Happy Saturday! – Free Book News

Why don’t we have more Saturdays in the week? I slept LAAAAAATE this morning, and now I am lazily drinking coffee and playing on the internet. I hope you are all enjoying a fun Saturday as well. I have several friends who have been on vacation this summer and I’m positively green with envy. I don’t even want to go anywhere. Just hang around, sleep late, read, write, and knit. Someday I will take a vacation like that, but meanwhile I have a list of stuff to get done today, and making this blog post is on the top.

Amazon has ended the Kindle Worlds program, and Paige Tyler, the owner of the Dallas Fire & Rescue Kindle World, has graciously allowed her authors to have the full rights to the books back. That means I can re-publish them myself. She asks that we either include an acknowledgement that the world and some characters belong to her and I am publishing with her permission, or that I remove all mention of “Dallas Fire & Rescue” and her characters. These books are contemporary romance, and I’ve found that I prefer to write fantasy/paranormal types of stories. And I think when a reader sees the name Maddy Barone on a book they probably expect it to be a paranormal romance, so to have these two contemps in the mix might confuse people. Still, I worked hard on those two books and I actually love the characters, so  I don’t want them to just sit collecting (figurative) dust.

I have decided to re-publish them under my own name. I plan to re-do the covers, take the sex out, and make them sweet. But I’ve had a few readers asking when these two will be available to those who either don’t do kindles or who don’t have access to Amazon . com because they don’t live in the US. So before before I revise them and republish I thought it was only fair to let those readers have a chance to read them as they were. I appreciate my readers so, so much. Without you I would be writing only for the cats, and let me tell you, they are not nearly so appreciative!

I will be sending out links for free downloads in my newsletter next weekend. If you would like to read these, please sign up for my newsletter. You can sign up HERE.

Well, I guess I better get back to that list. Someday I will spend and ENTIRE day lazing around. But not today. 🙂  Have a lovely weekend!