1–What is the title of your latest release? BEST MEN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? BEST MEN is a romantic comedy about a gay guy named Max Moody who’s a 34-year-old hopeless romantic living in New York City. His world is turned upside down when his bestie, Paige, tells him that she’s getting married and wants Max to be her man of honor. Max quietly spins out of control because he’d always thought he would get married before the serial dater and life of the party, Paige. Then Max meets the man of honor on the groom’s side – an impossibly handsome and charming gay guy named Chasten. Even though Max and Chasten are both gay, they’re polar opposites. Max is introverted, Midwestern and can’t stand Madonna or the word “brunch,” while Chasten is wildly outgoing, East Coaster and worships Taylor Swift and fashion. The two really don’t like each other at first but learn to get along for the sake of Paige’s wedding and eventually a romance blooms between them. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve lived in New York for several years and wanted to express the range…
1–What is the title of your latest release? STARS COLLIDE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Stars Collide is a grumpy/sunshine celebrity romance between an up-and-coming young pop star with a very bubbly, very queer brand, and a reserved legend of pop music who’s lonely and jaded after twenty years of stardom. She’s always assumed she was straight but never understood why she’s never had much passion in her life. When they’re teamed up for a duet at the Grammy’s, well, it’s safe to say that both of their worlds will be rocked that night… 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? It’s a celebrity romance, so I wanted to set it somewhere exciting, and I’d just done two series in New York City, so I decided to have Eden and Anna live in LA. For the second half of the book, they’re on tour together, which gave me a chance to visit a lot of new locales as they travel the country. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Oh my God, yes! I tend to always write characters I’d want to know in real life, but I’m also…
1–What is the title of your latest release? MEET ME AT THE LAKE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Fern and Will are strangers who spend a magical, life-changing day together in the city in their early twenties—then make a promise to meet one year later. Fern shows up; Will doesn’t. Now thirty-two, Fern is back home running her family’s struggling resort when Will shows up, offering to help. Will is very different from the idealistic artist Fern once knew, and it’s clear he’s keeping something from her – she’s not sure she wants to find out what it is. But ten years ago, Will helped rescue Fern. Can she do the same for him? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The book is told in now and then timelines. In the past, you spend twenty-four hours with Fern and Will in Toronto. In the present, you spend a summer with them at Fern’s lakeside resort in Muskoka, a popular cottaging area north of the city. The idea for the resort came to me in the middle of the night during a bout of postpartum insomnia. I was fretting over what I…
Book Title: THE BRIDE WORE WHITE Character Name: Prudence Ryland How would you describe your family or your childhood? Interesting. Not every little girl grows up in the household of a professional psychic. What was your greatest talent? Dream readings. There’s good money in it if you know what you’re doing. Significant other? My first marriage didn’t end well. Let’s just say there was an annulment involved. Biggest challenge in relationships? Turns out not every man wants to date a psychic and the ones who do tend to be weird. Where do you live? Currently residing in Burning Cove, California. Do you have any enemies? I just found out the press has labeled me the Killer Bride so it looks like I do have some enemies. How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place? Burning Cove is a lovely, glamorous seaside town. Unfortunately, someone is trying to kill me. Do you have children, pets, both, or neither? Neither. What do you do for a living? Currently unemployed. I used to be a psychic dream reader but a client tried to murder…
“It’s a sordid life, but I’m used to it.” —Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye I opened my eyes to find myself standing in front of a rain-streaked apartment window… “Welcome to my world, baby.” When I turned around, I was facing him, though facing was far from accurate. The tall private detective with the acre of shoulders was standing so close that my nose was practically hitting his chest. His bare chest. “You okay, doll? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” Jack was teasing, of course, but I didn’t laugh. After the intimacy of hearing his voice in my head for so long, actually seeing this towering, vital man in his prime—which he’d been before his premature death—always gave me somewhat of a shock. To top it off, in all the times he’d taken me back to his past, I’d never before confronted Jack in this state of undress. Embarrassed, I stepped back, touched my suddenly hot cheeks, and realized my hands were wearing white cotton gloves. Glancing down, I saw my nightgown was gone, replaced by a blouse with red polka dots, and a pencil skirt that fell below my knees. My legs were encased in stockings,…
1–What is the title of your latest release? DRESSED TO DRILL 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Contractor Shannon Hammer and her crew have been hired to renovate Lighthouse Cove’s Gothic Victorian church into a world-class art museum, but work comes to a screeching halt when they discover the body of a young woman in one of the chapels. With the help of her boyfriend, thriller writer Mac Sullivan, and her closest friends, Shannon will follow the clues to stop the killer from striking again. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? All the Fixer-Upper Mysteries take place in Lighthouse Cove. If you haven’t read the books yet but that sounds familiar, you probably caught the movies on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Lighthouse Cove is a quaint Victorian small town in northern California, with incredible ocean views and a few too many murders per capita. 4–Would you hang out with your sleuth in real life? Absolutely! Shannon is the kind of woman I admire—she’s smart, observant, and hard-working, and she’s also one of the most loyal friends you could ever have. In fact, she’s the kind of friend who, if you were suspected…
Release Me Not: Ethan & Zoey, Book 2, Badger Creek Duet series by Claire Raye Moonlight and Storm, Book 1, Australian Supernatural: High Country series by Nicole R. Taylor Tempting Jada, Book 10, Devil’s Sons MC series by Lila Fox Dionysus by Eva Pohler Let the Torrent Dance Three Down by Sherwood Smith Amaretto and Arson by Kelly Hashway Rhinestone Ransom by Jennifer Fischetto Built for Pleasure by T.O. Smith The Shadow Prophecy by Rae Egan City of Dawn, Book 4, Nightmarked series by Kat Ross Each Monday the Smashwords store lists the top ten most highly anticipated indie fiction ebooks based on the previous week’s preorder accumulations. Each title on the list is scheduled to release within the next week. To help the talented authors on this list accumulate even more preorders, click the title of the book. The hyperlink will bring you to a Books2Read page where you can order from your preferred ebook retailer. If the preorder is part of a series, click the hyperlinked series title to learn about the other books in the series. Be sure to check back Friday for a list of the Top 25 Bestselling Indie Ebooks.
1–What is the title of your latest release? MOOREWOOD FAMILY RULES 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A woman who went to prison for her messy con artist family makes them promise to go legit, but when she gets out she realizes they’ve kept scamming and now it’s up her to make them give up their grifter ways…but they have other ideas. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I needed somewhere with stunning vistas that made people think of money. Water and yachting said “money” to me. I watched a house-buying show set in Rhode Island and decided it had the perfect mix of wealth and ocean views to work. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I would! She comes from a dysfunctional, uncontrollable, emotionally stunted family of people who lie and deceive for a living. Think about the stories she’d have. It would be so entertaining. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Practical. Determined. Unmoored. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? The book is lighter in tone, but it does touch on the idea of family roles like “the dependable one” or “the…
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Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Meryl Ain! Writes: If there’s one thing JoJo Lubinski wants, it’s to become a famous actress. Her fraternal twin sister, Bronka, wants a career in journalism as well as a home and family. Complicating these dreams is their knotty family background. Their mother saved their father during the Holocaust and the family came to New York after World War II. But their father still suffers from the trauma of the Holocaust as well as losing his first family. Both sisters are constrained by the times in which they live. JoJo faces an unplanned pregnancy in the years before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land. Bronka is faced with quotas for female students when she applies to journalism school and later discrimination in her professional life. Her friend and colleague, Brian, discovers that his father was a guard at Auschwitz. The twins, Brian, and other characters in Shadows We Carry, grapple with their family’s ancestry, family secrets and bloodlines. Meanwhile, both young women…