Announcement: Review copies of Asleep are up for grabs!

At long last, the release date for the second book in my Elizabeth Darcy Fairytale Collection series is on the horizon: on or before June 13, 2013, Asleep will be available for purchase!

How would you like to get your hands on an advance copy? If you're a member of LibraryThing, I have a week-long giveaway going there with 50 copies up for grabs, and it starts today. NetGalley users will also be able to request copies soon, and I'll post further details once the book is available there.

Without further ado, feast your eyes on the lovely cover:

**Note: This book contains some mature content**

A reimagining of the sleeping beauty tale.

When her beloved Prince Devaran is abducted from her parents’ castle during their engagement announcement ceremony, Princess Jessmyn vows that nothing will stop her from bringing his abductors to justice. Rescuing Dev won't be easy, and Jess will have to form an alliance with the other Realms if she's to win the most important battle of her life. 

Imprisoned in a forbidding tower, Dev tries to find a way to warn Jess of the perils she’ll face. Weakened by deprivation and by the drugs administered by the madwoman who kidnapped him, Dev drifts between sleep and consciousness. As he relives cherished moments spent with Jess, Dev wonders if he’ll ever again be with the woman he loves.

Wouldn't it look nice sitting on your to-read shelf on Goodreads?

Announcement: Expanded distribution and my leg woes

As some of you may have noticed, I haven't been doing much blogging lately. This is due to my having torn a leg muscle in a very stupid way while exercising. Today will be my first session of physical therapy to help me recover from the injury, and I'll need physical therapy twice a week for four weeks.

The good news is that, while the injury will take a while to heal, I should eventually get back to normal, and it's not stopping me from working. The bad news is sitting in my desk chair results in a lot of pain when I have to get up and move around. Because of this, I've been limiting my desk time to concentrating on my writing, so I've been neglecting everything but that.

However, because I've been intensely focused on my books, I've been working hard to start extending my distribution now that my exclusivity clause is expiring, and I'm very happy to announce that Contributor is now available on Kobo and Barnes & Noble, in addition to Amazon. My exclusivity clauses on every book expire at various times throughout the month, so Phoning It In and The Eye of the Beholder will also be available at multiple vendors by the end of this month; I'll keep you posted as the books go live at the other stores.

Along with expanding the distribution for Contributor, I've also got a new cover design in the works. I absolutely love the original cover, but I think it may not make it clear that the book is a young adult book, so I'm going to try different cover art to see if that helps better convey its genre.

One last tip: last week I kicked off something fun that I'm calling Free Book Fridays. It means exactly what it sounds like it means: I give some of my readers free books. Tomorrow will be another Free Book Friday, so keep your eyes peeled. How do I decide who to give books to, you may wonder? Well, rumor has it that being on my mailing list could have something to do with it. Sign up here if you haven't yet joined--I've also got some member-exclusive promotions coming up down the line. I've also been known to drop in on Goodreads and take a look at those who have my books shelved. (And a note about Goodreads: as I expand my books into other markets, I'm also updating Goodreads to reflect this, so that the following editions are listed: Kindle, Nook, and Kobo.)

Announcement: Committed cover reveal!

Ever since Amazon announced Kindle serials, I've been intrigued. If you're unfamiliar with serials, think of television shows: though each episode contains a plot that's usually resolved by the end of the episode, there are overarching plots that are carried out over the course of the show's seasons.

I knew almost immediately that I wanted to give writing one a try, and an idea popped into my head that I thought would work well. If you've ever planned a wedding, I'm sure you can relate to the plot of Committed. As anyone who's ever planned a wedding knows, it's enough to make you crazy.

When Ella Mikowski decided to plan her dream wedding, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. As if juggling her career and the millions of wedding planning details isn’t enough, it seems that anything that can go wrong does go wrong. Will Ella manage to make it down the aisle with her sanity intact?

Episode 1: With only seven days to go until the wedding, Ella heads to the salon. But her visions of a head full of beautiful highlights setting off her exquisite headpiece is ruined when something in the solution causes her hair to fall off in clumps.

*****

Committed will be an eight episode serial, with episodes released every other week. Each episode will be around 12,000 words (approximately 40 pages), be priced at 99 cents, and will detail one day leading up to Ella's wedding. I'll release episode one on Thursday, February 28th.

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of Committed. I've been having a lot of fun writing it, and I hope you'll find yourself as caught up in Ella's tale as I am.

Announcement: Spec Fic Dollar Daze starts today!

Looking for some good books to read over the next week? Like bargains? Then you'll want to snatch up a copy of all 18 books in the Spec Fic Dollar Daze promotion. 18 indie authors are offering their books (including yours truly, with The Eye of the Beholder!) for 99 cents from January 30-February 3.

SpecFicDaily.com, T.S. Welti, and J.A. Huss have teamed up to bring you another MASSIVE Group Sale and Giveaway. This promo includes 18 book by 18 different authors - ALL books in this list are 99 cents from January 30-February 3rd.

You can see all the books in the sale at Specficdaily.com

ALL BOOKS ARE 99 CENTS!

Tristan J. Tarwater - Self-Made Scoundrel

T.S Welti - No Shelter Trilogy

J.A. Huss - Fledge

Christine Pope - All Fall Down

Elizabeth Darcy - The Eye of the Beholder

Chris Reher - The Gods of Chenoweth

C. Greenwood - Magic of Thieves

Anna Kyss - Wings of Shadow

Alex Albrinck - A Question of Will

David Adams - Lacuna: Demons of the Void

Irving Belateche - H2O

MeiLin Miranda - Lovers and Beloveds

Ruth Nestvold - Shadow of Stone

Scott Cramer - Night of the Purple Moon

Becca Mills - Nolander

Zoe Cannon - The Torturer's Daughter

Mark Whiteway - Seeds Across the Sky

H.S. St.Ours - Sami

MASSIVE GIVEAWAY and 99 CENT BOOKS!

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Psst, one last note. Wouldn't you like to have a free copy of Creators? I'd love to give you one! I've already made it free on Kobo, but Barnes & Noble, and Amazon require books to be priced at 99 cents minimum. However, Amazon will price match, so if you're so inclined, I'd be extremely appreciative if you report the Kobo price to Amazon so they'll price match. There's a link right under the product details that says "tell us about a lower price". Click it, paste the Kobo URL into the field (http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Creators/book-n_WmyRyEbkiBnVb2s6jDLA/page1.html?s=WYPb_KPjCU61EdwNUGVfLw&r=1), put a "0" for price and shipping cost, and click the button to complete. Free copies of Creators for all!

Announcement: I'm going to be a YA Indie contributor!

I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be contributing to the blog YA Indie.  If you haven't visited it yet, you should really check it out.  It's a collective of indie YA authors covering various topics related to writing and the world of YA.

I know, I can't believe they were crazy enough to add me as a contributor either.  I'm really looking forward to disrupting the order chiming in over there, and I hope it helps my readers to find some great new indie authors.

Announcement: Unpublish date for B&N and Kobo

This is just a quick announcement to let readers know that, on September 26, I will be unpublishing The Eye of the Beholder on Barnes & Noble and Kobo.  If you'd like to know why I've chosen to do this, you can find a post here that explains my reasons.  I wanted to give fair warning to anyone who might want to purchase a copy via these outlets.  I also want to emphasize that my book will remain on sale at Amazon, and that, like all of my current and future books, it does not contain DRM.  I will be enrolling once more in the Kindle Select program, so the book should be available for borrowing as of October 1.

I'll write another quick announcement once I've unpublished, just to confirm to everyone.  As always, I welcome feedback from my readers.  You're the ones who make all of this possible, and your feedback really and truly matters to me.