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    A general catch-up on my writing, books etc

    9/28/2012

    Hearts AfireI wanted to run a YouTube clip today about the weekend and weirdly I couldn’t find any songs with weekend in the title I really liked. I did find Loverboy’s “Everybody’s Working for the Weekend” but the clip was so unattractive I couldn’t bring myself to put it on this page.

    If anyone can suggest an upbeat song about weekends then I’d like to know what it is…I’m all about the upbeat!

    So this weekend Hearts Afire is having a final edit. It already went to one editor last week – the lovely Jacqui – and now it’s in Deb’s safe hands. So while it is a week or so behind schedule it will hopefully be as clean as I can get it. The paperback will probably be a week or so later but certainly out by the end of the month. (Local people I will be there with both my books at the Beacon Hill Night Markets 8th November!)

    I’m a bit of a stickler for a deadline but it’s better to have the book right and a few days later than out and have people unhappy.

    Then my plan was to hopefully have a third book out in December but perhaps it will be January. It will depend a bit on real life and how it impacts. This last month simply evaporated and that was September…who knows how crazy November might get? I think perhaps the e-book will get up but not the paperback…

     

     

     

    Mr Right and Other Mongrels
    If you haven’t read Mr Right and Other Mongrels yet than this is the weekend to do it because it’s only 99c on Amazon.

    Please check out the other books that are also the bargain price of 99c as part of the Booked for the Weekend promotion as well.

    I have some wonderful authors who I am doing Q&A’s within the coming weeks so please be sure to pop by this blog. I know I have lots of readers but I am always keen to hear your comments either here on the page or
    e-mail me via the contact form…

    Also if you want to be in the running to win a copy of Hearts Afire
    please enter to win on the welcome page.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Booked for the weekend – books and buy links!

    9/27/2012

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    Not Like My Mother - Azra Alagic - CoverNot Like My Mother
    Survival triumphs against all odds in the
    battered Balkan lands. It is an heirloom passed down from generation to generation along with the richness of tradition, recipes, love and land.

    Samira is forced into an arranged marriage with angry, and sometimes violent, Azis who can’t recover from the mental
    torture of his part in a war he didn’t choose. Their union is the beginning of a generational story that spans from communist Yugoslavia to Australia, where the women look to each other for hope and survival. It is left to Yasna to fight the dark past of her family and find hope and love. Only through confronting the past can these women triumph over the hand they are dealt – and learn to forgive
    and dream again.

     

     

    Available at:
    Sony books
    http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/azra-alagic/not-like-my-mother/_/R-400000000000000756377
    Amazon
    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008H7CHBS
    Ibooks – http://itunes.apple.com/au/book/not-like-my-mother/id540225909?mt=11
    Barnes and Noble – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/not-like-my-mother-azra-alagic/1111929722?ean=9780987291516

    Operation Swift Mercy - CoverOperation Swift Mercy
    She needed help…someone brave…someone tough…someone like a rough and ready Marine.

    When Mercy D’Silva, discovered her ex-boyfriend was behind an elaborate people smuggling movement, life as she once knew it, ended abruptly.

    Finding herself on the run with no idea who to turn to for help, her days seemed numbered.

    For Chase Maloney, everyone around him seemed to be
    moving on, while he was simply marking time. When he decided to take a short break from groomsmen duties to go fishing, the last thing he expected to catch was a beautiful woman!

    It wasn’t in his nature to turn his back on anyone in distress—especially not a woman… and especially not one who made him want to rethink his entire future. But protecting Mercy would prove somewhat difficult when she fought him every step of the way to keep him from getting mixed up in her problems.

     

     

    Available at:

    Amazon link
    http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Swift-Mercy-ebook/dp/B00919UP24/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1348313161&sr=1-1&keywords=operation+swift+mercy

    Time Thief - CoverTime Thief
    Hunted for her ability to steal time, Bay North lives a life on the run. All she wants is to make the crime lord who slaughtered her family pay.
    But now he’s set the ultimate hunter on her trail and Bay will need all her skills to carry out her revenge and survive.

    Ex-Navy SEAL Sean Archer saw his team killed by a time thief in Afghanistan and came back a broken man. He’s made a dark deal with a criminal to
    hunt down all time thieves and now Sean’s tracked the wily Bay North to Denver where he plans to rid the world of one more dangerous mutation.

    But during a shootout, hunter and hunted find themselves depending on each other for survival. Joining forces to exact payback by stealing a priceless treasure, their reluctant alliance shatters both their defenses. Can Bay find the courage to trust? And can Sean convince a woman honed in revenge that she can have more than vengeance, blood and killing?

    Website: http://annahackettbooks.com/

    Buy Links: AmazonSmashwords |
    All Romance

    Mr Right and Other MongrelsMr Right and Other Mongrels
    Blissfully happy in her own universe Allegra (Ally) Johnson is the sweet best friend everyone wants to have.
    Independently wealthy
    she runs a charming second-hand bookshop in beachside Manly. Heck, sometimes she
    even goes downstairs from her flat to run the shop in her Chinese silk pyjamas. It sounds like bliss. But is it enough?

    When dog-phobic Allegra is rescued from an exuberant canine by the chivalrous Teddy Green, Australia’s
    hottest TV celebrity and garden make-over guru, her life begins to change. Dramatically!

    Unaware of Teddy’s fame Allegra finds herself falling for
    him, despite her best attempts to resist his charm. Supported by her eccentric family and her fabulous gay friend Justin, Allegra embarks on an on-again off-again romance with Teddy, complicated by his jealous ex-girlfriend, fashionista Louisa and her own narcissistic hippy mother Moonbeam.

    Will Ally be able to overcome her insecurities and find happiness with this possible Mr Right or will Teddy’s celebrity lifestyle prove to be too much? Mr Right and
    Other Mongrels is a light-hearted story about how one chance encounter can
    change your life.

    Buy link: Amazon

    Switch - Shelly PrattSwitch

    The disappearance of Matt’s sister stirs old wounds still raw from the death of their parents in a freak accident years before. When police contact Matthew to notify him of the mysterious events surrounding her kidnapping, he can’t help but feel that his introuvable ways hold him partly to blame.

    As Matt tries to track Dree down, he’s plunged into a world where everything in not quite what it seems, and as he struggles for the truth, it brings him one step closer to the demons of his
    past, present and future.

    As police move to find the kidnapper of a wealthy heiress, they ultimately stumble upon a killer without compunction.

    With Detective Scott Balen on the case, he finds the deeper he becomes involved with trying to catch the killer everyone is looking for, the closer he comes to finding love with the one woman he should perhaps stay away from. The hardest questions will only be answered
    after the killer has his day in court.

    From the Australian landscape to the hills of Italy, iconic landmarks provide the backdrop for a family in tatters
    searching for answers, a psychotic killer you’ll love to hate and an eclectic group of hit-men on a mission.

    As old habits die hard, the game of life will prove there can only be one winner.

    Amazon:
    http://www.amazon.com/Switch-ebook/dp/B008YD86W4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1348715493&sr=1-2-catcorr

    Producing Real - CoverProducing Real

    A wild child rock chick and a boy next door roadie on a romp across Australia.

    A romance about making music, fear of falling and being true.

    Amazon:

    http://www.amazon.com/Producing-Real-ebook/dp/B007HI2MB8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347800931&sr=8-1&keywords=producing+real

     

     

    Identity ShiftIdentity Shift
    Alexia Leigh leaves her father’s funeral determined to prove that his discovery of big-cat shape-shifters isn’t mythical nonsense. She wants to exonerate her deceased father’s name and reveal the secret shifters race is alive and well.

    When she tracks down the elusive and wealthy Blake Powell to an old, run down apartment, she isn’t prepared for the instant attraction that flares between them. She wants only to focus on the reasons behind his name being on the aged parchment her father had found alongside some shifter bones. But almost immediately she finds herself on the run with Blake from a group of fanatics who believe all too much in the reality of shape-shifters.

    When she gives into the attraction with Blake and has mind blowing sex with him again…and again, she realizes she has to choose between him or the evidence he can give her on a silver platter…
    Amazon:
    http://www.amazon.com/Identity-Shift-ebook/dp/B005KT2W3Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1348470306&sr=1-1&keywords=identity+shift
    Barnes
    & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/identity-shift-mel-teshco/1105859944?ean=2940011515118
    Smashwords:
    https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/86874
    Website:
    http://www.melteshco.com/
    Blog:
    http://melteshco.blogspot.com.au/

     

    The Ring of Lost SoulsThe Ring of Lost Souls

    What if fairy tales were real?

    “The figure was dark with jagged little edges. While it was an image only caught fleetingly out of the corner of her eye, it was possible to make some distinction in regards to its identity, which was not unlike a raven in
    appearance.”

    Larundel – A place plagued by lost souls.

    A ring that has claimed a few of them.

    And a woman who is about to collide with a world she has forgotten about.

    When an abandoned mental asylum is set to be redeveloped, sinister events unfold in the community surrounding it.

    Isobel moves into the neighbourhood looking for a new future only to find a past she never knew belonged to her. Is she a sane person living in an insane world or a crazy person trapped in reality?

    Set in an actual abandoned mental institution on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, THE RING OF LOST SOULS is a fast-paced fairy tale weaving together a believable blend of fantasy, urban legend and pure insanity.

    Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00879OR6O

    Emeline and the Mutants - CoverEmeline and the Mutants
    What would you do if your whole family mutated
    into hideous creatures?

    Would you have the courage to do what had to be done when they threatened you life?

    Emeline Hart is faced with this horrifying decision when the miraculous Haum vaccine changes into something monstrous. When the mutations start, there is no way to hide the fact that the world is now filled with people who are no longer dying of cancer, heart disease or diabetes. Instead, they become werewolves, vampires and trolls.

    Follow Emeline and her newfound friend, Gwennie, as they fight to find the truth behind the death of Emeline’s brother, Warwick.

    EMELINE AND THE MUTANTS is a fast-paced, post-apocalyptic tale of what happens when science goes wrong.

    Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004PGNBCO

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    WEEKEND!

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    Booked for the Weekend – my personal who’s who!

    9/26/2012

    As you know I’m involved in this fabulous promotion Booked for the Weekend this weekend with seven other wonderful female Australian authors. Some of these ladies I have never met and others I am lucky enough to have a history with.

    Don’t you love that about the internet and cyber-space? The way you can be brought ‘together’ with people you’ve never met.

    So who do I know and how?

    I was lucky enough to spend a week on Bribie Island with the lovely Azra Alagic as part of the QWC/Hachette Manuscript Development Program several years ago. That was one of the loveliest week’s of my life meeting so many gorgeous writers and such a positive creative time for me. It was a time for building life-long friendships. Her book is amazing. I really recommend it! (I’ve interviewed Azra on this blog if you would like more background on her book.)

    I met Anna Hackett at the RWA Conference in Queensland last month, at the Diamonds are Forever Cocktail party to be exact and reconnected with Ainslie Patton there as well, I knew her in another life. It was so lovely to get to know these women. If you know me in real life you know I love to make new friends and reconnect with old ones…in fact that’s probably how you know me!

    I first met Karly Blakemore-Mowle at an RWA Conference several years ago in Brisbane and at the Sydney conference. Lucky me! You can see why these conferences are so great. You get to meet so many other wonderful writers. (I’ve interviewed Karly here as well!) We haven’t overlapped the last couple of years in person so lucky for me there is the internet out there!

    The other writers involved in Booked for the Weekend came to me via these ladies which was wonderful, everyone knows someone. I look forward to getting to know them in person in the future and reading all their books.

    We decided to do this promotion as a way to band together and help each other promote our various projects.

    For readers it’s also a great opportunity to discover new authors in new genres that you might not have tried before, because we’re an eclectic mix so

    Or maybe you’ve been wanting to cheer someone up who is down in the dumps or sick or you want to encourage someone just loves to read…you could gift them one of our books this weekend…for 99c you’d be mad not to.

    Next post I’ll have the covers and links up…do pop back.

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    Booked for the Weekend – 8 authors – 9 ebooks- 99c each

    9/25/2012

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    This Long Weekend eight Australian authors have come together for an exciting promotion…each is offering one or more of their ebooks at 99c.

    Azra Alagic
    Not Like My Mother
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    Karly Blakemore-Mowle
    Operation Swift Mercy
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    Anna Hackett
    Time Thief
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    Monique McDonell
    Mr Right and Other Mongrels
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    Ainslie Paton
    Producing Real
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    Shelly Pratt
    Switch
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    Mel Teshco
    Identity Shift
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    Rachel Tsoumbakos
    Emeline and the Mutants
    The Ring of Lost Souls

    Stay tuned for details on where to shop!