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The Ghost and Wednesday’s Child here!

It’s the official release day of The Ghost and Wednesday’s Child, the 36th book in my paranormal cozy mystery series, Haunting Danielle. The last time I checked, it was ranked as the number one new release under Ghost Mysteries over on Amazon. 

You can find it in eBook and paperback format at my online bookstore. You can find links here to purchase the books at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, Google, and Smashwords.

The large print paperback should be available any day now at Amazon. The audiobook will be out June 24, 2025.

The next book in the series—The Ghost and Christmas Magic—comes out the end of November and is available for preorder at my online bookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple.

A heads up on something—when you preorder at Amazon, you won’t pay for the book until it is delivered while it’s necessary to pay when you preorder on some other sites, including my online bookstore. However, when you preorder from my online bookstore, you will receive the eBook a few days earlier than the official release date.

Why is that?  The prepay thing is more a technical thing I can’t change—I don’t have the same options as a large site as Amazon to offer that option.  As for the early delivery from my online bookstore, that is because Amazon and the other sites require book files be uploaded days before the official release date. 

When uploading the finished files, they are typically loaded to all the websites on the same day. Unlike sites like Amazon, once the finished file is uploaded, I have the option to release it on the same day.

So, if you want to preorder, you have several options to consider when selecting your vendor of choice.

If you are looking for the audiobook version of The Ghost Who Sought Redemption, it is slated for release May 27, 2025. 

Hope you enjoy the new book!

The Ghost and the Poltergeist arrived today!

Technically speaking, the eBook went live today. Readers could order the paperbacks at Amazon for the last couple days.

When I wrote the first Haunting Danielle book in 2014, I had no idea the series would be this long (with no end in sight.) In fact, back then the first book was called Haunting Danielle, Book 1. I soon learned using numbers instead of titles for all the books in the series was a stupid thing to do, so I renamed the first book to The Ghost of Marlow House. It was book one in the Haunting Danielle series.

There will be a book 35. That one will be The Ghost Who Sought Redemption, scheduled for a September 30, 2024 release date.

Hope you enjoy the new book!

The library is a little like safe sex.

Did that headline catch your attention? Actually, it is an apt analogy. Just hear me out…

Readers, like all other consumers, love a deal. That’s why websites like BookBub are so popular with eBook readers.  Each day in your email inbox they send you what’s on sale or free in the genre you love to read.

But what happens when you discover a new favorite author or series—and the other books by that author or in that series aren’t on sale? I suppose you could wait around for them to go on sale, but you may be waiting a long time. And it’s possible some of those books will never go on sale.

Some thrifty readers turn to pirate websites or shady Facebook groups where pirated copies of the book are passed around.

The most obvious problem with that, it is stealing.  Yep. People who do that may not think of themselves as thieves, but that’s what they are. Some may try to justify it by saying eBooks are too expensive anyway. I knew a woman once who used to steal makeup (when I say woman, I mean a woman in her sixties, no teenager) because she insisted it was too expensive—not that she couldn’t afford it, but she didn’t agree with the prices charged.  Whatever her justification, she was still a thief. Just like those people who pass around pirated copies of books.

There is another problem with downloading from pirate sites—and this gets back to the headline of this article. Viruses.  Yep. Pirate sites are often not about giving you a free book as much as it is about giving you a virus or trojan.

And for the record, while a Trojan might protect someone having sex, it means something completely different when it comes to downloading files.

So, what do you do if you just can’t afford to buy that book that you would love to read?

The library.

Just today I received a message from a fan who has read all the books in the Haunting Danielle series, and she hasn’t bought them. She downloaded the eBooks from her local library. She told me when the library didn’t have one of the books, she requested it and they got it in for her!

It’s relatively easy to check out free eBooks from your library, and much safer (and more honest) than downloading them from a pirate site. Plus, it makes the author—you know, the one who is entertaining you with the story—smile knowing his/her books are at the library.

First, you need to get an old fashion library card from your local library. When you do this and tell them you want to check out eBooks, they will typically give you a pin number. The great thing about checking out eBooks from your library, you can do it from the comfort of your home.

I use OverDrive to check out eBooks from the library. It’s an app I downloaded to my devices. When I open the app, I first select my library. It then gives me a login screen where I insert the email address and pin number my library has on me. Once you log in, you can start checking out books.

If the library doesn’t have the book you are looking for, request it, just like my reader did.

Oh, and don’t thank me, thank Ben Franklin. The lending library was his idea.