Kathy Carmichael's Blog

Hi, Folks!

I’ve worked hard to create an easy to navigate and discoverable website 🙂 It’s now complete. I’m pleased with how it turned out, but need for you to let me know if I need to fix something! So please let me know if you see anything off or missing. Thanks!

My book The Patron (available for pre-order now and will go live on Amazon on 12/10/22) is part of the Philanthropists series.

In the Philanthropists series, six bestselling and award-winning authors are thrilled to present to you their Romantic Suspense and Suspense Novellas in the Philanthropists Series. These short reads come in at 90-120 minutes reading time. Here’s the Amazon link to find out more.

Since I began work on my website, I substantially edited a book that I had previously published in a Kindle Worlds. Once Kindle Worlds was discontinued by Amazon, I got my rights back to the book, previously titled The Wedding Wine. I’ve rewritten it, changed the title to MY KIND OF TROUBLE and included it in my TROUBLE BOOK CLUB series. It’s available for pre-order now on Amazon and will be part of Kindle Unlimited once it goes live on Thanksgiving Day (11/24/22).

Here’s the Amazon link. 

Here’s my website link to find out more.

Next up, starting late this week, I’m going back to work on The Cowboy Prince (part of my Texas Two-Step series). I’ve had “coming soon” notices up for quite awhile, and with any luck I’ll be able to complete it before too long. Fingers and toes crossed — but no promises. I’ll try my best, though!

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My website is in the throes of renovations, so I hope you’ll pardon the mess for now. Hopefully the final product will be worth the wait. Pictured above is my forthcoming novella which is now up for preorder on Amazon. It will be part of a multi-author series THE PHILANTHROPISTS. I’ll post a link to the series page when it’s ready. In the meantime, here’s the link to the preorder page for my book.

Also, I’m now reintroducing my blog. It’s been many years since I posted to it, plus I usually offered guest blogging opportunities to other clean or Christian authors. Once I get a calendar set up for that, I’ll open the doors.

In the meantime, Happy Autumn!

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Free and Discount Books, please my tiara moment

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Digital re-release of Hot Flash and The Long Meow Mystery
I’m excited to announce these two titles are now available again!

The Long Meow Mystery

(Originally published as Diary of a Confessions Queen)

Amy Crosby needs her husband dead — fast.

Not that she plans to kill him. He disappeared seven years ago. Amy just needs to have him declared legally dead to save her house from foreclosure.

Sounds simple.

But then someone keeps breaking into her house — and anonymously trying to blackmail her. She has a new housemate — an injured cat named Chappy — plus businessman Jerome Keller who wants to be her fiancé, and police detective Brad Tyler who just wants to protect her.

Her husband — legally dead or not — is stirring up a whole lot of trouble.

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Hot Flash

What’s the recipe for a happy marriage?

That’s what chef Jill Morgan Storm wants to know, and according to responses to the “Marriage Satisfaction Surveys” she and her closest friends cooked up, the answer is to marry a traveling salesman who is rarely home.

And Jill certainly deserves some happiness, after everything she’s been going through. Her teen-aged son, who only speaks to her in French, needs college tuition. Her crazy mother is determined to find her a man—and only brings her unsuitable ones. A pesky schoolteacher keeps annoyingly trying to fix her life. Her sous chef job is in jeopardy, and, most aggravating of all, her ex-boyfriend has absconded with her favorite skillet.

What’s a single mom to do?

Faced with the answers to her surveys, she sets off to find the traveling salesman who can share her dreams. Along the way, can she find herself and a man who will claim her heart?

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My Favorite Corpse Free

As I mentioned in last month’s newsletter, My Favorite Corpse, the first novella in the Skullduggery Inn series is free as a digital book.

A Novella. My Favorite Corpse centers around Ashley Sands, the owner of the mystery-themed Skullduggery Inn located on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. An amateur sleuth, Ashley finds a corpse washed to shore at her inn’s private beach. She must learn what happened before her guests begin checking out. While Ashley’s mystery weekend guests usually enjoy the occasional dead body, they prefer the never-previously-animated kind.

 Skullduggery Inn Cozy Reads:

My Favorite Corpse 

Mayhem on the Winterland Express

Suspects & Suitors

Something Borrowed, Something Deadly

My Favorite Corpse is now available on the following sites:

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Winter!

View from glass bottom boat at Silver Springs

I hope this winter is treating you gently! It’s been kind of frantic here in the Carmichael household, but in the long run it looks like all of the scrambling will translate to good news down the line ☺ That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

The rights to my Texas Two-Step series are being returned to me, and the series will become temporarily unavailable after Valentine’s Day. I plan to get the series back up as soon as possible, hopefully within days. But if you’re currently reading one of the books in the series, you might want to quickly grab the others, or be prepared to wait a few days or so to snag the next one.

Because I’m scrambling for time right now, I’m sending a link to a darling video “Cats are Book Hogs” rather than creating one of my own this month. I’m sorry! But I promise one for my next newsletter! This is from Epic Reads (Harper Collins) and is precious!

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New Monthly Contest

Based on feedback from you guys, you really liked how easy it was to enter my December contest. So I’m creating a new contest, using similar rules.

Starting with this month’s newsletter, click on a link, any link, in this newsletter and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a $10 gift card (Amazon or Paypal). The winner will be announced in my next newsletter ☺ This contest is for newsletter subscribers only ☺

Book Reviews

It’s becoming more and more apparent that the number of reviews a book has, particularly on Amazon, the easier it is to place ads for the book. So I’m coming to you guys for ideas and feedback on what I can do to encourage more reviews. What makes you want to write a review? Do you need some kind of incentive for reviewing?

I have heard from readers who said they were embarrassed to review because they felt their writing wouldn’t be good enough. Trust me, any kind of writing is good enough. Reviews are for other readers and they aren’t judged on spelling or grammar! 

Until next time, I’m sending good thoughts and wishes your way!

Happy Reading!

Kathy Carmichael

 

Get your jingle on with this Christmas Advent Calendar from Beck Valley Book Tours! Click here to get started. If that link doesn’t work, try this one.

December 1st features Angel Be Good!  Click the link above to learn more

My family always looks forward to the day (usually the day after Thanksgiving Day) when we pull out the decorations and hang our Advent Calendar. The one we have is made of red and green cotton, and is shaped like a Christmas tree Every member of the family loves to be the one to change the date on the calendar, trying to beat the others to get there first Ours looks a lot like this one.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Happy Holidays! Here’s the link to my Holiday 2014 Newsletter
As a reminder, only my current newsletter subscribers may enter the contest mentioned in the newsletter. But don’t worry, if you subscribe now, you’ll be eligible for future contests
Be sure to check out my Bloopers video

 

I’m delighted to announce there’s a brand new Skullduggery Inn Cozy Read. I had so much fun writing this one about a zany bride, a murdered groom, and a huge cast of potential suspects (the entire wedding party)!

You can buy it now on Kindle, Nook, iTunes and Kobo.

 

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING DEADLY

(A Skullduggery Inn Cozy Read)

When the groom is found murdered hours before the wedding, can bridesmaid and owner of the Skullduggery Inn, Ashley Sands, clear the bride from imminent arrest? With numerous suspects, all with strong motives, Ash must figure out who-dun-it before the murderer strikes again.

Or, if you’re patient, you can order it as part of the upcoming RISKY BRIDES multi-author collection. You can pre-order it now on Kindle, iTunes and Kobo, for release on 10/21!

RISKY BRIDES

 

This Exclusive Limited-Time-Only Edition features:

 

Eight Risky Brides
Five Full-Length Novels
Three Quick Reads
Sexy Romance
Sweet Romance
Romantic Suspense
Romantic Thriller
Thriller
Historical Romance
Cozy Mystery
And so much more!

 

Looking for your next must-read author? You’ll find him or her in this limited-time-only collection. USA Today Bestsellers, (Vicki Hinze, Rita Herron, Donna Fletcher, Peggy Webb, Kathy Carmichael) veteran authors, (Kimberly Llewellyn and Tara Randel) and dynamic newcomers, (Bayard & Holmes)—all share their unique take on what it means to be a risky bride.

 

THE STORIES

Vicki Hinze

The Marked Bride

Romantic Thriller Novel

Nine months after breaking their engagement, Mandy sends Tim, a private security consultant and former Shadow Watcher (spies who spy on spies), an SOS. She’s in trouble. NINA caused the breakup and, though Mandy and Tim have been apart, NINA has struck—targeting Mandy.

 

Rita Herron

There Goes the Groom

Romantic Suspense Novel

A jilted bride is arrested for her fiancé’s crimes when he goes on the lam!

 

Donna Fletcher

The Irish Devil

Historical Romance Novel

The infamous warrior the Irish Devil was promised a bride by the King of Ireland for services rendered. Faith is as kind as she is beautiful and wants no part of marrying the fierce warrior, but has no choice, and once wed she discovers just how sinful the devil is.

 

Peggy Webb

Elvis and the Buried Brides

Quick-Read Cozy Mystery

Bad boy Jack Jones is finally retying the marital knot! But where is the bride? When Callie and cousin Lovie both go missing, everybody is crying in the chapel. Can canine sleuth Elvis and the Valentine gang find them in time to croon “Love Me Tender” at the wedding?

 

Kathy Carmichael

Something Borrowed, Something Deadly

Cozy Read Mystery

When the groom is found murdered hours before the wedding, can bridesmaid and owner of the Skullduggery Inn, Ashley Sands, clear the bride from imminent arrest? With numerous suspects, all with strong motives, Ash must figure out who-dun-it before the murderer strikes again.

 

Tara Randel

Love at the Sweetheart Inn

Sweet Romance Novel

Wedding planner Kara Delaney has had her heart broken too many times to expect a wedding of her own. Lucas Winfield can’t promise forever to any woman. As they work together on a wedding, the attraction is undeniable, but can they overcome their pasts to have a future together?

 

Kimberly Llewellyn

Almost a Bride

Sexy Romance Novel

After getting dumped at the altar, Ivy Hammond enters a sexy research study with one rule: don’t fall in love. But with each sizzling assignment, her hot research partner, Kip Lockehart, convinces her some rules were made to be broken.

Bayard & Holmes

The Spy Bride

Quick-Read Thriller

With her wedding only days away, a CIA operative and her mother must thwart a top-level traitor before he delivers computer technology to international crime cartels, allowing them to hack US security systems and target thousands of innocents for slaughter.

 

NEW! NEW! NEW! I’ve been having so much fun, writing in another author’s universe and I’m thrilled to announce that my story, THE WEDDING WINE, part of Lucy Kevin’s Four Weddings and a Fiasco Kindle World is now available on Kindle.

 

Four Weddings and a Fiasco: The Wedding Wine

I know I’m late posting this, but here’s a link to my June Newsletter. This one is text, but I’m hoping to do a July Video Newsletter. I will post when it’s live

Right now (I’m not sure for how long), Chasing Charlie is discounted from $3.99 to $.99, so if you haven’t snagged it yet, this is a great time. You’ll find purchase links if you click on the June Newsletter link above.

 

 

 

 

 

The next short story in my Skullduggery Inn series is now available — Suspects & Suitors. So please look for it at your favorite e-tailer.

 

 

Lastly, Ellen’s story (Davis’s mother from Chasing Charlie) will be available for purchase on 7/22. Western Pleasure is currently up for pre-order on B&N, Kobo and iTunes.

 

I hope each of you have a wonderful summer!

I’m excited to be participating in a blog tour with Beck Valley Books for CHASING CHARLIE. The tour includes 24 blogs from July 7 through August 7th. If you click on this link to Beck Valley Books, you’ll find the links to the participating websites. Please come visit me

Follow the Book Tour

Read the reviews….

1. Monday 7th July – Espacularaiesa

2. Tuesday 8th July – My Book Addiction and More

3. Wednesday 9th July – Miki’s Hope

4. Thursday 10th July – Words of a SAHM

5. Friday 11th July – Recommended Romance

6. Monday 14th July – Family Travels on a budget

7. Tuesday 15th July – Sanity is for those without children

8. Wednesday 16th July – I Create Purty Thangs

9. Thursday 17th July – Life as Leels

10. Friday 18th July – Hollybee Tells

11. Monday 21st July – The Book Review

12. Tuesday 22nd July – A Madison Mom

13. Wednesday 23rd July – Our Wolves Den

14. Thursday 24th July – Manic Mama of 2

15. Friday 25th July – Beck Valley Books

16. Monday 28th July – A Gluten Free Mom

17. Tuesday 29th July – 31 Days Early I Rise

18. Wednesday 30th July – AG LANG Writes

19. Thursday 31st July – Carpe_Diem

20. Friday 1st August – Tracy Helps You

21. Monday 4th August – First Time Mommy Adventures

22. Tuesday 5th August – Nana Robertas

23. Wednesday 6th August – Cinnamon Hollow

24. Thursday 7th August – My Devotional Thoughts