Arctic Light

Keeley #6 is out on Friday - Amazon preorder here - and here are the usual free copies; get 'em while they're hot. (Link will stop working when it's live on Amazon in a week.) Click on the cover or the link at the bottom to download; let me know if anything seems to be borked. Also let me know privately if you need any of the earlier books for context, btw.

Blurb is still a work in progress ...



From enemies to ... something else.

A few months ago, Aliette and her flock of bird shifters forged a truce with James Keeley and his magical detective agency. Now the shifters of Grand Bluffs need his help.

There's a new alpha in town, using a previously unknown form of alpha power so strong it's taking down the local shifters like dominos. But what does he really want? James, as a human, is immune to this alpha cult leader's shifter wiles, and James's magical spellgun can thwart the shifters' ability to sniff him out as a human.

Going undercover in a shifter cult, James can't take along his usual dragon backup. (And the dragon in question is deeply unhappy about it.) He's going to have to rely on Aliette—who not so long ago wanted to kill him—in a beautiful lakeside resort full of old enemies and new ones, where his survival relies on managing to convince a lot of shifter cultists that he's one of them.

Because failure means getting to star in his own personal production of The Most Dangerous Game.

And the only ally he has in the cult, Aliette, is one alpha-power brainwashing away from trying to kill him herself.

Not to mention that the spellgun, the one thing keeping every shifter in the cult from turning on him, seems to have developed an agenda of its own ...

Download from Bookfunnel in the format of your choice.

Two books out this week! Both are Amazon-exclusive. Let me know if you'd like them in a non-Amazon format.

Dick & Demon (Keeley & Associates #4) - the latest in the urban fantasy series I'm writing under my real name, and the first novel-length book in the series.

Wild Island Horses - writing as Liz Harman, a contemporary romance set on North Carolina's barrier islands.

Right, so book 3 in Keeley & Associates, that just-for-fun urban fantasy series I'm writing, is out next week, so it's time to throw some free copies at you! The link will stop working when the book is released.



Only a fool makes a deal with the fae.
But sometimes you don't have a choice.

Bookfunnel link!
(Or click on the cover. Which is tiny because I've been struggling with it for daayyyys and still don't like it.)

It's also for preorder on Amazon. Actually, here are the Amazon links to the whole series:
1. Dragon & Detective
2. Ghost & Gumshoe
3. Fae & Flatfoot (preorder, out next week)
4. Dick & Demon (preorder)*

*And technically not finished yet. It'll be out in June 2021.

ALSO FOR SALE NOW, also something I forgot to mention:
3-book Gatekeeper collection (the entire trilogy for $5.99). It was released Tuesday.

If you want any of these and don't feel comfortable dealing with Amazon, email me!

MORE FREE BOOK STUFF (links go to Bookfunnel; these won't expire):
• Gatekeeper holiday story which is basically Kay vs. Evil Santa (will be on my website at some point, but not yet; download only for now)
• Perfect Apples & Other Stories, a collection of short fiction from the mailing list (technically came out back in October, never actually linked to it because of reasons)

Sorry for dumping a bajillion links in one post like this! I have been more or less constantly busy for the last couple of months; then this week, suddenly I hit the point where I ... wasn't, and it has been amazing. But this also means that I'm poking my head up and reminding myself that I haven't actually linked to most of this stuff!

I'll have a year-end roundup post in a week or two of everything I've published this year that will also have links to a variety of perma-free stuff from the last year.

I CANNOT BELIEVE I'VE FINISHED THIS SERIES!! I've been writing it since 2009. Finished for now, anyway - the possibility of future books exists, but for now it's a standalone trilogy. I got to create a "Series - Done" folder in my Fiction folder just for this. ♥

And here are the by-now-standard free copies. Click the cover or the link to go to BookFunnel. The download link will work from now 'til Monday. The book goes live on Amazon on Sept. 29.



This Halloween, the dead will rise.

And only one woman can stop them...

https://dl.bookfunnel.com/3w6ndmmac7

I've also got Echo City set to go free on Amazon starting on Monday.

If you want the previous books and don't do Amazon, let me know and we can work something out.

So today I'm working on Facebook branding for my author persona.

(Me to Orion: The chaotic branding I've been doing on Facebook isn't really working.
Him: Yeah, you should really look into neutral or lawful branding instead.)

I have a new page for running FB ads from and generally for making book announcements, called Magic, Mayhem, and Mystery. You can see what it looks like here:

https://www.facebook.com/Magic-Mayhem-and-Mystery-601173417239021/

I wanted the name to apply to the general array of genres that this pen name is going to write, which will probably be mainly urban fantasy and mystery/thriller with supernatural or SF elements.

I want to redo my (largely unused) author group to match this, more or less, and start using it more. Specifically I want to make it more about my books and less about me. In the beginning I pretty much tried to roll all of my projects into one group that was really more about me than about what I do - this is what I mean by chaotic branding. It's called, sensibly enough, Layla Lawlor's Books and Art. But now that I'm looking around at what other people are doing with theirs, they've got cute names (like Hunter's Haven for an author named Elizabeth Hunter) and are more specifically focused on the books, and I want to do that too.

So I'm going to rename the group and make it sort of match the page, and I'm not sure what to call it.

My other author group, for the Lauren Esker paranormal romances, is called Lauren's Fireside Book Chat and I'm pretty happy with that - and with the "brand" for that page in general, which is kind of cozy and homey. This one is going to be more, I guess, stylish and actiony? But I do like the idea of having "Layla's X" to match the "Lauren's X" theme with the other group.

So now I'm just ... thinking of names. Layla's Magical Mayhem, maybe? I keep wanting to call it "Layla's Magical Mystery Tour", which is completely ridiculous but also kind of appealing.

AUGH.

Any suggestions are gratefully welcomed.