Tuesday, May 07, 2013

May Sales

 Moving Lesson 101: don't pack your brain with your office supplies.

I'm spending so much time trying to organize what to pack and when that my creative brain has gone walk-about. Will you mind horribly if I just scatter random thoughts instead of coming up with a cohesive rant for a while?

I've turned Nick's book, Notorious Atherton, over to a proof reader. I'm toying with a new historical romance series. But mostly, I'm packing boxes and saying good-bye to friends and my garden.

I don't even have time for a good e-book sales campaign. So here's a few of the books on sale this month:

Tin Stars and Troublemakers boxed set: Amazon and B&N

Blue Clouds  contemporary romance $2.99

Dixie Rebel contemporary romance $.99

Texas Lily historical romance $2.99 (included in the box set above)

I'll try to do better once we settle in sunny California, but that beach will be tempting!

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Blue Clouds Sale

I'm California dreaming, so putting my California beast on sale makes sense in my warped mind. So for the month of May (and right now), Blue Clouds will be on sale for $2.99. Here's the link to the Backlist Ebooks site with all the buttons: http://www.backlistebooks.com/2012/06/blue-clouds/

He's not really a beast once you get to know him . And since this is the spring that will never arrive, I need to think of warmth and sun while I pack all my worldly possessions for another cross-country move.

If I don't pop in here often, I apologize. But I'm juggling a ridiculous number of minor things like finding author copies of books-- that I've already packed-- for an Audible contract. And trying to determine whether to give Pocket my change of address for the next box of author copies because I don't know when I'll actually be in the new house. The business of deciding whether to take cartons of envelopes and labels and paper, or pack more books remains undecided!

Tell me what book you want to see on sale next month, when I'll really be buried and unable to come up for air...

Sunday, April 07, 2013

Carolina Magnolia Series

My Carolina Magnolia series, the reissued McCloud books, will be hitting Bookbub this next week, but B&N refuses to connect the new books with the reviews on the old ones. If you liked Impossible Dreams, Almost Perfect, McCloud's Woman, or Carolina Girl, will you take a look at their new incarnation and maybe give them a thumb's up? I'd be appreciative! http://tinyurl.com/czexer2 or http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/carolina-magnolia-series-patricia-rice?store=ebook&keyword=carolina+magnolia+series+patricia+rice

I'm still packing books in preparation for the next--and we can hope final--move! Choosing which ones to take is breaking my heart. So I'm glad the weather has turned warmer so I can sit outside and write a few new ones!

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Denim and Lace sale!

Because I seem to be suffering ADD while juggling two author personalities, writing two books, and revising three more while managing the myriad logistics of moving, I haven't paid much attention to my backlist lately.

To make up for it, I've marked my humorous western historical Rita finalist, Denim and Lace, down to $2.99 in most major venues. If you don't own this one, here's your opportunity!

I'm trying to find ways of providing links to all my books so you're always one click away, but the task is beyond my abilities for now.

All my Amazon books, including print ones, can be found in my Amazon store: http://astore.amazon.com/patrrice-20

Links to all the various retailers where I've listed my e-books can be found on the e-Book page here, on my website, and at backlist ebooks.  When the marketing elf visits me, I'll have her magically come up with a button for everything, but that's not today!

Do you know of author websites where it's easy to purchase with one click? I'll try studying their organization in wild hope that someday I might achieve that goal!

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Carolina Magnolia series

For those of you who may have noticed, I'm trying to get organized (don't laugh too hard) and put series books in order with covers that relate. This also means changing titles so they're recognizable as a series. The four contemporary romances I variously called the Carolina series or the McCloud Brothers have now become the Carolina Magnolias. To the left there is my schoolteacher with the purple-streaked hair in the book formerly called Impossible Dreams and now re-titled Dixie Rebel.

To the right is her sister, the ex-con who now owns a hardware store on an island off the Carolina coast. Formerly called Almost Perfect, I tried to keep close to the original title because it was so fitting, so she's now Imperfect Rebel.

If I can make this formatting work, below should be the new cover of McCloud's Woman, a title I always despised. This is the Hollywood producer who has worked darned hard to get where she is, and she's not anyone's woman except her own. But she does have a rebellious streak a mile wide, as do all these ladies--hence the Rebel titles. She now goes under Rebel Charm.
And last, but certainly not least, is Carolina Rebel, previously titled Carolina Girl (another hated title), starring my rebellious unemployed banker who is currently living in a trailer park with her accident-prone sister. Aurora is not a small woman, nor is she one to take guff from anybody. She does, unfortunately, have an ability to open her mouth a little too often. Until she wins a million dollars....  

There they are, four great ladies with covers that reflect their best and worst best traits! What do you think?

Friday, February 15, 2013

Historical Romance Mini Rant

I write love stories. I want to read love stories. I adore books showing me two wonderfully different characters somehow finding each other, getting to know each other, and falling in love. Yes, lust and love go hand-in-hand, and I'm totally fine with that, too. But in historical romance, I don't want the characters shoving their hands down each other shirts before the first bow and  curtsy are made. In erotica, fine, but I want the romance more than I want the sex, so I don't read erotica.

So I'm sitting here with the ideas for two totally different books. The one is pretty much implausible but extremely sexy, with the protagonists in bed together in the opening pages. The other is the one I want to write, about a very proper governess and a blustery sailor and a passel of exotic children. I'm pretty certain I can sell the sexy one to New York. I'm pretty certain I'll have to publish the governess myself. I may have to prove my theory by writing both proposals.

And then it occurred to me that I wrote about a sailor and a prim lady and a couple of children once before, and it sold extremely well--All A Woman Wants.

So maybe I just need to come up with a good title and I can do it again.

How about you? Do you read for the love story or the sex? Or both?

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Launching Trouble With Air and Magic

Just a quick note to announce that today is the official launch date for my latest contemporary Malcolm/Ives/Oswin romance. Here's the page on Book View Cafe , the author co-op that produced it. (The cover is by Kim Killion) And if you want your copy in print, I'm on top of it! Here it is at Createspace.

And if you prefer to buy ebooks from your favorite retailer, here are links to most of them on my Backlist Book Page

This is Conan Oswin, the mysterious surfer dude/computer geek from The Lure of Song and Magic, who ends up helping a feng shui expert whose house is falling into the Pacific, among other disasters.

And of course I have an excerpt for that!