Question for You: What Are Your Fav Romance Epubs?

Hi folks!

With Draft 3 of the new novel off to readers, and Draft 4 to follow when I get that feedback, I am currently researching epublishers for the submission phase of the book's strategy for world domination. I have a list of suspects, and am going through them one by one.

So, my question to you this week: What are a few of your favourite romance epubs? Which have you worked with? Which do you buy from? 

Please, comment below, and share some great finds!

Daily Dose of Frustration: Non-"Zany" Need Not Apply

Right now, I looking for a publisher for my new novel - my NaNo story, which is currently in editing and re-writing. I am hoping to submit by the fall, so I'm casting around for the best shot for publishing. I am looking for something mid-class this time - not too small, but not too lofty, either. Some company that sees half decent sales, makes some token effort at marketing and can help me produce a quality book. Not too huge a list of wants.

This week, I came across this lovely little snippet on a submission instructions page of a mid-range ebook pub:

Contemporary Romance: Fun and whimsical, these books should showcase your sense of humor and focus on a modern couple in a zany situation.

"Zany"?

Really?

Zany only, huh?

Damn you Bridget Jones. Damn you.

So, fine. I understand that people like zany. I can appreciate that. I love Bridget Jones, actually. But, honestly, is this the only market out there? Readers only want to read zany romance (if it doesn't involve sulky vampires, that is)?

My NaNo novel is not a zany romance, nor is Strings Attached. Now, this does not mean I am devoid of humour (in fact, my new WIP is a comedy), but these first couple of full lengths are serious contemporary romances. Not quite melodrama, but focusing on honest emotions and mature, realistic people. Not zany people.

(Zany people are, like, girls who wear red dresses a lot, which randomly get blown up by the wind, right, and inexplicably carry bunches of daisies way too often? Zany guys, I can only assume, wear a messenger bag all the time.)

(Yeah, I don't have any of those.)

So, it seems I am simply not zany enough for the category of contemporary romance in today's market.

Perhaps I should see if I can re-write into it a pouty nosferatu as Plan B...

Help! Another Identity Crisis

I've seen these two terms chucked around, "Indie" and "Traditional." Now, I know these terms are rife with some controversy, since they were (according to interwebs lore) first coined by a shady vanity press in order to glamorize their scam. Yet, regardless of how the categories started, they have been widely adopted in the "writing world" - or, at least, in that corner which I haunt.

I have always understood it to be a matter of scale.

"Traditional" publishers, in my understanding, included the Big Companies - the brick-n-mortar, advance-granting, agent-oriented, paperback-lovin' companies that market/sell internationally and make big bucks, and all those mid-range companies run on this model in hopes of being one of the Big Publishers. We can all name several of these off the top of our heads, no doubt.

"Indie" (short for "independent") publishers, I assumed, included the small scale publishers - micropresses and self-published authors who have a smaller distribution and privately-seeded marketing budget, no agents and no advances, but royalties from sales alone. Largely, these days, this means epublishing.

This week I ran into a handful of blog comments that claimed "indie" doesn't include self-published. But, this sentiment I easily disregarded as indie authors who, foolishly, have bought into the idea that self-published means vanity publishing and terrible quality. These comments were, after all, left on a now-fairly-famous so-so review to which the regrettably deficient self-published author under review left some awful, immature and petty ravings, involving the senseless repetition of expletives. I can see why people were scrambling to distance themselves from her.

However, I then came across something a little more puzzling, and not exactly unique - and from a source I can't so easily dismiss. From a NY Times bestselling author and writer of "how to write" pieces, Bob Mayer, it was hard to ignore. This quote, which was not the gist of his point (just what struck me), is from the June 12th post on his blog Write it Forward:

I use the term indie for one who self-publishes and trad for those who are published via a traditional publishing house. I’ve copyrighted them and you need to pay me any time you use them. Joking.

True, Mayer is clearly expressing his terms as he sees them for the purposes of his post, which is an otherwise considered and useful editorial. Yet, he is not the only person defining these terms this way, and I am confused.

I consider myself an "indie author," though it seems many people do not grant me this category. However, I am not really published through a "traditional" venue, either. So, what the hell am I?

First off, why do I consider myself "indie"? Well, frankly, my publishers thus far have been pretty independent - without a big corporate source of money, no advances, requiring no agents, not having a publishing "house" as such, and focusing largely on ebooks, they seem to me to be small-scale and, therefore, not the same as those commonly recognized as traditional. They are, I believe, independently owned and operated by individual publishing entrepreneurs. I don't even think they have investors beyond their owners/managing editors.

And why am I seemingly not "indie"? Because I do publish through companies not belonging to me that employ editors not controlled by me, and, especially, because I do not "self-publish." I guess. (Insert "head scratching" emoticon here.)

Now, I suspect the easy argument is that these companies could become traditional-scale in time, and that Harper-Collins might have started out as a micropress (I really couldn't tell you if it did or not, actually). Also, more obscurely, the concern might be that these publishers, be they ever so humble, might be creatures similar to the "gatekeepers" that indies dislike so strongly, and that signing with these epubs might be "compromising my artistic vision" in a way that self-pubbed writers don't have to. Finally, I reckon the royalties thing is the kicker - as long as a middle man is getting a cut, I guess (according to some) I am not truly "independent."

Well, colour me confused. I can understand the arguments and points above, but they never occurred to me naturally. I had to ponder them.

But, the point of all this is - Even if I concede that I am not "indie" (which I don't, really), I am left with a dilemma. What am I? In this recurring rhetoric of "indie" vs "traditional"... which am I? Am I an "us" or a "them"? In a greyzone, worthy of the attention of neither?

True, we shouldn't think in those terms of narrow categories, but such is what we have to work with in the seedy underbelly of starving author forums. So, where do I land?

It would just be nice to know.

Author Leanne Dyck on "Writing and Submitting"

Part II of Leanne's writing adventure...

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Knowledge gleaned from a writers’ magazine: a writer’s job is to write and submit.

Sounds simple. Until you concern: Write what? Submit where?

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In my teens I was seduced by two passions –knitting and writing.

Writing about knitting intrigued me. In 2005, I began writing knitting-related short stories, flash fiction and poems.

Rebellion

A small group of mothers gather in a kitchen to drink coffee and chat.

Cindy starts, “He stays out all night. Who knows where he goes.”

:Linda shares, “She listens to that rap music garbage. Loud. It breaks my eardrums
and I’m downstairs.”

Michelle joins in, “He is disrespectful. He calls me an ‘old cow’ and worse. His teachers all tell me he doesn’t listen, but what can I do?”

Ann adds, “First she got her ears pierced, then her nose. Now she has piercings and tattoos all over the bloody place. She even shaved her head. When I say anything she says, ‘It’s my body.’ I have no say. No say.”

Then it’s Rebecca’s turn. “My daughter knits.”

Silence.

Then the room explodes with laughter.

“Yeah, I thought the same thing. I thought ‘a mother’s joy a knitter’. I thought we would sail through the teenage years. No problem at all. Then I started noticing what she was knitting. Let’s just say no yarn manufacturer was getting rich off her.

“I told her she was sending the wrong message. I told her that guys would think she was slut, but what does Mom know?”

She is answered by a chorus of “Nothing.”

“Guess what I’m knitting? Come on guess.” She pulls a baby pink something out of her purse. “A baby blanket. Aren’t you going to congratulate me? I’m going to be a Grandma.”

To attract surfers to my knitwear designer web site –www.oknitting.com –I added a blog to my homepage. On the blog I shared news, views, tips. Occasionally, I also posted one of my stories or poems. Wow, was I surprised when I realized these pieces received the most hits.

Inspired I wrote more and soon had enough to fill an 80-minute audio book. I self-published Novelty Yarn in August 2006.

Here’s a review:

‘Novelty Yarn contains a collection of small, tasty morsels that will continue to surprise you right up until the last bite… Ranging from childhood memories about 4-H knitting and lessons from Grandma to night dreams about wild women knitting in the forest, each segment evokes a different mood. Many of the stories made me laugh out loud, while others made me pause…to meditate for a few minutes. The stories are separated by brief interludes of acoustic guitar music… The guitar intervals are just long enough to let your mind rest between the stories. The sensation is like cleansing your palette after sampling each vintage at a wine tasting. The total experience was delicious.”

-Donna Druchunas (The Knitted Rug, Artic Lace)

I did receive a negative review. The main complaint was that the stories weren’t long enough.

Interestingly, I had begun writing what promised to be a longer piece – The Sweater Curse. Emboldened I rolled up my sleeves and invested more time crafting it.

As I wrote, I read the work of other knitting-inspired authors. I found cute stories about nice knitters.

“We’re not all nice!” I screamed. Did you hear me? My main character Gwen Bjarnson did and she agreed.

All writers work at their own pace and in their own way. It was during this time that I discovered what worked for me. What I like to do is write and complete shorter pieces while I tackle something longer. That’s what I did while I wrote The Sweater Curse. Among other projects, I wrote articles for knitting magazines. I gained validation when I received my first cheque for writing one these articles.

Month after month, year after year, I returned to The Sweater Curse. Until, one fateful day, I dotted the last ‘i’ and crossed the last ‘t’.

Now what?

I contacted the editor I’d worked with on Maynely A Mystery. I was confident that she would tell me if The Sweater Curse sucked. She liked it and agreed to proof it in preparation for submission.

I’d answered the question: what to write?

Now, I needed to address: where to submit?

Unlike Maynely A Mystery that was developed for a small audience, I felt The Sweater Curse would have a wider appeal.

In my search, I left no rock unturned. I contacted literary agents and book publishers. My desire to network with other writers, led me to the Romance Angel chat group. It was here that I found the new epublisher Decadent Publishing.

I visited www.decadentpublishing.com and carefully read their submission guidelines. I spent days polishing my synopsis. I sought the help of fellow authors – they were generous with their helpful feedback.

Finally, I took a breath, crossed my fingers and hit send.

Shortly after, waiting in my inbox, was an email from Decadent Publishing.

I was apprehensive. I was certain it was another rejection. I braced myself and opened the email. I skimmed the contents looking for the familiar wording. Instead I found ‘will contract’. I re-read it. I asked my husband to read it aloud.

Acceptance, sweet, acceptance, they wanted my story.

I can’t say enough positive things about Decadent. They are a new author incubator. Wrapped in a cocoon of positive energy, I have greatly benefit from my involvement with them.

My journey as a writer has just begun. My dream is to continue to write and submit.

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Leanne Dyck's novel The Sweater Curse will be released from Decadent Publishing on January 10! Congrats, Leanne!

Author Leanne Dyck on "Publishing a Book"

Mark Twain did. Why would you? Why did I self-publish?

My reasons were two-fold: to retain control and for educational purposes.

1999 was a tremulous year for me. The death of my mom sent me into a deep depression. Seeking a place to heal, my husband and I moved to Mayne Island. It was on this magical island that I began to rebuild my life. I longed to learn more about my new home and found Marie Elliot’s writing. Her article “The Japanese of Mayne Island” seeded my imagination and I began to write Maynely A Mystery.

As I wrote, my vision for this book grew clear. I knew who my target reader was and I felt I knew how to reach them.

I grew wary of involving someone else in my plans. Would they love this book as much as I do? Would I have to compromise my vision? Fearing the worse, I felt self- publishing was the only solution.

The longer I considered this route the more benefits I saw. I’d never written or published a book. Self-publishing would educate me on all aspects of the industry from designing the cover to marketing.

In June 2009, I self-published Maynely A Mystery. My target readers did find me.

Here’s a review:

‘Rumours of gold, a secret lover, ghosts and other mysteries create a labyrinth of intrigue as Maynely A Mystery traces the lives of the story’s animated eccentric characters. Author Leanne Dyck knows her craft, her audience, and her setting. Her novel provides a voyeuristic glimpse into human character and island life.’
- Terrill Welch (Leading Raspberry Jam Visions: Women’s Way)

Maynely A Mystery is sold in bookstores on Mayne Island, Salt Spring Island, and McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

I’m thrilled at the success my cozy mystery has achieved.

Would I self-publish again?

Yes, but…

It’s expensive. It costs approximately seven dollars to print each copy.

There is, of course, a solution to print –ebooks. Ebook printers such as Smashwords take a percentage of sales.

The other problem I encountered in self-publishing was marketing. I didn’t hesitate to think outside the box. I organized a book launch/party. I contacted magazines, radio stations, ezines, and book reviewers. I visited bookstores. However, with my limited resources and sales skills I meet roadblock after roadblock.

Frustrated, I sought an alternative. Where did this search take me? Please read my next post, on Thursday...

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Ever since Leanne Dyck was old enough to hold a pen, her dream to write a book. Leanne began her career by writing short stories, flash fiction, poems, as well as articles for knitting and business magazines. Her work appeared in Island Writer--the literary journal of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. She read her work over the radio and at the Abbotsford Tradex. These early successes lead her to self-publishing. June 2009, Leanne published a cozy mystery--MAYNELY A MYSTERY. (Soon) Leanne's paranormal psychological thriller THE SWEATER CURSE will be published by Decadent Publishing.

You can learn more about her and her work at her website or blog.

Wild Horse Press, Wicked Nights and Decadent Publishing

A word about my e-pubbing and my publishers.

Much has been said about e-book companies, some good and some derisive, but I am one of those who made e-books my first choice. This was partly because I respond better to smaller businesses, and like being a part of an independent venture - I find independent companies are more willing to work with everybody attached to a project, as a general rule. Primarily, however, I chose e-books because you don't need an agent, and my first attempt at publishing was an experiment; I had a manuscript, and I just wanted to see if someone found it worth publishing. I wasn't in it to write full time right away - I just wanted to see if someone would accept that first novel. When someone did, it was fast. I got word back within a month of submission, a turnover that would be impossible in traditional brick-n-mortar publishing, where the two years in the slush pile is the norm.

Two years of waiting, while life moves on, is simply not conducive to an experiment.

So, e-publishing was for me, straight away. Would I love to move into paperbacks? Sure. I will be thrilled when my current companies move into paper (like WHP has started to do, and Wicked Nights will be doing this year), and I wouldn't say no to a chance to publish something with a big print company someday, now that I know I'd like to stick with my writing for a while. But the general practice of e-publishing, of taking quality works fairly efficiently, and letting new authors get considered for publication without the work of an agent, was best for me at first, and will remain so for a while yet.

I won't be seeking an agent until I decide to write full time, if I ever do. So, e-pubbing is for me.

I now have works out with three e-pubs. I have two other companies in mind for current works in progress, but I am sure I will work with these companies again. Right now, I have my short paranormal erotic Waking Kara and my upcoming full length, Strings Attached, with Wild Horse Press; I have Good for the Goose with Wicked Nights' erotica line, After Dark, and I plan on a further series of holiday erotica with them (in the hopes of benefiting from their move to print). I have only one short Christmas romance, Unwrapping Scrooge, with Decadent Publishing, but I would love to work with them more.

Wild Horse took the very first chance on me, and has been instrumental on me staying in writing, and doing more. I have also met some of the most important writing friends I have through my association with this company, and the more experienced writers have been wonderful at helping me figure out where I am going. WHP is open to all of my creative suggestions, and, despite how busy life is for a publisher, they have remained enthusiastic and happy to hear from me. I owe WHP a lot.

My second company, Wicked Nights, was a heaven sent chance. I had a book that needed to go out by Christmas, and was in a panic because it was growing too long for the anthology for which it had originally been planned. I turned to Stacey Thompson-Geer, one of the authors at WHP, for advice, and she welcomed me to Wicked Nights with open arms. For a small, new company, Wicked Nights is getting it together - slick, determined and fresh, Wicked Nights has a strong future, and I am pleased to get in at the ground level.

My third company, Decadent, was a long shot for me. I knew they were quite powerful and "major league" for a startup, and, unlike Wicked, I didn't know anyone working there. But, I had Christmas romance that needed a home, and WHP simply couldn't accept any more submissions for 2010, as they were packed. Sitting with this romance, I was thinking to send it to Wicked, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to have two releases at one company within weeks of each other. I found Decadent, and was considering it when a happy Decadent author on Facebook gave me a nudge of encouragement, so I sent it off. I knew this book was strong, but I admit I wasn't sure it would be accepted. Then came word - Yes! Unwrapping Scrooge would have a home at Decadent!

I have really enjoyed my time with Decadent. They have lovely covers (which is important, despite the old adage), extremely rigorous editorial quality control, and they also do a bit more promotion than a lot of e-book companies do, which is great for a new author on a budget. They also have an incredibly supportive and active author community who have embraced me as one of their own, even though I am, at the moment, a one-short author with the company.

I would gladly work with all three of these companies again, and very likely will if I can come up with more works they like. Sure, my sales have been moderate at best, which is the price one does tend to pay for e-pubbing, and, in time, I might have been more successful (if you measure that in dollars or stats) had I been miraculously discovered in the slush pile two or three years from now... But I wouldn't have been happier.

And I wouldn't have been more keyed up, that's for sure. Right now, I have a great deal of enthusiasm for my avocation, which might not have been the case if I felt my publishing lacked momentum. Right now, I can feel the rise - when I Google myself, I get more and more hits, and I feel like putting out all of these works are starting to pay off. I may never be Nora Roberts, but that's okay - she has the big times all sewn up. I'm happy producing good work with small, intimate companies.

So, wherever I head now, and whether things work out with the other companies I have in mind, or if I never hit the big times, I am putting things out there, and proud of them all. I will always remain grateful to all of the companies who see in my work something worth taking a chance on.

2010 has been good to me. I wish us all the very best in 2011!

Holiday Showcase 2010

Christmas is almost upon us, and most publishing companies are rolling out the holiday romances at the moment. I have two, myself - Good for the Goose and Un-Scrooged, and you can read more on how I feel about the sub-genre in my post at the Decadent Blog. I thought today I would give you a little look-see at some of the seasonal finery available this month!

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Over at Decadent, they seem to be having quite a Christmas party, with two pages full of holiday romances. If your wintery tastes run to moving, historical romances, Amanda McIntyre's A Christmas Promise seems right up that alley, with a touching love story involving a young widowed Irishman bringing his young son to the New World, and finding love when he least expected it. If you like historical, but with a wee bit more zest and a lot more action, PJ Schnyder delivers in Evie's Promise, a steampunk story about a feisty young woman saving her airship from an enemy submarine! (Who says Christmas is calm?) For even more action-adventure, Robert C Roman Jr has his second book of the Iron Angel Series out, Vigil, in which "A cowardly attack on Christmas Day leaves Sebastian standing alone against the might of the Ottoman Immortals."

Decadent also has some fine contemporary Christmas stories with a touch of erotica, such as Clarissa Yip's new Snowy Encounter. Also, remember, this is the season for giving, so check out Deanna Wadsworth's M/M holiday erotica, Secret Santa - Decadent's December "Read for a Cure" story. All publisher proceeds for this book during December will be donated to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life program.

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At Wild Horse, you should take a look at what authors Ashlynn Monroe, Lila Munro, BethAnn Buehler, J.L. Oiler, and Jessica Coulter Smith have been up to! All I Want for Christmas is Redemption is their new holiday anthology, which brings a bit of paranormal to the holidays.

On the border of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, sits a town deep in history - Redemption. The name itself would speculate a place for second chances. In a town bound by a curse, strange is a state of mind. Condemned for the murder of a young white witch in 1699, the descendents of the towns founders are far from "normal."

Christmas is a time of good will and love... even in a town like Redemption.

Available now!

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As always, old standbyHarlequin has a wide selection of Christmas stories coming out in its various series and imprints. From Inspirational, with such old fashioned sweetness as An Amish Christmas, by Patricia Davids, to their much-touted Medical Romance series, and Dr Zinetti's Snowkissed Bride by Sarah Morgan, or their Historical romance line, with Annie Burrow's A Countess by Christmas, they've got titles galore this season, including multiple Christmas romances in their ever-popular SuperRomance collection (my persona favourite).

At HQ's new e-book imprint, Carina Press, Christmas gets a bit more eclectic, with holiday titles in even more sub-genres, including GLBT, erotic and paranormal, along side more contemporary mainstream novels, as well.

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If your tastes run a bit more to the wicked, Wicked Nights has the thrills to combat those chills this season, with their Wicked Christmas Series of definitely-atypical holiday erotic stories, and more coming out in the next few weeks. Watch for a Wicked Nights holiday offerings run down from author/publisher Stacey Thompson-Geer later on this blog! And don't forget their Wicked contest!

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There are also promising holiday collections at Silver Publishing, Evernight Publishing, and Pink Petal Books, and many more small, large and in-between ebook and brick-and-mortar publishers. Well worth a look around! Please, feel free to comment below with your holiday recommendations, new and old.

Happy Holidays, and Happy Reading!

Announcing a New Contract!

Well, it's official, so I can now share with you that my new Christmas romance novella, Un-Scrooged, has been contracted to Decadent Publishing. I am not sure of the release date as of yet, and I don't have a cover yet, but I am excited!

Decadent is a relatively new company, but looks very promising, and have treated be very well so far - I have filled out info for my cover, etc, and have been in contact with their PR person and their blog mavin, so it seems like they will be keeping me very busy! Excellent!

Check out Decadent here!

ETA: This story was later renamed Unwrapping Scrooge.

Wicked Nights - NEW Websites!

FYI, the e-publisher of things that go MMMMM in the night Wicked Nights has moved URL, and has added a new site to house its erotica line, which will soon feature Yours Truly!

Wicked Nights has been online for almost a year. We started as a free read website and expanded to a royalty paying publisher. The free reads are still active on the website and can be found through Amazon blogs. Right now we have a small staff of editors. Lori Titus is our main editor at the moment. I also will jump in and edit when there is a need. :)

We are looking for Historical Romance as well as Contemporary Romance and Erotica in all sizes. We also are looking for ongoing serial works of 4000 words or less for our Wicked Bites line. Horror, SciFi and Young Adult are also open for submissions.

We believe readers want a fun engaging story. Whether the story has erotic elements or just a fun and adventurous side, it should keep the reader wanting more. :)

We are a pretty tight group. We have group projects from time to time and everyone seems to get along well. We like to give our authors some freedom with their work. After all, this is their book. We just help to make it happen. :)

We have a cover artist that does most of the cover work. Tara Drew-Bates takes on a lot of the covers we have. I also will do the art from time to time and authors always have the option to do their own with our approval.

So visit their main homepage at wickednights.info and their erotica site, Wicked Nights: After Dark, at afterdark.wickednights.info!

Check out their site for ways to win a free 99 cent book - sale ends tomorrow (Oct 23)!

You never know what you'll find in the night!

new upcoming release!

Good for the Goose (my short Xmas romantic erotica) is done and will be released by Wicked Nights on Nov 19, 2010!

(Watch for the trailer/cover, coming soon!)

Ashlynn Monroe on Storytelling in the Electronic Age

Instead of doing another interview, Ashlynn wrote this eloquent post on the meaning of stories.

Stories are a part of us…

I have one of the oldest professions in the world… storytelling! Geez, you thought I was going to say something else didn’t you. People have been telling stories since language began. Stories were told to warn others of danger. Stories were told to impress the communities youth with morals and values. Stories gave people a moment of pleasure in a hard and dangerous life. Sitting around the fire in the darkness words came to the listeners forming pictures and ideas, filling the audience with passion and wisdom. I often draw from ancient myths for my inspiration. There is something timeless about werewolves and vampires. Every generation gives them a shiny new coat of paint but underneath the same mythology exists.

Today we still have storytellers, only now you download their words from the comfort of your home using the magic of technology. These stories are no less than those of our ancient ancestors. They still impart ideas and evoke emotion. Stories have power and magic, no matter the time or place fiction still holds people under its spell. I find that no matter how much in my life changes my love of a good story is a constant. TV shows may find themselves canceled and movies might get dull, but a good book is still good no matter how often you read it. That’s true entertainment.

I feel drawn to ancient myths they are some of the best, most powerful stories. Our ancestors had brutal and lurid imaginations and the stories are timeless. I’m humbled to follow in the footsteps of the past and tell the stories of the future. I may never be famous, but I hope my words will live into the future. I’ve heard that there is no such thing as an original idea. I don’t agree at all. I’ve read some of the best works of fiction since buying my eReader. The internet has given a voice to hundreds of great storytellers and as a reader, I couldn’t be more grateful. Small presses have given voices to hundreds of authors who would have remained silent.

Please check out these great publishers and the talented authors they have contracted: Wild Horse Press, Cobblestone Press, Silver Publishing, Wicked Nights, and Keith Publications.

Ashlynn’s current list of available work and coming soon books:

• Hidden Magic-June 2010-Wild Horse Press-Urban Fantasy Romance
• The Mirage High series-August/September 2010 YA Paranormal-Wild Horse Press
• Dark Miracle-August 2010-Wild Horse Press-Erotic Paranormal
• Blood and Bondage-September 2010-Wild Horse Press-Erotic Paranormal
• Wild Hearts-October 5, 2010-Wild Horse Press-Paranormal Romance
• Christmas in Redemption-December 2010-Wild Horse press-Paranormal Romance
• My Soul to Keep-March, 2011-Wild Horse Press-Urban Fantasy Romance
• Kiss Me, Kill Me, Bite Me-July 2011-Wild Horse Press-Dark Paranormal Romance
• Reality Stinks-2011-Wild Horse Press-Urban Fantasy Romantic comedy
• The Mirage High Series 2010-Wild Horse Press-YA paranormal romance anthology of short stories.
• Chemical Lust-July 2010-Cobblestone Press-Science Fiction Erotic
• Passion's Escape-July 2010-Silver Publishing-Science Fiction Erotic
• Lost Heart's-July 2010-Silver Publishing-Science Fiction Erotic
• Wish-August 2010-Silver Publishing-Urban Fantasy Erotic
• Just One Night-October 30, 2010-Silver Publishing-Paranormal Romance
• Mistletoe and Vampires-December 4, 2010-Silver publishing-Paranormal Romance
• Love Factory-August 2010-Wicked Nights-Science Fiction Erotic
• In the Machine-September 24, 2010-Wicked Nights-Science Fiction Erotic
• Dark Man-Fall 2010-Wicked Nights-Paranormal Romance
• Blood Kin-Fall 2010-Keith Publications-Paranormal Romance
• The Templar Vampire Series-coming soon-Keith Publications-Paranormal Romance
• Fallen Angels-October 2010-Evernight Publishing-Steam Punk Romance
• Protector Mine-November 2010-Evernight Publishing-Paranormal Romance
• Dream Mists-Fall 2010-Willow Moon Publishing-Paranormal Romance

Wow!