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January 1, 2017
2016 in Review ~ Coming in 2017 ~ Reader Contest! #reading #giveaway
Hello readers! Well, 2016 is over and 2017 is here. I wish you all the very best this year! I have skipped last weekend’s and today’s Weekend Writing Warriors posts, as I have been busy celebrating the holidays. I will return next weekend with a new excerpt from It Took A Zombie Apocalypse.
2016 IN REVIEW
2016 was filled with some personal highs and lows for me. I completed the 22-Day Push Up Challenge to bring awareness to PTSD and the high suicide rates of the men and women who serve our countries, finishing off with a donation to Wounded Warriors Canada. I also completed a 90-Day Fitness and Healthy Eating 
Challenge where I lost 27lbs, went down two pant sizes, and learned to love vegetables. (Or most of them, anyway.) The challenge ended with a photo shoot. I also participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time. While I didn’t hit the 50k word target, I managed 40,284 words, which is a personal best for me.
But, on the day of my fitness photo shoot, I came home to find out my grandmother had passed away. And at the end of December, one of the retailers I used to sell my books informed me that they were closing and weren’t going to pay me my contractually-obligated royalties. And that doesn’t include the ups and downs in the world around me.
Please Note: On December 29, I removed all of my books files from All Romance eBooks so the owner would not have access to them when the site went down. If you purchased one of my titles from the retailer, but did not get a chance to download it, please email me at jess @ jessicasubject.com.
TITLES I RELEASED IN 2016
Alien Next Door: The Complete Series
Made For Her
Galactic Defenders: BRYCE
Beyond Reach
Cosmic Sutra
WHAT I READ IN 2016
Mated with the Cyborg by Cara Bristol
Cruz by Anna Hackett
Captured by the Cyborg by Cara Bristol
Wyvern’s Mate by Deborah Cooke
Mission to a New Earth by Diane Burton
Pets in Space (currently reading)
WHAT I LISTENED TO IN 2016
Prodigy by Marie Lu
Champion by Marie Lu
The Crusader’s Bride by Claire Delacroix
The Last Star by Rick Yancey
Alien Hunter by Whitley Strieber
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Scarlett by Marissa Meyer (currently listening to)
COMING IN 2017
All-in-all, I’m glad 2016 is over, and I’m looking forward to what 2017 has in store. This year, my country will celebrate its 150th birthday. In fact, the celebrations started last night.
At the beginning of 2016, I’d planned to release Made For Her, Beyond Reach, Bryce, and have Jager written. Well, I managed to accomplish that and a little bit more. During NaNoWriMo, I finished writing It Took A Zombie Apocalypse, and wrote most of Jager.
So, here’s what I plan to release in 2017:
It Took A Zombie Apocalypse
Galactic Defenders: JAGER
Secret Multi-Author project
Always Her Wingman
Galactic Defenders: JACE
They may not release in that order, but those are the stories I will be focusing on, with the first two stories now in edits.
I also plan to read more. I know I say that every year, but I didn’t read near enough in 2016. What’s on my immediate to-read list?
Wyvern’s Prince by Deborah Cooke
The Roar by Emma Clayton
more Cara Bristol
more Anna Hackett
more Veronica Scott
more Sci-Fi Romance
more Books and Audio Books!
1st prize: Choice of one of my signed paperbacks
Choose from: Bryce, Cosmic Desires, or
Alien Next Door: The Complete Series
2nd prize: Choice of one of my audio books
Choose from: Another Night Another Planet,
Beneath the Starry Sky, Unknown Futures, or
The Star Princess
3rd prize: Choice of one of my audio books
Choices as above.
Contest is international except where prohibited by law.
Must be 18 or older to enter.
No substitutions will be made.
Odds of winning are dependent upon the number of entries.
Contest ends January 15, 2017.
Winner will be notified by email.
December 26, 2016
It’s Boxing Day and I have a #FREE read and a Sale for you! #romance #NewAdult
Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying (enjoyed) your holidays. Today is Boxing Day, which means SALES! And I have some for you.
For December 26, 2016, you can SAVE 25% OFF
ALL of my self-published titles at All Romance eBooks.
You can find them listed here.
FREE FOR KINDLE
From December 26 to 30, 2016, you can get
ACCIDENTAL ROMANCE for FREE at Amazon!
AMAZON US | UK | Canada
Germany | Australia | Japan
HAPPY READING!
December 24, 2016
Wishing you a very Happy Holiday!
I want to wish you all the best over the holidays, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, one of the other holidays that occur at this time, or nothing at all. As one of my readers, your support means the world to me. I truly appreciate it.
I also wanted to let you know that I have a couple of great deals happening on Boxing Day, so stay tuned.
WISHING YOU ALL THE VERY BEST!
December 19, 2016
Join the Christmas Party at The Romance Studio! #romance #giveaway
TRS Christmas Party
‘Tis the season to find some breathtaking romances to read over the holidays. You are invited to The Romance Studio’s annual Christmas party. They are giving away an Amazon gift ecard (electronic gift card only, value $100 minimum) to one lucky reader. There is also author prizes at this party, including a signed paperback of the first book in my Galactic Defenders series, BRYCE.
Find all posts here as well as links to the giveaways
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December 17, 2016
#8Sunday: Home for the summer ~ Excerpt from IT TOOK A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE #romance #newadult
Welcome to another Weekend Writing Warriors post!
Hello! I’m ready to start sharing excerpt from my NaNoWriMo stories. The first I’m sharing from is IT TOOK A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. This is a New Adult Interracial Small Town Romance story that occurs during a Zombie Apocalypse.
Since this story is only self-edited at this point, any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Set-up: This is the beginning of the story when you meet the hero of the story.
RJ strolled through the booths at the fun fair. Another gathering where people either glared at him or pretended he didn’t exist. Growing up in West Vitula, one would think he’d be used to it. But a lifetime of not being welcome in the small town never came easy. Why couldn’t his father have secured a position at a hospital in Ostrander, only an hour away?
Women stood behind rows of wooden tables, selling pies, bread, and jams to other women. Some men gathered in various groups, drinking beer from plastic glasses and telling recycled stories from their youth, or checking out the college girls who had returned for the summer. Just as RJ had come to do. Yet, he hadn’t seen anyone worth his time. If not for the anniversary of his mother’s death, he would have stayed away from this town, insisted his father take some time off to visit him.
IT TOOK A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
It started with a kiss.
Then the zombies came. Now, Missy must work with the neighbor her parents hate if she wants to survive. But, zombies aren’t the only threat to her life, or her heart.
Available in early 2017.
Weekend Writing Warriors is a Sunday short-snippet blog hop in which authors share short excerpts from their books (published or unpublished). There’s a variety of genres–something for everyone! To visit the participating authors, and find out more, click on the logo:
Plus, be sure to stop by Romance Eh? Canadian Style for your chance to WIN a $50 Amazon GC!
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December 12, 2016
Buy a paperback for a friend, get the ebook FREE for yourself!
With Amazon’s Kindle Matchbook program, you get a Kindle ebook for $2.99 or less when you buy the paperback book from Amazon. So, you can buy a print book as a gift for a friend or loved one, and keep the Kindle version of the same book for yourself!
With my three print books in the Kindle Matchbook program, you buy the paperback and get the Kindle ebook for FREE.
Click on the titles below to find the print versions:
Bryce (Galactic Defenders book one)
Alien Next Door: The Complete Series
Cosmic Desires
For more information on the Kindle Matchbook program, go here.
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December 10, 2016
#8Sunday: Nothing but snow ~ Excerpt from SEXY SUITORS FROM SPACE #alien #menage
Welcome to another Weekend Writing Warriors post!
Hello! I had intended to share an excerpt from one of my NaNoWriMo stories this weekend, but I received some sad news last weekend, and had to travel away from home to attend my grandmother’s visitations and funeral. So, I did not have a chance to review those stories before sharing them.
Since I seemed to bring the snow back with me from Northern Ontario, I thought I’d share an excerpt from SEXY SUITORS FROM SPACE, where my heroine is expressing her thoughts on the white stuff.
Set-up: Heather has been sent to Lapland (in Finland) for a vacation where her grandmother holds time share. Only, it’s not the vacation setting she’s used to.
Some vacation. Nothing but snow for miles. I might as well have been visiting the North Pole with all the layers of clothing I had on. And, somehow, the cold wind still managed to find the small amount of face I didn’t have covered, stinging the skin around my eyes.
“Are we almost there?” I could barely see five feet in front of me, only the mountain of a man directly ahead. If he slowed down for one second, I’d grab his coat with one hand and cover the rest of my face with my free arm. But if I didn’t keep up, I’d get lost in the blizzard. “Seriously, is the place I’m staying anywhere nearby?” Every other hotel I’d stayed at had the check-in desk within the building, but apparently not this one.
SEXY SUITORS FROM SPACE
A vacation to the far North…
Heather is gifted a week away at a resort in the Arctic Circle by her grandmother, a chance to finally move on after finding her fiancé in bed with another woman.
With two Nordic hunks to keep her company…
The two sexy studs make it easy to get over her failed relationship. That is, until they tell her their secret.
Are the two men really extraterrestrials or just a fantasy created by her lonely soul?
Caution: Includes alien probing, anal sex, and a hot MFM ménage.
Available from:
Story is also part of COSMIC DESIRES anthology.
Weekend Writing Warriors is a Sunday short-snippet blog hop in which authors share short excerpts from their books (published or unpublished). There’s a variety of genres–something for everyone! To visit the participating authors, and find out more, click on the logo:
Plus, be sure to stop by Romance Eh? Canadian Style for your chance to WIN a $50 Amazon GC!
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December 5, 2016
Christmas for #Romance Readers Dec. 5-11 ~ 20 #FREE & #99cents eBooks #giveaway
Christmas for Romance Readers is Here!
20 FREE or 99¢ ebooks
PLUS, a chance to WIN a $25 Amazon egift card
Right in time for the holidays! An awesome line of authors have come together to bring you over 20 “free” or “99¢” books to fill up your reading tablet this Christmas season! Download all these great titles and you will have a book a day to read until the New Year! With a cheerful collection of contemporary, historical, spicy, erotica, and more, you can take a break after your Christmas shopping and escape into a great read. Happy Holidays!
Click this link to find your FREE & 99¢ books!
http://shannynleah.com/romance-feature.php
Alien Adoration is FREE & Cosmic Desires is 99¢
NOTE: Please check the price before downloading as some may not be free in your territory. The ebooks in this promo range from short stories, novellas, novels and even multi-book bundles.
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December 3, 2016
#8Sunday: Why Terrans are trouble ~ Excerpt from COSMIC SUTRA #scifi #romance #lesfic
Welcome to another Weekend Writing Warriors post!
Hello! Well, I didn’t reach 50,000 words, but I managed 40,284, which is more than I’ve managed any other month since I started writing, so I’m happy. Since I have a finished story and an almost finished story now, this will be my last WeWriWa post for Cosmic Sutra. Next week I will share from one of my NaNoWriMo stories. Oh, and I have a freebie today. More on that below…
Here’s one last excerpt from COSMIC SUTRA, my New Adult Lesbian Sci-Fi Romance.
Set-up: I’m skipping far ahead. Victoria and Kaye are now in a relationship, have been intimate, and Victoria is making everyone at Thanh rethink what they believe about Terrans. Then the bombing happens, and everything changes.
Kaye placed her hands on Victoria’s chest and gently pushed her back. “You cannot go. You can’t leave this room, not until everything settles.”
“Why?” She didn’t understand. If she couldn’t leave, why was it any safer for Kaye?
“It was a bomb set by some Terran students; a witness saw them running away just before the explosion happened. The repercussions for you are going to be brutal.” Kaye clasped her hand. “Promise me you won’t leave here until class starts again, and don’t open the door for anyone.”
COSMIC SUTRA
When Victoria is offered a scholarship to attend Thanh Academy for her last year of university, she jumps at the opportunity. Nothing could be more practical in her psychology studies than to travel to the other side of the universe and live amongst the life forms she strives to learn from.
Upon her arrival, she is met with hostility. Convincing the other students she is not like those from Earth who came before her takes time, but eventually she is embraced by a small group of friends, including a sexy female alien she fantasizes about on a daily basis.
Based on past experience, will Victoria keep her lust hidden deep inside to prevent losing a friend? Or will she confess her feelings to Kaye and possibly find her one true love?
Available from:
AMAZON US | UK | Canada | Germany | Australia | Japan
Weekend Writing Warriors is a Sunday short-snippet blog hop in which authors share short excerpts from their books (published or unpublished). There’s a variety of genres–something for everyone! To visit the participating authors, and find out more, click on the logo:
Hey, Santa, an alien romance that takes place during the Christmas season, is FREE December 3-4, 2016 as part of Patty Jansen’s FREE Sci-Fi & Fantasy Promo.
You can get it FREE from Amazon during that time.
Plus, be sure to stop by Romance Eh? Canadian Style for your chance to WIN a $50 Amazon GC!
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