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Backlist spotlight on To Mend the Broken-Hearted

The ebook of To Mend the Broken-Hearted is set to Free at all retailers for the month of March, starting now. In fact, since the first in series, To Wed a Proper Lady, is only 99c, and the other two novels are $3.99, you can buy all four novels in the series for under $10, and add the 2 novellas and 1 set of vignettes in Paradise Triptych, plus the novella Melting Matilda, for less than $3 more. That’s a lot of reading!

To Mend the Broken-Hearted

Ruth is a healer, not a social gadfly. She’s glad to leave the foreign world of the ton to run an errand for her sister-in-law. She doesn’t expect to be caught up in a smallpox epidemic, nor to meet the man of her dreams.

War and betrayal have wounded Val beyond bearing. The woman who arrives at his retreat with patients who need shelter says she’s a healer. But he is beyond healing. Isn’t he?

Book links at Books2Read https://books2read.com/Broken-Hearted
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Coming in 2024

 

This is very much the story so far. I’m already signed up for an anthology in July, as well. And all the stories on the top row are already written (except for an epilogue for Inviting the Wild, which I plan to finish before Wednesday), so I hope to have time for Concealed in Mist and an Unpitied Sacrifice. Mind you, by June I need to be started on my Roman Empire time travel series for 2025. So we’ll have to see how the year goes.

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A retrospective on 2023

I’m taking a look back at 2023. It was my first year of publishing with Dragonblade Publishing, and the year of my first Bookbub Featured Deal. Those two factors and my massive publishing push where the great hurrahs of the year. Lots of small satisfactions, too. Some amazing reviews, some wonderful people met along the way, a few outstanding moments with friends. 2023 had its problems and its worries. I lost six weeks of writing in the last third of the year to a family bereavement followed by an illness, and the sales of certain well-reviewed books were less than inspiring. I do wonder what a writer needs to do today to get noticed. As in any industry, there are many people out there selling the one exclusive sure to work answer. How does one find out who has the snake oil and who the golden ticket?

All in all, a mixed year. Now what will 2024 bring? I’ll have a go at a partial answer to that question next Sunday!

2023 was the year I published at least one book a month. It took a bit of doing, but I made it! Of course, the first six were written before the year started. On the other hand, the first four for this year were written in 2023, plus another for a bit later in the year if I do the box set I have in mind.

24 January 2022 The Golden Redepennings: Books 1 to 4

16 February 2023 Lady Beast’s Bridegroom, book 1 in A Twist Upon a Regency Tale

22 March 2023 The Husband Gamble

29 March 2023 The Flavour of Our Deeds, book 5 in The Golden Redepennings

28 April 2023 The Talons of a Lyon, a book in the Lyon’s Den Connected World

11th May 2023 One Perfect Dance, book 2 in A Twist Upon a Regency Tale

20th June 2023 Chaos Come Again, book 1 in Lion’s Zoo

11th July 2023 Grasp the Thorn (House of Thorns revised and republished), book 2 in Lion’s Zoo

8th August 2023 Snowy and the Seven Doves, book 3 in A Twist Upon a Regency Tale

26th August 2023 Crossing the Lyon, a short story in the multi-author book Night of Lyons

7th September 2023 Perchance to Dream, book 4 in A Twist Upon a Regency Tale 

10th October 2023 Love in its Season a novella in the Bluestocking Belles 2023 box set Under the Harvest Moon

15th November 2023 One Hour of Freedom, book 3 in Lion’s Zoo

26th December 2023 Christmastide Kisses, a Bluestocking Belles with friends collection

29th December 2023 The Darkness Within, book 4 in Lion’s Zoo