You read that right! Eight Nights At Sea is now a Kindle Countdown Deal and for the next three days you can own it for $.99!!
Do you like sexy, saucy, sarcastic pirates? Do you like sensual, mysterious women who give as good as they get? Do you like secrets that tear people apart, attraction and heart that pull people together, adventure and a touch of fantasy to add to the fun?
Then Eight Nights At Sea is your book! And you can have it for less than a buck!!
And once you read the book, you’ll know how appropriate that is! I’m offering Eight Nights At Sea on a Kindle Countdown Deal beginning at 8am EDT (US) on Wednesday, March 18th!
The book will blaze in at $.99, then hop up to $1.99 before moving back to its normal list price of $2.99. The promo will run through the 24th, so grab it while it’s hot!
Unfortunately, this also means that I have to unpublish the book from Smashwords for a while, as Amazon requires that I make this book a Kindle Select purchase, making it exclusive to Kindle for the next 90 days. I’ll be putting it back up to Smashwords once that deal expires.
So if you want the book for your Nook or other device (or on your PC), get it from Smashwords now – it’s coming down tomorrow.
Here’s a blurb, to give you a taste:
Zephyr Jamieson is a pirate, sailing the seas of a magical realm. He encounters a beauty named Rina, a woman with a body that sets him aflame and a secret that she cannot tell. Rina barters passage aboard Zephyr’s ship for herself and her secretive twin brother with the only thing the pirate captain appears to be interested in. Can eight nights at sea lead to more? Or will her secret tear them apart?
Set your countdown clocks – Eight Nights At Sea goes on sale soon!
In Changeling, the third book of my Seeder Saga, Lizzie is abducted by Indar, a man from the Seeder Corps, and they spend a few weeks in close quarters on his ship, which causes all sorts of mayhem when they find themselves overwhelmingly attracted to each other. Continue reading
Last week, I discussed parts one and two of my Seeder Saga a little more in-depth, and this week, I want to give you more insight into part three.
One of the pieces of feedback I hear most about books one and two is that each one reads like a stand-alone book, with the exception of their final chapters. I did this by design, though it can be argued that the setup for “Changeling” really takes hold in book two, “Rain In The Moonlight.”
And in “Changeling,” we get all of our questions answered from books one and two:
What happened to the planet that Miri is taken to? Why have the genetic issues occurred?
What was Parmet doing to the ecosystem on Rain’s planet?
Why was Indar so concerned with keeping Lunan’s family from being noticed by the Guild?
And best of all, we travel to Ajan’s home planet, and get to meet some hot-blooded Prims. When in Rome…or on a planet full of people who rely on their escalated primitive instincts…it can be interesting to do as the natives do. Or so Lizzie finds out… Continue reading
I’m three-quarters of the way through “Someday In Dublin,” and of course, I’m doing my research.
That’s the problem, though. Since I haven’t been to some of the places I’m writing about, I want to make sure I’m being as accurate as possible. I’m trolling the internet for tourist videos and traveler recommendations and personal travel blogs. I’m polling various internet friends who actually live in Ireland for their thoughts on certain things, and of course, they’ll be my beta readers when I’m done to make sure I’m not making a mess of any of this.
But there comes a time when you have to say to yourself: “Back away from the internet.” Especially when you’re researching someplace you’d love to go and see.
I can’t tell you how many internet rabbit holes I’ve fallen down, how many hours of writing time I’ve frittered away watching videos and checking out the websites of every national park and quaint little B&B I can find. I spent one entire evening reading pub menus from various watering holes in Dublin!
It’s all great fun, but it’s also not keeping me focused and not helping me toward my goal, which is finishing the damn book, after all. So I’ve learned a trick that helps me, and so far, it’s working.
When I’m writing the story, I keep certain things generic and then when I’m going back and revising, I’ll add in the specifics. I work in MS Word, so I use the highlight feature to mark the place in the manuscript, so I know I need to tweak it later. It looks something like this:
Later, I’ll go back and add in the name of a nearby village, and somewhere a little further down I’ll put in some details about something they saw there to flesh it out. By keeping it generic as I’m writing, I’m staying focused on what they’re doing with each other, how we’re moving the plot forward, what they’re saying and how they’re saying it. And most importantly, I’m not spending an hour on the internet when all I needed was the name of the damn village.
Writer tricks. They’re what’s for dinner.
And now, back to Michael and Amy, and Ireland. Can’t wait to share this one with you all!
Eight Nights At Sea is such a love child for me.
As some of you know, it began as a Fanfic – the only fanfic I ever novelized, as a matter of fact, and it was also my very first foray into Fanfiction.
I’d read plenty of bad fanfic and the occasional good one across the years, but never had the urge to write any myself until one day, a story crept into my head and just wouldn’t leave. It featured a favorite character from a favorite show (Hook from Once Upon A Time, of course), but I was hesitant to try it as a fanfic because I paired him up with a brand new character of my own instead of Emma, his traditional love interest on the show.
I finally decided I had to write the damn story just for me, if no one else, and I opened an account at Fanfiction.net and started posting it as it leaked out of my brain. It was surprisingly well-received, and got a few hundred good reviews, which inspired me onto my next tale, a purely Captain Swan adventure that got me some more traction in the community and led me to keep going in fanfic, which inspired me to write a few novels, and yadda yadda yadda, here I am actually making money on Amazon and Smashwords from my loyal readers that followed me out of Fanfiction and into the worlds I created.
But I’ll always have a soft spot for this book. Always. The story ended up being so much more than I originally intended, and taught me a lesson about endless possibilities in storyline, and how good it is to surprise yourself as an author.
So with all that backdrop, here’s a tease of what you’ll find in Eight Nights At Sea. In this scene, Rina breaks into the rum, and nearly makes a confession that Zeph has been waiting to hear… Continue reading
I like to write stories where the characters do what any hot-blooded, very attracted people would do when thrown into close proximity to each other.
They have sex.
They don’t only have sex, and sometimes, they almost or nearly have sex a few times before they actually have sex and then something might drive them away from each other and when they find their way back together…guess what? Yep. They have sex.
And while writing these sexy people and their sexy situations, of course, some personal bias comes in. Continue reading
Rain In The Moonlight is the second book of the Seeder Saga, and the lead characters were so incredibly intense to write. Their chemistry and particular their backstories are incredible, and the book takes a couple of unexpected turns before they work out whatever it is between them.
In this scene, we see Rain trying to reason with Ajan, who has been sent to capture the leader of the River Valley. He ends up captured himself, but Rain realizes soon enough that his skills could come in handy in their battle against the encroaching Mountain city. Now she has to convince him to work with her, instead of against her. Continue reading
So I’m in the middle of writing my next book, a contemporary romance set partly in Dublin, and I have to confess that I’ve never been there. I’m relying extensively on a whole lot of internet friends (many of whom are from Dublin or that area) to make sure I’m not writing stupid stuff or using dialect that any self-respecting Irishman (or Irishwoman) would sneer to read.
But oh, I want to go there someday.
Unfortunately, I’m not a bestselling author yet, and no one’s throwing six-figure book advances my way (yet) so Dublin is a dream for now, as is the rest of the Emerald Isle.
Or so I thought. Continue reading
That’s right – Not one but TWO ways to get some heat going this Valentine’s week. Book Three of the Seeder Saga is now out on Amazon!
Changeling is the story of Lizzie, who gets kidnapped from Earth by a handsome stranger. It turns out her father was from another planet, and embroiled in a plot that threatens mankind all over the galaxy. She’s thrown together with Indar, a member of the Seeder Corps, and together they’re going to have to figure out a mystery that spans time and space – that is, if they can keep their hands off each other long enough to do so. Along the way, they’ll meet up with Miri, Raine, and their men – all of whom prove valuable in solving an intergalactic puzzle. This book contains strong sexual content and is not suitable for readers under 17.
Ready in Red takes place on Valentine’s Day, when a girl shouldn’t be alone with only Netflix for company. Val gets pulled out to a bar by a friend in need, only to find a hot and friendly bartender who makes her very glad she remembered to wear her matching red lingerie that morning. She’s primed and ready for a steamy night, and Zach more than delivers.This book contains strong sexual content and is not suitable for readers under 17.
Both of these books were tremendous fun to write. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed bringing them to you. I’m now partway through my next endeavor – this time a contemporary romance. Stay tuned!
Britt DeLaney 