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This week I had my very first reading ever. I don't have a good voice and it was scary as hell, but also kinda fun. The story I read was my "The Waitress," inspired by Tori Amos's song of the same title and chock full of Tori Easter Eggs. It ended up being a double creature feature because EC Dorgan read a story about unique monsters too! She also has a much better voice than me and I loved how her story was about a power couple. I LOVE power couples and think all fiction could use more. Check it out HERE!

I'm also taking part in the Free Summer Reads with Kobo Plus promo. No AI was allowed in the promotion, but I also learned that Kobo rejected a ton of AI slop books in general. Yet another reason Kobo Plus is superior to Kindle Unlimited. In honor of Pride Month, I featured Leaving the Shadows, a very unique shifter romance with two demisexual leads. But ALL of my books are free to read on Kobo Plus. Including my 2, soon to be 3, audiobooks! But as for the promo, this one is a lot smaller than the Yolo with Kobo ones I participate in, so you won't be as overwhelmed with too many choices. I'm going to try to be in more small promos this year and see how that goes.

And if you missed last week, the Fantasy and Paranormal Freebies promo is still going on. Tons of free fantasy and paranormal romances are up for grabs! All heat levels, ALLLL of the tropes. My grumpy-sunshine, master-apprentice, spicier than my usual fare #romantasy, To Tempt a Sorcerer is included too!  Bookfunnel will let you get the free download too even though you're already subscribed to my newsletter. Go HERE to fill up your device with these fantastical, swoony ebooks.

Horror news: I got my author copies of both editions of Carrie Revisited. In that edition I got to contribute an essay and my art piece that was in the limited edition, Carrie's Legacy was included. And the awesome publishers at Watertower Hill Press sent me new copies of House of Haunts and Hospital of Haunts after mine were destroyed in the disaster. They even included Hotel of Haunts, which I wasn't a part of but am very excited to read! I'm also excited for the upcoming Highway of Haunts, which will have a story from me. LIFE NEWS I'm still having flashbacks of the tree crashing down on top of Kent and me. And I only now noticed that I have scars all over my legs from it. But for less grim details, as I'm trying to find my new identity as a weird widow, I'm gravitating back to my 90s goth style, and since I lost most of my clothes in the disaster, that at least gives me an excuse to shop.  I tried on a couple tops with a skirt I got on sale at Torrid. If you want to see my dork-ass show them off, go HERE.   I'm also getting back into skincare and makeup. There is so much more out there than there was in my teens and 20s. I'm finally figuring out contour, lol. Wrap-up Next week, there will be a freebie AND some sales! And possibly my deviled egg recipe since the 4th is coming up. I'll also hopefully be finished with my painting, but since it's for a secret project, I won't be able to show off the whole thing. There are pics and videos showing glimpses of it on my socials, though. Bye-bye until then and big virtual hugs! -Brooklyn A. Series by Brooklyn Ann Brides of Prophecy (Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy/Romantasy) Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda Tesemini (short prequel, Newsletter Exclusive!  Wrenching Fate Ironic Sacrifice Conjuring Destiny Unleashing Desire Pleading Rapture Melding Souls Reclaiming the Magic Leaving the Shadows Bewitching the Vampire Redeeming the Angel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brides of Prophecy standalone spinoffs  To Tempt a Sorcerer To Wed a Warrior ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hearts of Metal (Contemporary Romance) Standalones that intertwine Kissing Vicious With Vengeance Rock God Metal and Mistletoe Forbidden Song Tempting Beat Heart Throb Scandals With Bite (Regency paranormal romance) Books do not need to be read in order Bite Me, Your Grace One Bite Per Night Bite at First Sight His Ruthless Bite Wynter's Bite The Highwayman's Bite  The Final Couples (formerly B Mine) (Horror Romance) HIS FINAL GIRL HER HAUNTED HEART ----------------------------------------------------------- For excerpts and special content, visit BrooklynAnnAuthor.com

Free Romantasy books, and FREE sample chapter of the upcoming Bite at First Sight audiobook!

I'm participating in this Fantasy and Paranormal Freebies promo! Tons of free fantasy and paranormal romances are up for grabs! All heat levels, ALLLL of the tropes. My grumpy-sunshine, master-apprentice, spicier than my usual fare #romantasy, To Tempt a Sorcerer is included too! Even if you're already subscribed to my newsletter, Bookfunnel will let you get the free download too. Go HERE to fill up your device with these fantastical, swoony ebooks.

In Audio news, the second chapter of my regency vampire romance, Bite At First Sight audiobook is up on youtube for you to listen to. We're looking at a July release date, but my Kofi and Patreon supporters will get it a week early! And speaking of Kofi, after you donate to my audio fund or buy something from my shop, you still need to follow to be able to access supporter only perks. And once you do, you'll be able to unlock the first chapter too!

Happy Pride Month! Although the majority of my romances are between cishet characters, here's my evergreen reminder that not everyone in the Brooklynverse is completely straight.  Melding Souls is MM, Leaving the Shadows has two demi leads, To Tempt a Sorcerer has two bisexual disaster leads, and The Highwayman's Bite has a trans supporting character inspired by real life historical figure, Le Chevalier d'Eon. LIFE NEWS It's been 6 months since I lost my partner and my home. (If you're new here, you can read about that tragedy HERE) I'm still having more bad days than good, but with therapy, I am working on unfucking my sleep schedule. It is still hard to go to bed without Kent and I still have flashbacks of the tree coming down on top of us. Waking up is still hard because, due to my PTSD, I usually wake up screaming inside. Now it is worse because every day I wake up to a world where he is gone. But I'm playing with productivity apps. I can't do Finch because there's no PC version and I suck at doing things on phones. So the one I'm using is called Habitica. It's like an 8 bit PC game. It's kinda fun.  So on top of my sleep schedule, I'm trying to get better at self care. I'm trying to make that bit fun with going back to my old goth roots.  I also got my resume done and am starting to apply for remote jobs, so hopefully my son and I can afford a place before our coverage for temporary housing runs out.  Another cool thing is getting back into art. I'm doing a really cool painting for a secret project a publisher is working on.  Horror News I'm also going to be reading my short horror story, "The Waitress" on Story Hour on the 24th. Since I don't know what happened to Kent's Yeti Mic, I got one of those little fuzzy clip ons. I hope it will work okay. This will also be my first time doing a reading of my work and I do not have the best voice. So I'm pretty scared. Here's a link to their channel if you wanna check it out: https://www.youtube.com/@Story... I plan to release "The Waitress" as a standalone short ebook, but I need to find someone to pose for the cover. I found the perfect vintage waitress uniform, but sadly it didn't fit me or my friend, so I gotta ask around locally. Wrap-up There will be more sales and freebies coming up over the next couple weeks. Bye-bye until then and big virtual hugs! -Brooklyn A. Series by Brooklyn Ann Brides of Prophecy (Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy/Romantasy) Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda Tesemini (short prequel, Newsletter Exclusive!  Wrenching Fate Ironic Sacrifice Conjuring Destiny Unleashing Desire Pleading Rapture Melding Souls Reclaiming the Magic Leaving the Shadows Bewitching the Vampire Redeeming the Angel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brides of Prophecy standalone spinoffs  To Tempt a Sorcerer To Wed a Warrior ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hearts of Metal (Contemporary Romance) Standalones that intertwine Kissing Vicious With Vengeance Rock God Metal and Mistletoe Forbidden Song Tempting Beat Heart Throb Scandals With Bite (Regency paranormal romance) Books do not need to be read in order Bite Me, Your Grace One Bite Per Night Bite at First Sight His Ruthless Bite Wynter's Bite The Highwayman's Bite  The Final Couples (formerly B Mine) (Horror Romance) HIS FINAL GIRL HER HAUNTED HEART ----------------------------------------------------------- For excerpts and special content, visit BrooklynAnnAuthor.com

First teaser of Bite At First Sight Audiobook!

This is gonna be a short update, but I wanted to share a quick snippet of the first chapter of the Bite At First Sight audiobook! My Kofi and Patreon supporters got the full first chapter. I will probably put that out next weekend, though.  We're most likely looking at a mid to late July release! And in the meantime, don't forget about my newly released expanded edition of my 80s horror romance, Her Haunted Heart!

Happy Pride Month! Although the majority of my romances are between cishet characters, here's my evergreen reminder that not everyone in the Brooklynverse is completely straight.  Melding Souls is MM, Leaving the Shadows has two demi leads, To Tempt a Sorcerer has two bisexual disaster leads, and the Highwayman's Bite has a trans supporting character inspired by real life historical figure, Le Chevalier d'Eon.

LIFE NEWS We got a cushion of time to stay in the temporary housing we're in. Which is good because I wanted to find another job before having to move. And I really like the house we're in, though it won't hold a candle to our home. I also have so many things due in July. A painting, a nonfiction piece, and another revision of Graveyard Girls.  Long-term with my writing, I'm torn between trying to double down on trying to get my book sales up enough to be able to support myself, or possibly taking a year or two off. It's hard to think clearly because I'm still very much not okay after the disaster. I probably never will be.  But I have to keep creating. Not just for me, but because I feel like it would dishonor Kent's memory if I quit after all his years of supporting and encouraging me. But it's still so hard. I do have some fun sales and freebies coming up after going 6 months without doing any of that. Bye-bye until then and big virtual hugs! -Brooklyn A.

It’s back… and it’s BIGGER. 🖤 Her Haunted Heart (Expanded Edition) is here! 👻

If you thought you knew the secrets hiding within the Sazerac House, think again. The expanded, upgraded version of Her Haunted Heart is officially live and available everywhere you love to read! What’s New in This Edition? I was never fully satisfied with how the first edition turned out, so when I got the rights back, I revised and expanded the story to give this book the deluxe treatment it deserves. Here's what's waiting for you inside the new pages: Brand-New Scenes: Fresh chapters that dive deeper into the mystery. More Heat & Tension: Amplified romance and closer character connections. Stunning New Look: A gorgeous new cover design by the awesome, Justin T. Coons for your digital or literal shelf. 🛒 Where to Buy Your Copy: 🌟 BUY DIRECT & SAVE $1.00! Get your copy instantly directly from me. Buying direct ensures 100% of the support goes to the author, and you get an automatic $1 discount compared to major retailers! Download the EPUB file to read on any device: 👉 Save $1.00 on Kofi 👉 Save $1.00 on Curios 👉 Save $1.00 on Itch.io  All of these include instructions on how to load them onto your e-reader.  📱 CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE EBOOK RETAILER Prefer to keep your digital library inside your favorite reading app? The Expanded Edition is available wide right now: 👉 Get it on Google Play 👉 Get it on Apple Books  👉 Get it on Kobo 👉 Get it on Barnes & Noble 👉 Get it on Amazon  There's also: Smashwords Bookshop.org Everand 📚 READ FREE VIA YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY Prefer to borrow? You can help bring this book to your local community! Her Haunted Heart as well as many of my other books are on Overdrive through your Libby App! Tap "Recommend to Library" or "Notify Me" to request that your local library system purchase a digital copy! It will soon be on Borrowbox, Hoopla, and Gardener's too. In Vampire Romance news: My narrator is 3/4 done with the Bite at First Sight audiobook! In fact, I'll be listening to the third quarter chapters she sent me while eating huckleberry cheesecake ice cream because I have been working until sunrise for the past week and a half and I am TIRED. We're probably looking at a July release. If you support me on either Kofi or Patreon, you'll get the book a week before anyone else AND, at certain tiers, FREE! I will also be sending out a teaser chapter next week to those supporters.

I might be able to put it up for preorder too. And for a definitely cheaper price than Audible. (We don't get to set prices there.) I'll also be able to make a bundle of the first 3 books! Then maybe I can get a Chirp deal!! In other news, I heard back from my agent on my epic coming of age horror novel, The Graveyard Girls, and she gave me the first round of revision notes. I'm so relieved she didn't hate it! And I'm going to be releasing my killer waitress short story from the Pretend You Don't See Her: The Invisible Woman anthology sometime this summer too. I'm also going to be reading it on Story Hour in late June. ...Which will be scary for me.

Not doing much life news, except to say my favorite and only local music store that has been here for over fifty years is closing because their landlord is selling the building and they can't find a new home because even though they always have good business, rent and housing costs are stupidly overinflated. I am heartbroken to be losing them. They were out of T-shirts but gave me a magnet in case their next batch isn't big enough. I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!  Bye-bye until then and big virtual hugs! -Brooklyn A. Series by Brooklyn Ann Brides of Prophecy (Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy/Romantasy) Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda Tesemini (short prequel, Newsletter Exclusive!  Wrenching Fate Ironic Sacrifice Conjuring Destiny Unleashing Desire Pleading Rapture Melding Souls Reclaiming the Magic Leaving the Shadows Bewitching the Vampire Redeeming the Angel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brides of Prophecy standalone spinoffs  To Tempt a Sorcerer To Wed a Warrior ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hearts of Metal (Contemporary Romance) Standalones that intertwine Kissing Vicious With Vengeance Rock God Metal and Mistletoe Forbidden Song Tempting Beat Heart Throb Scandals With Bite (Regency paranormal romance) Books do not need to be read in order Bite Me, Your Grace One Bite Per Night Bite at First Sight His Ruthless Bite Wynter's Bite The Highwayman's Bite  The Final Couples (formerly B Mine) (Horror Romance) HIS FINAL GIRL HER HAUNTED HEART ----------------------------------------------------------- For excerpts and special content, visit BrooklynAnnAuthor.com I love hearing from readers! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to send me an email!

Memorial recap and sadness, but some good book news in both romance and horror

Scroll down if you wanna skip the sad stuff. I'm sorry for not updating in two months. Kent's family came up to help clear out the back patio and garage of our destroyed home, and then we organized his celebration of life. His band buddies played two songs from Kent's old band and I sang solo for one, "Spine," and in a duet with a friend. "Different Reason." I'm a writer, not a singer, so I didn't do the best job, but my heart told me I needed to join in honoring his music. You can check out the livestream we did HERE, or rewind it for the eulogies and stuff. Since the slideshow didn't show up in the livestream, I uploaded it to Youtube and played some of Kent's band's album, which has much better vocals than my bad singing.  You can also check out my Eulogy HERE

We spread his ashes on the Fernan Lake Natural Area, a big hillside across the lake near our home. The city of Fernan wanted to turn it into condos and Kent fought hard to save it and succeeded. If not for him, we wouldn't have had this beautiful ecosystem and the bald eagles, who'd only recently recovered from near extinction by then, would have lost their nests.

Said city officials held a grudge and messed with Kent whenever they could. I included some of their shenanigans in my rockstar romance, Tempting Beat. ...And I may have killed one or two of them. All in all, I really hope Kent's family and I honored him the best we could. And I will put in my will a request to scatter my ashes on the hillside with him. The grieving process is the hardest thing I've dealt with. I try to stay busy so that I don't disassociate or have flashbacks of the tree crashing through our house and coming down on top of us. And then I received some terrible news that I'd suspected and dreaded:  My wonderful dream home will be going up for sale as soon as it's rebuilt, and right now, I'm not in the position to buy it. Right when I'm in the middle of searching for a third job. And right in the beginning of tourist season, when prices are sky high. And, of course, right when I am still struggling with my mental health in light of the awfulness that happened. I want to again thank those of you who donated to the GoFundMe  That has helped us survive these past 5 months. But part of me is still praying for a miracle that I can get my home back. Maybe one of my books will go viral on Booktok like Colleen Hoover. I dunno. Anyway, enough of the sad stuff.  Now onto the good news! My agent has read my epic coming of age horror, The Graveyard Girls, and her notes and phone call weren't as dire as I'd feared, in that I'm not going to have to do extensive rewrites. Just some very practical trimming and tweaks that will indeed make this stronger and reinforce my whole purpose for The Graveyard Girls.  And once I finish that, she'll do the deep-edits and then starts shopping it. I had two dreams of getting a seven-figure deal on this book. So maybe that will come true!  Either way, I am glad we got a step further in finding a home for what I feel is the most important thing I've ever written. In the meantime, I'm doing everything I can to boost my horror pen name.  I just turned in my short story for the upcoming Highway of Haunts anthology from Parlor Ghost Press (Coming in October!) And I was interviewed by the Delight in Fright podcast! Check it out HERE!

I'm getting prepared for the Massacre on the Mountain event in September. It will be my first horror convention and it will also be my first convention and road trip without Kent. I need all your well-wishes that our drive across the Washington and Oregon deserts will be safe and that I sell enough books and art to make up for the cost. Oh! And Lividian released the trade edition of Carrie Revisited, which includes an essay and art piece from me, released recently!  The color version is out of stock, but Lividian told me they will be getting more!

In horror/romance news: I'm revising the new, unabridged edition of my 80s haunted house romance, Her Haunted Heart. The characters are so cute and this book was my least scary, even has some cozy moments. But I am going to up the chill factor on this one. Many of the ghostly happenings are based on the real haunted house I grew up in, so you'll definitely want to read this one!

And for my romantasy readers! (Or Game of Thrones fans) To Wed a Warrior is featured in two ARC bundles over on Book Sirens! To go straight to the book's download page, click HERE Or you can check out this Sword and Sorcery bundle HERE! I am still in DIRE need of reviews for this book, so if Booksirens doesn't work for you for some reason, and you're interested in reviewing it, let me know!

In Romance news: My narrator is halfway done with the Bite at First Sight audiobook! So it will probably release in either July or August. If you support me on either Kofi or Patreon, you'll get the book a week before anyone else AND, at certain tiers, FREE!  I will also be sending out a teaser chapter next week to those supporters.

I might be able to put it up for preorder too. And for a definitely cheaper price than Audible. (We don't get to set prices there.) I'll also be able to make a bundle of the first 3 books! Then maybe I can get a Chirp deal!  Sorry this was so long.  I will try to get back into the habit of weekly updates.  Next week, as I'd said, I will be putting out a supporters-only chapter of Bite At First Sight, and maybe have a giveaway or a freebie for you all! In the meantime, if any Booktokers or Bookstagrammers want to boost my books, that will help a ton in avoiding homelessness for my son and me. As always, thank you so much for being one of my readers. I am still very much not okay after losing the love of my life and my home, but with your help, I can keep going.

Bye-bye until then and big virtual hugs! -Brooklyn A. Series by Brooklyn Ann Brides of Prophecy (Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy/Romantasy) Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda Tesemini (short prequel, Newsletter Exclusive!  Wrenching Fate Ironic Sacrifice Conjuring Destiny Unleashing Desire Pleading Rapture Melding Souls Reclaiming the Magic Leaving the Shadows Bewitching the Vampire Redeeming the Angel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brides of Prophecy standalone spinoffs  To Tempt a Sorcerer To Wed a Warrior ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hearts of Metal (Contemporary Romance) Standalones that intertwine Kissing Vicious With Vengeance Rock God Metal and Mistletoe Forbidden Song Tempting Beat Heart Throb Scandals With Bite (Regency paranormal romance) Books do not need to be read in order Bite Me, Your Grace One Bite Per Night Bite at First Sight His Ruthless Bite Wynter's Bite The Highwayman's Bite  The Final Couples (formerly B Mine) (Horror Romance) HIS FINAL GIRL HER HAUNTED HEART ----------------------------------------------------------- For excerpts and special content, visit BrooklynAnnAuthor.com