More boxed sets for the beach. Sale ones too!

Summer Crush is a wonderfully romantic boxed set of YA stories (for the 14+ crowd) by some of Evernight Teen's hottest authors. 

Summer is the time for lazy days at the beach, sun-kissed hair, flip-flops, and sizzling nights with a new crush.  Those stolen glances and first kisses can quickly spark a flame. However, the road to love isn’t always a smooth ride.

Every Summer has a story, whether it’s a second chance on love, seeing a friend in a different light, or taking a step in a new direction with someone special. Love and long days create endless possibilities, but can a summer crush really last?

The lineup:

Sutton Summer by Sasha Hibbs 

Exquisite Torture by S.D. Wasley 

Forbidden by Melissa Frost 

Taking the Plunge by Diana Stager 

Boarderline Love by Deanna Dee 

An Ocean of Their Own by Bridie Hall

Get Summer Crush from Amazon, Evernight, All Romance ebooks

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Two more great boxed sets on SALE!

Secret Worlds was #1 in three categories (new adult, fairytale, myth) for four solid weeks. Now it can be yours for FREE if you have KU! See it on Amazon.

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I'm hard at work on book three of The Art of Love. If you haven't read books one and two in this romance series yet, now's a great time! Because the boxed set is on sale (only through early September). Reduced two dollars to $1.99!

“Original & vivid”-Marked by Books

“Crazy fun, couldn’t put it down!” - Netgalley reader

“I fell in love with the characters … Sienna had me cracking up & in tears.” - Breezy Book Reviews

Grab The Art of Love ebook boxed set at Amazon

FREE boxed set of 12 amazing YA sci-fi & fantasy novels called Future Tense is OUT!

Amazing YA sci-fi & fantasy FREE BOXED SET!
Yup, you heard that right.
Future Tense has just launched and it costs nothing.

From twelve USA Today, Amazon and award-winning authors comes Future Tense, an electrifying YA sci-fi boxed set. Inventive first in series with trans-humans, sexy alien romance, Martian pioneers, cyborg gunslingers, unusual dolphin research, time travel, computer games with doors into faerie realms, mind readers, eternal life adventures, extraordinarily gifted teens and so much more. Available for a limited time.

Susan Kaye Quinn's OPEN MINDS: When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.

Vincent Trigil's THE ENEMY OF AN ENEMY: In a universe of science and magic a new hero will arise.

Anthea Sharp's FEYLAND: THE DARK REALM: When a high-tech computer game opens a gateway to the treacherous Realm of Faerie, only two teen gamers can save the mortal world.

Catherine Stine's FIRESEED ONE: What if only your very worst enemy could help you save the world?

PK Hrezo's DIARY OF A TEENAGE TIME TRAVELER: Welcome to Butterman Travel, Inc., where time is always in your hands. 

Patti Larsen's DIDI AND THE GUN SLINGER: When an Underlord kidnaps her father, Didi Duke resurrects an obsolete cyborg gunslinger to rescue him.

Cidney Swanson's SAVING MARS: Jessamyn is just an ordinary pilot-in-training until the Mars colony's food supply is decimated and her brother is chosen to fly to Earth for supplies.

Lisa Nowak's DECEPTION: What if the Pacific Northwest seceded from United States? By 2063, it has.

Rose Garcia's FINAL LIFE: Multiple past lives she can't remember, an enemy driven to finish his task. Can Dominique survive her final life or will she die for the last time? 

Magan Vernon's HOW TO DATE AN ALIEN: What happens when an awkward teen girl falls for an alien boy?

Amy Evans' CLICKS: An inspiring sci-fi romance about an island off the coast of California where the dolphins and the lifeguards have more in common than they know.

Lee Strauss' PERCEPTION: Eternal Life is to Die For.

Get it FREE from Amazon US, Amazon UK, iBooks, B&N, Google Play, Kobo

Sometimes writing & selling take a back seat to a SUPER-REAL, Cosmic life event

My mom with my sister (on right) and me (on left)

I'm going to write about a personal matter, which I normally don't do. But I feel led to, so be it. My mom passed away on July 28. My husband and I were there, holding her hand and talking to her. My brother was there as well. It was a rough but intensely profound experience. Beautiful, really. This was after we had been with her off and on for two days prior.

But death comes at inconvenient times. We are all such busy people, aren't we? I was in the middle of a huge NYC RWA book con, and I was about to do a book signing with 450+ authors.

It was a no-brainer. I bailed, and dashed down to Philly where she was. Life can be long - she was 87 - and still we fight for it with our life force as it wanes.

The experience of seeing someone I love die in front of my eyes made it so very clear that time is precious and one must work now to make dreams real, and write those stories that matter dearly.

I've had amazing dreams for these last two weeks - colorful, adventurous, rather psychedelic. Life comes bounding back. And back, And back. And joy reigns.

What kind of real life moments have you had that trump everything else?

Great summer beach reads for August!

A bunch of fun summer novels have launched. Here's a sampling.

Like romantic suspense? Check out Heather M. Gardner's Maguire's Corner novels One Good Catch and Already Home! Out with Inkspell.

Already Home-book 1
Coffee shop owner Maggie Maguire doesn’t trust the new police chief her father hired to protect Maguire’s Corner. He’s a stranger, cold, bossy and annoyingly handsome. But, Maggie’s witnessed a serious crime and now someone’s trying to kill her. The man that aggravates her most might be the only one that can help her. 

Police Chief Jack Munro likes his new job and his new town, and unfortunately he also likes the stubborn but beautiful town sweetheart. His self-imposed hands-off Maggie policy is about to be put to the ultimate test when he must keep her close to protect her while he tracks down a ruthless killer. 

Determined to ignore Jack’s charms, Maggie attempts to help him unravel the mystery but when their lives hang in the balance she must decide how much she’s willing to risk to save the man she suddenly can’t resist. 

Get Already Home at: 
Amazon, B&N, Kobo, All Romance Ebooks

One Good Catch - book 2
Ignoring a recent trauma that affects her everyday life, ER Doctor Kate Maguire engages in some high risk activities, but these situations aren’t enough to feed her edginess. She needs something more. When her brother’s high school best friend comes back to town, it’s her chance for a ‘no strings attached’ fling with the man who still headlines all her best dreams. 

Rhys MacGrath’s days of one-night-stands are long over. The pro-football player might be side-lined at rehab for a shoulder injury, but that doesn’t mean he can’t admire and desire the all-grown-up, so-damn-hot, version of the tomboy he once knew. His sudden interest in Kate might aggravate his best friend, but it’s her indifference that drives Rhys crazy. 

Everything heats up when Kate’s nosy nature puts her in the line of fire of an arsonist forcing Kate and Rhys to deal with more than just the sparks igniting between them. 

Get One Good Catch at:
Amazon, B&N, Kobo, All Romance Ebooks


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Meradeth Houston's novel Travelers is a YA fantasy about time travel, and it's out!
The blurb:
Sienna Crenshaw knows the rules: 1) no time traveling beyond your natural lifetime, 2) no screwing with death, and 3) no changing the past. Ever. Sienna doesn’t love being stuck in the present, but she’s not the type to break the rules. That is, she wasn’t the type until her best friend broke every one of those rules to keep Henry, her twin brother and Sienna’s ex-boyfriend, alive.

Suddenly, Sienna is caught in an unfamiliar reality. The upside? Henry is still alive. The downside? Sienna’s old life, including the people in it, has been erased. Now, Sienna and Henry must untangle the giant knot in time, or her parents and all the rest of the Travelers, will be lost forever. One problem: the only way to be successful is for Henry to die.

Get Travelers at Amazon & Smashie
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And lastly, but no less amazing is M Gerrick's first two of her Seven Crowns epic fantasy novels, The Vanished Knight and The Heir's Choice. Beautiful covers, indeed!

The Vanished Knight
The entity living inside Callan’s soul orphaned her at age eleven. By the time she’s sixteen, it’s ensured her being shunted from one foster family to another.

Her thirteenth foster assignment should be routine. Except... it's not. A psycho in medieval armor kidnaps her and she ends up in a magical world. There, she accidentally discovers a secret her parents had kept until the day they died.

Both actually came from this magical world, but left before Callan was born. To cover their tracks, they’d lied about everything. Even who they really were.

Driven to find out where she comes from, Callan’s trapped in a race for life and death. Walking away isn’t an option, but if she stays too long, the entity will find its next victim.

In this world where secrets are sacrosanct and grudges are remembered, finding the truth will be near impossible. Especially when Callan has her own homicidal little secret to deal with. One with a taste for destroying her life.


Get The Vanished Knight at: Amazon | Apple | Barnes & Noble | Kobo

The Heir’s Choice
After discovering her parents had kept a whole world secret, Callan races to discover her past. Not easy to do with an increasingly agitated entity living in her soul.

Going to her long-lost elvish roots should answer all her questions. Instead, she ends up in the middle of a nightmare.

The elves are on the verge of an apocalyptic war. Their enemy, King Aurek of Icaimerith, will only be appeased if Callan marries his heir. It’s either her life getting messed up, or an entire country’s lives lost. Simple enough, right? Wrong.

Because when the entity wants the elves blotted out of existence, saving them gets taken to a whole new level of complicated.

Get Heir's Choice at Amazon | Apple | Barnes & Noble | Kobo

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Happy August Reading!