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March 20, 2014
99c Home Grown Romance Deals!
Hi all,
A very quick note for all the Australian and New Zealand readers out there who often miss out on eBook deals due to regional restrictions:
Check out these 99c Home Grown Romance deals
Exclusive to Apple iBookstore Australia and New Zealand!
And I’m thrilled to say that one of my books has been chosen for the Home Grown Romance promotion. Which means….
The Crystal Warriors eBook Bundle (Books 1, 2, and 3 of The Crystal Warriors Series) has been reduced to 99c for a limited time.
The Crystal...
March 11, 2014
Opal’s Wish – official excerpt
(Book 4 of The Crystal Warriors Series)
By Maree Anderson
**Excerpt**
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Chapter One
The barely discernible whisper invading his mind might once have filled him with hope. Now he felt nothing at all. Hope was pointless when such whispers heralded the onset of madness. This was Halja, after all—the afterlife awaiting those who displeased the gods. A place devoid of hope.
The temperature of his prison was a constant lukewarm. Or perhaps, blood-warm was a more appropriate term for a warrio...
Of opals, warriors, and coffee-bean dresses
Good news! Now that line-edits are completed on Opal’s Wish, I’m about to post a proper excerpt which I’ll link to in the book page :) But in the meantime, after the last somewhat angsty post, I promised a lighter, more amusing discourse… and I’d like to keep that promise.
Okay, so I don’t know ’bout you, but I often find it bloody disappointing when characters depicted in my favorite romance novels don’t match up to the models used on the cover. I’m like, GRRRRR! if the hair color doesn’t mat...
March 4, 2014
When The End is nowhere in sight
My reading list for February is a bit shorter than usual because a release date deadline and urgent edits had to take priority over just about everything else. But I’m happy to say that I’m almost at the finish line; I’m currently doing line-edits for Opal’s Wish, so there’ll be an excerpt to go with the pre-order’s blurb very soon.And then I get to put out a bunch of my eBooks in print, and to start work on the third Freaks book. Fun times ahead.Woohoo!
I know I usually talk about a book or t...
March 1, 2014
2014 Read an eBook Week sale
Howdy, Pardners!
Yes, it’s that time again, folks: that time of year where I encourage all you paper book lovers to give a eBooks a go by heavily discounting all my eBooks on Smashwords for a whole week :)
Which means….
My two FREE books are still free (of course!)
The Crystal Warrior (Book 1 of The Crystal Warriors Series)
Seer’s Hope (Book 1 of The Seer Trilogy)
And, additionally….
All my other indie-pubbed books are heavily discounted until March 8th 2014.Here’s the deets:
Use coupon code REW50 a...
February 13, 2014
Pre-order Opal’s Wish now!
I have a release date!
Opal’s Wish (Book 4 of The Crystal Warriors series)
will be released on 31 March 2013.
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And for those of you who are super-keen fans:
You can pre-order Opal’s Wish now!
Because it’s…
Click the graphic orclick herefor worldwide iBookstore link
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One thing to note about the pre-order:
I won’t be discounting the book immediately after release.
As an avid reader, I don’t much like it when I pre-order an eBook because I can’t wait to get it On The Release Day! only to...
February 9, 2014
Crystal Warriors cover reveal: Opal’s Wish
And because no cover is complete without a blurb, here’s the full-length summary I spent this morning working on:
Opal’s Wish,Book Four of The Crystal Warriors Series
When the Crystal Guardian, Pieter, handed over the danburite crystal to eight-year-old Sera, he intended her mother be the one to release the cursed warrior from the crystal. But Sera’s heartfelt wish upon the crystal somehow frees Danbur from his prison. Worse, she bonds with him. Danbur now has no chance to break his cu...
February 7, 2014
I read your book; the power of literacy
Just a quick post today, I’m afraid. I’ve hit the 70,ooo word mark on Opal’s Wish (Crystal Warriors 4) and I need to keep writing through the weekend.
Spotted this on The Passive Voice blog this morning and felt compelled to share. Beautiful.
It carries a “Kleenex warning”, BTW. So, got your box of tissues ready? Good. Enjoy!
January 31, 2014
Seeing Red and Cute Cuddly Wombats
Where did January go??? It’s like I blinked and a whole month went by! In a couple of days the Christmas holidays will be over and the kids will be back at school… and I’ll have the house to myself again. Well, except for the week where my lovely quiet house will be invaded by builders who need to fix the bloody great hole in a downstairs bedroom’s ceiling and repair the water damage resulting from a pinhole-sized leak in a water pipe. Not to mention the carpet cleaners who’ll come in once th...
January 24, 2014
Beauties, Geeks & Bachelors
Disclaimer: I’m not particularly good at deconstructing something and analyzing exactly why I enjoy it. Whether that “thing” happens to be wine, a book, a TV show or a movie, it’s more a gut feeling with me. I just know I enjoyed the hell out of it, and it’s difficult for me to convey to someone exactly why. (Which is why I don’t properly review books on this blog, and I’m all “Squeeeeeee! I loved this book soooo much!” and sharing an excerpt, rather than a thought-provoking breakdown about w...
