And the Winner Is…
Linda M.! Hurray!
Congratulations, Linda. You won the Bride of Fae review giveaway. Check your email – your gift card is on the way.
Happy spending!
Free Today!
Free books are wonderful in these days of limited funds. They let us take a chance on something new. These books are all free today.
See anything new you’d like to try?
Read more about these Theresa Weir/Anne Frasier titles here. 
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A collection of “mostly true” stories from Terran Moffat/T.M. Roy (the author of the Journey to Nyorfias series as well as Discovery: A Far Out Romance)
The first book in the Alex Stanton Chronicles:
The second book in the West Coast Girlz series:
To Me or Not to Me
In general, I don’t like novels written in first person. I think they make stories small and lead to heroines who are either boringly self-absorbed or irritatingly perfect.
I also think first person is a trap for authors. It seems easy to write – but it’s only easy to write badly.
The story I’m working on now is challenging my prejudice against first person. It’s crying out for the intimacy of I did this, I felt this, I needed this.
This is a ghost story and a love story, but the further into it I get, the more I realize it’s fundamentally the heroine’s story. Not the ghost’s. Not the lover’s.
She doesn’t really want to tell it herself. She’s not gregarious that way. But I’m the author, and I’m mean, and I think I’m going to make her do it anyway.
Bride of Fae Promotional Book Tour
Bride of Fae is on tour with Promotional Book Tours – a simply wonderful tour company. It’s been a lot of fun reading the reviews.
I’m giving away two $25 Amazon gift cards on the tour. The Rafflecopter widget is located at many of the links below.
Follow the Tour
Sept 18 – Mommy Reads Too Much (excerpt) Olivia Hardin
Sept 19 Amanda Blogs
Sept 20 : New Books!
Identity Discovery (review and interview)
Sept 21 Reading it All
Sept 24 http://www.samthebookaholic.wordpress.com
Sept 25 The Crafty Cauldron
http://lisaisabookworm.blogspot.com
Sept 26 Jenn’s Review Blog
Sept 27 http://www.ginaslibrary.info
Sept 28 Taking Time For Mommy
Good luck!
Ghost Story
I can’t seem to write a series — bam, bam, bam — and then move on to the next.
I know the story for the fourth Tethers book: The Goblin King (working title). It’s tons of fun, starring everybody’s favorites, Max and Cissa.
But before that silly couple can even think of looking at each other that way, the dark side of their story will be exposed in War of the Wyrds.
Meanwhile, a romantic suspense-ish ghost story moved in and took up residence in my imagination and won’t let go. I don’t believe in muses, but I think I might have one.
Literary Addicts Book Giveaway
It’s blog hop book giveaway time!
I’m giving away a copy of Deborah Harkness’s Shadow of Night – her follow-up to A Discovery of Witches.
Do your deeds in the Rafflecopter and win!
But wait! There’s more!! This is a blog hop – so here’s the path to more giveaways, including the grand prize: The Hunger Games DVD and book set.
Follow the linky below and hop around!
The Bride and the Release Day Diva
Yesterday was the release party at Facebook for Bride of Fae. It was so much fun – and exhausting – and I didn’t do any of the work!
Jessi Gibson is the Diva, and yesterday’s successful event is all — ALL — due to her hard work and fantastic organizational skills. I thought other independent author/publishers might be interested in the process, hence this post.
About a month ago, I booked the day with Jessi. I recommend booking at least a few weeks in advance for two reasons — time to prepare and time to promote.
You’ll prepare for the event by inviting your Facebook friends and lining up your prizes. Jessi has great ideas, so don’t worry if you’re not sure what you want to give away. She’s also connected with Promotional Book Tours a wonderful group of book bloggers who are hilarious and enthusiastic about all things books.
For the Bride event prizes we had a mix of books, ebooks, sparkly makeup in keeping with the book’s fairy theme, some gift cards, a DVD, and a month’s subscription to Netflix. I think the most popular prize was the custom book marker designed by Christine at TheBookSwagShop.
The Diva lines up the games, keeps track of the winners, and collects the information necessary to deliver the prizes. On the day of the event, I didn’t have to do anything. I was free to comment and play along. You can join in the judging or not. And if you have to leave early (as I did) it’s not a problem.
You can look at all the posts here to get an idea of how the day progressed. There are a lot of posts – it lasted eight hours! Personally, I don’t know how she does it. The party was fun, but there was a lot of information to keep track of. I think four hours is probably plenty, but with eight hours you have a greater likelihood the party will be going on outside readers’ work time.
Would I do it again? Definitely. It was a way to talk about my book without talking about my book and at the same time do something fun for the readers who, trust me, really know how to have a good time!
Bride of Fae (Tethers 2) – Now Live for Kindle, Nook, Kobo
Hurray! Bride of Fae (Tethers 2) is just about everywhere now.
I’m so pleased with the early response from this story. It was so much fun to write. Don’t forget to sign up for the official release party next Tuesday, July 31.
There will be lots of prizes throughout the day – you can pop in and out as you like – including Amazon gift cards, beautiful custom-designed book marks, sparkly makeup, a DVD of the movie Fairy Tale: A True Story – and more!
Bride of Fae Release Party
Isn’t this beautiful? It’s one of 4 Bride of Fae bookmarks designed by Christine at TheBookSwagShop. We’ll be giving them away at the virtual book release party July 31 at Facebook.
Sign up early! We’ll also be giving away a $10 Amazon gift card to early-bird sign-ups. Everyone signed up by midnight EST Tuesday the 24th (Cade Bausiney’s birthday, by the way) will be entered in the Rafflecopter.
The release party is organized by Jessi at Release Day Diva. She always has lots of fun games and giveaways. Come on over and see what else is planned.
Suspended Animation
Or … hurry up and wait!
Bride is temporarily out of my hands. It feels so weird! This book is either really good or it SUX! (I think it’s good …)
Click on the pic above to go to the Bride of Fae release party. The book will be out before July 31, but on that day we’re going to have a party for the book. Prizes include Bride of Fae bookmarks (beautiful), Amazon gift certificates, free books, makeup, a copy of Fairy Tale: A True Story … and more!
Team Rigel – the street team of L.K. Rigel
The fabulous MK Mamakitty has talked me into forming a Street Team.
Eek! It’s in the nascent stages. As in I just created the group at Facebook.
Apparently a street team is like a 21st century fan club. Just the thought of it is pushing my “unworthy” buttons … but the angel on the other shoulder says, “Hey! This could be a blast!”
Here is the link, if you’d like to join http://www.facebook.com/groups/292424834188566/
And the winner is … (and other news)
Jenna M. has won June’s ReviewPalooza $100 gift card giveaway. Yay!
Jenna, I’ve sent you an email. Please let me know whether you prefer Amazon or B&N.
Congratulations!
I’ve suspended the giveaways because the scheme wasn’t all that popular :/ ! I think LK Rigel books had two or three new reviews this month – which is nice – and only a few entries in the contest.
BUT I’m saving all the entries in the widget, and if the review action picks up again someday, I’ll bring it out again. Everyone who is entered now will still be entered.
In other news …
The Loves of Leopold Singer is now What She Did For Love.
As with “Bleeder” it’s been a struggle with that title. It never felt right, even to me.
UPDATE! In keeping with my horrific and unacceptable inconstancy with titles, I’ve switched back to LOLS. Someday I’ll have a contest to find a good title for this novel. What SHE Did … doesn’t work. LOLS is so epic and has too many characters.