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Categories: Covers, My Books, Playing Pretend

Cover Love: Playing Pretend

Genre: NA Contemporary Romance
Word Count: 60,000
Release date: March 2014
Cover: Berto Designs

As the Governor’s daughter, Charlotte McClain is an expert in playing pretend. High society, the men her mother shoves in her direction and a Pre-Law major are all a part of her perfect pretense. But when she pretends to be a nobody during Spring Break, she meets someone who rocks her world.

Mason Rowell knows heartbreak and Spring Break don’t mesh well, so he allows the mysterious Charlotte to seduce him. What should have been a fling, results in something deeper. After Spring Break has long since passed, he moves to Washington to pursue his graduate degree, but what he never expected to find living among the rich and pompous, was the girl who gave him the strength to change and the desire to start anew.

When the guy Charlotte can’t forget goes from a sensual memory to temptation in the flesh, her facade is put to the test. If she surrenders to his charms, she risks ruining her mother’s perfect career and master plan. Playing pretend is what Charlotte does best, but how long can she pretend she doesn’t love who man that made her proud of her true self?

**A light, sexy NA Contemporary Romance**

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A little pic teaser for you:

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Disclaimer: This is NOT like Breaking the Reins. BtR is an emotional read – it touches a very serious topic and most readers tell me they cried at least once while reading it. Playing Pretend is NOT like that. Playing Pretend is a light, sexy contemporary romance.

Even so, I hope my readers enjoy it :)

Cheers,

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Categories: Breaking the Reins, Destiny Gift, My Books, Soul Oath

New Prices

Since becoming a writer and author, I’ve turned in to a worrying machine. Seriously, I said this before in other pasts, but I used to be so decided, so sure of everything, then it all changed when I dove deep into writing. Now, I’m so undecided and not sure of anything. I change my mind about my books, my path, my writing, my methods, etc, a thousand times – per day!

And that means I’m undecided about my books’ prices too.

I’ve always knew I would charge $2.99 for Destiny Gift and then, when the second one was out, change it to $0.99. The second one (Soul Oath) and the third one (The Everlasting Circle) will cost $2.99 each, though, and the novella (Cup of Life, #2.5) will cost $0.99.

However, since book #2 (Soul Oath) is almost here, I changed Destiny Gift to it’s new price a little early.

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So, here’s where you can buy DESTINY GIFT for only $0.99:

Amazon | Barnes&Noble | Kobo | Apple

Soon, Soul Oath will be on sale on the same outlets!

When I published Breaking the Reins (in August), $3.99 was the new $2.99. It seemed that all new, quality self-pubbed books (especially NA contemp romance) was being published for $3.99. I wondered about that a bit and I researched.

Most authors use a length system for their prices, like:

Novelette (up to 15k words) = $0.99
Novella (15k-40k words) = $1.99
Novels (40k-80k) = $2.99
Long novels (over 80k) = $3.99

And there are many authors who actually charge more for their novels ($4.99), no matter the length.

So, since Breaking the Reins is 110,000 words long and it cost a lot more than the others to produce and a lot more time to write, I ended up charging $3.99 for it. Then, talking to my hubs about pricing this past week, I realized readers don’t really care about length. They care if it’s a novella or novel, and a novel can be 50k words or 150k words – and the price should be the same.

For that, I just changed Breaking the Reins price to $2.99.

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I see authors playing with prices all the time. I don’t want to do that because I don’t want to look like I’m toying with my readers – they are too precious to me to play around with. But, one good thing about being indie is that I’m in charge and I can change things a bit.

So, these new prices are for you!

Cheers,

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Categories: My Books, Short Stories, Special Dates

Happy Halloween and a Short Story

Happy Halloween!

Back in July 2012, HarperTeen and Figment had a short story contest – it had to be about the dark and shouldn’t be longer than 4k words. I entered the contest – I didn’t win, but I got a very nice email from the judge and editor of the anthology the short story was to be published with, saying that the story was beautiful and that my writing was gorgeous, and such.

Though I wrote that short story over a year ago, I still think it’s my best writing to this day. It’s very different than my contemporary style, or my UF style. This is more … lush? I don’t know how to explain.

Anyway, it’s a story about witches and ghosts and witch hunters … and, since it’s Halloween, I thought you would like to read it :D

You can find my short story, Into the Darkest Fire, on WattPad or Figment – if you read it, let me know what you think! I love comments :)

Into The Darkest Fire By the way, the cover was designed by my NA Alley sister, Jaycee DeLorenzo. Isn’t it gorgeous?

I hope you like it! :)

Cheers,

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Categories: My Books, Playing Pretend

Playing Pretend Cover Reveal Sign-Up

Want to help me reveal the cover of Playing Pretend?

Nereyda from YA Bound Book Tours is organizing the cover reveal and you can sign up here!

Genre: NA Contemporary Romance
Word Count: 60,000
Release date: March 2014
Cover: Berto Designs

**A light, sexy NA Contemporary Romance**

Goodreads

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

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Categories: My Books, Soul Oath

Soul Oath Pic Teaser #2

Soul Oath (The Everlast Trilogy #2) releases next month and I have three more pic teaser to share.

If you don’t remember, here’s the first one:

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And now I give you the second pic teaser:

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In case you missed, here’s the book info:

Genre: NA Urban Fantasy
Expected pub date: Nov/25/2013
Cover design: Okay Creations
Length: 80,000 words

It’s been three months since Nadine last heard from Victor, Micah or Ceris, allowing her to concentrate on her own life. But until Victor and Micah find the scepters that will restore them as true gods, their human bodies will require her healing touch and it’s only a matter of time until they wreak havoc on her life again.
As if to prove that, Victor shows up at the hospital dragging along with him a swarm of demons. Nadine is forced to flee to safety. Despite her attempts to keep her loved ones protected, the demons find her, and they bring her to Imha, the goddess of Chaos.

Now, confronted by her greatest fear, Nadine finds a new motivation. Vengeance. And when seeking revenge, no risk is too great, including her own life.

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Cheers,

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Categories: Cup of Life, My Books

New Release Date for Cup of Life

I don’t know if you guys noticed, but at first I set Cup of Life (The Everlast Trilogy #2.5 – novella) to be released the same date of Soul Oath (The Everlast Trilogy #2 – novel).

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Then, talking to my editor and two friends about it, I realized the series would benefit if the novella came after the novel. Why, you ask? Being completely honest, here are the reasons:

1) Readers probably won’t buy both books together. They will buy Soul Oath, then read it and if they like it, they will buy Cup of Life. And that may take months, so, why to release a novella that might not get any sales for at least a couple of months?

2) It’s probable that midst release excitement and blog tour, the novella is overlooked and completely missed because of the novel.

3) Releasing the novella later will help create buzz to the next novel (#3), which should be released June 2014 – if everything works out the way I’m planning.

The thing is, knowing myself, I won’t be able to hold the novella for long … so, instead of releasing it in March (which would be halfway from book #2 and #3), I’ll release Cup of Life in:

January 20th 2014

There are more exciting things coming … stay tuned!

Cheers,

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Categories: Covers, Cup of Life, Soul Oath

Cover Love: Soul Oath AND Cup of Life

Ah, it’s time! Woot! Here they are! The pretty covers of Soul Oath and Cup of Life:

Genre: NA Urban Fantasy
Expected pub date: Nov/25/2013
Cover design: Okay Creations
Length: 80,000 words

Now, confronted by her greatest fear, Nadine finds a new motivation. Vengeance. And when seeking revenge, no risk is too great, including her own life.

Add it on Goodreads

Cup of Life

Genre: NA Urban Fantasy
Expected pub date: Nov/25/2013
Cover design: Okay Creations
Length: 15,000 words

His existence would mean nothing without her.

**This is a novella between book #2 and #3, told on Micah’s POV**

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Because I appreciate y’all, here’s a teaser from Soul Oath (designed by Carrie from Forward Authority):

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Book One of the Everlast Trilogy:

DESTINY GIFT

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Genre: NA fantasy
Word Count: 73,000
Release date: April 1, 2013

Thirty years in the future, a sinister New York City exists in permanent darkness.

A student at the secured NYU, nineteen-year-old Nadine has visions of Victor Gianni, an imaginary guy she has real feelings for. Afraid of being truly insane, she explains the visions away as simple daydreams, but she can no longer deny them when she bumps into Victor in real life. But this Victor doesn’t know her, and turns her away. After the encounter, Nadine’s visions change to those of eerie fates, gods she’s never heard of, demons with sharp claws they are not too timid to use … and instructions.

To discover if she’s losing her mind, Nadine follows the vague directions—with the real, rude and reluctant Victor—leading to a man who knows it all: Nadine can restore an ancient creed by unveiling the clues on her visions, and bring sunlight and peace to the world again. But that’s only if the demons and the other evil forces behind the darkness don’t stop her first.

I’m so excited about being 2/3 done with this trilogy. It’s exciting! One more book to go! I hope you all like it :)

Cheers,

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