Excerpt of Melding Souls and discounts on Scandals With Bite!

Can't see images? Click here... Hey everyone! It's been a whole month since I last put out a newsletter. Between having a horrible tooth extraction and then getting the flu, I got behind on my writing. Anyway, I had meant to talk about my 2019 Goals with you, but missed out on doing that. However, I did get them up on my blog if you're interested. Anyway, first onto the discounts. His Ruthless Bite is now discounted to $2.99 Wynter's Bite is also $2.99 And the Highwayman's Bite is $3.99 So if you're into Regency Vampires, take a bite! Of course, there are also vampires in my Brides of Prophecy series and even though the upcoming new release, Melding Souls, features sexy sorcerers, the vampires are heavily featured in this next adventure. Melding Souls releases February 18th and is up for PreOrder! Enjoy the below excerpt! EXCERPT FROM MELDING SOULS Beau awoke to a weight sinking beside him on the cot. Aurora’s voice gently tugged him from the black swirl of unconsciousness. “Rise and shine, sleepyhead. You’ve been down for almost twelve hours.” “Art—” he groaned, struggling to sit up. “He left with Delgarias at dusk.” Aurora leaned closer and whispered, “Did you make your move yet?” “He was digging a bullet out of my arm, ’Ror. Hardly the time to ask which team he bats for.” Beau started to roll his eyes, then froze. “What do you mean, Art left with Del? Where did they go?” “Some hella intrigue going on.” The drummer’s eyes lit with conspiratorial mischief. “Zareth received a letter from the king of Wurrakia requesting for his son to return for a couple weeks, but Zareth thinks Art’s dad is going to ask him to spy on Zareth. That’s why Zareth’s having Del escort Art. A blatant warning of who Wurrakia would be messing with if they decide to get treasonous.” Artavian had been talking about the political tensions between his homeland and Zareth, but Beau had fallen asleep. Now he wanted to kick himself. How bad was it? Would Art be in danger? What if the Wurrak king refused to give Art back to Zareth? “Damn it! Art was just telling me how afraid he was to go home.” Beau launched himself from the cot and ran out of Artavian’s chambers, only half-hearing Aurora jogging after him. “Zareth should have refused!” By the time he got down the spiral staircase and reached the crowded solar, he was too out of breath to call out the King of Aisthanesthai. Even more frustrating was that he’d have an audience. Xochitl was beside her husband, Sylvis stood nearby with Kerainne, who cradled Silas and Akasha’s baby with heart-wrenching tenderness. Then there were all the vampires filling the large room, their eyes glittering with hunger. Dizziness nearly buckled his knees as an alien thought slipped through his mind. We’re almost all here. “Beau?” Xochitl appeared in front of him, grasping his shoulders. “You okay?” “Physically? Just fine. Art is a miraculous healer.” Anger restored the strength to his muscles as he jerked away from Xochitl and strode to her husband. “You shouldn’t have sent him back to his father.” Instead of lashing out at him with kingly ire like Beau had seen during royal audiences, Zareth only nodded. “I didn’t want to. But I do not want to risk an uprising.” “Why not?” Beau crossed his arms over his chest, something he couldn’t have done if he’d been treated by a doctor on Earth. “You’re king of this entire world. You can raise an army and crush him. They don’t even use magic in battle.” “For one thing, I would be a tyrant if I went to war over the loss of an apprentice.” Zareth sighed with impatience. “For another, I have no wish to slaughter Artavian’s kin. Though I’m even less fond of Aylmer than his son is, I do not wish to kill him unless I’m forced to.” Before Beau could respond, the sorcerer continued. “Artavian will return. Aylmer didn’t demand him to be brought home permanently, just for two turns of the gold moon. And in case he ventures down that line of thought, Delgarias will be there to remind Aylmer of Artavian’s importance to me.” “You could have at least let me go with him.” That way, Beau could have made sure Art was okay. And was Zareth saying that Art would be gone for two months? Zareth shook his head. “Your presence would vex the Wurrak king further. You know why.” Because he was gay and Artavian’s country was a heteronormative dystopia. Though there was no judgment in the sorcerer’s voice, Beau cringed. “Why would you take Art back when you think his father wants to use him as a spy?” “Because I have faith in Artavian’s loyalty to me. He risked his life to help me before.” Zareth reached up with his eerily long fingers to toy with a lock of his long black and silver hair. “This time, he’s in no danger and may be able to provide me with useful information as to which way the wind blows in Wurrakia. War is coming. I will need all of my people to be prepared and cannot have any kingdoms going against my decrees. Mephistopheles will sniff out those sorts of vulnerabilities and exploit them.” Beau’s eyes widened as he grasped the unspoken aspect of the king’s motives. “You’re using Art.” I hope you enjoyed the exceprt! Melding Souls will release February 18th!  Don't forget to add it to your TBR on Goodreads! As always, thanks so much for being one of my readers. I couldn't do this without you! Until next time, Big Hugs! -Brooklyn Ann ----------------------------------- Series by Brooklyn Ann 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brides of Prophecy (Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy)  Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda Prequel: Tesemini (Free) Wrenching Fate Only 99 cents! Ironic Sacrifice Conjuring Destiny Unleashing Desire Pleading Rapture Melding Souls ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hearts of Metal (Contemporary Romance) Standalones that intertwine Kissing Vicious With Vengeance Rock God Metal and Mistletoe Forbidden Song  Tempting Beat Heart Throb ----------------------------------------------------------- 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! Contact@brooklynannauthor.com

Review of 2018 Goals and onto 2019 Goals

Well, I was supposed to go over last year's goals and document my new ones last week, but I was too busy writing instead of slacking for once.

So here we go:

Last year's goals:

#1: Create a schedule:

I started out amazingly with this one. I got the My Shining Year Planner by Leonie Dawson, along with an hourly planner and kicked ass. ....Until I started Chantix. Then everything fell apart by February.

#2 Create a budget:

I did pretty well with that because it was even in the workbook... and then my book sales plummeted.

#3: Write a Will

Damn it! I STILL need to do this!

#4: Work on Health

Just like with the Chantix, I started strong, stretching and taking my vitamins, and then it went to hell.... except for a couple great things! I QUIT SMOKING! That wasn't even a goal, but then my roommate got COPD and had to quit and my son came to live with me full time, so I quit for them. I also cut out Sprite and now drink zero calorie sparkling water.

Just for quitting smoking alone, I'm going to call that a win.

#5.) Produce at least one Audiobook.

Hahahaha nope. Didn't have the time or money to do that.

#6.)  Do at least one local book signing.

That's a big regret. The Chantix insanity lasted almost five months. After that, I'd fallen behind on all my writing and was in a constant state of catch-up.

#7.)  Write 4 books for 2018.

I wrote two full Hearts of Metal novels, one half of a Brides of Prophecy novel, and a quarter of my new SECRET book idea.

#9 Begin NEW secret idea book

NAILED THIS ONE!!! 

#10.)  Be good to my loved ones.

I feel like I pulled this one off as well.

#11  Get Little Beast on the road

Hahaha. I did not have time to do any car work aside from my daily driver.

#12: Put Engine in my son's truck.

Kent did that. Does it count?

#13: Learn how to airbrush flames. 

Alas, I didn't have time to play with my airbrush kit last year, but I really hope to this year. I did do some kickass scratchboards though.

So... 3 1/2 goals out of 13. Not good.

MY 2019 Goals

I'm not going freaking 13 of them this time, lol.

1.) Have realistic expectations for myself. 

I think when I was working three jobs, and juggling between writing and marketing, I got too used to working 18 hour days and burned myself out. Which is probably why my productivity took a nosedive for 2017 and especially 2018. That said....

2.) Go back to having a schedule and planner.

Since I have to rebuild by business, I didn't get Leonie Dawson's planner this time, though I HIGHLY recommend it if you're generating more than $500 a month on your business. She also has a cool life goals workbook as well.

But now I'm trying this one. Only on Day 8, but I'm doing well!

3.) Write 27000 words a month.

It's my eventual dream to get 30K a month and average 1K a day, but I feel like I should have days off for emergencies or just days off to live. And 27000 a month is enough to net me a book every three months!

4.) Get one more tooth fixed.

My teeth are in bad shape. Already had to get one more pulled because it wasn't salvageable. Hopefully I can get my book sales up enough to start putting money aside for that.

5.) Get my son driving and insured. 

He's saving money enough to cover a couple months of insurance, but he needs more driving practice.

6.) Write a Will

THIS WILL BE THE YEAR, Damn it!

7.) Keep a better log of income and expenses.

Self-explanatory.

And that's it. Seven goals and most about writing. Yes, I'll still attempt to market, but writing will be my priority. I have a new series coming, several more Brides of Prophecy books to write, and a new series to plan.

I hope everyone else has an excellent year!!! 

My 2018 Recap

2018 wasn't the greatest for me. I failed on so many of my goals and had some major setbacks. However, there were some big triumphs. too!

January: 

Forbidden Song Released!

 This was by far my most difficult Hearts of Metal book but it seems to have been well-received.
I also had a great start with my 2018 goals, keeping to a schedule on my planner and making my wordcount goals.

Then because my roommate had to quit smoking due to COPD, I had to quit too. I started Chantix, which immediately helped me reduce my smoking, but it made me too sick to write so my progress died.

February:

I had some Dental work done, got down to 3 cigarettes a day, then two, then one, then smoked my last on the 14th. Unfortunately, aside from making me sick, the Chantix made me insane AND affected my cognitive abilities.

So I tapered off the Chantix and took up vaping to keep me from picking up a cigarette.

March:
I completely quit the Chantix,  and got started making vape juice. If it weren't for vaping, I'd pick up a cigarette right away.

Then in tragic news,  Kitten, Kent's grumpy old lady cat, passed away. :(

April:

I finished Tempting Beat. My brain was still messed up from the Chantix, so it took longer than anticipated. However, it was a really fun book and more light-hearted than Forbidden Song was.

May: 
Kent and I went to Reno for RT! We had so much fun and met so many new friends and I almost sold out of books! You can read the full recap HERE

When I got back, I also wrote an outline and pitch for a book series in a subgenre I've been wanting to write all my life. I STILL can't tell you all what it is, but the reveal WILL be coming soon.

June:
Tempting Beat  released.
The last effects of the Chantix FINALLY wore off and I got back into writing swing. I immediately started kicking ass on the final Hearts of Metal book.
Due to treats from Kent and my friends, I also got to go to some concerts. I saw Buddy Guy at the Fox Theater and Dead and Company (again) at The Gorge. (Again).

Only downside of June was that my beloved laptop started falling apart. The keyboard had to be held in with cardboard and the casing literally started breaking apart and cracking and had to be held together by electrical tape.

July:

Due to donations from readers and selling huckleberries, I got a new laptop. If I hadn't had debt from my dental work and expenses from the convention and reduced book sales, I would have been fine. So I am still overwhelmed with gratitude for those who helped me with half the cost of a replacement.

August:

I did a lot of writing and started working on my battle vest. As a metalhead, it's about time I made one.

September:

I finished Heart Throb, painted the back patch of my vest, AND writing went well on the new project.

October:

Writing went awesome, so did Halloween.

I also got the cover designed for Melding Souls, Brides of Prophecy 6! It's available for PreOrder!

November: Heart Throb released. The last Hearts of Metal book.
Sadly, my writing progress on the new projects tanked. I don't know if it's pressure from NaNoWrimo, the start of the holiday stuff, or what, but I NEVER have a good writing month in November.

December:
My writing progress sank lower, but that was because of Christmas preparations. I did a lot of art, though. You can check out the rest in my previous post.

So even though I was thinking it was a shitty year, there were a lot of good parts. Still, I hope I do better next year. My 2019 goals should be up tomorrow or the day after.

I hope the rest of you had a good year, and if not, have a better 2019 as well!

Check out my artwork and book discounts!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! This year I did four scratchboards for Christmas gifts.  This one took me forever to finish, but it was worth it. Kent loved it.  Here are the other ones I did. Anyway, onto the discounts! First up,  Unleashing Desire is on sale for $1.99! And Pleading Rapture is on sale for $2.34   Well, it's $1.99 on IBooks, Nook, and Kobo, but Amazon is weird, I guess. And finally, the Scandals with Bite Box Set is half price everywhere except Amazon.  Everything goes back to full price on the third, so grab em while you can! Also, don't forget that the new Brides of Prophecy book, Melding Souls, is available for PreOrder! Next week, I'll post an excerpt, so stay tuned. I'll probably also do a quick 2018 recap, but nothing like the ones I used to do because they take a lot of time and my year kinda sucked. Hopefully, my newsletter provider will also put the edit pictures feature back.  Until next time, thank you so much for being one of my readers! (Hugs) Brooklyn Ann ___________________________________ Series by Brooklyn Ann 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brides of Prophecy (Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy) Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda Prequel: Tesemini (Free) Wrenching Fate (FREE!) Ironic Sacrifice Conjuring Destiny Unleashing Desire Pleading Rapture Melding Souls ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hearts of Metal (Contemporary Romance) Standalones that intertwine Kissing Vicious With Vengeance Rock God Metal and Mistletoe Forbidden Song Tempting Beat Heart Throb ----------------------------------------------------------- For excerpts and special content, visit BrooklynAnnAuthor.com

FREE READ for the Weekend!

Hey everyone! Great news! My fantasy romance novel, Conjuring Destiny, is FREE for the weekend! You can get it on  Amazon iBooks Nook Kobo This one reads as a standalone and happens at the same time as the events of Ironic Sacrifice, the book you get free when you sign up for my newsletter.  Other News: I'm working hard on Melding Souls, the sixth book in the Brides of Prophecy series. If you missed the earlier announcement, it's available for PreOrder now! Go HERE to read the blurb and choose your preferred ebook store. Also, Heart Throb is available in paperback!

You can order it HERE and still get it in time for Christmas, either for yourself or for someone who would love a rock star romance featuring a grumpy bass player. LIFE NEWS I've been struggling with the usual winter depression and anxiety, but still managing to be productive. Today is my 10 month anniversary for quitting smoking as well! I'm also doing a lot of crafts for Christmas gifts. Here's a Grateful Dead themed scratch board I did for one of my friends

Do any of you make homemade Christmas presents? If so, let me know! Until next time, have a wonderful weekend! ((Hugs)) Brooklyn Ann Series by Brooklyn Ann 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brides of Prophecy (Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy)  Also don't need to be read in order until book 5...kinda Prequel: Tesemini (Free) Wrenching Fate (FREE!) Ironic Sacrifice Conjuring Destiny Unleashing Desire Pleading Rapture Melding Souls ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hearts of Metal (Contemporary Romance) Standalones that intertwine Kissing Vicious With Vengeance Rock God Metal and Mistletoe Forbidden Song  Tempting Beat Heart Throb ----------------------------------------------------------- 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! Contact@brooklynannauthor.com