Kim Sanders's Blog
March 17, 2020
Escape to Ireland While Sitting on Your Couch
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
The Ex Lottery (e-book version) is free from March 17-21st on Amazon.
On this very social holiday, we find ourselves isolated as we self-quarantine and practice social distancing in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 disease. Books provide a great escape.
If you enjoy contemporary romance, I'm offering the e-book of my novel The Ex Lottery, a modern Irish fairytale and winner of three contemporary romance awards, for free on Amazon March 17-21.
https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Lottery-Kim...
The Ex Lottery (e-book version) is free from March 17-21st on Amazon.
On this very social holiday, we find ourselves isolated as we self-quarantine and practice social distancing in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 disease. Books provide a great escape.
If you enjoy contemporary romance, I'm offering the e-book of my novel The Ex Lottery, a modern Irish fairytale and winner of three contemporary romance awards, for free on Amazon March 17-21.
https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Lottery-Kim...
November 16, 2017
The Ex Lottery Is Now An Audiobook
The Ex Lottery, the winner of three first-place contemporary romance awards, is now available as an audiobook. The narrator is Eva Kaminsky who has recorded over 150 books and been nominated for the AUDIE award in romance. I took my time picking the perfect narrator. Eva does an amazing job, and you will fall in love with her Irish accents.
Want to listen to the audiobook for free? Go to audible link below and try it with a free thirty-day trial of Audible. Please leave a review after you listen. I'd love to hear your opinions on the audiobook and the written version.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Th...
Want to listen to the audiobook for free? Go to audible link below and try it with a free thirty-day trial of Audible. Please leave a review after you listen. I'd love to hear your opinions on the audiobook and the written version.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Th...
September 6, 2016
2016 Kindle Book Awards
"The Ex Lottery" is a semi-finalist in the romance category of the 2016 Kindle Book Awards. Winners will be announced in November.
For more information about the awards, go to https://www.thekindlebookreview.net/2....
For more information about the awards, go to https://www.thekindlebookreview.net/2....
September 1, 2016
Kindle Giveaway to Celebrate "Labor" Day
Enjoy a beach read this Labor Day Weekend for free. The Ex Lottery is free on Amazon from Sept 1-5th, celebrating my daughter's "labor." I'm a grandmother and since the idea for The Ex Lottery arose after my daughter gave up on love only to find true love and now to give me my first granddaughter, it seemed appropriate. By the way, my granddaughter is perfect and I'm not biased at all. I may be guilty of posting a picture or two of my granddaughter on my author Facebook page from time-to-time.
Hope you'll read The Ex Lottery and write a review on Amazon and Goodreads. I promise to get back to work on my next novel as soon as I can put down the baby long enough to start typing. Enjoy!
Hope you'll read The Ex Lottery and write a review on Amazon and Goodreads. I promise to get back to work on my next novel as soon as I can put down the baby long enough to start typing. Enjoy!
September 2, 2015
Chatelaine Contemporary Romance Award Winner
THE EX LOTTERY won First Place in Contemporary Romance in the CHATELAINE AWARDS for Women’s Fiction and Romance Novels, a division of Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Writing Competitions. To celebrate, I'll be attending the Chanticleer Authors Conference & Awards Banquet in Bellingham, Washington. What a beautiful location for a conference. Can't wait. Maybe I'll see you there.
June 14, 2015
Finalist in Romance
THE EX LOTTERY is a finalist in the Chatelaine Awards contest for romance. Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media sponsors the contest. Thanks Chanticleer. I feel honored to be among the short list of finalists. Thanks Chanticleer.
May 19, 2015
Winner, NEC-RWA Readers' Choice Award
THE EX LOTTERY won first place in the New England Readers’ Choice Awards for long contemporary romance. The New England Chapter of the Romance Writers of America (NEC-RWA) sponsored the competition and announced the winners during the 2015 Let Your Imagination Take Flight awards banquet in Burlington, MA. See the list of all the winners and finalists at http://0092d63.netsolhost.com/blog1. Thanks, readers. I'm thrilled and honored.
May 10, 2015
Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mothers of the world. Hope you spend the day with your children and your evening with a wonderful book and a glass of wine. My daughter gave me flowers, my son gave me fudge, and my Kindle is filled with romance novels. My life is basically perfect.
December 31, 2014
The Lottery Dream
Someone won the Mega Millions Lottery this week. $172 million. I wasn't me. :)
Only my character in "The Ex Lottery" was that lucky.
What would you do with millions? Would you be practical or blow the money on a wild dream? Is that dream a story waiting to be told? It's amazing how many of us are storytellers when we let something as simple as a piece of paper with random numbers spark our imagination. I like to think that the losing lottery ticket I bought that sparked Tory's story in "The Ex Lottery" was worth every penny.
Well, if one of my readers won, enjoy your dream—and maybe, just maybe, you should write your story.
Only my character in "The Ex Lottery" was that lucky.
What would you do with millions? Would you be practical or blow the money on a wild dream? Is that dream a story waiting to be told? It's amazing how many of us are storytellers when we let something as simple as a piece of paper with random numbers spark our imagination. I like to think that the losing lottery ticket I bought that sparked Tory's story in "The Ex Lottery" was worth every penny.
Well, if one of my readers won, enjoy your dream—and maybe, just maybe, you should write your story.
November 16, 2014
Top 10 Bestseller List
This weekend, "The Ex Lottery" ranked in the top ten of Amazon's free Kindle Bestseller List for Contemporary Romance Fiction. The novel is also ranked in the top 50 in the Kindle free store.
Today is the last day of the free Kindle promotion for "The Ex Lottery" so I hope you'll download the ebook and read it——and review it. :)
Yes, I know, a free promotion means I don't make money this weekend, and some authors and publishers frown upon such an offer. But I actually find myself downloading free books from authors I would have never read without such a promotion. After such an introduction, I read more of their novels. I'm actually excited that thousands of people are now reading my book. Plus, if you like it, maybe you'll tell your friends. My own personal happily-ever-after.
"The Ex Lottery" is about a woman who gives up on love then wins the lottery using the dates her ex-boyfriends dumped her. She travels to Ireland where she must decide if the men chasing her are in it for love or are they simply romancing the numbers.
"The Ex Lottery" won First Place in Contemporary Romance in the Chick Lit Writers' Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest. And I've received the following reviews too, but I want to hear from romance readers everywhere.
A review from a Writer's Digest Contest stated “The Ex Lottery is a charming and lively contemporary romance… Tory is a beautifully crafted and compelling character, a woman who has been bruised by love in many ways but remains, at the core, optimistic, even if it takes her a while to get there. The secondary characters are well-drawn and fully realized in their own rights, and Shane is a really wonderfully sexy love interest… Overall, a very strong book and this author has a bright future in contemporary romance," Judge, 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Kirkus Reviews called it "A light, uplifting romance that's equal parts comedy, fairy tale and travelogue." Kirkus Reviews also featured the review in its magazine.
So if you need a light, fun modern Irish fairy tale to read for the holidays, I hope you'll add my book to your list. And I hope you enjoy happily-ever-after as much as I do.
Today is the last day of the free Kindle promotion for "The Ex Lottery" so I hope you'll download the ebook and read it——and review it. :)
Yes, I know, a free promotion means I don't make money this weekend, and some authors and publishers frown upon such an offer. But I actually find myself downloading free books from authors I would have never read without such a promotion. After such an introduction, I read more of their novels. I'm actually excited that thousands of people are now reading my book. Plus, if you like it, maybe you'll tell your friends. My own personal happily-ever-after.
"The Ex Lottery" is about a woman who gives up on love then wins the lottery using the dates her ex-boyfriends dumped her. She travels to Ireland where she must decide if the men chasing her are in it for love or are they simply romancing the numbers.
"The Ex Lottery" won First Place in Contemporary Romance in the Chick Lit Writers' Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest. And I've received the following reviews too, but I want to hear from romance readers everywhere.
A review from a Writer's Digest Contest stated “The Ex Lottery is a charming and lively contemporary romance… Tory is a beautifully crafted and compelling character, a woman who has been bruised by love in many ways but remains, at the core, optimistic, even if it takes her a while to get there. The secondary characters are well-drawn and fully realized in their own rights, and Shane is a really wonderfully sexy love interest… Overall, a very strong book and this author has a bright future in contemporary romance," Judge, 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Kirkus Reviews called it "A light, uplifting romance that's equal parts comedy, fairy tale and travelogue." Kirkus Reviews also featured the review in its magazine.
So if you need a light, fun modern Irish fairy tale to read for the holidays, I hope you'll add my book to your list. And I hope you enjoy happily-ever-after as much as I do.
