Friday, April 26, 2024

Happy Mother’s Day: An Anthology - 6 books for just 99 cents for one week! Don't miss these small-town #romance novels featuring mothers. #Books

Happy Mother’s Day: An Anthology 

This six-book anthology comes out May 1. Get it for 99c until May 7! Then the price will increase to $2.99 for 1 week and increase again to $5.99 for the remainder of May - the only time this anthology will be available. Preorder now.

Books included:

A Baby for the Billionaire Cowboy by Kris Bock: This runaway bride needs a fresh start.

Seducing the Bachelor by Sinclair Jayne: A bachelor auction connects single mom and veterinarians student Talon with special forces sniper Colt, but neither is looking for love.

Four Hidden Treasures by H L Marsay: Welcome to Hartwell, an English village full of cobbled streets, ancient curses, and buried secrets.

The Baby Contract by Nan Reinhardt: She wants a baby … he wants a family. 

The Cowboy’s Texas Rose by E. Elizabeth Watson: They’ve found exactly what they weren’t looking for …

Close to Her Heart by CJ Carmichael: When Dani discovers she's pregnant, support comes from the last place she expects.


Kris Bock
writes romance, mystery, and suspense. In the Accidental Billionaire Cowboys series, a Texas ranching family wins a fortune in the lottery. Who wouldn't want to be a billionaire? Turns out winning the lottery causes as many problems as it solves. 

The Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series features the employees and customers at a cat café. Watch as they fall in love with each other and shelter cats.


Kris writes a series with her brother, scriptwriter Douglas J Eboch, who wrote the original screenplay for the movie Sweet Home Alabama. The Felony Melanie series follows the crazy antics of Melanie, Jake, and their friends a decade before the events of the movie. Sign up for the romantic comedy newsletter to get a short story preview, or find the books at Amazon US or All E-book retailers.

Kris also writes mystery and suspense. In The Accidental Detective humorous mystery series, a witty journalist solves mysteries in Arizona and tackles the challenges of turning fifty. This humorous series starts with Something Shady at Sunshine Haven

Kris’s stories of treasure hunting, archaeology, and intrigue in the Southwest will grab fans of romantic suspense by Mary Stewart or Barbara Michaels. Learn more at www.krisbock.com or visit Kris Bock’s Amazon US page or Amazon UK page. (For other countries click here.)

Sign up for the Kris Bock newsletter and get a free story set in the world of the Furrever Friends cat café, a printable copy of 22 recipes from the cat café novels,  and an Accidental Detective short story. Then every two weeks you’ll get fun content about animals, books, and more.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Authors and social media mavens won't want to miss the DepositPhotos deal! #Marketing #indieauthors #selfpublishing #ContentCreator

The Depositphotos deal is back for a limited time! Only $39 for 100 photo/vector downloads from Depositphotos (this never expires). Choose from 270 million+ royalty-free images

Get the deal here.

I've used this for self published book covers as well as social media posts. I find it has a good selection and is much more safe and reliable (in terms of proper licensing) than the completely free places. 

Image from DP
It has both photos and illustrations, and you can search for photos with no people or a certain number of people, and identify the gender, age range, and ethnicity. It also has flat lays – images shot from above with carefully arranged objects like flowers or holiday items, with space in the middle to add your book cover or text.

Now it's added an AI generator, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your current views, but obviously you don't have to use it. I asked if it was possible to exclude AI generated images from the search and got this response: "We do not accept AI-generated images from our authors. So you can feel free to browse the collection. If you have any doubts about any image, you may provide its ID so we can check it with the content team to be 100% sure."

Cover and flat lay images from Depositphotos

This is by far one of the best deals out there for authors or anyone producing a lot of social media! You can even stack it to double or triple the number of images you get and make sure you have enough for years.

Get the deal here.

Friday, April 5, 2024

A #NewRelease alert - An anthology of stories about fallen angels, with Lovecraftian #fantasy and #horror

Fallen

Fall from grace…

In a twist of fate, these angels have done the unforgivable and have been kicked out. Some are left to roam freely while they plot their revenge. Some are immediately given a new job as a form of punishment. Some are even innocent and try to prove it themselves. But can any of them find their new purpose in the end?

Featuring stories by Michael Paige, Matthew Fryer, Bruno Lombardi, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Kelly Barker, A.E. Lowan, C.L. Hart, and J.E. Feldman.

Get Fallen here.

Here's one Story Description for "Of Outer Gods and Fallen Angels":

Gerry Clifford appears to be simply a small, frail older man who has fallen victim to early-onset dementia.

Yadira Root appears to be an impossibly ancient woman who volunteers her time at the care center where people like Gerry live out their final days.

A conversation between the pair reveals unexpected truths about both of them.

The author, C. L. Hart, the owner and sole employee of Naughty Netherworld Press, is spoken of in hushed tones. She is described as The Mad Scribe of the Northeastern Colorado Plains, The Terrible Old Woman, and The Author That Should Not Be.

When not penning sanity-destroying works of dystopian fiction, Lovecraftian fantasy, or old-school horror with the occasional sweet romance thrown in to upset the cosmic apple cart, Ms. Hart enjoys creating baked goods she hopes will be considered palatable.

Ms. Hart shares a home in a remote rural town of 134 souls with her adult son and three cats. Her sense of fashion is best described as Early Twenty-First Century Unmade Bed. This disabled former nurse can usually be found arguing with herself about subplots or rehabilitating eldritch horrors.