Category: My Books

Head Over Heels at The Fussy Librarian!

HEAD OVER HEELS is featured in The Fussy Librarian email newsletter today! If you’re a reader, you can visit their website to check out how to sign up for future emails.

The Fussy Librarian is a new book email service that currently does not post the books to their website, but will send you a daily email featuring books based on your preferences selected at their site. As well as checking off boxes for genre preferences (like Romance-Comedy, the category for HEAD OVER HEELS), you can also check off how much sex, violence and profanity you prefer (or don’t prefer!) in your reading. That way, if you want zero profanity, The Fussy Librarian will only email you books that have been “shelved” that way.

If you’re an author, submissions are currently free as the newsletter builds its subscriber base. Please check out how to submit your novels.

Note, I am not affiliated with The Fussy Librarian. Just informing you about it.

Trade Paperbacks for the Holidays!

Knowing me, it’ll take awhile before I add the info to the BORROWING ALEX book page, so I’ll update here that the trade paperback edition is now available not only on Amazon, but also Canadian Amazon,  Amazon UK, and Barnes and Noble. Just follow the links!

The book is “in stock” on both the main Amazon site, UK Amazon and Barnes and Noble, however, if you want to order from Canadian Amazon, the estimated shipping time is 4-6 weeks. I usually find the shipping times shorter than Canadian Amazon says, but it looks like if you wanted to order paperback copies of BORROWING ALEX for Christmas prezzies, well, I wouldn’t count on getting them before December 25th. Mid-January prezzies are more like it. New Year prezzies!

However, WHERE SHE BELONGS and HEAD OVER HEELS are both “in stock” at Canadian Amazon with the customary free shipping for orders over $25. And they are available on the Amazon, UK Amazon, and Barnes and Noble stores mentioned above. WHERE SHE BELONGS is available in both hardcover (Five Star/Cengage) or Trade Paperback (Blue Orchard Books).

BORROWING ALEX, as well as HEAD OVER HEELS and WHERE SHE BELONGS should also be available for Special Order from your local bookstore. Special Order means that the store can order them through the distributors Ingrams or Baker & Taylor, but whether the store WANTS to order them is another matter and out of my hands. There’s no harm in asking, though. These decisions vary from store to store, depending on whether they feel they can cover their overhead for ordering the book.

All three books are published by Blue Orchard Books. Here are the ISBNS (number identifying the book for bookstore staff to look up in their distribution networks for Special Orders):

BORROWING ALEX: 9780988088436

WHERE SHE BELONGS: 9780988088467

HEAD OVER HEELS: 9780988088429

Go forth and elf yourself. And don’t forget to spell Procter-King with an E!

Weekend Excitement on Kindle and NOOK Bestseller Lists

On Friday, my small-town contemporary romance, WHERE SHE BELONGS, started day 1 of a 10 day sale that culminates on Canadian Thanksgiving, which is October 14th. From Friday until then, WHERE SHE BELONGS is just 99 cents. The book has never been available at that price point before. In January, it had some free days with KDP Select (my one and only time in that program), and after the free days WHERE SHE BELONGS cracked the Kindle Top 100 Contemporary Romance list. Well, this weekend, at the 99 cent price point, WHERE SHE BELONGS not only hit the Kindle Top 100 Contemporary Romance Bestsellers, but also the Kindle Top 100 Romance Bestsellers AND the Kindle Top 100 Bestsellers in the store overall! It also climbed the Women’s Fiction charts, making it all the way to #4 for Women’s Fiction-Romance that I know of (what I saw when I wasn’t asleep). It’s still on the Women’s Fiction charts, at #15 for Women’s Fiction-Romance and #46 in Women’s Fiction overall! I’ve fallen off the Romance Top 100 Bestsellers but still have a toehold on Contemporary Romance as I type—at 98.

Over the weekend, I also appeared on Amazon Author Rank’s Top 100 Most Popular Contemporary Romance authors. I’ve fallen off now, so you’ll just have to believe me. 😉

The best numbers that I saw for my book were Saturday morning at 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. I have no clue what happened between 10 p.m. Friday night and 8 a.m. Saturday morning, so I can’t claim any #1 spots because I didn’t see them and I don’t know any way to check them after the fact. But here were the numbers for Kindle—I never expected to hit Top 100 Kindle Bestsellers!

– 58 Kindle Paid Store – all genres!

– 17 Romance – In the top 20!

– 13 Contemporary Romance – Top 15!

– 4 Women’s Fiction – Romance – Top 5!

– 8 Contemporary Fiction – Women’s Fiction – Top 10!

– 9 Women’s Fiction – Contemporary Women – Top 10!

I didn’t think to look at the general Women’s Fiction list until late on Saturday, so no idea what was my best number there.

WHERE SHE BELONGS also climbed the NOOK Top 100 Bestsellers, hitting #11 that I saw. And it’s still there, hanging on at #90.

That was something else I didn’t expect. And, guess what? I actually sold some books at Kobo Friday and Saturday! Kobo remains mainly a mystery to me when it comes to book sales, so selling 20 books was very exciting. 😉

The sale continues at the following outlets: Amazon – including Amazon Canada and Amazons around the world

Apple

Kobo

NOOK

All Romance EBooks

Where She Belongs Early Canadian Thanksgiving Sale!

Partly in celebration of the release of BORROWING ALEX on Monday and partly in celebration of our upcoming Canadian Thanksgiving, the digital edition of my Canadian-set small-town romance, WHERE SHE BELONGS, is on sale for only 99 cents from now until October 14th (Canadian Thanksgiving)! That’s a saving of $3.00 (enough for nearly a full latte).

WHERE SHE BELONGS can be found for $0.99 at Amazon, Amazon Canada (and Amazons around the world), Apple iBooks, Kobo, and from Barnes and Noble for NOOK. It’s also at All Romance EBooks for $1.00!

Today, WHERE SHE BELONGS is listed as a Bargain Book on EReader News Today, and it’s also listed on BookBub’s Latest Ebook Deals. So if you see the book at either venue and haven’t read it yet, it’s a buck—you can’t lose. Well, technically you could lose a buck you’d never get back. But with nearly 50 five-star reviews on Amazon, I’m hoping you’ll enjoy the book.

If romantic comedy is more your style, BORROWING ALEX is available at Amazon, NOOK, Kobo and Apple iBooks, as well!

Happy Early Canadian Thanksgiving!

BORROWING ALEX Release Day!

I’m tossing cyber confetti around! Because, finally, after nearly a 16-month hiatus, BORROWING ALEX is once more available as an ebook! The trade paperback release will occur in a few weeks on Amazon, and within about 6-8 weeks the paperback should populate on Canadian Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and be available for special ordering from your local bookstore.

I’ve posted the cover in previous posts, but you can get a look at a large version of the beautiful new cover by Kim Killion of The Killion Group (both the ebook cover and the trade paperback cover flat), or visit my BORROWING ALEX book page to read the story blurb and an excerpt.

The book is now available on Amazons around the world, Kobo, NOOK, and Apple!

Please celebrate with me. I need some chocolate. Who has some?