Excellent Blog post from Smashwords about Pre-Order books

This is a very good post from Smashwords’ Mark Coker about the advantages of pre-order for ebooks on Smashwords site. Check out this link.

http://www.slideshare.net/Smashwords/hit-the-ebook-bestseller-lists-with-preorders-a-guide-to-preorder-strategy

Hit Bestseller lists with Pre-Order on Smashwords

New Book Cover

My new cover from Stephanie over at Steph’s Cover Design. Print book cover and new ebook cover.
http://stephscoverdesign.wordpress.com/

New covers, stories, faeries and print editions

I finished the faerie meets cop/rancher story and I really had a lot of fun with it. I'm liking the fantasy world more and more. It ended up being a bit longer than I planned. I planned for a 80 page short and it's actually about 100 pages, 32k words. And, as I'm writing the story, people starting popping up and other stories are asking to be told. Doesn't that just figure?

So, I am probably changing the cover, and the title and this will be part of a Faerie Series, not sure what it's called yet. This is actually book 2, because Lilja's sister in the book popped up, one of those things, and her story happened before she meets Lilja....so I am going to write book 1 in February. I really want to write Book 3 though, because that is Lilja's friend who suddenly became really important....

So, from about Jan 1 to January 30, I wrote the 32k words. Did my own NaNoWriMo challenge. So I'm planning the same for February, with either Book 1 or Book 3. I'm thinking there's going to be 4 or 5 books in this series. We shall see.

Also, I'm having my Women of Character contemporary  romance (4) covers all updated. I'm very excited and using Steph's Cover Design. She does fantastic covers. Check her out. And very reasonable too!
http://stephscoverdesign.tumblr.com/post/31013250455/stephs-cover-design-paranormal-fantasy-horror-more

And last but not least, I am toying with the idea of printed books. They will be available through Amazon. First book up -- with new cover, will be Echoes from the Past. Will post info when I have it. I've just learned how to format for CreateSpace, a nifty tutorial by India Drummond on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FzvtxK686c

Publicity via Press Releases

I’m working on putting together some pertinent press releases for getting the word out there about my books, which really I haven’t done anything along this line yet.

I've been working on some angles, an author in a sleepy hamlet in the Catskill mountains of New York.

An announcement about writing contemporary romance with 4 books in the Women of Character series ~ with heroines who find their true strength in times of crisis.

A press release about my second series Women of Strength, ordinary people pitched  through time into sometimes dangerous situations, who stand up and fight for those they love.

All my stories revolve around family. To me it's very important, the values that hold family together and also writing about women who discover their own strength in times of adversity.

Once and Always now available on Kindle

Once and Always on Amazon Kindle

Anna has endured emotional and physical tragedy and is barely hanging on to the once successful Barlow horse ranch. Leading a reclusive life after the fire that subsequently scarred her face and robbed her of her livelihood as a champion barrel racer, she is on the verge of bankruptcy. In a bid to save her ranch she offers it for lease, but never expected to have Tyler, the man she once loved as a girl, show up on her doorstep. Buried anger and betrayal surface for both Anna and Tyler, but she's out of options and her back is against the wall.

Can they go back to the love they once knew....do they even want to go back?