Release day for California Dreams Christmas Romance Collection!

Another quick post today, release day for California Dreams Christmas Romance Collection! 🎉 This is a bundle of five short stories – romances – each opening with a spicy dream. From there, well, unexpected things happen. 😲🎅🏼 There's humor, there's loss, there's sweetness and healing, there are steamy times. (Read the blurb here.) Literary

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Advance review copies (ARCs) of California Dreams Christmas Romance Collection available

...through NetGalley and BookSirens. Thank you for your interest! I hope you 💖 the book!

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New lower prices through December 31 💝🥂🎆

Through the end of the year 🥂, all of my romance ebooks are available at big discounts! There is no coupon or discount code to use, just limited time lower pricing at the retailers that carry the ebooks...

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Upcoming release! California Dreams Christmas Romance Collection

California Dreams Christmas Romance Collection: Spend Christmas in the California sun with these feel-good, later-in-life, contemporary romance short stories.

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Book review roundup

Brief reviews of contemporary romances: Perfect Strangers; Come As You Are; Seven Days in June; Hot & Sticky; Winter's List; This Bird Has Flown and the love story Someday, Maybe.

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Book review: This Bird Has Flown

This book made me think, Carrie Soto is Back meets The Idea of You. I really enjoyed This Bird Has Flown, a sweet, funny, romantic, gutsy story about creativity, second chances, and decisions that change our lives.

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Silently, Secretly, and Entirely ebooks in Smashwords July Summer/Winter Sale!

All three Transformation ebooks – Silently, Secretly, and Entirely – are available at 25% off during Smashwords Annual Summer/Winter Sale 🏖🥌!

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Author Q&A interview about Entirely

Literary Titan recently interviewed yours truly about Book 3 of the Transformation Series, Entirely. The editors posed thought-provoking questions, and it was a lot of fun to reflect on the story itself and the writing process.

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Summer (or winter 🌎) reading list

I'm not sure summer will be long enough to get through all of these books but I'm game for the challenge. 🤓 Here they are:

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Book review: Wicked Sexy

Tabby and Connor's on-page chemistry is off the charts, intense and supremely well done. That is to say, 🔥HOT.

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Entirely selected for a Literary Titan Gold Award

Entirely (Transformation Series Book 3) won a Literary Titan Gold Award!🏆

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Entirely - author Q&A and chance to win a free ebook

It's release week for Entirely, and there's an ebook giveaway as part of the festivities! 🥳 Below, there's also a Q&A about the story and writing the book. Want to read an excerpt of Entirely? You can find one here:

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Entirely - 📖 read an excerpt

Entirely, Transformation Series Book 3, is now available in ebook and paperback. Read an excerpt:

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Quote from Entirely - day 1 countdown to release day

A quote from Jonathan, remembering, rethinking what he believed he knew.

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Quote from Entirely - day 2 countdown to release day

A quote from Entirely (Transformation Series Book 3) as we release day approaches.

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Quote from Entirely - day 3 countdown to release day

A quote from Jonathan, as he wonders whether he can give Quinn what she needs.

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Book review roundup

Often I DNF (do not finish) books, but the past few weeks I've hit the literary jackpot and come across three in a row I could not put down. Here are brief reviews, also shared on BookBub. None are steamy romance, but I would say that all three are love

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Entirely - Cover reveal

Entirely (Transformation Series Book 3) releases in two short weeks – April 25 – and I'm so excited to finally show you the cover! 🥳

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Goodreads Giveaway for Silently

The Kindle ebook format of Silently (Transformation Series Book 1) is part of a Goodreads Giveaway, from March 12 through March 31, 2023 📘🎁

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Secretly - author Q&A and chance to win a free ebook

It's release week for Secretly, and as part of the celebration 🥳, there's an ebook giveway and an author Q&A about the story and writing the book.

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Secretly - out now and excerpt!

Today is the day: Secretly, Transformation Series Book 2, makes its way into the world in ebook and paperback formats. 🎉🥳

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Review copies of Secretly are available

Advance review copies (ARCs) of Secretly are available through NetGalley and BookSirens. If you read the book, I hope you love it. But no matter what, please consider leaving a review

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Quotes from Secretly: Day 1 countdown to release day

And the final quote prior to Secretly's release tomorrow: "...she was a blindfolded cliff-dive into an ocean of risk and potential heartbreak." I like this one because...

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Quotes from Secretly: Day 2 countdown to release day

Another quote on the way to release day, this one from Quinn's perspective in Paris: "There was no space in the heat to hold thoughts or feelings, memory, or expectation."

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Quotes from Secretly: Day 3 countdown to release day

Here's another quote from Secretly, this one from Jonathan's perspective. I like it because it gives a glimpse of the issues he struggles with: "He was the lucky beneficiary of a dead man's grieving wife."