Heather Bowhay's Blog

New Release!So excited to self-publish my YA, urban fantasy and paranormal romance series as a boxed set on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Thank you to my awesome sister-in-law Jenn Fisher for cover art.The Guardian Series Complete Boxed Set: Amethyst, Linked & Dentelle A spellbinding YA, urban fantasy and paranormal romance with action, adventure, love, mystery, shapeshifters, and compelling characters.


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Super excited about publishing 2 new books in the New Year! My brother Gary Fisher and I have been co-authoring a Young Adult, fantasy series: The Sorciel Saga, and we are almost ready to publish books one and two.

The Sorciel Saga volume 1, Awakening


 Jackson Thomas has never believed in the supernatural, until a mythological creature rescues him from the Louisiana bayou. Thinking his imagination is to blame, Jackson dismisses the incident and worries about normal things like starting high school and talking to girls. But when fantasy collides with reality, Jackson is hurled into a mystical world. He is stalked by an old man who disappears into thin air, his family is attacked by ghostly shadows, and then his dad goes missing.
     Embarking on a mission to find his dad, Jackson and his best friend, Trey, discover an Isle in the sky, brimming with mystery, prophecy, and familiar faces. If Jackson accepts his place in this magical society, he shatters his belief he is ordinary but gains insight into a magical future and information about his dad's disappearance. Or does he? An unprecedented uprising of dark magic has put a target on Jackson's back...

The Sorciel Saga volume 2, The Mysteries of Margorth
     

Whoo Hoo!! Book 3 in the Guardian series, Dentelle , is published and ready to download at Amazon and Smashwords right now. Today Monday, August 5th, 2013.

Should take a couple days before it goes live at Barnes & Noble, and then a week or two for Sony or iBooks - that's how long it takes to get transferred there from Smashwords.

Thanks for waiting! Enjoy! Let me know what you think.

It's August 1st and I thought I better give you all an update. Here's the rundown on Dentelle . Seriously, the last 3/4 of the book are in the final stages of editing!!! I am so, so close to finishing that ever important step  - thanks to Karla, Heather, Laci, my husband, and my mom for finding mistakes and making suggestions! My guess...sometime in the next week to week and a half. :)

Short but true story: I finished the last sentence of Dentelle  on Monday, July 22nd around 11:00pm. I stepped outside to breathe fresh air and just feel free, I guess. I was greeted by an amazingly bright, what appeared to be full moon. I thought to myself - How ironic is this? Can't be. But I hurried back inside and checked the calendar and it really was the day of the full moon for the month of July. Perfect timing! I slept sooooo well that night!

Thank you all for waiting patiently. Know that I am hurrying and it won't be long now! As always, Happy Reading! :)

In between teaching and life in general, I am diligently working on book three in the Guardian series - DENTELLE! Look for it sometime this August! :)

Super excited to be back in Lexi's world again. Sometimes when I get writing - the hours just fly by, I'm so engaged that I forget to eat lunch, and then when I look up at the clock it's suddenly 5:00 p.m. and I realize I'm late picking up the kids up from cross country or soccer. Not to mention, I haven't even started dinner yet! Yikes!

Super Excited! During the week of May 18 - May 25, EReader Daily Extra is featuring me as an Author of the Week! How cool is that? Yay! Can you tell I'm excited?

EReader Daily Extra is great. Not only do they feature a different author, and that author's books each week, they also update links to FREE Books and Extras on a daily basis. They have daily picks, reader's choices, and daily discounts. It's a great site. You should check them out at:
http://www.ereaderdailyextra.com/index.html

I have created a Listopia list of FREE Kindle books offered on Amazon that I update daily! Quite often author's have special promotions and their eBooks are only Free for the day. So....make sure you check this link often for some super Freebies!

http://www.amazon.com/lm/RQRTMW2XPCAAF/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view?ie=UTF8&lm_bb=


Enjoy and happy reading!

My first novel, Amethyst, finally became a FREE Kindle Book!This YA Paranormal romance/ urban fantasy has been free at Barnes & Noble, Smashwords.com, iBooks, Kobo, and Diesel since October but was just made available for free at Amazon. It is the first book in the Guardian series.

The power of FREE at Amazon is truly amazing! In less than two weeks there have been 5401 downloads!! Now, if everyone I know, would tell everyone they know to download Amethyst, the possibilities are staggering....If you don't have a kindle, the book can still be downloaded for free onto a nook, Kobo, iPad, or eReader of some type.

A few tips that help an author's book be downloaded more times at Amazon:

1.  Leave a review and rating.

2. "Like" it on Amazon.

3. There are also "Tag Words" which can be found when you scroll down the product page on Amazon. If you take 10 seconds and place a checkmark in the tag boxes - it increases the books popularity by having it appear in other places on Amazon. For example, it will say Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant. So for Amethyst, you could check next to paranormal romance, fantasy, etc. etc. You can check 15 tags.
  My second novel in the Guardian series, Linked, is available for $2.99. What has also been exciting is watching how many downloads this novel has had since  Amethyst went free at Amazon.  Can you guess? Well.... the current winning number is one hundred and sixteen.   A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has downloaded my books. Please keep passing the word around...Facebook and Twitter are great places to suggest Amethyst and Linked to your friends and family.  I will keep  you updated on downloads, because that has been soooo much fun to watch. Just so you know, I am currently working on book three in the series. Target date of sometime in 2013 for the release!Happy, Happy New Year! May 2013 bring you much joy and happiness!sincerely,Heather Bowhay

Okay...so wild to see my book for sale on Amazon! Amethyst is now published and available through Amazon for $2.99. Hoping to get Linked, the second book in the Guardian series published on Amazon later this week!

Linked, book #2 in the Guardian series is now published at Smashwords.com and it is available for $2.99 for any eReader. So awesome and rewarding! I've sold 6 copies so far, which is exciting. Thank you Heather Steele for helping me with formatting and designing the cover. You rock!