New Covers Revealed for The Clann Series, Glass Ballet and Break Pointe

Several of my US version books got a facelift recently. Here are the new covers for The Glass Ballet, Crave Enhanced, Covet Enhanced, Capture, Dance with Darkness, and the official version of Break Pointe...

Book Ranking Updates & a Shout Out to Australia!

Okay, I'll confess it. I never check my books' category rankings. Not unless I'm updating my websites and have to update their distributors' book sales page links. I'm honestly just too busy writing or reading about writing or on very rare occasions trying to squeeze in a super fast read of someone else's novels (for instance, I JUST finished reading Divergent yesterday, and only because my 10K a day writing schedule for the past week caused my hands to cramp up and beg for a break!).

But my hubby checks my books' category rankings. Daily. And when one of my books hits in the top 100 of any of their categories, he makes a point of telling me about it (I think it's the cheerleading part of his master plan to motivate me to write more money so he can retire sooner someday, lol).

So thanks to him, I learned yesterday that two of my books ranked within the top 100 in their categories! If you're a reader, you probably won't care...feel free to ignore the rest of this post entirely, lol. If you're a fellow author, maybe you'll find it interesting and/or inspiring.

So without further ado...

My recently released paranormal dystopian teen romance, The Clann Series #4: Capture ranked #82 on Amazon Australia's Children's & Young Adult/Literature/Love & Romance category (screenshot below):

Also on Amazon Australia, The Glass Ballet (my latest contemporary teen romance novel) ranked #32 in Children's & Young Adult/Arts & Music/Performing Arts/Dance and #54 in Arts & Photography/Dance category (screenshot below):

And on Kobo, The Glass Ballet ranked #52 in their Nonfiction/Entertainment/Dance category (screenshot below):

Let me reiterate, Glass Ballet is a fictional novel, not nonfiction, though its highest rankings are in nonfiction dance categories. But hey, I'll take it anyway!

And a huge thank you to all my readers in Australia for putting both of these books in your top 100 of several categories!

And now I'll retreat back to my writing cave to finish my latest...a mature YA/New Adult political dystopian romance featuring (what else?) a whole lot of dance stuff, which I'm hoping to have ready for release in the next couple of weeks!

The Glass Ballet Now Available!

Finally getting a chance today to share the news about my latest YA romance novel The Glass Ballet. It's been out since November, but between Thanksgiving, Black Friday, a crazy scary trip north to buy an RV (a story which I am sure will manage to make its way into some future novel of mine!), and prepping for Christmas, this is the first chance I've gotten to talk about it. Which is awful because if ever there was a "book of my heart" as an author, The Glass Ballet is definitely it for me...for this young adult romance, I combined my all time fave love story Jane Eyre (but set it in today's world) plus my own experiences in dealing with health issues, clinically depressed family members, and dancing while a senior in high school.

The Glass Ballet is a longer novel (app. 134,000 words in length, recommended for older YA readers ages 14+) and is now available in multiple ebook formats at the following major ebook retailers' sites:
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1clChy1
Barnes and Noble: http://bit.ly/18WCETP
Apple iBooks: http://bit.ly/1nnfua9
Kobo: http://bit.ly/LNp363


Here's the book's full description:

Mistakes from the past return to haunt them...
When an unexpected tragedy in her family sends her mother into a deep depression, 17 year old Jane Aaron is forced to run the family dance studio on her own while struggling to keep her family from falling to pieces...and keep their family’s shameful secrets hidden. The last thing she needs is a difficult new student with a grudge against the world to make her life even harder. Especially now that her health seems to be falling to pieces right along with her family.

Secrets with the power to shatter everyone they love...
Carter Fairchild thought he had it all planned out until a terrible accident leaves him handicapped and threatens his entire future. Jane is the only one who can help him recover in time. But when their feelings for each other turn into love at the worst possible moment for both of them, will they allow their past mistakes and the dangerous secrets each of them hold destroy their chance at a future together? Or will the ghosts from both their pasts have the power to shatter everything...and everyone...they care about the most?