On Sale Today!

Today is July 1! OK, normally not a day that stands out in one's mind. But today just isn't any ol' July 1. Oh noes! It's the day that the latest round of digital Blogger Bundles go on sale over at eHarlequin and various other ebook retailers!

What do readers have to look forward to? Lots of fantastic titles of course!

• Dear Author polled their community and came up with a Community Picks bundle - featuring titles by Alison Kent, Cheryl Reavis, Nancy Warren and Fiona Brand. I've read the Reavis and it kicks ass. Just sayin'.

• SB Sarah presents Harlequins That Hooked You, which includes titles from Jennifer Crusie, Suzanne Brockmann, Emilie Rose, Rachel Lee and Beverly Barton.

• And then there's my modest wee lil' bundle - the entire America's Bravest series from Kathryn Shay. Shay was my first autobuy author from the HSR line, and the author I still largely credit for getting me hooked on Harlequins.

And there you have it. Prices vary depending on where you purchase your ebooks - but the eHarlequin prices are extremely reasonable considering the number of books you score per bundle. Buy early, buy often, heck why not buy all three?

Super Librarian Blogger Bundle #3 Coming Soon!

When I was first contacted by Harlequin, oh way back in late 2009, about putting together titles for suggested ebook bundles, I went whole-hog and gave them three. Thinking, of course, that they would pick the one they liked best. Instead, they decided to release all three! The Harvey Girls and Love, American Style bundles chock-full of Harlequin Historical goodness came out earlier this year. I was told my third bundle suggestion, the lone contemporary offering, would be held back for a July release.

I wanted all my bundles to have a central theme, and for that reason I looked quite a bit at series. Also, since I love the Harlequin SuperRomance line (one of the worst kept secrets in Romance Bloglandia) I knew I wanted to a do an HSR bundle. Super Librarian, SuperRomance. Get it? Seriously folks, this is about as clever as I get on a good day.

Kathryn Shay's America's Bravest series came out in the late 1990s/early 2000s, and was a series that centered around female firefighters. Code Of Honor (book #3) was actually included in the Dear Author bundle earlier this year, so if you were a reader who read that story via DA's bundle, and loved it - now is your chance to get the whole series! How cool is that?

Release date will be July 1, and as with past ebook bundles, it'll be available to purchase through several ebook vendors. Woot!

Truer Than The Red, White And Blue

I know. It seems like I've been doing a ridiculous amount of promo on the blog lately. Well, brace yourselves. I've got more!

February 1 finds Harlequin unveiling three more Blogger eBook Bundles. The gals over at We Write Romance bring forth some of their Top Picks (with titles from the Intrigue, Presents, American and now-defunct Bombshell lines), while Smart Bitch Sarah gives us a rockin' socks bundle featuring titles from Blaze, Desire and Presents.

Once again, I'm up to bat with another (yes, another) bundle of Harlequin Historical titles.

This go-around my desire was to cram down your throats suggest titles that illustrate how wonderful historical romances not set in England can really be. No really, they can be. Trust me on this one.

Prairie Wife by Cheryl St. John may be my favorite title by her to date. It's a marriage in trouble story set in the west, about a once happily married couple who drifts apart when their toddler son dies in an accident. It's gut-wrenching, heart-breaking, and damn near sucks all the oxygen out of the room - but man, it packs a wallop!

Married By Midnight by Judith Stacy is an amusing story that will lighten just about any foul mood. It's also set in late 19th century Los Angeles, a setting that is criminally under-utilized. Heroine is a bridesmaid for the third time in a month and is ready to scream. Her latest wedding obligation finds her meeting up with the hero again, several years after he broke her heart. He's ready to settle to down, but doesn't want to deal with all the wedding goo-ga - so he and his buddy enter into a wager to see who can get married within the next month. He meets the heroine again, is immediately smitten with her, completely disregards the wager, they marry and whamo! Yeah, she finds out about it. Not happy. Not happy at all.

The Bride Fair by Cheryl Reavis won the RITA award in 2003 for Best Short Historical, and it's a fantastic story. Set in North Carolina, post-Civil War, the Army Colonel hero, and former POW, is commanding the local occupying troops. Needless to say, nobody is happy to have them there, especially the heroine, whose home has been commandeered to house the commanding officer (uh yeah, the hero). The war has taken everything from her, her father is very ill, and she's carrying a small mountain of burdens. Thrown into this mix is the hero, who begins to show her through his actions that he is a good man, with his own burdens to carry.

This bundle is currently on sale all over the darn place. A few places where it's available:

eHarlequin, retailing for $12.60

Books On Board, retailing for $9.98

Sony Store, retailing for $12.60

Amazon Kindle Store, retailing for $9.99

Barnes & Noble Nook Store, retailing for $9.99

But...I'm not seeing it on Fictionwise yet. Hopefully soon.

ETA: As Phyl indicated in the comments - it's up on Fictionwise now! Yippee! $14.00, with big savings if you use their micropay program.

I really loved all of these stories, and hope you'll like them too. Also, this is the first time any of them has been available (legally anyway) in a digital format. Yeah, for more formats! Yippee!

More Promo And A Whine

For those of you not totally sick of me pimpin' "my" suggested Cheryl St. John eBook bundle for Harlequin, I'm over at the Harlequin Blog today doing...yeah, more pimpin'.

The bundle is pretty much on sale all over the darn place, and now Sony finally has it listed. Yippee!

In other news, I had so hoped that I would be able to get my reading act together in 2010, but so far I've been a massive FAIL. My "goal" was to get some sort of consistency in my reading. To carve out reading time every day in order to get into some sort of rhythm. Last year was filled with either me tearing through books in a day or not reading a single, solitary word in any book for days on end. Seems that pattern is holding for 2010 so far, and it's giving me massive TBR Anxiety.

Crippling, borderline psychotic, TBR Anxiety.

And I can't even use the excuse that I'm reading crap. I'm reading good stuff! Argh!

I'm hoping to get my act together this weekend, especially since the first day of the TBR Challenge is coming up next week!

Um, yeah. It would look kinda bad to skip the first month....wouldn't it?

Launch Day Is Here!

January 1 not only means the first day of a brand new, shiny year - but it's also launch day for the first round of the Harlequin Blogger Bundles! And what should greet me this morning when I clicked over to Harlequin's eBook site? This lovely banner. They even have a separate page set-up showcasing all the currently available bundles! How awesome is that? Way awesome!

Dear Author's bundle showcases Unusual Heroines, featuring stories from Harlequin Blaze, Harlequin Temptation (oh, how I miss that line!) and Harlequin SuperRomance.

We Write Romance has selected a bundle filled with four stories from Harlequin Presents.

And then there is my bundle, chock full of Cheryl St. John and Harlequin Historical western goodness.

These bundles are available at several of ebook retailers and prices vary. You can currently find The Harvey Girls bundle at:

eHarlequin, selling for $12.60

Amazon Kindle, selling for $9.99

Fictionwise, selling for $11.90 (there is a micropay rebate option)

Books On Board, selling for $9.98

Although I'm not seeing it over at the Sony store yet. Bummer!

So for those of you who do ebooks, I hope you'll consider downloading one (or all!) of these bundles should the spirit move you. I'd love to see one (or more) of the Blogger Bundles make Harlequin's Top 10 Bestsellers list.

Happy New Year!