Here's Your August Updates

Aug 17, 2020 8:11 pm

On The Double Dare Front

Happening Now - Promos!

Can’t Miss Reads

Stuff I Love - Destress

Hey There Insider,

OK, Insiders, things are getting desperate here. I have run out of TV shows to binge. I am down to the Aurora Teagarden mysteries on Hallmark, mostly cause who doesn’t lust after Niall Matter?

But what to watch next? Please email me your suggestions. Something light, fun, entertaining and less than thirty episodes please!

To Blog or Not to Blog

Meanwhile, it crossed my mind lately that I spend a lot of time learning about, and drooling over, the lives of millionaires and billionaires. I thought “why not blog about it?” and wondered if you might find it interesting to read about yachts, butlers, exotic vacations and outrageous real estate. Let me know what you think about a monthly Billionaire Bites Blog. If I get enough interest, I’ll start one up.

Books? Blog? Both?

Avery and I have become great friends this month, as I complete the first draft of this story of second chance love meets first love. When a couple of animal lovers set out to save the same cat, love is in the air. When the cat, and her habitat, are threatened, Avery and Patrick’s romance is at risk.

As in the entire Double Dare Romance series, enter the Crazy Eights to the save the day. This group of lifelong friends handle fashion emergencies, offer dating advice, provide a shoulder to cry on, and meddle – they are guaranteed to meddle – with the best of intentions.

Watch this space next month for more on Dare to Risk, along with your invitation to join the Advanced Reader team.

Free and Discounted Romances Running through August 31, and a contest

Select up to 24 romances and enter a contest to win a gift card good for more! Check out this Book Cave promotion, Forever Yours Free Contemporary Romance

New Adult & Contemporary Romance Kindle Unlimited August Reads for you Kindle Unlimited members, grab these books now.

August Hot and Steamy Reads with almost 150 books to choose from, including my steamy novella, Studmuffin.

Unlimited Romance Reads - August – almost 200 books to choose from including Desire & Dessert, the first book in my B&B Billionaire Romance series, which I rarely offer for free.

Summer is for Lovers – if you have not taken advantage of this promotion yet, this is your last chance before it ends August 30^th

Half Truths: An Opposites Attract Romance by Rachael Brownell

All-American boy meets broken girl… at rehab? It will never work. How could it? Alex is Chicago royalty. Harley considers herself Las Vegas trash. While he’s been handed everything his entire life, she scrapes to make ends meet. Still, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both long to break free from the stereotypes of their upbringing and embrace each moment together. Yet, neither are ready to share all of who they are. Their secrets. Their fears. Their bitter realities. Does their budding relationship stand a chance under a blanket of secrecy? Or will owning their truth set them free?

The Billionaire's Widow by Mayumi Cruz

A beautiful widow, a ruthless billionaire, an unsolved murder, and the Italian Mafia converge in this modern retelling of two beloved fairy tales with a touch of Hamlet. A story of love, revenge, and atonement laced with lies, deception, and unexpected twists. When a new widow becomes the object of a billionaire's revenge, her ugly past catches up with her, unleashing a hornet's nest of secrets and conspiracies involving the Mafia. As she is drawn deeper into the web of murder and deceit, things get complicated when she falls for her avenger, and he for her. But when the truth long denied to him is found to be directly linked to her, will love win over hate? Or will revenge take precedence over everything and everyone else?

Cabin of Seduction: A Mountain Man Romance (Wild Alpha Book 1) by Ella Cooper

I fought and lost, strove and won, in the game called love.

Logan

She is everything that I am not, yet I somehow find myself unable to stay away from her. She digs up the remains of a one buried heart and makes it new. If this is love, then I am keeping it.

Skyler

He is insufferable, yet sets my blood on fire with just a glance. He shows me a side of myself that I didn't know existed. It's no longer a question of need, it is now a game of hearts.

The Amulet by Effrosyni Moschoudi

When Katie loses her office job in Athens, a gypsy woman hands her an amulet for good luck. Next, she gets hired as hotel receptionist on the Greek island of Sifnos and everything seems perfect, except for the overbearing hotel owner, Mrs. Matina. One of the guests, heart-stoppingly handsome Aggelos, keeps saving the day whenever Katie needs help. As she falls in love, she grows all the more intrigued by him and his quirky friends, including a little girl who keeps turning up on her own. Add a psychic, half-mad elderly woman into the mix and you're in for a few laughs. Things are not what they seem in this small, family hotel and get even more complicated when the gypsy woman shows up again. Will Katie ever work out that Aggelos is a guardian angel that came with the amulet? And if she does, will she be able to keep him? It may take a miracle. But on an island as magical as Sifnos, anything is possible!

Declutter, Destress

I attended an AARP sponsored webinar this week on decluttering. Three takeaways - clutter stresses, decluttered is really hard, electronic clutter is a huge problem. The experts recommended only tackling the problem 10 minutes a day and staying in one place until your finish it.

For electronic clutter - for email overload, I suggest Sanebox, with its system to send you only important emails (as determined by you) and saving the rest in designated folders that you can zoom through at your convenience. It saves me hours per week for pennies per day, allows me to set reminders, 'blackhole' things I just don't want to see, and so much more. See if it is right for you here.

For Authors: People I love: Nick Stephenson

When I started as a new author I made numerous, expensive and demoralizing mistakes. Then I discovered Nick Stephenson and his "First 10K Readers" course, an almost overwhelming amount of information that made it feel like Nick was my own personal coach.

Now Nick has a brand-new live workshop running on the 20th August - all about how to go from $0 to $1k per month from book sales - in 90 minutes overflowing with actions you can take immediately to see instant results.

Here's what he'll cover in the workshop:

The math behind $1k a month & how many books you actually need to sell (hint: it's fewer than you think)
The three-step formula to build a sustainable author career - traffic, conversions, and scaling up (I'll take you through it all)
How to drive endless traffic to your books and websites, without needing a huge ads budget (some of these strategies are 100% free)
How to convert traffic into sales & email subscribers - and what to do with your list once you've grown it
How to automate your marketing systems, so you can spend more time doing fun stuff
The secret to scaling up profitably - bringing everything together into a solid growth plan for 2020
And... the launch plan behind my successful USA Today Bestseller campaign - bringing everything together.

If you want to reach more readers and sell more books, I'll see you there! Register if you need the replay too!

Stay safe, and happy reading,