Summer Devon's Blog - Posts Tagged "kate-rothwell"

goodreads claims some old biddy named kate rothwell claimed it, and two people aren't allowed to claim the same link. So much for group blogs.


Here's the blog although it's not the hive of activity it once was. Facebook, twitter, dogs and kids take up the slack.

Thank You, Mrs. M is a Kate Rothwell title and it's free through Monday June 3rd.

Go ahead, load the story onto your Kindle (and if you're like me, ignore it after that. I have about 100 freebies I load and forget [But, wait. No! Don't be like me].)
Here's a link to the freebie:
http://amzn.com/B0075O2BV0

At the moment it's #25 in the college/new adult category...a category I didn't know exited.

Unlike a lot of Summer Devon titles, this is an m/f, but mostly it's an M, told in first person.

here are some reviews:

4.5 stars!
This is a sweet, funny and emotional tale. This modern take on Daddy-Long-Legs, by Jean Webster, has wonderful, fully developed characters... This incredible story will appeal to adult as well as young readers. --Romantic Times


Thank You, Mrs. M. is a wonderful read...This is a poignant and enjoyable read. --Night Owl Reviews

This is not just Daddy Long Legs gender-reversed and updated for shock value, but a thoughtful and really interesting re-imagining of how the story might play out in today's world.

There are light homages to the original, which add a bit of extra glow to the romance if you're a fan, but what really made the story for me were the differences. It turns out the unknown philanthropist, here dubbed by our narrator Ben as "Mrs. Moneybags," has private, very unexpected motivations for helping orphaned Ben through college. And it was appropriate that Ben, who's described as very smart and thinking outside the box, catches on to what those are. --willaful

I like Ben a lot and I hope you do too.
--Kate/Summer

The Gentleman's Keeper is out today! I do like release day. It's like giving a cocktail party without having to get dressed up or serve anyone else drinks.
Here's a blog post about our new book! including bits of reviews. Notice the nice reviews? If you didn't, I advise you to go back and read again.

Since I'm in promo-mode, here's a dog almost identical to the one in my short story, "The Tail of a Dog". She's even pregnant! Okay, so she doesn't look like the one on the cover my kid made, but very much like the dog in the original photo.

Why am I showing you this? Because she was saved by the group that gets the profits from the story's sales at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The dog was in a must-find-a home-in-10-days-or-get-put-to-sleep shelter and now she's in a foster home, waiting to whelp.

Nice, huh? Buy more copies and we'll help get her pups good homes, too.

"The plot is rich in detail and subtle in message, and Peter’s relationship with Colin is thoroughly and playfully sexy, joyfully leading readers through a truly romantic journey toward happiness." --STARRED review, Publisher's Weekly

Happy release day to me! my new ebook

A brand new m/f historical by Kate Rothwell
Hey! LOOK! The Earl, a Girl, and a Promise is up on amazon.


When a nearly naked woman crashes into his arms, Paul, the new Earl of Latterly, knows he’s left his monk-like world behind. Raised apart from females by his misogynist father, Paul hardly knows how to speak with the delightful girl who’s dashed out of the dance hall. But in a single night’s tryst, they discover a passion he’s long denied himself. Yet to his dismay, he learns Emma is the adopted sister of the very man he seeks. The true heir to the earldom, Paul’s ne’er-do-well cousin.

Although she’s tried to escape her free-loving mother’s reputation, Emma consents to one night of lust…for a price. But as her heart falls for the stranger, she forgoes payment and flees into the night. Only to find Paul on her doorstep again, seeking her brother. And offering an inheritance that will change her family’s lives forever.

Her rapscallion brother needs training to blend with the ton, and Paul needs Emma’s help. Fear of becoming his eccentric father makes Paul skittish, and Emma’s outré family keeps the waters well-churned. But as Paul fulfills his promise to reveal the true heir, he and Emma must forge a new path to love. Before their pasts rob them of true happiness.

Note: This book contains explicit sexual content and graphic language. It is hotter than many titles by Kate Rothwell.


The the fuss and bother I've done in the past with new releases isn't happening with this one. I do blog-tourish things. I go comment everywhere. And I end up unable to write for a couple of weeks afterwards because my brain gets shoveled into a different mindset--one I intensely dislike. So I'm just putting this out, quietly. At least when the book gets ignored this time I know there's a good reason for it!

Does that sound like a nose cut off to spite my face? (and I was embarrassingly old when I figured out the phrase was " to spite my face" not "to despite my face.") Naw. Not how it feels.

About this book.

I wrote this a few years ago, back when I had an agent, and it kept nearly getting bought by New York. One editor said she'd just published a storyline that was similar. Another said it didn't have the right kind of sex she liked. Another liked my style but thought it wasn't dark enough.

So okay, no New York. Let's all prove New York wrong and buy a gazillion trillion copies of it. Make that prolific yet undiscovered Rothwell a feel-good success story that shows up on the front page of Amazon.

Although I might give in and do some bribery later. I'm thinking -- how about giving away a Kindle or something? Eventually. Maybe. I have to think about this one. Right now I'm going to go demand Mike make some cookies to celebrate--and to warm up this house.

Thank You, Mrs. M is doing the Kindle Countdown thing now. http://amzn.com/B0075O2BV0

For the next 4 days, XX hours, XX minutes and XX seconds, it's only 99 cents.

I'd go look up and copy/paste the right numbers, but it would all be a lie by the time you read this anyway. Yep, I still like that countdown thing.

This book also recently showed up in an article. http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com... *

I like the book; Kathy likes it; someone at RT likes it. http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-rev... ***

Otherwise?

This has never sold very well and when I tried to give it away, people wouldn't meet my gaze--they checked their wrists when everyone knows no one wears watches anymore.

BE A TREND-SETTER AND READ THIS BOOK. ONLY 99 CENTS.

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* it [uses] the basic plot of Jean Webster's Daddy Long-Legs in a way which captures its essential spirit but also creates something intriguingly new...Rothwell's story is wonderful in its own right, but it also added something new to my understanding of Daddy Long-Legs.

*** 4.5 stars This is a sweet, funny and emotional tale. This modern take on Daddy-Long-Legs, by Jean Webster, has wonderful, fully developed characters. The brief mention of sexual and drug themes contributes to the gritty reality of the character's world. This incredible story will appeal to adult as well as young readers.

is out today!

here's a review: http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com...

I really like the heroes of this story (and enjoying the characters, more than anything else, makes a book fun to write).

I wrote mine in three days and it was more fun writing than I've had in months.

here's a bit of it--unedited:

The prompt is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Dear Author,

I am getting really tired of the waiting. No one told me that waiting to die would be quite this boring. So to pass the time, I wrote a letter to my sister, but somehow my letter got to the wrong person. Who do I end up writing? Did I really commit the murder I will hang for? Can whoever my mysterious pen pal is get me out of the mess?

Fantasy or pseudo-regency preferred, where same sex relationships are normal, no PWP,

HEA or HFN ending please

Sincerely,

Xelly

Photo description: A man in his early twenties looks scruffy in a blood-stained shirt covered by a dusty leather coat. His handsome face wears a slight smirk which is odd, considering the very large noose around his neck.

Genre: Victorian/Historical


THE SCENT OF HOPE
Summer Devon

“And do you regret your actions that have brought you so low?” The elderly gent wore a fixed smile as he examined Dez. “I do not speak of the crimes of which you are accused. I mean all the sad conditions of your life.”

Dez sat at the edge of the metal platform that functioned as a bed and wiggled his perpetually cold toes. Hell, yes. I regret getting so drunk I was caught almost at once. “Yes, Father.”

The vicar leaned far back on the wooden chair he’d brought into the cell. Poor man probably wished he hadn’t settled so close to the prisoner. Dez got a bucket of water every couple of days and he didn’t waste more than a few drops on cleaning his stinking self and he hadn’t had a change of clothing for …too long.

But Dez had underestimated the old man who’d been shifting about on his chair for another purpose: to pull some crumpled blank pages and a pencil from inside his fusty black jacket. “Do you have someone to whom you can write, and beg forgiveness?” the vicar asked. “Can you write?”

Writing? Dez considered the notion.

Messing about with pencil and paper seemed more interesting than sitting and watching the rats chew on his dinner. His first week in prison, he’d tried to tame a rat—that seemed a standard way a convict might entertain himself. The creature bit him. After that, Dez decided to ignore his fellow inmates.

“Yes, Father. I’ll write a letter. Good idea.”

If the vicar gave him paper, he’d figure out what to do with it later on.

But then his plans to make salacious drawings were destroyed with the vicar’s next words. “I shall carry these pages from this place and send them. No official eyes will see what you’ve written.”

A generous offer, although perhaps the man of God was lying like the devil. Dez considered writing to Bill and ask he bring some tobacco and the ten shillings he owed Dez, but he supposed his friend would ignore any pleas.

No one he knew had tried to come to his rescue…and wasn’t that a lowering thought.

The vicar said, “Do you have a mother? Father? No? A sister? No one?”

“A sister,” Dez said. “But she wouldn’t want to hear from me.”

“Write to her. Do you have anything better to do with your time?”

Dez laughed for the first time in days. He liked this old crow of a man. “I’ll cancel my luncheon appointment with her majesty immediately.” He took the papers and pencil and got to work.

Yo! Hey! LOOK! Here's another m/m historical I recently released!

The Private Secretary



Down on his luck and desperate for employment, Ezra Seton is offered only one job: to work in the house of a heartless bully, the very man who drove Ezra's lover away. Gritting his teeth, Ezra takes the position. But neither the new job nor the master of house are what he expected. Still, he vows to keep his distance, no matter how difficult it is to maintain his composure.

Robert Demme's pleasure-seeking days are over. Having rescued his cousin Ambrose from a lunatic asylum, he expends much of his energy pacifying the fragile eccentric. Hiring an assistant offers some relief--and also intriguing temptation. Unfortunately, the fascinating Seton apparently loathes him. Determined to discover the reason, Robert uses his considerable wit to get under the man's skin, stunned when his plan backfires. Instead of unraveling the stalwart secretary, Robert has undone himself. All he's accomplished is a deepening of his own interest.

When the two spend the night together in an inn, their mutual desire proves too strong. The secretary and the gentleman succumb to lust. But when Ezra's old flame reappears and the cousin's experiments go awry, it's a battle to discover which will win the day: love or lunacy.

This edition includes a selection from Simon and the Christmas Spirit, a title by Summer Devon and Bonnie Dee.

Here's the contest --
You can win a copy at one of those simple Amazon click-and-see contests.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/f.html?C=RN...


At the moment, it's only up at Amazon because I wanted to check out the Kindle Unlimited service.
The Private Secretary: https://amzn.com/B01G4OQDIS