Category: My Books

BORROWING ALEX at Brenda Novak Diabetes Auction

New York Times Bestselling author Brenda Novak’s Annual Online Auction for Diabetes Research is now open for bidding and running until May 31st. As Brenda says,

All the proceeds of this fundraiser will go to benefit the Diabetes Research Institute, which is doing some phenomenal work. So many people’s lives are affected by this terrible disease–it’s one of our deadliest. So let’s join together and see it become a thing of the past–for my son and millions of others.

So far, we’ve raised over $2 million. Here’s hoping we can add another $500,000 to that total in 2014.

I’ve donated an eBook edition of BORROWING ALEX for inclusion in two multi-author auction items. The first is the Contemporary Romance Prize from Marcia James, which includes 12 dog-themed paperbacks and ebooks plus over 16 other pet-themed goodies. I’m joined in this package with authors Edie Ramer, Marcia James, Gemma Brocato, Dale Mayer, Barbara Raffin and Tori Scott. Every romance features a dog. In my case, there are two dogs in BORROWING ALEX.

BORROWING ALEX is also featured in the Curl Up With Romance package put together by Tonya Kappes. In this case, all the romances (two ebooks and two paperbacks) include cats, and my donation features a toothless Siamese cat named Rusty (long story). Other authors include Phoebe Conn, Lynn Hubbard and Grace Greene.

Go ahead, make a bid. It’s for a good cause! And there are tons of other auction items from which to choose.

Double The Kisses Romantic Comedy Two-Book Bundle Release!

Sort of a new release!

My two romantic comedy novels, HEAD OVER HEELS and BORROWING ALEX, are now available in a two-book bundle titled, appropriately enough, DOUBLE THE KISSES ROMANTIC COMEDY TWO-BOOK BUNDLE: HEAD OVER HEELS and BORROWING ALEX. How’s that for emphasizing Search Engine Optimization?

Because DOUBLE THE KISSES is a bundle, there’s a cost savings per book. Yes, two complete novels for one low price! Very info-mercial. Buy once, read twice! Perfect if you haven’t yet read either book. Or, if you’ve read the original Amber Quill Press editions of the novels and would love to see how HEAD OVER HEELS and BORROWING ALEX were updated for the 2012 and 2013 releases, DOUBLE THE KISSES is a cost-efficient way to do so (both books were revised and re-edited and BORROWING ALEX includes two additional scenes over the previous edition).

I’m still catching up following our trip to Australia, so haven’t yet built a book page for DOUBLE THE KISSES on my website (bad Cindy), so here are the links to the major on-line e-tailers:

Amazon

Amazon Canada

Amazon UK

Amazon Australia

For readers from other countries who don’t purchase from the above Amazons, please check your home country’s Amazon site.

Apple iBooks (so easy when one link goes everywhere – thanks, Apple). Note, you must have iTunes installed on your computer for the link to work.

Kobo

NOOK

Of course, you can still buy the ebooks, audio books or trade paperbacks as individual editions. Check the HEAD OVER HEELS and BORROWING ALEX book pages for links.

I totally love the DOUBLE THE KISSES cover! All shiny and new, designed by talented Kim Killion of The Killion Group, the cover combines visual elements of the Blue Orchard Books editions of HEAD OVER HEELS and BORROWING ALEX (which you can check out by clicking on those links or eyeballing the blog sidebar on the right). Take a look:

Cover for Double The Kisses Romantic Comedy Two-Book Bundle: Head Over Heels and Borrowing Alex

Want to know about the books?

HEAD OVER HEELS – Set in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., Canada

“What a set-up for a comedy of errors! Everything that can go wrong in this scenario does go wrong, and the reader is well entertained by the comedic chaos. If you like your romance with humor, you’ll love this one.” Fallen Angel Reviews

One tiny lie can cause a whole lot of trouble…

Magee Sinclair has had it up to her sassy short hairdo with the recent blunders pushing her family’s advertising agency to the brink. How can she accept the promotion her father plans when she keeps making costly mistakes? She needs to bring in more business however she can. So when new client Justin Kane asks her to role-play as his girlfriend for a weekend in exchange for a lucrative campaign, she jumps at the chance.

Justin’s goal to expand his chain of bike stores hinges on a distribution deal with a manufacturer. First, he needs to impress the man at a mountain resort while they bike trails with their significant others. But Justin’s girlfriend dumps him, forcing him to find a quick replacement. Magee—pretty, clever, and a skilled cyclist—is the perfect choice to masquerade as his “lover.”

Or so Justin thinks.

Because Magee is in major trouble. She knows no more about mountain biking than Justin does about demi-bras. Before long, an irate ex pops up, fake identities abound, and a whole lot of doors slam in the middle of the night. Yet, through the chaos, Magee and Justin discover what it really means to fall head over heels….

Length: 50,000 words. Includes mild cursing and love scenes.

BORROWING ALEX – Set in Seattle, Washington and also at fictional Lake Eden.

“I really like romantic comedy as a genre, but it takes some really good writing to make me laugh. This book made me laugh.” Fallen Angel Reviews

She’ll return him eventually. Or maybe not.

Nikki St. James wants to get married more than anything. But what’s she to do when her fiancé spends his days sucking up to her rich father instead of helping with the simple task of, oh, setting a date? Why…fake a fling with the best man, of course!

Nikki is the first to admit that ambushing Alex Hart and whisking him off to secluded Lake Eden is a tad desperate. But maybe pretending she’s hot for the handsome history professor will kick-start the attention of her future groom. Besides, a sojourn at a lakeside cabin is exactly what uptight Alex needs. Not that Nikki cares what he needs or how sexy he is….

Alex is not on-board with Nikki’s plan. Yeah, he’d love a break from his quest to achieve tenure at warp speed, but getting kidnapped by a crazy blonde hardly tops his to-do list. If what he’s heard is true and Nikki is perfectly happy with her ‘open’ engagement to his former college roommate, why bother getting married?

Quickly, he realizes Nikki isn’t a wild party girl at all. She’s cute, sweet—and faithful. Against his common sense, he’s falling for her. Should he spill the beans about her cheating fiancé? Or will he ruin his own chance for a happy ending?

Length: 50,00 words. Includes mild cursing and love scenes.

*Head Over Heels and Borrowing Alex are stand-alone romances that share the same comedic tones, over-the-stop situations, and wacky characters. The stories are unrelated and not part of a series.

Links again!

Amazon

Amazon Canada

Amazon UK

Amazon Australia

For readers from other countries who don’t purchase from the main Amazon, please check your home country’s Amazon site.

Apple iBooks

Kobo

NOOK

Now, back to catching up on business-of-writing and soon, very soon, back to writing itself!

Thanks for your support, my dear readers. Happy spring!

BORROWING ALEX Large Print Sale!

Yoo-hoo! Large Print English-language rights to BORROWING ALEX have been sold to F.A. Thorpe in England for their Linford Romance line! These are the same folks who just published HEAD OVER HEELS in large print (scroll down the blog to catch a glimpse at the cover).

The Large Print edition of BORROWING ALEX will release in the next 18 months. The Large Print edition of HEAD OVER HEELS is now available from Amazon, if you’re so inclined.

Calling Kobo Owners…

Recently, following the free promotion of HEAD OVER HEELS, a Kobo reader emailed me to let me know that something wonky was going on with the em dashes—these things—in her copy of the book. I don’t own a Kobo ereader, so I can’t check to see if this was an isolated incident or if something warped in the Kobo conversion/upload process. The ePub edition that was uploaded to Kobo way back in August 2012 looks flawless on my end, using the Adobe eReader app.

This particular reader has a standard Kobo with no bells and whistles. If you recently downloaded HEAD OVER HEELS from Kobo during the free promotion, or if you already had a copy that you had purchased on your Kobo ereader prior to the promotion, can you please contact me either through my website email address or the message function of my Facebook author page and let me know if you experience the same formatting issue?

This is what it looks like, according to my reader:

Instead of having em dashes—these things on either side of “these” and WORD—she’s seeing Ì — Ì, those two big I type characters with the accent to the left on top, except not in bold (I bolded it for effect here).

I don’t sell a lot of books through Kobo, so this is the first I’ve heard of the possible glitch. I’d like to get it addressed if it isn’t an isolated incident.

Thanks!

HEAD OVER HEELS Large Print Cover

Last year I sold the Large Print rights to HEAD OVER HEELS to F.A. Thorpe in England. I knew the book would be coming out in Large Print sometime in 2014, but I didn’t know precisely when. Well, I don’t think the Large Print copy is available for libraries and institutions yet, however, the release date is listed on Amazon as February 1, 2014, so it should be available in the UK soon. Imagine my surprise and delight when, this past week, I received author copies in the mail. It’s always fun to see a book in a different edition. HEAD OVER HEELS has also appeared in Manga (comic book) form in Japan. You can view that cover here, on my Foreign Editions page.

Below, voila the cover of the Large Print edition coming to Linford Romance by F.A. Thorpe in the UK. I think it’s very catchy. The book is a lot thicker in Large Print, by the way (which I knew would occur, naturally, but it’s still cool to see the actual finished product). When I get time, I’ll upload the cover to the F.E. page.

HeadOverHeels_LinfordLP