http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Destiny-Prophecy-Saga-ebook/dp/B00DLVITT4/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372168100&sr=1-2
Coming soon to all major online bookstores.
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Immortal Destiny available now at Amazon
Immortal Destiny is now available at Amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Destiny-Prophecy-Saga-ebook/dp/B00DLVITT4/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372168100&sr=1-2
Coming soon to all major online bookstores.
http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Destiny-Prophecy-Saga-ebook/dp/B00DLVITT4/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372168100&sr=1-2
Coming soon to all major online bookstores.
Friday 21 June 2013
Cover Reveal
Cover reveal time for the second book!
Release date - 27th June 2013
What do you think?
Sunday 7 April 2013
My double life...
This normally cautious and outwardly reserved author has done something rather unexpected...
I've been varying shades of brunette for the last ten years, but on a spontaneous whim I decided to dye my hair red...BRIGHT RED!
The work required was nothing short of a marathon! Three nights, two bleaches and copious amounts of fudge hair dye later, the mission was completed with the help of my rather determined younger sister, Emma. Lucky for me, she wasn't willing to give up on the first night or my hair would have remained brown with a red tinge. Not the look I was going for at all!
I'd almost given up on this new transformation and was feeling a little disheartened, but she looked me in the eye with her stubborn face and said, "I'm not giving up until it's bloody red. It's become personal now!" She does make me laugh.
But this decision was not just out of the blue. A mistake I had made the day before my decision to go red was the catalyst behind it...
Imagine for a moment, Bruce Wayne...
He leads a double life. One as Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy and his alter ego, Batman the superhero saving the world from unimaginable dangers. They are one and the same person but both are very different.
Now, I don't claim to be a superhero in my spare time, but i have in a sense been living a double life...
That double life came to crashing halt Tuesday afternoon, after an incident involving Facebook...
Tuesday afternoon I received three paperback copies of my book! This was the first time I'd seen the book in a physical form, so as you can imagine I was incredibly excited. I took a beauty shot of the books and uploaded them to what i thought was my author page...
It wasn't.
It was posted to my personal page. *shrieks of horror*
Only my best friend and my immediate family knew that I had written a book. It wasn't that i was ashamed of the book or the fact that i was an Indie Author, it's simply that by nature I am a private and reserved sort of person when it comes to my accomplishments. I don't tend to shout out from the roof tops what I've done. But in keeping that part of me a secret, I'd been hiding a very important part of myself from everyone around me and had split myself into two people.
To the world at large, I was reserved, quiet and apparently to those who know me best, intimidating. According to my mother, think Rosalie Hale from Twilight. I love Roaslie, but she isn't exactly approachable.
Then I have my author self, which is very different. My author self is creative, intense, fun and a little bit crazy perhaps even unpredictable.
So, what I considered at the time to be an epic fail, actually turned out to be a mistake with a silver lining. It made me realise the vast difference in my two persona's and that perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing to find a way to combine the two.
And so the decision to be bold and dye my hair the crazy red i wanted was made.
It was a physical way of bringing a part of my crazy author self into my every day self.
I think that Ally could relate to what I'm feeling at the moment. Her transformation is clearly a lot more drastic than mine. I, thank heavens don't have an evil vampire trying to kill me or an ancient prophecy floating about that involves me. But she has to let go of her old self and have the courage to begin the transformation from normal, average girl who is controlled and reserved, sharp as a tack but also lacking confidence in areas to the soon to be Immortal girl whose fate is to go up against an evil vampire that will stop at nothing to kill her.
As I said, mine is not even close to that dramatic but the basics are the same.
In some small way, there is always an element of truth about the author thrown into his or her books and it's true in this case, but my self-conscious mind knew the truth about me before my conscious mind did.
Call it destiny, fate or whatever, but I'm glad i made that mistake and uploaded that picture to the wrong page. It feels like the beginning of a new and exciting journey.
I've been varying shades of brunette for the last ten years, but on a spontaneous whim I decided to dye my hair red...BRIGHT RED!
The work required was nothing short of a marathon! Three nights, two bleaches and copious amounts of fudge hair dye later, the mission was completed with the help of my rather determined younger sister, Emma. Lucky for me, she wasn't willing to give up on the first night or my hair would have remained brown with a red tinge. Not the look I was going for at all!
I'd almost given up on this new transformation and was feeling a little disheartened, but she looked me in the eye with her stubborn face and said, "I'm not giving up until it's bloody red. It's become personal now!" She does make me laugh.
But this decision was not just out of the blue. A mistake I had made the day before my decision to go red was the catalyst behind it...
Imagine for a moment, Bruce Wayne...
He leads a double life. One as Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy and his alter ego, Batman the superhero saving the world from unimaginable dangers. They are one and the same person but both are very different.
Now, I don't claim to be a superhero in my spare time, but i have in a sense been living a double life...
That double life came to crashing halt Tuesday afternoon, after an incident involving Facebook...
Tuesday afternoon I received three paperback copies of my book! This was the first time I'd seen the book in a physical form, so as you can imagine I was incredibly excited. I took a beauty shot of the books and uploaded them to what i thought was my author page...
It wasn't.
It was posted to my personal page. *shrieks of horror*
Only my best friend and my immediate family knew that I had written a book. It wasn't that i was ashamed of the book or the fact that i was an Indie Author, it's simply that by nature I am a private and reserved sort of person when it comes to my accomplishments. I don't tend to shout out from the roof tops what I've done. But in keeping that part of me a secret, I'd been hiding a very important part of myself from everyone around me and had split myself into two people.
To the world at large, I was reserved, quiet and apparently to those who know me best, intimidating. According to my mother, think Rosalie Hale from Twilight. I love Roaslie, but she isn't exactly approachable.
Then I have my author self, which is very different. My author self is creative, intense, fun and a little bit crazy perhaps even unpredictable.
So, what I considered at the time to be an epic fail, actually turned out to be a mistake with a silver lining. It made me realise the vast difference in my two persona's and that perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing to find a way to combine the two.
And so the decision to be bold and dye my hair the crazy red i wanted was made.
It was a physical way of bringing a part of my crazy author self into my every day self.
I think that Ally could relate to what I'm feeling at the moment. Her transformation is clearly a lot more drastic than mine. I, thank heavens don't have an evil vampire trying to kill me or an ancient prophecy floating about that involves me. But she has to let go of her old self and have the courage to begin the transformation from normal, average girl who is controlled and reserved, sharp as a tack but also lacking confidence in areas to the soon to be Immortal girl whose fate is to go up against an evil vampire that will stop at nothing to kill her.
As I said, mine is not even close to that dramatic but the basics are the same.
In some small way, there is always an element of truth about the author thrown into his or her books and it's true in this case, but my self-conscious mind knew the truth about me before my conscious mind did.
Call it destiny, fate or whatever, but I'm glad i made that mistake and uploaded that picture to the wrong page. It feels like the beginning of a new and exciting journey.
Thursday 21 March 2013
What is New Adult?
I can hear you all asking, New Adult? What is she talking about?
And up until yesterday i was scratching my head asking the very same question, so let me explain...
The new hot trend or fad as some people are calling in it the publishing circles, tradtional and indie, is the New Adult genre. With the rise of the self-published or indie author, who are no longer bound by what the new york editors or top six publishers dictate their writing to be, a lot of us have been creating some amazing stories featuring a lead protagonist aged between 18 - 25. Previously, if you wrote this it would have been considered a Young Adult novel, which is categorically true, but not at the same time.
For example, in a by the rule book young adult novel, we authors tend to skip over the more mature content such as sex, drugs and so on, which is obviously the moral decision. You don't necessarily want a fourteen year old to pick up a book marketed to them and find it filled with swearing, steamy sex scenes or someone shooting up. I'm not saying that no young adult books feature this kind of content or that its wrong to do so, but i personally couldn't write these things for a younger crowd.
Enter the New Adult genre...
In these books, you still have all the charm and coming of age you would expect to find in a YA novel, but with more bite and a lot more steam. You won't find a fade to black sex scene in one of these, and readers around the world are screaming out for more! As you would expect there is more character development and bigger issues that are tackled, simply because they are older.
Imagine Twilight, for an example as it is. Bella starts off as a sixteen year old attending high school in a new town and meets Edward, the forever seventeen year old vampire. Now...imagine Bella as a twenty one year old college student, trying to find her way, working out who she is and what she wants to do with her life, cause lets face it most of have no idea till our late twenties what we want to do.
The story would ultimately have been the same, vampire falls in love with a human, human wants to become vampire and so on, but...and here's the big but...there would have been the sex scenes that people wanted to see so badly. (If they didn't, there wouldn't have been sex scenes in the movie, cause there are none in the books. Don't believe me? Go back and read the chapter on the wedding night. It fades to black.)
For a brilliant example of a New Adult book, go and get yourself a copy of Colleen Hoover's book, Slammed. Colleen and few other authors are finding real success in this new niche and i say good on them!
Whether this turns out to be a fad or a trend is only something that time will tell, but i honestly think this is something that the publishing world desperately needed. No longer are all of us authors who write NA feeling confused and like we are doing something wrong because we write about women in their twenties! I can't tell you how many times i put my book in the YA category but felt that it wasn't quite right.
But she's twenty-one. Is that too old for young adult?
I want steam in the book, but is that going to put people off because its YA?
and so on...
I'm not saying YA is rubbish or anything to that effect. I love YA, it holds a special place in my heart and always will. The twilight books are my favourite. Ever! But as a writer, i want to write something with a little more bite, a little more steam and address issues that i couldn't do as well or thoroughly if i wrote for the YA market.
The funny thing is, up until twenty four hours ago, i didn't even realise i was a NA author, but ever since i clicked on that link, i've been filled with an excitement and relief that i can write how i like.
So, for those of you that are waiting on book two, be prepared for steam ;)
Thank god for New Adult!
So what do all you readers or writers out there think about the new trend? Love it or hate it?
I'd love to hear others thoughts on the topic :)
And up until yesterday i was scratching my head asking the very same question, so let me explain...
The new hot trend or fad as some people are calling in it the publishing circles, tradtional and indie, is the New Adult genre. With the rise of the self-published or indie author, who are no longer bound by what the new york editors or top six publishers dictate their writing to be, a lot of us have been creating some amazing stories featuring a lead protagonist aged between 18 - 25. Previously, if you wrote this it would have been considered a Young Adult novel, which is categorically true, but not at the same time.
For example, in a by the rule book young adult novel, we authors tend to skip over the more mature content such as sex, drugs and so on, which is obviously the moral decision. You don't necessarily want a fourteen year old to pick up a book marketed to them and find it filled with swearing, steamy sex scenes or someone shooting up. I'm not saying that no young adult books feature this kind of content or that its wrong to do so, but i personally couldn't write these things for a younger crowd.
Enter the New Adult genre...
In these books, you still have all the charm and coming of age you would expect to find in a YA novel, but with more bite and a lot more steam. You won't find a fade to black sex scene in one of these, and readers around the world are screaming out for more! As you would expect there is more character development and bigger issues that are tackled, simply because they are older.
Imagine Twilight, for an example as it is. Bella starts off as a sixteen year old attending high school in a new town and meets Edward, the forever seventeen year old vampire. Now...imagine Bella as a twenty one year old college student, trying to find her way, working out who she is and what she wants to do with her life, cause lets face it most of have no idea till our late twenties what we want to do.
The story would ultimately have been the same, vampire falls in love with a human, human wants to become vampire and so on, but...and here's the big but...there would have been the sex scenes that people wanted to see so badly. (If they didn't, there wouldn't have been sex scenes in the movie, cause there are none in the books. Don't believe me? Go back and read the chapter on the wedding night. It fades to black.)
For a brilliant example of a New Adult book, go and get yourself a copy of Colleen Hoover's book, Slammed. Colleen and few other authors are finding real success in this new niche and i say good on them!
Whether this turns out to be a fad or a trend is only something that time will tell, but i honestly think this is something that the publishing world desperately needed. No longer are all of us authors who write NA feeling confused and like we are doing something wrong because we write about women in their twenties! I can't tell you how many times i put my book in the YA category but felt that it wasn't quite right.
But she's twenty-one. Is that too old for young adult?
I want steam in the book, but is that going to put people off because its YA?
and so on...
I'm not saying YA is rubbish or anything to that effect. I love YA, it holds a special place in my heart and always will. The twilight books are my favourite. Ever! But as a writer, i want to write something with a little more bite, a little more steam and address issues that i couldn't do as well or thoroughly if i wrote for the YA market.
The funny thing is, up until twenty four hours ago, i didn't even realise i was a NA author, but ever since i clicked on that link, i've been filled with an excitement and relief that i can write how i like.
So, for those of you that are waiting on book two, be prepared for steam ;)
Thank god for New Adult!
So what do all you readers or writers out there think about the new trend? Love it or hate it?
I'd love to hear others thoughts on the topic :)
Sunday 23 December 2012
Christmas Special
Hey Guys,
As a Christmas gift from me to you, Immortal Prophecy is free on Amazon.
But its for today only!!
The promotion will end on 24th December at midnight.
http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Prophecy-The-Saga-ebook/dp/B006LSTKWO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1334225750&sr=1-1
From Kay and I, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope that Santa is very kind to all our wonderful fans xx
Happy reading,
As a Christmas gift from me to you, Immortal Prophecy is free on Amazon.
But its for today only!!
The promotion will end on 24th December at midnight.
http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Prophecy-The-Saga-ebook/dp/B006LSTKWO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1334225750&sr=1-1
From Kay and I, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope that Santa is very kind to all our wonderful fans xx
Happy reading,
Monday 17 December 2012
Release day for Under His Command by Kristine Cayne and giveaway
Today is the release day for a very sexy new book by the incredibly talented Kristine Cayne.
Check it out and leave a comment with your email address to win an ebook copy of Romance In The Rain, which includes a prequel to Under His Command :)
About Kristine Cayne
Check it out and leave a comment with your email address to win an ebook copy of Romance In The Rain, which includes a prequel to Under His Command :)
A firefighter desperate
to save his failing marriage earns the trust—and the sexual submission—of his
controlling wife in the most pleasurable of ways.
After an explosive
one-night stand results in pregnancy, Jamie Caldwell is thrilled to marry the
perfect foil to his Dom side. But when his submissive wife starts cringing
every time he gives a command, Jamie shackles his dark desires. A bout of
rough, frenzied reunion sex makes him wonder if now he should free the Dom he’s
kept in chains and teach Erica the joys of submission and sexual surrender.
Erica Caldwell secretly loved every sinful thing Jamie did to her
on their first night together. However, terrified she’ll become a codependent
doormat like her mother, she repeatedly rejects Jamie’s dominance, despite
craving the kind of release only he can give her—the release that comes from
yielding to Jamie’s every demand.
Hoping that the trust
required by BDSM will help them rebuild their faith in each other, Jamie and
Erica embark on a journey of sexual exploration. But is it too late to repair
their crumbling marriage?
Award-winning author Kristine Cayne is
fascinated by the mysteries of human psychology—twisted secrets, deep-seated beliefs,
out-of-control desires. Add in high-stakes scenarios and real-world villains,
and you have a story worth writing, and reading.
Kristine’s heroes and heroines are pitted
against each other by their radically opposing life experiences. By overcoming their
differences and finding common ground, they triumph over their enemies and find
true happiness in each other’s arms.
Today she lives in the Pacific
Northwest, thriving on the mix of cultures, languages, religions and ideologies.
When she’s not writing, she’s people-watching, imagining entire life stories, and
inventing all sorts of danger for the unsuspecting heroes and heroines who
cross her path.
To learn more about Kristine and her
stories, visit her website: www.kristinecayne.com
Links
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/KristineCayneAuthor)
Twitter (http://twitter.com/KristineCayne)
Website (htttp://www.kristinecayne.com)
Where to buy the books
Amazon: http://amzn.to/UnyNCG
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/V0pefF
Amazon CA: http://amzn.to/UxtKz6
Amazon DE: http://amzn.to/U1Dl3N
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Sunday 9 December 2012
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