Destiny's Choices....

About a week ago, I discovered Squidoo, okay I admit I'd heard of it before, but I didn't realize what a great tool it can be to help get the word out until recently. The other day I spent several hours putting together exerpts, and reviews, videos etc. to put on a Squidoo lens about my Native American Romantic supsense Destiny's Choices. Without the wonderful e-book that new Squidoo members get, called of all things, "The Joy of Squidoo" (okay I have to laugh because we all know what title that reminds us of!) This book suggested that authors make lenses for their books, and I have to say I'm really glad I did so. So, for other authors who may read this post, I definitely recommend doing this for your books!

Read my Destiny's Choices Squidoo Lens!

New Stories at Free Romance Fiction....

As most of you who follow the blog here know, I've been helping to put up a new website called Free Romance Fiction. I'm excited to say we've received our first two offerings from well known, and best selling authors Linda Sole, and jj Keller. Both stories are fabulous and well worth reading! Linda has submitted a historical romance story called Yo, Ho, Ho, and a Bottle of Rum, and jj has submitted a story called A Haunting Song.

I think we are on our way to seeing a site that has some really spectacular romance reads by well known authors. Oh, and the site is not riddled with google ads either which I think is a plus. In addition the stories are in PDF format making them easy to access and read.

Check back often to the blog here as I will continue posting when we have new stories up on the website.

Enjoy these two new offerings! :-)

9/11...

I thought it was appropriate to take a minute and write about 9/11 and where I was when that awful event happened. I will never forget the morning of September 11, 2001as long as I live. At the time I was unemployed and living in Portland, OR. My husband was working on a survey project in Washington and was gone during the week, and home on weekends. It was about 8:30 am when my phone rang and woke me up. It was my husband telling me to turn on the news because someone had flown a plane into the one of the twin towers in NY. I was still groggy and it didn't really register until I flipped the television on. Every single channel had horrific pictures of a plane crashing into that building and exploding. I don't think my mind could really comprehend what had happened for a moment, but then my husband's voice registered in my ear and we both expressed our disbelief. Not disbelief that it had happened, most all of us here in the states had known for years that sooner or later there was going to be a terrorist attack on US soil, but just disbelief in the form of denial. No one wants to believe their home isn't safe anymore, but that's what Americans learned that day, that we truly are no longer safe. And the reality is it could happen again, and probably will happen again at sometime in the future. While I personally pray that it doesn't, there are just too many fantatics in this world for it not to be a reality.

Anyway, just thought it was important to take a moment and remember all the people that died that day and in the days afterward. Here's to hoping and praying we don't see another 9/11 again.

Got our second submission for Free Romance Fiction...

As you can tell I get pretty excited when we get a new submission for Free Romance Fiction, but this is one of my babies, and like most mothers, I want my baby to succeed! Free fiction is becoming one of the key ways to market your romance novels these days, and while there is a lot of free romance fiction out there, I found almost one hundred places myself just surfing around the internet as part of some research I did for an article on this topic a while back.

While free romance fiction abounds, not all of it is quality romance fiction, and that is one of the reasons we decided to only accept submissions from already published romance authors. This is not to knock those who are aspiring romance novelists, but simply to also take care of our other goal which is to help romance authors get the word out about their books. With luck by the time aspiring romance authors have their first book published, they will have heard about us and want to submit something. That is our hope at least.

Well, here's to hoping we have a few more submissions by tomorrow!

More done on Destiny's Decisions...

I'm pleased to say I got more written on Destiny's Decisions this last weekend. This is the sequel to Destiny's Choices and at the rate I'm going it's going to be ready for submission soon.

Destiny's Decisions picks up a year after Tiana and James get back together, and they are planning their wedding. Between James' mother who is something of a fashion diva and determined to get Tiana into a fluffy white wedding dress if it kills her, and someone breaking into and trashing Tiana's art gallery, things start off with a bang in this book. I'm having fun with crafting this one as I'm able to build more on Tiana and James' relationship, and of course being able to bring some of James' family into the book where they were only hinted at in the first one is fun as well. Hopefully, everyone who read Destiny's Choices will enjoy reading Destiny's Decisions just as much!

Yippeee, we got our first e-mail about Free Romance Fiction...

Okay, granted I get a little excited, but I really want this new venture to take off. Since our main thing is to help published romance writers get the word out about their books, as well as provide our readers with some free romance fiction by their favorite authors, getting that first e-mail is way cool!

I had to re-post the ad on Craig's List because for some reason it was removed the first time, I read all through the rules and couldn't find the one I broke when posting. I went ahead though and edited it and hopefully this time there won't be any problems. The reason I mention Craig's List is because that's where we got a bite from our first published romance author. Since I use Craig's List to find these kind of gigs myself, I figured other romance writers were trolling there as well. LOL

I can't wait for the next submission!

If you missed the first post about Free Romance Fiction, you can check out our website and submission guidelines at Free Romance Fiction

Call For Submissions...

We are accepting submissions for a new website called Free Romance Fiction. If you are a published romance author then this could be a very nice opportunity for you. We do not discriminate and your story can be from any sub-genre in the romance genre such as erotic, GLBT, Contemporary etc. Our motto is “Where Readers Find Free Romance Fiction by Their Favorite Authors.”

There are guidelines that must be followed and can be viewed on the Submissions page of our website, but the main ones are that you must be a published romance author, your submission must be at least five pages long, and your story cannot be published anywhere else. We believe the saying that “content is king,” and in order to follow this, and to be able to search engine optimize the site, it is necessary that all our content be original. Even though we are requesting that your story not be published anywhere else, you retain full copyright of your story at all times.

As payment for submitting to Free Romance Fiction, those who submit a story by midnight September 30, 2008 will receive one month of free premium advertising on our front page for the cover of their latest release. If you were published in an online newsletter or magazine and or don’t have a current romance book released at the moment, we will hold your free month until you do. We will also provide you with a cover, there are about 40 to choose from, or you can provide your own if you like. You will also receive a banner that you can put on your website or use in your e-mail signature to link to the page containing your story.

Our goals are two-fold, we want to help romance authors get the word out about their books, and we want to provide readers with some free fiction from their favorite romance authors.

For more information on how to submit, please visit the submissions page on our website at Free Romance Fiction or e-mail us at submissionsfreeromancefiction@yahoo.com