Why Pay for E-Books?

Why Pay for E-Books? 

http://www.thefussylibrarian.com/for-readers/author-stories/

http://www.mulliganstew.net

Happy reading!

Love,
~Deb

Special Price!

$500 Holiday Shopping Spree!

ONE MORE DAY to enter the drawing for a $500 Amazon shopping spree. To celebrate the special 3-book volume TIME’S EMBRACE at a special price in print and all digital formats, Deb Stover is co-sponsoring a drawing for a $500 Amazon Shopping Spree with The Kindle Book Review, Digital Book Today, and a few other authors. Enter everyday for a better chance of winning, and remember to click on the books to see the discounted price! Today and tomorrow only, then the winner will be drawn. Good luck!
https://www.thekindlebookreview.net/500-amazon-shopping-spree/

Time's Embrace is a special volume that includes three complete time-travel novels: ALMOST AN ANGEL, A MOMENT IN TIME, and ANOTHER DAWN, plus a brand new short story sequel to ANOTHER DAWN! This special collector's edition is available in print and all digital formats. Find links to all e-tailers from the publisher here: http://millingtonhousepublishing.com/book_pg_times_embrace.php 
Millington House

My Story Garden

I am a Story Gardener -- I neither plot nor "pants" the idea. It's more like planting a seed (the characters), then watering and nurturing with Goal, Motivation, and Conflict (thank you, Debra Dixon). The Story Garden will need fertilizer (organic, of course, which could be stinky). The Plot will climb a sturdy trellis, that must assure a beginning a middle, twists and turns, and an end. The Story Garden will grow from the bottom to the top of the Plot Trellis. A gardener never knows what gnarly twists and turns--or weeds and bugs--a Story Garden may develop before the fruit fully ripens. My task is not to smother the natural vitality of the Story Garden, but to ensure the Vine does not rot in the process. 

Happy Spring!

I blinked and winter became Spring. At least that's what we're hoping here at 7,436 feet above sea level. The first week of May we still had snow. I took the snowy photo below on May Day. After a few days, we blinked and the afternoon high was almost 80! Ah, Springtime in the Rockies... This mid-May weekend's forecast calls for lows in the upper thirties and highs in the upper fifties. Those tomato seedlings will stay indoors a bit longer here. Even with a greenhouse it's too cold outside at night for tomato plants.

I'm still counting on barbecue weather for Memorial weekend.  Wish me luck!  :)

It's time to start thinking about beach reads.  I will have Almost An Angel (published in 1997) ready for reissue by June 1st, and will then turn my attention to editing my very first book (from 1995), Shades Of Rose. In the middle of all this, I'm still working on the proposed sequel to The Gift, tentatively titled The Secret.

I will have a new project included in an anthology titled I Never Thought I'd See You Again (Fiction Studio Books). This anthology provides the perfect vehicle for a story I have wanted--needed--to write for over a decade. Though it is a stand-alone story, the characters were first introduced in my second novel, A Willing Spirit, published in 1996, and now available in digital format. The character of US Marshal Sam Weathers endeared himself to my readers, and to this date I still receive mail asking when I'm going to write Sam's Story. My contribution to I Never Thought I'd See You Again, titled "Play It Again, Sam," is Sam's Story. Finally...  Check my Books Page for a release date and cover art, coming soon.

Happy reading! Happy Spring!  Love, Deb

May Day 2013 In My Neighborhood!

Mother's Day 2013 In My Yard (Photo by Martin Yaslowitz)

Once Upon A Time

Winter is in full swing here in the Rockies. Snow is beautiful, and moisture is necessary, but I'm ready for Spring flowers and gardens.

I'm noticing renewed interest in time travels lately, which has always been my favorite sub-genre of Romance. These books are fun to read and to write. There's something really intriguing about looking at history from a contemporary viewpoint. My favorite time travels are those that do not incorporate a revolving door time portal. The mechanism for transporting the character through time must have serious consequences. If it's too easy, it sort of spoils everything. Doesn't it? There's an article I wrote several years ago about time travels still up on the Internet here. And there's an interview with PNR on writing time travels here.

My time travels novels include: Shades of Rose, A Willing Spirit, Some Like It Hotter, Almost An Angel, Another Dawn, Citizen Daisy, and A Moment In Time. I also have a time travel novella titled "Keeper Of The Well" included in the Murder Most Romantic anthology.  You'll find more information and buy links on my Books page.

I've been busy this past year reissuing my backlist, so most of these time travels are now available in digital format. I'm planning to get Shades Of Rose--my very first book--and Almost An Angel released this spring. 

Always is my latest reissue. This is a contemporary romance--a reunion story set in the Rockies--which I lovingly call "Dr. Dolittle Meets Northern Exposure." The heroine is a doctor and the hero is a veterinarian in a small quirky mountain town. Though there is humor, it's also very heartwarming and sexy. I hope you enjoy it. This book was originally released by Zebra in 2000 as A Matter Of Trust. I hope you enjoy it.

Right now I'm finishing a story for the next Novelists Inc anthology. My story is titled "Play It Again, Sam." Yes, for those of you who have been asking, this is United States Marshal Sam Weathers starring in the lead role at long last. It took some fancy work to bring him back to life, but when have I ever let that stop me?

Check my Books page often for special offers and new releases. I offer titles for free download fairly often.

Happy reading, and may all your days include a bit of magic!

Love,

Deb

A Very Bad Hair Day?

A Moment In Time should be available on Amazon for your Kindle within the next ten days or so.  Here's a sneak peek of the new cover.

An excerpt is available online here.

It's one of my funniest and sexiest books.  I hope you enjoy Jackie Clarke's very bad hair day.

Happy reading!

~Deb

Friday Freebie!

From 12:01 AM until Midnight on Friday, October 26th, 2012, download a free copy of Another Dawn for Amazon Kindle.

Free Download Friday Only!

Read Chapter One at Deb's website now!

Reviews for Another Dawn!

"Only a very talented writer can take a man sentenced to death and turn him into the kind of hero who is not only appealing, but one a reader can actually feel sympathy for. Deb Stover certainly manages to pull off such a hero, and with panache, in Another Dawn. This is an engaging read right from the start. There is emotion, sensuality, action, and intrigue. It packs a powerful anti-death-penalty message, but does so without the sermon. If you like your romance on the intense side with very real-to-life characters, then this may be the book for you."
~Rebecca Ekmark, All About Romance 

"Deb Stover is an original and her time travel romances are unique, clever, intelligent, intriguing and romantic. ANOTHER DAWN is a thinking woman's paranormal romance with twists and turns, thought-provoking ideas and just the right balance of romance and time travel..." ~Kathe Robin RT Book Reviews, Top Pick and Nominated for a Reviewer's Choice Award!

"WOW!! ANOTHER DAWN is STUNNING! I wish I'd thought of it first." ~Maggie Shayne, best-selling author

"ANOTHER DAWN is a fantastic time travel romance that keeps the reader hopping and hoping for Luke and Sofie. Hot and spirited Ms. Stover does it again by opening the new year with what will be recognized as one of the top tales that will leave many other authors scampering to safer plots."  Five Stars!! ~Harriet Klausner, Affaire de Coeur

  

"Powerful, touching, and truly unique to the genre.  You haven't read time travel until you've read Deb Stover!"  ~Kristina Wright, The Literary Times

"Genius...  Five Stars!" ~Jim Trent, About.com

"Deb Stover has a dynamite book here, the best thing she's written yet. It's wonderful, it's practically flawless, and I'm truly in awe. I knew it when I first set eyes on it." ~Karen Harbaugh, award-winning author 

"The time-travel genre belongs to Deb Stover! Nobody does it better! I couldn't put this book down." ~Maggie Osborne, best-selling author

"Another Dawn is gripping and wonderful." JoAnn Ross, New York Times best-selling author 

"The intensity of Luke and Sofie's love, and the strength of their passion, transcends the bounds of Time itself. Their love was meant to be, and nothing can keep them apart, not in this time or in any other. The last two chapters, when their fate catches up to them at last, brought tears to my eyes." ~CompuServe

"Ms. Stover can, and does, make history and romance come forward or backward, and delivers an outstanding story of courage, faith, and timeless love. Fantastic! 5 Bells!!!" ~Donita Lawrence, Bell, Book and Candle

"The incredible Deb Stover has done it again. A man with no future. A woman with no past. A chance for love in a town called Redemption. This book will make you laugh out loud, and cry...and want to pick it up and  read it all over again. I loved this book, I loved the honorable, lovable and oh so wounded Luke and the feisty strong and so very wonderful Sofie. This book gets my vote for best book of the year!!" ~Terrie Figueroa, Romance Reviews Today

Remember, from 12:01 AM until Midnight on Friday, October 26th, 2012 only, download a free copy of Another Dawn for Amazon Kindle.

Big Deal Sale!

Cast Of Characters is part of Amazon's Big Deal, and will be available for only $1.99 for Kindle through August 23rd.  That's a 91% savings!  Happy reading!

Cast Of Characters

Did I mention there's also a story in there by me?  Oh, well, there is.  Something new.  :)  Enjoy!

~Deb

www.debstover.com

Free Book!

Mulligan Stew is still available for $.99 at most sites, and is free for a limited time at iBooks!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mulligan-stew/id466266068?mt=11

Star-crossed lovers, a cursed Irish castle, and comfort food.  :)  Happy reading!

Free Download Now!

Happy New Year, and Happy Reading!

~Deb

Perfectly Scary & Romantic Halloween Read!

http://youtu.be/rOVROrTY2eo

Want it?  Buy it!  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004VTHX5Q

Also available at Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, and iBooks.

"Dirty Harry meets Scarlett O'Hara and there's Hell to pay...."

You won't believe the ending of this book.  You have to read it to believe it!  :)

Maggie Shayne wrote: "I wish I'd thought of it first!"

Happy Halloween!  Muahahahah!

Love,
Deb, who was actually frightened by the evil Slick Dawson while writing this book

What Are You Reading?

It's summer and the reading is fine.  What books are you whiling away the hot summer hours with--when you get a few extra, that is?  Or which ones are you taking along on vacations or weekend getaways?

I've just finished Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.  I really enjoyed this one, and it was a fun stroll down Memory Lane with some characters we originally met as children in earlier books.

Next for me are several contest entries, and I'm still editing my back list in preparation for digital reissue.  Both my Mulligan books -- Mulligan Stew and Mulligan Magic -- will be released simultaneously soon. I'll post here when they go live.  Then I have six more books to prepare!  Busy, busy.  :)

Happy reading, and stay cool!

~Deb
www.debstover.com

Mike Faricy's Double Life

Mike Faricy the author or Mike Faricy, the hero of SOME LIKE IT HOTTER?  Seriously, Mike Faricy and I "met" online after I wrote SOME LIKE IT HOTTER.  I really didn't name the hero after him--pure coincidence.  And how interesting that he's an author, too!

Here's an interview with Author Mike about his latest release:

http://damesofdialogue.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/mike-faricy-crime-fiction-author-interview-by-maggie-bishop/

Happy reading, all!

~Deb
www.debstover.com

Hero's Name

As some of you may recall, the hero in my novel, SOME LIKE IT HOTTER, is named Mike Faricy.  Well, I met a real Mike Faricy at a conference some years ago, when he came in and demanded why I had written a book about him.  After I assured him it was purely coincidental, he left happy with an autographed book.  :)  Since then, I've met yet another Mike Faricy, who is also an author in his own right.  He said anytime someone googles his books, they end up finding my SOME LIKE IT HOTTER instead of him.  So I've vowed to help readers find his books, too.  :)

Here's a link to a recent interview with him:

http://lauries-interviews.blogspot.com/2011/05/spotlight-interview-with-mike-faricy.html 

He lives part of the year stateside, and part in Ireland, and we've become Facebook penpals.  He seems like a stand-up guy, and certainly has a good sense of humor.  I even mentioned that I could change the hero's name when I reissued SLIH, but he nixed that idea.

Perhaps he likes being the hero of a romance novel, fighting against evil--AKA Slick Dawson--or he just wants to spend more time with the heroine, Abigail Kingsley.  :-)

As my late husband always said, whatever works. ;-)

SOME LIKE IT HOTTER is now available for Kindle, Kobo, Sony, Nook, and--soon--iBooks.  So is A WILLING SPIRIT, and SHADES OF ROSE will be very soon.  Check my website for details.

Happy Reading!

~Deb

www.debstover.com

Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iBooks?

Some of you may have noticed that A Willing Spirit and Some Like It Hotter have not been available at Amazon for a couple of weeks.  That's because I pulled them and am in the process of making them available for all e-readers.  They went live at Barnes & Noble for the Nook today!  They're processing at Amazon for the Kindle, at Kobo for the Sony Reader, and will also be available at Apple for iBooks. I will update you with those links as they go live, and you can always check my website for the most recent information.


The Gift remains available for all readers, and I am working making arrangements to reissue my very first book, Shades Of Rose, with a stunning new cover. 


Happy reading!


~Deb
www.debstover.com

Some Like It Hotter

This time-travel romance was originally released in April 1996 under the Pinnacle Books Denise Little Presents imprint with this cover:

Original Cover (1996)

It's a beautiful cover, but it doesn't really fit the story.  True, the watermelon azaleas climbing the white wrought iron are very "Southern," and the story is set in Natchez, but this is not a "pretty" kind of story.  It's sometimes gritty and often naughty, with a villain who actually scared me a few times while I was writing it. My working log line was "Dirty Harry Meets Scarlett O'Hara."

Since the rights have reverted back to me now, I am in the process of making it available again to readers in digital format. My good friend, Mary Chase, AKA Mary Chase Comstock, designed this amazing new cover. I think it fits the story much better, and I hope you will agree.

For 2011 Digital Release, coming soon

The file is in production now.  Check back soon for links.

Happy reading!

~Deb

Quantum Leap!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Deb Stover is finally reissuing some of her in-demand backlist in digital format.  The first one to see rebirth is her award-winning 1996 time travel, A WILLING SPIRIT.  It now sports an appropriately humorous cover with her late husband as the cover model, wearing his memorable crooked grin.  You can find A WILLING SPIRIT now at Amazon (ASIN B004EHZTTW) <http://tinyurl.com/2668yum>.  Deb is working toward making it available for other digital readers as well.  Free Kindle readers are available for those who don't own a Kindle.  And if you really want a mass market copy of this book, Beth Anne's Book Corner in Colorado Springs (bethstec@aol.com) still has some in her "safe."

After the holidays, she will work on the resurrection of Some Like it Hotter, AKA "Dirty Harry Meets Scarlett O'Hara."

LOVE CAN JUST BE A MATTER OF TIME

Some things just can't be explained.  Winnie Sinclair can't explain how she ended up in an Oklahoma thunderstorm making wild love to Paul Weathers, her ex-husband's divorce attorney.  And she certainly can't explain how that same storm swept her back to 1896 Indian Territory.  And now barracuda lawyer believes he's a U.S. Marshal.  He looks like Paul, but gone are the three-piece suits and the expensive haircut, replaced by a pair of Remingtons and a Stetson. 

Two men, one body, one woman...and no one understands the meaning of the word "compromise..."

What Reviewers Said in 1996!

"Clever...original...thoughtful, quick-witted..."

~ Publishers Weekly

"Sassy, snappy, sexy...the genre's newest star." 4 1/2 Stars, Top Pick!

 ~Jill Smith,  Romantic Times Magazine  (that's what it was called then :-))

"Wildly funny, romantic and totally ingenious!"

 ~ The Literary Times 

"Five Gold Stars! This is totally original...incomparable. Creativity, thy name is Deb Stover!"

 ~ Heartland Critiques

"Five Bells!!! A hotter-than-a-pistol story you have to read to believe!"

 ~ Donita Lawrence, Bell, Book and Candle Bookstore

 1995 Steffie Walker Bookseller of the Year

"Deb Stover weaves magic. This book will make you laugh, cry, and fall in love...delicious, charming, exciting and heart-wrenching..."

 ~ Trish Jensen,  Pen and Mouse

"Fast, fun and fiery hot!"

 ~  New York Times bestselling author, Suzanne Forster

"Scintillatingly superb..." 4 1/2 Stars

 ~ Affaire de Coeur

"One of the quirkiest, sexiest, funniest time-travels I've ever read."

 ~ New York Times bestselling author, Anne Stuart

"Provocative, teeming with fresh and distinctive characters that spring from the pages into your heart. A wonderful tale packed with action, adventure, and a sizzling romance that ignites the pages. This one is a treasure to savor many times."

~ Rendezvous

The F Word

My name is Deb Stover and I'm a genre slut--technically, a sub-genre slut.  My published novels, short stories, and novellas all fall under the romance and/or women's fiction umbrella.  However, from there they pretty much run the gamut.

Time travel, historical, paranormal (ghosts, reincarnation, angels, curses, witches, devils, fairies), fantasy, contemporary, suspense/mystery, western, sexy and not-so-sexy, humorous and serious, scary and not-so-scary, and...so forth. 

Yep, I'm a serious sub-genre slut....

My brilliant literary agent advised me a decade ago that I should focus.  I cringed.  The "f" word?  F-f-f-f-focus?  Only write one kind of book?  Seriously?

Yes, seriously.  In order to build my readership, I should f-f-f-f-focus on one sub-genre for several books and stop being so, er, promiscuous with my muse.

This is like the desert island question.  If you were stranded on a desert island with only one book to read, what would it be?  Voracious readers consider this a special level of hell.  One book?  Yikes!  What a nightmare...

So, just as I decided to try f-f-f-f-focusing on contemporary paranormal romance for a while, my personal life went into the tank.  My husband's cancer came out of remission and became terminal, my health took a horrible turn, and I spent approximately six years pretty much unable to work.  I finally finished The Gift, which is a paranormal contemporary romantic suspense psychic empath ghost story (big grin), and realized, after losing my beloved husband, that I did not want to f-f-f-f-f-f-focus on this type of book.

Life is too short, and writing is too hard, not to follow our muse.  Yes, I absolutely agree with my brilliant agent's F-word advice.  She's wise far beyond her years.  However, I realize now I need to f-f-f-f-f-focus on the books of my heart.

I need to practice what I preach.  I often tell beginning writers not to write what they don't enjoy reading.  I ask them what type of book first made them sit down at the keyboard and type that first manuscript.  So I asked myself those same questions.

I've just completed a proposal I warned my brilliant literary agent is "classic Deb Stover."  Bless her, she said, "That sounds wonderful."

Let's hope she still feels that way when she reads it.  :)

Writing is hard work--really hard work.  Before we publish, we do it for love, and because our Muse demands we breathe life into the characters who haunt us day and night.  There's no money, no royalties, no deadlines.  It's all for the passion and pleasure of storytelling.  And, if we get lucky, we get both.

I got lucky back in 1995 when my first book was published.  I have to say that almost every one of my published novels have been books of my heart.

I'm ready to get lucky again.

Happy writing and reading!

Love,
Deb

Library Events

Please join me at two Colorado libraries this coming weekend, where many authors will be available to chat with readers, and discuss our work. I will be signing copies of The Gift as well.

Saturday, April 10, 2010
1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Pikes Peak Library District Presents
Mountain of Authors
http://ppld.org/blogs/PDFs/MountainOfAuthors2010.pdf
5550 N. Union Blvd.
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918
East Community/Conference Rooms I & II
http://library.ppld.org/aboutyourlibrary/HoursLocations/east.asp

Saturday, April 11th, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Author Reception
http://www.ci.englewood.co.us/Index.aspx?page=972
Englewood Public Library
http://www.ci.englewood.co.us/Index.aspx?page=851
1000 Englewood Parkway
First Floor of the Englewood Civic Center
Englewood, CO 80110

Happy reading!

~Deb
www.debstover.com

My Valentine

My daughter, Barbi, took this photo with her phone while playing with 8-month-old Bella. Now, seriously--has there ever been a cuter baby? Of course I'm not biased! :)



Happy reading, all. I will be at the Louisville Library on February 6th for "Love in the Afternoon"--a panel of Romance Authors reading from our books and chatting with readers. Information is here: http://www.debstover.com/news.html

Stop and say hi if you're in the area.

~Deb