Thicker Than Water One of Top Ten Summer Books

The Indietribe has selected Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series) as one of ten top summer books they recommend.

Please click here to go to the website and see the selections.

Thanks to everyone who are buying the paperback and ebook versions of the book and sending me comments about their reading experience.

Please watch for a new promotion this month for a chance to win a free paperback version of Thicker Than Water.

FREE EBOOK PROMOTION EXTENDED ONE MORE DAY

Thanks to everyone who has ordered a free copy of Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series) during the April 14-20 free promotion. I hope you enjoy reading it.

My apologies to all who tried to order it on Friday, April 18th and found that it was unavailable due to review.

KDP were concerned about a glitch in formatting that was reported and wanted to make sure the quality of the book was all that it should be. The problem is now resolved.

As a result, they have extended the promotion one more day (Sunday, April 21) to give those who were unable to order on Friday one more chance to do so.

I really appreciate all the people at KDP and Amazon for the assistance and support they give all Indie authors like me. So applause for them.

So, if you have not already done so and you would like to order the first book in the Brands Crossing Series, please click here and do so.

Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series) is the first in a series of novels set in Brands Crossing, Texas. It chronicles the lives of the Kincaids, a prominent family in this mythical town, and focuses on a mystery that extends back to the mid-eighteenth century and the young Texas Republic.

As a child, KATE O’DONNELL spends summers at her grandparents’ estate in Brands Crossing, Texas where she  battles make-believe monsters, rescues endangered victims and a saves a mythical kingdom.

At twenty-five Kate is a singer/songwriter living in Nashville and pursuing a promising relationship with computer game designer PHILLIP NORWOOD. There, her only battles are fought in Aidenne’s Revenge, Phillip’s online fantasy game based on her childhood adventures.

When her grandfather is critically injured in a suspicious car crash, Kate abandons career and romance to return home to solve the mystery.There, she searches for incriminating documents, investigates a centuries-old family feud and confronts an anonymous rose-bearing admirer who stalks Kate in both real and virtual universes.

The second book in the series, Whatever Goes Around, will be available in July.

SPRING CLEANING

Along with my joy of the newly arrived spring, I find myself obsessed with deleting the clutter that has accumulated during my winter doldrums.

Having a slight OCD tendency, I can’t just shovel everything into boxes and garbage bags.

Oh no, once I start I clean right down to the baseboards.  Don’t worry, this doesn’t happen often.  As friends and family can attest, house cleaning comes WAY down my list of priorities.

While I’m in the middle of a writing or teaching project–or maybe in the middle of a good book–I tend to overlook the chaos surrounding me. But even I become aware of it eventually.

So, if you don’t hear from me for a few days, don’t worry, I’m just busy with swifters, sponges, broom, mop and vacuum.

The cats are hiding under the bed.

In the meantime, remember to check out my free Ebook promotion for Thicker Than Water, (Brands Crossing Series). Until April 20 you can click here and order a free kindle copy.

Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

Is Spring Finally Here?

I don’t know about the rest of you but I am tired of winter. It’s not the cold I hate so much (although that’s a factor).

It’s really the dreary gray skys that challenge my normally optimistic spirit. Often this past winter I’ve thought of  the following lines from Emily Dickinson’s wonderful poem There’s a Certaom Slant of Light in which she describes the light on winter aftrnoons as an oppression, “like the weight of cathedral tunes” and goes on to say:

“When it comes, the landscape listens, shadows hold their breath; when it goes, ’tis like the distance on the look of death.”

But enough gloomy thoughts.

This week has brought blue skies, warm breezes and birdsong.

I want to stuff blankets and sweaters and woolen mittens into boxes; throw open windows; come out of my cave of hibernation and plant new blooms in warm soil.

And read a new fun book.

Please remember the Ebook Promotion for the Ebook (Kindle) version of Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series at Amazon.com  4/16 to 4/20.

IT’S FINALLY HERE: FREE THICKER THAN WATER EBOOK PROMOTION 4/16-4/20

From April 16 to April 20, the Ebook version of  Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series) willl be free at Amazon. Click here to access the ebook at Amazon.

Thicker Than Water is the first novel in the Brands Crossing Series and introduces KATE O’DONNELL, a twenty-five-year-old singer/songwriter who abandons career and romance in Nashville to investigate the mystery surrounding her grandfather’s fatal car crash in Brands Crossing, Texas.

While searching for incriminating documents and examining a centuries-old family feud, Kate discovers a mysterious, rose-bearing admirer who stalks her in both real and virtual universes.

Available in paperback and ebook at: amazon.com and in paperback at barnesandnoble.com.

For those of you who don’t have a Kindle (What?!) I will have a drawing for three copies of the paper back version. All you have to do is comment and give me your name and email address. I will email you if your name is drawn and ask for mailing directions.

I hope you all will take advantage of this promotion and read Thicker Than Water, then let me know what you think of it.

If you have already read (and hopefully enjoyed) Thicker Than Water, watch for the publication of , the second book in the series, Whatever Goes Around in 2013. In this novel, Claire Kincaid sets out to straighten out all the problems in family members’ lives; then, after inadvertently propelling all those people into danger, she attempts to rescue them.

NEW LISTING FOR THICKER THAN WATER

Please check  out the website Addicted to Books. They have listed Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series) on their recommended book list.

Also, please remember the 4/16 – 4/20 free ebook promotion of Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series)

Results of Kate’s Therapy Session

Earlier this month I mentioned that Kate O’Donnell, the protagonist in Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series) would be undergoing a therapy session with Jeannie Campbell on her Ast The Therapist blog.

Click here to see the results of this session.

I found Jeannie’s thoughts and comments very insightful and will use them as I continue to build Kate’s character in future books.

What do you think?

Please remember the Ebook Promotion for Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series at Amazon.com  4/16 to 4/20.

FREE E-VERSION OF THICKER THAN WATER (BRANDS CROSSING SERIES)

From Monday, April 16, through Friday, April 20 the Ebook version of  Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series), my first novel in the Brands Crossing Series, will be free. Click here to access the ebook at Amazon.

Thicker Than Water is the first novel in the Brands Crossing Series and introduces KATE O’DONNELL, a twenty-five-year-old singer/songwriter who abandons career and romance in Nashville to investigate the mystery surrounding her grandfather’s fatal car crash in Brands Crossing, Texas.

While searching for incriminating documents and examining a centuries-old family feud, Kate discovers a mysterious, rose-bearing admirer who stalks her in both real and virtual universes.

Available in paperback and ebook at: amazon.com and in paperback at barnesandnoble.com.

For those of you who don’t have a Kindle (What?!) I will have a drawing for three copies of the paper back version. All you have to do is comment and give me your name and email address. I will email you if your name is drawn and ask for mailing directions.

I hope you all will take advantage of this promotion and read Thicker Than Water, then let me know what you think of it.

If you have already read (and hopefully enjoyed) Thicker Than Water, watch for the publication of , the second book in the series, Whatever Goes Around in July, 2013. In this novel, Claire Kincaid sets out to straighten out all the problems in family members’ lives; then, after inadvertently propelling all those people into danger, she attempts to rescue them.

I Am a Phoenix

This week I’m preparing for my next nine week session at the University of Phoenix.

I do love teaching…

Composition and literature classes at brick-and-mortar colleges and universities

Creative writing workshops at wrters’ conferences and events

Tutoring high school students in English, social studies and foreign languages

Substituting at the local high school

Scratch the last one, It’s not so much fun. Not sure it even fits in the teaching category anyway. More like baby-sitting, crowd control and crisis management.

But I digress.

My favorite classes to teach are the on-line communications classes at the University of Phoenix. I love U of Ps model for education and their mission statement.

Each time I begin a new session, I become excited about interacting with the students and watching them gain confidence in their new communications skills.

KATE’S SESSION WITH A SHRINK

Kate O’Donnell, the protagonist of my first novel Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series) is visiting a psychiatrist this coming Wednesday, and you can share her experience by visiting Jeannie Campbell’s blog, Meet the Therapist, on Wednesday March 27th.

Anyone who has read Kate’s story might understand why she is undergoing therapy. Anyone who knows me might wonder why I’m not joining her.

Of course, I am.

Hope you’ll enjoy witnessing our angst.