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0.99 until 24th September - A ghost story based on truth
52 things to do once in your life - you may be surprised – they’re not quite what I expected. Take a look here:https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
And you’ll find news of a greatly reduced PAPERBACK. If you think this world is getting stranger by the day, wait til you see what Chester had to put up with.
US$10.45 to $6.99;
£8.95 to £5.99
€8.95 to €6.99
Ca$ 12.95 to Ca$ 9.99
Au$ 17.52 to Au$13.99
These prices are a very few cents more than Amazon permits me to sell it for and they will remain until the end of October.
Please visit the blog for your Handy Hint, Sage Saying and Stress Reducer and you’ll be very welcome to leave some chatter in the comments box.
I hope you’ll take a look at the answers to the question “Why do you write?” Three authors have responded. It’s a bit like saying “What makes you tick?” Let’s see what goes on in their heads!And, as the heading says, there’s a gift for you – a free world-wide gift of an ebook so long as you get to it between 5th and 9th December.
Here’s the link to the blog:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
★MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE★
And for those who don’t celebrate Christmas – I hope you will have a wonderful time as we run up to yet another new year – happy holidays!
Brilliant idea Anna! Totally love your blog.😊Merry Christmas to you Anna! 💫🎄❤️🌟
Thank you, and thanks for your contribution. If I could find out how to do all those nice smiley faces and stars etc. I'd put a lot HERE
Anna wrote: "Thank you, and thanks for your contribution. If I could find out how to do all those nice smiley faces and stars etc. I'd put a lot HERE" ☺️ (So easy just because I am using my tablet, I gave up trying on a computer, smartphone also does the trick. 🪄)
I can never think of a resolution that I’m likely to remember beyond the first few days. Failure! But I offer you one which will make you think hard, and three which are easy peasy.There’s also three more answers from authors to the question ‘Why do you write?’ Drop in to
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
and see what they have to say – what drives them?
No ebooks on sale but
PAPERBACK is on Amazon in the US for $4.29 Makes a good present perhaps?
I wish you a happy and healthy new year.
Happy New Year, Anna! I MUST read Immortality! Or finishing your Dark Moon series or BOTH!
I know the problem, Gail! I have a queue, I'm reading a book now but the last time I looked at it was about 3 weeks ago, and I haven't done any writing since then either. We have had a good time over Christmas though and connected via this, that and the other with many friends from overseas.
February’s blog takes a look at two more authors’ reasons for writing. Writing takes up an awful lot of time so why do they do it?There’s also a poem by a Goodreads member and it sure will make you think. Are we all sometimes guilty of this? Can we change? Does giving an orange, banana or choccie bar help? You be the judge.
I’m also asking you to share on the blog your favourite stress reducers.
The link takes you to a place to ponder and share:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
And what’s a ‘love that never died’? Hide in Time is a time travel romance about someone who regrets having misjudged the man she loved. Ouch!
0.99 until 2nd February in US and UK or FREE on Kindle Unlimited
Don’t you wish you could change the world?Visit https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... and help us do better in a troubled world.
It's reduced to 0.99 in the US and UK until 4th February.
In this book, Chester is paying a high price for attempting to improve the world he inhabits.
He has achieved his burning ambition to become an investigative reporter but what has he sacrificed in the process? And now he's become the target, will he survive to enjoy his achievement?
Off the grid in New Zealand, his quiet life is shattered when a stranger knocks on his door and takes him to the gates of Hell and back. He holds onto his sanity through the promise of returning to the one girl he has ever loved.
You are invited into this mystery: intriguing, exciting and deadly.
And it's FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
For Readers and Authors and anyone in betweenWhich of these four opening chapter sentences do you like best?
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Which is your favourite opening line from any chapter of any book you have read? Please comment in the blog if you want to share.
And for authors, would you like to tell readers of the blog your favourite opening line from the first chapter of any one of your books?
As usual, there’s a bargain for readers:
One Dark Night is reduced to 0.99 in the UK & US until 6th April and, of course, it is FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
Here’s how BookBub describes it: “English Lieutenant Karl Thorsen won’t rest until he hangs smuggler Daniel Tynton for his crimes. Caught between them is Lucy Yorton, a young woman torn away from her life of privilege and thrown into a whirlpool of temptation and betrayal. Can she decide where her heart truly lies?”
The Joseph StoreRegular readers of my blog will know I like to chat about not only books but also good ideas for life. The Joseph Store is worth checking out in these difficult times, there's information on the blog. In times of inflation, it saves you money and that’s just for starters.
If you have ideas that help out in times of inflation, uncertainty and rising costs of everything except your income, please join in and leave a comment. And readers, it’s a good idea to check out the blog more than once because April’s blog received 49 comments so it’s worth seeing what others had to say.
Here it is: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
is on sale for 0.99 in US and UK and also FREE on Kindle Unlimited until 7th May. Here’s what a Goodreads reviewer had to say about it:
What a beautifully written book. I instantly fell in love with the characters and cared about what happened to them. I loved the history, the little gems of information which sent me off to research further and the concept of the story. I found it believable even though it’s a work of imagination and fiction. Hide in Time is a must read for all those looking for a well written book in which to lose oneself. Highly recommended.
I woke up in the middle of the night to find the radio still on and a really happy song was playing. I hadn’t heard it for years but, even though I was half asleep, it made me smile. And the following day it still made me smile when I tracked it down on YouTube. It’s also brilliant to exercise to without wishing you were doing something else!Then when you’ve finished jumping around, you can reward yourself with a flop on a comfortable chair with a whole trilogy of adventure, romance and mystery for $2.97 or £3.97 in the UK.
Take a look at the blog for further details:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Does Your Life Have a Theme?Have you ever looked back on your life and seen a theme? I doubt that most of us have. But if you have, I’d love to hear about it.
Here’s where to tell us:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
If you are a reader, I’d love to know what theme you feel authors never tackle. Or, tell us your favourite theme in books in general or in a single book.
If you are an author, please tell us how you arrived at the theme of one of the books you have written (no links please but do put the title).
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
There’s also a stress reliever tip for the tough times ahead.
Yes, my life certainly does have a theme, and that is why I named the first book in the trilogy "Happenstance". HappenstanceBecause my life from my childhood until today, was a series of adjustments to unforeseen circumstances that altered the course of my existence. My mother had me under difficult wartime circumstances. She ended up leaving me in the care of my grandparents (which was fortuitous), until she married and we moved to a community where I was a total stranger. The parochial school turned me towards a Franciscan Seminary , that impacted me greatly (also fortuitous). But I left the seminary for a young woman. We were engaged in college, but at the end of the four years I had to decide my future based on the Vietnam war. I was invited, again fortuitously, to the Peace Corps because the Naval Officers Candidate School failed to enlist me. This broke off our engagement; I went to Kenya and she went to San Francisco! I met a woman in Africa, we fell in love, But after 2 year I received my induction notice from Uncle Sam, I had already received a new Peace Corps assignment, so I decided to take my home leave to take my induction physical, hoping that I would be returning to Kenya. I was declared 4F because I had been working beehives, which had given me a pre-hernia condition.
However, whcn I contact my Director in Kenya, he was obliged to tell me that Nixon had cut the Peace Corps budget, and home-leave volunteers were not returned to country of service.
I was devastated but I am stubborn, so I determined to try to get the Kenyan family to the USA. After getting employed by Weyerhaeuser Co., I managed to bring her and her five children and one grandchild to a farm homestead Tenino WA.
Everything went well, until the company decided to move everyone to the Tacoma area. I perceived that would be culturally bad for the family, so I left my regular position and contracted to the company. Things went from bad to worse, and my only option was to return to a Masters degree program at UC Davis. Long story short, the relationship between my African wife and I gradually fell apart. I earned my degree, established child support and summer visitation for my biological son. Later I married a fellow student at Davis, had a daughter and we ended up in Hawaii. That marriage also fell apart and I eventually married my college sweetheart, and we have been happily married for 24 year!
If that is not happenstance I don't know what is. www.LesterFisher.com
Hi!I haven't noticed a theme in my life other than always being lucky. My novel Dakota, however, is based on an event that happened (not to me) in real life. It is a crime, thriller. However, only the actual secret Dakota keeps, is the event that happened to a friend. It got me thinking about how one secret could set of a chain of sinister events including a kidnapping and murder
My life theme would be best described as an unusual, if not strange, conscious reversal of decisions affecting life choices.I studied to be a Roman Catholic priest at St. Mark Seminary in Erie, Pennsylvania from 1961 to 1965.
I left the seminary and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps which included a 13-month combat tour in Vietnam.
Upon my release from active duty in 1968, I was hired by the H.l. Heinz Company as a shipping clerk (annual salary: $4,500). I retired 33 years later at the age of 54 as the manager of the company's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania production facility (annual salary: $172,000).
I worked a second job as a professional musician with a Country/Western band from 1968 to 1976. (Played the electirc bass, rhythm guitar, and sang.)
I married in 1970. My late wife and I had 5 children and remained together until her death in 2005. I now have 4 adult children and 4 grandchildren.
My one and only novel was published in 2011 and was commercially available until 2016.
A travel enthusiast, I have visited 5 foreign countries and 45 of the United States, so far.
At 75 years of age, I remain a contented retiree - 21 years and counting.
My life’s theme is when you have a good thing going, stick with it. But when you don’t, make a change. This applies to work, love, spirituality, neighborhood, and health.
Thank you. Some interesting themes!
If you go to my Goodreads blog: www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/2... you’ll see a little more information but I thought some of you might like to know that I haven’t been twiddling my thumbs for the last couple of years, I’m actually hoping to publish soon… hope is a wonderful thing, don’t you agree?Here’s some info on what should be published this September:
Title: Mistake in Time
Genre: Time Travel Romance
Available for sale: On Amazon Kindle and Paperback
Blurb: To keep this post shorter, the blurb is on my blog only at the moment.
Some chapter titles
Chapter One - A white sports car
Chapter Two - The old, musty case
Chapter Three - They will have no tomorrows
My first time travel romance, Hide in Time is a stand alone book and so is Mistake in Time but they share certain settings etc. This, apparently, means they are an 'anthology series'.
I hope you’ll enjoy a romp through time.
Have you ever made a mistake? Liberty made one that couldn’t be put right. In her haste to distance herself from her two-timing love-of-her-life, she sets off to go to Regency England. Simple. She knew exactly what to do to get there. What could go wrong?Find out more on https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
“…rooted for her, as she tried to courageously navigate through her problems…”
If you fancy going on a journey that goes wrong (!) please take a look at Mistake in Time
I opened my emails at the beginning of October and got a shock. One of my oldest books had won a prize and I began to look at the dear old thing with new eyes – the eyes of the Readers’ Favorite reviewer, who is now one of my favourite people!“One Dark Night by Anna Faversham is a very good book offering romance, danger, adventure, mystery, excitement and so much more and I found it was very hard to put down. I really was rooting for Lucy to end up with a good life for all the grief she had endured and was hoping she would pick the man I liked best. I also hoped that all the bad people would get what they deserved. Anna Faversham did a perfect job of combining all the elements into one winning story and I highly recommend One Dark Night be added to your reading list.”
I hope you will like
as much as the reviewer did.
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...Blog with bargains? Yay! A blog with two bargains - more yays!
Time travel romance. If you like a romance with a little bit of mystery, a touch of humour and something of the thriller, then please grab a copy and visit another time, another place. From 31st March
Time Travel Romance: Landing in Swinging London wasn't in the plan - but it sure is fun. Pursued by both a goodie and a baddie, Liberty runs into a few problems, to say the least. Will she ever get to her coveted life in Regency England or must she settle for something completely different? From 27th March.Both are 0.99 for 7 days and, of course, if you are a Kindle Unlimited member, they are free! Something to read during the Easter break perhaps?
What else has this blog got? There’s a very short Easter story for readers and you can tell us what your favourite genre is in the comments section. Authors really like to know who likes what!
And there’s a question for authors too.
Then there’s a completely daft ‘Random Act of Kindness’ and a couple of good ones to help this troubled world.
So here’s the link again: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
This book gives you a glimpse of what lies beyond... (or does it?)
“The pacing is great. The dialog is great. The sense of place is … phenomenal.”
“…you’ll love watching Chester’s world slowly unravel.”
“I realised just how clever the plot is”
“His yearning for Kate was also intriguing; what had happened between them, would they be reunited?”
“…the storytelling is so skilled that the layers of meaning are revealed and understood in good time, and to powerful effect. A compelling novel that I didn’t want to put down, this is a highly-recommended read.”
All the above are Goodreads’ reviewers and are obviously intelligent, kind, wonderful people! I promise I am not related!
If you pop along to my blog, you’ll find an excerpt too:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
It’s good to treat yourself occasionally and at 0.99 it doesn’t cost much. (US and UK)
Immortality: This Is Probably a Novel 0.99 until 4th May or FREE with Kindle Unlimited.
This link to the blog here on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... doesn’t take you far. But buying the books will take you into another world, another time. Maybe you want to get into the heads of the smugglers? Or those who want to hang the smugglers? Or perhaps you’d like to follow the girl who has to make a decision about these two men?And this is what reviewers say about just one of the books: “A great historical fiction with all the elements of a classic”, “ Dark romantic mystery on a knife edge throughout”, “Romance, danger, adventure, mystery, excitement and so much more”, “A gripping tale”, “A cracking good book”, “Highly Recommended”.
Don’t leave it too long – they are reduced from 26th to 31st May
Of course, they are FREE on Kindle Unlimited all year round!
Light up someone’s life – or make them think hard. If you have a favourite quotation, would you like to share it on my blog? https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
This month’s bargain book is
0.99 in US and UK. And, as usual, it is free on Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited.
Hi Anna! Your book IS a bargain, and I'm sure it is as wonderful as your other books! It's on my to-be-read list and I can't to read it! (If I could stop writing long enough...lol.) My favorite quote:
"She slept with wolves without fear for the wolves knew a lion was among them.” - R.M. Drake
Gail wrote: "Hi Anna! Your book IS a bargain, and I'm sure it is as wonderful as your other books! It's on my to-be-read list and I can't to read it! (If I could stop writing long enough...lol.) My favorite q..."
Ooh... now that quote makes me think! I hope you won't mind if I transfer that to my blog where I hope to collect a whole host of similarly thought provoking, mind boggling or inspirational quotations.
Anna wrote: "Gail wrote: "Hi Anna!..."I would love, Anna. Thank you!
Thank you, James. You can pop it on the blog if you like. You'll find a collection of quotations there too.https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Hi James, yes your post is here.
Hi there, here is my favourite quote, I hope you like it.I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
By the poet Hafez
Thank you, Lisa. Yes, I think every one of us is astonishing! When we really look at how we are all made different and yet similar enough to relate and... I could go on!Do you want to pop it on the blog? Then it can join a collection of good quotations. https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
My favorite quote:"It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."
Will Rogers (Humorist) 1879 - 1935
Thank you, Jim. Do you want to pop this into the collection on my blog?https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Anna wrote: "Thank you, Jim. Do you want to pop this into the collection on my blog?https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog..."
Just popped it.
Toddle over to here:https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
to exercise your memory and also find a trilogy - 1.98 for all three books.
0.99
0.99
FREEOn the blog you can see what reviewers say about them
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
The world seems to be going through some strange, anxiety-creating times: war, floods, fires, heat waves and more.I hope you will hop over to https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... where you might find some reasons to be cheerful – and please add your own reasons in the blog’s comments and spread a little much needed enjoyment and, if you can, some laughter too.
This month’s bargain is
an Amazon best-seller. 0.99 from 27th September to 3rd October or FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Louisa, a Goodreads reviewer says, "When a book allows me to become one of the characters....aahhhh, perfection!" You might also like to know that
is reduced to £1.77 and US$2.99 and other territories are cheaper than usual too. Paperbacks are US$7.25 and £5.95. You can sit back in an armchair and enjoy travelling to London, New Zealand, the Caribbean and to places you’ve never heard of and will never want to go to again. Why would any author write about places you wouldn’t want to go to ever again?
Merry Christmashttps://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Something a little different this month as this is the month when many of us will be scratching our heads (or whatever you do when you absolutely have to do some thinking). What to buy for Christmas presents? Easy: a book. It’s something that lasts, can be treasured, can be shared and most of all can bring joy – and that is precisely what Christmas tends to do.
I’ve done your searching for you. Ahem. Three of my paperback books have been reduced in price to the very lowest that Amazon allows for authors in their Kindle Direct Publishing. At their very lowest, the author receives nothing. So that’s me! I’d like them to have been even cheaper but Amazon have to make their money…
A Time Travel Romance has some nice Christmassy chapters. Amazon Best SellerUS - $7.40
UK - £6.30
Canada - $9.70
Australia – $14.50
A Time Travel Romance, taking you back to the Swinging Sixties and even further back Readers’ Favorite 5* reviewUS - $7.95
UK - £6.75
Canada - $10.50
Australia - $15.50
Goodreads reviewer said, “The pacing is great. The dialog is great. The sense of place is … phenomenal. Great balance in the storytelling…”US - $7.25
UK - £5.99
Canada - $9.35
Australia - $13.99
Find out more on the blog:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I wish you all a very happy Christmas.
It’s a Wonderful Worldhttps://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I’ve recently returned from a trip Down Under and I spent some time at a favourite beauty spot, a café in Scorching Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Munching brunch, I remembered a scene from one of my books set just around the headland in Breaker Bay which features in
“Suddenly he saw it: the most magnificent roller advancing steadily towards the shore. A shout went up and all paddled furiously towards the beguiling breaker. He caught the wave, stood and steadied himself. The magic carpet took off; he was flying once again. For a few precious moments the exhilaration bore him up to surfers’ heaven – no drug could compare.”
And then something shocking happened.
And it’s reduced to 0.99 in the US and UK from 25th February to 1st March 2024.
Also FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
Find out more on https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
If you could only choose to have one book with you if you were marooned on a desert island, which one would it be? Hop over to my blog and tell us all. https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
And if you want to get stocked up before you get marooned then two of my books are on sale:
is currently on a 0.99 Kindle Countdown Deal until 2nd May. Readers’ Favorite 5* Finalist and #1 Best Seller on Amazon for Romance Time Travel
will be 0.99 from 2nd May through to 8th May. This is also a Readers’ Favorite 5* book.Both are FREE if you are a member of Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited.
In the US on 4th July you are celebrating: here in the UK we have a General Election. On 5th July, the UK will be reeling from the results – whatever they are.Many people are worried about the future. I found on my travels earlier this year that our friends in New Zealand and Australia have similar worries to us. Friends in the US and Canada say the same. Thousands of miles away, yet we face similar worries and threats.
Many writers and health practitioners over the years have given us tips on how to cope with worries. As a reader and writer, I would say: read a good book. And it’s true, isn’t it? If you get lost in a book, you’re in another world.
Hop over to the blog and read more and add your thoughts please – we need good tips
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
One person who found he was up to his ears in trouble is Chester. Chester manages to get through some horrendous situations but eventually he helps others on the way. As an investigative journalist, he’s come up against a crime gang. And when he gets to New Zealand, he finds life is not quite what he imagined and he narrowly misses… well, I’d better not give out any spoilers.
It's on a Kindle Countdown Deal from Thursday 27th June, through until 3rd July 2024. For 0.99 if you live in the UK or US, or not much more if you’re unable to get the deal. And, of course it is FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
Amazon #1 Best Seller in Books>Romance>Time Travel. If you like a romance with a little bit of mystery, a touch of humour and something of the thriller, then please grab a copy and visit another time, another place and find a love that never died.0.99 in US and UK from 25th August to 31st Hide in Time
Also on Kindle Unlimited so sort of FREE!
Now the sneaky peek at the forthcoming release of another Time Travel. Here's the opening sentence:
“From the outside Eleanor saw no discernible reason why Flint Cottage should be dirt cheap to rent.”
If you were offered somewhere that looked like a dream cottage in an English country village and it was dirt cheap, would you take it without viewing it? Perhaps you would if there was usually very little available to rent at a price you could afford? Perhaps you would if you had walked out on a no-good two-timing whatsit and had nowhere else to go? Might it seem like a dream come true?
To find out more go to the Goodreads blog here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
A ghost story based on truth.
Beware the Midnight Train – October release of spooky mysteryhttps://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
If you follow the link it’s a short cut to more information about a shivers-down-the-spine mystery. Some of the characters never get to shiver, some are cool even in the face of… of what? Just be careful to check you’re getting on the right train.
In the blog you’ll start to get the ‘feel’ of the book, so please take a look and let me know what you think of the title.
If you’re in the northern hemisphere I expect the nights are getting longer and the days are getting shorter. For Ellie, the young lady who’s chosen to live in Flint Cottage, it’s spring and the days should be getting longer. But sometimes the days get much shorter and so do the nights. She should have known better. But at least it’s not boring.Chapter Four – A few drawbacks. (Life’s like that, isn’t it?)
Chapter Five – Real cool . (If you saw a ghost, would you be real cool?)
Chapter Six – Do you believe in ghosts? (What on earth can you say?)
Hop over to the blog and find out a little more.
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Quotation from Beware the Midnight Train:
‘Don’t try to predict your future – be brave, create it. And create it she would! The past is behind. Her future begins today.’
I didn’t intend to launch this spooky book close to Halloween – it was meant to be finished in July or August. ‘Things’ got in the way. Ghosts will be ghosts and it seems I was overuled, so late October it is then.If you’ve been following my other blog posts in the past couple of months, you’ll know something about this time travel book (with a slow burning romance bumbling along). But did I mention that the ghosts want Ellie to do something for them? The dishy vicar cautions Ellie. The loveable, zany, almost famous neighbour cautions her too. Does she take any notice? Okay, you can guess the answer – but would you? And when you find out the worrying consequences of time travel, would you still be determined to seek justice?
Beware the Midnight Train will be reduced until 14th November so please take a look soon. Here's the link:
The paperback will be published on 25th October.
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We’ve heard a lot about injections lately and we’re told they’re doing a good job. There’s another injection doing a good job: something unexpectedly cheerful can feel just like an injection of joy. I won a prize! Definitely unexpected and definitely something good.
My blog gives more details. There’s also the usual sage saying, handy hint and stress reducer. And news of three of my books being reduced to as low as £0.77/$0.99 (similar prices for all markets) or a little bit more for the other three.
Hop on over to https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... and share your idea of an injection of joy. Children? Grandchildren? Holiday? Meeting someone new and super...? Finally being able to meet in church or a restaurant or concert together again?