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DeButy and the Beast, free at Amazon!

This week, Thursday through Saturday, DeButy and the Beast, kindle version, will be free at Amazon. If you haven't checked it out, this is the perfect time to give the book a try!

DeButy was one of the many fairy tale romances I wrote for Leisure, from 1996 to 2002. They are all available, in e-book form, and some are available in print on demand. Since fairy tales are so popular these days, I can almost convince myself I was ahead of my time. :-)

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm thrilled that September is here! Love the cooler weather, football, baseball playoffs, fall colors . . . ahhhh.

Linda

Shades of Midnight

This month is a busy one for me, with my 2nd Special Edition, A Week Till the Wedding, and the re-release of my 2004 RITA winner for paranormal romance, Shades of Midnight, in e-book format. A Week Till the Wedding is out, and Shades of Midnight is coming mid-month. For anyone who's interested, I'm posting excerpts from Shades of Midnight on my facebook fan page, here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Linda-...

Shades of Winter and Shades of Scarlet will follow.

Fall is right around the corner, and I can't wait! Cooler weather, football, the World Series . . . I'm ready for all of it! :-)

Best,
Linda

Heat Wave

According to the weather man, it's going to be 106 degrees today. Makes it a good day to stay inside with my computer and write! I'm currently going through the Linda Fallon SHADES books, revising a bit, having new covers designed, getting them ready for release late-summer, early fall. I'm torn about a plan for release. Should they all be made available at once? Staggered a bit, one book every month or two? While the stories themselves stand alone, the same couple is in all three. Out of nearly 70 books, this is the only time I wrote a series with one primary couple. They just kept talking to me. Lucien and Eve's story, Shades of Midnight, started out as a novella for a Halloween collection, but I remember calling my editor and saying, "This isn't a novella, it's a three book series." To her credit, she didn't freak out. Much. :-)

Y'all stay cool, if you can.

Linda

New Cover

Yesterday I uploaded a new cover for the short story Moonlight Becomes You, at Amazon. For those of you who already have the story, it hasn't changed. Just the cover. I also took care of a few typos and added an excerpt for DeButy and the Beast.

I also decided to make it free at Amazon this coming weekend, May 26th and 27th. If you have the original story and want a typo-free copy with a new cover, now's the time! I wish I could read my own work and see those missing letters and wrong words, but I don't. Nothing else will go out without a read from someone who doesn't see what's supposed to be there. :-)

Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!

Linda

What's in a name . . .

People ask me why I've written under so many names. Here's the explanation:

My first book was out in 1994. At that time, I wrote historicals as Linda Winstead. I wrote pretty fast, though, and my publisher didn't want to put out more than 2 books a year under a name, so I went to Linda Jones for the fairy tale romances. When I went to Harlequin, they wanted Linda Winstead Jones. Sure, why not? I sold a series to yet another publisher, and my agent suggested that I take a pseudonym for those books. Linda Devlin was born. But they closed the line those books were a part of, printed just a few copies of the last Linda Devlin book, and I was asked to take yet another pseudonym for the next trilogy. Linda Fallon. BTW, for the Ballantine books I write with Linda Howard, I'm back to Linda Jones.

So, now I'm self-publishing some backlist, and -- what a mess! Who am I? :-) Linda Jones writing as Linda Devlin. I'm about to get started preparing the Linda Fallon books. Who am I? Linda Winstead Jones Devlin Fallon would be terribly unwieldy on a book cover. There are other Linda Joneses out there, and now and then I run across a book listed as mine when it's not. I don't want the credit OR the blame for someone else's work. :-) So, as I have the covers designed for the Linda Fallon books, again -- who am I? Linda Jones writing as Linda Fallon? Linda Winstead Jones writing as Linda Fallon? Should I take yet another name? (just kidding -- no way!)

At least I am always . . .
Linda

Rock Creek Six

The e-book Sullivan (book 2 of The Rock Creek Six series) is on sale this week at B&N online and Amazon. 99 cents. I wrote these three books (Sullivan, Jed, and Cash) as Linda Devlin, and Lori Handeland wrote the other three books. (Reese, Rico, and Nate) If it's possible to write six books of the heart, these would be those books. It was such a joy to write them, and even now the series is special to me. Lori and I have been thrilled that e-books -- and self-publishing -- has given us the opportunity to make these books available again. I hope you'll check out Sullivan, if you're a fan of western romance. I'm happy to answer questions about the series here, if anyone has them!

Linda

What's new!

In the book business these days, a lot is new. It seems like the business changes every day, and in many ways that's good for writers and for readers as well. We have so much to choose from, and those choices come in new and exciting formats. In addition to my traditionally published books, I've been self-publishing a few back list titles. Two fairy tale romances (Into the Woods and DeButy and the Beast) and the Rock Six Series (written as Linda Devlin) which was a joint project with Lori Handeland have all been made available as e-books in the last few months. And from March 21 to March 25, I'll be offering Into the Woods free at Amazon.

I've had a great time browsing books -- old and new -- here at Goodreads. My wish list is growing, and I still have a ton of books sitting here, unread. So many books, so little time. And really, is that such a terrible problem to have?

Linda