Today the Haunting Danielle newsletter went out, and we have a winner for our Haunting Danielle tote, which appeared in our last newsletter. We’ve been sending out the newsletter every two weeks—something we have been doing since about April. Until that time the newsletter went out rather sporadically. I hope to continue with the momentum.
What’s been fun, we’ve been having a raffle with each newsletter. This week the winner was LuAnn, who will be receiving the Haunting Danielle tote.
The current raffle is for a Haunting Danielle audiobook—I am alternating between audiobooks and promotional items, like coffee mugs, playing cards, and totes.
Yesterday I asked the question, what have I been up to the last two and a half months?
The last part of May I spent most of that time wrapping up writing related business to prepare for our upcoming vacation. I also put together a Haunting Danielle Zazzle Store. The intent was not so much to try selling my readers stuff (although they can purchase at the online store), the primary purpose was to create some fun raffle prizes I could offer the subscribers to our newsletter.
The first part of June we were off to Minnesota for our family reunion. It’s our Talbot Reunion—that is my mother-in-law’s side of the family. We have been doing this every three years since 1983. We go somewhere different each time. The other locations we’ve been to include: Arizona, California, Oregon, New Mexico, Missouri, Colorado, South Dakota, Arkansas, Wyoming, Utah, and Montana. We always look forward to the reunion and catching up with our cousins.
Our daughter was just a year old at the first reunion, and our son was almost four. The reunions forged close relationships with their cousins and second cousins, and now I am seeing the same thing happen with our grandchildren’s generation.
After the reunion we had visiting family for about three weeks—and I put the computer away and focused on what is truly the most important thing in life—family.
When the family finally went home I prepared for surgery. (Ugg) Fortunately, the surgery went well, and other than being tired all the time, I suffered no afterpain. Of course, it could be those meds I was on, which curbed the pain and made me tired.
The worse part of surgery, no swimming for 6-8 weeks. I live in Lake Havasu City, and it gets pretty hot here. Swimming is what we do in the summer. But no pool time or lake time for me. I’ve been spending all my hours indoors—either working on my book or sleeping.
It has been two and a half months since my last blog post. Where has the time gone? What have I been up to? Those words sound rather Déjà vu—probably because I have voiced that same sentiment on this blog before—on those numerous times when there have been wide gaps between posts.
Let me start with what’s new, instead of what I’ve been up to.
The Ghost and the Halloween Haunt, the 22nd book in my Haunting Danielle series comes out the end of this month.
(Sorry, not available for pre-order at Apple iBooks yet)
I already have a title—and book cover—for book 23 in the series, which will come out before Christmas. But I will save more on that for later.
Tantor Media has purchased the audiobook rights for Books 20, 21 and 22 in the series. (Yes, that includes the book that is coming out the end of the month.) While I don’t have the release dates for those audiobooks, they are all expected to be out within the next year.
Happy to report, the talented Romy Nordlinger will be narrating those audiobooks, as she has the first nineteen.
For those who have friends interested in the series, you might want to let them know the eBook version of The Ghost Who Loved Diamond (Book Two in the Series) is currently on sale for 99 cents. It will return to its normal price after Tuesday, August 6th. Book One, The Ghost of Marlow House, is a free eBook download.
That’s about all the news for now. As for what I have been up to—I will catch up on that tomorrow.
