Frog Prince: Available to Pre-order now!

Happy Halloween, Champions! Frog Prince is now available for pre-order, and has a launch date of 11/3–this Friday! I’m really anxious to see what you all think of the book–it pulls back the curtain on some of the larger world-issues.

As usual, I am going to run a review specials for Frog Prince! Reviews are really important for authors. They help a lot to provide useful feedback for me and for possible/interested readers. So as a thank you for reviewing. I love reviews wherever you leave them including Amazon.com, the UK Amazon site, the Australian Amazon site, and Goodreads!

This time I’m releasing three shorts as part of this book launch!

1. Defense Lessons: 4 page short story: Unlocked

2. Dressing Up: 6 page short story: Unlocked 

3. The King and Queen of Loire: 12 page short story: Unlocked
   

Finally, Beauty and the Beast is temporarily on sale for 99 cents to celebrate The Frog Prince’s release! I’ll probably keep it at that price for roughly a month before hiking it back to its regular price of $2.99.

That’s all for today. Until Friday, Champions, have a lovely week!

Preparations and Flags

Preparations for Frog Prince continue! I have all the extras written up–they just have to go through a round of editing–and I had a lot of fun with these particular extras, so I really hope you all enjoy them. So far it looks like we are on schedule for a late October/early November release!

Assistant Rock Star Meg has begun the awful daunting task of going through all my manuscripts and reformatting them. This is a bigger task then it sounds because it just so happens I’m horrible at consistency, so each manuscript is out of order in its own, unique way. Hopefully we’ll be able to get a few new paperbacks out before Christmas–in particular Wild Swans and Rumpelstiltskin. Thanks for your patience, Meg!

Additionally, I have some new, beautiful fan art to display! Champion Mary Theresa created something I’m particularly gleeful about: the flag standards for Erlauf, Arcainia, and Verglas!

I have to commend Mary’s attention to detail as the standards are really only mentioned one time each in the entire series and she perfectly nailed the colors and country symbols. (I also like that she made each shield different!) But I think this is also an incredibly high compliment. As an author, it’s a little easier for me to flesh out characters and scenes for you all as readers, but countries are on a totally different level. So I’m so happy that Mary was interested enough in the countries and their standards that she decided to make these. (Thanks Mary!)

That’s all for today! Thanks for reading, Champions, and have a lovely weekend!

On Frogs and Art

It’s time to officially reveal Book 9 in the Timeless Fairy Tales series: The Frog Prince! The story will follow Prince Lucien–crown prince of Loire and Severin’s half-brother–and a neat-nut maid named Ariane as they attend the Summit meeting and dodge two rogue mages who are out to kill Lucien.

It was really tough keeping this story under-wraps for as long as I did–I actually foreshadowed it way back in Beauty and the Beast when Angelique threatens to turn Lucien into a toad! It’s a story that took a lot of effort to write, because it brings back so many characters from other books. (Severin, Elle, Rumpelstiltskin, Gemma, Dylan, Callan, Gabrielle, Steffen, and Elise just to name a few!) Actually, this is the FIRST BOOK in the Timeless Fairy Tale series that technically isn’t a standalone! Since so much of the story wraps around the series’ current events, if you really want to enjoy it you need to read the other books first. (Believe me, it will pay off in the end!)

I’m looking at a late October/early November release date, so it won’t be too long until you have a new book to sink your teeth into!

On that happy note, I also wanted to display some awesome artwork sent to me by two lovely Champions!

I Might Not Make it? Image of Dylan from Little Selkie By Cami John

Up first we have a beautiful image of Dylan from The Little Selkie which is taken from my FAVORITE SCENE in the whole book–when she’s facing the giant wave caused by the sea witch! The wonderful Cami John made this image–and wow did she nail the water and sunlight! (The foam at the top of the wave is especially amazing.)

Kit from Second Age of Retha Series, by Jess Wurms

Jess Wurms–you might remember her from some previous pieces–created another lovely drawing–this one of Kit from The Luckless, my A. M. Sohma series! I really have to tip my hat to Jess on this one–she remembered Kit’s obnoxious face tattoo! (It’s particularly impressive given that I purposely don’t have the cover artist include it on the covers, but Jess is really amazing at adding small details like that.)

Thank you to both Cami and Jess for letting me show off their work! I’m really honored that you two enjoyed my stories enough to use your talents to make some amazing artwork!

That’s all for today, Champions! Thank you for reading, and let me know if you guessed that Lucien was going to be the Frog Prince!