No A to Z?

Now I know how Chuck Norris feels.

As You Know, Bob, I've participate in the A to Z Challenge for several years.

However, I'm not doing it this year due to time constraints. Notice how I haven't posted to the blog in yonks? That's because I've been working full time, plus parenting teenagers, plus teaching a morning class, plus my own Astro studies, plus getting three novels ready for publication this year, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped.

While A to Z has been marvelous in the past for drawing in new readers, I simply don't have the time this year to devote.

This is a shame, for several months ago I started sketching ideas. I was going to do Astronomy again, and had come up with some spiffy ideas, some of which I might have lost during the death of a computer. Dunno. Haven't had time to go see what happened to certain minutiae.

Maybe next year. Or maybe at some random, non-April time, when I feel the itch to wax eloquent about the heavens above.

Meanwhile, feel free to ignore my blog until I have the time to be interesting once more.

Or go download the audiobook version of "A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories".  I hear the narrator did a good job.  Google Play | Audible.au | 

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Her Grace doesn't have the time to give a flying foxtrot.

Amazon offers free previews!

Totally awesome news: Amazon.com now offers a funky new doohickey called Kindle Instant Preview.  Now you can have a quick'n'easy look at all my books.

Sample, like, order, read, love! If you do read one (or all) of my novels, please be kind and leave an honest reveiw on Amazon. They help more than you know.

Never tried my books? Pick one and enjoy.


(A Lady of Many Charms is free to download and read the whole thing.)
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My latest release.
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(Marry Me is my most popular book!)
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My first The Wild Rose Press release.

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What, you say? Where is The White Feather?  Alas,  no Amazon preview for that until 14 Sept 2016. Feel free to pre-order it.

Author

Today's topic:
Author

As an author, I've decided to go hybrid. The very first thing I indie published was "A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories".  My regular readers have been hearing about this for about a week. Now it's your turn. If you want to know more, go back a few blog posts and you'll learn all you need to know to make you wanna download it.

As part of my indie author foray, I've made "A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories" perma-free.

Smashwords | B&N | iTunes | Kobo | Inktera | (Amazon hasn't done price-matching yet, but they will catch up eventually.)

Yep, anyone who wants to download it and read it can. All I ask is that you leave an honest review somewhere.

Today's Question: Do you download and read free books? Why or why not?

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Her Grace has found some pretty good stuff thanks to indie permafree novels. Is this one of Her Grace's blatant 'read my books' post? Yes it is.

Where to get A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories for free

To share the love, I've made A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories free.

Available where all good ebooks are sold or given away.

Smashwords | B&N | iTunes |  Kobo |  Inktera

Note: Amazon still has it listed for US$1.99 (at the timestamp of this post), but am hoping they'll catch up with their price-matching soon. This is because Amazon does not allow the initial listing of a book for free.

If you're a diehard Kindle fan and this pricing makes you grumpy, take one of the above links and request Amazon price-match A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories.

If you do download and enjoy A Lady of Many Charms, I ask that you leave an honest review either where you purchased it or at Amazon or Goodreads. Your reviews really help me as an author.

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Her Grace hopes you enjoy these three tales of Romance. Meanwhile, check out her other books, rated:☆☆☆☆

New short story collection - A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories

A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories

Three tales--one past, one present, one future--explore what it is to love and just how far someone would go for the love of another.

The Past: Lady Daphne Collister is unimpressed with her fellow magic-wielding debutantes. She finds their methods overbearing. Surely there was a better way of finding a noble husband in Regency England?

The Present: Ellie loves Josh. Josh barely knows Ellie exists. For her, it is not enough to sit behind him at school every day. What must Ellie do to get Josh to notice her? How about a love spell? After all, what could go wrong?

The Future: Leo and his co-worker Katerina have fallen in love. Secretly, of course, for office romance is illegal and all marriages are strictly regulated. There’s only one exception: the Valentine Raffle. But to win at love, Leo and Katerina may need to cheat the system...

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I've put together a collection of three Romance stories for your enjoyment. Also, I've included a preview of my upcoming book "Her Endearing Young Charms".

A Lady of Many Charms - Historical Fantasy, originally published in Hero & Heroine #1.

Ellie Loves Josh - Paranormal (contemporary) Fantasy, originally published in Planet Relish.

The Valentine Raffle - Science Fiction, originally published in Hero & Heroine #2.

Your price?  Free. (Will be free on Amazon as soon as price matching catches up. Meanwhile, two bucks.)

Can download for free directly from Smashwords, Draft2Digital and should be available for free at your favourite ebook retailer soon.

If you do download and read it, please do me a great favour and review it on a reputable review site of your choice (Amazon or Goodreads, etc). Leaving an honest review is one of the best things you can do for an author (other than buying their books, of course).  Plus, you can tell your friends, family and other readers about it. This is how most people discover great books.

Thanks to the fabulous Tara Maya for this gorgeous cover. Go buy her stuff, especially The Unfinished Song series, which is really, really good.

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Her Grace wants you to enjoy some good stories.