One of my best selling historical romances is now available as an audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Flame-Normandy-Comet-Book-1/dp/B099S696BS
"It's a great piece of writing that encompasses all of the aspects that are paramount to the genres." - Goodreads Review
Also available in ebook and print.
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See my fantasy historical romance, The King's Daughter - The Chronicles of Alcinia, Book I, and many others.
A book about a ruler, releasing on the Ides of March...
Sergius Magistri never meant to be a ruler. Grandson of history's most famous general and named for him, Sergius is a warrior without equal. It has been easy for him to be a hero when he was expected to be.
When he finds himself fighting for the freedom of his grandfather's country and the heart of a woman, he must be a hero because he is.
The Seat of his grandfather's empire stands empty, waiting for a ruler. He has saved two women, one little more than a concubine, the other a starving artist. All he has to do to have all of them is to renounce everything he has ever known.
Book VI of The Chronicles of Alcinia, Emperator can be read as a stand alone here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TVC85X1
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Or enjoy the entire series:
That is the question.
Lately, I have found myself reading a number of series. These are romance works for the most part, but a good number of fantasy series are calling my name, too. Author pages, series pages and ads let us know these works are available. With so many gorgeous covers and great review stats, they are very tempting. A free initial book or bargain price for the whole shebang is attractive and my Kindle is getting very full.
What, then, of the books I write? Like every author, I hear the voices of my own characters. Some are more insistent than others. Sometimes, I know instinctively that a book is an "only." Other little demons hang on with a tenacity that makes a piranha look unmotivated and that is when I get a series, whether I want one or not. They are like the barbarians coming over the walls of Rome and I am sacked and burned before they're finished with me.
The question then is...how much significance does this hold for readers? Are they going to hear those voices the same way I do?
What say you, readers? Do you love it when authors soldier on? Does your interest sag somewhere in the middle like a loaf of bread that doesn't rise? Do you feel compelled to begin at the beginning and blaze your way through? Are you disappointed if the next book isn't available right away or do you enjoy the waiting for the next one?
And what about you, authors? Do you love spinning the continued adventures of your favorite characters, or do you have a compelling need to get one of your next eighty ideas for a manuscript on paper as quickly as possible before the affliction strikes?
Please feel free to leave your thoughts!
See my latest book today and enter the drawing for a $20 Amazon gift certificate at Silver Dagger Tours, featuring The Prince of Summer. Many chances to win all month long. https://www.silverdaggertours.com/sdsxx-tours/the-prince-of-summer-book-tour-and-giveaway
I always like to mention this inexpensive 90-minute read for Christmas. On the planet Megasta, colonists live in an uneasy peace with native tribes until the advent of Terran fever threatens their tenuous coexistence. Can the efforts of a medical technician from Old Earth and her love for a Megasti man avert bloodshed between their people? Only .99, a 5-star review book: https://www.amazon.com/Peace-New-Earth-Miriam-Newman-ebook/dp/B00AEGID2M
It's another Goddess Fish blog tour and giveaway. Join the first stop for my historical fantasy romance, The Winter Princess, and see snippets of all four books in my series, The Chronicles of Alcinia. In Book IV, Princess Sereen of Armatica is given to an enemy king as part of a peace treaty. Envisioned as a peacemaker between warring kingdoms, she is soon caught up in palace intrigue and the ambitions of sorceresses known as the Mothers of Fire. Balanced on the knife's edge of political and marital strife in her new kingdom, she longs only for a summer of the heart.
The Winter Princess, Book IV of my fantasy historical series The Chronicles of Alcinia, releases December 1 exclusively on Kindle Direct. All other books in the series have been discounted. Get Book I, The King's Daughter, a multiple award winner--only $1.99. See them here: https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Princess-CHRONICLES-ALCINIA-BOOK-ebook/dp/B09LP44RQ1
You can also look for The Winter Princess featured by Goddess Fish Promotions beginning December 6 and enter the drawing for an Amazon gift certificate.
November 22 is the last day to join the Silver Dagger blog tour for my Viking romance, The Eagle's Lady, and enter the drawing for an Amazon gift certificate. You can find it here: https://www.silverdaggertours.com/sdsxx-tours/the-eagles-lady-book-tour-and-giveaway
It has been a pleasure reading all the comments and I wish everyone the best of luck in the drawing.
If you are a fan of fantasy historical romance, also check out my book, The Winter Princess, when it releases December 1, and its sequel called The Prince of Summer when it releases in 2022.
Happiest of holidays to all!
Book IV of my historical fantasy romance series, The Chronicles of Alcinia, is now available for pre-order!
Given to an enemy king to seal a treaty, Sereen is drawn at once into palace intrigue and the political web of the sorceresses of her new country. She will have to fight overwhelming odds to find her own summer of the heart.
See this newest lady of the Chronicles, to be released 12/1/21, at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LP44RQ1
For those who observe the lives of their ancestors, may you remember them with love.
May children safely enjoy the fun and companionship of Halloween.
A peaceful Sunday to all.
Now and through much of November, you can read excerpts from Book II of my Viking series at the Silver Dagger blog tour. Also, don't forget to enter the drawing for an Amazon gift certificate.
The Eagle's Lady continues the saga of Ari and Maeve begun in Book I, The Eagle's Woman. Here is an excerpt for you:
Hedeby, 853 A.D.
Chapter One
He was her owner who had bought her with Hedeby coin in the public market and taken her virginity not an hour later in a little house rented for the purpose. Before that, he and his Viking marauders had raided her peaceful village in Eire, stealing her from the smith she was to wed, just as his brother had then stolen her and taken her to Hedeby to sell. Maeve knew she should hate him.
Son of an impoverished, dying chieftain, he raided for booty and slaves so he could feed his people. Pagan himself, still he spared Christian priests though he sold them. He was a heathen, probably a murderer, and it was a sin to lie with him.
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You can check out the tour and enter the drawing here: https://www.silverdaggertours.com/sdsxx-tours/the-eagles-lady-book-tour-and-giveaway
Join the Silver Dagger blog tour beginning today for my new release, "The Eagle's Lady." Book II of my Viking romance series, "The Eagle," this book traces the journey of Ari and Maeve.
Son of an impoverished and ailing Jarl, Ari raids for booty and slaves to feed his people. He is a heathen, a murderer, and it is a sin for any Christian woman to love him. When he abducts Maeve from her peaceful Irish fishing village, she is horrified to realize she may be the only one who can--if she survives.
Readers have been asking about the fate of these two since reading Book I, "The Eagle's Woman."
Find it here: https://www.silverdaggertours.com/sdsxx-tours/the-eagles-lady-book-tour-and-giveaway
Don't forget to enter the drawing for an Amazon gift certificate.
Book II of my Viking historical "Eagle" series, "The Eagle's Lady" is now available for pre-purchase. It releases October 22.
Son of an ailing jarl, Ari Bjornsson raids for treasure and slaves to support his family. He is a heathen, a murderer, and it is a sin for any Christian woman to love him.
Abducted to Norway from her peaceful Irish fishing village, Maeve is horrified to realize that she may be the one who can.
It will not be easy. Read the rest of their story here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GCNF98S
Catch my sweet contemporary romance, Love Cabin, and three other romantic comedies in this anthology, now available in audiobook.
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Scent-of-a-Man-Audiobook/B096W6H2FR
Beginning with the prequel, "Flame of Normandy," and continuing through my best selling "The Comet," each book can be read as a stand alone. Read together, they chronicle the lives and loves of a Norman family during William of Normandy's conquest of Anglo-Saxon England.
Clothilde is a study in contradictions. She cannot be a knight, refuses to be a nun and loathes the idea of marriage.
See her story and enter a drawing for an ebook copy of "Flame of Normandy," which is getting very fine reviews.
This series is such a favorite of mine, I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
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For the next month, you can join the Silver Dagger blog tour for my Norman Conquest romance, Clothilde. Book 3 of the Comet series, Clothilde is the story of one family's lives and loves during William the Conqueror's defeat of Anglo-Saxon England.
Enter the drawing for a $15 gift certificate or electronic copy of the prequel to this series, Flame of Normandy.
Hope to see you there!
https://www.silverdaggertours.com/sdsxx-tours/clothilde-book-tour-and-giveaway
