to help promote my writing. So far I've published So There! and The Grace of Running. Both are on sell at Amazon and Create Space. Check them out. You really won't be disappointed. Other than just promoting my writing I will also post quotes from my books, parts I like the most and new ideas for different stories. I hope you enjoy my blog.
Three Fors, Andrea