New Cover Reveal & A FREE Read Today! Eight Nights At Sea #FridayReads #Free Reads #KindleDeals

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Today I launch the new cover for Eight Nights At Sea! And to celebrate, I’m giving the book away FREE today on Kindle! (Not sure if the updated cover will be up yet, but the body of the book remains unchanged).

Zephyr Jamieson is a sarcastic, sexy pirate who discovers the beautiful Rina and her silent, secretive brother hiding in the hold of his ship. Rina is desperate to escape across the sea, and together, they strike a bargain. He’ll take them on an eight night voyage to freedom and she’ll provide….well, I think you can figure that out.

Along the way they meet a villainous pirate, a betrothed man with a heart of pure evil, and a stunning secret that could drive them apart forever, despite their insatiable need for each other.

Eight Nights At Sea will never be enough, I promise! Take a voyage with Zeph and Rina and let the wind take the sails!

Download it today on Kindle!

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

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  ~

A Mystery – And Romance – On The High Seas In Eight Nights At Sea #kindle #romance #romancenovels

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Rina and her silent brother Aven stow away aboard the ship of pirate captain Zephyr Jamieson. He agrees to give them safe passage across the sea – for a price. Zephyr soon finds out he’s in over his head, and in this scene, we discover how protective Aven can be when a pirate gets a little too close to discovering their secrets.

Here’s another excerpt from Eight Nights At Sea:

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Plotting Out The Elemental Novels…Writing An Epic Is Hard Work #amwriting #amwritingromance #amwritingfantasy

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So, I’ve been hard at work literally charting and mapping out The Elemental Novels, my next series. Unlike the Seeder Saga, I’m really working hard to be proactive with these plotlines.

With Seeder, it started off as one story that I hadn’t planned to write a sequel to (Sky Woman – which is free on Fridays this month for Kindle…check it out!), and morphed into a trilogy. And believe me, finding little things to tie back to from later books was a serious exercise in creativity.

But it ain’t nothin’ compared to this, honey child.

I started with an Excel spreadsheet with timelines that morphed into a Venn diagram of sorts that became a big flowchart with cross-references and highlighted supernatural abilities (based on their affinities for earth, air, fire and water) as well as critical plot points galore. It’s been crazy! And cool! But mostly crazy so far. It’ll get cooler once I get them all talking to each other. And sexing each other up. You know how I write.

Now I’m ready to pull together the scene pieces and snippets of dialogue I’ve jotted down here and there for book one, and get to fleshing it out. I’m hoping to have this one out by the end of the summer, and book two out by the end of the year (maybe sooner on that one…the guy from book two is seriously haunting my dark and dirty fantasies…).

Watch here for teases as I hash this one out. Like I said…it’s going to be epic.

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!

It’s Monday, Time To Let Off A Little…Steam! Here’s Another Excerpt From “Sky Woman”


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You know how I loooove my steam. Today, I’m giving you another tiny taste of “Sky Woman,” the first novel of my Seeder Series.

Miri is an earth girl who finds herself waking up on another planet, and soon in the care of three gorgeous brothers, all hell-bent on wooing her. Miri has some hard choices to make about things that make her question the very nature of love and desire. It’s a hot, hot book and I had a wonderful time writing it. Here’s a taste. Continue reading