Happy New Year! I hope 2014
brings you great health and happiness.
First please let me thank
Claire, co-owner of Enigma Bookstore, 33-17
Crescent Street, Astoria, New York, for hosting me at a wonderful event
at her bookstore last month! My daughter & I had a lot of fun, and I hope
to visit again sometime. If you live in the NYC area, please stop by! They may
still have some copies of my novels Dawnflight and Morning’s Journey
available—and if not, I’m sure they’ll be happy to order them for you.
Congratulations are in order
for Debra T., Crystal B., Fran S., Myra E., Elise C., and Jenny B., winners in
the huge December giveaway sponsored by Facebook group Wanda's Amazing Amazon
Reviewers. All
winners have been notified already. There were more than 3,300 entries, and I
thank you for your tremendous support! Special thanks to those who have already
left reviews and rankings of my books on Goodreads, Amazon.com,
Barnesandnoble.com, Audible.com, and other review and blog sites. I appreciate
them all very much. And if you haven’t yet written a review, I thank you in
advance!
My New Year’s resolution for
2014 is to do more for my fellow authors. To that end, I finally set up a
Twitter account, @kimdheadlee. I have already
followed a number of authors, book review blogs, publishers, and other
writing-related accounts, and I am making it a habit to retweet announcements
of books and writing tips & news that look interesting. And I follow back! I
also have my Twitter account synched with my Facebook profile and Pinterest boards.
I will be participating in
an enormous multi-author giveaway in May titled “Read, White, and Blue” in
honor of Memorial Day. Until then, I will be running my own monthly giveaways
on this blog. Follow my blog, follow me on Twitter
and/or on Pinterest, subscribe to my YouTube channel, send me a friend request on Facebook, like any/all of my Facebook pages (Kim Headlee’s Maze of Twisty Passages, Dawnflight, and Morning’s Journey), and add me to your Google+ circles for separate chances to win an ebook copy
of Dawnflight. Please leave a comment here on my blog regarding
which of these options you have exercised, as well as your preferred ereader
type. I will draw one winner using Random.org at the end of every month. Good
luck!
While I’m on the subject of
luck, please wish me luck in the contests I have entered! Morning’s Journey
has been entered in the “Novel with Strong Romantic Elements” category of the HOLT Medallion contest, wherein
my 2006 novel Liberty
(HQN Books, writing as Kimberly Iverson) was a 2007 finalist. Most categories
are still open to entries until 31
January, and winners will be announced 14 June. Another contest I’ve entered, the
Marlene Awards for unpublished
manuscripts, is also still open to submissions until 15 January. Since some of
you reading this might be judges, I must refrain from mentioning titles and
categories, but I did submit 3 entries. Finalists will be notified by 1 April,
and winners will be announced a few days after that. My entries must remain
unpublished until then, but this will give me plenty of time to get them ready
for hitting that “publish” button!
In terms of accolades, I'm
excited to report that Dawnflight is featured in the December/January
issue of Shelf Unbound Magazine as one of 12 Notable Books of 2013 in the category
of Epic Sagas! You can find it on page 46 of 151.
As of this writing, the
audiobook edition of Dawnflight is still being offered at a special
discounted price of $1.99 on Amazon.com when you buy (or if
you already own) the Kindle edition. Since the
audiobook edition retails for $24.95, this is a great deal! If you would like
help deciding whether to buy this fantastic audiobook production, I invite you
to watch this video featuring the 8-minute Prologue read to lovely images and
haunting music here. The 2-minute book trailer may be viewed here.
Shares and comments are always welcome and greatly appreciated. Also, I have
published a short story excerpted from Morning's Journey titled The
Color of Vengeance, and it is available as a Kindle Select ebook, and as an audiobook via Amazon.com, Audible.com and iTunes.
Get your copies today!
I am especially pleased to
announce that the print edition of Morning's Journey, sequel to Dawnflight,
is now available to order from Createspace, as well as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and you may
order convention-priced copies personally autographed by me via Half.com! Its latest book
trailer may be viewed here. The first three of you to
reply to this message will win a coupon code for 50% off the retail price on
Createspace.com! That’s wholesale pricing for this great addition to your
library. Please quote this passage in your reply.
Thanks and I hope you have a
fantastic new year!
