Readers have spoken and I have listened. Blood Match and Blood Bound are now officially on Kindle Unlimited! Visit my Books page for links to pick yours up today. Fear not, you can still purchase the ebook on Amazon if you wish to keep it forever. Paperbacks are also available at your favorite retailers and hopefully soon at local Utah indie bookstores. Stay tuned for more updates soon.
Blood Empire, the third book in the Blood Match series, is coming to ebook and paperback May 2025! This is the last book in the main trilogy but the stories in the Blood Match universe are far from over. I’m so excited to share this rollercoaster of a book with the world. Head over to my Books page for the full blurb.
Join me and many more Utah romance authors for an afternoon of books, signings, and all kinds of bookish fun! Event is Saturday, March 29th from noon to 6PM at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy, UT. More information and how to purchase tickets can be found in the link below.
I’ll have contests and freebies at my table. Also, get a sneak peek at the cover and blurb for book three of the Blood Match series coming in April 2025!
Make sure to follow me on your favorite social media platform for updates and extra entries to the event contests.
I can’t wait to see you all in March.
As Thanksgiving weekend winds down, I realized I didn’t post my sale on my website. Oops! Authors are really people, folks. We make mistakes and get side tracked. Turkey, a new shed, and family time was a wonderful distraction. The good news is you have one more day to spoil yourself or the reader in your life at a discounted price.
Keep checking back here and on my social media pages. Updates on book 3 and author events will be announced soon. 2025 is the year I hope to engage with readers in person!
Summer may be winding down but projects never stop around here. I’m working on writing Rowan’s short story while editing Book 3 of the Blood Match series. There are multiple vehicle and house projects too. Stay tuned for what I’m loving referring to as the “The Van Project”.
All that being said, my favorite summer project is always my garden. This week I entered my roasted purple tomatillo salsa into my husband’s classic car show contest. Fingers crossed! The purple tomatillos, three kinds of peppers, and two types of tomatoes all came from the garden. The garlic and lime were from the store but nobody’s perfect. The pictures don’t do it justice but the salsa was very purple and delicious, just like the 1950 Dodge Wayfarer.
Fall is my favorite time of year but it’s always hard to say goodbye to fresh veggies a couple steps into my backyard. Maybe someday I’ll have the time to put up a greenhouse but for now I will enjoy my little garden for the next few weeks before the first frost arrives. And if I’m really lucky, I’ll get another batch or two of this purple goodness.
May is always a bit chaotic around our house with multiple birthdays, Mother’s Day, planting the annual vegetable garden, end of year concerts/recitals, and this year graduation for my youngest. Let’s not forget wrapping up one of the largest projects at my day job that ate up multiple weekends. Why not give myself the goal of publishing Blood Bound, Book Two of the Blood Match series in the same month?
Either I’m a crazy person or I love to be busy. I’m leaning toward the later. I’ve never been good at being idle. My mind is always several steps ahead on multiple projects until I’m snoring on the couch from exhaustion. I guess I’ll rest when I’m dead.
Blood Bound is available on ebook now and very, very soon in paperback. Links to all your favorite retailers can be found on my Books page. I loved writing this book and I hope you will give getting into Victor’s head a chance. I promise it is worth the darkness.
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A year has passed since Cassie’s near-death experience, seriously rearranging her priorities. Life throws another curveball when she’s assigned to protect Stan’s homicidal ex-wife, Felicia Blackwood. Further complicating things, Dr. Blackwood himself has moved to town and set his sights on making things right with Cassie. Will Cassie be able to handle two Blackwoods or is this the beginning of the end?
The paperback proofs for Blood Match arrived yesterday and I feel like I’m in a dream. I’ve been working on this series for nearly fifteen years. I’ve moved across state lines, changed jobs multiple times, and raised three teenagers in that time. The idea of holding a copy in my hands seemed as realistic as catching a cloud. I guess the reason for this post is to remind everyone that if we really want something, we have to work for it. Our dreams aren’t handed to us until we take initiative and make them a reality.
Thank you to everyone who supported this dream alongside me. To those who listened to me talk through story ideas, character descriptions, and finally the insanity of self-publishing, I appreciate your patience and insight. I’m sharing my dream with you and the rest of the world.
Blood Match ebook is available now. Paperback copies will be available on August 30th. Links will be on my Books page.
Life is a journey filled with countless side quests. There are a lot of obstacles, meltdowns, and frustrations along the way. That being said, there are just as many achievements, celebrations, and laughs to balance everything out. Since my last year has been focused on self-publishing, I’m going to relate life to this specific adventure.
Writing the novel was the easy part. No, really, it was. The hours of formatting my website, finding a newsletter site, linking that for distribution, and figuring out all the social media options were the hard parts. At least it was for me. Talk about feeling like a grandma who can’t figure out how to use the remote! If you’re reading this, you found my website which has magical links to Facebook, Instagram, and hopefully many other fun places where you can follow me and my books. Obstacle 48 out of 589,002 complete!
We as writers think of our characters and novels as our children and as the saying goes “it takes a village”. Same goes for publishing whether it be traditional or the self-version. I’ve attended writing conferences, on-line workshops, joined a multitude of author groups, and read until my eyeballs were about to fall out. My beta readers provided thoughtful feedback and my editor made everything look polished. Last, but certainly not least, my family supported this crazy dream every step of the way.
Do I know everything I need to self-publish? Absolutely not! Do I know enough to put Blood Match into your hot little hands? Let’s hope so. Paperback and eBook will both be available on your favorite platform very soon. Audiobooks are down the road, around step 749. My promise to you, my beloved readers, is that I have poured my heart and soul into this book. I hope you love the world and characters as much as I do.
Follow the link below to download your free copy. Share with anyone you know who loves to read!
Cassie Franzenburg loves her life in small town Montana as a vampire working at Geo’s Security. She’s moving up the ranks while training her protégé, Arabella. When she gets assigned to protect a past fling who unintentionally broke her heart by ghosting her, she might have bitten off more than her fangs can chew.
Melinda Call Author 