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Book Trailer for Take My Hand
Can you believe we have less than one month until Take My Hand releases? To celebrate, I’m sharing the book trailer today. I’d love for you to share it with a friend or on your favorite social media sites. If you haven’t pre-ordered your copy of Take My Hand (Kindle or paperback), what are you waiting for? You can reserve your copy on Amazon. Until then, enjoy the trailer! ~ Kristen
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Join the Launch Team for Take My Hand
Do you love books and enjoy talking to others about books? If so, you’re invited to apply to my launch team for Take My Hand, my romantic suspense novel releasing December 5. What’s the story about? Here’s a preview from the back cover. Don’t find us. We’ll find you. Trauma therapist Kaley Colbert needs a vacation from her job, and a ski trip with her church singles’ group seems like the perfect way to unplug. But while in the mountains, she learns that her last client was murdered hours after their meeting, and she wonders if the notes she’s receiving from a possible stalker hold a more sinister warning. On…
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Cover Reveal for Take My Hand, New Romantic Suspense with Mountain Brook Ink
COVER REVEAL DAY is here!! I’m excited to share the cover for Take My Hand, the first book in my Crossroads Suspense series published with Mountain Brook Ink fiction! I absolutely love how this cover turned out … the snow, the colors, the immediacy of the action. It all captures the romantic suspense of this story beautifully. Thank you so much to Author Lynnette Bonner for the design. What’s the story about? Here’s a preview from the back cover. Don’t find us. We’ll find you. Trauma therapist Kaley Colbert needs a vacation from her job, and a ski trip with her church singles’ group seems like the perfect way to…
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Join the Cover Reveal Team for Take My Hand
We are less than a month to the cover reveal for Take My Hand, the first book in my Crossroads Suspense series. As a new mama who doesn’t sleep much these days, I’d love your help sharing the cover! What does it involve? First, sign up (so I have your email and can send you the cover and all the details you’ll need for the reveal). Then, on September 27, share the cover online and with your friends. You can simply use one of my pre-designed graphics that I will provide or create your own if you’re feeling image savvy. (Note: My publisher just moved up the cover reveal!) I’ll…
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Christmas in July Multi-Author Giveaway
As summer heats up, what better way to cool off than to think of Christmas in July! To celebrate, I have partnered with Celebrate Lit Publicity to do a special giveaway just for you. This week, you can enter for a chance to win 40+ books or a $500 Amazon card to buy a ton of books yourself in Celebrate Lit’s Christmas in July Giveaway. Included in the giveaway is a Kindle copy of my own young adult dystopian novel, The Revisionary. Click here to enter: https://promosimple.com/ps/1e46d/2022-christmas-in-july The event and giveaway is going on now through July 23. Happy reading! ~ Kristen
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Author Chat with Shannon Redmon on her New Release, Secrets Left Behind
Our guest author this month is one of my new favorite writers, and I just had the pleasure of meeting her at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writer’s Conference. She is a fellow romantic suspense author, and her latest book, Secrets Left Behind, released a few weeks ago. Please join me in welcoming Shannon Redmon to the blog. Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to be a writer? Shannon: I’ve always written in some form or fashion, whether it was journaling, writing middle school break-up letters for my friends, or half-finished love stories. However, in 2015, my sweet husband said to me, “Why don’t you finish one…
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Bricks & Bones: Suspense Short Story Now Available
As I anticipate my next novel releasing this December, I’m excited to share a new short story, what I’m calling a “suspense short,” with my newsletter readers! Last month, you all helped me choose the cover, and now, “Bricks and Bones” is available for your enjoyment. To receive your copy, simply subscribe to my monthly newsletter. Then, you’ll be the first to know about other new release details and receive a personal message from me each month. About “Bricks and Bones” Her diploma has barely begun to collect dust when Tori Bones’ career falls apart and leaves her working three part-time jobs to pay the bills. But her latest Wizard…
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Christian and Inspirational Reads Giveaway
Now here’s a giveaway I wish I could enter! The Christian and Inspirational Reads Giveaway features several authors who are on my reading list, including Nicole Zasowski (What If It’s Wonderful), Katie Powner (A Flicker of Light), and Robin Patchen (Glimmer in the Darkness). Plus, the winners will receive copies of my Christian dystopian novel, The Revisionary. These two winners will receive a huge collection of Christian and inspirational reads from 50+ authors, and the Grand Prize winner gets a new eReader. Enter the giveaway by clicking here 👉 https://www.booksweeps.com/giveaway/april-2022/christian-inspirational-reads/. The contest ends April 20, 2022. Happy reading and happy (almost) Easter! ~ Kristen
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New Suspense Short Story: Vote for Your Favorite Cover!
Next month, I’m releasing a new free story that I’m calling a “suspense short” to my newsletter subscribers. If you haven’t already subscribed, take a minute to join my newsletter to be the first to receive the story! Right now, you’ll receive my current novella just for signing up. Set in Beech Mountain, North Carolina, this new suspense short introduces you to the location of my upcoming romantic suspense novel, releasing in December. You can learn more about that project in a previous post, and I’ll be sharing more about it soon. Here’s a preview of this short story: Her diploma has barely begun to collect dust when Tori Bones’ career falls…
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Author Chat with Darlene L. Turner on her New Release, Safe House Exposed
My reader friends, you are in for a treat. Darlene L. Turner is a fellow romantic suspense author with a new release! I am counting down the days until the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference where I will have the opportunity to meet her in person, but for now, I’m thrilled for her to share a little about herself and her new book, Safe House Exposed. When did you first realize that you wanted to be a writer? Darlene: Shortly after I picked up my first Nancy Drew book! My love of mystery and writing started then and I began writing my own version – the “Mindy Dobson” series.…
