Authors, Kai Strand & LA Dragoni

My first book, The Weaver , was published in December of 2010. Almost five years later I'm finally revealing my logo. What took so long? Author branding is harder than it looks. Well maybe just for me. But I've been struggling to find a brand that would cover the variety of books I have published, while leaving room for whatever might come. Though my current works are all fiction, they span readers' ages from five to eighty-five (honestly I don't know the top age for young adult readers.) So it can't be too juvenile or too mature. My books can be categorized as speculative fiction, fantasy, contemporary, romance, and suspense. I couldn't think of anything that represented fiction beyond a book or a quill and I didn't want either of those. One thought I kept coming back to is the emotion I try to put into my writing. Regardless of the age of the target audience I try to tap into the emotions the characters feel due to whatever their circumstances are in t...

Happy Hump Day! I have a couple of things to catch you up on. First, there is a book blast going on for Super Bad; Super Villain Academy Book 3. It's hosted by I Am A Reader Not A Writer. Seriously, Kathy at I Am A Reader is like a blog goddess. I revere her blog skills. Not only has she recruited a gazillion awesome bloggers to share the book info all over the interwebs between now and the 24th, but there is a $100 gift card up for grabs too. Yep, that's right. You might win $100 to spend on Amazon or via Pay Pal. What would you do with an extra C-note?  Well, find out! You can enter all the way up to September 6th. I'd appreciate if you shared the giveaway post you visit too. Help me get Super Bad in front of  all  the readers! When you see a post or tweet about the giveaway, please click on it to enter. Or, if you'd rather hop on over now, here's a link to just one of the amazing blogs sharing the giveaway. We Do Write And on the topic of giveaway...

I don't know about you, but one of my pet peeves as a reader is when it isn't clear that a book is 1) part of a series and 2) what order to read the series in. I have stopped reading a series because I've had to work to hard to figure out which book is next. Amazon is making it much easier to find that information. First off, they've added the series information directly under the book information. See how when you are on The Weaver's page on Amazon, it shows all the books in the series? This is especially helpful when the author and publisher didn't expect the book to become a series (as in the case of The Weaver) so you didn't indicate anything about additional books in the first one. The second very helpful information is when you click through to the series page. For example, I looked up my book, Polar Opposites. It shows that it's the second book in a series, so I click through to the series page and I'm provided with buy links for a...

Happy Memorial Day weekend! I've put together a quick giveaway for the weekend. If you are on Twitter, I hope you'll participate. All you have to do is click on the following link. It will take you to a pinned post on my twitter profile. Retweet the post and your retweet will enter you to win an ecopy (pdf or Kindle) of Finding Thor. http://bit.ly/1FCEqcA Super simple, huh? You have until 11:59 pm on the 25th to retweet the message, so hop over now so you don't forget. Thanks for your support. About the book: Cara Cassidy always envisioned love as Thor, slamming his hammer into the earth, and the vibration resonating within her for a lifetime. She never expected love would be a thousand tiny actions from a normal boy. When international intrigue hits small-town America, more than the car chases will get your blood pumping. Tragedy has left Cara Cassidy broken and the only thing keeping her from giving in completely is her guilt. Until Nik Rock. Nik ...

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