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July 20, 2016
Too many things to announce…
July 1, 2016
February 29, 2016
Release date has arrived!!
Hello people!
Watercolour Smile is now live!
To celebrate the release, Charcoal Tears will be free for 48 hours starting from midnight on the 1st March.
I’m also giving away free copies of Watercolour Smile for the next 2 weeks (ending 14th March). If you want one, all you have to do is complete the Quotes Quiz on Charcoal Tears and get at least 90%!! Send me a photo of your results, plus the email address that you use with Amazon, and I’ll send you a Kindle copy of Watercolour Smile within 24 hours!
You can find the quiz here: http://janewashington.com/charcoal-tears-quotes-quiz/
Happy reading ^.^
-Jane
January 31, 2016
Pre-order Watercolour Smile
Hello people (and google-bots)!
Watercolour Smile is now available to pre-order. Grab it here!
Just in case you missed my last post, the release date for this book is 29-02-16.
If you want to add Watercolour Smile on Goodreads, you can find it here.
As promised, I’ve published the first three chapters of this book on my website for free, and you can read those here.
I would give you the whole book for free, but my editor still has the second half of it (I’ll call him later to make sure he’s still alive), Amazon would sue my ass, and a girl’s gotta eat. So, yeah. Enjoy those measly 3 chapters!
Anyway, since this blog post is dedicated to links, here are a few more, just for fun. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here!
-Jane ♥
January 23, 2016
New Release Date for Watercolour Smile
Hi everyone!
Since I have a feeling there are some of you who have been cursing my existence, I’ve enlisted the model for the Quillan twins to attempt pacification (see image above). You can’t hate him!
Sorry for the extended silence, but I haven’t been very successful in accessing the internet over the last month. I also ran into a few release delays while I was overseas (as I’m sure you’ve all surmised by now) so I’ve had to push per-order and release dates forward a month.
You will now be able to pre-order Watercolour Smile from the 31st of January, for a 29th of February release date.
As an apology for the delay, I will be releasing the first 3 chapters on my website for free on the 31st of January.
December 6, 2015
Watercolour Smile Release Date
Hey guys!
Just letting everyone know that I’ve finally set a release date for Watercolour Smile!! It will be available on Amazon for prerelease on the 31st of December, for a 31st January release.
I had hoped that it would be released in December instead of January, but I’m going to be travelling until mid-way through January, so this was the best I could do. Admittedly, I might have been able to rush it, but I would much rather give you all something knowing that I’ve given it my best efforts.
In case anybody is wondering, I will be going to Abu Dhabi, Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia! Between the “security situation” and the “malaria situation”, I’ll probably die. So you’d better enjoy this next book, it might be your last from me ^.^
I hope everyone has a great Christmas!!
-Jane
October 8, 2015
The Academy and Charcoal Tears…
Hey Everyone!
Since the release of Charcoal Tears I’ve had a bunch of people asking me if I wrote it as some kind of fan-fiction based on the Academy books by C. L. Stone… in the interest of not having to answer this question a hundred more times before next week, I thought I’d do a blog post about it!
In short: No.
Sorry!
At the time of publication, I actually hadn’t even read any of C. L. Stone’s books–though I have now (thanks to everyone mentioning them). Side note: immense respect to that author, I’m loving what I’ve read so far!
I think when you have two writers going for the same little pocket-genre (in our case, reverse-harem type books based in high schools) then you are inevitably going to stumble across a few similarities, but that’s as much as I can say without spoiling the rest of my books! The only thing that has really shocked me so far, was the fact that we both picked the name “Silas” for one of our characters.
My influences for the Seraph Black series were few and many, but I suppose the biggest influences were the TV series “Pretty Little Liars” (since I binge-watched it before I started writing) and a shoujo anime series “Uta No Prince Sama”. It’s kind of ridiculous, but kind of hilarious and amazing at the same time, and it’s another reverse-harem, high school romance. If you liked the Academy series, and you liked Charcoal Tears, you should also watch Uta No Prince Sama! Even if you hate shoujo! Even if you hate anime! Even if you hate TV!
-Jane
September 27, 2015
Watercolour Smile – Sneak Peek
Hi guys!
Since I’m gearing up to finish the first draft of Watercolour Smile (don’t start mapping out timelines yet), I thought I’d release a little sneak peek of the prologue. You can read it below 
This is entirely unedited, just a snippet of the manuscript as it stands right now–so no 1 star reviews, thanks. I figured I owed it to you all, since the “messenger” chapter at the end of Charcoal Tears was… admittedly… a big tease…
❤
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I wasn’t an angel by any measure.
I tried to do the right thing. I only wanted to protect myself, but sometimes that meant that other people would get hurt. It was an unofficial side-effect of my safety: the loss of everyone else’s. Sometimes when I went to sleep, I would see the faces of the people I loved, and I would see the targets above their heads—each brandishing a name in sloppy, red handwriting.
Tariq—Gerald.
Noah—The messenger.
Cabe—The messenger.
Silas—Weston.
Quillan—Seraph.
We all had our demons.
No, I wasn’t an angel—and over the years my appearance had begun to reflect my true nature. My hair was a cloud of shadow on a moonless night deprived of starlight. It reminded me of the midnight air of any place of darkness; mist-clogged graveyards, heavy and solemn; polluted skies, sucked of luminescence. Sometimes I stared into the strands, trying to get lost in visions of places beyond my touch. Even an imaginary, onyx necropolis was a haven for me. Preferable to the living dead that clogged my home: Gerald, our own personal demon, and my brother and I, barely daring to betray our living breaths for fear of discovery.
On its own—without the heaviness of my imagination, my hair might simply have been dark. Black. Plain. My eyes had no such leisure. They told stories unbeknownst even to me. They carried a weight of their own, a knowledge and a hidden augur that frightened me. If you stripped away the illusion, they were an ordinary set of blue eyes marred by the conflict of a violet that smoked almost to blue-black, and a green that danced with the kind of shadows that would keep you up at night—and not in a good way.
I wished that the peculiarities ended there, that I could stop, say end of story, and I’d be a simple girl, with a not-so-simple darkness eating away inside of her yet again. But that was not possible, because I now also had a very, very complicated relationship with four different men. One of them was my teacher, another was his borderline sociopathic twin, and two of them were pretending to be my brothers.
I had been turned inside out, and the complicated murk from inside was manifesting in ways that I could never have predicted.
It was closing in, surrounding me.
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September 15, 2015
Charcoal Tears has been released!
Charcoal Tears is now available in the Kindle Store, and it’s completely FREE for the next five days only!
September 6, 2015
Free Book Promotion!
While Charcoal Tears is still in the mysterious book-producing factory that is wholly to blame for any release delays (if you don’t understand Jane Washington humour yet–it’s me. It’s all my fault), I’ve decided to make The Soulstoy Inheritance FREE for 5 days.
So if you don’t already have a copy, jump onto amazon and take advantage of… well, let’s not call it a guilty conscience, let’s call it unabashed generosity.
Enjoy,
Jane
