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Dreamspinner sale at ARe and Equilibrium sequel

From September 15-30, All Romance ebooks are offering a 25% rebate on all Dreamspinner titles. The rebate comes in the form of ebook bucks, ARe's in-store currency, which get credited to the customer's account. If you click on the banner above you'll get to all Dreamspinner's titles; if you want to pick up a copy of Equilibrium, you can go here.

Speaking of Equilibrium, I'm pleased to announce that I've sold a short story that's a mini-sequel to Equilibrium. It's a Burreela-based Christmas s...

Coming soon: Rust Red: Galvanized

This time next week, I will be in America. This time in 3 weeks, I will still be in America and yet the world will be filled with sunshine and puppies and rainbows, because my Torquere Press Color Box will be out. Woo hoo! As my subject line implies, it's called Rust Red: Galvanized, and you have no idea how difficult it is for me not to type "my Torquere Colour Box, Rust Red: Galvanised" every time I talk about it.

Seriously, America, you kill me with your Zs all over the place and your lack ...

Eyes Wide Shut giveaway at The Romance Studio

To win a copy of Eyes Wide Shut, the prequel to my upcoming Torquere Press release Rust Red: Galvanized, take a mosey on over to The Romance Studio and comment on this post.

Equilibrium giveaway at the Romance Studio

I've got some posts up at The Romance Studio talking about Equilibrium, and anyone who comments to one of those posts will go into a draw to win a copy of the book. The posts are here and here, and I hope to see you there!

The Romance Studio's End of Summer Bash

This weekend I'll be joining a whole bevy of fabulous authors at The Romance Studio's End of Summer Bash. I'll be giving away a copy of Equilibrium, and a copy of Eyes Wide Shut in anticipation of the releast of Rust Red: Galvanized. Hopefully I'll see some of you there!

Rust Red Color Box teaser excerpt

There are three lines published by Torquere Press that I find endlessly inspirational: the Color Box, Spice it Up and Birthstones lines. God I love a theme like that. So when the opportunity to write a Color Box came up, I jumped at the chance. The colour I chose was rust red, and I did that for a very specific reason.

About a year ago I wrote a little story called Eyes Wide Shut, that was part of the Healing Hearts Charity sip blitz in 2010. The characters from that story – Royal Flying...

Puppies, cover art and more reviews for Equilibrium

At the end of this week I'm going to have quite a lot of work to do, because I've got publisher edits on a novella due and I'm also trying to write something new in time for a deadline of September 1st. So of course I'm procrastinating like my life depends on it. I do have a cover art questionnaire open even as I speak, but I keep getting distracted by pictures of the West Australian outback and lovely panoramic photos of Perth. But if I don't write down anything about these photos I'm...

Equilibrium review

In its first non-Goodreads review, Raine from Reviews by Jessewave gave Equilibrium 3.75 stars out of 5. In her very fair and balanced review, she describes Equilibrium as having "Great Australian background detail with a real sense of place", and says:

This book displays a very good breadth of view in beautifully recreating an unusual environment filled with details of different social lives. For me the main hero wasn't appealing enough to lift the book onto another level. However there is a...

Equilibrium release party

I've been posting a little bit over on Dreamspinner's blog today to celebrate the release of Equilibrium. So far we have:

The beautiful cover, which I can't get enough of, plus the blurb

Excerpt #1, and a contest to win a copy of Equilibrium in ebook format

An explanation of why I set the book in Australia, and the origins of Burreela

Excerpt #2

An explanation of campdrafting and tent pegging, with a few illustrative videos

Excerpt #3

The contest will run for quite a while, to give everyone who...

Equilibrium release party

Equilibrium is now for sale! You can buy it at the Dreamspinner Press store in ebook or paperback, and I hope that if you do buy it you enjoy it, because it has a special place in my heart. You always remember your first, as they say.

To celebrate Equilibrium's release, I will be hanging out at the Dreamspinner Blog tomorrow, posting excerpts and various other things, and hosting a competition, where an ebook copy of Equilibrium will be up for grabs. So hopefully I'll see some of you there!

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