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Silver Silence

 

Alt Text: Quote from Silver Silence - "Repeat after me: I will never trust a bear who promises to show me a good time." ~Selenka Durev to BlackEdge juveniles.

Who's willing to take the risk?!

~Ashwini

Goodreads Giveaway: There Should Have Been Eight

 

US residents: Goodreads is running a giveaway for 10 copies of Nalini's upcoming thriller There Should Have Been Eight! The giveaway will run until October 23rd. Click here to enter. Good luck!! 

~Ashwini

Friday Book Club

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Heroes

 

Alt Text - Quote from Allegiance of Honor: "Heroes, I've learned, don't always wear white. Sometimes they come from the darkness, shadows among shadows."

Who are your favorite fictional heroes? Which qualities do you love about them?

~Ashwini

Steamy Lit Con 2024

Guess who's coming back to the States! See you at Steamy Lit Con, Aug 2024! Tickets go on sale Oct 21!!

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Love Hard on Sale

 

Love Hard is on sale as part of Apple Books’ sports romance promotion! If you haven’t yet met Jake and Juliet, now’s your chance! 

Archangel's Enigma

 

Alt Text: Greyscape background of skyscrapers and quote from Archangel's Enigma: "Ellie calls me a tiger creature. It makes her crazy that Raphael won't tell her what I am and spoil my game." "You and your sire are clearly both as bad as one another."

Have you met Naasir and Andromeda yet? 

~Ashwini 

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Barnes & Noble Preorder Sale

 

 

Look what I found! B&N is doing a 25% off preorder sale! (It's members-only, but the Rewards membership is free.) Full details on their site, but both There Should Have Been Eight, and Archangel's Lineage are eligible for the sale! Use code PREORDER25! Print, ebooks, audiobooks all discounted.

A quick fyi from me: Preorders are helpful always, but especially important if you intend to grab a print copy - this alerts the stores that readers want the book, so they can ensure they have enough copies in stock on release day.

Archangel's Lineage

 

Alt Text: The connection failed before he could respond. But it was all right. She knew she was loved—loved in a way she’d never experienced before she stepped onto a Tower roof with her stomach clenched against a fear bone-chilling . . . and walked into her destiny.

The susurration of wings, the kiss of a power that was the turbulent ocean in her mind, the way he laughed until those eyes of impossible blue glowed, it was home to her now.

I’m working on Archangel's Lineage edits, so here’s a little glimpse of what’s on my screen today. 

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Gardens and Cats

 

Roger’s Garden Center is wiiiiild! I mean it’s literally a wilderness where gumboots are required when it rains. But best place ever for serious gardeners. But I digress. Look at this cat I saw there last time (Roger’s cat?) What do you think our fluffy overlord is plotting? 

Snapshot from the Writing Desk

 

Snapshot from the writing desk. Yes, there is a giant Toblerone on the right. Because chocolate is made from cocoa beans, which are a vegetable, and I like to eat healthy. 

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Happy Birthday Desert Warrior

 

Twenty years ago this August, Desert Warrior made me a debut author. 

I wrote DW in a small notebook in whatever snatches of time I could manage, always aware that I was fighting a hard battle. Getting published when I began was difficult in the first place, and I was a young woman with no connections whatsoever who was submitting from a tiny dot of a country called New Zealand. 

I didn’t even know any writers in real life when I started. They were just names on books from faraway places.

The slush pile back then was a literal pile of paper, my submissions just one among thousands, tens of thousands.

I still tried anyway. Because we deserve to fight for our dreams. 

Then one day, a young editorial assistant named Diane wrote me back about a submission…and a year or so later, as an assistant editor, she bought DW. (Hi Diane! Thank you for being my first editor (and for one of the best phone calls of my life!))

I’ve now published millions of words across multiple series, but what drives me today is the same thing that drove the determined dreamer of a kid I once was: the love of writing, of stories, of books.

Thank you to every single one of you for reading my stories, whether you found me twenty years ago or today. You’re the reason that kid with stars in her eyes can live her dream. xo

Happy 20th birthday Tariq and Jasmine. 

Apple Books - Resonance Surge

 

Woohoo! We're so excited to share that Resonance Surge has been selected for Apple’s ‘What to Read This Month’ list! If you haven't yet checked out this beary good romance, you're missing out! See the full list here.

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Archangel's Lineage Cover Reveal

 

In case you missed it! The cover of Archangel's Lineage! Isn’t it breathtaking?! It makes my heart ache.

Art by the incredible Tony Mauro. Design by the wonderful Rita Frangie.

You are both the best!!!!!!