Popular transformations

This book Popular: Vintage Wisdom for the Modern Geek, which is coming out in a few months, sounds like it might be fun. And the teen author Maya Van Wagenen looks appropriately geeky on the book Facebook page:

Yay, braces !

Now it turns out that she has a movie deal for the book already too, with Dreamworks (that sounds like a really big deal). That's really great - but I was really disappointed to see that all of a sudden she looks like this:

No glasses, no braces, no retainer! I guess it's great that she made that transformation from geeky young teen with braces and glasses to a pretty miss whose main accessory is a pearl necklace, but I wonder about the message it sends too. I mean, I haven't read the book but just looking at the pictures it's hard not to think that maybe she became more popular by ditching the glasses and especially the braces and looking normal instead of all wired-up freaky. So it's great that she's still using the old picture on the Facebook page and that readers are greeted by that, but I guess I wish she hadn't left that stage behind her so quickly. Like maybe at least be wearing a retainer in the new picture - a leftover touch of the geeky girl!

And will read the book when it comes out. I wonder if braces play a part in her story!

Fall update

I can't believe how quickly the summer flew by. And I didn't even post anything when we were visiting home on holiday and now it's already back to school time.

I have been busy but not busy enough. I am still working on my big project, and there are a couple of others too. I know I should just concentrate on one at a time, but each one has its own special appeal and some days I'm more in the mood for one, some days for another.

But I hope readers are exploring the Dr.Wrighting books they haven't read yet - there are a lot to choose from after all - and I promise there will be more.

I hope all my readers had a great summer.

"A Bracing Life" in print at Amazon

A Bracing Life: The Dr. Samantha Wrighting Interview has been available in print from Lulu already, but now it's also available at Amazon and all the foreign Amazons - UK and Canada and Germany and so on. Nobody really seems very interested in print editions, which kind of surprises me, but I thought you'd like to know. I know it's more expensive, but it looks really good and I know sometimes I like reading real books more than reading on my Kindle and iPad. And I like that shelf of Intraoral Press books I have! Thoiugh of course as the author I would say that, wouldn't I?

The American Amazon even offers it at a small discount - $13.38 instead of the list price of $14.95!

Of course I don't care whether you read my books as ebooks or in print - I'm just real happy that you're reading them...and I hope more of you will, too!

Look inside "A Bracing Life"

The Kindle page for my new book A Bracing Life: The Dr. Samantha Wrighting Interview now lets you "look inside" the book, and so you can read a nice big part of the beginning which shows you what I did here. Just click on the cover! I hope you'll take a look - and that you like it enough to buy the whole book!

The formatting is also pretty cool. The book has a table of contents and so you can jump to the sections now, which I never tried in the other ebooks. I think it looks really good on your ereader, so I hope that makes reading it more fun too.

"A Bracing Life: The Dr. Samantha Wrighting Interview" - available now

This is so exciting! The new book is now out! It's called A Bracing Life: The Dr. Samantha Wrighting Interview and you can get it on Kindle (at all the foreign Amazons too!), or from Lulu in print or as an ebook.

The book is exactly what the title says. It's me in conversation with Dr.Wrighting! I thought this was a really fun idea. Dr.Wrighting appears in all these other books, but this is a great way to learn more about her. It was also interesting for me as a writer to get to know one of my characters like this.

Maybe my readers who really like the stories which have descriptions of patients getting and having braces might be a little bit disappointed because this is just a conversation, but I think anyone who wants to know more about Dr.Wrighting and her methods and what she does in her practice will find this really interesting background material. And I think it's interesting for parents and patients too, because it gives a behind the scenes look at an orthodontic practice and there's a lot of discussion about all sorts of aspects of having braces and how to help patients through their treatment.

You can preview the book at the Lulu print page. Just click "preview" under the picture of the cover! And there are two short excerpts at the Intraoral Press site too.

The chapters and subjects I talked to Dr.Wrighting about are: Braced Beginnings - Embracing Orthodontics - Developing a Personal Style - The Psychology of Treatment - The Role of the Parents - A Patient Community - Across the Ages - Patient Selection - Bracing Decisions - Braces: Fixed Appliances - Braces: Removable Appliances - Braces: Headgear - After Braces - Braced Culture - Braces and Sex - The Braced Future.

And here's how I describe the book:

Orthodontist Dr.Samatha Wrighting has played an important role in ten of Catherine Aimes’s novels, shorts, and collections published by Intraoral Press. In A Bracing Life readers finally have a chance to get to know her better. Here readers learn about her unconventional practice, her orthodontic philosophy and her methods and what’s behind all of them as she talks to author Catherine Aimes about all things orthodontic. 

Dr.Wrighting isn’t your usual orthodontist, but her fascination with orthodontics is contagious, and A Bracing Life is a book for everyone who has ever wanted to go behind the scenes in an orthodontic practice and learn what orthodontists are thinking. Chances are, the orthodontist you went to or the one who is treating your kids is very different from Dr.Wrighting, but having braces is a universal experience and the thought-provoking ideas and observations Dr.Wrighting shares in A Bracing Life should be of great interest to anyone who has them, had them or has kids with braces. By reminding us of so much that’s involved in getting, having and living with braces Dr.Wrighting, with all her compassion, tough love, and profound knowledge and skill, helps us navigate that sometimes difficult and awkward time like no one else can.

It costs $4.99 for the ebook versions and $14.95 in print.

I hope you like it!

Spring awakening

Sorry for not posting more but things are always busy! Fortunately one thing I've been busy with is a new book, which I hope to have ready pretty soon. This is something kind of different from everything else I've done, but I think readers might like it. Don't worry, it's still all about Dr.Wrighting and her orthodontic practice -- but you'll see, it's different too. And I'm still working on the traditional Dr.Wrighting stories too, so don't worry, there will be more of those down the line too!

Singer Faith Hill has braces

Singer Faith Hill has braces as everyone at the Grammy Awards noticed. The reports say "I had braces as a kid. I forgot to wear my retainer." and also that her 15 and 14 year old daughters, Gracie and Maggie, also have them.

I know everyone is convinced these supposedly invisible braces are less obvious and that somehow makes them better, but I still think they're a lot more unsightly and I wish she just had real metal braces. I wonder what the girls wear? I hope some magazine does a whole spread on the family in braces!

Here's another picture.

"Living the Braced Fantasy" print edition on Amazon

Living the Braced Fantasy has been available in print at Lulu already, but now it's also listed at Amazon, so you can get it there - at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk or all the others. I finally got my copy of the print edition and think it looks great, but most readers seem to prefer the ebook format (it is cheaper and quicker to get). But now the print version is easy to get too.

I'm glad that people have been buying this and some of thge otehr Dr.Wrighting books and I hope they're enjoying them!

Merry Christmas!

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my readers - and I hope some of you enjoy Living the Braced Fantasy or some of the other Dr.Samantha Wrighting books over the holidays too!

Living the Braced Fantasy!

It's here!

Living the Braced Fantasy is now available - on Kindle in the US (and the UK and all the other Kindles too), and as an ePub from Lulu, or as a print book from Lulu. (And it will soon be available in print from Amazon as well, just like I hope it will soon be available in iBooks and on Nook and all the other platforms).

It's 190 pages long and 80,000 words. The ebook costs $5.99, which I think is a really good price, and the print copy costs $18.95. Either way I think you are getting your money's worth!

Here is the blurb description:

Living the Braced Fantasy  –  the orthodontic Fifty Shades of Grey!

Sally was one of those girls who didn’t mind having braces when she was a kid. She was even disappointed that the experience was over so quickly and that she didn’t get to wear some of the accessories other kids got. Now in her twenties, the thought or sight of braces still makes her tingle. When she discovers her boyfriend, Jacob, is also drawn to braces she decides to risk it and try living the braced fantasy. Orthodontist Dr.Samantha Wrighting is willing to indulge her for a year – but there are some conditions. And there’s a price Jacob has to pay too. Sally gets braced – but can reality live up to her fantasy? Or does having braces turn out to be better than anything in her wildest imagination?

Braces, elastics, retainers, headgear and more: Sally faces it all. Is it too much for her? Is it too much for Jacob? Or is living the braced fantasy really the greatest climax of them all?

Living the Braced Fantasy is the fourth Erotic Orthodontic Encounter from Intraoral Press..

I think readers will really like this – but it definitely is an Erotic Orthodontic Encounter, so it is for more mature readers, not younger braces patients!

I'm really excited about this and I hope you are too. I don't know if this might be the breakout novel in the Dr.Samantha Wrighting series, but from the results of the readers' survey I think I've really packed it with what readers are looking for.