R.J. Blain's Blog, page 46
June 2, 2020
Download: Author Writing Productivity Spreadsheets for 2020 & 2021.
Dear humans,
The female made a writing productivity spreadsheet to help you keep track of up to 20 projects at a time. If you need more than 20, you can add more columns on the end and adjust the formulas. (Please do not ask us how to do the formula adjustments. Maybe in 2022 you can talk us into making a version with more than 20, but 20 SHOULD be enough for most people.)
This sheet is a daily productivity tracker. You plug in your word counts in the appropriate boxes. It will do math...
Charity Raffle for a 12 title set of autographed books.
Dear humans,
The female has joined forces with her cover designer, Rebecca Frank, to put together a charity raffle for an autographed collection of the female’s books. To enter, you need to pop onto Facebook and join Rebecca’s group, find the charity raffle post, and follow the instructions.
When you join the group, tell Rebecca that RJ sent you when you’re answering the questions. (It is a group designed for authors to see and purchase cover art, but she’s opening the doors for the fe...
June 1, 2020
Blood Bound is now available as an Audiobook!
After waking in a shallow grave and clawing her way to freedom, Penelope Francis hunts for the rogue who stole her life and transformed her into a vampire. Despite being corrupted into a feared preternatural, she clings to her humanity and refuses to prey on innocents, instead slaking her thirst on other miscreant vampires.
In exchange for a chance at revenge, she joins forces with the charismatic master of the Lowrance brood, a choice that may spell the salvation – or destruction – of humani...
May 22, 2020
Last Day of the Sneaky Kitty Critic’s Book Faire! (May 22, 2020)
Dear humans,
We’re (not really) sorry we didn’t post anything yesterday. The female was busy playing SIMS4, and she refuses to be at all sorry about this. In good news, she didn’t become busy with SIMS4 until after she wrote some words on Booked for Murder. We’re very proud she was able to write yesterday.
Good job, female!
We hope you have enjoyed the book faire. We had fun with it, and we’re going to be doing another one after Catnapped releases next year. We might do them more often ...
May 20, 2020
Day Three of the Sneaky Kitty Critic’s Book Faire! (May 20, 2020)
Dear Humans,
20, 2020! 20, 2020! We of the Furred & Frond Management are highly amused by this. Today, we have five books for you! One is a friend’s, and she was chosen for a bookbub featured deal today! Rather than make a whole pretty picture entry for her, we’re giving you this link. We would love if you clicked! Victorian era, vampires. Need we tell you more? Also, we love the cover of this book hardcore. It is $0.99. We do now know when it ends. We just saw it was in the bookbub mailer th...
May 19, 2020
Day Two of the Sneaky Kitty Critic’s Book Faire. (May 19, 2020)
Dear humans,
We’re back with more books! Hoorah! We haven’t read any of the books featured today, so take your usual precautions. All these cool cats helped share Whatever for Hire and Grave Humor, for which we are very appreciative. The female has taken away our exclamation point. We find this annoying and distressing. How dare she?
Beastly Curse (Selene Drake.) Paranormal Romance. Contains adult-only smexy content. There seems to be a manback and tatts theme going on in this book faire....
May 18, 2020
Day One of The Sneaky Kitty Critic’s Book Faire (May 18, 2020)
Dear humans,
Today is the first day of the Sneaky Kitty Critics Thank You!! book faire for the super friendly people who helped spread word of Grave Humor! All prices listed are at time of posting. We will tell you if weve read the book or not!
Most of the books featured will be in the Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance genres, although we, with some help from the female, will be featuring titles from other genres. Some authors just shared the book because they wanted to, so we have chosen...
May 15, 2020
Catnapped: A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) is now available for Pre-order!
When someone steals Dianas cat, a former lab animal rescued from deaths door, she calls on one of the most dangerous beings in the universe for help. Cutting a deal with the devil isnt the smartest move, but theres no way in hell shell abandon Mr. Flooferson the Magnificent to his fate.
Teaming up with the son of a demon, an angel, and one hell of a woman might push Diana to the limits of her courage and sanity. Unless she wants to sell her soul to the devil, she must cope with her new...
May 13, 2020
Let’s talk Audiobooks. Again.
This isnt precisely a happy post, although the female is very, very happy she made #141 on USA Today for Whatever for Hire. See?
Shes very excited and happy over this.
But, shes got something severely bothering her, so its time to talk about it.
After the current contracted Audiobooks are done, shes taking a break from them for a while. Simply put, they have approximately $20,000 in debt to earn back.
She cant just keep adding to their debt, which is exactly what she did this week with Water...
May 12, 2020
Grave Humor is now out in the wilds!
Hooray, humans! The day has come at long last. Grave Humor is now available at all major retailers for your enjoyment.
Heres a tiny snippet from the opening of the book for your enjoyment:
Had I been smarter or wiser, I never wouldve accepted the job offer at the funeral home. With my prospects few and far between, I hadnt had a choice, not really. Who else would hire an eighteen-year-old high school drop out?
I could type.
Dead bodies didnt bother me.
When the dead started chatting up a...
