Pre-Order Now Available

You can pre-order Snow White with a Twist from your favorite retailer. Both print and e-book are available and will ship on March 22 or 29, depending on where your order. Why the two dates? I guess I messed something up, but I’m too tired to figure it out. It doesn’t seem all that important. Hitting the NYT best seller list seems unlikely. Here are a few links:

Bookshop.org (and support your favorite local bookstore)

Barnes and Noble (so they don’t go out of business)

Smashwords (ebook only; a great independent publisher)

Amazon (If this is where you shop, click the link. If you input Snow White with a Twist in the search box, it isn’t coming up because ?!!??!?)

Book Release Party

If you live locally, stayed tuned for information about the book release party. Bound to Happen Books will be the location with a date to be determined. April, yes, but which day??? Announcement to come! I want to make sure I have books in hand. A book release party with no books just wouldn’t be the same.

My Newest Book

Cover reveal! I’m excited to announce my next book and its beautiful cover, designed by the talented Thomas Hardy. This middle-grade fairy tale-retelling will release on March 29. Intended for children ages 7-12, this is the Snow White story you know–with a twist!

Stay tuned for information about a book release party!

Smashwords’ Buy an E-Book Week

Sunday, 5 March – Saturday, 11 March 2023 is Smashword’s Buy an E-Book Week. Many of the books published on Smashword‘s platform will be discounted or free. Including…

My books at Smashwords:

Wilde Wagers and Syncopation: A Memoir of Adele Hugo which are available this week for $1.49 each. Smashwords is a great platform as it lets authors publish e-books for free and gives them a majority of the profits of their sales.

My books at amazon:

Per my contract with amazon, I’m not allowed to sell my books anywhere for less that one can buy them at amazon, so the books are also on sale at that store, if it is where you prefer to buy books: Wilde Wagers and Syncopation: A Memoir of Adele Hugo.

Happy Reading!

Gobsmacked!

Over the years, I’ve done the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November to push myself to write more. I’m doing it this November to try to crank out the second half of the first draft of my work-in-progress Outlandish. As part of signing up for NaNo, I submitted my name and project for consideration in the 30 Covers in 30 Days, an “event” in which artists create covers for projects. And I was chosen! Thus, the title of this post.

Gorgeous, isn’t it? And perfect for the story. Thanks go to graphic designer Kelley Kempel at Hidden Path Creative.

Let me know what you think below.

Check out the Nano blog where they are posting all the covers and read more about my story and Kelley Kempel’s background.

Cover Reveal / Book Available

Thanks to Jenny Q of Historical Fiction Book Covers for this lovely cover:

Book Cover for Wilde Wagers

Wilde Wagers is now available in print or as an ebook at your favorite book seller. You can ask local bookstores and libraries to order copies if it isn’t on the shelf. A list of popular online shops is on this page.

Here’s the story:

Wagering is all the rage in late Victorian England. Oscar Wilde bets that actress Olivia Snow can fool a group of country bumpkins into believing she is Genevieve Lamb, the wealthy beauty of the recent Season. The weekend will prove a challenge for the old-fashioned actress and Genevieve’s handsome and old-fashioned brother, Philip, because the manor is filled with all sorts of ridiculous and eccentric characters, as well as one slightly murderous criminal. While Olivia pretends to be Genevieve, Genevieve wagers on her own performance–as Olivia Snow. She and Oscar Wilde go out on the town, a decision that will have both wishing they’d stayed at home and played cribbage. These two charades take unexpected turns during a wild weekend of kidnapping, cucumber sandwiches, bee stings, and love. This Oscar Wilde-esque romance-mystery-comedy will keep you guessing–and craving teacake.