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June 8, 2013
California Dreamy: ETHAN
The cover for book 2 of the California Dreamy Series: Ethan! Available at Amazon.com on July 13th!
May 27, 2013
JAKE is a Sizzling Summer Read!
http://www.theromancereviews.com/event/phpMy novel, JAKE/California Dreamy Series, is featured in this contest, along with many other fabulous romance novels. I hope you will click over:)
May 15, 2013
It's 4:38 am. . .What Are You Doing?
I get up long before sunrise. It's the only time I can devote to writing without interruptions. I'll drop anything for my kids. My job-by-day does have a start and a finish and if I'm not visible there the earth would shudder on its axis. A complete exaggeration on my importance, but--unless I close my door and lock it--from the moment I step on site I am pulled in various directions to the point of near-dismemberment. But I love it, my day job. And I love writing, which is why it's not so hard to rise into the dark shadows of morning and get to it.
Wednesdays are about business and connecting. This morning I chose the cover of ETHAN, my next novel in the California Dreamy Series. I conferred with the design artist. I want something really different this time (Yes, I absolutely DO listen to my readers and one comment in the reviews on Amazon referred to JAKE's cover as soppy. That's not the impression I'm trying to make!). I want an image on ETHAN's cover that reflect's the heroin's strength. And I want a cover that stands out, of course. We're playing with adding color in some places and removing it in others. Also, adding a texture to the cover as well. Then it's onto blogging, a task I enjoy. I don't always know what to say, but I try to reveal a little of myself because I like to know a thing or two about the writers I read. I also hope I post a comment or two, or relate an experience others might connect to, that helps someone--even if all it does is make you smile--I love the feeling a smile creates.
So, here's a quick peek at the stock image I'll be using for ETHAN: California Dreamy Series. It'll go through some serious changes, I think, but you'll still recognize it come July.
Feel free to let me know what you think!
Wednesdays are about business and connecting. This morning I chose the cover of ETHAN, my next novel in the California Dreamy Series. I conferred with the design artist. I want something really different this time (Yes, I absolutely DO listen to my readers and one comment in the reviews on Amazon referred to JAKE's cover as soppy. That's not the impression I'm trying to make!). I want an image on ETHAN's cover that reflect's the heroin's strength. And I want a cover that stands out, of course. We're playing with adding color in some places and removing it in others. Also, adding a texture to the cover as well. Then it's onto blogging, a task I enjoy. I don't always know what to say, but I try to reveal a little of myself because I like to know a thing or two about the writers I read. I also hope I post a comment or two, or relate an experience others might connect to, that helps someone--even if all it does is make you smile--I love the feeling a smile creates.
So, here's a quick peek at the stock image I'll be using for ETHAN: California Dreamy Series. It'll go through some serious changes, I think, but you'll still recognize it come July.
Feel free to let me know what you think!
May 11, 2013
Keep Your Hands Inside the Car
JAKE has been filling Kindles at a rate of 4-7 a minute. More reviews have come in from readers and they are truly amazing and I am so grateful for that. I wanted to write a strong, beautiful story and I think I can say, Goal Accomplished.
I am building a readership, which is a thrilling experience, and the more I read their reviews of JAKE (the creative suggestions included) the stronger the need I feel to meet their expectations--and exceed them.
I've never been one to keep my hands inside the car. Right now I feel like I'm in the front seat of a roller coaster, poised above the big dip, and I want to stand up and watch this new world come rushing at me.
I am building a readership, which is a thrilling experience, and the more I read their reviews of JAKE (the creative suggestions included) the stronger the need I feel to meet their expectations--and exceed them.
I've never been one to keep my hands inside the car. Right now I feel like I'm in the front seat of a roller coaster, poised above the big dip, and I want to stand up and watch this new world come rushing at me.
May 10, 2013
4 Books a Minute
JAKE is moving fast! I am thrilled by the numbers but equally overjoyed with the reviews, of which there are now 3. All of them 5 star. All asking for MORE from the writer (that's me:)). When is my next book coming out? Will I ever go back to JAKE and give readers a "where are they now" look at Jake and Ivy? And more characters with the intense emotional connection that developed between Jake and Ivy.
So my answers are:
ETHAN: California Dreamy Series is due out July 2013. Ethan and Shae are complex characters with a deep range of emotions, each coming from a place of loss and/or deep desire for more from a life that is otherwise idealic. They are "real" people, navigating this thing we call love.
I think we will see Jake and Ivy again, but as a full book of their own--I'm not sure. Let's start with a glimpse of their progress when JUDE: California Dreamy Series comes out. Jude's love interest is Holly, Ivy's sister.
Thank you, readers, for your feedback! For your patience! And for opening your heart to my stories!
So my answers are:
ETHAN: California Dreamy Series is due out July 2013. Ethan and Shae are complex characters with a deep range of emotions, each coming from a place of loss and/or deep desire for more from a life that is otherwise idealic. They are "real" people, navigating this thing we call love.
I think we will see Jake and Ivy again, but as a full book of their own--I'm not sure. Let's start with a glimpse of their progress when JUDE: California Dreamy Series comes out. Jude's love interest is Holly, Ivy's sister.
Thank you, readers, for your feedback! For your patience! And for opening your heart to my stories!
May 9, 2013
My Readers
This might turn into a love letter:)
JAKE has been on promo for less than 2 days now and more than 4,000 copies have flown to Kindles worldwide. And 2 fabulous reviews have been posted to Amazon--both 5 stars--both mention the intense emotional complexies between the main characters. I was so hoping for this. I wanted to create a love story that was layers deep, between real people. I hope I've done that. So far, so good! And it's all because readers have taken a chance on a new voice--mine. Thank you my most awesome readers!
JAKE has been on promo for less than 2 days now and more than 4,000 copies have flown to Kindles worldwide. And 2 fabulous reviews have been posted to Amazon--both 5 stars--both mention the intense emotional complexies between the main characters. I was so hoping for this. I wanted to create a love story that was layers deep, between real people. I hope I've done that. So far, so good! And it's all because readers have taken a chance on a new voice--mine. Thank you my most awesome readers!
April 27, 2013
Red Hot Read!
Jake from my California Dreamy series is available to Kindle readers!
Red-Hot and Ready!Ivy has been too good for too long,
so when wickedly hot, but by-the-book
Marine Lieutenant Jake finds
her stranded on the side of the
road, she decides giving into temptation
is exactly what she needs.
But will they burn as brightly outside
the bedroom?
Red-Hot and Ready!Ivy has been too good for too long,so when wickedly hot, but by-the-book
Marine Lieutenant Jake finds
her stranded on the side of the
road, she decides giving into temptation
is exactly what she needs.
But will they burn as brightly outside
the bedroom?
