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Once Upon a Regency: Timeless Tales & Fables!

Once upon a time nine historical romance authors created a fairy tale inspired Regency world…

We hope you’ll join us on a Regency adventure of love and romance in our limited edition box set Once Upon A Regency: Timeless Tales And Fables! Read on to learn more about the authors involved, more about my individual story, and for your chance to win all kinds of prizes. We’d love for you to join us for the virtual launch party we’re throwing. Consider this your personal invite!

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First, let’s reveal the cover. I hope you find it as magical as I do. Introducing Once Upon A Regency: Timeless Tales And Fables!

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Our fabulous lineup:

  • Resisting Romeo by Samantha Grace
  • Enchanted By The Earl by Amanda Mariel
  • Wish Upon A Kiss by Meara Platt
  • A Duke Worth His Salt by Allison Merritt
  • Masquerading as a Miss by Ari Thatcher
  • Searching for my Rogue by Dawn Brower
  • The Enchanted Cave by Sue London
  • Taming Beauty by Lynne Barron
  • Stealing a Lady’s Heart by Tammy Andresen

I want to tell you a little bit about my story. The Enchanted Cave is a retelling of a story from the Fenian Cycle, an Irish heroic epic. To ‘modernize’ it to the Regency Era I replaced the dark fairies with bareknuckle boxers, making one of them our heroine!

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With his four friends under the spell of the Irish ’sisters’ at The Enchanted Cave, it falls to Galen Mornay to save the poor idiots. Although ostensibly lady boxers, he knows the sisters have a more prurient background. Galen dangles the opportunity to become his mistress and the sisters predictably turn their attentions to him. All except the beautiful Maeve O’Malley, who insists she will be no man’s play thing. Can Galen save his friend Finn before the fool offers to marry her? Or will Maeve prove to be too much for Galen himself?

The good news is that this entire boxed set is on pre-order right now! Yep, that’s right. You can pre-order TODAY and for only .99 cents. In fact, if you pre-order TODAY we’ve got a ton of bonuses for you.

If you pre-order today then… http://www.pagecurl.net/giveaways/once-upon-a-regency-preorder-giveaway/

So I hope you won’t delay. Grab your copy right here: hyperurl.co/nvsklc

Don’t forget to join the party! I’ll see you there and see you soon.

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Authors for Cats

A Common ChristmasHave you seen the fundraiser www.AuthorsForCats.com? I’m donating the royalties from this month’s sales of A Common Christmas to one of my local shelters, Caring for Creatures. There’s only about 24 hours left and I will MATCH all the sales. That means you spend 99-cents and cats get 68-cents out of it! (The rest goes to the retailer.)

Buy Links: Kindle || Nook

Want prizes for donating to YOUR local shelter? You could win a bag of books or the fun of naming a cat in one of our books! Ava made it easy for you to find a shelter to donate to online. Make a donation to your local shelter (and if you don’t know how to find your local shelter, just click HERE to locate local no-kill shelters and HERE to locate local Humane Societies). Then forward a copy of your donation receipt to Donations@AuthorsForCats.com along with your name for the drawing! Easy peasy.

Thanks for helping us help cats!

Sue's cat Solitaire often inspired artwork
Sue’s cat Solitaire often inspired artwork
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Taming Chiron Cover Reveal

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The debut will be a little later than hoped, but this cover is ab fab.

“They shared friendship and tragedy, but could there be love?”

An unlikely couple is paired at a summer house party. Their budding friendship is cut short by a horrid accident. Will they be able to find love through tragedy?

Charlie Bittlesworth was invited to a summer idle, and hopes to use the time to sell some of his premium livestock. He thinks it a small matter to pay some kind attention to the cousin of his hostess.

Charlotte Ayres has been cloistered in her father’s academic circles at Cambridge all of her life. She feels out of her element at her cousin’s estate, but has never met a man quite like the one she is paired her with for her stay.

Early access will be given to Patron members, with Kindle, et al publication to follow.

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Be a Patron (Better Than Pre-Orders)

Back in the day (two years ago), I did my pre-orders through Paypal. It amazed me that people tracked me down to pre-order the books. Then there was the opportunity to do them via Amazon and I was amazed at how many pre-orders we could get. I’m deeply grateful that you guys have been so enthusiastic about the Haberdashers books and my writing in general. You have no idea.

After a lot of thinking, I’ve decided that rather than promoting pre-orders I would like to encourage readers to subscribe via my Patreon account. At the $1/month level of ePatron you get an electronic copy of everything I publish during your subscription – and a bit earlier than it will be available at retailers. If you stay for a year I’ll make sure you have my entire backlist, too. At the level of Paper Patron ($5/month) you get both electronic and paper copies. Check out my Patreon to see the other fun stuff available.

If you do the math, a one year subscription to PaperPatron is a cost of $60, but you will get at least $90 (retail price) of books. Autographed! That’s a pretty good deal. For an ePatron, the $12/year comes with a backlist worth $18 and at least another $12 in ebooks the first year, even at the introductory sale prices.

Hope to see you on my Patron list! www.patreon.com/cmdrsue

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Taming Chiron – Coming this Summer

An unlikely couple is paired at a summer house party. Their budding friendship is cut short by a horrid accident. Will they be able to find love through tragedy?

Charlie Bittlesworth was invited to a summer idle, and hopes to use the time to sell some of his premium livestock. He thinks it a small matter to pay some kind attention to the cousin of his hostess.

Charlotte Ayres has been cloistered in her father’s academic circles at Cambridge all of her life. She feels out of her element at her cousin’s estate, but has never met a man quite like the one she is paired her with for her stay.

Pre-purchase Taming Chiron from the author via PayPal, or sign up as an ebook ($1/month) or paperback ($5/month) level Patron to receive early releases. Expected release August 2015. Facebook party planned August 25th.

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Praise for Saving Persephone

The early reviews are in, and for reviewers on Goodreads (that have read Saving Persephone) it is averaging a 4.6 out of 5! Congratulations to Robert and Imogen. For Rafflecopter participants, comment on how you feel about dark heroes and unconventional heroines.

“Lovely, complicated plot with plenty of twists and turns including the reappearance of a very evil man, one of The Four we were introduced to in Athena’s Ordeal.”

“Another great edition to this series and as always, I loved seeing characters from the previous books.”

“I loved Robert – he is a very complex man who likes to have total control. Watching him fall in love, was the best part of this book.”

“I thought this would be a hard book to read because Robert has been a rather dark presence in the other books – his sister is afraid of him, he set plans in place that almost kills Quince, he sets George up as a spy… Plenty of negative material, right? But I loved him. He had depths that none of Sue London’s prior characters have shown. And I love to see him struggle with being human.”

“I have always had a special fascination with characters who exhibit a dark side, especially when these characters’ dark traits form in light of familial strife combined with positive traits like intelligence, protectiveness, and ambition. In other words, I have been looking forward to Robert’s story since we first met him in the series. After reading Saving Persephone, I can say that Robert did not disappoint me.”

Want to participate in the Rafflecopter? Check out: Saving Persephone Rafflecopter Giveaway!

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Romance Authors Do It All Night

Facebook party, that is.

Hope you caught the Wish You Were Here Party! on Facebook for those of us who couldn’t make it to the RT Booklovers Convention in Dallas this year! I made a ton of new friends and gave away a ton of stuff! One of my new friends is author Christina McKnight. She ChristinaDiscoversHaberdashersposted this hilarious pic that I had to share. Obviously this is a great way to discover the Haberdashers! (At least, Gideon would say so.)

Speaking of Facebook parties, don’t forget that there’s one for Saving Persephone on release day, Sunday May 31st! You can find it at the link: Saving Persephone Book Release Party! There will be special prizes for each level of attendance we unlock. So the more people who come, the more awesome things there will be to win! So far we’ve unlocked a $100 Amazon Gift Card and are well on the way to unlocking an autographed paperback collection of the Haberdashers at 200 attendees. *pets the books* Yes, my lovelies, you will have new friends soon. Make suggestions for what you want to win at 300 and 400, but I’ve already committed to having you (maybe you? one of you) join me at an event in 2016 if we get to 500 attendees! Of course, at 500 attendees my head will spin and I will fall over.

Hope you’re having a lusty month of May, that lovely month when ev’ryone goes blissfully astray! And don’t forget that you can pre-order SAVING PERSEPHONE on Kindle. At $2.99 in pre-order that’s $1 off or a 25% discount from the regular price.

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Saving Persephone

BookReleaseInviteDid you hear the news? SAVING PERSEPHONE WILL HIT THE STREETS MAY 31, 2015! Thanks to everyone for your patience as I’ve worked on this book. It has been a hard one to write and life, alas, kept getting in the way.

I will be available for some blog touring and will kick it off on Friday, May 29th at Buried Under Romance. There will be a giveaway and everything! If you would like for me to visit your blog – which can be an interview, excerpt, giveaway, whatever – just drop a comment here or an email to suetours@graythorn.com. Somewhere in all that I will be giving away 25 limited edition book announcements (pic at left).

Thanks again everybody!! Now I just have to hope that you love Robert and Imogen as much as I do. Check out the excerpt below.

When Imogen finally did receive correspondence from a Bittlesworth, it wasn’t from the one she wanted. This one now went by Telford.

“What is it?” Violetta asked, on pins and needles. As far as her cousin was concerned, Imogen was being ignored by the duchess that only weeks ago had been treating her with favor. Little did Vi know, but the first and only time Imogen had spoken to the girl they had been ghastly rude to one another.

Imogen pasted a false smile on her face to report what the short note said. “She wants to take a carriage ride and reminisce over our time together at Belle Fleur.”

“Splendid!” Violetta enthused.

But was this note actually from the duchess, or did Robert hope to steal her away for an afternoon? Neither idea filled her with delight, but both made her curious. Regardless, she would be gone in another week. She penned her acceptance.