This has been a busy couple of months! We returned from our long vacation and moved into our mountain house, and since then I’ve been buried in deadlines (that is, after my husband went to the hospital for a day. He’s ok–it’s just life with MS). I’m happy to be in the cool pines now, but I haven’t been out of the house! Well, for errands and to eat a few times, and to drive my husband home from the ER.
Anne-Marie Piazza spent much of her spring and summer recording Kat Holloway audio books: Three novellas (Mrs. Holloway’s Christmas Pudding, The Price of Lemon Cake, and A Measure of Menace) are out now, and A Silence in Belgrave Square will be out in audio in a few weeks.
I have bundled the three audio novellas at my Web Store here: https://geni.us/qhUGp
They download to the Bookfunnel app, where you can listen to them.
Or, find each audiobook here:
Mrs. Holloway’s Christmas Pudding
Audible: https://geni.us/So9ZrXt
Kobo (and Kobo Plus): https://geni.us/sPJzL
Chirp: https://geni.us/BWHg9hq
My web store: https://geni.us/XZDmdv
A Measure of Menace
Audible: https://geni.us/H8dO
Kobo (and Kobo Plus): https://geni.us/JcawU8J
Chirp: https://geni.us/m9Y5x
My web store: https://geni.us/YANPZE4
The Price of Lemon Cake
Audible: https://geni.us/ok6V12
Kobo (and Kobo Plus): https://geni.us/cEu1
(Chirp to come)
My web store: https://geni.us/rtSGR
And of course, A Silence in Belgrave Square is now out in paperback and e-book! In bookstores everywhere or online:
Kobo: https://geni.us/ulZg8J7
Google: https://geni.us/9ltb0
Amazon (print and ebook): https://geni.us/279dW
Barnes and Noble (print and ebook): https://geni.us/Dk4J
Apple: https://geni.us/1pokWvQ
The audio book is pre-orderable at Audible, Chirp, Kobo, Audiobooks.com and wherever you like to buy audio books.
I’m very fond of A Silence in Belgrave Square, and I hope you like it. I introduce the character of Hannah, whom Kat knew in her cooking past. I loved writing her! Also there are more developments in the Kat / Daniel relationship, but I won’t spoil it …
I am now writing Book 9 of this series: Murder in Blackfriars, which will be out next year. If I get it done! This is one of the deadlines that is making me insane. I will need to do nothing but type for the next couple of weeks to get it written.
After that, I’m taking a break. (For me, this means days to a week.)
Now for the news part:
Book 9 will be my last contracted book for the Below Stairs Mysteries series. I don’t know if I’ll go back to contract for another one. Publisher almost said no to Book 9, which shows me the writing on the wall. The books, in my opinion, are doing well, but publishers are saying historical mysteries aren’t the “thing” anymore. I totally disagree (Captain Lacey, for instance, is my bestselling series), but they like to chase the new shiny.
That does not mean I will end the series–I will continue it indie, but I’m ready to be finished with deadlines, contract clauses that try to stop me writing other things, and not being able to publish what I want when I want to. I have other series I need to catch up on, and one reason they are behind is contracts that restrict me from publishing other books within certain time parameters.
The thought of setting my own schedule and not having to change it (barring personal emergencies) is so freeing! So, I’ll let you know. After my week off once I turn this book in, I will be writing hard on my other mystery series, then the romance series (all of them), and also starting brand new series!
I get excited when I think about it, which tells me this is the right direction to go.
But first … I have a book to finish! Sunday is my day off, then Monday it’s back to work. I love writing Kat Holloway, so it’s only so daunting.
Have a good rest of your weekend! Hope you find a good book to read, no matter what.
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