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Blood for Blood is now available for pre-order on Kindle through Amazon with an official release date of January 2. If you’re interested, click the link here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078H4TBFP 

Thank you, I hope you enjoy!!

Blood for Blood News!

For anyone who hasn’t seen my website home page, the cover for Blood for Blood is up with the blurb so you can see what book 2 is about. I absolutely love the cover! Go check it out if you haven’t already. The release date is set for Jan. 2, and as soon as I go over everything to check for missed errors, the ebook will be available for pre-order on Amazon. I’ll post to let everyone know when the pre-order is up and running. I will also be doing a book release signing on Jan. 6 in Claremore at Boarding House Books if anyone would like to come meet me and pick up a signed copy. I can’t wait to hear what everyone thinks as Keira’s story continues….

Quick Update.

Hey guys, just a quick update. The edits and formatting for Blood for Blood are finally done. I can’t thank my editor Kristen Hamilton, of Kristen Corrects, enough for her help. I have launched my design contest for the book cover on 99designs, and will post it as soon as I have picked a winner. I don’t know about you, but I am so excited!! I’ll keep you posted on when I think the release date will be. Have a great day!

News

The release of Blood for Blood is fast approaching, and I can’t tell you how excited I am. Sam gets a special chapter in the book, one I think you guys will like (fingers crossed). I’m shooting for a mid-December release if all goes well, with a release party to be held at Boarding House Books on Main Street in Claremore. As soon as it’s set in stone, I will announce the date and time here and on my Facebook page.

I am doing a book signing for Blood Cure at Boarding House Books in Claremore this Friday and Saturday, the 17th & 18th, during Dickens on the Boulevard from 6-9pm. If you haven’t picked up a signed copy yet, or if you have a copy you would like me to sign, I would love to meet you.

My first Death Maiden novel is coming along well. It has a slightly darker flavor than the Keira series, and I am super excited for everyone to meet the new characters and hear your thoughts.

Have a great evening, and I hope to see you at my upcoming book signings!

 

Blood Cure is currently $1.99

From now through Sunday, November 12, the ebook for Blood Cure is on sale for $1.99. If you’ve been waiting to read it, or know someone who might like it, now is the perfect time to purchase it. With Blood for Blood, book 2, almost ready for release, don’t miss this chance to dive into Keira’s story for half the normal cost. Go check it out, and please remember to leave a review! Thanks.

It’s finished!

The rough draft for Blood for Blood, Keira Blackwater #2, is finished! I am officially doing my happy dance. I started edits yesterday, plan to finish them up in the next week, then let my husband read it looking for errors I missed. Then on October 4th, my wonderful editor Kristen Hamilton takes over, and will do her magic. If everything goes smoothly, I hope to release it either in December (just in time for Christmas!), or early January. I can’t wait for everyone to read it and give me their thoughts.

In celebration of my new book getting ready to release, I will also be updating my website, Twitter, and Facebook banners. I am really excited about the new designs I have received from the designers at 99designs. I should have them up within the next few days, so check back and take a look at them, then drop me a line to let me know what you think.

Well, that’s it for now, I’m off to edit some more

What’s happening…

I know I haven’t been on here much, but as I stated in an earlier post, I am working hard on Blood for Blood, the next installment in the Keira Blackwater series. I just started the scene that leads to the climax so it won’t be long now.

It’s all about the classics

It’s all about the classics…

When I decided Keira’s livelihood would come from owning a classic car shop, it was, in a sense, a way for me to live vicariously through her. I love classic cars. The way they looked, the simplicity of their designs before everything became electronic based. Functionality and beauty combined to work harmoniously in a package that was created to be a work horse, and last its owners years, even generations before having to be replaced.  Classic car and truck builders were artists and craftsmen whose reputations were on the line. In today’s throw it away every few years mentality, that’s just not so.

KNB Classics, Keira’s shop for those who don’t know, is my virtual playground since I can’t afford to own a bunch of old cars and trucks. I get to find old gems online through research, sometimes through my husband, and post what car or truck Keira has in the shop during different parts of the different books of the series. Some of that research involves finding and downloading pictures so I can see and almost feel the curves and soul of the car or truck I’m having Keira work on at that time.  It’s made my love of the old beauties even stronger than it already was.

And I’ve found, it isn’t just old cars. One of the things I love about Leo is that he has the refined tastes and money to own some very rare and exotic cars himself. In my current book I’m writing, he drives a Morgan Aero 8 roadster, which I had never heard of until I told my car guru husband I needed a cool car for Leo, and boy does it deliver. If you don’t know what one looks like, here’s a sneak peak.  What a gorgeous car, and one I can definitely see Leo driving.

Well that’s all for now, I better get back to writing.

Update

Blood Cure has been out for roughly five months, and already I am over halfway to my break even point (the number of books I need to sell to pay for what I spent on an editor and the book cover), and I can’t even tell you how ecstatic that makes me!!

Blood for Blood, book 2 in Keira’s story, is well on its way, and I have put myself on my editor’s schedule for mid-October, which means it’s crunch time in my writing world right now, so if you don’t hear from me for long stretches of time, that’s why. Also, the first book in my Death Maiden series, which I have not named yet, is waiting patiently for me to pick it up again once Blood for Blood is off to the editor.

I have been reading whenever possible, and have found two new series by authors who are new to me: the first book is The Change by Teyla Branton (which I really enjoyed), and the second is Grim by Thea Atkinson (which I mostly enjoyed). I plan on reading the next book in both series, and I hope Thea Atkinson can reel me in a little more. I picked up the last book in Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampire series, but am reading each book slowly (I’m about halfway through the series) because I really don’t want it to come to an end. It has been one of my all-time favorite series.

That’s it for now. I’ll keep writing, and will offer updates whenever I have them.

Where have I been?

I realized yesterday that it’s been a while since I last wrote something, and for that I apologize.  It’s been really busy. My editor told me she’s so busy she is booking into August (which is really awesome!), so I had her pencil me in for mid-October so I wouldn’t miss her editing services by the end of the year since I plan to have Blood for Blood out early next year. This means I have six months to complete and turn in my rough draft (yikes!). Plus, I’m still marketing Blood Cure, which makes it a very busy time around here…oh, and did I mention I have a full-time job?

Anyway, I’m loving my new writing program, though I’m still figuring it out, and Blood for Blood is coming along very well. I plan on buckling down for the next six months so I’ll be ready for edits, so I may not be on here as often as I’d like, but I’ll blog as often as I can. Thanks for hanging with me, and I hope you enjoy the ride!