…it was safe to scratch us off your reading list, the author finally comes through. Book 23, Settlers, has been released. It’s just starting to trickle in to retailer sites so check your favorite, or you can use this link to see where it is already available.
Blurb: Kate and Claudia are in charge, and they have a camping trip planned. Except, no one but Claudia knows where they’re going.
The Aunts Go Marching, Book 22.5, has just been released in the ebookstore. It’ll hit the other retailers on Monday.
Blurb: Marching orders: give birth; give support; wander, worry, and wait and wait and…
Warning: Author and characters are not responsible for any bad song the title may put in your head. Boom. Boom. Boom.
Stringers, Lesbian Adventure Club: Book 21 was just released in the ebookstore! Amen.
The other retailers will have it soon, and it should be in paperback next week.
Here are the blurb and the book cover.
Blurb: There’s a bear sitting in the midst of the Dykes Who Dare. But, no one notices. How could that be? How could that possibly be? Something must be “just not right.”
Squatter 2 was just released in the new bookstore. If you’re a customer of the old bookstore who subscribed to the newsletter, check your email. There’s a coupon code being sent out for those making the switch.
It should be released at other retailers and in paperback later this week.
Here are the particulars…
Blurb: After a quiet year in the house she inherited from her aunt, Trinity MacNeil feels as though her life may finally be coming together. Her clairsentience remains in check when she abides by certain self-imposed rules. Her relationship with Maisie Beckett has deepened, and they’re soon to move in together. She has even agreed to let her Uncle Gene and his construction crew renovate the upstairs.
The renovation, however, rouses within the house a very forceful spirit determined to get Trinity’s attention by any means. Who is she? What does she want? And, why is she so desperate?
Refusing to use her clairsentience to solve the mystery, Trinity embarks on a mission to research the house and its past inhabitants. What she learns, though, only enrages the spirit, who violently lashes out at her. Almost too late, she realizes the situation requires the skill she has refused to master.
Can Trinity overcome her fear of going to the membrane, the layer that barely separates the living and the dead, that place where anyone can appear?
The author had every intention of releasing her paranormal mystery, Squatter, next month. With a big ol’ duh, she sees Halloween on the calendar. Yep, we all rolled our eyes at her. So… It will be released Friday, Halloween, but only in our bookstore. Plus, if you use the coupon code boo2you on Friday, you’ll get a 15% discount on it. It’ll be released to the retailers and in paperback next week.
Blurb: For Trinity MacNeil, life and its people are overwhelming and intrusive. So when she inherits her aunt’s house, she seizes the opportunity to escape her life, saddened only to surrender her job as librarian. In the country, a mile outside the small town of Hillmon Point, she hopes to create a self-sustaining existence—a dream come true.
She’s quick to realize, however, that the house is an unwelcoming mausoleum: her aunt’s hospice setup still there, her cousin’s room the same as the day he died nearly twenty-three years ago. Caring deeply for both, she finds it difficult to remove the last reminders of their existence and simply avoids the upstairs.
But, when a figure begins appearing in her cousin’s playroom window, that becomes impossible. Whoever —or whatever—is upstairs is pulling her attention there, and as the activity increases, she realizes she is being led somewhere.
But, where?
And, by whom?
With nowhere to go and no one to turn to, she must reach inside herself to find the power to deal with the unearthly, and outside herself to let people near enough to help.
Okay, this does seem weird to be swiping chapters of a book that has nothing to do with the DWD or our favorite dick. Regardless, for your perusal, the first two chapters of Squatter follow. If you read it, you hereby vow to donate to the Get Kate Out of the Pokey Fund, if needed.
Trinity MacNeil scolded herself for feeling so excited, and yet, she could not stop the smile spreading across her freckled face. Seizing a deep calming breath, she dropped her leather satchel onto the porch, and then, her trembling hand aimed a silver key at the front door’s lock. A twist, a pull, and a timid push brought a creak that punctuated the moment, this new beginning.
Her smile widened even further when she made her first steps into the house. She spun in a circle, her eyes taking in the huge foyer. Then, she plopped onto the second last step of the staircase and released a tremendous sigh.
This was hers. All hers. Despite its drab walls and lusterless woodwork, it looked luxurious to her, the proverbial dream come true. While it hadn’t cost her a cent, it came at a very high price.
Instantly, her excitement dissipated, and sadness rushed over her. Her aunt Ronnie had died here just three weeks prior. She was her mother’s sister, and now, they were both gone. Trinity hadn’t been that close to her aunt, or maybe her regret made her believe that. They had regularly exchanged long, handwritten letters and sent birthday cards. On holidays, they had talked on the phone. Yet, she had declined her aunt’s every invitation to visit, and now, she had to live with the fact that she hadn’t seen her since the day she graduated from college, nearly six years ago. The time before that was at her mother’s funeral, only months earlier. She believed that not being a physical part of her life had a consequence: Her aunt hadn’t even told her she had ovarian cancer. The lawyer said that by the time she got diagnosed, they had given her six months to live. She chose the treatment-less route and made it barely two before she died—in this very house, this house that was now Trinity’s.
Our 20th book, Living Dead(heads), is set to be released tomorrow in the LAC bookstore. It will be in paperback later this month. Please try to contain your excitement.
Blurb: Newsflash: Gossip columnist Heady Heaper whacks the mayor of Granton! But she won’t stay dead!
What other horrors await the 1930s crew at the mayor’s mansion? They’re about to find out.
Woohoo, the author has completed the first draft of LAC 20! Now, she goes back to word one, but she usually busts butt to get it to third draft. That said, I suspect it will be ready for public consumption by mid-September. Then, she can take care of these wandering characters in here who are in desperate need of closure. Pity for them. Elation for us.
I will keep you posted!
Tomorrow morning, Book 18, L’ Babes, should be released as an ebook in the LAC bookstore. It will be available at other ebook sellers and in paperback next week.
Between Laura’s books and ours, we now have two dozen out there. Pretty damn cool. We will get her moving on the 25th ASAP.
In the meantime, the cover and the blurb…
Maggie and Susan are doing their last hurrah as hostesses before their family grows and responsibilities change. It’ll be a Best of the Best weekend. But since there’s always a ‘but’ with this crew, the best may not simply be the good things. Pack your bags!
