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Peter Pan and Captain Hook

NEVERLAND

Have your read this book?

Some of you have, I know, and it’s my pleasure to reveal some great news tonight. Can you guess it? ;)

Oh yeah, I’m going to write another sequal to the series.

While NEVERLAND and PAN’S REVENGE focus on the sweetest love between Captain Hook and a sassy London girl, book three will give Peter Pan a chance to find his happily ever after.

I have a few projects to finish first, but once they are done, I’ll get working on the final volume in the ADVENTURES IN NEVERLAND series.

xoxo

Anna

One book for free – an entire series to fall in love with

Have you watched this yet?

Created by Red 14 Films, I proudly present the brand new cinematic book trailer for Play With Me & Ryan Hunter!

If you read the books already, I hope the teaser can pull you back into the story for a while and make you relive all the sweet moments. If you haven’t read the books yet…well, maybe you’ll get hooked by watching this.

Play With Me is currently on sale on Amazon for amazing $0.00!! So what are you waiting for? ;)

xoxo,

Anna

BIG review GIVEAWAY!

Hey people!

Let me get right to the point: I have a ton of real and costume jewelry to give away! Want some of it? :-)

This morning, I cleaned out the drawer of my nightstand and put every bit of jewelry that I didn’t wear in the past couple of years on a pile. Now, I’m not good with throwing things away, but I’m not good with hoarding them either. So I thought I’d give some of it away in a little…tadaa…GIVEAWAY. ;)

 

GIVEAWAY #1

 

To win this set of little beauties, all you have to do is help me get people to post reviews for RYAN HUNTER on Amazon.com

Actually, I want 400. (168 are up already)

Leave your name in a comment if you want to enter. And then tell everyone you know about the series. Recommending books on Goodreads does help a lot. Also, you can tell your friends that PLAY WITH ME is currently for FREE. So that’s a good way to get into the Grover Beach Team series.

As soon as 400 reviews are up on Amazon.com, I’ll pick a winner from the comments and will announce the name at the bottom. You would do well to bookmark this post and come back to check once in a while if you entered. Maybe you’re the lucky one. ;)

All right, let the games begin!

xoxo

Anna

 

Knock, knock! – Who’s there? – Hollywood!

Project: Set sails for Hollywood

Book to movie!

This is my book to movie project, and I’m asking all of you to support me in this endeavor. What you can do? It’s simply. I’ll outline my clear plan of action for you, so you see that I’m not just sitting back and whining about an impossible wish to come true.

I’ll do whatever it takes to make it happen. Help me?

Here are the 6 basics steps I’ll take to bring my fantasy romance NEVERLAND to screen.

 

Step 1

Make my book notable to one of the big movie studios in the USA. How? Simple. There’s this wonderful site called the IF-LIST. People set up pages there for the books they want to be turned into motion pictures. Everybody in this world can log in and support this idea with one simple click. There’s no money involved. Really, all you have to do is click one button and show your interest in this book with it. You can even log in with your facebook, or just use your email, it’s no big deal.

For those who wish to suggest a special actor for one of the characters, there’s a fantastic feature, too. It’s so much fun – and very, very helpful.

To get people to support NEVERLAND, I also set up a GIVEAWAY. Once 3000 people support my project, I’ll give away 30 x $20 Amazon gift cards and 10 signed books.

 

Step 2

I’m in touch with a very talented film team. They’re going to make a cinematic book trailer of NEVERLAND within the next few months. It’ll be awesome in the end!

 

Step 3

The production costs of this trailer can be anything from $4,000 to $70,000. I can afford a couple thousand dollars for the production myself, but a really, really good trailer would be $15,000 to $20,000. I’m going to ask this film team to set up a page on kickstarter.com to raise money to fund the project. I hope they’ll do it and I hope you guys believe in this project enough to donate a few dollars to make it happen.

 

Step 4

Once the cinematic book trailer is finished and up on YouTube, I need all of you to watch it a few times and share it with your friends, family, on your websites, facebook and twitter. The more hits this video will get, the better the chances to draw attention.

 

Step 5

In this stage, I’m going to ask all of you for help once more. I need hundreds of you to tweet to Warner Bros with a link to the book trailer in the tweet. All at the same day, and better yet a few days in a row. If they get swamped with this video, they’ll have to watch it at some point. The first contact will be made.

 

Step 6

With enough hits on YouTube and enough supporters on the IF-LIST, I’ll prepare a query email for Warner Bros and present my idea. Wish me luck!

I’m a dreamer. And this dream is really big. But you know what?

If you can dream it, you can do it.

 

Thank you for your support and trust.

 

 

 

You’re in control of a movie!

NEVERLAND can be made into a movie!!!

If only you’ll help me a little…

So many of you consequently ask me when my books will finally be turned into motion pictures. Now, that’s not in my hand. But with a little luck and your help, this dream can become reality really fast.

Book to movie!

If you loved even just one of my books, please do me a favor. It’s a small favor, taking you no more than 5 seconds. That’s not much compared to the 6 months I take to write the next big book for you, right? :)

Now, let me tell you what you can do and what you’ll get for your help.

There’s a thing called the IF-LIST in the web. People post books there, which they want HOLLYWOOD to turn into movies. With enough supporters, one of the big studios might listen up.

IF LIST

It’s so simple.

Hopp over, sign up (you can do that with your facebook in two seconds), and support NEVERLAND. Ask all your friends, family memebers and anybody who owes you a favor to do the same, please!!! Share this link, share the ads, shout it out on facebook or just tell everyone in your home town about it. It’s worth it, I promise! Some of the big stories have been discovered by the studios that way.

And it’s fun, too. Be creative and suggest the actors you think would fit the characters best. I’m so curious how you imagine my heroes. ^^

Once there are 3000 supporters listed for Neverland, I’ll present that to Warner Bros. They have to hear me then, they just have to. Period.

Also, 3000 is the number that starts a really big giveaway. As soon as that group of supporters for Neverland is reached, I’ll give out 30 x $20 Amazon gift cards and 10 signed copies of a book of your choice. Sound good?

Great. And now…go. GO! :)

IF LIST

Thank you!

Also, there are more things you can do to make your favorite authors write the next book for you really fast. What that is? Check it out:

Buy the books.
Leave nice reviews on Goodreads and Amazon.
Connect with the author on social media and tell her how you liked the stories.
Talk about the author and her books on facebook and your blog.
Recommend the books to your friends. Goodreads is great that way. It lets you do it with one simple click. (top right corner of the book page)
Like and share the cinematic book trailers:

Summer of my Secret Angel

Play With Me

Share all the ads and links the author posts on her website or facebook.
Tweet about your favorite author.
Gush over the book on twitter and add Warner Bros. to the tweet.
Support other books on the IF LIST.

Support PLAY WITH ME

Support NEVERLAND

Support SUMMER OF MY SECRET ANGE

And remember, it’s those little things that make me try to finish the next book in record time for you.

 

Cheers,

Anna

DATING TROUBLE is launching!

Book launch in 3…2…1…

Here we go!!!

OUT NOW!!

 

DATING TROUBLE is the 5th book in the Grover Beach Team series and, complete at 100,000 words, it’s also the longest. Though the series is meant to be one of novellas as you know, I promise I won’t split this book up in two. What I did, however, is write it from the girl’s POV only. You’ll get – just like with Play With Me & Ryan Hunter – the guy’s POV in a separate book at the end of the year. I hope I can live up to your high expectations and can pull off another such stunt as with Ryan Hunter. Susan Miller’s hero certainly deserves it. ;)

If you haven’t read the other books in the series yet, you can still read this as a stand alone. But for a nicer reading experience, I suggest to start at the very beginning. You definitely won’t regret it! PLAY WITH ME is on sale for $0.99 right now!

And here’s a final teaser for you…

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Chris, who’d smeared the cream on the cake by now, picked a few oranges from the fruit bowl and juggled them, singing along to “All About That Bass,” until one of the oranges dropped to the floor. Ethan picked it up for him while Chris grabbed a few other fruits. He dug a little deeper into the bowl and finally turned around to his brother, a frown on his face. “Where are the kiwis?”

Ethan sucked in a breath through his teeth. “Crap.” He gave me a guilty look. “I completely forgot about them.”

Annoyed, Chris suppressed a groan. “Go get me some, now.”

Of course, he’d asked me about my favorite fruit, but I didn’t see what was so tragic about not having any kiwi on the cake. As long as there were no peaches in my dessert, I was fine with any fruit. But Chris seemed to want everything perfect.

“How about you go get them yourself?” Ethan taunted him.

Chris braced his hands on the counter and leveled Ethan the same mocking look. “I’m grounded.”

Grimacing, Ethan let go of a sigh. “Right.”

“Hey,” I said, drawing their attention to me. “I can go get them.”

About to slide off the counter, Chris put a hand on my knee and held me back. “Ethan can go. You stay right where you are.”

My heart knocked against the base of my throat. Last time I was alone with Chris, I ended up with a hickey on my neck. It would be wise to insist I run to the store. But Ethan was out of the kitchen before I even had a chance to argue. “Be right back,” he shouted from the hallway. The sound of the front door slamming shut drifted to us.

Oh shoot…

My nerves in a sudden tangle, I eyed Chris hesitantly. To his credit, he didn’t act as if he had any hidden motives or as if he planned to roast me and have me for dinner. No, he just turned off the music and fished for another stainless steel bowl in a cupboard.

In this one, he dropped several bars of dark chocolate and a chunk of butter. Heating the mass in a bain-marie, he stirred it nonstop with an egg beater. Every now and then, he dipped his finger into the melting chocolate and tasted it.

Strange that he wouldn’t talk to me now that we were alone. It heightened my tension, but like hell would I let him notice that.

The next time he dipped his finger into the chocolate, he jerked back his hand, wincing. A stain landed on the collar of his white t-shirt. “Damn,” he murmured under his breath, trying to wipe the chocolate away, but the dark spot remained.

He turned off the burner and pulled the bowl aside—the chocolate was probably hot and liquidy enough now. Shrugging out of his shirt, he pulled his tee over his head and tossed it across the room. It landed on one of the empty chairs.

I stopped breathing, my chest gone too tight at the sight of his toned body. Heck, did I need to wipe some drool off my lips? Hopefully not, but I couldn’t guarantee. Chris certainly noticed my gaze on him. With a smirk, he pulled the dark gray shirt on again and buttoned it up, leaving only the top two buttons unfastened. His set of silver chains glinted against his skin.

Unaware he’d left me feeling a little woozy with his unintentional strip show, Chris calmly continued stirring the chocolate sauce, improving it with a splash of rum and some grated orange peels. A sweet, warm smell spread in the room, reminding me of birthday cakes and Easter candy.

Next, he peeled an orange and a banana and plucked some grapes from the fruit bowl. Between chopping the fruits on a board, he continued to stir the chocolate and occasionally tested the temperature with his finger. It looked so delicious, I wished he’d let me dip my finger into that bowl, too.

When he finally seemed pleased with the consistency, he retrieved a small plate of strawberries from the fridge and set it on the counter next to me. “Close your eyes and open your mouth,” he said softly, his attention on the food in front of him rather than on me.

I did, but a moment later, I opened one eye again to scrutinize him. “You’re not going to stick your finger in my mouth, are you?”

Glancing up, he laughed. “Now that would be a little gross, right?”

It would so be, but he’d offered me his cream-dipped finger before, so who could know with him? I closed my eye again but shot both open the next second. “And you’re not going to kiss me, either?”

Chris, still working the molten chocolate with the egg beater, cocked his head and gave me a funny look. “I wasn’t thinking about it.” A short pause. One corner of his mouth tilted up to a crooked smile. “But now I’m wondering why you were.”

Very funny. “You better play nice, if you want me to stay through dinner.”

“I always play nice, little Sue,” he promised with a touch of mischief in his voice. “Now close your eyes.”

***

Please don’t forget to post a review on Amazon and Goodreads if you enjoyed this book. You know, such little things always make us authors write the next book really fast. ;)

Dating Trouble – book launch!

Hey blogger – this is a shout out for help to all of you!

Dating Trouble, the 5th book in the Grover Beach Team series will launch on January 15. Would anybody want to help me shout out the news on Thursday with a blog post and an excerpt?

If you want to help, please leave the link to your blog in a comment together with an email addy where I can send all the stuff to.

Thanks a bunch!!

The companion book to DATING TROUBLE

Hey everybody!

So you guys have been nagging me for weeks and today you get your will. The new and earlier release date for Dating Trouble is set in stone:

January 15, 2015

But before that’s going to happen, I have another reveal to make. You know that there’ll be a companion book to Susan Miller’s story, right? The guy’s POV. I haven’t written that book yet, but it already has a title and a cover, too. Want to see? ;-)

All right. Here goes…

Don’t forget to preorder DATING TROUBLE today so you’re one of the first to have it on your Kindle. ;)

And you know how to say thanks to an author for writing a book? You leave a nice review.

Thanks and happy reading.

Happy End

Whoa, I’m so ready for this year to wrap up and be over…

No, not because it was a bad year for me. Quite the opposite. I achieved so much, I wrote so much, I changed my private situation much for the better. But still. I always love when things come to an end (I guess that’s an author thing) and something new begins.

Now, I want to give you an idea of what (writer-wise) I have planned for 2015:

Dating Trouble is finished and with my editor right now. It will release on Valentine’s day 2015. Oh yeah, you can preorder it already.

I’m currently translating Neverland, Pan’s Revenge, and Dating Trouble into German. This will keep me busy until early summer 2015 and the books will release in a 3 month interval on the German market, starting with March 4th.

After that I’m writing the companion book to Dating Trouble – yes, totally from the guy’s POV! :) I don’t know how long this book is going to take me to write or how long it will be in the end, but my goal is to release it before Christmas 2015, if I can.

I will also translate it into German right afterward. The book cover is already done, by the way. If you liked the cover for Dating Trouble, you’ll loooove this one. And no, I’m not going to tell you the title of the book just yet. You’ll find out at the end of Susan’s book, though.

All right, and since you guys always seem to be burning for more news about the Grover Beach Team series, here’s what will come at you in 2016. Just a sneak peek, you know. ;)

Chloe Summers is going find her one and only true love. This book will be as long and Dating Trouble (over 100,000 words), but it will have both POV’s combined in one book again. It just makes sense in their story, like it did in Tony’s and Sam’s.

Many of you would love a story for Nick Frederickson as well. Frankly, me too. But as of yet, I have absolutely no idea what his book could be about. Then again, it’s just not the time to think of his HEA anyway, with all the many books on my to-do-list, but I’m sure, once everything is written and my mind is free, the guy will start talking in my head, like all the others did when they got their great moment on stage. So don’t worry…the series will continue for a little longer.

And…I already have major ideas for the final book, but I’m not going to tell you just yet about who it will be. ;)

Well, that’s a lot to do for me in the next couple of years, and then I still have about 5 ideas for books that are not part of the GBT series, but I have a feeling they’ll stay backburners for just a while longer.

Happy End!

Love,

Anna

It’s so simple. It’s Christmas.

A wise woman once told me that Earth is a planet of trial and error. We’ve been given this world to learn…

To learn who we are.

To learn what we can do.

To learn where we can go if we do it right.

To learn how it feels to fail, to fall, and to stand up again.

To learn to love and forgive.

To learn to accept.

To learn that we’re light and love.

And to learn to act upon it.

Now, I tell you, it’s in our hands how fast we learn all these things. Times of war and pain have lasted for so long. Let’s stop it today. Now. Send out a smile to people you pass by on the street. Send out love to those who lost it. And send out light those who wander in the dark.

Put your anger, your hatred, your greed and your weapons down.

It’s time.

It’s Christmas.

If not now…then when?

 

I have a simple wish for Christmas.

I have a simple thought on Christmas.

I have a simple message for Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWf-eARnf6U

I simply do this on Christmas.

And you can do it, too, if you think it’s time.