Heart of Ice and Specials

Hello Champions. As many of you are aware, Snow Queen: Heart of Ice is available to purchase and read! It is one of two books–book two will be out in mid to late February. I hope you enjoy it! I ventured pretty far from the original fairy tale, but you should be able to recognize a few characters from the original.

Thank you in advance to everyone who reviews. Reviews are a big thing for authors. It helps a lot with book visibility and gives us valuable feedback–and it is also nice for readers because it helps them decide if it is a book they would enjoy. (After all, if you look at book descriptions it can be hard to tell if they have humor or not!)

Next up, I wanted to thank whatever sweet Champion nominated The Little Selkie, Puss in Boots, Rumpelstiltskin, and Enlightened for the 2015 Swoony awards! According the Goodreads page, “the Swoony Awards are a reader’s choice award recognizing excellence in clean secular fiction.” I don’t know if I really can claim excellence, but thank you to those who nominated me! Voting is still going on, so if you have an active goodreads account please check the page out and vote! (I say active because they’ve been having problems with voting scams, so they’re only counting votes from active goodreads accounts.) I intend to give that list a thorough look-through once the voting closes; there were some awesome looking books on it!

I can’t wait to take a look at the original Snow Queen story–it’s really long–but as the book was just released I’m going to force myself to zip it, and duck out of here. Thank you for reading, Champions! I hope you have a lovely day.

Update!

Gosh, to borrow Editor #1’s saying–and yes, that would be Jeri–I feel like I’ve been drinking from a fire hose. Sorry to be so quiet over the past month, Champions! As you have probably guessed, The Lost Files of the MBRC was taking up a lot of time, and I couldn’t really talk about it. But I’ve gotten a lot of other projects off the ground, so let’s take a moment to get caught up!

So we have The Lost Files of the MBRC , which will be released in mid-October. That project is finished and ready to launch. (Hooray!) Also, additional announcement: as I’ve had just shy of 100 entries in my Lost Files of the MBRC raffle, I’ve decided to increase the number of free ebooks I’ll be giving away. Now I’ll be giving away ten free copies of this ebook. Thank you to everyone who enters!

Okay, up next is Endeavor–King Arthurs and her Knights book 6. Right now it’s getting shuttled back and forth between Editor #1 and me. She just sent me a corrected draft, but I’m going to make some tweaks and–depending how major they are–might ask her to take another look. You can expect Endeavor to hit Amazon Thanksgiving week–or for Non-Americans, that’s late November.

Finally we have The Snow Queen–book 1. The Snow Queen is a two-book series. Book 1 is currently with Editor #2 for the second round of edits. I spent all last week trying to tidy it up, but only time and Editor # 2 will tell if my work paid off. Book 1 will be released in mid-December, and I’m lining up Book 2 for a mid to late February release.

Meanwhile, Cinderella and the Colonel‘s paperback release is progressing! It’s officially registered with the US Library of Congress (Wheeeee!) and it has been formatted. The next big step is to get the cover formatted now that we know what the spine thickness needs to be. Poor Myrrhlynn is a bit over-worked right now, but I’m hoping to wrap up that process soon.

I’ll spend the rest of October tidying up Endeavor and Snow Queen Book 1, and hopefully by the end of the month I’ll be able to get a start on Snow Queen book 2. If you didn’t catch it, this does mean I’ll have a book coming out this month, next month, and the month after that! Hopefully these stories will bring fun times for everyone.

In the meantime, I’m hoping to finally get a chance to have some non-work related posts with you guys. I’ve found some fun writing resources and a few awesome things I can’t wait to share, but more on that in future posts. Until then, take care, Champions, and I apologize for the radio silence, but I’m finally back!

Available for Pre-Order: MBRC Anthology

Announcing a new story: The Lost Files of the MBRC: An MBRC Short Story Anthology! Available for pre-order today, with a release date of October 15, this anthology contains edited and updated versions of the two short stories I have available on this blog, as well as three brand new stories: A Magical Birthday, Release the Kraken, and The Marriage Trustee. In these stories, Morgan will revisit friends like Aysel, Asahi, Hunter, Madeline, Frey, Frank, The Beer Brothers, Krad, and Esmerelda. The anthology is almost the length of a King Arthurs book, so it’s priced at 99 cents.

I’ve been waiting for MONTHS to discuss this project, and it just about killed me when I decided not to announce it until it was available for pre-order, so today comes as a big relief to me.

It was so much fun getting back together with Morgan and the MBRC crew, but it did hit home the reminder than I can’t write another MBRC novel from Morgan’s point-of-view. Her cast of characters is too huge, and it would only grow if I continued her story. However, that doesn’t mean I’m finished with the MBRC world and characters, as you might notice when you read the new short stories. But enough about that!

To celebrate the anthology, I’m holding another rafflecopter give away! Enter to get a chance to win one of five free ebook copies of The Lost Files of the MBRC! The raffle opens today, and it will close on October 13. The usual rules apply–you can only enter once, no purchase necessary, I’m not responsible if unfortunate circumstances like loss of internet keep you from entering, etc–and if you choose to pre-order a copy of the anthology and end up winning a free copy as well, I will gladly send your copy to a person of your choice.

Now sadly the Rafflecopter widget doesn’t work on wordpress. I can only provide a link, so here you go: a Rafflecopter giveaway //widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js

So MBRC fans, give me a holler! Are you excited, or do you wish I would just leave the world alone? This is a bit of an experiment for me, so I would love to hear from you. Thanks for reading, Champions, and good luck to all who enter the raffle!