A sale + a sneak peek
Hey friends! This one should be relatively short and sweet (at least, like, for me). First, the ebook of How You Get the Girl (US edition) is currently on sale for $3.99! The sale ends at the end of this weekend.
And for those of you across the pondβthe UK ebook will be on sale for 99p for all of June in honor of Pride Month.
In Heartwaves news, I decided to do a little sneak-peekaroo and uploaded the first two chapters on my website, in case youβre interested in reading before you buy. Also, I just really like the first two chapters!
Hereβs a sneak peek of that sneak peek.
The first time Mae Kellerman saw the ocean, she screamed.
At least, her parents had always described the memory as such: a long howl, torn from their toddlerβs chest at the first crash of a wave. Accompanied by vicious kicks into Maeβs motherβs stomach, a pounding at shoulders her parents first interpreted as fear. And so Jodi Dupont-Kellerman had hugged her toddler tighter, shielding her bonneted head from the wind with a hand, until her husband Felix suggested they try putting baby Maeβs feet down in the sand.
And the moment they hit, Mae was off. Running in the half-sideways, mostly-drunk way of toddlers toward the green-blue of the Atlantic.Β
Her howl turned more shrill, chubby fists rising in the air, until gradually, Jodi and Felix understood it was a cry of wonder. One Mae kept up the entire time Felix lifted her through the shallows of the waves, the sound refusing to leave Maeβs body no matter how Jodi and Felix tried to calm her. Until, eventually, laughing and holding palms over their ears, they walked away from the sand back to their old Subaru, to give Maeβs growing lungs a rest.
Forty years later, Mae gazed at a different ocean and rather felt like screaming again. Until her lungs once more wore themselves out. Until the waves told her what to do.
Instead, she sipped too-hot green tea from a paper cup.
And glanced back, again, at the building behind her. Wide slats of worn, dark wood ran up both stories, like a saloon in an old Western. Like it was weathered half by sea salt, half by tumbleweed.
A faded red and white sign hung in its picture window, above a chipped sill covered in dust.
For Sale by Owner
503-555-9032
If you live in the US and would like to find out more about that storefront by pre-ordering a signed & personalized paperback, you can still fill out this form up through release day on June 11th. After that, Iβll transfer signed & personalized orders to my Etsy just for easier logistics.
And if you donβt live in the USβyou can still fill out the above form, and Iβll send you an envelope with the small goodies I made for this one (a postcard and a sticker) along with a signed bookplate. International paperbacks *should* be available to buy on Amazon starting on June 11th; they just donβt allow pre-orders of them.
My copies should be arriving very soonβassuming they arrive in good condition, Iβll start mailing them out as soon as I can! I even bought pretty rose-gold mailers for them that I am inordinately excited about.
(Also, because it was the easiest way for me to currently do it, Iβve been invoicing folks for these pre-orders via PayPal, and I have to say, I am SO IMPRESSED at how yβall pay for your invoices right away?? Like, wow. Some seriously responsible adulting happening. You have inspired me.)
Iβve also had people ask me about trying to request Heartwaves on Libby or through their local library. (Thank you; I love you) The answer is that yes, it should be available for your library to request, but the companies libraries likely order through (OverDrive for digital and Ingram for paperback, which is what most indie bookstores also use) often just work a lot slower. Especially for the paperbacks, they might just not be able to order them until June 11th or even much later.
But regardless, here are the ISBNs for both, which should make it easier for you to request!
ebook ISBN: 9798224273546
paperback ISBN: 978-1-7372298-4-1
If youβve asked about audiobook, the sad answer is that currently there isnβt one, but hopefully I will sell audio rights for it one day. So fingers crossed!
Also: it wonβt be on Kindle Unlimited, but it will be on Kobo Plus! Aaandβ¦.I think thatβs all the answers to questions I can think of right now!
Iβll probably send out one more email around or on release day on June 11th, but thanks so much again for your support, for everything! I hope you enjoy Dell and Mae and Greyfin Bay, or if you read one of my other titles during Pride Month, that you enjoy Julie and Elle and Ben and Alexei and Dahlia and London. I miss them all the time.
hugs and hopes for a ceasefire,
anita