Weekly eBook Winners

Congratulations to the weekly ebook winners in Books We Love's annual Spring Fling Event!

This week's winner is Joanne Altieri.

Joanne wins her choice of any two Books We Love ebooks or Spice ebooks. She also receives TEN extra entries into the Kindle Fire drawing May 31. Joanne, please visit our website http://bookswelove.net/ and make your two choices, then email the titles to bookswelove@shaw.ca

Remember, only subscribers to our newsletter are eligible to enter our contests, so if you're not a subscriber go here and sign up now. Find the entry form for Spring Fling there too!

http://bookswelove.net/contest.php

Congratulations Joanne!

PAGAN QUEEN has a cover!

BOOK 2 of the CURSE OF THE LOST ISLE series has a cover, with Jimmy Thomas, no less. It makes sense, since the cover for the first book, PRINCESS OF BRETAGNE featured him, and this novel features the same characters as in Book 1.

So, here it is. and you can enter a contest to win the book on my website, just click on CONTEST on the upper right at http://www.vijayaschartz.com and send me an email from that page. Hurry, because as soon as the book is out, the contest will be over.

Good luck!

Vijaya Schartz
Swords, Blasters, Romance with a Kick
http://www.vijayaschartz.com

Pick up Book One, PRINCESS OF BRETAGNE, on Amazon HERE.

Open letter to a soliciting publicist - by author Vijaya Schartz

Dear publicist:

I am not interested in paying thousands of dollars for your publicity services offering a slew of interviews on national media. I’ve been doing my own promotion for years successfully enough and for free. I write for eBook publishers, so my audience is downloading on the internet. At night, they read instead of watching TV talk shows. Besides, national media exposure can become a career in itself (I know, I used to be a radio talk show host) and all the hoopla, travel, and preparation involved for all these interviews would take time away from what I’m supposed to be doing, which is writing more stories for my loyal readers.

Unlike one-book-wonders who promote and milk the same best seller for years and never write another, popular fiction authors must produce consistently. Most mega names in popular fiction these days (you know who they are) have to pay ghost writers to write their novels, because they are too busy with TV, movies, national paper interviews, premieres, book tours, etc. My goal is to write my own quality stories, not start a multimedia franchise. I choose quality and integrity over greed. I believe that’s the secret of true success, self worth, and happiness.

I know my readers understand what I’m talking about. All they want is a great story at an affordable price. And that’s what I intend to provide for them, as long as I can write. This is my pledge to them. I love you guys. Keep reading.

Oh, and Snatched is free today in kindle on Amazon. Grab it quick by clicking HERE. You won’t regret it. It’s a five-star romantic science fiction novel well worth the read.

Snatched from a post-apocalyptic battlefield by galactic traders, Zania is sold to a clandestine ring of fighting Amazons, on a planet lush with green jungles and teeming with deadly felines. She resents the gorgeous and overzealous Viking champion, Svend, who saves her life but too easily accepts slavery. Adulated by a woman who claims to know her, hated by the jealous Amazon queen who fancies Svend, Zania seeks escape...

But Svend knows the price of rebellion, and on this seemingly peaceful planet, ruled and defended by machines, nothing is what it seems, not even Zania herself... Among the rumbles of a volcano threatening to explode, an insurrection is brewing, and no one is safe...

Vijaya Schartz
Blasters, Swords, Romance with a Kick
http://www.vijayaschartz.com
Find Vijaya's books on Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/author/vijayaschartz

Weekly eBook Winners

Congratulations to the weekly ebook winners in Books We Love's annual Spring Fling Event!

This week's winner is Joy Isley.

Joy wins her choice of any two Books We Love ebooks or Spice ebooks. She also receives TEN extra entries into the Kindle Fire drawing May 31. Joy, please visit our website http://bookswelove.net/ and make your two choices, then email the titles to bookswelove@shaw.ca

Remember, only subscribers to our newsletter are eligible to enter our contests, so if you're not a subscriber go here and sign up now. Find the entry form for Spring Fling there too!

http://bookswelove.net/contest.php

Congratulations Joy!

My Upcoming Book Reading and Signings

Come join Joan Donaldson-Yarmey at
Audrey's Bookstore, 10702 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, on Saturday May 12 at 3:00pm as she launches the third
mystery novel, Whistler's Murder, in
her Travelling Detective Series.
In Whistler's
Murder, travel writer and amateur sleuth Elizabeth Oliver has tagged along
with her best friend, Sally Matthews, to Whistler, B.C. where Sally is
attending a Science Fiction/Fantasy writers retreat. Elizabeth plans on
spending the first week working on an article about Whistler and then relaxing
and enjoying her time in the famous resort town. However, her well laid plan
immediately begins to fall apart with the discovery of a body in a newly
demolished house. Then she is again sidetracked when one of Sally's fellow
students asks her to solve the mystery of her cousin's death and is then
murdered herself.
Other Travelling Detective Series books
are Illegally Dead and The Only Shadow In The House.
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Joan Donaldson-Yarmey will be doing a
reading from the latest mystery novel in her Travelling Detective Series, Whistler Murder, at the Calgary Library,
616 Macleod Trail, on Monday May 14 at 6:00pm.
In Whistler's
Murder, travel writer and amateur sleuth Elizabeth Oliver has tagged along
with her best friend, Sally Matthews, to Whistler, B.C. where Sally is
attending a Science Fiction/Fantasy writers retreat. Elizabeth plans on
spending the first week working on an article about Whistler and then relaxing
and enjoying her time in the famous resort town. However, her well laid plan
immediately begins to fall apart with the discovery of a body in a newly
demolished house. Then she is again sidetracked when one of Sally's fellow
students asks her to solve the mystery of her cousin's death and is then
murdered herself.
Other Travelling Detective Series books
are Illegally Dead and The Only Shadow In The House. Author
will have all three novels for sale.
*******
Joan Donaldson-Yarmey will be doing a
talk about the mascots and world's largest attractions of the small towns and
cities in southern Alberta at the Calgary Library, 616 Macleod Trail, on Monday
May 14 12-1:00pm. Joan is the author of Backroads of Southern Alberta and
Backroads of Northern Alberta as well as travel books about British Columbia
and The Yukon and Alaska. She also has written three mystery novels in her
Travelling Detective Series.
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Joan Donaldson-Yarmey will be doing a
reading from the latest mystery novel in her Travelling Detective Series, Whistler Murder, at the Wainwright
Library, 921 3rd Ave, on Monday Tuesday May 15 at 6:30pm.
In Whistler's
Murder, travel writer and amateur sleuth Elizabeth Oliver has tagged along
with her best friend, Sally Matthews, to Whistler, B.C. where Sally is
attending a Science Fiction/Fantasy writers retreat. Elizabeth plans on
spending the first week working on an article about Whistler and then relaxing
and enjoying her time in the famous resort town. However, her well laid plan
immediately begins to fall apart with the discovery of a body in a newly
demolished house. Then she is again sidetracked when one of Sally's fellow
students asks her to solve the mystery of her cousin's death and is then
murdered herself.
Other Travelling Detective Series books
are Illegally Dead and The Only Shadow In The House. Author
will have all three novels for sale.
*******
Joan Donaldson-Yarmey will be doing a
reading from the latest mystery novel in her Travelling Detective Series, Whistler Murder, at Lots-A-Books 5010 50
Ave, Cold Lake, Alberta on Thursday May 17 at 6:30pm.
In Whistler's
Murder, travel writer and amateur sleuth Elizabeth Oliver has tagged along
with her best friend, Sally Matthews, to Whistler, B.C. where Sally is
attending a Science Fiction/Fantasy writers retreat. Elizabeth plans on
spending the first week working on an article about Whistler and then relaxing
and enjoying her time in the famous resort town. However, her well laid plan
immediately begins to fall apart with the discovery of a body in a newly
demolished house. Then she is again sidetracked when one of Sally's fellow
students asks her to solve the mystery of her cousin's death and is then
murdered herself.
Other Travelling Detective Series books
are Illegally Dead and The Only Shadow In The House. Author
will have all three novels for sale.