Monthly Archives: September 2023

Update for 09-28-2023

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Hello friends. I just wanted to let you know that everything is proceeding on schedule for the fifth book in Bullets & Doves. I originally said the book would be ready to go on sale by late September or early October.

The last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on marketing quite a bit like many other independent authors this time of year. The summer is over and it’s time to ramp up advertising campaigns for the fall season.

Unfortunately because of this, I haven’t been able to put in the writing time I would have liked. Fear not. I was ahead of schedule anyway, and my next book will be coming out on time. Early October is still very doable. Thanks, and until next time.

G.C. Riley

Did You Know… (Mayday Distress Call)

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Did you know: the mayday distress call, used by aircraft and ships in trouble, is usually said three times in quick succession. (mayday…mayday…mayday) This is so that it is not confused with some other similar sounding phrase.

The person who came up with the idea to use mayday was a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London. His name was Frederick Mockford. He thought the word was especially fitting because it sounded like the French word m’aidez, which means help me. The mayday distress call has been in use since the early 1920s.

In my romantic suspense, The Flygirl’s Cowboy, Vanessa sends out a mayday distress call when her aircraft is going down in a snowstorm over the mountains of Colorado. Being the calm, cool, professional pilot she is, she follows procedure and says it three times. Read it for yourself. Flygirl is the first book in the Pinewood Valley series.

The Rise of gcriley.net

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Yes friends, I finally did it. I registered the domain name gcriley.net so from now on that’s what you’ll type into your URL bar at the top of your browsers when you want to visit this site. If you have this sight bookmarked, either edit the bookmark to the new domain name or delete the old bookmark completely and create a new one that contains the new domain name.

It was about time I did this, and honestly, I’m not sure why I was putting it off. I have to admit, gcriley.net is much easier to remember than what it was before. I also finally paid for the site too. I had a free account with WordPress, my website hosting company, but now I paid for a premium account with them. If you’ll notice, the distracting ads that were previously stuck between my posts are gone, and I’m happy to say, will stay gone.

I plan on revamping this site in the coming weeks. Nothing too drastic. Maybe just move a few things around and reorganize certain pages. The books page is in dire need of a good reorganization. Since I am a multi-genre writer, I plan on separating the books in order of series, and perhaps writing a small intro for each series and what it’s about.

I hope you’re all enjoying your weekends. I’m just catching up on some odds and ends right now, but I plan on calling it quits soon. There are a few good college football games on this afternoon and evening, and I’ll be watching. Have a good weekend, my friends, and I’ll catch you all next time.

G.C. Riley

Flygirl’s Cowboy on Sale for This Weekend Only

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Hello friends. Just a quick note to let you know I’m running a Countdown Deal on Amazon this weekend only. (Sept.16-17) The Flygirl’s Cowboy is book 1 in one of my first series called Pinewood Valley Series. It’s normally on sale for $2.99 but for this weekend only, the price has been reduced to $0.99.

A word of warning for my western fans who are reading the Bullets & Doves series. Although there is a certain amount of romance in my western books as well, the Pinewood Valley Series leans more towards romance, but there is a healthy dose of Action/Adventure too. Read the Description here.

If you’d like to give it a try, what better time than this weekend when it’ll cost you less than the price of a cup of coffee. Have a great weekend, people. Catch you soon. Ciao.

G.C. Riley

Update for 09-15-2023

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Hello friends. Sorry for the long silence, but you know how things are during the summer. Nevertheless, just because I haven’t been posting too often does not mean I haven’t been hard at work.

I hope you’re all enjoying Ryder’s Gold, the fourth book in Bullets & Doves. I’m more than halfway through the fifth book in that series, and it should be ready by the first or second week of October. Again, don’t hold me to that, but as of today, the app I use to track my work says I’m 72% of the way through the first draft.

Of course that depends on my estimates of the book when I started to write it a couple of weeks ago. However, I think it’s going to run a bit over what I’d originally planned. I know I told you all I was going to plan things much better, but you know how stories sometimes take on a life of their own. Personally, I think if I were to revise my estimates, it would be something like 60%.

In any case, fear not, I’m in the home-stretch as they say, and the release is coming very, very soon. I hope you all had a wonderful summer. I know I did, with friends and family coming down here to South Florida for visits. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and with the coming of fall, we all have to get down to some serious work. The good news—Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner. Until next time…

G.C. Riley