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Ambushed Teaser #7

Here’s the next teaser for Ambushed! This one was done by Katie.

Ambushed Teaser #6

Another visual teaser for Ambushed–this one by Mei!

Ambushed Teaser #5

This one is a little more like what you’d see on a traditional romance cover.

Ambushed Teaser #4

Here’s another great teaser for Ambushed–this time created by Mei!

It will probably be a few more days before I’ll post the next teaser, but there are a bunch of them still to come.

Ambushed Teaser #3

Another lovely teaser for Ambushed! It’s getting closer!

Ambushed Teaser #2

 

Another great teaser, this time by Katie!

Ambushed Teaser #1

I have an incredible group of advanced readers, one of which is Mei. About a week ago Mei approached me with a wonderful idea that she hoped would help get the Reflections Readers excited about Ambushed (Dark Reflections #3).

I’m incredibly grateful for her help and equally thrilled to be able to post the first of a series of visual book teasers that Mei and Katie have been working on.

If you haven’t started my Dark Reflections series yet, there’s still time to read Bound and Hunted before August 8th.

 

Open for Suggestions

Hey everyone. I’ve been spending some time trying to put together a multi-author bundle (the idea is that four or five authors would get together for a limited time and offer one novel each to be put into a $.99 story bundle).

As I downloaded yet another sample I realized that I’m being silly. The best way to find other books that might fit well win a bundle with Broken would be to get suggestions from all of you.

It needs to be an indie author (traditional publishing contracts don’t generally allow the author the flexibility to do this kind of thing), the book your recommending needs to be the first in a series and it needs to be a YA paranormal romance (so age appropriate, clean).

If you can leave you suggestions in the comments I’d appreciate it-I’ll see how much reading I can squeeze into the next few days before I start writing again in July, and then I’ll approach the authors with the opportunity and see what they say.

Thanks,

Dean

Ambushed Cover Reveal

I’m pleased to be able to finally put up a cover reveal post for Ambushed! As always, I think that Katie has done a great job.

Driven Release Giveaway

Hello, everyone. Jenine and Janelle from over on my forum suggested that I do a giveaway to celebrate the release of Driven, so here goes

I’m going to give away a phone case (either an iPhone 4/5 or a Samsung Galaxy 3/4) and an advance reader copy of Lost (Isaac’s Reflections book).

That’s right, the winner will get a free copy of Lost as soon as I get it back from both my editors (possibly as soon as the end of June). What’s more, I want to reward people who are helping spread the word about the series, so even if you don’t win the rafflecopter drawing you can still win.

How does that work? I’ll be asking the winner who got them started into the series and I’ll be giving that person an advance reader copy of Lost too (so the two of you can talk to each other about what happens to Isaac before anyone else gets to read it).

The official entry page is over on the Reflections Facebook Page. You get one entry for liking the Reflections Facebook Page and you can get a second entry for tweeting about Driven’s release.

(This is what you would have to tweet to get credit: ” I can’t wait for Driven http://goo.gl/bJtRVO Retweet for a chance to win a phone case and a copy of Lost!”)

If this is something a lot of you are interested in, then you can let me know in the comments. If we get a lot of entries then I’d be happy to do something like this for future releases too.

(My wonderful wife, Katie, saw the mockup of the phone cases and said they just won’t do. She’s going to try to do a modified Driven cover that will show the full title and author’s name–which means they’ll be even more one-of-a-kind)

-Dean