Samhain and Sky Daughter

Being today is Samhain, it seemed a good time to promote one of my books-- actually the only book (so far) that has a witch, more accurately wiccan, as a character... two and possibly three of them.

Samhain is the time when the veil between the worlds grows most thin. It is when the distance between the dead and living is most easily breached. It's celebrated by most people as Halloween or All Hallow's Eve and many have long since forgotten from where it came. But witches know...

 Sky Daughter is not set at Samhain but does climax with another important Celtic celebration-- Lammas, which is significant in the plot. The story is of a young woman who, after a series of disappointments, has returned to her grandfather's Idaho mountain home. She has come with no clue what she would find, but it was definitely not the love of her life nor an experience that will open her eyes to a whole different definition of reality.

Do monsters exist? Can humans find spiritual power other than through a godlike being? What about those witches? Are they truly evil or might they be those who most understand that thin line between our side and what lies beyond? Might they be the ones who sometimes stand between us and them?

Of course it has a trailer...

Thursday-- free contemporary western love story

Usually when I do an Amazon Kindle free day, it's when the book has been out awhile. In this case, I am trying something different to see how that works for a book that was only published Monday.

I am still debating the value of these free days. There is one huge plus-- they do get the books out there. The first one I did over two days got 1250 takers; the second one, as a one day, 1100. There is a satisfaction in that at least someone might be reading them-- although when something is free, who knows for sure if they do get read.

The concern I have about it is-- might it get to a point where readers only want free days and they wait for them? Still, where I am an unknown writer, haven't been publishing very long-- as in just since the middle of December-- my best hope is to get people to see the books and find they like a form of story they hadn't tried.  If they do, with eventually ten of these contemporaries, I have a lot more to offer.

This one is Evening Star and for February 16th, a free download for your Kindle or computer with a free Kindle app. Click on the link above or the one alongside this blog and be sure the price is correct ($.00) before hitting purchase. Amazon has been good at this but always check the price just in case something didn't go through properly.

There are now six on Amazon with four to go which I plan will be one a month as I look at more ways to help readers find them.