Live Free or Die Complete Series Boxed Set: Age Of Madness - A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Hayley Lawson (i wanna iguana read aloud .TXT) 📕

me in touch with Chris Raymond and Lee Barbant and we chatted about the Age of Madness world. Before I could start writing in Michael’s world I needed to understand it, so I got to work reading The Kurtherian Gambit series, a short (!) series a few of you may be familiar with. I read up to Book Four and was like, I’m good to get started! (up to Book Seven now).

Now I was ready for the fun part, so the four of us chatted about the world and the storyline. This part was very different for me, and very enjoyable. In the past, I had worked on my own.

I got to work with a very talented cover designer, Mihaela. We selected the clothes for the model and choose the image from the photo shoot for the covers. Again, this was all very new, and super cool!

Fast forward a month or two (or maybe three) and book one was done! Well, at least I thought it was, but then LMBPN publishing swung into action. Chris and Lee gave me loads of great feedback, and I tweaked and tweaked some more. These guys we very patient with me through the process.

I had many chats with Michael. A few times he was checking that I was okay, since there was a lot of back and forth. I was like, “this is great!” I wanted to learn, and I was getting a free education from them. One thing which I love about Michael is that he’s always there for you if you need him—which is quite shocking, given the number of people he works with.

Michael has an awesome team of editors, and he thought Lynne Stiegler would be the right person for me since she likes challenges. (I have dyslexia, and a past editor said, I write in my very own unique English style).

Once Lynne had worked her magic, Unleashing Madness was released to the beta team. (Another awesome team of people). Their feedback was really helpful, and the book was tweaked. This happened three times.

Then another editing team took a looked at the manuscript and sprinkled their magic over it.

A sweet lady many of you may know Natale Roberts add her very own magic dust to it as well. (With all this magic, part of me is thinking I should be writing in the Age of Magic instead of Age of Madness).

Then back over to Lynne and final with JIT (Just in Time) team. I think at this is their second read.

Steve Campbell works on the behind-the-scenes magic of launching the book.

And finally you lovely people get to read it!

I’d like to thank my family, first my supportive husband Gavin, (who will never read this book. He’s waiting for the movie to come out). He’s always been by my side with whatever I wanted to do. And if it weren’t for him I’d only eat cereal, toast, instant noodles, and soup. (I never stopped eating like a student). He’s a great husband and dad.

I saved the best for last, my beautiful daughter Callie. Every day she pushes me to be a better version of myself. Just like her dad, she supports me to help my dreams come true. She reminds me to take a break sometimes, and to be in the present. One day she hopes you’ll be reading her stories.

It takes a village to raise a child, and an awesome team to launch a book! From the bottom of my heart, I’d like to thank everyone that’s been involved in the project.

--Hayley Lawson

Author Notes - Michael Anderle

May 30, 2018

First, I’d like to say THANK YOU for not only reading this story, but the back of the box author notes as well. ;-)

Here is a ‘true’ story and the names have been included so the guilty (me) is known for it.

Last night, LMBPN Publishing (my company) had a party for our Audio Talent in New York City. We are here for both BookExpo AND APAC which are starting on the same day (today.) Stephen Campbell (Zen Master Walking ™) set it up and it was fantabulous!

Now, we started with a get together at the Boat Basin on W. 79th, and then went to the hotel at 8:30 for dinner. At the hotel were a few guests I had not met and did not recognize.

Now, I can be forgiven for not recognizing two of them (I had never met them in person) but not recognizing one is going to go down in the annals of LMBPN Publishing as the perfect example of not remembering faces and names.

I make it into this long room with a long table setup very nicely (for about 14) and just enough room for the servers to fit around once everyone is seated. I go to make my introductions and one woman is smiling at me like she is in on a joke…

But, I don’t get the joke, so I hold out my hand, “Hi, I’m Michael Anderle…”

“I know,” she tells me in a British accent, “We’ve met before.”

Well, now I’m screwed. I don’t remember names and faces well and I’m seriously embarrassed that I’ve forgotten this young woman’s name. She keeps talking, and laughing, as she knows I’m trying to figure out who she is.

Stephen (Zen Bastard Walking ™) is smirking at me from her other side.

I close my eyes, hoping that I can reduce the visual overload my brain is going through with the new room, the nice layout of plates, glasses (what are those other glasses for? I recognize the wine glass, and water glass…oh!)

And that is when it hits me. I recognize her VOICE.

It’s Hayley.

You know, the lady I’ve been video conference calling for eight (8) weeks for at least a couple of hours a week minimum?

Just for the record, that whole glasses / no glasses thing (ala Clark Kent?) Yeah, that shit really works.

As I type this, I realize I’m laying down this experience permanently. For those people who read this