New release: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Yes, it’s time once again to release a new book, this time something that I finished last April and I’ve been working on over the last year to try and get it as polished as possible. Without further ballyhoo, here’s the cover and blurb for the first book in the Alice the Wolf series, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
Beginning a new spin off series after the events in Peter the Wolf…
Life was supposed to get better for Alice Culpepper after Peter Holmes turned himself over to the FBI, but growing up and moving on has only become more difficult in his absence. It’s hard enough being the only lycanthrope in Dallas, but Alice also suffers harassment and bullying from other students and lectures from her extended family about the behavior of “good girls.” The local weredog council views her as a threat to their community for corrupting Robbie Matheson, and one of her mother’s co-workers drafts her to babysit Brandon Butler, who sees Alice lose control during her first bout of lunar madness.
Adding to Alice’s problems, another werewolf has come to town with unknown intentions, and all she knows is that this new arrival is from the same bloodline. The weredog elders want her to find the wolf and learn their intentions, her parents expect her to set a good example for Brandon despite her increasingly violent urges, and Robbie confesses that he’s still in love with her and wants to be more than just friends. It’s enough stress to send even a normal human howling at the moon.
Hoping to vent some aggression in a healthy way, Alice tries out for the football team and finds surprising acceptance from the jocks and cheerleaders. With her school and social life improving, all she needs is time to sort out her future. Unfortunately for her, the wolf she’s seeking knows secrets about her family that could expose her to the humans and force her into war against an army of lycanthropes. Can Alice maintain her truce with the weredogs, prevent a werewolf war, and still find time to finish her homework?
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This is another release that’s only $2.99, a pretty good deal for a novel of roughly 85K not including the legalese and author’s note.
And now I have to do something unsavory and beg for sales. If you’ve read the Peter the Wolf series, I hope you’ll pick this up and find out what happens to Alice after Peter turned himself over to the FBI in the final book. And if you haven’t read Peter’s books, but you liked one of my other dark fantasy titles, I hope you might give this series a chance. If you read one of my books and hated it…and you’re still here reading my blog, that’s got to be some kind of miracle, huh? But anywho, I hope you’ll at least check out the preview on Amazon and give me another chance. Finally, if you’ve never bought any of my books and you’re just a regular blog reader, maybe you might try Alice’s story as your first introduction to my fantasy writing. Sure, this is a spin-off series, but I wrote this so that you wouldn’t need to read the first series to get into this one. I even looked for beta testers who hadn’t read Peter’s books to see if they got enough information without feeling like they were missing something. All of the beta readers came back with positive feedback, and I think you’ll also enjoy the story if you’re willing to give it a shot.
Okay, that’s all the begging I’ll do for now, and sorry I had to do that. But I’m extremely proud of this new series, and I want to try and find as many new readers as I can manage in the first month. If you do buy a copy, thank you very much, and I hope you enjoy it. Oh, and whether you enjoy it or not, I hope you’ll consider leaving a review.
Edit: If you’re on Goodreads, you can also add the book to your bookshelves.
