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November 7, 2017
Teaser Tuesday – Yumi’s Embarrassment
It’s time for another Teaser Tuesday for CHAOS IN KADOMA WARD!
One of the things we know about Yumi Minamoto from CRASH LAND ON KURAI is that she’s a hard woman. She hasn’t been in love in a long time and she often says that she’s “dead inside.” So, getting embarrassed really doesn’t happen to her. Until she meets Rin. She used to pride herself on being prepared for any situation she could be put in. Now, she’s wondering about her own sanity when Rin’s attention leads to blushes and tongue tripping.
This quote is pulled from a special scene that I just adore. We get to see Rin’s playful side and meet a new technology that I pulled from one of my favorite classic science fiction series. Everything old is new again in this world! Especially love.
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This novel will be available on November 15, 2017 on Amazon.com and in Kindle Unlimited.
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November 5, 2017
Sunday Update – November 5, 2017
What a week! I feel like it was one thing after another and I’m so glad it’s done.
I think Monday was my only non-crazy day this week, and it’s also the one day I took no pictures. I believe I spent most of the day working on the paperback updates for the whole Miso Cozy series. My eyes were practically bleeding by the time I was done. I updated all the interior files with ones from Vellum and then updated the covers as well. I was sick of my computer by the end of the day.
Tuesday was Halloween, of course. Halloween is a half day for our school district and my whole morning was involved with being at the school and watching the Halloween parade and sing along, then getting the kids fed and ready for trick-or-treating in the evening. I stayed home this year to cook and give out candy. But I got to see lots of fun costumes and I danced around the kitchen to the entire Paul Simon’s GRACELAND album (don’t judge). This was also the night that our dishwasher died. Sigh. OF COURSE.
Wednesday was November 1st and the beginning of NaNoWriMo! I’m writing the third book of the Hikoboshi Series, titled FUKUSHA MODEL EIGHT. It was also the day that I stupidly scheduled a crap-ton of stuff to happen. I had a chiropractor and acupuncture appointment and then took my kids to their annual doctor checkup where they both got shots. THEN I took them to their tennis lessons. It was hectic and I was in the car a lot, which I do not like. We celebrated the end of the day with fish tacos and quesadillas. I called Sears Home Repair to come fix my dishwasher and they said they’d be here the next day.
Thursday, I spent the morning hanging out with my cousin, Kate. We got bagels and ate them in the park because the weather was SO NICE. Then we walked around the park and talked. It was so nice to see her and hang out. We’re definitely going to do it again sometime soon. I’ll go to her because she moved last year and I haven’t seen her new house yet.
Sears was supposed to come between 12 and 4pm. OF COURSE, they came 5 minutes after I left to get my kid from school. They called my cell phone and I missed the call but didn’t leave a message. I ran home with the kid in tow, trying to call the automated system, but it didn’t recognize my phone number. It took me FOUR CALLS to get through to a representative. The rep apologized and I asked her to send the guy right back. He couldn’t be far away! She said she’d call dispatch and they would call me. GUESS WHAT? They never did.
And this is the story of how I’m never buying an appliance from Sears ever again and how PC Richard & Sons got my business. I then went online, bought a new dishwasher from PC Richard, paid for it to be delivered and installed. Boom. Just like that. I am lucky to have an account with emergency money in it for these occasions and none of that money is going to Sears again. Now I know why they’re sucking so badly lately.
Moving on, Friday started off awesome with a fox sighting! It crossed the road right in front of my house and then went into my backyard. Me and the youngest were entranced! I got it on video so it’ll be featured in November’s 1 Second Per Day video. I then went to Panera to hang out with my buddy Amy and to Whole Foods to pick up a few things. Got the kids from school and wrote in the afternoon.
Saturday was busy. We had piano/guitar lessons in the morning for one kid and the other had a Girl Scouts hike planned. Then I went for a walk and wrote in the afternoon and evening. We let the girls stay up late and watch Supergirl so they would sleep in the next day because we went back to Standard Time overnight. I must admit that it was nice to finally sleep in! Most years we just got up early because the kids did, but they’re finally at the age where this whole thing starts to work.
Today was a dreary, rainy day. I took the day off from walking. We stayed home in the morning, the oldest had an all-day playdate, and the youngest stayed home to hang with Daddy while I wrote in the bedroom. Our new dishwasher showed up and they installed it without a hitch! We’re going to use it tonight. 
November 3, 2017
RELEASED Is 99¢ For November 2017 & Asian Spec-Fic Sale
I have two pieces of news for you today! First up, I decided to put RELEASED, the second book of the Nogiku Series, on sale for 99¢ for the whole month of November. If you’ve been thinking about trying out the rest of this series but you were waiting for a sale, here you go! Just a note that I do not plan to put any other books in this series on sale for the foreseeable future. This is my backlist and sales from my backlist help fund future new books for you all to read. But my prices are always below $5 anyway, so it’s a bargain!
Read the blurb, an excerpt, and purchase RELEASED today!
I also have a very cool sale I’m participating in with other authors who write Asian speculative fiction. If you love my books, you may love theirs as well. Definitely go check out the sale!
Check out the Asian Spec-fic Sale!
And that’s all the news I have for this week. Writing continues on my NaNoWriMo project and I’ll be sure to update you on it next week.
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November 1, 2017
November 2017 Goals
October was one crazy busy month!! I don’t think I caught a break once.
October 31, 2017
Teaser Tuesday – Focus On Rin
It’s time to start Teaser Tuesday again, this time for CHAOS IN KADOMA WARD, Book 2 of the Hikoboshi Series! I love making teasers, so this is one of my favorite features of the blog.
October 30, 2017
Introducing CHAOS IN KADOMA WARD, Now Available For Pre-order!
You’ve been waiting for it patiently! Today, I announce the second book in the Hikoboshi Series, CHAOS IN KADOMA WARD. Once again, I am very grateful for the talented Najla Qamber of Najla Qamber Designs for this stellar cover cover art, which I love love love. And I’m also grateful for my huge cast of critique partners, friends, and family that helped bring it to you.
This was such a fun and complicated book to write. The first time I wrote it, it had a very different ending. I got a little lost along the way and had to take a step back to really think it over. This is not such a big deal for most authors. We usually have to write a draft or two before things in a story settle in. But I remember the moment when I knew exactly what I had to do. Thank goodness for showers! Lol. That’s where I get all of my critical thinking done.
Okay, onto the goodies! Check out the cover and blurb below, and pre-order this book on Amazon! This book will be available in Kindle Unlimited on its publish date, November 15, 2017. For those that want this series on another vendor, never fear. I fully expect to get this series to other vendors in 2018.
Contract by proxy — Yumi is owned by a corporation. Forced into a new life on the planet Hikari, she has two objectives: find a job and get along with Rin, the man holding her life in his hands. But with her occupation missing from this planet and her enemies looking for her, she must intrude on the kindness of reluctant strangers to stay out of harm’s way. Rin’s ex-wife wants Yumi gone, and a judge threatens to deport her if he catches her loitering about town with no job. Her desire to bolt grows stronger daily.
But Rin won’t let her go. He’s fascinated with the stories she brings from home, stories that promise to save him from the madness they all live in, a meritocracy with low birth rates and malfunctioning androids. As they build a tenuous friendship, and something more, Yumi has to face her fears, her inadequacies, and her lack of control. A headstrong journalist, she’s pushing her luck on Hikari every day as the society turns bored, restless, and finally rebellious. War is coming, and Yumi and Rin are right in the middle of it.
CHAOS IN KADOMA WARD is the second book in the Hikoboshi Series, an action adventure, space opera series that explores the worlds settled by the Japanese who fled Earth a century ago. Culture, history, technology, and swords clash in a fast-paced future society on the brink of war.
Available November 15, 2017 on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited
I hope you enjoy CHAOS IN KADOMA WARD as much as I did writing it! Tune in tomorrow and the following five Tuesdays as I present teasers for this new book.
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October 29, 2017
Sunday Update – October 29, 2017
I can hardly believe it’s almost the end of October! Of course, my kids have been talking about Halloween now for MONTHS, so it’s not like it snuck up on me or anything. Lol. After Halloween is over, they’re not allowed to talk about Halloween again until June, at least. 
October 27, 2017
Book Chat #35 – A Whole Lot Of Audiobooks
Well, this is embarrassing. Would you believe that I haven’t finished reading-reading any books since my last Book Chat? I just looked through my Kindle and I started six books to read in the last month, none of which made it past the 13% mark. None of them caught my attention enough to keep pulling me along. 
October 26, 2017
OZONI AND ONSENS Is Now Available For Pre-order!
It’s a week of pre-order madness around this joint! OZONI AND ONSENS, an interstitial novella in the Miso Cozy series meant to be read after THE DAYDREAMER DETECTIVE BRAVES THE WINTER, is now available for pre-order on Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, and Nook.
Originally, this book was only available for newsletter subscribers but that changed this week. I’m going to write about it on the blog next week, but I’ve decided to stop giving away exclusive books (besides the Nogiku Guidebook) to my mailing list. So far, this practice hasn’t done me any good. It’s only attracted freeloaders who sign up, download the book, and either unsubscribe (fine) or mark me as spam (rage). From now on, all of my books will just be for sale.
Besides, I love this little story! It’s a tough break for Mei and Yasahiro because they really wanted to get in a little vacation, but instead they get a whole lot of trouble. It’s not a mystery, though you do wonder why the woman in this book acts the way that she does. It’s more of a women’s fiction book in the middle of a cozy series. But heck, I do what I want and that was the story I wanted to tell. I’m sure you’ll love it.
And now you can buy it for $2.99 and it will download to your e-reader on December 7, 2017.
Want more details? Looking to purchase this lovely little novella? Check out the newly updated OZONI AND ONSENS page!
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October 24, 2017
THE DAYDREAMER DETECTIVE RETURNS A FAVOR Is Now Available On Amazon For Pre-order
So if you missed the news in my newsletter over the weekend, THE DAYDREAMER DETECTIVE RETURNS A FAVOR is now available for pre-order on Amazon. This book will be available on January 17th, 2018, a day before my 42nd birthday! I’m looking forward to getting this book out there and into your hands! To read the blurb and pre-order your copy, head on over to its book page on my website to learn more!
Super keen eyes will notice that I’ve updated all the Daydreamer book covers as well. I got rid of the black bar across the top and the swoop of color so as to leave room in future covers for different illustrations. Here they are side-by-side so you can see the difference.
OZONI AND ONSENS got the biggest update of them all. I really like the illustrations for it, and I hope to do similar covers like it in the future!
Also, OZONI AND ONSENS is no longer a newsletter exclusive novella! It goes on sale on December 7, 2017 for $2.99. I will be making changes across my website this week to reflect this new status.
Per usual of this time of year, I am looking into changes with my newsletter and new posts updates on this blog/website. I want to blog more and send fewer newsletters so I’m thinking about rolling it all into one. We shall see. I’m always thinking about how I can make things better around here!
Okay, I’ll be back later this week with a Book Chat!
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