Last year I did a couple of posts reviewing 2021: one for reading and one for publishing. This year I’m combining the two.
Let’s start with publishing. Here’s a visual of the titles my publishing company (WDM Publishing) released in 2022:
I’m pleased with that line-up.
In addition to publishing, WDM also launched its own ebook store, allowing my readers to buy directly from me. It’s still new, but I’m very pleased with the visits and sales it has generated so far!
Now, on to reading!
Last year was the first time I’d ever bothered to keep track of the number of books I read. I was amazed to discover that I read 130 novels in 2021. I didn’t quite match that number this year, but I figure 115 novels in 2022 is at least respectable 😀
Here’s hoping you’re as pleased with your accomplishments in 2022 as I am with mine 😀 😀 😀
A new historical fiction story with a touch of romance… and a Christmas party! What’s not to love?
MISS BAINBRIDGE’S CHRISTMAS PARTY by Debbie Mumford Audience: General | Historical Romance | Short Story
It’s December of 1830 in Albany, NY, and Miss Clarissa Bainbridge is planning the perfect Christmas party. She has one last invitation to hand deliver before she can attend to all the last minute details the social event of the season requires.
Will Sir Gerald and Lady Helena attend? English nobility so rarely grace Albany with their presence during the holidays, and the Lanningtons only arrived yesterday. A last minute invitation, while not quite proper, will have to do.
But fate has other plans for Miss Bainbridge as she alights from her carriage to deliver the invitation…
I’m excited to announce that my books will be available as part of the Smashwords 2022 End of Year Sale! This is a chance to get my books, along with books from many other great authors, at a promotional discount.
If you wouldn’t mind lending a hand to me and the other indie authors taking part in this sale, you can share this promo with your friends and family. Just send this link to anyone who would love a chance to find their next favorite book!
I’m pleased to announce that Deb’s latest short story has been released. Here’s what it’s all about…
FLUTTERBIES AND FRENCH TOAST (Changelings ) by Deb Logan Audience: General | Contemporary Fantasy | Short Story
Having survived a world-wide pandemic several years ago, Jennifer and Rick are thrilled to be expecting their first child.
But their excitement fades when fate makes a gruesome appearance.
When children born to pandemic survivors reach their fifth birthday, one of two things happens: they change or they die. No one understands why or what to do about it.
Rick and Jennifer have a decision to make and very little time to make it. What can they do? How will they protect their growing family?
I don’t know about you, but I adore a good time travel story, and this new StoryBundle is chock full of them… and for a great price! Read on for all the details.
Curator Dean Wesley Smith writes:
Time travel fits in any genre and almost every type of story. Everyone seems to have their favorite kind of time travel. I know I sure do, and all the writers in this great bundle do as well.
As a genre distinction, time travel is considered science fiction, but actually it fits in fantasy much better. Diana Gabaldon characters rub a rock and magically travel into the past. Stephen King has his characters go into a closet. All fantasy.
Also, romance writers use time travel as a romantic element in their story, often to bring two characters together. So even though time travel, as a plot device, is considered science fiction, I thought it would be great fun in this Time Travel StoryBundle to show how really diverse time travel stories can actually be.
I also wanted to showcase another aspect of the diversity of time travel stories as well. Since H. G. Wells wrote The Time Machine, time travel stories have flourished in both novel and short fiction forms. In fact, the body of time travel short stories is so vast over the last hundred-plus years, it might be impossible to even begin to catalog.
So this bundle contains both novel length stories, but also an abundance of short stories and novella length works. There may be ten books in this StoryBundle, but there are over forty different stories. Amazing amounts of great time travel reading.
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For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.
Colliding Worlds Vol. 3 edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith
Backtracker by Jason Koenig
Dragon’s Blood by Kathryn Kaleigh
Her Highland Laird by Debbie Mumford
If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all four of the regular books, plus six more books for a total of 10, including two StoryBundle exclusives!
Tombstone Canyon by Dean Wesley Smith
The Chase by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
A Speculation of Time by T. Thorn Coyle (StoryBundle Exclusive)
A Memory of Time by Leslie Claire Walker (StoryBundle Exclusive)
