New interior design for Picture Imperfect!

Thought I’d share shots of the new interior formatting for Picture Imperfect, my steamy mystery romance, AKA “A Sassy Suspense,” and a stand-alone set in the Pacific Northwest.

I wanted to update some language from the first publication that might cause some folks harm. Ie. words like crazy, insane, and overweight (which was only used in the book once, but if it caused harm, I apologize). Now that I know better, it felt like the right thing to do was correct some language.

While at it, I redesigned the interior with some snazzy new formatting that I love! The cover hasn’t changed, but I’m including a shot of Picture Imperfect next to Head Over Heels, as PI is twice as long!

PI is my longest book, with multiple points of view, a love story, a mystery to solve, family and friendship complications, and – ta-da, of course a happy ending!

What I found doing this update is there was one typo!! Fixed it.

I also got to update a bit of technology.

And I discovered I still love this book!

The new formatting applies to the print and digital editions, so if you pick up a copy, you’ll get it as it is now, February 2024 moving forward.

Same cover, “Not for Resale” because it’s a proof copy
Title page is the same
Sample of new interior formatting (this is the first scene with Gabe’s mom’s point of view – she gets a love story in the book too!)
Another sample of the new interior formatting. I love the script! (PS, don’t zoom in and read the page if you don’t want a spoiler)
New author pic, taken, you know the drill, in my bathroom with my shower curtain backdrop behind me.
Comparing spine width to Head Over Heels

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I keep forgetting to say that Picture Imperfect was in a big free promo a few weeks back and is remaining free for the indeterminate future. Maybe until the end of the year. Maybe not. I don’t know.

What I do know is that if you’re in the mood for a big, juicy, sassy, steamy mystery romance with several points of view and a braided plot involving past and present mysteries, a fully developed romance, family and friendships, backstabbing and betrayal, Picture Imperfect might be the book for you!

But it’s big.

If you like short books, don’t read it.

I gots me some short books, and I’ll be telling you about them in the next few days.

But if you like big books and you can not lie?

Try PI.

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Happy autumn reading!

Picture Imperfect: Steamy Mystery Romance

How to find my books!

Oh, gosh, I haven’t been on my blog in forever. Yes, I am still writing, despite the universe’s attempts to throw me off-course. In my turtle fashion, I am finding my way back!

I am, in fact, working on updating and revising Deceiving Derek and Catching Claire in Love & Other Calamities, and I am writing the next 3 titles in the series, which will be novella length (20,000 – 40,000 words).

After that, I really, really, really need to redesign my website and move it to a mobile-friendly platform. But I don’t want to redesign my site (which I’m doing myself, so will need to learn) until these books are up for preorder.

And…I just found out there is a problem with several of my book links to retailers on the current version of my website. I don’t know when that issue will be fixed, as it’s out of my control. It’s a 3rd-party issue. The best I can do for now, rather than going through every book page and redoing the links, when, due to circumstances arising from a twist of fate about three years ago, would be a real PITA to do and get in the way of finishing my series, I am going to quickly list my books here, and each book will have a Universal Book Link that will take you to the store of your choice.

If you’re reading this blog post on my website, you can take a gander to the sidebar on the right, and each of those book covers, which previously pointed to individual website pages on this site with all the buy links, will now point to a Books2Read Universal Book Link. Same as you’ll find right below.

You are still free to visit my Books page and have a look at individual book pages on this site; it’s just some of the links work and some don’t. You can read excerpts, check out covers, everything you always could do. But if the links on that page don’t work, just come here and use follow a Books2Read Universal Book Link to get to the store of your choice!

Thank you for putting up with this disruption. The problem could be fixed within days, or not. I just don’t know. So this is the best workaround I could think of, as my website design software is truly ancient, and it’s on a 10-year-old computer I don’t often have access to. I want to keep writing my series and THEN redo my website, and I hope you agree that that’s the best use of my time. I do write under a second name, and when I redo my site, I will bring those books into the fold. Moving forward, I am focusing on my books as Cindy.

Irritatingly enough, I can’t figure out how to link the book covers in this post to the links on Books2Read, but you can follow the text links or use the right sidebar!!

That’s it, and thank you for your patience! Trust me when I say I would have been regularly writing and publishing books these last three years if possible. Rather than super slowly putting out the rest of Love & Other Calamities, I thought it best to write them all and THEN slowly come back from. The. Publishing. Grave.

Cindy