The June Double-Cross is Romance and Military/Historical

From Here to Eternity, The English Patient, Dr. Zhivago, Memoirs of a Geisha, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gone With the Wind... Obviously love makes war tolerable, but maybe in literature, conflict makes love better?

The Love & Death promo runs this weekend, Friday June 21 through Sunday June 23. The promo features a number of titles running the gamut of these genres. So if you're looking for straight romance, historical romance, romance in time of war, or just a fictional tale set during a period in history or in time of war, you'll find it this weekend at promo.doublecrosslit.com.

The May Double-Cross is Sci-fi and Mystery

Questions & Answers

In 1953, Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man won the first Hugo award in science fiction, but at it's heart it was a howcatchem mystery novel. Dan Brown's recent Inferno is a detective story about a fictional genetically modified weapon at its heart. This promo explores science and all its mysteries, as well as the science of solving mysteries.

This weekend, May 17 through May 19, Double-Cross lit will be featuring ebooks that fall on the spectrum for the genres of mystery and science fiction. So whether your tastes run toward gumshoes or procedurals or time travel or alien invasions or something in the middle, you'll find something to love in this promo. So just click this link to the landing page sometime this weekend and load your e-reader for the summer to come.

Mirth & Mischief 99¢ / 99p

It's time for another Double-Cross Lit promo. This one features humor and thriller stories.

Mirth and Mischief

Laughter is the release of tension. Just ask Carl Hiassen or Janet Evanovich; and within the thriller genre, it can be subtle like the movie Ocean's Eleven to broad like Rush Hour. Whichever of these genres you come looking for, you'll find it in this promo.

This weekend, April 26 - 28, ebooks from more than a dozen indie authors will be discounted to 99¢/99p and I have two books in the promo you can check out. You can find the sale at promo.doublecrosslit.com this weekend.

An April Book Fair!

The April book fair featuring mystery and thriller titles at Magic Book Deals is currently live, and the collection features several books from a variety of sub-genres including, cozy, paranormal, procedural, historical mysteries, and romantic suspense. It also features a few crime thrillers including my own title, On the Side of the Angel.

All books in the promo will be priced 99¢/99p for the duration of the month, and can be found at this landing page link. Enjoy!

Daydreams & Nightmares sale from Double-Cross Lit

Every monster started as somebody's fantasy. Every fantastic beast is a monster to somebody. Were Dr. Moreau and his chimeras not a fantasy tale? Was Gulliver's journey not horrifying for him at times?

There's another Double-Cross Lit promo coming up this weekend. This one is called Daydreams & Nightmares, and it features ebooks that are either Fantasy genre or horror, or maybe a little of each. My own graphic novel ebook, The Return of the Dragon, is included. All of the titles have been discounted to 99c / 99p or no more than 1.99 in the case of box sets. You can find the sale at promo.doublecrosslit.com this weekend.

Love & Hate Sale from Double-Cross Lit

Romance and Crime/Noir

What's a noir story without a femme fatale? What's a romance novel without a bad boy? Crime and romance go together like Bonnie and Clyde. And what better month to feature tales of twisted love than February? Happy Valentine's Day. 

Do you like your romance novels peppered with the occasional bad boys? Are you a fan of crime stories with and without the femmes fatale? We've got stories from a number of today's best indie authors chock full of it all all for 99c/99p promo.doublecrosslit.com.

The promo runs Friday thru Saturday, April 22 to the 24th. We even have a few complete box sets for $1.99 each. Enjoy!

WIP

Back in August of 2018, I announced that I had completed work on the first draft of Where Angels Fear, the prequel to my novel On the Side of the Angel. I had planned to get that book in the hands of my beta readers fairly quickly, but then life happened and there were also some structural plot-related issues I was having difficulty resolving. However, after some heavy reflection, I think I may have those issues in hand, and I'm prepared to move forward with the second edit. Hopefully by next month, it will be ready for my betas. If you'd like to join that team, please let me know.

I also redesigned the cover for the book. The story was crafted in a brainstorming session with several authors, and one of those other authors actually took the notes and crafted the outline I worked from. I then turned that outline into story beats, and a third author began turning those beats into a first draft, however she was unable to complete the draft. She returned to me what she had, which was just a piece of the opening chapter, and I completed that first draft. Because there is so much input from other authors, I am not taking writing credit, but rather am crediting the team who helped with story, characters and plot points.

The idea for the series is for some of those other authors to put the character into some of their own stories, making her journey a shared-world experience uniting the universes of several independent authors. Hopefully that can still happen.

In Other News

Beginning in mid February, my podcast will be returning with a serialized reading of The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. The story was published in 1923 in the US, and due to changes in copyright law from the 70's, it just entered the public domain this year. Once the podcast serial has completed, I will be releasing the entire project as an audio-book, probably using Findaway Voices.