I can hardly believe that a year ago tomorrow I had my release day for Kismet’s Kiss. It’s been an amazing ride.

Yesterday I was giddy—giddy, I tell you!—about the new book I’m working on, The Soul of Magic. It takes place in between The Source of Magic and Kismet’s Kiss, and it’s been a real bear—until the last few days, when I realized what I needed to do to a character to make the story soar. Now this book the first thing I think of in the morning as I plan the next scenes. That feeling of immersion, of total engagement with the creation of a story, is what makes writing fun. I hope to have Soul done, polished, and published by the end of the year. (Cross your fingers for me ’cause it’ll be tight.)

And now that it’s the end of August, I have almost a full year of sales figures to share. Kiss and Source have been able to reach a wonderful audience, and I’m over at the Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood today giving all the info. Stop by and feel free to comment or ask questions!

Wheeeeeeeee! Kismet’s Kiss is now available in a gorgeous trade paperback at Amazon for $7.99. The Kindle version is just 99 cents!

Both prices are for a limited time during my Winter Sale, so, um, you might want to grab them now. :)

I priced them low for this sale, but the drawback of the $7.99 price is that it’s too low to qualify for Expanded Distribution, which means Kiss can *only* be purchased at Amazon (or its subsidiary, CreateSpace) for the duration of the sale. Sorry about that. :(

However, that’s a fantastic price for a 6″ x 9″ trade paperback (which are larger than mass-market paperbacks, and usually much pricier).

Anyway, I’m absolutely thrilled with the way the paperback turned out. Getting Kiss approved and up at Amazon ended up taking quite a bit longer than I’d hoped (gee, that’ll teach me to use “standard” shipping instead of express), but in the end all is well.

It’s been quite a learning experience, but I’m looking forward to the next opportunity with The Source of Magic a few months from now.

Oh, and Kiss now has 15 reviews at Amazon (all 5 or 4 stars, averaging 4.8), too. W00T!

I promised more news, and here it is. In addition to Kismet’s Kiss being for sale at Goodreads, I had an amazing triple WIN over the last week.

(1) Robin Ludwig of rldprint.com finished designing my delicious new print cover:

(2) I got the beautiful printed proof from CreateSpace. WOW.

(3) CreateSpace now has the print version of Kismet’s Kiss for sale–at just $7.99!

How about that for awesome? :D That price might be short-lived, but I think I’ll be able to keep it there for at least a month or so.

I gather that it may take a couple of weeks before the print version of Kiss shows up at Amazon, and I promise to mention it here when it does. (CreateSpace is a subsidiary of Amazon, although its shipping is separate. CS gives authors a much higher royalty per book, so if you’d be paying for shipping anyway, please consider buying Kismet’s Kiss from CreateSpace instead of Amazon. But I know Amazon is the king of sales.)

Anyway, I’m a huge Kindle fan and much prefer to buy ebooks these days, but seeing this cover in print–3-D and color–is mind-blowing. I was worried the cover wouldn’t be as nice in person as it was on the screen, but it turned out to be just the opposite. The monitor can’t even come close to displaying all the beauty. :D

Even the hubby who “doesn’t understand this writing thing” got excited for me when he saw it, and I did the bouncy dance across the kitchen.

Here’s my kitty being all proud, along with a larger view of the lovely front cover: