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Jul 7 2015

BIG Announcement About Eight Nights At Sea – and an excerpt! #romance #goodreads #KindleDeals

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In my novel Eight Nights At Sea, pirate Zephyr Jamieson is sailing the seas of a magical realm – a realm where all sorts of fanciful creatures abound. He comes across a beautiful stowaway named Rina and her silent brother, and offers a bargain: safe passage on an eight-day voyage across the sea in return for Rina’s companionship. Rina agrees, despite her brother’s objections.

In this scene, it’s the day after the deal has been struck, and Rina has already spent the first of her eight nights in a pirate’s arms…. Continue reading →

Jul 6 2015

Stuck In The Middle With My Stuck, Stuck Brain #amwriting #writing #amwritingromance

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As is usual with me, I’m working on more than one project at once. In fact, I’m working on four, with a fifth tickling my brain.

  • Project 1 is the newest paranormalish romance novel of my new series, and I swear to you I feel at the moment like I’m mindlessly rambling and stuff is just tumbling out and only some of it is good. This is how you write a first draft, but it irks me that some of it is pure nonsense.
  • Project 2 is a “based on a true story” sort of memoir thing that I’m doing under another pen name, and I am stalled. Just stalled. I can’t seem to move forward with it and nothing is coming when I stare at the screen and honestly, I’m rethinking writing the damn thing at all even though I’m 42,000 words in already.
  • Project 3 is the print version of Eight Nights At Sea – which is really more about formatting since the damn thing is already written, but of course as I’m going through it and formatting it for print, the editor in me is rewording and reworking and re-re-re-everything and I just need to stop already. I will edit myself to death if you let me.

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Jul 3 2015

Sail Away To A Magical Realm In Eight Night At Sea #FridayReads #GoodReads #Romance

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Looking for a good beach read? Or a good read, period? Take a trip out to sea for eight steamy nights with a pirate named Zephyr and a magical stowaway named Rina.

When Zeph finds Rina and her secretive brother hiding in the hold of his ship, they strike a bargain. She wants to get across the sea, and he wants her. Their journey takes them through dangers and discoveries that you can only expect in a realm where magic is a fact of life.

Along the way you’ll be laughing, blinking back an occasional tear, and squirming in your seat as the steam they generate nearly sets the sails afire. Take a voyage into adventure and erotic romance with Eight Nights At Sea – exclusively on Kindle and out in print by the end of this month!

From the Reviews:

“I absolutely loved everything about this book.”

“The details wrap around your heart and pull you in.”

“The shock of what the secrets were was surprising, not expecting it at all!”

“This book will blow your mind!”

You can read some excerpts here, and here, and here.

Jul 2 2015

When There Are Too Many Balls In The Air, It’s Time To Grab Your Balls #amwriting #writing

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Oh, there I go again. So many damn projects. So little damn discipline.

I spent two hours of prime writing time last night perusing Reddit, followed by a half hour of falling down a YouTube hole and then opted to read instead of write before going to bed.  Ugh.

And I have not only the current novel to work on, but a YA novel to rework for a deadline that’s TOMORROW for creep’s sake, and another non-fiction book under another moniker to piece together. Oh, and let’s not forget next week’s blogs (I have two per day on two different platforms to figure out) and 4 freelance articles on top of that.

All around my full-time day job and the rest of my life. So many balls in the air.

Shit. No wonder I’m not dating.

So today’s blog is going to be short because, quite frankly, I have to grab my balls. And I need to stop playing with my balls and get serious about my balls so I can grab life by the balls and grow some balls and get shit done.

I’m sure you understand. When I talk about balls, I mean.

I’ll check in with you tomorrow, hopefully with a keyboard full of balls.

Jul 1 2015

Opening Chapter Tease For Book One Of The Elemental Destiny Series: WindSinger #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingromance

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On Monday I revealed the title of the first book in my new series: WindSinger.

In addition, there will be three more books, following in this order:

SeaSinger

EarthSinger

FireSinger

I’m weaving a complete epic world that intertwines with all four of these books, culminating in a real coming together of forces in a ‘save the world’ sort of climax, but along the way, you’ll get to meet people who have some very interesting abilities (both magical and non-magical) and the first of those is a girl named Cecy.

In this opening chapter to WindSinger, Brad gets to watch Cecy in action…but what exactly is she doing? And why? Continue reading →

Jun 30 2015

Just A Reminder – My Novels Are Going To Be Moving Exclusively To Kindle On July 1

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As I previously mentioned, I’m getting a lot more traction off the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Lending Library Fund for the two books I have exclusively on Amazon vs the sales I’m getting off of Smashwords (even though it feeds out to multiple platforms). The problem is, unless you agree to go exclusive with Kindle, you can’t take advantage of Kindle Countdown Deals, Free Book promotions, etc. and those things have generated some serious flow for me.

So if you’re a Nook user, head over to Smashwords and download today and get them because they’re going away there after today. If you prefer to read online or via iPad, Kindle has a reader app you can use to read via those platforms.

I’ll still be publishing novellas on Smashwords, and you’ll still be able to access my free reads (and I’ll be posting more of those, I promise).

I really appreciate everyone who’s supported me on that platform, I really do. I just have to do what works best for now. Unfortunately. Amazon is changing the royalty structure on July 1 (and are being a bit vague about how that’s all shaking out, money-wise) so this is kind of an experiment. I’m giving them 60 days and if it’s not doing me any good to make this move, I’ll bring everything back. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Till then, I’ll just get back to writing, if it’s all the same to you.

Jun 29 2015

Are You Ready For An Adventure? Title Reveal For The First Novel Of The Elemental Series! #amwriting #writing

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Her name is Cecy, and she’s got a very special gift.

She’s also going to introduce you to a very interesting group of people who call themselves the “Twixters.” Twixters live among us, and are so named because they’re the direct product of a human who has a dalliance with one of the powerful race of “Elemental” magical people who help control the Earth, Air, Fire and Water….and mankind’s destiny, while they’re at it.

Cecy is part Air Elemental, and even a little more unique than that amongst the Twixters (can’t tell you her secret – that would be a spoiler!). Brad sees her in action and finds himself both confused and intrigued by this wispy slip of a woman. He soon gets caught up, not just in Cecy, but in a whole world he never knew existed, and together he and Cecy find themselves a part of a larger, more powerful destiny.

So get ready for novel one of the Elemental Destiny Series:

~  WindSinger  ~