Thank you so much for having me here today! I’ve had a lot
happening to me lately – publishing a new contemporary romance, Christmas at
Angel Lake, the 3-book set, Miracle Interrupted Set, and I’m part of the
10-book Romance Super Bundle that’s on sale for only 99 cents. But today I’m talking about a paranormal
anthology of short stories and one novella, titled Entangled, a Paranomal
Anthology, that author Misty Evans and I published a little over 2 years ago.
It includes stories by at least 3 New
York Times authors and another 3 USA
Today bestselling authors. (The actual numbers might be higher; it’s hard
to keep up with these fabulous authors.) All the proceeds are going to the
Breast Cancer Research Foundation (which has a 5 star rating; the highest there
is). Even the cover was donated by the wonderful Laura Morrigan.
I can’t tell you how proud of it I am. Yesterday, I lunched
with Mary and three other area authors. Mary had heard that we’re taking the
book down after October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and she wondered why
and if the Entangled book would disappear from our e-readers. First, we never
planned for it to go on forever. It’s been on longer than we planned – mostly
because we were all too busy to think about it.
It’s only $2.99, very much a bargain, and none of us are
getting even a penny of it. To answer Mary’s second question, no, it won’t
disappear from your e-readers. You bought it, you keep it. Here’s the official
blurb:
Ghosts, vampires, demons, and more!
Entangled includes ten suspense-filled paranormal short stories from authors
Cynthia Eden, Jennifer Estep, Edie Ramer, Lori Brighton, Michelle Diener, Misty
Evans, Nancy Haddock, Liz Kreger, Dale Mayer, and Michelle Miles, plus a Seven
Deadly Sins novella by Allison Brennan.
Here’s a short excerpt from my short story, “The Fat Cat”:
Of
all the cat houses, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.
Tory
locked eyes with a fat, black cat and shivered. It wasn’t really misquoting
Casablanca at her, was it? She was a witch, not a cat whisperer.
It
had to be in her mind. The cats she knew wouldn’t lower themselves to speak
human.
“I
don’t like this place.” Sorcha’s gaze around the cat playroom in the Humane
Society was as scornful as if the place was violating the Geneva Convention
instead of crammed with carpet-covered climbing thingies and scratching posts,
plus strategically placed litter boxes that looked barely used.
Tory
glanced around, too, from one cat to another, twenty or more. All colors, all
sizes, all ages. Even the fat, black one who’d been staring at her since she
walked into the oversized cat cage.
Or,
as Sorcha called it, their prison.
“It’s
clean,” Max said.
Sorcha
stared at her husband, Tory’s brother, her expression as horrified as if he’d
said she needed to stop eating ice cream. “So are hospitals. I don’t like them,
either.”
Tory
sniggered. She could always count on her sister-in-law to cheer her up, even
after a break-up with her boyfriend.
She
was replacing him with a cat.
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I’m giving away a copy of my
Miracle Interrupted Set to a commenter. Two of the authors are breast cancer
survivors. (I’m one of the two.) Every author in this anthology knows someone
else who had it or is going through it. What’s
your experience with this disease?
Edie Ramer
Twitter https://twitter.com/edieramer
Mary, it's my pleasure to be at your place. Thanks for featuring Entangled. I'll always be proud of this book. :)
ReplyDeleteAn awesome anthology for a vital cause. Thanks so much for sharing it with us!!
DeleteWonderful interview and I'm grabbing Entangled!
ReplyDeleteMorganne, I know you'll enjoy it! I'm eager for your box set to be out so I can buy it!
DeleteMany years ago, one of my mother's cousins had breast cancer but she didn't make it. She was a fairly young person too, maybe 40. Then about 5 or 6 years ago, one of the ladies in our church, probably in her late 60's., was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was one who didn't go to doctors much. She'd been feeling poorly for some time and finally went. She'd known she had a lump for months, but --- Her prognosis wasn't good, and it was just before Christmas that year. However, with the new strides in treatment, and the new 'genetic' meds, she has survived.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is very aware of breast cancer, and does all she can to support the cause. She would buy the postage stamps even tho they were higher in cost; she has participated in the walk for cancer; and she usually buys anything promoting breast cancer research. She had breast implants when she was in her early to mid twenties, and I think that has made her very conscientious of it all.
Donna, I'm glad that your church friend is doing all right now. And I'm very glad that your daughter is taking care of herself!
DeleteMy mother died of cancer when I was in high school and it started with breast cancer. Treatment and prognosis has vastly improved since then, thank goodness. It's in no small part because of efforts like this and I'm so very grateful.
ReplyDeleteMary, I'm so sorry. It has improved a lot since then. Liz has been on chemo for over 13 years, and she's still here. And I'm very grateful for it.
DeleteEdie,
ReplyDeleteThis is such a wonderful thing you ladies are doing! Thank you!
Val
Val, it was a project of my heart and my pleasure! Thanks!
DeleteThanks to everyone who visited and commented!
ReplyDeleteEdie's winner is Donna E!! Donna, please contact Edie through her blog (http://edieramer.com/contact/) for your prize. Or you can email me at mary at maryhughesbooks dot com and I'll let her know your email.
Thanks again to Edie for her stepping in at the last moment with this awesome post and giveaway!
Mary, it was my pleasure! And congrats to Donna E!
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