So many fun Valentine's Day Reads!
Also, a branding change for me, Celebrity Crush news, and some fantasy fun
A warm welcome to all my new subscribers who found me through Bookfunnel! I know it was a slog to get through all those glistening six-packs to find my geeky little board game love story, Trust Fall 😉, but I’m glad you made it!
For you readers…
Valentine’s Day is coming up, and I’ve joined a Sweet Romance Valentine’s Giveaway where you have FREE access to a bunch of sweet and swooney reads, including Trust Fall, if you happened to miss it! Oh, look! No abs. Just a lot of… cowboys.
Well, yee haw.
It works very similarly to the other promo I joined. You just have to join the author’s newsletter list to access their book. As always, you can unsubscribe any time.
Also, two very talented and wonderful writer friends of mine have book launches this month!
If you like YA angst, forbidden love, stabby girls and the swoony boys who love them, check out the Seven Sins Series by Emily Colin. The third and final book is available for preorder now and launches Feb. 13th.
If your jam is a Secret Garden retelling teeming with magic, check out Lisa Amowitz’s mysterious and twisty An Island Strange and Wild, where Liam will be sure to reel you in (available for preorder now, launches Feb. 20th).
Publishing news…
On my end, I finished writing Celebrity Crush 2 featuring a love story between two secondary characters from the first novel. It’s in the hands of my critique partners now (cue the involuntary tidal wave of anxiety) but I’m hopeful they’ll laugh out loud just as much as they did with the first one. Still playing around with some working titles. Some of the not-very-helpful ones that came from the hubs and daughters around the dinner table…
Yes, they’re very funny, I know. I’m hoping my critique partners love it and I’ll be able to send it off to my editor at Hachette very, very soon. I also hope to have a cover and link for you for Celebrity Crush (the first book) soon so you can add it to your Want to Read list on Goodreads. Stay tuned…
Wanna Escape with me?
Okay, confession time. Maybe you don’t know this about me, but I’m a nerd. In fact, all my books have some nerdiness in them, but the time has come for me to split brands and really focus on my readership for each. So… Christy Swift Books will be all about the geeky romcoms and C.P. Swift Books will be my sci-fi, fantasy, board game lit brand. I’m officially launching it on March 1st, 2024 on Ream and Patreon with an epic fantasy novel based off of the board game Rolling Empires.
For you romance lovers… YES, there is a romance subplot in there (of course there is). If this sounds like you’d something you’d like to read, I would love to have you hop onto those platforms to check it out next month and also sign up for my C.P. Swift Books newsletter, which is going to focus on ALL the elves and wizards and energy healers and time travelers. You can do that here.
As always, thank you for your support and for keeping me company on this journey. If you want to find me on social media, all my links are on my Linktree.