May 14, 2012

TRIBUTARY: Cover Reveal!

& Links to Exclusive Excerpts

TRIBUTARY is coming in June! It’s another e-novella, like BOURNE, picking up a year after we left the Betarrini and Forelli crew in Toscana. Lia and Luca are drawing closer together, Lord Greco may have met his match at last, and Gabi and Marcello face news that will change all of their lives. Oh, and yeah, the bad guys still want them all dead. Continue reading

May 8, 2012

I’m Looking for an Artist

Illustrate a Children's Book!

Hey friends, I’m going to put out a children’s book, designed for the 2-5-year-old crowd, in e-only (Kindle, Nook, iPad). I want to price it at $2.99. It’s 32 pages, and the text is complete, but I need an artist to partner with me. Continue reading

Apr 7, 2012

The Model Has Been Chosen

Say Hello to the New Luca Forelli!

Thanks to all of you who took the time to vote on your favorite cover models. Here are the two runners-up: Continue reading

Mar 15, 2012

March Madness

WATERFALL & CASCADE both made 2nd Round!!

This is fun…both WATERFALL and CASCADE made the second round in this March Madness YA contest! Can you help a girl out and vote daily for each one? They’re up against very steep competition. And even though I adored Girl of Fire & Thorns, and have such fun following Victoria Schwab on Twitter, I’d love to give them a run for their money!

So…please feel free to vote like crazy (once a day until 3/21). And for all those who did and care to enter my contest, there will be prizes: A River of Time autographed trilogy (if in the USA; unsigned if outside the USA) and a River of Time t-shirt of choice (design and size). Thanks for helping an author out! Only takes a minute to vote… Continue reading

Feb 8, 2012

BOURNE Update

River of Time Series

1) Almost done writing it. I got the flu but I should finish the last scene today!

2) Found someone to help me get it uploaded for all major e-readers (Kindle, Nook, Sony, etc)! Woot!

3) Hoping we start rolling them out at the very end of February–stay tuned. I’ll announce here and on Facebook: River of Time Series

4) I keep posting teasers on the Facebook page–have you joined us there yet? “River of Time Series” (look for some from last Friday)

5) How does this impact TRIBUTARY’s release? I don’t know! It may be that I take the 40K words I’ve written on that and make it the NEXT e-novella if this goes well. We’ll see!

Thanks for your excitement, River Tribe!

Jan 25, 2012

The Blog Tour Post That Was Supposed to be at Bookish Delights…

Hey! The blogger at Bookish Delights must’ve had something come up and hasn’t posted our interview. So here ’tis, for you people on the scavenger hunt wanting it Right Now!!

1.     If you had to change something in your life what would it be? Continue reading

Jan 13, 2012

A Cover is BOURNE!!!

River of Time #3.1 e-novella

So a lot of you know that I’m self-publishing an e-novella (note: about 1/3 the length of a novel), that picks up Gabi, Lia, Marcello, Luca, and Lord Greco’s story where we left off in Torrent. Here’s the cover!!! Continue reading

Jan 2, 2012

Top 10 of 2011 Lists

River of Time on 20+ Lists!

Thanks to the blogger friends who named the characters or the books of River of Time (Waterfall, Cascade, Torrent) on their “Best of 2011” and “Top 10 of 2011″ lists! I really owe a ton to all bloggers for spreading the word about my series last year. If you’re a reader, please check out these sites for other reading recommendations. Because, clearly, they have discriminating taste when it comes to the best reads out there, if they chose MY books!! I know I added about 15 titles to my TBR list… Continue reading

Nov 14, 2011

WATERFALL a Semifinalist!

goodreads.com

You guys are awesome. With your collective passion and votes, you made WATERFALL a semifinalist in the 2011 Goodreads.com Choice Awards. It is one of 20 semifinalists–a huge honor! Now I need your help again. Before November 20, can you kindly vote for your favorite YA Fantasy fiction title here?

After 11/20, twenty titles will become just ten finalists, so every vote counts.

You have to be a member of goodreads to vote (no cost or obligation to join). Whichever book you vote for, thanks for smiling along with me…and for your ongoing support of my work.

Oct 3, 2011

My Next Book

The Grand Tour Series Revealed!

So…many of you have been asking: WHAT’S NEXT? For my River Tribe, yes, I totally want to dive back into medieval Italy with my beloved characters. You can see the excerpt I wrote of TRIBUTARY, if you want to catch a glimpse of where I’d go with Book 4–if I get a chance to write it. (Jury’s still out–we need Books 1-3 to SELL!) In the meantime, I’m writing a contracted New Adult series called The Grand Tour, beginning with Glamorous Illusions. Books 2 and 3 are called Grave Consequences and Glittering Promises. In the back of Torrent, you might have seen them referenced with different titles–we had to change ‘em up due to competition. Anyhoo, here’s the back cover copy for book 1:

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