Rachel Haimowitz's Blog
October 30, 2012
Hurricane Sandy Devastates Jersey Shore. Help Me Donate!
For those who have asked, I'm well, thank you. Somehow, we kept power. Trees down, but no serious flooding here. My father was not so lucky; he lives year-round in Sea Bright, NJ, a barrier island near Cape May that was essentially wiped off the map last night. High tide left a 40-foot yacht in his parking lot and enough water in his home to make it inhabitable without gutting all the drywall, insulation, electric, flooring, appliances, and possibly plumbing. The fact that it remained on its foundation makes him one of the luckier ones in that area. He won't know for a while yet if the foundation is structurally sound anymore.
Disasters on this scale are always horrific, but you never realize quite how much until one touches you personally. I want to do something. I'm not rich—heck, some months I can barely make ends meet—but right now I have an awful lot more than a lot of folks, including the residents of Sea Bright. So for the next week at least, I will donate $1 to the Red Cross for Sandy disaster relief every time someone buys one of my books. (My Riptide titles are here, my Storm Moon Press titles are here, and my Samhain and Noble titles are here and here. I'm here on Amazon, here on B&N, here on Kobo, and here on ARe.)
If you buy one of my books this week, thank you! If you want to donate directly instead or as well, thank you! Here's a great resource for how to help.
ETA (10:21 PM Oct 30): Friend and author (and occasional co-author) Cat Grant is also donating $1 per Riptide book or self-pubbed book sold this week to the Red Cross. Her Riptide listing is here, her self-pub is here at ARe, and her blog post about this is here. (Hmm, this means that if you order a Power Play book, that'll make for a $2 donation!)
ETA (10:32 PM Oct 30): The lovely Amelia C. Gormley is also joining in the donation drive. You can find details for her book here.
ETA (10:43 PM Oct 30): The amazing Abigail Roux is also joining in. Her blog post with book links is here.
ETA (10:46 PM Oct 30): The list keeps growing! Get the UNBELIEVABLY BRILLIANT Santuario and G.B. Gordon will donate $1 too! Here's GB's blog post with the deets.
ETA (11:42 PM Oct 30): You guys, you are amazing. Taylor Gibbs just joined in the donation drive as well. She has a huge backlist--go check her out!
ETA (7:14 PM Oct 31): My partner in crime Aleksandr Voinov has joined in the donation drive. His booklist is here, or you can go direct to his Riptide page here.
ETA 11:06 PM Oct 31): The fantastically talented Amara Devonte--she of the exquisite custom jewelry you've seen many authors giving out as prizes on blog tours--is joining in by donating 10% of all in-stock jewelry sales to the Red Cross this week. You can read her blog post here and see her pretty pretty shinies at her Etsy store here.
ETA 9:51 AM Nov 2): OMG U GUISE, Samhain Publishing is amazing. If you buy Break and Enter on their website and then enter coupon code REDCROSS at checkout, you'll get B&E for 40% off, and every single penny you spend will go to the Red Cross: Aleks and I are both donating 100% of our B&E royalties, and Samhain is matching our donation. Go forth and get your sexy cyberpunk fun for a mere $2.10, and see the whole $2.10 go to supporting Sandy victims.
ETA 10:06 AM Nov 2: Not a part of the $1-per-book donation drive, but MJ O'Shea and Piper Vaughn are hosting a totally awesome and exciting donation drive effort: an auction for original fiction shorts from some amazing authors, with all proceeds going to charity. You can find all the auction postings here.
ETA 9:08 PM Nov 2: Author Shae Connor is joining in the $1 donation drive for the entire last quarter of 2012! You can find her blog post here, and her donation booklist here. She's got a lot of great stuff there--go check her out!
ETA 11:15 PM Nov 2: The lovely Amy Lane is joining in as well--she's donating $1 for every sale of Country Mouse made for the entire month! Since Aleks is also donating, that means $2 in donations every time someone buys Country Mouse. It's funny and sexy, so go forth and purchase! (Earlier I mistakenly included her whole backlist. My apologies!)
ETA 9:11 AM Nov 3: Riptide Publishing is donating 25% of their onsite proceeds from Nov 3 to Nov 10 to the Red Cross. Their post about it is here, and their title listings--complete with many favorite authors in the genre--are here.
Disasters on this scale are always horrific, but you never realize quite how much until one touches you personally. I want to do something. I'm not rich—heck, some months I can barely make ends meet—but right now I have an awful lot more than a lot of folks, including the residents of Sea Bright. So for the next week at least, I will donate $1 to the Red Cross for Sandy disaster relief every time someone buys one of my books. (My Riptide titles are here, my Storm Moon Press titles are here, and my Samhain and Noble titles are here and here. I'm here on Amazon, here on B&N, here on Kobo, and here on ARe.)
If you buy one of my books this week, thank you! If you want to donate directly instead or as well, thank you! Here's a great resource for how to help.
ETA (10:21 PM Oct 30): Friend and author (and occasional co-author) Cat Grant is also donating $1 per Riptide book or self-pubbed book sold this week to the Red Cross. Her Riptide listing is here, her self-pub is here at ARe, and her blog post about this is here. (Hmm, this means that if you order a Power Play book, that'll make for a $2 donation!)
ETA (10:32 PM Oct 30): The lovely Amelia C. Gormley is also joining in the donation drive. You can find details for her book here.
ETA (10:43 PM Oct 30): The amazing Abigail Roux is also joining in. Her blog post with book links is here.
ETA (10:46 PM Oct 30): The list keeps growing! Get the UNBELIEVABLY BRILLIANT Santuario and G.B. Gordon will donate $1 too! Here's GB's blog post with the deets.
ETA (11:42 PM Oct 30): You guys, you are amazing. Taylor Gibbs just joined in the donation drive as well. She has a huge backlist--go check her out!
ETA (7:14 PM Oct 31): My partner in crime Aleksandr Voinov has joined in the donation drive. His booklist is here, or you can go direct to his Riptide page here.
ETA 11:06 PM Oct 31): The fantastically talented Amara Devonte--she of the exquisite custom jewelry you've seen many authors giving out as prizes on blog tours--is joining in by donating 10% of all in-stock jewelry sales to the Red Cross this week. You can read her blog post here and see her pretty pretty shinies at her Etsy store here.
ETA 9:51 AM Nov 2): OMG U GUISE, Samhain Publishing is amazing. If you buy Break and Enter on their website and then enter coupon code REDCROSS at checkout, you'll get B&E for 40% off, and every single penny you spend will go to the Red Cross: Aleks and I are both donating 100% of our B&E royalties, and Samhain is matching our donation. Go forth and get your sexy cyberpunk fun for a mere $2.10, and see the whole $2.10 go to supporting Sandy victims.
ETA 10:06 AM Nov 2: Not a part of the $1-per-book donation drive, but MJ O'Shea and Piper Vaughn are hosting a totally awesome and exciting donation drive effort: an auction for original fiction shorts from some amazing authors, with all proceeds going to charity. You can find all the auction postings here.
ETA 9:08 PM Nov 2: Author Shae Connor is joining in the $1 donation drive for the entire last quarter of 2012! You can find her blog post here, and her donation booklist here. She's got a lot of great stuff there--go check her out!
ETA 11:15 PM Nov 2: The lovely Amy Lane is joining in as well--she's donating $1 for every sale of Country Mouse made for the entire month! Since Aleks is also donating, that means $2 in donations every time someone buys Country Mouse. It's funny and sexy, so go forth and purchase! (Earlier I mistakenly included her whole backlist. My apologies!)
ETA 9:11 AM Nov 3: Riptide Publishing is donating 25% of their onsite proceeds from Nov 3 to Nov 10 to the Red Cross. Their post about it is here, and their title listings--complete with many favorite authors in the genre--are here.
May 11, 2012
Visiting Kinky Ever After Today
I know I've been soooooper quiet round these parts, but that's good news in a way, since quiet = busy. I'm wrapping up edits on
Power Play: Awakening
with Cat Grant (yeah, a bit uncomfortably down to the wire on that one, I know), and I've started a new project in the Belonging Verse. I'm only about 6,000 words into it so far, and I'm not quite sure what shape it's taking or where it's going, but it follows a freeman with a heavy load on his shoulders, and I'm pretty sure he'll be auctioning...
April 9, 2012
It's Party Time! Celebrate & Win a Nook!
Today's the official release day of Power Play: Resistance, the 90,000-word kinkapalooza (Part 1 of 2) I co-wrote with Cat Grant. To celebrate, we're going on a little blog tour round the interwebs, showering prizes at every stop. We'll be giving away backlist books and/or swag at each site we visit, and at the end of the tour, one lucky commenter will win a classic Nook pre-loaded with six titles from me and Cat.
Want to follow along? You can find us at:
April 9 - Joyfully Jay
April 10 - Jody F...
Want to follow along? You can find us at:
April 9 - Joyfully Jay
April 10 - Jody F...
April 5, 2012
New Release, Woot! :D
And we're off! (A day early, even--horray for Riptide!) You can download it now at the Riptide site only (and at Amazon, B&N, ARe, etc. on Monday), and it still counts as a pre-release until 12 AM Monday morning, so it earns you an entry into Riptide's Free Books for a Year drawing, too :-)
Give me six months, and I'll give you the world.
Brandon McKinney has scraped and sacrificed for what little in life he’s ever had. Though it’s been fifteen years since he escaped his father’s abuse, the...
Give me six months, and I'll give you the world.Brandon McKinney has scraped and sacrificed for what little in life he’s ever had. Though it’s been fifteen years since he escaped his father’s abuse, the...
March 31, 2012
Rainbow Book Fair Recap
Last weekend, I attended the Rainbow Book Fair on behalf of Riptide Publishing. It was actually more fun this year than last year, which I didn't think was possible, so next year, if you find yourself able to make it down to NYC for the day, definitely do--you won't be sorry!
Lots of amazing things and amazing people, authors as well as readers. It's so wonderful to talk to folks, and especially interesting to connect with people who don't read ebooks or maybe even have computers, who come to ...
March 29, 2012
Teaser Thursday - Blowjob Sneak Peek!
Hello all! If I can ever find the cord for my camera, I'll have Rainbow Book Fair pictures for you soon. In the meanwhile, I'm doing edits on Power Play: Awakening and came across a blowjob scene I really liked. Thought it might be fun to share :-D So, er, hotness beneath a jump for very NSFW-ness.
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March 17, 2012
Huge Sale at All Romance Ebooks Today Only!
Hello all! Just popping in to say ARe is holding a 50% rebate sale today only, site-wide. That means every one of my titles comes with a 50% rebate, and so does every one of Riptide's titles. Riptide titles are almost never discounted, so if you've been eyeballing one (or two, or ten ;-p) for a while now, today's your chance to pick it up at a rare discount.
And since it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to have a blog post that's basically just a sales pitch, here, have a cookie. Heck, have two....
And since it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to have a blog post that's basically just a sales pitch, here, have a cookie. Heck, have two....
March 10, 2012
Cover Prettiez!
For mine and Cat Grant's second book in the Power Play series, Power Play: Awakening, releasing on June 11. Beneath the jump for mild raciness (well, okay, for shibari and a hint of butt). Click to embiggen. Trust me, you want to :-D
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March 1, 2012
Winners!
I have two winners to announce today: the winner of my Nook contest, and the winner of the free books from the Leap Year Blog Hop.
Blog hop first. Congratulations to menina.iscrazy! You've won three free books.
And the winner of the Nook is . . . Judi Pech!
I'll be emailing you both to work out the details, and to everyone else who entered the contests, thank you so much for participating! If you did enter one of the contests and you'd like a little swag packet as a "thank you for playing," just...
Blog hop first. Congratulations to menina.iscrazy! You've won three free books.
And the winner of the Nook is . . . Judi Pech!
I'll be emailing you both to work out the details, and to everyone else who entered the contests, thank you so much for participating! If you did enter one of the contests and you'd like a little swag packet as a "thank you for playing," just...
February 28, 2012
Win Tons of Prizes with the MFRW Leap Year Blog Hop!
Today is a rare occurrence round these parts for two reasons. For one, it's a leap year, and I'm celebrating with a lovely group of authors by joining in a blog hop and giving away some free books. I've put up all my first-in-series stuff: Counterpoint, Anchored, and Master Class, and you can win just by commenting on this post. There are lots of other great prizes to go around too, so be sure to visit all the other blogs on the hop!
My other rare occurrence is that I finished the...
