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Published on December 04, 2016 05:33

Smoldering Ashes News!

I have BIG NEWS.
Are you ready?
The first draft of SMOLDERING ASHES is done! I know, it took a bit longer than ya'll are used to, but there was so much going on in this one book, well... it needed a little extra time. BUT! I have the release date set and ready to go.

SMOLDERING ASHES will be out everywhere on January 24th!
Add it to your TBR on Goodreads!

Are you as excited as I am?!

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Published on December 02, 2016 12:17

Buy The Box Super Sale & Giveaway!

Check out the November Buy The Box Super Sale & Giveaway!Your favorite Romance Authors are offering their boxed sets... Most of them are on sale for a limited time. It's just our way of thanking our loyal readers. Even better, we've pooled our funds to offer an awesome giveaway!Enter to win a FREE Kindle just for subscribing to our newsletters or following us on social media. Here's the link to the November Buy The Box Super Sale & Giveaway:http://tinyurl.com/h97mjh8

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Published on November 21, 2016 05:05

Happy Holiday Giveaway $2200 in Amazon Gift Cards!

It’s the holiday season and we’d like to bring joy and share the love!Enter to win $2200 in Amazon Gift Cards!

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Published on November 20, 2016 05:12

Check out the November KU Challenge & Giveaway!

Are you a Kindle Unlimited Member?Join the November KU Challenge & Giveaway 11/1-11/30!Over 50 authors have come together to offer an awesome giveaway in an effort to find new readers!Come meet your new favorite author. Read for FREE with KU. Even better, we've pooled our funds to offer an awesome giveaway! Enter to win a Kindle and Amazon Gift Cards just for reading and telling us what you liked.Not a Kindle Unlimited Member? You can enjoy a 30 day trial membership.http://madmimi.com/signups/260653/join

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Published on October 29, 2016 17:05

Now Offering Formatting & Design Services

When I first started this writing gig, I was just a stay at home mom. Now, I say ‘just’ with a grain of salt because this is freaking hard job all by itself as it is being a mother. I’ve worked both sides of the fence, both SAH, and back in the days before we took the adventure in England, I was a working mother. Now that I am an author AND a stay-at-home mama to two lovely and vibrant young girls, I realize just how much this whole author gig really costs,and it ain't cheap.It isn’t just the cover and the artwork and the formatting. It is the advertising and the teasers and everything else that comes along with getting the book out there and into reader hands. And being a newbie, I didn't know where to look or how much would be reasonable. I found some crazy prices and prices that were way too good to be true. I found it hard to trust people with my babies.I also found out along the way, that my skills in art and design have helped me significantly to create my own teasers and promo materials. My military-honed eye for detail in addition to my innate OCD have helped me format my own books (as well as my friend’s books because the OCD takes over and… Well, I can’t not format for some reason once I get ahold of a book. It’s a sickness.)The hubs – the genius he is – suggested I do it as a side business until this whole author stuff starts paying the bills. I deliberated. I worried. And then I sacked up and reminded myself that eventually the author gig WILL pay the bills one day, but today isn’t that day. I can wish and dream and write my butt off, but to be real, IT TAKES TIME.So, I’m still writing and dreaming and making up stories.I’m just also formatting books & designing teasers while I do it.Because a girl’s gotta eat.

If you are interested in any of my available author services, please visit theSERVICESpage on my website for more information. I look forward to working with you!

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Published on October 27, 2016 14:19

One Year Publiversary & Halloween SALE!

It's My Favorite Time of Year...

Some people love Christmas, some Independence Day, some have a serious love for Thanksgiving. Me? Halloween is my favorite.

The costumes, the makeup, the candy. The thrill of a good scare. What's not to love? PLUS, my first book baby's birthday is very close to this awesome holiday. Yep, that's right, Scattered Ashes is almost 1 year old, and to celebrate, I have all of my books on SALE! Come and get Scattered Ashes, Falling Ashes & Rising Ashes for a special Halloween price!
(Don't forget, ALL of my books are available for FREE on Kindle Unlimited!)

Get the Ashes to Ashes series on AMAZON!
Scattered Ashes
Falling Ashes
Rising Ashes
Ashes to Ashes Volume One

Thank you so much for your support! It means the everything to me. If you're interested in more behind-the-scenes details, I'd love to have you join Annie Anderson's Legion! That's my fabulous Facebook reader group! Do you want to get more of the inside scoop? You can find Annie Anderson's Legion HERE. I'd love to have you join us!

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Published on October 26, 2016 05:00

One Week. Three Books. Just 4.99!

Have you been thinking about checking out the Ashes to Ashes series but put it off?
Now is the time to snatch up the first three books in the series for a killer deal—only 4.99! For one week only, you can save $6 and pick up Ashes to Ashes Volume One containing
Scattered Ashes,Falling Ashes, and Rising Ashes.

Amazon: US UK CA AU

Get all three books for 4.99!
Ashes to Ashes Volume One contains Scattered Ashes, Falling Ashes, andRising Ashes under a sexy new cover for one amazing price.

For the next 90 days, all of the books in the Ashes to Ashes series will start a limited time run in Kindle Unlimited. Unfortunately, that leaves out some readers, but I will re-release everything on all major retailers in 90 days. Don't Have Kindle Unlimited? You can try itFREE for 30 days!

Aurelia Constantine is having a rough century.
Plagued by visions of murder, death and destruction, she has resigned herself to the nightmare her life has become. When an enemy from her past comes to her rescue, she must let go of old wounds and heal the breach so she may survive the evil poisoning her mind.

Rhys Stevens is guilty.
Murder. Betrayal. Treason. Take your pick; he’s guilty of them all. On the path of redemption, he must beg for forgiveness from the one person he fought to save - the woman he has always loved.

Thrown together in the trenches of war, they must work as a team to stop a monstrous puppet master from pulling their strings.

Ashes, ashes. We all fall down.
Get ready to burn.

Mena Constantine is pissed off.
Finally freed from her fifty-year imprisonment by a maniacal leader, she is desperately trying to recover and get her life back. Problem is, the life she had is long gone. Struggling under the weight of her memories and healing from the wounds of her captivity, she can't seem to catch a break. Every waking moment, death seems like a relief she would welcome.

Asher Crane is a dead man.
As a Guardian to the King, his only purpose in life is to keep the King alive. And he's failing. Miserably. With the King ill, the Queen dying, and zero plans for a successor, he's pretty much screwed. Because if the King dies, the law says Asher dies, too.

As these two wounded souls collide in a series of bloody and unfortunate events, they will clutch to the last shreds of life before death beats down their door.

West Carmichael is not my real name.
It is the name I pulled from thin air over five hundred years ago. I don’t come from royalty—I come from the dregs of the ethereal. As the King’s assassin, I have more blood on my hands than most. I don’t deserve her. I don’t deserve anyone. But I will keep her safe. Even if I die trying.

Evangeline Black.
My name sounds like the heroine of a historical romance novel – not that I read those or anything. My life so far: Dead parents? Check. Broken heart? Check. Evil mistress of darkness, hell-bent on power and thirsty for my death? Big. Honking. Check. But this mess won’t get cleaned up by itself. I’ve got a job to do.

As these two reluctant hearts fight their pull, they must decide if they want to fall apart in the midst of the chaos swarming around them or yield to their hearts…and rise.

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Published on October 18, 2016 04:00

One Week Only! 3 Books for 4.99! One SMOKING HOT collection. PLUS - Read for FREE with KU!

BIG NEWS!!

For the next 90 days, all of the books in the Ashes to Ashes series will start a limited time run in Kindle Unlimited. Unfortunately, that leaves out some readers, but I will re-release everything on all major retailers in 90 days.

Don't Have Kindle Unlimited? You can try it FREE for 30 days!

On to some more awesome news!!

Have you been thinking about checking out the Ashes to Ashes series but put it off?

Now is the time to snatch up the first three books in the series for a killer deal—only 4.99! For one week only, you can save $6 and pick up Ashes to Ashes Volume One containing Scattered Ashes, Falling Ashes, and Rising Ashes.

Amazon US: http://bit.ly/A2A-1

Amazon UK: http://bit.ly/A2A-1-uk

Amazon CA: http://bit.ly/A2A-1-ca

Amazon AU: http://bit.ly/A2A-1-au

Are you ready to fall into the world of Phoenixes and Wraiths who guard the gates of the beyond? Ashes to Ashes Series Volume One includes the first three books in the Ashes to Ashes series by Annie Anderson.

He took everything from her, but she needs him if she wants to live. Rock, meet hard place in Scattered Ashes . She's missed the last fifty years in prison, he's on the proverbial death row in Falling Ashes . She's the Queen and he'll be her King - if they can live that long in Rising Ashes .

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Published on October 17, 2016 17:39

Meet West Carmichael

I Met the King's Assassin & I Didn't Die. Go Me.

I met with West Carmichael at his extremely impressive garage. I snuck in some questions while he worked on a very beat-up but soon-to-be-beautiful Triumph motorcycle and he didn't kill me. I think Evan's making him soft. (But shhhh! don't tell him I said so.)

You had a very meager start on this earth. How are you dealing with the 180 degree change in your circumstances?
Don't start off gentle for my sake, Annie.

Well, I don't know how many questions you're going to let me ask, so I have to get the good ones in early. I get a shrug and nod, and settle in for the long wait for my answer. West isn't someone who just let's his answers fly without thought.
I guess I'm dealing just fine. I have my woman, I get to lead my people, and every once in a while I get to work on these beauties. I'd say I'm dealing pretty good.

Do you wish you and Evan would have mated earlier?
Always, but the regret I have has been tempered somewhat by the fact that I have her now. Do I wish things were different - that we figured it out sooner? Yes. But I can't change it, so I don't dwell on it.

I know your backstory - the horrors you endured as a young boy. How did you manage to keep your courage through all of the hell you went through?
I want to say I just had a strong presence of mind, but I'd be lying. My mother, Merina, was a very strong woman, and it was my mission in life from a very young age to make hers easier. I didn't succeed in that endeavor, but I knew she would have wanted me to be strong in the face of all I had to go through. It was her memory and a healthy dose of blind rage that got me through it.

Blind rage always works in a pinch, huh?
Pretty much. I wandered for a few decades before John found me. By then I'd already began my career path. John just focused me in a healthier and more socially acceptable way. And the rest, they say, is history.

Okay, enough with the heavy stuff. Before I go, tell me your favorite thing to work on.
Probably my absolute favorite automobile to tinker with would be my 1950 Chevy ICON Thriftmaster. I got her at a junk yard and fixed her up from the frame out. I touched every single inch of that truck.

You named her didn't you?
Of course, I named my baby. What kind of question is that?

Okay, what did you name her?
That's easy. I named her Evangeline.

Thank you so much for speaking with me today. I'll let you get back you your work.

Are you dying to meet the King's assassin? You just might.
Need a teaser to whet your pallet? Look below!

~ Rising Ashes ~
Ashes to Ashes
Book Three

West

Perched on a stool in my garage in front of the most beautifully beat-up wreck of a motorcycle – a newer model Triumph Bonneville some stupid fucker decided to neglect – I should feel at home. This is my place – my safe haven. The fact that my garage is twice the size of my cabin is a testament to how much I love it here. It makes me wonder why I even have a house. I don’t sleep there. I don’t eat there. And I’m thoroughly afraid of opening the refrigerator, because who knows what’s growing in it.

My cabin is just a place; my garage is home.

Two stories tall and four bays wide, the garage is a car lover's dream – slate gray epoxy floors, vaulted ceilings with pendant shop lights hanging from steel cables, coal black 24-gauge steel cabinets lining both the north and south walls, and the best car lift money can buy in the south bay. I even have a bed and a shower in the back room – everything I need under one roof.

Torquing a wrench is the only time I feel at peace, but the waiting has yanked my attention so much I’ve lost the skin of three knuckles already. Yeah, I’ll blame waiting instead of what I’m really doing – thinking of Evangeline.

Damn that woman.

I’ve been dancing around her forever it seems. Fighting my baser instincts to avoid tearing my fangs into the delicate column of her porcelain neck. Just thinking about that line of soft skin makes me fight against my dick getting hard. The way that line follows her slim shoulders and petite body, the full curve of her breasts and the gentle swell of her hips that I just so recently got a glimpse of.

A tiny glimpse. Then again, any time looking at her would be too short. I could look at her for the rest of my life, and it wouldn’t be enough time.

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Published on October 17, 2016 05:00