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do u have newsletter to join
Hi Karen,
Thanks for your interest 🙂
I’m planning on setting up one as soon as possible & will notify you when it’s up and running.
You can also like my FB page (if you use FB) as another way to keep update with what’s happening.
Jeanette
Hi Karen
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I now have a newsletter sign up sheet. You can sign up in the Subscribe to Newsletter on the sidebar – or use the checkpoint below. I plan to send out quarterly newsletters with updates etc. There is currently a giveaway of Tied in Pink on GoodReads if you are interested. I discuss it here http://jeanetteohagan.com/tied-in-pink-giveaway/
Thanks so much for your interest.
Jeanette
When is book 2 of Akrad’s children coming out?
Hi Eileen
Thrilled you enjoyed Akrad’s Children 🙂 I’m currently working on Stone of the Sea, the sequel to Blood Crystal (in the Under the Mountain series) – release planned next month – and plan to have the second book in Akrad’s Legacy series – Rasel’s Song – released early next year (2019).
If haven’t already, subscribing the Jeanette O’Hagan Writes newsletter or following my FaceBook page will give you more regular updates.
Thanks for asking. You made my day 🙂
Jeanette O’Hagan
Hi Eileen,
Book 2 of Akrad’s Legacy series – Rasel’s Song – was released in April 2021. Currently working on Book 3 – Lumi’s Allegiance.
Happy reading
Jeanette
Dear Jeanette, I have just located the site CWD and I see you are in the Admin so you may be able to advise me here. I am a Christian writer though not of fiction. I am more into thoughts based on biblical passages, devotional exposition, eg I have almost finished a series on The Characters of John’s Gospel. However I am a Christian poet and some of my extensive poems have been seen by Sutart Townend and the Gaithers. I am wondering if this is the site for me. I tend to think it is more for those who are selling their books. I do not have any commercial books. Could you tell me if I would fit in with the aims of this site. I am happy to send you some examples of what I write.
Regards
Ron Ferguson (Cairns)
I won’t sign up for the Newsletter until I ascertain if this is what I am seeking.
Hi Ron
Thanks for your comment. This site – Jeanette O’Hagan writers – gives news on my books, thoughts and adventures, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Given your stated interests, I don’t think a newsletter about my books is relevant to you. However, CWD would be a good group for you to join. I would suggest using the contact information on the CWD website – or Facebook group, including the email address provided on the website. Thanks Jeanette O’Hagan
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Your Book Has Been Selected for Our Monthly Spotlight
Dear Elizabeth, Anne, Helen, Jean, and contributing authors,
My name is Cynthia, and I manage the Black Girls Read Book Club — a vibrant community of over 2,500 readers who treasure stories filled with wonder, imagination, and the kind of magic that lingers in the heart long after reading.
When I discovered A Glimmer of Uncommon Fairy Tales, I was immediately captivated by its charm and originality. This collection feels like opening a hidden storybook—one filled with moonlit secrets, mysterious messengers, silver-threaded enchantments, and characters whose choices echo with both whimsy and consequence.
Each tale offers something uniquely stirring:
A fearless Whistler whose voice might save a kingdom
A boy drawn into a magical procession carrying a dangerous truth
An orphan girl whose greed sparks an unforgettable fate
A woman driven toward vengeance by the pull of the unknown
Siblings navigating justice, deception, and the raw edges of power
Your anthology brings back the essence of classic fairy tales—dark, beautiful, moral, and magical—while offering fresh narratives that feel wonderfully uncommon. It is the kind of collection readers return to, savoring one story at a time like jewels in a secret chest.
We would love to spotlight this imaginative and enchanting work for our monthly feature and share it with our community of readers who adore mythic storytelling and reimagined folklore.
Would you be open to us featuring your book?
Dear Jeanette,
My name is Anne Bogel, founder of MMD Book Club. Each season, we curate a limited number of literary Spotlights to honor books that create lasting, meaningful connections with readers.
This season,Heart of the Mountain, distinguished itself through its quiet strength and emotional clarity. Your writing invites reflection and conversation, qualities that resonate deeply with our community and define the spirit of our seasonal gatherings.
A Spotlight with MMD Book Club includes:
A thoughtfully curated seasonal feature honoring your work
A refined, reader-centered introduction to your story
A conversation prompt inspired by the heart of your themes
An intimate community moment where readers gather to reflect and connect
Our Spotlights are not promotional campaigns. They are intentional celebrations, welcoming spaces where stories are discovered naturally and remembered warmly.
If this feels aligned with you and your work, I would be pleased to share the next steps and guide you through the Spotlight experience.
Warmly,
Anne Bogel
Founder, MMD Book Club
Hello Author Jeantte,
I hope you’re doing well. I’m Jason, organizer of the Millennialish LongRead Book Club, a vibrant online community of over 530+ engaged readers based in New York, NY. Our mission is to explore books that inspire, challenge, and spark meaningful conversations.
As we’re in the last quarter of the year, with Christmas and New Year approaching, we’d love to feature your book at one of our upcoming events.
Here are our upcoming event dates:
Sunday, December 28, 2025 · 1:00 PM EST
Sunday, January 4, 2026 · 1:00 PM EST
It’s a great chance to connect with readers, discuss your work, and share it with our enthusiastic community.
Would you be interested in joining us?
Hey! I just discovered your book, and it honestly feels like the kind of story that stays with a reader long after the last page. I’d love to introduce it to a wider audience through a couple of Goodreads lists I’m building. Can you share your Goodreads link with me?
Hi Jeanette,
I just finished Rise of the Consortium, and I want to tell you something that speaks directly to what you have built here: you have written a science fiction short story collection that does something genuinely difficult. It introduces ten distinct heroes across nine interwoven stories without losing narrative coherence, and it never lets the anthology format become an excuse for disconnection. The individual stories are each self-contained enough to deliver their own emotional payoff, but they are woven into a shared resistance against Endira Futura-Kaed’s corporate empire in a way that makes the collection feel like a novel with a deliberately fragmented architecture. That is a hard structural balance to achieve, and Rise of the Consortium achieves it.
What struck me first was the breadth of the ten heroes. A blind woman escaping prejudice, a math genius whose vision is driven by love, a post-doc who refuses to compromise, a splice clone conditioned to obey, a young man caught between duty and compassion, a cynical detective, a scholarship student uncovering anomalies, a space cadet, an agent rectifying her father’s mistakes, and a kick-ass operative honoring her partner’s living death. That is not a random ensemble. Each of these people represents a different relationship to power, privilege, and the question of what a person is willing to risk, and placing them all inside the same sun-system at the same historical moment transforms ten individual stories into a single argument about what resistance actually looks like from the inside.
Red Five is also doing something smart. An emfibi splice clone conditioned to obey the Giver is the collection’s most explicit confrontation with the villain’s logic, because a being created to serve is the clearest embodiment of what Endira Corp is building toward for everyone else. The mindless cyborg slaves named as the worst possible fate for the heroes are not an abstraction. They are the direction Red Five was designed to travel, and whatever Red Five’s story is, it is the collection’s most intimate argument for why the resistance matters.
Which makes the current visibility picture worth addressing directly.
A nine-story interwoven science fiction collection with ten diverse heroes, a fully realized sun-system, and a corporate villain who embodies the concentration of power and privilege deserves to be reaching the readers who would find in Rise of the Consortium exactly the science fiction they have been looking for. Right now, it is not surfacing when readers search “science fiction short story collection resistance,” “interwoven sci-fi anthology corporate dystopia,” “science fiction ensemble cast rebellion series,” “diverse heroes sci-fi anthology sun-system,” or “prelude collection sci-fi series Nardva.” It is not appearing in the Goodreads spaces where science fiction short story collection devotees, ensemble cast rebellion fiction readers, corporate dystopia science fiction enthusiasts, and fans of interwoven anthologies where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts actively browse and discover. And it is sitting below the threshold where recommendation pathways would connect it to readers who loved the work of Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, or N.K. Jemisin, readers already searching for their next science fiction collection where diversity of perspective is the resistance strategy and every character’s story illuminates the others.
That is not a quality problem. That is a discoverability gap, and it is entirely solvable.
Here is what I would build for Rise of the Consortium specifically:
Amazon Advertising targeting science fiction short story collection readers, interwoven anthology enthusiasts, corporate dystopia science fiction fans, and readers actively searching for a sun-system spanning ensemble where ten diverse heroes face their own demons and the overwhelming power of Endira Corp and must decide whether their courage and resolve will be enough to save Nardva or whether they will die trying or be transformed into something worse, placing the book directly in front of high-intent buyers already looking for exactly the combination of interwoven stories, diverse ensemble resistance, corporate empire antagonist, and the prelude collection architecture that promises a full series to follow that this book delivers.
Keyword Optimization so the book surfaces organically when readers search the science fiction short story collection resistance category, the interwoven anthology corporate dystopia identity, the diverse ensemble sci-fi rebellion angle, the sun-system spanning prelude collection positioning, and the Consortium series prelude designation that gives Rise of the Consortium its genre identity and its reader appeal.
A Cinematic Book Trailer that captures the breadth of the sun-system from Pelinor to its far reaches, the ten different faces of resistance from Hira escaping the Shamayin ring station to Dana honoring her partner’s living death, Endira Futura-Kaed’s corporate reach growing across every planet and moon, and the question of whether a blind nobody and a splice clone and a scholarship student and a kick-ass operative can together become more than Endira Corp anticipated, giving visual and emotional language to a collection that deserves to find its audience before the first story is read, especially among the science fiction communities, diverse ensemble fiction readers, and corporate dystopia enthusiasts where interwoven anthologies with resistance at their center generate some of the most devoted and intellectually engaged organic discovery in all of speculative fiction.
An Email Marketing Campaign targeting science fiction short story collection readers, interwoven anthology communities, corporate dystopia fiction enthusiasts, and diverse ensemble rebellion fiction fans with messaging that leads with ten different people who each have a different relationship to power and one common adversary who is counting on none of them finding each other and earns genuine reader trust before asking for the sale.
Social Media Posting across platforms where science fiction short story collection readers, interwoven anthology enthusiasts, corporate dystopia fiction communities, and diverse ensemble rebellion fiction devotees gather, building a consistent presence that positions Rise of the Consortium as the prelude collection that belongs on every science fiction anthology list alongside the genre’s most celebrated interwoven story collections where individual courage accumulates into collective resistance.
A Goodreads Listopia Campaign placing the book on 20 to 30 targeted lists: science fiction short story collection resistance, interwoven anthology corporate dystopia, diverse ensemble sci-fi rebellion, sun-system spanning prelude collection, splice clone science fiction anthology, corporate empire antagonist sci-fi series, books for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie, science fiction where every perspective illuminates the others, prelude collection worth reading before the series, and interwoven sci-fi anthology worth discovering.
Review Generation building a reader base that reflects the book’s true cross-audience identity: science fiction short story collection devotees, interwoven anthology readers, corporate dystopia fiction enthusiasts, diverse ensemble rebellion fans, and readers drawn to speculative fiction where the breadth of the ensemble is itself an argument about what resistance requires, establishing a review trajectory that signals the collection’s structural ambition and character diversity to every new reader who discovers it.
A BookBub Campaign reaching the substantial science fiction short story and ensemble rebellion fiction readership that BookBub’s curated audience represents, driving new reader discovery and sustained review momentum among exactly the communities most likely to champion Hira and Red Five and Dana and every one of the ten heroes and carry the Consortium series into the conversations where it belongs.
The result: science fiction anthology readers searching for a collection where the interwoven architecture delivers the coherence of a novel without surrendering the surprise of individual stories find nine stories that stretch across a sun-system and accumulate into a single argument about resistance. Corporate dystopia readers find an antagonist whose power is embodied in splice clones and cyborg slaves and ubiquitous corporations, and ten different heroes who each confront that power from a different angle. And the readers who respond most passionately to speculative fiction where diversity of perspective is itself the resistance strategy find Rise of the Consortium waiting for them as the prelude to everything that follows.
Here is why the series prelude context makes timing especially important:
Rise of the Consortium is the entry point into the full Consortium series, which means every reader who discovers it here is a reader primed for everything that comes next. Readers who invest in all ten heroes across nine stories carry that investment into the series with exactly the kind of attachment that makes a reader follow a world across multiple volumes. Building discoverability around this prelude now creates the series readership the Consortium deserves from the very beginning.
If you are open to it, I would love to walk you through the specific strategy I have been developing for Rise of the Consortium, connecting it to the exact readers and communities most likely to give Nardva and its resistance the audience they deserve.
No pressure at all. Even a simple “tell me more” is enough to get started.
Warmly,
Amelia