Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for March 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.
My new series, Falling for the Freemans, kicks off with the first book in the trilogy, Falling Hard. Set in Upstate New York (Thousand Islands region if anyone knows it), it’s centered around a small town that has fallen on hard times and needs the help of three brothers to get back on the tourist map. If you like small town romance that’s not sugary-sweet and has a cast of non-cutesey characters, this might be for you :)
Here is the blurb and Amazon link: (it’s listed as Book 2 because there is a Christmas novella introducing the town)
He didn’t want complications. She was looking for a miracle.
Quinn Freeman has spent his life avoiding the dangers of commitment, but his reluctant return to his home town that’s mired in tragedy for his family stirs up memories and emotions he’d intended to leave buried. His arrival lights hope in many hearts including one long dormant.
Meghan O’Reilly, the town’s only plumber and solo caretaker of her dependent sister, is weighted down with responsibility. She only sees in Quinn a careless charmer who isn’t used to hard work—but she still can’t keep from imagining his kiss… and longing for his touch.
Surely some things, like a fling between them, can be simple… Or is it possible for a fling to become forever?
http://www.amazon.com/Falling-Hard-Freemans-Book-ebook/dp/B019G0SZUG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456086276&sr=8-1&keywords=kate+hewitt+falling+hard
New series of sensual Mail Order Bride romances!
The Pinkerton Brides series is set throughout the mid 1800s, and each book follows a different bride as she heads West toward her new life and her new husband. Book 1 is a prologue that sets up the series, but they can be read in any order.
Loving sex scenes, mysterious husbands and Victorian sensibilities. What more could you want?
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/series/173019-pinkerton-brides
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/hcu3kle
Summary for Book 1: Miss Sally J. Pinkerton runs the most reputable ladies boarding house in St. Louis. Situated on the edge of the frontier, it attracts all sorts who are making their way West for a better life. But when her beloved boarder Bess Stapleton dies, Miss Pinkerton promises to find someone to help the girl’s brother, James—a widower with two young children—and in the process, she finds a new calling: helping lonely frontiersmen find brides. And thus Miss Sally Pinkerton’s Ladies Boarding House and Matchmaking Service is born. An Accidental Match is the prologue to the Pinkerton Brides series.
Releasing March 8 from author Diana Gardin, is a sexy military Contemporary Romance.
Diana Gardin, Saved By The SEAL (STANDALONE Battle Scars novel)
#sexySEAL #coverreveal
Goodreads → https://goo.gl/WmiKpr
Pre-order ↓
Amazon US ~ http://goo.gl/WuwfSx
Amazon CA ~ http://goo.gl/LUftyV
B&N ~ http://goo.gl/LDOkXs
Kobo ~ https://goo.gl/jPLlhV
G. Play ~ https://goo.gl/g4ARgm
iBooks ~ https://goo.gl/BLC5xS
Synopsis ↓
He saved her life. She showed him how to live it . . .
When he sees a woman drowning, Grisham Abbot immediately leaps into action. The Navy SEAL forgets his training, his past, and the explosion that forever scarred his body and his mind. He can only remember what he was born to do. But saving Greta Owen is a complication Grisham is definitely not ready for. She’s stunning and gorgeous—like sunlight after months of darkness. Yep, Grisham is so, so screwed.
Greta knows that the smart thing to do would be to run from Grisham. He’s a wounded warrior, and his head is a big-time mess. The problem is that Greta wants to make him her mess. One kiss and she’s completely in over her head. And if this SEAL risked himself to save her, then she must find a way to bring him back to life . . .
“Dragon Knight” – paranormal romance to save the world, encounter an unexpected dragon and, yes, there’s a boardroom scene (or two). Preorder now, or out Feb 27 — you can read it on Leap Year Day on the 29th :)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019IBLV18
Dragon knight Gina Sidhe serves Earth’s only resident dragon, and she’s been issued with a quest. She must return with Lewis Bennett, President of The Collegium (the world’s magical order of peacekeepers), so that he may learn the Deeper Path of Magic from the dragon. A path that has been denied to Gina, and one she desperately wants.
But Lewis isn’t interested. He knows his magic has gone, burned out amid a terrible tragedy. Which makes his current task all the harder. He must restructure and repurpose The Collegium in the wake of a shocking and sly demon attack. He doesn’t have time for Gina’s quest, until she offers him the one thing he can’t have: a hidden route out of his Collegium life.
Because Lewis has his own quest, one secret and lethal, to save the world from a threat no one else believes in.
Thanks, Jayne, for the chance to share my new release with Dear Author readers :)
RISKING IT ALL kicks off a brand new series! Come on – who doesn’t love Naked Men? In this irresistible D.C. series, a group of close-knit friends talk out their problems with naked honesty on a popular blog. Bonded by a high-school tragedy, they’re moving on from the past—and fighting for the future with strong and sassy women.
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1T0zYue
B&N: http://bit.ly/1XGYyPH
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/risking-it-all/id1046430612?mt=11
Griffin Montgomery helps people. As a teenager, he kept his best friends alive after their soccer team’s bus crashed in the Alps. Now, as a Coast Guard search and rescue pilot, he saves lives with reckless abandon—until he goes too far and earns a lengthy suspension. Working on the Naked Men projects keeps his mind busy, but Griff’s itching to get back in the action. That’s when he finds his latest rescue mission: a pretty wallflower who’s stuck in her comfort zone.
Chloe Widmore doesn’t take risks. As a professional letter writer, she gets enough excitement out of expressing other people’s emotions. So when the hottest man she’s ever seen invades her coffee shop, Chloe surprises herself with how much she wants to be with him. Routines make her feel safe. Griff makes her deliciously unsafe, in so many ways. But falling for him is one risk she might just have to take . . . whether she’s ready or not.
Thanks so much to Dear Author for letting me share!
The Dutch Girl comes out March 12th. It has highwaymen, patroons, clogs, and donuts.
http://www.donnathorland.com
@Donna Thorland:
Hmm. Autocorrect thinks my book comes out the 12th. Let’s see if it comes out the 1st this time…
THE SEAL’S SECRET HEIRS releases March 1st, book #5 in the Texas Cattleman’s Club continuity. Kyle Wade is a sexy SEAL turned rancher turned father and he’ll do anything to keep his newly-discovered twin daughters out of the system. Even face down their case worker–the woman who drove him into the navy ten years ago…
amazon: http://amzn.to/1PdwJuJ
iBooks: http://apple.co/21kLFwU
Barnes and Noble: http://bit.ly/1oxkKzB
kobo: http://bit.ly/1oXoU4a
Releasing March 1, suspense-with-romantic-elements from Karenna Colcroft, published by DSP Publications.
After the death of his adoptive mother, Andy Forrest decides to track down his biological family. The search leads him to the struggling central Massachusetts town of Dayfield—and local historian Weston Thibeault, the town’s only other openly gay man. With the help of Weston, Andy uncovers secrets about his birth father, the youngest son of the Chaffees, the family that once owned Dayfield’s largest employer, a furniture factory that closed thirty years earlier.
As Andy and Weston work together, they find a connection to a scandal that rocked the Chaffee family over 125 years ago. But small towns like to bury their secrets, and many of the older residents of Dayfield will do anything to stop Andy and Weston from discovering the truth about the town and its inhabitants.
Publisher: “https://www.dsppublications.com/books/dawn-over-dayfield-by-karenna-colcroft-213-b
Also available from Amazon and Omnilit.
The third in the Victorian Holiday Hearts m/m novella Summer Devon and Bonnie Dee series will be out March 7: Mike and the Spring Awakening.
Caught with another boy, young Micah “Mike” Cordett’s privileged life exploded. In disgrace, he ran away to London–and straight into abuse. Now, with the help of the Andrews family, he’s climbing out of his debilitating fear. Yet when a reminder of his happier past erupts into his life in the form of Lucas Spring, Mike’s not sure he’s ready to face reminders of the charmed life he’d once enjoyed. He’s certainly not ready for love.
Lucas Spring pined for Mike from afar when they were in school. This shadow of the confident boy he’d idolized shocks him, but Lucas will do anything to help. With patience and determination, he hopes to ease Mike’s fears and perhaps even win his love. But when a menacing figure from the recent and violent past looms, Mike’s spirit and their hopes could be crushed again.
Out March 1st – UNTIL IT’S RIGHT!
If you’re a fan of YOU’VE GOT MAIL or nerdy heroes are up your alley, then this one’s for you :)
Blurb:
Haley Mitchell is tired of moping. With her broken heart repaired with a thick layer of duct tape, she’s ready to put her ex behind her and move on. After a chance encounter in a club, she’s convinced she’s met Mr. Perfect. But when he accidentally gives her the wrong number, the stranger on the other end of her texts becomes her confidant.
Kyle Lawson has always had more luck with computers than women. So when the new temp, Haley, arrives, he has the misfortune of falling for her, only to land firmly in the friend zone. But when he learns the mysterious woman he’s been texting is actually Haley, he keeps the entire thing a secret.
As things move straight from platonic to decidedly hot, Kyle must come clean about his secret texting identity and risk losing the woman he’s fallen in love with.
Amazon: amzn.com/B016VJAZTY
Barnes & Noble: http://tinyurl.com/ocvr47x
Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/ouuh4ma
My sweet contemporary romance UNEXPECTEDLY YOURS releases on March 14.
He wasn’t what she was expecting…
Derek Carmichael has harbored a secret crush on his best friend’s older sister for years, but she’s always been out of his reach. Now that Hannah is back in their hometown and newly single, suddenly the five-year age gap doesn’t seem so huge. But convincing her to see him as more than just the kid she used to know is another story.
Hannah Willmett can’t believe how grown-up Derek Carmichael has become. The troubled kid from her youth has turned into a sexy, successful TV celebrity, but Hannah’s wary of his player past and the rampant rumors connecting him to beautiful socialites. Still, she can’t help but give in when their attraction reaches a boiling point.
Trying to keep their fling a secret from her overprotective brother is one thing, but when Hannah finds herself unexpectedly expecting, her life is thrown upside down. She and Derek may be becoming parents together, but that’s no basis for a happily-ever-after.
You can read an excerpt and buy it at http://www.entangledpublishing.com/unexpectedly-yours/