Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
I’m giving away an abridged sample chapter of my new Paranormal Romance, Marrying A Monster, on Instafreebie, right now. This is the second-to-last day of the giveaway, so grab it while you can. Just click here, and if you are not already an Instafreebie member, go through the steps to sign up.
MV Covers* is run by an artist who is stepping back from the world of premade book covers (where the author picks out a pre-created design, explains what text needs to go on it, and pays for the result) to focus on logo work. Due to this, she is listing all her remaining premades at $15 a piece (which is EXTREMELY inexpensive for the quality of work she does) and is willing to make fairly major changes for a fee. I found a cover that I liked (for Loving A Deathseer, Book 3 in the Jaiya Series), but the woman was showing a bit more cleavage than I felt comfortable with, and I wanted her eyes to be more visible. The final pricetag for having that done and the fonts changed to more or less match what you see on the ebook cover to Marrying A Monster, was $30.
*Note: like many book cover sites, may be NSFW depending on your office’s guidelines.
Sometime back, I booked a spot for Marrying A Monster on Digital Book Spot, a website which publicizes free and $0.99 e-books. I found it to be a very user-friendly and easy to read website, with lots of books that looked interesting, in every genre from thriller to romance. Click here to check the site out!
We’re at the midpoint of my ten-day Instafreebie giveaway! Just click here to snag an abridged sample chapter from my new paranormal romance Marrying A Monster!
Now that you’ve “met” Marrying A Monster, maybe it’s time for me to share a little more about the rest of the Jaiya series.
The main Jaiya series is currently three books long, and is set in “present day” Jaiya, or at least a timeframe where the technology and social developments are similar to our present day. I have some ideas for short stories or novellas about these characters, and if I come up with any more 50K-length stories in this setting, that grab me, I will write them.
Marrying A Monster is of course the first book in the series. The second book is currently titled Waking the Dreamlost, which was my Summer 2017 writing project. Monster‘s hero, Vipin, has an older brother named Marish, who is the hero of Dreamlost. I will probably spend the rest of October revising Dreamlost, along with some time in November if I finish with NaNoWriMo2016 early, and however much time it takes after that. The hope is to have it ready to go by before December 15.
Loving A Deathseer is the third book in the series in internal chronology, but the first one written. (How that happened is a story for another time.) The heroine is a relative of Vipin’s and Marish’s. This one is going to need a lot more reworking than Dreamlost, so there isn’t a timeframe for release yet.
There is also a Jaiya prequel series in the works. At this point, the only thing written is last year’s NaNoWriMo project, a fantasy romance with a gladiator/MMA fighter angle set 200+ years before Marrying A Monster. I am currently outlining a book about Vipin’s parents, which I hope to do for NaNoWriMo this year.
I also have a very rough idea for a book about Vipin’s grandparents, which I will try to write in the first quarter of next year. And there’s an even sketchier concept for a steampunk-y paranormal romance set about 75 years after the gladiator romance, and about 150 yrs before Marrying A Monster. The steampunk romance and the gladiator romance would both deal with Vipin’s ancestors. The series would start releasing sometime in 2017, barring complications.
I hope you’ve enjoyed these glimpses of the heroine and hero of Marrying a Monster as much as I have. Please check out the full book (for only $0.99) at e-bookstores all across the internet. Not ready for that kind of commitment? Check out the free sample chapter available now on Instafreebie!
Let me introduce you to Vipin, the hero of Marrying A Monster. He’s a quiet, athletic man with a strong, hawklike face and brown eyes that glow gold when the sunlight catches them. Rina first meets him on her bus trip into the foothills of the Blue Smoke Mountains. He’s helpful and polite, almost the perfect gentleman, but Rina wonders what he’s really up to.
He claims to be an anthropologist researching regional folklore, but the fact that he can run like a marathoner and fight like a martial artist seems a bit suspicious to Rina. Vipin is no were-creature, but the last woman he loved rejected him due to his strange powers and sinister pedigree. Will he open his heart to Rina, before it’s too late?
Let me introduce you to Rina, the heroine of Marrying A Monster. She has one of those super-efficient metabolisms we all envy, and the kind of long, wavy hair I personally envy, even though I know how much work that can be. Her first weapon of choice is her pepper spray, though she doesn’t like to use it in places where it would hit innocent bystanders.
At the beginning of the story, Rina’s clothing shop is losing money, and her chief financial backers (her parents) can’t help her out unless she does them a favor…which will involve her traveling back to their hometown of Thundermouth, near the top of Mount Snarl in the Blue Smoke Mountains.
Along the way, she visits such prime vacation spots as Goatsfart and Stayout, meets a hunky but secretive folklore expert by the name of Vipin, and bickers with her archnemesis and least favorite customer, Amita. But there is a monster stalking her up the mountain, and it will take more than snark and pepper spray to take it down….
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A gentleman named Sean Hinn is launching a new book recommendation service called Bobdog Books, where both readers and authors can submit their favorite books to his site, along with their links on Amazon. The more nominations per book, the greater the visibility. When he starts to monetize the site, through Amazon Associates links, he plans to give half the proceeds to St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Since it was a worthy cause, I went ahead and submitted Marrying A Monster to his site, and may try to submit some of my favorite books later on.
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