New Review Up For Eight Nights At Sea! #amwritingromance #kindlebooks

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Chell at LoveReadingLaughing just finished reading Eight Nights At Sea, and had this to say about it:

This Love Story Is So Softly Mystical. The Details Wrap Around Your Heart And Pull You In. Zephyr And Rina Dance Around Loving Each Other So Well, The Twists And Turns I Never Saw Coming. Rina’s Secret Is So Well Entwined Into The Story I Forgot She Wasn’t Who I Thought She Was (You’ll Understand That Sentence Later, I’m Not Spoiling That One For You!).  Rina And Zephyr Are Not Your Typical Lovers And It Is Amazing. I Found My Self Reading Parts To My Husband Just To Share With Someone Because I Couldn’t Hold My Thoughts In. Eight Nights At Sea Are Not Enough, Britt–We Need Aven’s Story Asap, Please.

If You Love A Good Pirate, Or If Even If You Don’t–This Story Is So Magical It Will Make Your Heart Spin.

You can read the review here!

Feel Like Re-Visiting An Old Friend – Here’s An Excerpt From “Sky Woman”

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In this scene from Sky Woman, Miri is at a loss – she’s been kidnapped and has no idea where she is. She doesn’t speak the language, and communicating with Lunan and his brother, Kaivan, has been difficult. Here we see her moment of discovery – when she realizes just how far from home she really is. Continue reading

So Here’s What I’m Working On Next…The Elemental Series

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I’m in final edits for Someday In Dublin, which means the greater majority of that book is in the can. Whew! And now I can really begin hammering out the next project – The Elemental Destiny Series.

This is going to be a four part work – four individual full-length novels with protagonists based on their affinity for one of the four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. They won’t be releasing in that order – it’s more like Air, Water, Earth and Fire, but you get the gist of it.

Each of these characters lives partly in the supernatural world, though they are very firmly rooted in present-day earth. I’ve been kicking this one around for a good, long while, outlining and reworking the outline and fleshing it out.

One of my biggest complaints about The Seeder Saga (and I can’t help but think it was an issue for the readers) is that Books 1 & 2 are essentially stand-alone books, up until their final chapters. That’s mainly because when I wrote the first one, I hadn’t really planned for a trilogy, and then I was halfway into book two and could only hint at the plot of book three by introducing you to its hero in a passing manner.

Everything comes together in book three, with a lot of great callbacks and visits to our friends in books one and two, but they don’t really have the cohesive feel I’d like out of a series.

This one will have that, and an intricately woven plot that centers around a series of mysteries that reveal themselves through the course of the series, culminating in life-or-death decisions that will affect the entire human race.

This one is going to take a while to churn out, but it’ll be worth it, I promise. In the meantime, you’ll have Somewhere In Dublin, and I’ll toss a few more novellas your way to keep your blood pumping, I promise.

Off to work I go!

New Novella Coming Soon!!

In and around working on “Someday In Dublin,” I’ve managed to bang out (heh) another of my $.99 novellas. I just need to get it polished up over the coming weekend, and I hope to have it published by April 1st!

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Captured By The Hunter is the story of Drella, an intergalactic merchant’s daughter who is on the run from an arranged marriage. Her groom engages a Hunter to track her down – and this is no ordinary Hunter. Jodan is from a planet of Prims (you’ll remember them from my books Rain In The Moonlight and Changeling), a race of people who have special sensory skills – skills that make him a formidable foe…and a complete force of nature when it comes to women. Can he bring Drella back to face her wedding day? And can Drella get away from a man she’s overwhelmingly drawn to?

Look for Captured By The Hunter next week!

Come And Get It! Eight Nights At Sea Is A Kindle Countdown Deal!

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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!!

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Here’s Your Chance To Buy Eight Nights At Sea For A Song!

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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!

Hump Day! I Won’t Make A Dirty Joke – I’ll Just Tease Some Steamy Stuff

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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

Teaser Thursday: How About A Little More Of “Changeling?”

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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

Book Tease: Eight Nights At Sea Steams The Sails

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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

Ready For Some More Tidbits? Here’s A Scene From Rain In The Moonlight

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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