The Song of the Sleeping Grass - Available as a HUGE Paperback!

Hi Folks!

The Song of the Sleeping Grass is now available as a paperback book on Create Space: https://www.createspace.com/4262828

The book is not small at 722 pages, but I think that's okay.  The font is nice and large, so you don't have to squint much at all.  In any case, here is the write-up:

Have you ever been so attuned to the woven strings of a relationship that you can tell the exact moment when one of those strings snap? Even when your loved one is hundreds of miles away and assures you that all is well? Such is the moment that opens the tale of Becky Medina, a 24 year old Army wife trying to keep the home fires burning in Pennsylvania while her husband is deployed to Iraq. Change is forced on her and she has to learn to live with the fact that a traumatic episode in her husband's life has made him seek solace in the arms of another. Painfully breaking away from the life she was sure was forever, she has to start from scratch again back at her childhood home with her father. But when she decides to go on her long-postponed honeymoon to Scotland by herself, she finds comfort, passion and love in the arms of a sexy Scotsman who is in need of healing of his own and finds it in Becky.

 

It retails for $17.99 plus shipping (these print-on-demand books are not cheap), but remember that you can also buy it as an e-book for $3.99 on any e-book retailer. 

Check it out!

Real Books - In the...flesh?

So, here they are.  Real paper books:

It was time to pull the trigger and to commit my words to actual paper, and not just Microsoft Word documents that would then be read as e-books. 

Why print now?  Because I've realized that most people still prefer to read books they can hold in their hands, and not virtual ones on e-readers. 

Through these tangible copies of my books, I will be engineering brand-new promotional events for myself.  What will they consist of?  I don't know.  But I promise to keep you all posted!

Thanks for reading!!


Cyndia Rios-Myers

A Public Service Announcement...From Me

"Don't give out your personal information unless you have to," we usually hear folks say.  We know that applies to our Social Security Numbers, our phone numbers, our addresses, and passwords to our accounts.  But did you know that also applies to e-mail addresses?  That's right.  Email addresses.  Hackers can now link e-mail addresses to our cell phone numbers and wreak irreparable damage.  How do I know that?  I was a victim of it.

I was lured into "the trap" by whom I thought was my cousin.  I thought that I was chatting with him on Facebook (not face-to-face), but it wasn't him.  He simply asked me for my email address and for a code that I would get after giving him my email address (he said that he was entering a contest).  However, I did not receive a reply over email.  My phone rang instead!  My cousin does not have my cell phone number.  However, I relayed the code given to me by the automated voice on my phone.  That sealed my doom. 

Minutes later, after much haranguing on my part, my real cousin came on and said that he was hacked and to please not take ANY calls.  Too late, unfortunately. 

So, along with nursing a massive headache yesterday, I spent most of my day changing my phone number and my login information everywhere.  I feel violated.  I feel stupid.  I feel outsmarted.

So what is the lesson here?  Keep your email address to yourself.  Who knows what will fall into the hands of thieves?  For me, some of my unpublished books (still unfinished) that I saved onto my Skydrive.  That is what pains me the most. 

So, keep your business private, and remember to not rely on technology to keep your secrets.

Cyndia Rios-Myers

Rescued by the Wolf: Book One of the Wolves - Free Thru June 27, 2013

Hi Folks!

I thought that I would offer the first book of my very fun series of novellas for free, through 06/27/2013.   Please go to Smashwords and redeem it with code LV99E.  Here is the link:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/83869

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Don't Pick a Side!! Equal Opportunity For All E-Readers!

Hello there, Writer.  My name is Cyndia Rios-Myers.  Just like you, I am a writer.  Do you know what else I am? A reader.  I love to read.  If you read my last post, you probably discovered that I love series fiction/paranormal fiction.  I also love nonfiction.  I am currently reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.  AWESOME book, by the way.  I "picked it up" on sale at Barnes and Noble for my Nook, which brings me to the topic of this "conversation."

Why do you chose to publish e-books on only one website?  Actually, you don't have to answer that.  I know that you do it because one particular book selling website allows you a great place to garner great publicity for your books.  Trust me, I know that we indie writers/publishers need all the help we can get out there.

But where does that exclusivity leave readers who own an e-reader made by another website?  I'll tell you where - without a copy of YOUR book, which is where I find myself right now.  I really wanted to buy a copy of the book Girls Gone Skank: The Sexualization of Girls in America but cannot as it is not offered as an ebook for my particular e-reader. 

So, when taking advantage of a free publicity deal, please take all of your customers into consideration.  Your next biggest fan might own an e-reader that you are not offering your e-books to.


Cyndia Rios-Myers

Moving Forward....

The Wolves was such a fun series to write.  I loved every minute of it.  However, it had to come to an end, which it did...kind of.  Lana and Jorgen's life will continue, but the story being told through Lana's perspective is over.  Two full length novels may or may not occur, which would be told through the perspective of two different sets of eyes. 

But for now, I want to write stand alone books.  I have so many unique stories to tell.  Still, it seems like people love reading series - paranormal ones.  Even though I have women's fiction novels, The Wolves are still my best selling titles. 

You know, it would by hypocritical of me to say that I was not a series fiction fan.  I am!!  Here are the heroes and heroines whose lives I HAVE to be apprised of:

1. Harry Dresden
2. Rachel Morgan
3. Kitty Norville
4. Mercy Thompson
5. Merit Merit
6. Clare Fraser
7. October (Toby) Daye
8. Isabel Spellman (non paranormal, but still awesome)

I am sure that there are more, but I cannot recall the names of all of them just now. 

So...I understand why people love series books.  But stand alone stories are great too.  I write them in a way where people don't have to wonder what happens after the heroine rides into the sunset (by herself or with her man). 

So, get yourself a preview of The Song of the Sleeping Grass, Joppa Park, Summation of Love, or Nice Shootin' Tex.  Of course I am biased, but they really are pretty darned good. 

Cyndia Rios-Myers

What Is Next

Hey Folks!!

I hope that you are all doing well, and are enjoying whichever one of my books that it is that you are currently reading, or have just finished reading.

So, what will be coming next, you might be asking yourselves.  Well, The Wolves series is over (mostly), and Nice Shootin’ Tex! was a stand-alone novel, so you are probably wondering what might come next. 

Well, I will be venturing into the realm over the paranormal again, as it is simply too much fun to leave alone!  I don’t have a name for the novel yet, but its working title is “Fabula”, which means fable in Spanish.  Is in in Spanish?  Kind of!  Well, 99% of it is in English, but some phrases are in Spanish.  Will it take place in Spain?  No, it will not.  It will take place in Puerto Rico - Arecibo, Puerto Rico as well as Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, which are two towns on the north/northwestern part of the island. 

So, why Puerto Rico, you might wonder.  I’ll tell you why.  I am of Puerto Rican descent (I don’t say that I am all-out Puerto Rican because I was born and mostly raised here in America, served in the U.S. military and will live and die here) and lived on the island for 6.5 years.  It was a mostly wonderful 6.5 years!  I loved seeing and living on the lands where my parents were born and raised.  I loved the language, the food and the customs as well.  I am crazy about my family members who still call the island their home.

But another thing that I am crazy about is the culture and the stories about what came before, and what might still exist in the land and in the waters that surround the island.  Sure, most people blow it off, but I don’t.  Doesn’t a little fantasy make day-to-day life more exciting?

In any case, Fabula is a love story between a girl and a boy, as well as a story of love between a girl and her family.  It is about making hasty decisions and living with those consequences.  It is about exchanges between family members that live long after the conversations die away. 

I would say that the book is at its 60% completion point at this time.  It will probably be ready for publishing sometime near winter of this year.  I will keep you all posted!

Again, thanks for reading!

Cyndia Rios-Myers