Hello, everyone!
For almost four months now, on Facebook and Twitter, I’ve been talking about the upcoming four-novel romance series I’ve been drafting and editing with a secret writing partner.
The time has come to share some details…
The Identity of My Writing Partner
Did any of you guess?
Hint, for those of you following both of us on Twitter, this post could have been titled “News from the Shoes” or even “News from the Shoe and Boot.”
Yes, that’s right! My husband, Stone Bastion, and I have been having a blast writing together!
Do you follow him on Twitter? He’s @StoneBastion and Tweets wonderful inspirational quotes and pics.
The Timeline
On Facebook, I shared that the entire series plot, characters, and book titles were hatched over pizza out one night. That was some damn good pizza!
That was four months ago. We are now only four months away from the release of the first book!
Mark your calendars!
It’s scheduled for release on September 8th, 2014!
The Titles and Their Release Days
Not only are we releasing the first novel on September 8th, we didn’t want readers to wait too long to get the next books in the series. So we wrote the whole series at once and will be releasing each book three weeks apart.
Ready for those titles?
{drumrolls}
No Weddings … (9/8/14)
One Funeral … (9/29/14)
Two Bar Mitzvahs … (10/20/14)
Three Christmases … (11/10/14)
{whispers} We also have an extra treat for you. A romantic nightcap novella that fits perfectly as an ending to the No Weddings Series…
For Valentine’s … (1/5/15)
Add No Weddings to Your Goodreads Shelf
Below is the No Weddings Goodreads link…
We’ll be adding the other titles to Goodreads today as well, so keep an eye out for them. You can find my Goodreads profile here.
The Tentative No Weddings Blurb
One nonnegotiable rule:
No weddings.
Cade Michaelson agrees to be part of an event-planning company set to toss high society on its ear.
Only Ice Queen baker, Hannah Martin, knocks him on his ass.
Yet neither are all that they seem, and a new set of rules casts the two on an unexpected journey as they explore why they built impenetrable walls and how they’re the only ones able to breach them.
The question is: who do they want to be, and where will they be standing, when those heavy walls come tumbling down?
The No Weddings Series Covers
We are ecstatic to be scheduled with Sarah Hansen at Okay Creations to create the book covers in the No Weddings Series!
We can’t wait to see them or share them with you!
The No Weddings Series Promotion
We’ve scheduled wonderful promotional items for the No Weddings Series release, including slots to put all four titles up on NetGalley and some very exciting elements on Fresh Fiction, details of all will be shared soon!
For all the reviewers and bloggers…
We’re thrilled to be working with InkslingerPR for the No Weddings Series cover reveal, release day launches, the No Weddings book tour, and the complete No Weddings Series tour.
Stay tuned on all our social channels for updates on signups to all the activities. We’d love to have you participate in the excitement!
No Weddings Outtake in June
June is the month for weddings, right?
{laughs} Not for Cade.
Keep an eye out. We’ve got private investigators working hard to steal an interview he deigned to give. We hope to blow the lid off the secret and give you a first taste of Cade in all his snarky glory.
We’re honored that Tamie at Bookish Temptations has agreed to share this exclusive teaser outtake with you on June 8th!
Meanwhile… Edits, Edits, Edits!
We’ve pulled out all the stops, polishing up these babies to make the novels convey the story of Cade and Hannah the way it was meant to be told.
Two different developmental editors, one copy editor, and two proofreaders are involved in bringing this series to you.
We’re thrilled to be working again with Kristi Yanta at Picky Editor and Claire Ashgrove at Finish the Story, both of whom did spectacular work in Forged in Dreams and Magick and Bound by Wish and Mistletoe.
This is in addition to our beloved City Beta and Swamp Beta, who are loving the No Weddings Series so far! The books have already begun to run through the pipeline, and we will be busy all summer at the Kat and Stone Bastion writing desks!
We hope you’re as excited as we are about the series. Writing romance together wasn’t something we’d ever planned on, but we’re having the time of our lives writing this wonderful love story.
Until next time, when we can share more news with you…
Your humble shoe & boot,
~ Kat and Stone
© 2014 by Kat Bastion and Stone Bastion
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