Karen McCullough

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Think it can’t happen to you?  Many authors, both published and unpublished have experienced it.

I talk about ways to avoid it at Nancy J. Cohen’s blog today:

http://nancyjcohen.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/avoiding-writer-burnout/

A few weeks ago I got the official notice of return to me of the rights to my Christmas vampire story, A Vampire’s Christmas Carol.  This novella originally appeared in the Beneath A Christmas Moonanthology published by Cerridwen Press.

I decided to go ahead and re-publish it on my own.  Converting an edited file for Smashwords, Nook, and Kindle isn’t really hard, just a bit painstaking.  But I followed the directions closely, created my own new cover for the story and posted it.

Here’s the blurb for it: Can Christmas Eve get any more fun? On her way to her family’s home, Carol Prescott’s car slides into a ditch in a deserted area with no cell phone signal. The only available shelter is already occupied…by a vampire. To Michael Carpenter, Carol is the bait of a trap.

In an effort to hold onto his soul, Michael has resisted the urge to drink human blood for almost a century. Now he hovers between human and vampire. If he doesn’t drink from a human before the night ends, he’ll die. He’s desperately thirsty, but Michael has seen the soulless monsters vampires are and he prefers death. Carol is pure temptation to him, the Christmas present from hell…or is it from heaven?

I’m thrilled to say that it’s now available in most e-formats.  Better yet, it’s only 99 cents on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and free on Smashwords.

Links:
Amazon Kindle
Nook
Smashwords

Read an excerpt here

My Christmas present to you!  But hurry, it’s only free for a limited time. When the year turns to a new one so also will the price for the story.

I’ve got a couple of exciting new reviews to crow about today:

For Magic, Murder and Microcircuits, Beverly at The Wormhole has this to say:

“I truly enjoyed this book.  The characters are wonderful. Michael is the all-around good guy, gone bad, but on his way back around and Ilene is the broken-hearted girl trying to make it on her own despite never getting over her lost love.  They are great as individual characters, but fantastic together.  The storyline is original and well done.  The
descriptions are vivid and I love the new twist on magic.  The science behind the magic is great.  The plot is clever and creative.  The book is well written and nicely paced. There is a load of emotion coursing through the entire story.  We get love and anger, betrayal and mistrust, all mixed together with desire, longing, magic, and of course shifting balance – – on so many levels! ”

Full review: http://wormyhole.blogspot.com/2011/12/review-magic-murder-and-microcircuits.html

And for A Question of Fire, Marcia James says:

“A Question of Fire is a page-turning mystery that also offers a romance between the journalist heroine (Cathy) and the lawyer hero (Peter).  Cathy witnesses a murder and is the only one to hear the man’s dying words. The victim was trying to clear his brother of arson and murder charges, and everyone — from the brother and his lawyer Peter to the killer and a mysterious, sexy private investigator — wants the evidence.  Cathy investigates the death, which puts her squarely in the path of men who’ll stop at nothing to get what they want.  I thoroughly enjoyed following Cathy on her thrilling fight to save a wrongly accused man from prison.”

Read full review here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/43245