Category: Advanced Reader Copy
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Packet Ships, Peril, and Persuasion: Setting Sail in 1813 (+ an Excerpt)
There’s something gloriously impractical about sending a lady to sea in the Regency era. The skirts! The cockroaches! The chamber pots that slid everywhere! Yet by 1813, Britain was bursting with people doing exactly that—soldiers, diplomats, merchants, and, occasionally, their wives—rattling around the globe in those sturdy little packet ships I’ve been describing lately. My…
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Because I Love to Give Value Here …
HOW TO GET LEGITIMATE READER REVIEWS This is a column not only for (a) readers (how to get to read and review ARCs of new books for free) but ALSO for (b) writers. (How to get more, and often more professional, book reviews). Let’s start with the readers. Here, I think you have to be…
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Writing For Readers
Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.…
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The Red Pen!!!
You know that feeling when you have been working on something for forever and think it’s perfect, then another person causally, within seconds of looking at it, finds the flaw you never could focus on? It’s both maddening and exhilarating. On one hand, that’s my baby! On the other hand, how could I have been…
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Spirited Pursuits
I have happy news! Spirited Pursuits: Tales of Passion and Perseverance is my latest book bundle. It’s available only on Amazon and enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. Here’s the cover and contents: Take special note of the eBook in the middle of the titles featured in Spirited Pursuits. It’s a Sampler Edition of my upcoming release,…
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e-ARC Download Today and Excerpt
Cause to Repine by EM Storm-Smith I am SOOOOO excited to announce that the electronic Advanced Reader Copies of my newest book – Cause to Repine – are ready for download! Follow the link below: Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy come from two different worlds. She loves her country estate existence. He was born for…