Another Kindle Monthly Deal

I'm delighted to announce that my novel When I Found You is now spending another month as a Kindle Monthly Deal, this time for January 2014. The book had an amazing 2013. It was a Kindle Monthly Deal for July, when it rose to #2 in Kindle Paid and stayed there for most of the month, selling well over 125,000 copies just in that 31-day period. In fact, it just closed out the year at #58 in Kindle bestsellers for 2013.

It's on sale right now for $1.99. If you haven't read it, this might be a good time to give it a try. If you read and enjoyed it, I'm always grateful for recommendations to friends. I think we all feel better recommending books to others when they are affordably priced.

Happy New Year, and happy reading!

BIG Holiday Sale on Ebooks

Starting today, December 23rd, I'm bringing prices down on several of my ebooks in honor of the holiday. And two of my newer story collections are even free.

Here are all the links you'll need in one place:

Where We Belong, the recent winner of two Rainbow Awards, is only $1.99. When You Were Older is also $1.99. And one of my best received novels, Don't Let Me Go, is only $2.99. These prices will hold until December 28th.

The short story collections Always Chloe and Subway Dancer are absolutely free through December 27th.

I figured the novels might make good last-minute stocking stuffers for the readers on your list, and the free story collections can be for you. I honestly believe faithful readers deserve a break on book prices. 

A disclaimer about territories: the three novels are traditionally published (or soon to be) in the UK. Which means, with much regret to my lovely UK readers, I am not at liberty to discount them. That's the bad news. Now for the good news. Always Chloe and Other Stories and Subway Dancer and Other Stories are free worldwide.

Happy holidays, and happy reading!

Rainbow Awards for Where We Belong!

I am thrilled to report that Where We Belong has received multiple honors in the 2013 Rainbow Awards.

It won a Rainbow Award in its category, Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction. That was exciting enough. But then it went on to win Best Lesbian Novel, which is a kind of "best in show" award, a winner among all the category winners.

That's a huge honor, and I'm grateful to Elisa and the many judges who worked so hard, and as volunteers, to make these awards great.

Another thing that makes these awards great: This year they raised, and delivered, almost 6,500 dollars for two LGBT charities, Ali Forney Center in New York City and Colors in Los Angeles. 

Here's my certificate, of which I am most proud:

And an extra thanks to all my readers and fans who have been behind this book all along. Not sure what I would do without all of you. May I never find out!

Two New Interviews

After not doing much in the way of interviews for a while (actually writing books is key, I've found) I accepted two full-length interviews on Blog Talk Radio in the same month. Some of you saw the links on social networks, but if you missed them, they are now archived.

The first is with my very old friend Barbara Hodges for her program No Limits. It's a bit geared toward writers, but also casual and fairly personal. You can hear it at THIS LINK.

The second is with my Facebook friend Dean Buchanan for his program A Kind Voice, and is geared toward those interested in Pay It Forward. But it is also personal, and good for those who might want to learn more about me. And it's at THIS LINK.

More news as it becomes available. And there's lots of exciting stuff coming up, so please stay tuned!

When You Were Older for only $0.99

I'm afraid I more or less buried this news in the previous blog post about the Pay It Forward story on NBC Nightly News. Now I'm reminded that this needs to stand alone.

On the day the news story aired, we dropped the price on my novel When You Were Older, thinking it would be a good place for new readers to start. Of course, I'm always happy when my faithful long-time readers get a good deal as well. But I also know that the majority of you will have read it. (I'm working on two new novels as fast as I can!) In that case, I hope you'll pass the word along to your reader friends.

This deal will be in place through Thanksgiving weekend, to give everybody plenty of time to take me up on it.

Please do tell anyone you know who might be interested, and if you're just now reading it yourself, email and let me know what you think. For those who don't know it already, my real email address is on the Contact Me page.

I should probably also repeat the following for those who are new here: you don't need a Kindle to enjoy a Kindle ebook. You can download free Kindle Reading Apps HERE for your computer, tablet or smartphone. And if you have a Nook, or other non-Kindle ereader, there are instructions for converting a Kindle ebook HERE.

Happy reading!

NBC Nightly News!

It's close to time, but I'd like to encourage all of you who are interested in Pay It Forward to watch NBC Nightly News tonight. They're going to be doing a story on Pay It Forward/Good Samaritans/Random Acts of Kindness. And they sent a film crew all the way down from San Francisco so the producer could interview me in my home.

I have no idea how long I'll be onscreen, and how much will end up on the cutting room floor. But you might want to tune in, or set it to record. 

And I'm sure by about tomorrow it will be accessible on their website, iTunes, etc. So I will update this blog post very soon with a link to the story, for anyone who missed it.

Fingers crossed for how it turns out. But all publicity for Pay It Forward is good publicity, right?

More when available. 

Oh. A "P.S.": In honor of my (possibly brief) appearance on NBC Nightly News, and any new readers it might bring, we've chosen my novel When You Were Older to feature at only 99 cents, right through the Thanksgiving weekend. But if you're one of my existing readers, you deserve a deal, too. The 99 cent Kindle ebook is available HERE. Happy reading!

Update on Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 6:18PM by Catherine

Here it is. Short but sweet.

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