Catch Up and Heads Up

So! I have a few backlist releases that have come out recently which do need to be mentioned. I seem to be all about the science fiction romance at the moment, but there will be more fantasy romance at some stage, I promise. For now...

Catch Up

The box set for The Naravan Chronicles series is out from all eBook vendors I can get it into (I'm working on Google Play; if you're a Google Play reader, sorry about the delay. I hope to be there in the near future so you can check back for updated links). If you're the type to want All The Things At Once, this may be the better way to get the series as it includes all of the currently released stories (5 books!).

Also, I finally managed to get Marshall's Guard re-released with a lovely new cover! This one is in eBook and Print (Amazon | B&N | Book Depository for free international shipping) so you can choose your favorite format.

In eBook only, I've started releasing some older short stories, starting with my Eldora Station shorts. There will be more in the Eldora Station series in the future, including a longer novella/short novel. In the meantime, Last Call On Eldora Station is out now!

[UPDATE] Christmas on Eldora Station (originally published in RT magazine in 2009) released in May (on my birthday!). It's available everywhere in ebook! A little taste of space Christmas in the summer. *grin*

Heads Up

Now for the heads up. First, I will be moving the website to a new hosting site with a new look and everything. This is going to take me some time and likely won't be up and running until the fall (maybe later). There may be some weirdness during the move, but I'll give a warning of impending disruption closer to the time. In the meantime, this site will still be here. Or you can join my newsletter for more timely updates. The newsletter only comes out when I have news, though, so it's sporadic.

And second, for those of you who've been with me for ages, you might remember an excerpt I posted eons ago for a new paranormal romance series I was toying with (The Trouble with Black Cats and Demons). Well, I've gone back to work on that series and my other persona Kat Simons will be releasing the series starting this year (I'm releasing it under the Kat Simons name because that's where all the paranormal romance and urban fantasy is going to go in the future). It's more urban fantasy romance now than paranormal romance, but I'm having a blast writing it. I hope readers will enjoy it too.

That's the big news for now! Be sure to check back for updates!
Happy Reading!
~Isabo

FLIGHT is out now!!

The fifth book in my science fiction romance series, The Naravan Chronicles, is out now!

FLIGHT is available in ebook everywhere and the paperback edition will follow soon. The idea for this book was sparked almost twenty years ago, not long after the first book in the series, PROMISE was published and my editor told me Raf needed his own story. It's taken me the better part of that twenty years to get the book written and released, but I'm really proud to finally have it available (for the first time! Yay! Happy Dance!! *grin*)

I hope you'll enjoy my space pirate's adventure as much as I enjoyed writing about it!

FLIGHT (The Naravan Chronicles 5)
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Clare O'Malley needs the help of notorious space pirate Raf Tygran, but falling for someone like Raf is a guaranteed disaster for someone like her, and she can’t afford the distraction. Raf knows Clare is a liar the minute they meet. He loves liars, and the delectable Clare is a liar he wants to know better. Can two adventure junkies find a future together without starting a galactic war?

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Happy Reading!

~ Isabo

New Releases

The Narvan Chronicles releases continue with PARADISE. This is shortish story that was written originally for an anthology exclusive to the RT Booklovers conference. So if you weren't at that conference to get a copy of the anthology, this is technically a new release. *grin* The story is easily stand alone and outside the main arch of the series so if this is your first foray into The Narvan chronicles you shouldn't be lost. Though some of the characters mentioned in passing in this story are from previous and/or future books.

PARADISE is out for a limited time at $0.99 in ebook so now is the time to get it. It's also available in print, though that's still populating through the distribution channels so give it a week. (I'll up date the links when the book appears at the various sites).

PARADISE (The Naravan Chronicles 4)
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Print (links coming soon but check in at Amazon and B&N)

With chaos brewing in FarMore space stations biggest resort casino, Security Chief Meiling Trudeau will have to decide if she can trust the man she used to love—with the safety of her space station as well as her heart.

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The print edition of SECRET is also available now from Amazon | B&N | Book Depository (free International Shipping)

Next up in The Naravan Chronicles is FLIGHT. This will be a brand new, never before published book in the series, but the idea of FLIGHT has been lingering in my imagination for...oh probably eighteen years. LOL. So it's very exciting to finally have it coming out! It's due this fall, and based on the current production process, look for a mid-September release date. But keep checking back as I'll update that if anything changes.

If you want to keep up-to-date on releases and news, please sign up to my mailing list here. (There's double opt-in and I never share your emails, so you're safe with me. *grin*) I'll also be sending out the occasional free short story to subscribers just because. One on the schedule for this summer was previously published in RT Magazine about 9 years ago when they were experimenting with publishing some fiction alongside their reviews and Romance news. Since RT is closing this year (so sad!), it seems like a good time to show that story to an audience again. If you're not into joining newsletters, everything I give away on my mailing list will also eventually be released in ebook stores. Just check back here for updates.

As summer is upon us up here in the northern hemisphere, happy warm summer day reading to everyone! And for those in the southern hemisphere, happy cuddling under a blanket winter reading!

The Naravan Chronicles Continue

Book 2 in the Naravan Chronicles series, INTERFACE, is officially OUT NOW! This is a shorter story, originally published in DREAM QUEST edited by Linnea Sinclair and JC Wilder. And now it's back as a stand alone.

INTERFACE (The Naravan Chronicles 2)
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When Gina’s nanotech research leads to murder and death threats, her father hires private mercenaries to protect her. Alex has a rule. No romantic relationships with clients. That rule goes out the airlock when he meets Gina. But protecting her means ignoring his feelings and hers, and Alex isn’t good at ignoring things…

Next up in the series, SECRET (Book 3), which will be out May 11, 2018 (I just finished setting up the pre-order!). SECRET was originally published as THE SECRET OF NARAVA, so if you've already bought that book, you're good. This version hasn't been substantially changed.

Like the other re-releases, SECRET will be specially priced at only $0.99 for the pre-order and the
first week of release. If you're working your way through the series on the lead up to the new release in the fall, this is the time to buy the book!

A little nice review news: PROMISE (The Naravan Chronicles 1) got a lovely review from the Red Headed Book Lovers blog. She really enjoyed my little twist on the idea of an invasion story, which was cool *grin*.

In addition to the review, PROMISE is now officially out in print! You can find the PRINT EDITIONS here: Amazon | B&N | Book Depository (for free international shipping). You should also be able to special order the book from most bookstores.

I'm heading over to set up the INTERFACE print edition now, so look out for that soon. And don't forget, if you'd like to keep up to date on my re-releases, new releases, and some general fun stuff I have planned down the line, please join my newsletter. I promise I don't clutter your inbox!

Happy Reading!

The Return of the Naravan Chronicles

More re-releases! And at the end of this batch, there will also be a new SF Romance from me (whoop!).

The Naravan Chronicles have been freshened up with new matching covers (yay!) and shortened titles (much easier to pronounce). The four previously published stories will be releasing once a month, starting with PROMISE (previously The Promise of Kierna'Rhoan), starting on March 9, 2018 (yay again!).

PROMISE (The Naravan Chronicles 1)
Caught between duty and a growing passion that could destroy everything...or save their lives.

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PROMISE is available for pre-order now (and will be out soon as I write this), so be sure to check it out. For a very limited time after release (and during the preorder period), all of the previously published books will be discounted too, so don't miss that!

The fourth story in the series, PARADISE, coming in June, was only available previously in an exclusive anthology for the Romantic Times conference in 2016, so this story will likely be new to most readers (*confetti toss*).

Each story will be released in ebook followed by print. And then this fall, (finally!) the next book in the series, FLIGHT, will be released (*whooping and cheering* *more confetti tossing* *Champaign cork pop*). I'm pretty excited about this newest space adventure romance (if you can't tell). Raf Tygran and Clare O'Malley are an excellent match.

While I love all of my books, this particular series is near and dear to my heart. PROMISE was the very very first book I ever published--19 years ago in May, with one of the very first ebook publishers (yes, that's all the way back in 1999 before we even had easy peasy shopping carts!). The idea for PROMISE came from a dream. I wrote the book while I was supposed to be working on my Ph.D. (oops *grin*). It's seen many iterations at this stage. But somehow it's still kicking around. And I couldn't be prouder (though, do keep in mind it's 20 years old when you get to the hero smoking all the time). I have a real soft spot for this book, and the series that came from it. I hope you'll enjoy the books, too.

Happy Reading!

 

 

As Promised...Re-RELEASES!!!

It's true! I'm finally getting my backlist sorted and making it available again--refreshed with all new covers and updated blurbs. For the most part, the actually books are the same as the previously published versions, just with some typos fixed here and there. So if you already own copies of these books, you don't need to buy the updated versions.

The process of getting the backlist re-released will take some time, but at least the process has begun. (Thank you Pre-K for providing my youngest a place to be for several hours a day so I can work *grin*). I'm making my way through the ebook copies first, but print copies of almost everything will follow. And if you'd like up to date information about the new releases, you can join my newsletter. It will be an erratic, sent out only when I have news, kind of newsletter (and if I have a lot of news, only once a month) so as not to clutter your already busy inboxes.

It seems fitting that to begin the process of re-releasing backlist, I start with two of my earliest books. Thief's Desire and Destiny's Seduction. For the first time in their more than 15 year history of publication, they actually have complimentary covers now too! That part is still pretty exciting to me.

Thief's Desire (Fate's Hand, Book 1)
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She’s a thief. He protects the king. They aren’t meant to be together. Then Fate comes calling…

Available September 28, 2017

Destiny's Seduction (Fate's Hand, Book 2)
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She holds the fate of the world in the palm of her hand. He has to protect her, whether he likes it or not. And love is their only chance…

Available September 29, 2017

If all goes to plan, the next release will be my super sexy paranormal romance, Bonfire Night, just in time for October and Halloween! The ebook will be available on October 6th. Again with print to follow when I can.

After that, look for the Fire&Tears series to come out, hopefully in October. More new covers and I have new titles for the last two books in the series--I'm doing a number of title changes for the backlist, so be sure to check the blurbs to see if you own the books already! And remember, most ebook retailers will take returns if you discover you do own a book already.

If I can manage it, I'll get the two Christmas-themed stories I have up in November in time for Christmas. Then look for the re-release of The Naravan Chronicles in 2018. For that series, I'll also have a NEW RELEASE to cap off the re-releases! So that'll be fun. All of The Naravan Chronicles books have had their titles changed, simplified really, but I'll be sure to remind everyone of that when the releases start happening.

And finally, I am working on another New York Empires anthology with Stacey Agdern and Kenzie MacLir. Be sure to check back for updates on that. (or again, you could join my newsletter--which I promise will not spam your inbox!)

Happy Fall Everyone! I hope it's full of good reads and a few peaceful moments here and there. (Which I think we all need right now!)

Update on all the Out of Print stuff!

As you might have noticed a LOT of my stuff is out of print at the moment. I officially got every single story I previously had with a publisher back this year (along with all the books I got the rights back to in previous years). So they'll all be coming out again soon! I just have to make my way through the backlist.

If you'd like immediate updates on the new releases and reissues, I've finally set up a newsletter. This will be one of those randomly sent newsletters that you get when I have actual news to announce, so you won't be inundated. Even if I have a lot of news, I'll consolidate it into no more than one mailing a month. This mailing list is still in it's infancy, so welcome if you decide to receive it!

As for the reissues, the first two books coming out will be THIEF'S DESIRE and DESTINY'S SEDUCTION! And they finally have covers that match! I'm very excited about that. Here they are in a little sneaky reveal:

 

Aren't they pretty?! Once I get the books copyedited and formatted, those two will be released in ebook and print. Check back for updates (or sign up for my newsletter).

After that, I'll be reissuing THE NARAVAN CHRONICLES series. They're getting updated covers now and will have shortened (and easier to remember!) titles. And I'll finally be getting the next book in that series finished and released--that's a new one for readers, never been out before. So not only will you have the previous four published stories to read, you'll get a new one in this world, too! (Hopefully by the end of the year).

I'll work on getting the FIRE AND TEARS books out at around the same time I'm reissuing The Naravan Chronicles. They mostly just need new cover art, proofing, and reformatting.

Once those major series books are out, I'll start in on the other single stories. Most of this should be happening in 2018. I'm considering writing the sequel to Marshall's Guard finally, so I'll probably reissue that book with the sequel to follow. And I'd like to expand Siren Singing into a series (it was always meant to be one) so watch this space for more on that.

In the meantime, I'm still putting out new paranormal romances under my other pseudonym--Kat Simons. The 8th book in her Tiger Shifters series came out in January 2017 and the next book will be coming out May/June 2017. Pop over to Kat's website for more information.

In the meantime, hope everyone is enjoying their spring!
Happy Reading!