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Cover Reveal, and a Peek at What's Next

A lot of you are telling me you have read HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ? and want to know what to look forward to next.

Here’s your answer.

This is my December 3rd release, STAY.

The title and cover are links that will take you out to its Amazon page, where you can read a brief description and preorder if you feel so inclined.

The five+ months will go by before you know it!

LARGE PRINT GIVEAWAY

This week I got an unexpected shipment. It was a carton of large print editions of my novel JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. My first thought was that I needed to give some away, because I know a lot of my readers enjoy large print.

These are lovely, shiny, big hardcover editions. I have three to give away to my blog folks. All I ask is that you take 30 seconds to read the instructions:

***PLEASE READ BELOW!*** 

Leave a comment below to be entered. Please DO leave your email address in the comment form (even though it will say it's optional). I promise I won't use it for any other purpose but to notify you if you win. Please DON'T leave your email address in the body of your comment unless you want everybody to see it. (It will seem there is no place for your name and email. But when you hit "Post Comment," you'll see those fields come up.)

And if you're reading this on Goodreads, or if you’re a subscriber reading an emailed version of this post, please click through and leave your comment on my original blog. Otherwise I worry I'll forget you when the time comes to draw names.

I’ll leave this open for entries for about a week. Then I’ll choose three winners at random.

Good luck!

Hey Ball. What Are You Doing Down There?

Okay, so I dropped the ball. My latest novel, HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ?, was released on May 21st. I was incredibly excited about it (even more so than for most of my releases), and have been watching it closely since. But I forgot my release-day ritual, which is to, 1) update my website to show it as available, not forthcoming and, 2) write a blog post letting my subscribers know it’s here.

Since I’m late, let me take the opportunity to share what’s been happening since release day.

LUIS VELEZ “charted” on Amazon. The Amazon Charts represent the bestselling and most-read books on any given week, and HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ? debuted at #20. It also debuted at #6 on the Wall Street Journal Ebook Bestseller chart. And it already has over 220 Amazon readers reviews, with a star average of 4.9, which is the highest rating any of my books has ever achieved.

Whew. Maybe I should be late announcing a new book more often.

This one is especially close to my heart, so please remember that my real, direct email address is available on the Contact Me page, and that I really do like to hear your feedback.

Happy reading!

My "LUIS VELEZ is Here" Giveaway!

Hey, reader-friends. Guess what? HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ? is here! I got my author paperbacks from the UPS guy yesterday. And if you know me at all—that is, if this is not your first Catherine’s Blog Rodeo—you know what that means: Giveaway time!

These three are up for grabs, and you need to do two things to get into the running to win one. They are quick and easy things, but essential. One, READ THE PARAGRAPH BELOW. Please, please, please read the paragraph below. Please? About 15% of the people who enter my giveaways clearly don’t, no matter how hard I beg. I can only do what I can do, folks. I want to give you free books, but you have to work with me. It’s like a 20-second read, if that. Two: After you’ve read the instructions, leave a comment.

Easy, right?

***PLEASE READ BELOW!*** 

Leave a comment below to be entered. Please DO leave your email address in the comment form (even though it will say it's optional). I promise I won't use it for any other purpose but to notify you if you win. Please DON'T leave your email address in the body of your comment unless you want everybody to see it. (It will seem there is no place for your name and email. But when you hit "Post Comment," you'll see those fields come up.)

And if you're reading this on Goodreads, please click through and leave your comment on my original blog. Otherwise I worry I'll forget you when the time comes to draw names.

I’ll leave this open for entries for at least a week but not more than ten days. Then I’ll choose three winners at random.

Good luck!

So. Many. Deal Alerts.

So. This is another one of those months. Those lovely months when just about everything is on sale. All my Lake Union titles, which are my most recent books. Here’s what we have in the way of February deals, and you can run down the list and see if anything catches your eye.

Four of my titles will be included in “Amazon’s Monthly Deals: Up to 80% off Kindle books in the US marketplace” for only $1.99 each. They are: JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, HEAVEN ADJACENT, SAY GOODBYE FOR NOW, and THE WAKE UP. These deals started 2/1/2019 and will run through 2/28/2019.

Then I have seven titles included in the same “Monthly Deals: Up to 80% off Kindle books in the US marketplace,” but for only 99 cents each. They are: LEAVING BLYTHE RIVER, ASK HIM WHY, THE LANGUAGE OF HOOFBEATS, WHEN I FOUND YOU, WORTHY, WALK ME HOME, and TAKE ME WITH YOU. This also runs from 2/1/2019 through 2/28/2019.

Now, those are all US deals. But there are a couple of things going on in other markets. THE WAKE UP will be promoted via Half Term Sale in the UK marketplace, starting 2/6/2019 and running through 2/24/2019, at only 0.99 GBP. And JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT will be promoted via February Kindle Daily Deal in the AU marketplace, starting 2/8/2019 and running through 2/8/2019, at 0.99 AUD. Of course if you click on those links today you’ll see them at full price, so please note the dates.

Happy saving. And reading!

HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ? is here--in ARC form!

This is very exciting to me.

Just a matter of two weeks or so following the release of JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, I received these from the UPS guy. A carton of beautiful (in my opinion) ARCs of my May 2019 release, HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ?

I’m very excited to share LUIS VELEZ with you. I adore the cover, and the story just feels special to me.

So let’s get the energy started for its release by giving some of these away.

Now. I’m sighing in advance, because I always give these same simple directions, and I always beg people to read them, and a percentage of my readers don’t, and don’t get to be included. All I can do is beg, folks. It’s a couple of paragraphs. You can read it in thirty seconds. I really want to give you stuff. Work with me. :-)

***PLEASE READ BELOW!*** 

Leave a comment below to be entered. Please DO leave your email address in the comment form (even though it will say it's optional). I promise I won't use it for any other purpose but to notify you if you win. Please DON'T leave your email address in the body of your comment unless you want everybody to see it. (It will seem there is no place for your name and email. But when you hit "Post Comment," you'll see those fields come up.)

And if you're reading this on Goodreads, please click through and leave your comment on my original blog. Otherwise I worry I'll forget you when the time comes to draw names.

That’s it. I’ll leave this open for about ten days and then draw three winners at random. Good luck!

JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT is Here--and it's on Prime Reading!

It’s all I can do not to sing “Happy Book Birthday to Me” to myself this morning. Just After Midnight is here. This is its release day—December 4th.

It’s available in Kindle, paperback, audio CD, and Audible download. And the audiobook is quite wonderful. It’s narrated by Kate Rudd, who read the female part in The Fault in Our Stars. She has daughters who ride dressage, so she totally “got” this book, and it shows.

Now: A little surprise for those of you who have Amazon Prime. The JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT ebook is on Prime Reading. Right now, during its launch period. So if you have Amazon Prime, go out and grab this title absolutely free. If you preordered it, my understanding is that you will not be charged—or will be refunded—if you are a Prime member.

I’ll look forward to hearing your thoughts on the new book.

Happy reading!

An Amazing Month for Deals!

On the month when I have a new book coming out. my publisher tends to discount almost everything in my Lake Union backlist. Which I think is a wonderful habit! JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT will release on Tuesday (12/4), and I have an amazing number of titles on price promotion for the whole month of December. And that’s Kindle and paperback, both.

I’m not going to link to every one, because there are just so many. But here is THE LINK TO MY AUTHOR PAGE on Amazon, and you can scan through and see what I mean.

And here’s a quick list of what’s on sale, so you can see if there is anything here you haven’t read.

KINDLE DEALS at $1.99 are: HEAVEN ADJACENT, THE WAKE UP, TAKE ME WITH YOU, SAY GOODBYE FOR NOW, WHEN I FOUND YOU, ASK HIM WHY, LEAVING BLYTHE RIVER, THE LANGUAGE OF HOOFBEATS, WORTHY, WALK ME HOME.

All of those same titles, with the addition of ALLIE AND BEA, are on sale for only $6.99 in paperback, except THE LANGUAGE OF HOOFBEATS seems to be $7.99, and I’m not sure why. But still a great price for a paperback.

Happy reading!

Cover Reveal!

Okay, I’m even more excited than usual about this. Partly because this book is just special to me. Partly because I just adore this cover.

I told my editor over dinner one night, early this year, what I was envisioning for the cover of my May 21st, 2019 release, HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ? The cover designer did a photo shoot, and here it is. Exactly what I was seeing in my head.

You can read more about HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ here, and it’s available for preorder right now.

Let me know what you think!

Another JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT giveaway!

As I write this, it’s only 24 days until the December 4th release of my next novel, JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. And look what the UPS guy brought me yesterday. Finished paperbacks!

So, of course, I am offering a giveaway to thank my subscribers.

I’m going to give away three of these, and all you have to do is read two paragraphs and follow their simple directions. PLEASE? All I can do is beg. It’s so quick. Here goes:

***PLEASE READ BELOW!*** 

Leave a comment below to be entered. Please DO leave your email address in the comment form (even though it will say it's optional). I promise I won't use it for any other purpose but to notify you if you win. Please DON'T leave your email address in the body of your comment unless you want everybody to see it. (It will seem there is no place for your name and email. But when you hit "Post Comment," you'll see those fields come up.)

And if you're reading this on Goodreads, please click through and leave your comment on my original blog. Otherwise I worry I'll forget you when the time comes to draw names.

I'll leave this open for seven or eight days and then draw three winners at random. Good luck!