K.A. Servian's Blog, page 2

A quick note re changes to Amazon affecting NZ and Australian customers

Hi everyone, I wouldn’t normally contact you two days in a row, but Amazon has been making changes that affect their customers (and authors) in Australia and New Zealand. Unfortunately, they’re doing this without consultation or even notification and we, as NZ authors, are finding out when we go to Amazon.com to check on our books only to find them no longer available to us

Short stories and another contest final

Hi, I’ve added my short story Seeing Him Again for the First Time to the short stories page of my website. It came first in the Romance Writers of NZ chapter short story contest for 2018. You can read it here. I hope you enjoy it.

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Also, one of my works in progress has finalized in the Romance Writers of America’s Arizona chapter’s Valley of the Sun hot prospects contest for 2018. I’ll hear if it has placed in December.

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A new blog tour with lots of giveaways plus I have new photos for you

Hi, everyone, I’ve just started a new blog tour with Historical Fiction Virtual Tours. The first post is on Passages of Time. You can enter the competition here to win one of ten free ebooks of The Moral Compass if you live in the US.

The second stop on the tour is on Donna’s Book blog.

I’ve also been taking lots of new photos of historical costumes. Ashley has done an amazing job of portraying the wistful Victorian heroine. If the photos look blurry or pixilated on your device you can click on the newsletter to be taken through to my site where the images are better quality.

 

 

Winners!

Thank you to everyone who entered the ‘guess the era’ contest. The correct answer was Edwardian. I made the white ensemble based on pictures of garments from around 1908.

I’ve picked two entrants at random to receive ebook copies of The Moral Compass and A Pivotal Right. The winners are (drumroll….) Maria Dalmau and Christa Gettys. I’ll be emailing you both soon.

Never one to rest, I’ve been trying out new models in the costumes with the aim of creating a library of great images for other historical authors to access. Olivia did really well in her first session.

It’s voting time and there are new pictures

Hi, everyone.

I’ve entered The Moral Compass in the Rocky Mountain cover competition this year. As you know, I made the costume and created the cover myself. It is up against professionally designed covers so it would mean a great deal to me if it did well. You can check out the entries and vote here. Voting closes on 11 October.

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I’ve also been busy making and photographing new costumes as well as trying out some of the old costumes on new models to achieve different looks (thank you Tayla and Skye you both did an amazing job). Here are a few pics from the latest shoots. The images are going up on Shutterstock if you’d like to see them all.

Don’t forget that you still have one day to send me your entries for the ‘guess that era’ competition. I asked you to tell me which period of history the pictures of the lady in the white dress with a parasol came from. Your options were, A: Regency, B: Victorian or C: Edwardian.  The prize is ebook copies of The Moral Compass and A Pivotal Right. You can enter by sending me your answer via the message form on my website.

Kind regards.

Kathy

 

Historical book fair and my latest costume – with a little competition

My historical romances The Moral Compass and A Pivotal Right are featured in the A Love That’s Forever book fair. You can check it out here for loads of novels priced at $2.99 or less.

I did a photo shoot of my latest costumes yesterday. Here are a couple of snaps to whet your appetite. Just for fun, here’s a little impromptu competition – try to guess the period of the costume pictured:

A: Regency

B: Victorian

C: Edwardian

You have until Saturday the 6th of October to send me your answer via the contact form on the website.  I’ll pick a winner at random from the correct entries and that person will receive e book versions of both The Moral Compass and A Pivotal Right.

Winning stories

As I mentioned a few weeks ago my short story, Seeing Him Again for the First Time won the RWNZ Chapter short story contest this year (insert excited squeal here).

I received my prize (a book voucher) last week and went along to the Chapter bookshop in Mt Eden. There is nothing nicer than coming home with a pile of novels to read.

A Guest Appearance

I am the guest blogger on the Teatime Tattler this week talking about A Pivotal Right.

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The day has arrived…

Today’s the day when A Pivotal Right, the second book in the Shaking the Tree Series, is available on Amazon. Yay!

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Here’s the proof of the paperback in all its glory. At just over 400 pages it’s my longest novel yet, but I’ve been advised by those who have read it that it’s a real page-turner.

To those of you who have pre-ordered the e-book at the discounted price, thank you and I hope you enjoy it. If you feel inclined to leave reviews on Amazon and Goodreads when you’re done I’d be most appreciative.

Right, I’d better get back to writing the third book.

Pre-order and save and a free giveaway

The ebook of A Pivotal Right is now available for pre-order for the reduced price of .99c US (full price will be $2.99 US).  It will be delivered to your Kindle (or your device with the Kindle app) on 15 August.

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I’m also giving away a couple of e-book copies of the Moral Compass. Follow this link to enter.