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What a month for deal alerts!

For my US readers, August is an incredible month to pick up one of my newer ebooks, if there are any you haven't read.

There's a promotion called "Up to 80% off Kindle books in the US marketplace," and in August it features... wait for it... EIGHT of my newest books for only $1.99 each.

The books on sale for $1.99 this month are: ALLIE AND BEA, ASK HIM WHY, TAKE ME WITH YOU, THE LANGUAGE OF HOOFBEATS, WHEN I FOUND YOU, WORTHY, WALK ME HOME, and LEAVING BLYTHE RIVER.

All the way through the 31st!

If you've read them all, please share this post with any reader friends who like a good deal. (Translation: All reader friends--do you know anyone who likes books but dislikes great prices on books? Didn't think so!)

Happy reading!

ARC giveaway! My favorite kind!

Here's where it really gets good, in my opinion. If you subscribe to this blog, hopefully this is the kind of thing that makes you glad you did.

Yesterday I came home from a day trip to find a small box of ARCs on my doorstep. This is The Wake Up. This is a book you can't buy until December 5th. So can you guess what comes next? Correct! I host a giveaway.

I'm putting three of these up for grabs. As always, I ask you to read the paragraphs below about entering. As always, some of you will not, and I won't be able to enter you because I have no way to contact you if you win. So let's just say if you want a shot at one of these, please read what's 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 choose three winners at random next weekend (August 5th or 6th). Good luck! 

Deal Alert: SAY GOODBYE FOR NOW

July starts a month-long promotion for my fairly recent release SAY GOODBYE FOR NOW. It came out last December, just before the newest, ALLIE AND BEA.

Starting today it's being offered in Kindle at the promotional price of only $1.99. It's part of Amazon's Kindle Exclusive Popular Fiction Book Deal in the US marketplace, starting today and running through 7/31.

If you haven't read this one, here's your chance to pick it up for a song. If you have, know that an author (me, for example) will love you forever if you share a book deal with your reader friends.

Happy reading (while saving)!

Cover reveal, anyone?

Most of you probably know I'm currently releasing two books a year with Lake Union (Amazon Publishing). I've always written this fast, and let me tell you, it's great to have a publisher who can and will keep up with me.

I think it's nice for readers, too. You finish ALLIE AND BEA. You look to see what's next. You have less than half a year to wait. 

I have here the final cover for THE WAKE UP, due to be released on December 5th, 2017. It's already available for preorder HERE. And the time will go faster than you think.

I like this new cover, and I look forward to hearing what you think.

If you're feeling impatient, click on over to the "My Books" page. I'm betting it will turn out there are a few you overlooked. Don't be afraid to try the Young Adult titles. Adults like them more than teens do--that's why I don't write Young Adult anymore.

Happy waiting. And reading.

 

Seen the ALLIE AND BEA book trailer yet?

I've shared this on social media, so if you follow me there you might have seen it already. But now that I have the video and can embed it, I want to share it with the readers who subscribe to this blog. After all, I promised to keep you up to date on all the news!

Here goes:

Any German readers within the sound of my voice?

***PLEASE READ THE UPDATE AT THE END OF THIS POST BEFORE COMMENTING***

I'm not sure how many of you know this, but my books have been well received in the German marketplace, with eight translated titles so far and several more in the works. My newest German release is "Wohin der Wind uns führt" or "Where the Wind Takes Us," which is a translation of my 2008 novel "Chasing Windmills."

My Amazon Crossing publisher was nice enough, just this morning, to give me free download codes for eight digital audiobooks of "Wohin der Wind uns führt" that I can give out in any way I see fit.

So now the question: Are you one of my German readers? Do you know someone who reads in German? I sure would like to find good homes for all of these.

Let me know in the comments below if you are interested, either for yourself or someone you know. I'll give these away on a first-come basis until they are gone.

Happy reading!

***UPDATE*** So these have gone a whole lot faster than I imagined they would! I've already given away six of the eight codes on a first-come basis. I don't wan't them all to be gone when my subscriber's get their email of this post. So I am going to go on collecting names for a couple of days and then I will draw for the last two. Sound fair? 

Allie and Bea is here!

I'm happy to say we are celebrating a book birthday today. Allie and Bea has come into the world and is available for purchase!

If you preordered the ebook, look on your Kindle (or Kindle software). It's probably there. If you ordered a paperback you should receive it just about any minute now.

If you haven't preordered and want to give this one a try, it's available right now in Kindle, Paperback, Audio CD or Audio MP3, or as an Audible.com download.

For those who haven't discovered this already, my real, direct email address is on the "Contact Me" page, and I'll look forward to hearing what you think! 

More deal alerts for Australia and the UK

For years my UK and Australian readers would read my posts about deal alerts, then leave sad comments that said something along the lines of, "Sigh. Not here." It was not something I controlled, and I felt awful. I could only hope that these readers knew I didn't love them any less.

Times are changing, and the deals are hitting more marketplaces. (I have frequent deals in Germany, too, but I'm assuming my German readers are not reading my English blog. If I'm wrong, email me. I'll tell you what's on sale.)

This month, May, and all this month, the following deals apply:

In the UK: Ask Him Why, Worthy, and Say Goodbye for Now are £1 all month.

In the AU marketplace, Ask Him Why and Say Goodbye for Now are $2AUD all month.

The title links will take you straight to the books' Kindle pages.

Happy reading!

 

ALLIE AND BEA paperback giveaway

If you've just subscribed to my blog, yes, this is an unusual number of posts in a short time. I usually only do two or three a month, if that. But it's an exciting time, bearing down on a new release next month, ALLIE AND BEA. And I'm mostly posting in an effort to give you free stuff. So at very least I hope I'll be forgiven, and at best I hope I've made you glad you subscribed.

Up for grabs are three paperback copies of ALLIE AND BEA, hot off the presses this week. It can't be purchased until late May, so this is an early chance to grab one.

As always I will ask you to read the text below, and many of you won't. All I can say is that you need this info to be sure you're entered. You can lead a horse to water, as they say.

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 a week. Good luck!

Different kind of giveaway

This is a little more personal and less strictly book-related.

Hard to believe it was a year ago today that I got my first look at Mt Everest. I woke up in Namche Bazaar, and before breakfast my guide walked me up the hill to the Tenzing Norgay monument. He knew the clouds could close in later in the day, and that my view of the world's highest peak was not guaranteed. After breakfast we hiked up to the Hotel Everest View, where I spent the next two nights.

On the way down through Namche I bought two packs of prayer flags, large and small, as gifts for the people back home. But a year has gone by and I still have three large and three small strings of them, still carefully rolled and never used or given out.

I'm wondering if any of my readers would be interested in genuine Nepali prayer flags, lovingly carried down the mountain from Namche Bazaar to Lukla ("the world's most dangerous airport") by an author whose work they enjoy.

If that's you, let me know in the comments. Because these should be out in the world, unfurled. And if you missed all of this last year, the photos are HERE.

Thanks for being my reader!