Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for June 2016
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Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus.
The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows:
The book has to be released in that month (i.e., anything released during the last week of February would be a March release)
You can post for yourself or you can have a friend post for you if the idea of posting about your book paralyzes you .
No self published authors unless you write romance. No, I am not a POD hater, I am just thinking about the manageability of the thread.
Think about the readership. I.e., does your non fiction book about psoriasis really fit?
This one is more of a guideline than a rule, but be smart about your comment because if it is just a link to your website and the title of your book, I doubt you are going to get any interest.
DA reserves the right to delete the post if it promotes objectionable content (i.e., no daddy/daughter incest recommends are going to be allowed. Sorry.)
That’s it. Post away.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to post!
My debut novel, For The Win, releases from Pocket Star (e-book only) on June 6th. It is a light-hearted, full-length, adult contemporary sports romance that might appeal to readers interested in books with female athletes:
Lainey Lukas has sacrificed everything—sleep, family, carbs, a life—to earn her spot as the top player and captain of the Seattle Falcons women’s soccer team. She’s determined to lead her team to a national championship and finally earn the sport the respect it deserves—and nothing will throw her off her game. When Lainey’s hero Gabe Havelak, star of the Seattle Surge, crashes her team’s first press conference—making the Falcons look like a joke to the local media and humiliating Lainey in the process—she’s hell-bent on revenge.
Charming, confident Gabe is practically a god to Seattle soccer fans, but he doesn’t mind a little friendly competition from tough-as-nails Lainey, with her top-notch athletic skills, her mile-long legs, and her girl-next-door freckles. But when he learns the Falcons are booting the Surge from their coveted practice space to the notoriously cursed Cricket Field, those warm feelings give way to crippling superstition. With his contract up for renewal and his thirty-fourth birthday just weeks away, Gabe will risk anything to protect his position with the Surge.
The rivals agree to settle their differences in a Battle of the Sexes competition—a test of skills, fitness, and willpower. At first the situation seems win-win: Gabe gets the chance to earn back the Surge’s practice space, and Lainey’s team will finally get some much-deserved media attention. But as the friction between them becomes hot enough to spark and smolder, Lainey and Gabe are entering new territory—and with both of their careers on the line, love might just be the toughest opponent of all.
The book currently has a pre-order sale price of $1.99.
http://books.simonandschuster.com/For-the-Win/Sara-Rider/9781501132803
Hello! I have a new book coming out on June 21st. READY TO FALL is a novella and the fourth book in my Lovestruck Librarians series, but it easily stands alone.
Here’s why you might love READY TO FALL:
1. Sarah, my heroine, has a big heart AND a big mouth. She also hates nature and never learned to ride a bike. Which is a problem, since she wants to pursue her oblivious coworker Ulysses during an upcoming bike retreat.
2. Chris, my hero, is both the owner of a bike-repair shop and a surly man-beast–at least until Sarah starts to warm him up during their cycling lessons.
3. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY said “Sarah’s charm and humor are perfectly suited to a beach read.” That made me very happy, since I’d hate for people to get sand in their e-readers for no good reason.
So if you’re into banter, hot sex, and terrifying mini-golf courses, READY TO FALL might be the right book for you. :-)
If you’re interested, here are the links!
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1U6HiiP
Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/25gpFbZ
Google: http://bit.ly/1ORUmMN
iBooks: http://apple.co/1YOZbqz
Kobo: http://bit.ly/20ngyPS
Thanks for your patience, and I hope you love whatever you buy from this thread.
Hugs,
Olivia
oliviadade.com
@OliviaWrites
facebook.com/OliviaDade
I have a re-release on June 7, FCRW Beacon Award winner THE BRIDE AND THE BUCCANEER:
“’Lucky Jack’ Burrell’s quest for revenge against Sophia Deford will have to wait until he discharges a debt. He has to help her find the fabled pirate treasure Garvey’s Gold, then he can wring her dainty neck.
Sophia has no intention of sharing anything with anyone. She will have all of Garvey’s Gold, no matter how much Jack’s lean-muscled body makes her want to get to know him just a little bit better before she gets rid of him.
As the two adversaries squabble their way across Territorial Florida following the clues on their treasure map, they know that before they’re through they’re either going to kiss each other, kill each other, or both…”
The ebook is available through Amazon Kindle and Smashwords at various vendors. Here’s the link for Amazon: http://amzn.to/1TqLyjd
Thank you so much for allowing me to share the information! I’m excited about having my books out and about again.
Olivia your new novella sounds great! As someone who “unlearned” how to ride a bike, I can sympathize.
@Demi: Thank you, Demi!
I can tell you that Sarah’s deep suspicion toward bikes wasn’t hard for me to channel. My sense of balance is, um…not so great. And my backside is entirely too generous for one of those tiny little seats!
If you ever choose to learn again, I salute your bravery. And if you don’t, we’ll enjoy being flat on the ground together. :-)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S FLING coming June 20!
The show must go on, but the price of admission could be her heart…
Sick of a touring actor’s vagabond life, Nicola returns to California to put the past firmly behind her. It would help if the six-foot-three-inch beautiful man who is her past didn’t come knocking. Max. The mistake Nicola can’t seem to stop making.
Though she has no desire to re-re-rekindle their old flame, Nicola jumps at his offer to play Titania to his Oberon. But when their first rehearsal kiss disintegrates into a passionate liplock, she’s tempted to jump ship before Max can break her heart again.
Unless he can convince her that the torch he’s been carrying is an eternal flame.
Amazon Preorder: http://amzn.to/1YTEERM
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-midsummer-nights-fling/id1110390444
Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-midsummer-nights-fling-eliza-walker/1123754079
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/a-midsummer-night-s-fling-1
Summer Devon has a m/m historical out June 13, only at Amazon for now–trying out that KU thing! https://amzn.com/B01G4OQDIS
It’s self-published but professionally edited by my Samhain [whimper] editor.
Down on his luck and desperate for employment, Ezra Seton is offered only one job: to work in the house of a heartless bully, the very man who drove Ezra’s lover away. Gritting his teeth, Ezra takes the position. But neither the new job nor the master of house are what he expected. Still, he vows to keep his distance, no matter how difficult it is to maintain his composure.
Robert Demme’s pleasure-seeking days are over. Having rescued his cousin Ambrose from a lunatic asylum, he expends much of his energy pacifying the fragile eccentric. Hiring an assistant offers some relief–and also intriguing temptation. Unfortunately, the fascinating Seton apparently loathes him. Determined to discover the reason, Robert uses his considerable wit to get under the man’s skin, stunned when his plan backfires. Instead of unraveling the stalwart secretary, Robert has undone himself. All he’s accomplished is a deepening of his own interest.
When the two spend the night together in an inn, their mutual desire proves too strong. The secretary and the gentleman succumb to lust. But when Ezra’s old flame reappears and the cousin’s experiments go awry, it’s a battle to discover which will win the day: love or lunacy.
This edition includes a selection from Simon and the Christmas Spirit, a title by Summer Devon and Bonnie Dee.
SAVING A LEGEND by Sarah Robinson, an MMA Fighter romance, goes live on June 14th, 2016! “Saving a Legend is a deep and moving story about family, acceptance, and love. Plus those Kavanaghs really know how to make a girl swoon,” says New York Times bestselling author Katy Evans. This novel is a standalone but part of a series- each book is a different brother in the Irish Kavanagh family!
Synopsis:
Praised by New York Time Bestselling Author Penelope Ward as “a unique story line with multiple layers to it,” Sarah Robinson’s Saving a Legend goes another round with the brooding Kavanagh brothers: MMA fighters who won’t call it quits in the ring, or in romance.
His family’s gym has produced a roster of mixed martial arts legends, but so far Kieran Kavanagh hasn’t followed in their footsteps. After a brawl lands him in jail, Kieran is assigned to work at a center for at-risk youth. Though given a second chance, Kieran’s simply going through the motions—until he meets one very special kid, Shea Doherty, and falls hard for her very beautiful, very grown-up big sister, Fiona. The trouble is, Kieran’s best opening moves are getting him nowhere fast.
Fiona Doherty has too many responsibilities to fool around, especially now that she has custody of Shea. Sure, she’d love to find a devoted partner. But she won’t jeopardize her sister’s happiness—or risk revealing her tortured past—on a love-’em-and-leave-’em type of guy like Kieran . . . so it’s up to him to prove her wrong. As Fiona spends more time with Kieran, she starts to see a softer side of the reckless warrior. Now she must admit that when it comes to the possibility of real love, well . . . there’s a fighting chance.
Preorder Links:
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1eGEn3a
Amazon CA: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B010K2B87G/
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1ZiqnQk
#Amazon AU: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B010K2B87G/
#Nook: http://goo.gl/00j0jb
#iBooks: https://goo.gl/WEQ0BD
#Kobo: https://goo.gl/Ut8zWA
#Google Play: https://goo.gl/8XCLiF
#Books a Million: http://goo.gl/b8sTmi
#Penguin Random House: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/251447/saving-a-legend-by-sarah-robinson/
Watch the Book Trailer here: https://youtu.be/O1HzqZmJWLc
Thank you for the opportunity to post!
Shannari Rawr believes that love conquers all – even raptors! Happily Ever After guaranteed.
Raptorous Heat, published 6/1/2016
Finding a lost ruin in the Guatemalan jungle should have catapulted graduate student Natalie Whit’s career. But her professor leaves her in the jungle to do all the work—which he plans to steal as his own—while he parties in town with the prettier assistant. Then an emergency forces her guides to leave her.
Alone.
In the jungle.
At night.
And something is stalking her.
A top secret military experiment turned former Marine Chris Decker into a monster. Enhanced by super-powered raptor DNA, he’s a killing machine in either form he takes. When the colonel couldn’t control him any longer, they tried to kill him.
Mistake.
Huge.
Don’t make an already formidable soldier virtually indestructible, and then piss him off.
Nothing will stop him from bringing the colonel to justice and ending the super-raptor-soldier experiments…until he finds Natalie. Lost, scared, but so incredibly smart and sexy, she immediately wins the raptor’s undying devotion. Now all he wants to do is get his mate back to his lair.
And never let her go.
https://www.amazon.com/Raptorous-Heat-Shannari-Rawr-ebook/dp/B01GI9PHRM