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December 9, 2012
50% Off Beyond Shame
Exciting news! All Romance Ebooks selected Beyond Shame for a new promotion they’re running for their customers. Anyone who checks out at ARe will have the option to buy Beyond Shame at 50% off, which is an awesome $1.99 right now!
However, you don’t need to purchase anything else to get the bargain price. So if you’ve been waiting for a chance to buy Beyond Shame, you can get it now for $1.99 at this link. But hurry–the discount expires at the end of the day tomorrow. (December 10th)
November 5, 2012
Beyond Shame: The Audiobook
We’re really pleased today to be able to announce that Beyond Shame will be coming to a store near you in the near future…as an audiobook! The lovely folks at Tantor Audio will be producing the audio version, and we’re confident that will make it both high in quality and widely accessible to all our readers.
The best news: selling the audio rights to Tantor frees us up to keep working on Beyond Control. We’re hip deep in Dallas & Lex’s story, and can’t wait to share it with you. Though that’s still a few months off, at the very least, we have hopes that you could see the audio version of Beyond Shame a little sooner–hopefully quite early in 2013.
Hopefully y’all are as excited as we are! And I’d like to take this moment to thank all of you who have tweeted and facebooked and blogged and recommended Beyond Shame to friends and colleagues. I have never witnessed the power of word-of-mouth more closely than I did with this book, and you guys have awed and humbled us. Thanks, really. Cyber drinks are on us. 
October 5, 2012
O’Kane Mug Winner
Thanks everyone who entered to win one of the O’Kane mugs! We love how excited people are about them. Alas, we had to pick one winner, though, and that winner is…
Amelia Durbin
Amelia, you’ll be getting your mug in the mail soon!
For those of you who didn’t win, Zazzle is having a 50% off sale through 4 PM today. (Friday, 10/5) With the FFHSMUGSBAGS you could get your own O’Kane mug for 50% off! Click here to see the colors available.
October 4, 2012
Get your O’Kane ink. (Temporarily)
We’ve added a new page to the website, one where you can sign up to get your own temporary tattoo of the O’Kane logo along with a signed cover flat of Beyond Shame and a few O’Kane stickers. There are also blog/website badges, for those of you who’d like to strut your stuff…or claim a man. (Or two! Most of those O’Kane guys don’t mind sharing.)
Click to request your tattoo and see all the badges…
October 1, 2012
Drink (Coffee) Like an O’Kane
photo by @angelajames
To celebrate the official, pretty-much-everywhere release of Beyond Shame, we’re giving away two O’Kane coffee mugs! These are nice two-color mugs with the O’Kane logo. You can drink your morning beverage as badass as if you’d been partying like an O’Kane the night before. International entries are welcome, just fill out the form below!
And if you desperately want a mug and don’t want to wait or take a chance, you can buy them on zazzle. (The commission is bottomed out, as this is where I order the prizes from, so they’re not TOO expensive.)
Enter to win an O'Kane mug.
International entries welcome! Contest ends Friday, October 5th.
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September 28, 2012
Got questions? We’ll answer them!
So, we’re getting ready for our “official” release week adventure next week, but with the book already out in the public we’ve been getting lots of questions. I’m getting ready to put together a sort of, “What you can expect from the series” overview for next week, along with an FAQ page to answer the questions we’re getting most often.
If there’s anything you’d like to know about the series, the books or anything else, feel free to leave a comment. With the exception of spoilers, we’ll answer everything, either here or in the post & FAQ next week.
(If you’d rather e-mail us, you can do so at kit@kitrocha.com)
September 21, 2012
Beyond Shame In Print
A dangerous world of sex, lust and violence…
All Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond–beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman’s daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier.
The sectors surrounding Eden house the corrupt, the criminal–men like Jasper McCray, bootlegger and cage fighter. Jas clawed his way up from nothing to stand at the right hand of Sector Four’s ruthless leader, and he’ll defend the O’Kane gang with his life. But no fight ever prepared him for the exiled City girl who falls at his feet.
Her innocence is undeniable, but so is their intense sexual attraction, and soon they’re crossing every boundary Noelle barely knew she had. But if she wants to belong to Jas, first she’ll have to open herself to the gang, and to a world where passion is power, and freedom is found in submission.
87,500 words | 354 pages (trade)
Digital – $4.99 (978-0-9883278-0-1)
All Romance Ebooks | Barnes & Noble | Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Smashwords
Print – $15.00 (978-1-4793275-7-7)
Barnes & Noble | Amazon
We’re still waiting on Apple & Kobo, but you can buy DRM-free epub files at All Romance Ebooks & Smashwords. Over the next few weeks, the print book should become available from more online retailers as well. But we’re getting there.
September 11, 2012
The music behind Beyond Shame
Donna & I always listen to a lot of music while writing. Putting together a playlist for a book lets us both get in the same headspace, and this is the one we listened to while writing Beyond Shame.
If the Amazon plugin above doesn’t want to work for you, have an old-fashioned screenshot!
September 5, 2012
Three Chapter Preview
There’s an update on our timeline! Beyond Shame is through developmental edits and is in the hands of several final readers before heading to final proofing. We’re hoping to have a soft release date by late September (which means final copies will be available for reviewers and starting to appear on retailers) with an “official” release date sometime in the first week of October. Since this is our first time doing this, we may have some tweaks to the timeline, but we’re in the end stages!
Because of that, we’ve decided to post the first three chapters of Beyond Shame online for anyone who’s been interested in just what this project is. These chapters might not be identical to the final product, but no substantial changes should be made between now and release day.
She’d been cast out of Eden and straight into Hell.
Noelle had never seen anything as menacing as the Sector Four slums at twilight. Back in the city, the buildings were elegant, each carefully planned to fit the aesthetic of those around it, each maintained by silent crews of landscapers and cleaners tasked with making every inch of the city sparkle. Shining towers with crystal windows reflected the endless blue sky, and straight roads intersected at perfect angles.
Here, in the slums outside Eden, squat, ugly buildings seemed dropped with careless imprecision. The roads followed no logic she could discern. Brick and wood alike were dark with soot from generators spitting smoke into the air. Graffiti covered the walls, lewd curses and symbols she couldn’t begin to decipher. Garbage littered the cracked asphalt and dirt paths, broken glass and suspicious liquids. Noelle swallowed the pain of her ridiculous high heels and picked a careful path toward the end of the street.
August 5, 2012
New website…
If you’ve discovered this website, you’re a few weeks early. Come back later when it’s finally working!
