March 2020
How come
February has two Rs in it? Never mind.
It galls
me to admit this, but I have to begin this newsletter with a profound and
abject apology. Not only did I fail to write a newsletter for February, but I
also haven’t sent books to people to whom I owe them. Picture me groveling. Or
maybe you’d better not. It’s not a pretty sight.
Anyway, I’ll
send Scarlet Spirits to everyone to
whom a copy is owed as soon as I possibly can. People whose names Bam-Bam slurped
up from the special give-away doggie dish at the end of January are:
Kat
Sadi, who gets a copy of Scarlet Spirits,
and
Margaret
Cronk, who gets a copy of Fallen Angels!
At least, perhaps, I am at last getting better after my final surgery of 2019, which I had in December. It’s been a rough ride. Recovering from a doctor carving a huge chunk out of one’s guts is no darned fun. Trust me on this.
However,
there are one or two good things to be perceived (dimly) on the horizon. One of
them is the re-publication Thanksgiving
Angels, Mercy Allcutt’s fifth adventure, which is being published this very
month! Here’s the cover and the Amazon Kindle link:
As for the
next Daisy Gumm Majesty book, Exercised
Spirits, I’m writing it as fast as I can, but that’s not very fast. I’m trying, okay??? Which reminds me of when
I was a kid. Every time I told my mother I was trying, she’d say, “You sure are.”
The
completion date of the next Mercy book, Angels
Adrift, is anyone’s guess. But please don’t guess too soon. I’m sorry.
Truly.
Um . . . I
have absolutely no idea what book to give away at the end of March. If you have
a preference, please let me know. Just send me an email at alice@aliceduncan.net. If you want an
ebook, tell me which device you use (Kindle, Nook, etc.). If you want a paper
book, you’ll need to send me your address, and it will depend upon if I have a
copy. I think I have copies of most of the Daisy and Mercy books. E-copies of
most of my books (all 65 or thereabouts) are always available, even to me, and even
though I’m not awfully swift with technology. However, if you want an e-copy of
one of my books (if you win one, I mean), I can get it to you. Somehow. I’m
pretty sure.
Another
good thing is that ePW aims to publish my old “Meet Me at the Fair” series,
which might get a new title. These books will be by me writing as
Rachel Wilson and will get spiffy new covers and so forth. These historical romance novels are set
during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (in other words, the 1893 World’s
Fair) and feature a variety of people, including a trick rider in Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West (he didn’t like to call it a “show”), an up-tight belle from the
South and a hootchy-kootchy dancer. I think they’re fun, although I may be
biased.
Wolfpack intends
to publish three box sets that will include many of my western historical
romance novels (One Bright Morning, Phoebe’s Valentine, Wild Dream, Sweet Charity,
Cactus Flower, Rosamunda’s Revenge (which contains my favorite opening paragraphs
and a Yorkshire terrier), Texas Lonesome
(which contains dachshunds), Secret
Hearts, Spirit of Love, Cooking Up Trouble, Gabriel’s Fate and Sierra
Ransom), but I don’t know much about them yet. More new about the box sets
and the World’s Fair books will be announced in future newsletters (I hope).
So far
nobody is lining up to re-publish my post-Titanic-disaster
series. I consider this a darned shame, since the books contain my
second-favorite heroine of all those I’ve created: Loretta Linden (Daisy’s my
first-favorite). Loretta’s rich, feisty, naïve, and wants to save the world
from itself. I had to write these books after the first two Daisy books tanked.
Kensington made me take a new pseudonym (I chose Anne Robins, as those are my
daughters’ names) and write three historical romance novels. I didn’t want to.
I was grieving for Daisy, and I hated
writing the first book in this series. After that, they became less onerous. In
fact, the last two were actually fun to write.
If you’re
interested, the books are, in order: A Perfect
Stranger, A Perfect Romance, and A
Perfect Wedding. My fave is the middle book, which is Loretta’s story.
Loretta absolutely cracks me up! Haven’t any idea why nobody wants the books.
Oh, well. Thanks to the marvels of self-publication, they’re all for sale
on-line, and two of them are available in audio format. Denice Stradling, who
makes a spectacular Daisy, will be
narrating A Perfect Wedding soon,
bless her. I appreciate Denice so
much!
Anyway,
enough of that. If you enjoy the Daisy and Mercy books, or if you’re just
fascinated by the 1920s (as I am), please feel free to join Daisy Daze. I adore Daisy Daze. Iris Evans and Leon
Fundenberger founded the DAISY DAZE Facebook page on which people post all
sorts of historical stuff about Pasadena, sewing machines, automobiles,
buildings, fashions from the 1920s, houses in which the people in the books
might live, stars of the silent screen, and lots and lots of other historical
(1920s-era) stuff. It’s fun, and if you’d like to be a member, check it out
here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/905100189878318/ .
If you’d like to visit my web page, here’s the link: http://aliceduncan.net/ . If you’d like to be Facebook friends, please go here: https://www.facebook.com/alice.duncan.925
Thank you!
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