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Winners and Other Things

First of all....

The winners of Wild Desire are...

Runner10
Raven99
Mariska

Please email me your addresses so I can send the books.


Wild Desire is being given away on Goodreads as well. So you can try there. Wish I could give everyone a copy, but we only get a limited supply. :(
With that said, if you signed up to win Wild Desire and didn't, you can have an Ecopy of my newest historical paranormal, A Night of Secrets. Just email me and I'll give you an coupon so you can download it.


Some of you may have read my young adult book, The Mind Readers. I've received more emails for this book than any of my other books. So to answer your two most common questions...

Yes, there will be a book two. In fact, there will be 3 books in all.

And no, sorry, it's not available in print.
Here's the thing, The Mind Readers was with 3 publishers, but they all ended up rejecting it, which is why I self published it in Ebook format. So, don't blame me for the lack of print, blame New York! lol. There is a way to self publish a print book, so I may look into that in the future. But for now, sorry, it's only available in Ebook format.



I do have a couple signed books left from the RWA conference I went to this past summer and I believe I'll give them away on Monday. So come back Monday to enter and possibly win some more books!

Have a good weekend :)

Wild Desire

I just got a box of my author copies for Wild Desire ! Of course I want to give away a few. Leave a comment! I'll pick 3 winners!

The teal and pink look so pretty together. And the title and my name are even embossed! Hooray! I'm excited :) P.S. This is an R rated book ;)

A Night Of Secrets!

A Night Of Secrets is now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble! Interested? Read the blurb below:

Grayson Bellamont has spent years on the Continent, fighting a war he cares nothing for. It is only while in the chaos of battle that he can hide what he truly is, a Vampire. Returning to England, he finds his sister murdered and his seven-year-old niece missing. All over the country Vampires are mysteriously dying. Grayson sets out to uncover the truth and locate his niece before it's too late. All leads point to Meg James, a Vicar's daughter. Instinct tells him Meg is innocent, but the clues he uncovers warn she's guilty. One thing is clear, Meg awakens a warmth inside of him he thought long dead and Grayson is torn between a sense of duty and his desires.

Vowing to honor a promise, Meg concocts a lie to keep a stranger's child safe. She had no idea that protecting the child would mean putting her own life in danger. When Grayson arrives asking questions, Meg's unease flares. Who is this mysterious man who seems to appear and disappear as quickly as a spirit? A man with strength like no other? As he pushes ever closer, taking over her senses with his touch, his kiss and his unexpected honor, she realizes she has even more to lose. Meg is falling in love with Grayson, but will he believe her when the truth will condemn the one person he trusts the most?


Leave a comment for your chance to win a free download of the Ebook!

P.S. If you have a review blog, feel free to email me with the link for your blog and I'll send you a copy for review. But remember, this book is for adults!

This and That

Hi all! So I had briefly mentioned that I'd be doing a Q&A at a B&N near Atlanta this Saturday. Unfortunately that is a no go. It's been canceled. Hopefully I will be able to do the Q&A another time.
I'm also guest blogging at two places, Ex Libris and She Known As Jess. Of course I'm giving away Ecopies of my books.
In contest news... my friend and fellow author Beverley Kendall is giving away a Kindle on her site, The Season. So stop by for your chance to win.
And finally, I'm still hard at work on A Night of Secrets and it's going to be out sooner than I had expected! In fact, it will probably be up by the end of next week!

New Blog, New Site!

You might have noticed I have a new blog and I also have a new website, thanks to my husband. I needed a new site with different pages for my YA books and my more Adult Romance, so those wishing to only read YA would know which books to get!

Meanwhile, I'm still hard at work on my novella and the new historical romance, A Night of Secrets! Only a month until their release!

March Release!

First of all, I have a winner for Never Resist Temptation and Hell Fire.

Raelena at throuthehaze!

Please email me your address so I can mail those to you.

It's pretty hard to miss the book to the right. Well, I finally have a cover for my March release, the historical paranormal romance I told you about. I had to share it with you! Kimberly Killion at Hot Damn Designs did the cover and she's pretty darn amazing! As I mentioned in the previous post, this book will be out around the beginning of March, available as Ebook on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords. I'll post a blurb a little later!

Mad as a March Hare!

March is going to be a crazy month for books! First of all, my second N.Y. Published book, Wild Desire, will be out March 1st. This book is a historical paranormal with lots of suspense. You can preorder it now on Amazon and B&N as either a print book or an ebook!

I'm also doing a short story that will be in an Ebook anthology for only 99 cents with other self-published authors like H.P. Mallory and Amanda Hocking. All stories will be different, most based on spinoffs of our other books. My story will be a spinoff of Wild Heart and Wild Desire! These short stories will be around 10,000 words each and will be available at the beginning of March!
And speaking of Ebooks.... Around March I'll also be releasing a brand new historical paranormal, the first in a 3 book series. I have one word for you, Vampires! The amazing Kimberly Killion at Hot Damn Designs is currently working on the cover. As soon as she's done, I'll post it along with a blurb.
These three are all books that are more for adults, but I have started The Mind Readers 2! I'll let you know at at later date when you can expect that release.
And, just because I haven't given away a printed book in awhile, I have 2 N.Y. Printed books to give away! These are not YA books so please be at least 16. So what are they? A signed copy of Never Resist Temptation and a signed copy of Hell Fire. So leave a comment and an email addy so I can email you and get your mailing address. One person will win both!

Pirates

Well, The Mind Readers is popping up everywhere...but not in a good way. It's been coming up on quite a few pirate sites... places that steal books and give them away for free.

Because print authors make a lot of their money through printed books, it might not influence their pay as much as it would an Ebook author. It's particularly upsetting for me because The Mind Readers hasn't been out long and really, to be honest, I haven't made that much money on it. If people can get it for free, why would they buy it? In other words, I worked on a book for four months and probably won't make much money at all. Fun! Honestly, its so upsetting that for a brief moment I thought about giving the book up and not writing book 2. But I won't do that to the readers who have emailed me, loving the story and asking for book 2.

This book, more than my other books, seems to be running rampart on piracy sites. The only reason I can think of is because I got lazy and instead of giving reviewers/book winners the coupon so they could download it from Smashwords, I sent them the pdf directly. I could be wrong, but just in case it's because of the pdf's, I won't be sending pdf's any longer to reviewers/book winners. Of course I'll still be giving the coupons so you can download it for free from Smashwords.

As I've said before, I don't mind when readers share a book with their mom or sister or friend, but I do mind when someone takes my book and gives it to the world for free. Sure, it would be nice if authors worked for no money and just handed out their books, but its a job, and to be able to write, we need to make money so we can support ourselves and our families.

Tell Your Friends!

I just posted on Facebook and Twitter that the first 25 people who email me get their choice of a free download of The Ghost Hunter or The Mind Readers! Tell your friends!

We're snowed it. What can I say, I'm bored :)

Giveaway

Hi All! Sheesh, I've been neglecting this blog.

Now that The Mind Readers is out, I'm hard at work on another book, a historical paranormal. It is with a publisher in N.Y. but honestly, I'm thinking of self publishing it. Why, you might ask? Well, here's why..... money, time and control.

Money... I've never made it a secret that I've gotten very little on my first NY published book. In fact, I've made more on The Ghost Hunter in the four months since I self published it than I have on Wild Heart in the two years since I signed the contract.

Time... When you send a book to an agent or editor, you send only the partial at first, which is the first 3 chapters. They might read it immediately, but usually it takes a couple months... usually more. After those couple months they will reject it or ask to read the full. Once they have the full, again, it can be a couple months... usually more... until you hear if they want it or not. If they want it, your book most likely will not hit bookstores for another year... usually more. So you're talking about a year and half before you will see your book in stores and that's a quick turn around. That's a year and half I could be making money if I posted it now, as self published. What's even worse is if you send your book to an editor, wait months and months to hear back and they reject it. Which to be honest, happens the majority of the time. That's a long time, wasted, when you could have self published it immediately.

Control... The control is somewhat obvious. You decide when your book comes out, what's in your book, how much it will be priced at.

I love printed books, I really do. And it makes me sad that there are so many readers who can't read my books because they are in Ebook format. But sometimes there's no other alternative.

Anyway....

Back to The Mind Readers. I keep noticing this theme in reviews that state The Mind Readers is a short read. Honestly, the Young Adult book world is new to me. But when I started studying YA books, I noticed most YA publishers wanted books to be between 60,000 - 90,000 words.

Here's Harlequin's guidelines, which actually say 50,000 to 100,000. When I wrote The Mind Readers, I wanted a good in between and I thought I had done that, writing a book that is actually about 73,000 words.

Anyway, as for the giveaway from my last post.... the winners are.... everyone!

If you left a comment in the previous post, email me and I'll send you a code so you can download The Mind Readers for free! Thanks to all who stopped by!