
Happy Mother’s Day

New York Times Bestselling Author
We’re so excited here at Team Alyssa about the merchandise opportunities coming soon! Here’s a sample for all the Tiger’s Eye Mystery fans! Stay tuned!
– Connor
Hi!
How is everyone? I’m Connor, Alyssa’s son (that’s me on our Alaska trip!) I’m the new hire – Director of Merchandising (and Sanity), and I look forward to working with everybody. As you may know, I’ve been part of the Tiger’s Eye Mysteries from the beginning—love Tess and Jack and I have so much fun helping Mom think up wild situations and supernatural characters. (By the way, the music box was TOTALLY my idea. And the discounted, unlabeled potions bin too!)The problem is, my mom is a little nuts (as she’s the first to admit). She will drive herself into the ground trying to meet deadlines and not let you down, in spite of migraines and depression, and you see how that has worked out over the past two horrible pandemic years. So I’m going to be managing schedules for a while.We’re doing this:
Eagle Eye is done and in edits and will (finally!) be out May 15.
A Dead End Christmas is also done and will be in final edits after 5/10 and will be outMay 30 (a Memorial Day reading treat!).
Eye for an Eye is in progress and will be finalized and edited and out June 27.
Eye on the Ball is planned for July 25 (the cover is REALLY GREAT, we’ll do a cover reveal soon!)
More Than Meets the Eye is planned for September 30 (subject to natural disasters, meteorites, leprechaun invasions)
Redemption’s Edge in the Vampire Motorcycle Club universe is still scheduled for November 29.
I’ll be talking about merchandise ideas and opportunities next month – watch this space!
Thanks again–and thank you for your kindness and patience. There have been times Mom is ready to give up on this writing thing, but the kindness of her lovely readers keeps her going.
Sincerely,
ConnorPS If you have questions for me, reply to this post. Thanks! We’ll be posting on a more regular basis too.PSS Atlantis is still on hold while we figure things out. We’ll announce it here the minute we have concrete plans.
EAGLE EYE is finally going to land!! Coming later this month!!!
And A DEAD END CHRISTMAS and EYE FOR AN EYE are both coming next month!!
Preorders are all still in place, except for Kindle. They canceled my preorder for EYE FOR AN EYE. I’ll just publish it there when it’s ready, like I will EAGLE and CHRISTMAS. The other vendors are fine. More news as it comes.
I took a much-needed mental health break yesterday at the beach. Here’s a moment of Zen, in case you need one as much as I did:
xoxo
Alyssa
Today is the anniversary of my very first book release 19 years ago. They sent me on a cross-country TV appearance tour and I did more than 100 radio interviews for it, and I thought “this is how publishing always is!” LOL. But it has been 19 years of the roller coaster life of publishing, making wonderful writer friends, and meeting amazing readers. I wouldn’t trade this life for any other. (And I almost never miss being a trial lawyer.) Here’s to the next 19!
26th anniversary!! Navy Guy came through with my favorite roses. Love that guy!
I’ve had to move so many deadlines during the past two pandemic years. I am sorry. I know it’s horribly frustrating for my wonderful readers, and I’m so sorry. From now on, I’m not putting any books up for preorder until they’re finished, edited, copyedited, and in the can, so to speak, so this won’t happen again. I love you all for your kindness and patience and I’m sorry I’ve let you down.
It’s not the kind of author I want to be. Depression and the pandemic kicked my ass. 🙁
But I promise to do better. Going forward, I will be better.
(and more Tiger’s Eye is coming this month!)
xoxo Alyssa |
If you have some free time tonight, come join me virtually at the Jacksonville Public Library for an International Women’s Day chat about romance and mystery, magic and mayhem!
Get all the details HERE!