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

Contest Winners Announced!

Working On: Final edits for The Wolf's Pack
& Sequel to Night and Day


Alright, announcing the two winners of my ebook contest!

Congratulations go to:

Renee

and Jennifer Labelle

Congratulations! Look forward to your ebook coming once Siren sends me my ARC's.


And lastly, the winner of the Night and Day print book contest.

Well, apparently, all this time I've been waiting on Goodreads to send me a confirmation that my giveaway for Night and Day had gone through on their site, and it seems it did and I was unawares. Three hundred and eighty-two people entered this contest, and one person won, whose name I will not give out because I don't want any privacy issues, especially since the winner didn't sign up to get their name announced, but Goodreads should have notified her, and she will be seeing her book in the mail from Amazon fairly soon.

Anywaaaaaay, because I screwed up so bad, didn't even know the contest was going on until it was over, I'm going to do it again, to give all thos people who entered a chance to win one more time. So if you're on Goodreads, check their contest spots in a couple of days because you might get another chance to win a print copy of Night and Day :)

Congrats once again to the winners! I'm out.

Two New Contests: Night and Day, and The Wolf's Pack

Accepted! Angels and Demons to Noble Romance
Working On: Sequel to Night and day
Working On: Lady Deception Edits


:)

The Wolf's Pack, sequel to Mate of the Wolf, has a tentative release
date of Sept 13, and I'm going to give away two (2) e-copies of it to the
winners.

***The not entirely official yet blurb:

Shelley Star has run away with her Alpha werewolf lover and disappeared
from the grid, but not the spotlight. The tabloids are still having a
field day with the story of her disappearance, ironically, making
Shelley even more famous now than before she left.

This makes her very presence in the pack a danger to their secrecy, and
what's worse, there are some people in the pack want her, and
Michael, banished before the vampires return for his silver pelt, and
before the police and reporters show up for Shelley.

***

To win a copy of this book, my rules will be the same as in my previous
contests. E-mail me.

Send an e-mail to a_rosko@hotmail.com with "I Want A Free E-book" in the
subject heading, and in the body of the e-mail, put which name you'd
like to go by, could be your real one could not be, for when I announce
the winners, which I will do on September 1st.

August 31 will be the last day you can enter. The winners will recieve
an advanced reading copy of my book when I get them, which should be
before the official release date.

No purchase necessary, void where prohibited, odds of winning depend on
amount of entries recieved, and since this book is not meant for anyone
under the age of 18 I am not responsible if your child enters the
contest in your name and wins, and I won't secretly add your e-mail addy
to my newsletter or sell it. Etc etc etc

So send an e-mail to a_rosko@hotmail.com with "I Want A Free Ebook" in
the subject and any name you want to use in the body so I can announce
if you've won :)


For my next contest, it hasn't been approved by Goodreads yet, but I'm going to give away one (1) print copy of Night and Day. More details to come on this as soon as Goodreads approves it. I'll attach a widget on this blog so readers can enter the contest, but it will be done through them and they will choose a winner from the list of entries.

Blurb for Night and Day:

Cedric, a sun sprite from a highly respected family, is soon to be married to his wealthy cousin to satisfy family debts. Miserable, Cedric is allowed one night of freedom before his wedding. A vampire lord is having his centennial, and vampires make outstanding lovers. It is Silus Veturious' birthday celebration, and he sees no problem with taking a human, Cedric, to his bed for some fun. One taste and he discovers that Cedric is no human, and that taste gives him the most explosive orgasm of his life.

Despite their enemy status, Silus is intrigued. He has never been with a sun sprite before, and he wants to know more about the one who braved a house filled with vampires. Neither of their families are pleased with the match, and Cedric and Silus must choose if their new and fragile relationship, built mostly on lust, is worth risking their lives. ** A Siren Erotic Romance


Good luck!

-Mandy Rosko

Problems with Series Books

Working On: New outline
And cover questionaire for Wolf's Pack


Alright, this is only because I was reading a couple of reviews for Mate of the Wolf where the writers spoke about a possible sequel, but I did write one, and Siren did accept it :) Their e-mail stated a possible release date of somewhere in September, give or take.

The thing about that was, I did leave the other story a little open, but that's just because it can be so difficult to cram everything into a 20,000 word story. The original first draft for MotW was only about 14,000 words. The draft I sent to Siren for the sequel is a little over 30,000, and with how I left that ending, the third book is looking to be even longer, with the possibility of a fourth, and because I've been messing around with side characters, there's the chance for spin offs as well.

So much for novellas, eh Elena? I tried ...

Anywaaaay ... even though I had no original intention of making a group of books out of this one story idea, I always in my mind had a couple of scenes for a possible sequel, and I always knew how it would all fit into place if I did it. Because I've had people mentioning the possibility, I just got it over with and wrote it.

But for the third book, I've got none of that, and I'll have to get new research done. Apart from also having two outlines in the works for two completely different books, I'm thinking it will be a lot longer before the third book comes out compared with how fast it was between the first and second. I'm not talking years or anything, but just longer.

All that info shoved in your face leaves me wondering: How do people who write series books all the time deal with this? I'm halfway freaking out over one or two other books, that are really just long-ish novellas, but for the bigger guys like J.R Ward, Josh Lanyon, Nora Roberts etc etc etc etc ... they must have, not only some serious commitment, but also a lot of faith in where their books will take them, because I know not everyone can do a Geroge Lucas or J.K Rowling and plan out six to seven books before bothering with penning the first.

Most writers have to struggle with not getting bored halfway through writing ONE book, never mind writing seventeen of them (You know who you are)

What's done is done at this point. Even though I haven't got a contract in for it yet, and I'm only going through the questions for the cover art, I imagine that when the contract comes, it'll probably have a clause or something in there asking for the third book in a timely manner. Even if it doesn't, for whatever reason, the ending of Wolf's Pack makes it pretty obvious there's more on the way. With or without a contract, I've made a commitment to my readers (few that there are ^^;) to write the rest in the coming series.

But for those of you who hate series' that are ten books+ long, this won't be that long. At this point I'm thinking *maybe* four if things can't get wrapped up in the next book, which they likely won't. Five books max.