Mary Castillo's Blog: News from Mary Castillo, page 17
December 29, 2012
Kobo's 80% Off Sale Ends Soon
Go get more books
December 27, 2012
Lost in the Light featured in USA Today!
"My first book trailer is for Lost in the Light by Mary Castillo. It is a Gothic mystery with lost loves, second chances and an unsolved murder. The trailer is atmospheric and spooky without being heavy-handed. I have to say that I downloaded the book, and I can't wait to read it … with the lights on, of course!"
Thank you so much Robin! If you haven't seen the trailer, check it out on
December 26, 2012
Ruins of Lace & Lost in the Light Deals and Steals for December 26, 2012
is part of Kobo’s Boxing Week Sale that ends December 31, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. You can score some great stuff: Save a ton on this years best eBooks. Eligible in the US and Canada. Here’s the link and code if you’re in the UK, Australia or New Zealand: Bestselling eBooks at 50% off Promo Code: BoxingDay50 Ends December 31st at 11:59 pm
I’ve discovered one of my favorite authors, Susanna Kearsley through Sourcebooks promotions! Today you can get The Ruins of Lace by Iris Anthony for only $.99 through The 12 More Days of Christmas promotion. You have to register at Sourcebooks to be updated with each daily special. The Ruins of Lace will be available today only for the special price at Sourcebooks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and iBookstore.
Ruins of Lace & Lost in the Light Deals and Steals for December 26, 2012
Lost in the Light is part of Kobo’s Boxing Week Sale that ends December 31, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. You can score some great stuff: Save a ton on this years best eBooks
. Eligible in the US and Canada.
Here’s the link and code if you’re in the UK, Australia or New Zealand: Bestselling eBooks at 50% off
Promo Code: BoxingDay50 Ends December 31st at 11:59 pm
I’ve discovered one of my favorite authors, Susanna Kearsley through Sourcebooks promotions! Today you can get The Ruins of Lace by Iris Anthony for only $.99 through The 12 More Days of Christmas promotion. You have to register at Sourcebooks to be updated with each daily special. The Ruins of Lace will be available today only for the special price at Sourcebooks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and iBookstore.
Filed under: Deals and Steals, eBook News
December 20, 2012
Another peek into Lost in the Light
The house that inspired Lost in the Light
One moment Vicente was in the middle of talking to Dori. Then the next, he stood now at the window watching her talk to another man.
He tried to orient himself. The house’s shadow lay across on the ground. If he remembered correctly, the house faced west so it was now morning. Had an entire night or a week passed since he talked to her in the kitchen?
Dori looked up at the house, but she didn’t see him. He smiled, feeling himself take form. Even though his body was long dead and probably nothing more than dust, he sometimes felt the sensations of being inside it. He could see and hear. He could feel emotions, especially the ache of having been lost to those he had loved so many decades ago.
He used to wonder if they’d found his body somewhere and buried it proper. He doubted it but still, it would be nice if someone had placed flowers on his grave.
Dori’s voice rose in anger. Vicente leaned closer to the window, sensing the exchange between Dori and this strange man intensify. She walked away, the man calling after her. She flung up her hand in dismissal and something clenched where Vicente’s heart had once been. The gesture was so reminiscent of what he done to Anna.
The man stared after Dori, shook his head and then walked away, fading from Vicente’s view.
Curious, Vicente turned from the window and then he was in the downstairs hallway. He stayed put, waiting for Dori to walk through the door. She was tough and he admired that. When he got in her face, she barked at him like a man. No crying and screaming and hand-wringing like most women.
But he needed to play this carefully. If he scared her off, who knew how much damn longer he’d be stuck in this bullshit purgatory.
He looked down the hallway, remembering what this house had looked like on that last morning of his life. The once pristine marble fireplace now sagged into the floor of the dingy hallway. The mirror he looked into was long gone.
Then, as if it he went back to that morning, Vicente saw himself as he had once been: hair disheveled and face rough from having missed his barber’s appointment. But his body still carried the languid heat from the night before. When he stood before the mirror that morning, he had been thinking of Anna and her ferocity when he pushed her out the back door.
He blinked and the memory vanished when Dori slammed the door. She stomped through the kitchen. “Doll? Who the hell does he think he is calling me doll?” she muttered to herself.
“I wouldn’t and I’m already dead,” Vicente said, appearing behind her.
Both her feet came off the ground. Dori turned to see him standing in the butler’s pantry, arms crossed with his shoulder leaning on the door jamb.
“You handled him pretty good. You made him feel about this big.” Vicente pinched his thumb and finger together to illustrate.
She looked him up and down. At least this time she wasn’t climbing up the stove to get away from him. “Is that how I make you feel?” she asked.
Vicente laughed and shook his head. “Nope. And you can put down your dukes. It won’t do you much good.”
She looked down at her fists and then opened her hands. “Oh, right.”
“What did he want?”
“Who?”
“The man you were talking to.”
“You saw us?”
“I wouldn’t ask otherwise.”
They stood there a moment, not quite sure how to proceed. “I called him to come look at the house. He said I should level it and then work with him to subdivide it.”
Vicente tensed. “And?”
“I told him no thanks.”
“And he wouldn’t give up.”
Her eyes narrowed. “He told me I was making a stupid decision.”
“See now, I know how to respect a strong woman.” Vicente deliberately drifted his gaze down the length of her body and then back up, hiding the fear of what would happen if she’d leveled the house. Where would that leave him?
Dori crossed her arms as she lifting a skeptical eyebrow. “I’ve had bigger and better than you,” she said.
“But nothing like me.” He then crossed the room in the blink of an eye, standing close enough that he could make out the freckles sprinkled over her cheeks.
Dori flinched but she stood her ground, meeting the challenge in his eyes. She even lifted her chin.
From chapter 11 of Lost in the Light by Mary Castillo. Available in print and for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, iBookstore, Smashwords and All Romance eBooks.
Copyright 2012 Mary Castillo
Filed under: Lost in the Light
December 19, 2012
More Deals & Steals
I’m lookin’ out for ya! Two of my favorite authors that I discovered in 2012 have some great deals.
Bella Andre’s THE LOOK OF LOVE (The Sullivans #1) audiobook is today’s Daily Deal at audible for $3.95! Get it before midnight or too bad, so sad.
Susanna Kearsley’s THE WINTER SEA (made me cry!) is only $2.99 for your Nook or Kindle! Do you think Santa has an e-reader in his sleigh for you next week? Stock up, my friends or give it as a gift to your reading fiends. I mean, reading friends.
I’ve never read Dennis Lehane but I loved the adaptations of Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River. Today his new novel, THE GIVEN DAY, is the Nook Daily Find for $1.99. As a result, my to-be-read list is piling up but that’s a good problem to have!
Filed under: Deals and Steals, eBook News, News
December 18, 2012
Ripping it all apart
I get asked a lot about inspiration. Well folks, this is what it looks like after I’ve toiled on a scene for days only to realize, hey, this scene would work so much better later in the book. After a cup of coffee and some Halloween candy, I’ll figure out how to replace that big gaping hole in chapter 13!
Filed under: The Ballad of Aracely Calderon
December 17, 2012
December 14, 2012
Hooking you up with deals and steals
See, it’s not all about me at this blog! This is the season of sharing and caroling.
Stuff your stocking with 11 FREE E-books, and you might win a Kindle Paperwhite 3G or Nook HD! Enter the contest at Patricia Ryan’s Facebook page and click on the Here We Go a’Caroling tab. Sign up for her newsletter and receive a coupon for a free copy of STILL LIFE WITH MURDER. It’s one of my favorite books of 2012 and you’ll be entered into the drawing for the Kindle Paperwhite 3G or Nook HD. Winners will be announced on Dec. 31st! Go for it!
Kobo is celebrating its 3rd Birthday by giving readers 75% off select titles. There’s some good stuff in there and with your savings you can get Lost in the Light. (I had to try!) Enter the code: pKBQrZ7 and browse now. Expires 12/17/12
Filed under: Between the Pages, eBook News, News
Thanks to Josie Ann at eBook Addict
“Back in October, Mary Castillo, the author of “Lost in the Light” was here shedding some light (no pun intended) on how to handle bad reviews. You can find her article here. Today, I’m proud to present to you, the trailer for her novel! Be sure to pick up your copy from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.”
via eBook Addict.
Filed under: eBook News, Lost in the Light
