The 11th Annual Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale, takes place Monday July 1, 2019,
through Wednesday July 31, 2019.
My book
Tangled Memories is on sale during this time at a 50% discount only at
Smashwords.
Tangled
Memories is a special book to me because it was one of the first books I wrote,
and because it became a finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s Golden
Heart contest in 1994.
It then
had a strange route to publication. I “sold” it to one of the first ebook
publishers in 1999 before the advent of decent e-readers. That didn’t go so
well, because technology hadn’t advanced enough for ebooks. Later I contracted
with ImaJinn Books for a paperback version. Once I had my rights back again,
ebooks were now gaining popularity, and I contracted with two ebook publishers
for a while.
Today
Tangled Memories has been revised and gone through another edit, and I publish
it myself.
Tangled
Memories is a gothic romance. Wikipedia has a big description of the history of
this genre that goes back to 1764 and English author Horace Walpole’s novel The
Castle of Otranto. Wikipedia calls my kind of gothic romance “new.”
Gothic
Romances of this description became popular during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s,
with authors such as Phyllis A. Whitney, Joan Aiken, Dorothy Eden, Victoria
Holt, Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart, and Jill Tattersall. Many featured covers
depicting a terror-stricken woman in diaphanous attire in front of a gloomy
castle, often with a single lit window.
These
novels usually concern spirited young women, either governesses or new brides,
who go to live in large gloomy mansions populated by peculiar servants and
precocious children and presided over by darkly handsome men with mysterious
pasts.
This is
exactly what happens to my heroine Mary in Tangled Memories.
After
losing his wife, Dr. Alexander Dominican is determined his infant daughter will
not grow up motherless as he did. Offering sensible, kind kindergarten teacher
Mary Adams a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution. The
widow’s husband left her with a mountain of debt. For Alex, paying it off is a small
price to pay for his daughter’s happiness. Until his sensible new wife begins
to lose her mind.
On the day
of their marriage, Mary starts having frightening hallucinations of medieval
England—visions that feel more like the memories of woman who lived centuries
before. More terrifying, someone—or some thing—is stalking the new
mistress of Marchbrook Manor. Could it be one of the sinister servants? Or Alex
himself? Alex is reawakening hidden desires and longings in Mary, but until she
can untangle the web of nightmares and secrets, she can trust no one. Not even
Alex.
Alex has
no idea he’s unleashing a destiny that’s taken him seven hundred years to
fulfill.
If Alex
and Mary are to salvage their future, they must first unravel centuries
of…Tangled Memories.
So, if
this description sounds interesting to you, snag a copy of Tangled Memories at Smashwords for a 50% discount.
BIRTHDAY WISHES
Before I leave, I need to say happy birthday to my favorite Beatle! Ringo Starr born today in 1940. And yes inquiring minds, I saw the Beatles twice as a teenager. Tickets were $5.50. I screamed and cried.
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Before I leave, I need to say happy birthday to my favorite Beatle! Ringo Starr born today in 1940. And yes inquiring minds, I saw the Beatles twice as a teenager. Tickets were $5.50. I screamed and cried.
Good luck with this book! It sounds intriguing!
ReplyDeleteA true Gothic romance? I’m in!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the Smashwords sale, Jan. Hope you get lots of exposure.
ReplyDeleteYour story has quite a bit of history itself. And you saw the BEATLES!! TWICE?? You had me at once. Good luck with the story. It sounds like a fun time with a mysterious hero.
ReplyDeleteI love Gothic Romance. I read a lot of Phyllis Whitney in my younger days, and later I found the wonderful Mr. Rochester! Your book sounds great! Hope sales go well.
ReplyDeleteI loved those old Gothics. Excellent that the category is being revived and you're part of it!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds so good! Best of luck with your sale!
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