I'm putting Winter Prey up free for the Kindle for Mar. 23-24. Probably the last time I will make this one free. Not forgetting the Nook folks, and will make it available for them and other e-formats after it goes off the Kindle Select program. http://tiny.cc/tn874 for Winter Prey! It's garnering some cool 5 star reviews from readers. :-) It's my dark paranormal romance, so be forewarned: the windigo does eat people.
Sis has been visited by the ghosts in her room a few times. She does not like them at all! But she's not afraid of them, either. She says she "sends them off" whenever they bug her. The other night, she got up to visit the little girl's room (well, we are still little girls at heart!). When she got back in bed, her stereo came on. She knew immediately it was one of my ghosts playing with her. Said she "sent it off!" I don't know where they go, but they always come back. :-) They've called her name and woke her up, turned on her lights, turned on her overhead fan, lots of things.
She sees them, too, probably better than I do. She's also the one who warns me if something nasty has slipped in on me, so I can do a cleansing and run it off. My cousin Cody also does that. I get busy and forget to do a periodic cleansing, but I make time whenever someone warns me about a nasty infiltrating my home. No matter how hard you try, these entities can slip in on you. That's why it's so important to know what you are doing and not mess around with the paranormal. And never, ever mess with a ouija board. Evil things, those. And the demons and dark entities know this and use it.
If you're following the portal closing at my friend Angela's house, it's still closed!! Fantastic. It's peaceful in her house, although once in a while a ghost will pop in, but not for long. Well, except Alan, and he's truly behaving himself these days. Afraid one of the psychic bitches will come back and discipline him <grin>. And none of them come through the portal any longer. There was no control over what came through there, so the only option was to close it off permanently. Thankfully, we did that. Yippee for us!
Take care, stay safe, happy hunting, happy reading!
T. M.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Correction on Book Codes for Sale
I am so sorry. I made a typo on the book codes and thank my reader Vanessa for letting me know! The codes are REW50 for half off and REW100 for free. I guess it stands for Read an Ebook Week (REW). I left off the W. Teach me to get in a hurry <sigh>. I have corrected it in the original blog, but am leaving this out there in case anyone comes back here to see why their code won't work.
Thanks for reading this shortie!
T. M.
Thanks for reading this shortie!
T. M.
The Egotistical Ghost and Books on Sale
Wow. A busy week just past. I haven't even had time to let everyone know all the news. Much of it has to do with my writing, but I've encountered the paranormal a few times. Although my supernatural residents are camera shy, they aren't a bit backward about letting me know I've ignored them for too long. They will brush against me, or even crawl all over me to demand attention. Yes, they will sometimes move things or visualize. I definitely do discipline any ghost or spirit who gets too far out of hand, but I do care for their feelings. And I understand their loneliness and need for some contact now and then. So unless I am totally covered up with work, I'll take a few seconds to acknowledge them. This doesn't include when I'm doing housework (ugh). Then, I'm glad to take a break and sit down and chat for a while. However, housework comes second to writing...most of the time.
The most interesting event recently didn't happen to me or even the friend who called to tell me about it. But it caught my attention so well, I thought my readers might enjoy the tale. Seems some folks recently started restoring an old historical house down the street from where my friend lives. They called him down to look at a very old painting they had just hung on one wall. Since my friend is a known authority on historical artifacts, including art work, he was able to verify the painting as from the mid-1700's, ancient for our U.S. history. But what they related while he was there was what he called to tell me about. See, my friend is also deeply interested in the paranormal.
The painting is of a fashionably dressed rake from that period of time. He is a young man probably in his early twenties, and the artist caught his demeanor well. He appears very cocky, very egotistical, quite full of his own self. Since the homeowners live and work elsewhere, they are only able to concentrate on the restoration on weekends. So while they are gone, and even when they are in residence, they use dustcovers to protect the antiques.
Well, they wanted to keep this painting covered, and used a sheet of plastic, well taped to the frame, for this purpose. But...each time they would return, the plastic would be off the painting! They assumed, of course, as we all would, that it just fell lose. There's no wind inside the house to do this, though, no reason except carelessness on the part of whoever placed the plastic on the painting. Right?
Well, this started happening even while they were in residence. They would cover the painting and leave the room. An hour or so later, they would find the painting uncovered. Replace the plastic, find it uncovered. over and over again. Sometimes the plastic would be completely off the painting; sometimes just the upper body would be uncovered. Always, though, at least the face is uncovered! This rake definitely loves to be looked upon! I've asked to go over and see this painting, but so far, no response. Will let you know if it happens and what I find out.
Book Business: Another wow! I had a new ebook go up this weekend, from Belgrave House. Southern Charms is my Cinderella meets the city slicker book, a fun magical romp with Texas rancher Ellie Parker and her fairy godmother, Fatima, who is trying to matchmake Ellie with New Yorker Shane Morgan. This is a historical, does have love scenes! It will be up at Amazon and elsewhere next week, but for now it's at: http://tiny.cc/SUGe2b.
Mary Kennedy, a fabulous writer herself, interviewed me for her blog at Blogher. We talk about Winter Prey and my ghost hunting diaries:
http://www.blogher.com/author-tm-simmons-talks-dead-people-sometimes
Tennessee Waltz, one of my sweet historical romances, is featured on eTLC, an ebook site:
http://www.etlc.info/index.php/rom_blog/etlctennessee_waltz/
Smashwords, where I have some of my ebooks listed and distributed, decided to have a sale this week. So I took advantage of that and put some of my books on sale, and also, free! The two Dead Man mysteries are on sale for half price, $2.00. There's a coupon code (REW50) to get the half off.
Dead Man Talking: http://tiny.cc/XGHe2b Dead Man Haunt: http://tiny.cc/jKHe2h
A romance half off ($2.50):
Forever Angels, a sexy time travel/angel historical: http://tiny.cc/vOHe2b
The freebies are (Coupon Code REW100):
Grave Yarns, a collection of short stories: http://tiny.cc/0LHe2b
Chrissy's Wish, a sweet romance, Christmas novella: http://tiny.cc/IMHe2b
Feel free to spread the word to all your friends about the sale. Smashwords has the books available in several different e-formats! Also, spread the url's around, if you would like, for the other book news. I "like" all the help I can get to spread the word about my books. It helps sales and gives me time to write more!
Boo! And enjoy the reading!
T. M.
The most interesting event recently didn't happen to me or even the friend who called to tell me about it. But it caught my attention so well, I thought my readers might enjoy the tale. Seems some folks recently started restoring an old historical house down the street from where my friend lives. They called him down to look at a very old painting they had just hung on one wall. Since my friend is a known authority on historical artifacts, including art work, he was able to verify the painting as from the mid-1700's, ancient for our U.S. history. But what they related while he was there was what he called to tell me about. See, my friend is also deeply interested in the paranormal.
The painting is of a fashionably dressed rake from that period of time. He is a young man probably in his early twenties, and the artist caught his demeanor well. He appears very cocky, very egotistical, quite full of his own self. Since the homeowners live and work elsewhere, they are only able to concentrate on the restoration on weekends. So while they are gone, and even when they are in residence, they use dustcovers to protect the antiques.
Well, they wanted to keep this painting covered, and used a sheet of plastic, well taped to the frame, for this purpose. But...each time they would return, the plastic would be off the painting! They assumed, of course, as we all would, that it just fell lose. There's no wind inside the house to do this, though, no reason except carelessness on the part of whoever placed the plastic on the painting. Right?
Well, this started happening even while they were in residence. They would cover the painting and leave the room. An hour or so later, they would find the painting uncovered. Replace the plastic, find it uncovered. over and over again. Sometimes the plastic would be completely off the painting; sometimes just the upper body would be uncovered. Always, though, at least the face is uncovered! This rake definitely loves to be looked upon! I've asked to go over and see this painting, but so far, no response. Will let you know if it happens and what I find out.
Book Business: Another wow! I had a new ebook go up this weekend, from Belgrave House. Southern Charms is my Cinderella meets the city slicker book, a fun magical romp with Texas rancher Ellie Parker and her fairy godmother, Fatima, who is trying to matchmake Ellie with New Yorker Shane Morgan. This is a historical, does have love scenes! It will be up at Amazon and elsewhere next week, but for now it's at: http://tiny.cc/SUGe2b.
Mary Kennedy, a fabulous writer herself, interviewed me for her blog at Blogher. We talk about Winter Prey and my ghost hunting diaries:
http://www.blogher.com/author-tm-simmons-talks-dead-people-sometimes
Tennessee Waltz, one of my sweet historical romances, is featured on eTLC, an ebook site:
http://www.etlc.info/index.php/rom_blog/etlctennessee_waltz/
Smashwords, where I have some of my ebooks listed and distributed, decided to have a sale this week. So I took advantage of that and put some of my books on sale, and also, free! The two Dead Man mysteries are on sale for half price, $2.00. There's a coupon code (REW50) to get the half off.
Dead Man Talking: http://tiny.cc/XGHe2b Dead Man Haunt: http://tiny.cc/jKHe2h
A romance half off ($2.50):
Forever Angels, a sexy time travel/angel historical: http://tiny.cc/vOHe2b
The freebies are (Coupon Code REW100):
Grave Yarns, a collection of short stories: http://tiny.cc/0LHe2b
Chrissy's Wish, a sweet romance, Christmas novella: http://tiny.cc/IMHe2b
Feel free to spread the word to all your friends about the sale. Smashwords has the books available in several different e-formats! Also, spread the url's around, if you would like, for the other book news. I "like" all the help I can get to spread the word about my books. It helps sales and gives me time to write more!
Boo! And enjoy the reading!
T. M.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Free Book Today!
No ghostie stuff today, although I don't believe I've had a day go by without sensing at least one or two of my resident paranormal boarders. They've been rather quiet this past week, tho'. I guess they tired themselves at while Aunt Belle visited. But today there are a couple of book freebies for your Kindles:
One is my book, Mountain Magic. Yes, I know it's been free before, so you may already have it. But this is the last day it will be free, since I'm out of free promotion days at Amazon for now. It's at http://tiny.cc/mxhq4 if you've missed it before.
Also, if you like great western romances, my friend Christine Michels has one of her great books up for free this weekend. She's even got a review there from a man, who loved the book! So go read, gals...and guys! http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Betrayal-ebook/dp/B006VONK56
T. M.
One is my book, Mountain Magic. Yes, I know it's been free before, so you may already have it. But this is the last day it will be free, since I'm out of free promotion days at Amazon for now. It's at http://tiny.cc/mxhq4 if you've missed it before.
Also, if you like great western romances, my friend Christine Michels has one of her great books up for free this weekend. She's even got a review there from a man, who loved the book! So go read, gals...and guys! http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Betrayal-ebook/dp/B006VONK56
T. M.
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