New Book Series :D

So I finally got off my ass and sent off for some cover questionnaires to be filled out, and yesterday I got in two sweet new covers for my Things in the Night Series. I tried making the first cover on my own before realizing how bad I suck at design, and that was about when I decided to pay a professional. I'll show you the differences below:

Lol, I love how bad and tacky it looks. At one point I did manage to get the title looking better with just white colored text and a bit of a shadow and bigger letters, but I can't find that image so this is the one you get. I made the guy's skin so pale >.<
















Here is the next cover done by someone who knows what they're doing:

Isn't that insane? I love it. This is the cover that's on Amazon right now, but I'm pretty sure that if you're a Barne's and Noble, or a Sony shopper, then they still have the old cover. I just have to wait for their computers to update.















Here's the third cover for the second in the series! I'm just waiting for it to come back from the editor:

 I love these covers so much..... @_@


So.... Lesson learned for me. Pay your cover artist next time, because there's no way I can make covers as nice as these. Book three is also finished and has been forever, but I have yet to commission a cover or send it to the editor, and a novella for the series is half done too.

I'll post those covers when I get them : >

Just One Touch Free on Amazon!

Alright, so finally I can get started with promoting these books, starting with the novella, Just One Touch.

It will be given as a free giveaway on Sat May 5th and ending on Mon May 7th :D

To do this I had to unpublish the novella from Smashwords and put it up on Amazon's KDP Select program. There were nearly a thousand free copies given away on Smashwords, so I'm pretty happy with that, plus the book will stay in the libraries of the people who bought and faved them, but now I'm hoping to get a bigger audience with this giveaway on Amazon.

According to the rules, I'm allowed five days per every 90 to give this book away for free, which leave me with two days left after the promos is done, so don't be down if for some reason you miss out, because I'll try and do this again later on.

Maybe on Mother's day?

Cheers

http://www.amazon.com/Sizzling-Erotic-Romance-Novella-ebook/dp/B007TRSHCA/ref=sr_1_9?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1336140759&sr=1-9

Just One Touch is Available Now!

Working On: All Hell Breaking Loose (50% completed)

Available Now!: Just One Touch  


   Okay, I've been putting off posting this because, for now, I want these two books to be free. They are available for free on Smashwords, and you can find the both of them here: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Mandyrosko

   The problem is, at the moment, I'm still waiting on Barnes and Noble to put The Princess' Dragon Lord on their website for free as well, because it was the first of the two to pass into the premium catalogue. Until they get it on there, I can't even attempt to price match it.

   I haven't even updated my website to show that they're both available right now because I don't want too many people going to Amazon looking for them. But, I am getting a little antsy to make the official announcement, so here it is! I love the cover of the new novella, it's so sexy and awesome, but blogger is giving me some trouble with uploading it, so I'll edit this post later, until then, it's up on Smashwords for you to see :) Someone even gave it a nice review!

For the hardcore Amazon fans, both books will be ready for your kindles soon.  

Cheers

Free Ebook!

Available Now! The Princess' Dragon Lord

Working on: Just One Touch

Next Project: All Hell Breaking Loose book #3 in the Night and Day series

The Princess' Dragon Lord has been completed, critiqued, worked over one last time, and is now for sale on Amazon and Smashwords! My cover is gorgeous, I love it so much :D

To celebrate its release, I'm issuing a coupon so that anyone who wants a copy can get their hands on it for free at Smashwords until March 18! For those of you with kindles, Smashwords does offer Mobi format.

Just follow the link here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/137706

If it doesn't work, simply copy and paste the link into your search browser :) Then type in this coupon code. It's not case sensitive: HX54W

Voila! Free e-book for your enjoyment!

If anyone was thinking of buying a copy, I recommend doing that at Smashwords because, at the moment, it's cheaper ;)

Cheers

-Riz

Congrats to Contest Winner!

Working On: Nearly finished The Princess' Dragon Lord, will send it off to editor soon :)
Out Now: The Calm Before The Storm

Alright, congratulations go out to contest entrant Sylwia M! :D

Little embarrassing to admit that she was my only entry, and since I was offering two prizes (but it would be rediculous to give two copies of the same book) she is also recieving a free copy of Angels & Demons.

Congrats Sylwia and thanks for entering!

-Mandy

The Calm Before The Storm

Working On: Just One Touch

Coming Soon: The Calm Before The Storm

The Calm Before The Storm, the sequel to Night and Day, is now available for pre-order from Bookstrand! :D Super excited about that, and I can't wait for the actual release day. Not to mention that I lurv my cover <3

Check out the Blurb: One year after the battle between the sun sprites and vampires, Ben Volio finds a vampire on the brink of death alongside the road. With no other help available to him, and no knowledge of vampire medicine, Ben takes him to the home of his friends, where he hopes they can heal the severely injured stranger.

However, this is no ordinary vampire. Seth Sampson was a former guard employed by the vampire Lord Veturious, and ever since his betrayal of the family, he has been held captive and tortured as punishment, and now he's being hunted down until he's returned to his prison.

His very presence endangers Ben's friends, who are also in hiding from the vampires and sun sprites. Should Ben trust that Seth will not give away their secret as a trade-off? Or will becoming close to him prove to be the worst mistake of both their lives?

The book is on sale for 15% off until Jan 19th, but just to make it extra special, I'm also offering up a contest.

I'm giving away two (2) free copies of this book to two people. The rules are fairly simple and the same as my other contests.

E-mail me. Send me an e-mail at a_rosko@hotmail .com with the words I Want A Free E-book in the subject heading of the e-mail. In the body, write down the name you would like to be announced as on this blog if you are a winner, and the e-mail address you want your prize sent to.

The winners will be chosen at random from whatever entries I get, and I will be closing the contest on Wed Jan 11 11:59 Eastern time, and then announce my winners the next day.

That's it. Simple, right?

Void where Prohibited, no purchase necessary, I am not responsible for your tweens entering and miraculously winning, etc, etc.

This book was written for the readers who read and enjoyed Night and Day, and who asked me about a story for Ben. I guess because he got the short end of the stick in the previous book, but if you want to know about that one, you'll have to read it.

Happy reading :)

-Rosko

Angels and Demons Released!

Working on: The Princess's Dragon Lord,
more edits for The Calm Before the Storm


I halfway didn't think the book would get released on time as the days began ticking away and my edits were still not in my inbox, but then suddenly they came on Nov 1st, with instructions that for the book to make the release date, they had to be back in my editor's inbox by the 5th, no later than noon.

Luckily, my editor kept on assuring me that if I needed more time, the release date could be pushed back, but that the manuscript itself was in pretty good shape and that not much needed to be changed anyway.

I still did them, got them in a little early, and was even pretty excited about getting my first to the wire deadline. I'd always heard about some writers whose release dates are coming up and they need to get their edits in within the week, or even in one case, a couple of hours, so I didn't have none of that panic. I'm not sure whether or not that takes away from the experience, though.

I'm aware that it's kind of crazy to be stoked about getting edits so close to the deadline. I think I was just more happy about having the writer experience of it, the thing that I'd read others dealing with in magazine articles and online. I think it makes me feel a little more like a writer :)

Either way, I think I'll super feel like a writer if that ever happens again and I discover that I need to work on the book edits a shit load more or else I'll pass out because I think it looks awful and it's about to go live in two hours.

Lucky me my editor was really nice and she did a good job, there were only a couple things I bothered with changing or deleting, and the rest was just spotting spelling errors I'd missed.

Well, the book is out now and it looks gorgeous!

LINK LINK LINK <--click on the links to get to the book!

Can you tell I'm excited?

I adore my cover. There's so much of it that's relevant to the story, like the chain that the dark haired hero is wearing, and if you look really closely at the PDF image and zoom in, you can see little skeletons and skulls floating around the heroes. A nice touch that's still relevant to the story itself, and cool Easter egg, although I don't think you'll be able to see them on the image I posted. :S Sorry