E-Book Sale Alerts!

I've found some awesome e-book deals that are going on, many through June. 

Be sure to check the price before purchase, as some of the sales may end earlier. 

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Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day George

Jessica is such a great writer, and she kicked off a series of fairy-tale retellings with this book, a new twist on "The Twelve Dancing Princesses."

Regular e-book price: $7.99
Sale price: $1.99

Get Princess of the Midnight Ball here.






Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, by Jessica Day George

It's never fair to pick a favorite book by an author, but this one just may be my favorite by Jessica,
and that's because it's a re-telling of a Nordic myth and that it's set in Norway. (For readers who don't know, I have a big Scandinavian & Norse heritage!)

This one is based on "East o’ the Sun, West o’ the Moon," about the Polar Bear King.

Side note: Shortly after finishing reading it, I just knew I had to write a retelling of my own, based on a Finnish fairy tale. So I did, with Song Brekaer.

Regular e-book price: $7.99
Sale price: $1.99

Get Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow here.


The Hundredth Queen series by Emily R. King

If you haven't heard of Emily's books, you're not alone; she burst onto the
scene about a year ago. But you will be alone soon if you haven't read her work. She's a rising star, and her writing is gorgeous.

The first two books in her series, The Hundredth Queen and The Fire Queen are both on sale.

Bonus: If you buy the Kindle version, the audio edition is available for only another $1.99.





Get them here: 

The Hundredth Queen

The Fire Queen 






When (not if) you're hooked, here are the third and fourth books in the series: 

The Rogue Queen                             The Warrior Queen



If you're a romance fan, you'll want to snag these titles while they're discounted: 


Drops of Gold, by Sarah M. Eden

This one is so good. It grapples with postpartum depression in a time when no one fully understood it, and before it really had a name.

But the book is about finding joy and happiness (those drops of gold!).

E-book sale price: $1.99

Get Drops of Gold here.






A Timeless Regency Anthology: Summer House Party 
Featuring novellas by Regina Scott, Donna Hatch, & Sarah M. Eden

The Regency romance novellas in this collection are significantly longer than the typical Timeless Romance Anthology volumes.

Each story centers around, per the title, a summer house party.

These three authors are excellent!

Get Summer House Paerty here.





Sweeter Than Any Dream, by Annette Lyon

This story is reminiscent of L. M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle. It's set in the Regency period (roughly a century before The Blue Castle), so fans of Jane Austen and the Regency period itself, along with fans of L. M. Montgomery (most famous for Anne of Green Gables) will enjoy this one.

The sale on this one is shorter, lasting only from June 10 - June 14.

Regular e-book price: $2.99

Sale price thru June 14th: $1.99

Get Sweeter Than Any Dream Here.

Happy summer reading! 

COVER REVEAL AT LAST: SONG BREAKER!

What's a cover reveal without a story, right?

Friends and long-time readers know that I have a love of Scandinavia, and in particular, Finland. A big part of that is the fact that my mother was born and raised there. Another is that my father did church service there for 2 1/2 years as a young man.

And no, they didn't meet then. Five years after his mission, he returned to Finland on a Fulbright scholarship to do research for his dissertation. That is when they met and courted, and the following autumn, they married.

Dad is a retired linguist (again, something long-time readers will already know). In addition to speaking Finnish, he taught Finnish literature at the university where he served as a linguistics professor. Throughout my childhood, we regularly had Finnish visitors, heard stories about the country, and so on. Christmas in particular became a time for family traditions centered around Finland.

When I was 6, my family visited Finland for three months, each in a different city for the summer. While I have some wonderful memories of that time, my true passion for the country came to life a few years later, when we returned to live in Helsinki for 3 years. I attended public school and eventually learned the language. I still have several dear friends there (and some who have immigrated to the States). And my love for all things Finnish has only continued to grow.

It was only a matter of time before that love informed my writing.

The fall of 2008, I finally had the chance to return to Finland for the first time since 1987. WOW. I felt like I'd returned home! Leaving was harder than I anticipated; I cried at the airport. But as I flew back to the States with my husband, I already had a story idea percolating in the back of my mind. I didn't know the details yet, but I knew I wanted to write a retelling of one of the stories in the Finnish mythology, known as the Kalevala.

So I did. I read large sections of the Kalevala and spent a long time working on expanding the story of Aino into a full-length novel.

And I'm thrilled to say that after many delays (a lot of them professional obligations that pushed this project to the back burner, many others family things because, well, family trumps, as well it should), my retelling of the story, now titled Song Breaker, will be released this fall!

I don't have a final date yet, as a few variables still need to be worked out, but I hope to have it available for readers no later than the first week of October (hopefully sooner!).

In the meantime, here's the amazing cover, designed by the immensely talented Sarah Beard:

Isn't it gorgeous?!

If you want to be kept up to date on the release of Song Breaker, be sure to sign up for my newsletter (do that in the white box in the sidebar).

And in the meantime, take a peek at the reviews coming in for the Annette Lyon Collection from Timeless Romance Anthologies, featuring five stories that are fan favorites plus one all-new novella.

The collection is available HERE.

A blog tour for the collection is going on right now. Here are some of the stops so far.
Katie’s Clean Book Collection
Bookworm Lisa
I Love to Read and Review Books
Literary Time Out

(Find the full list of blog tour stops HERE.)

I love gazing at the cover. 
It's just so awesome in so many ways!