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.
A moment of Zen for you…
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
My 19th anniversary in publishing!!!
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!
Funniest library lit chat ever!!
Happy International Women’s Day!
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!
If you got a Kindle cancellation notice…
And now I’m sick…
Because a miserable bout of depression and production problems and everything else wasn’t enough.
Freaking COVID is inside my house
ACIMH*
Me: I need to call my boss and get time off since I’ve been exposed to COVID through our daughter (who just tested positive).
Navy Guy:
Me: What?
Navy Guy: You ARE your boss!
Me: I know, and I’m a hard ass. I may not give me any time off at all, but I’ll have to tell myself I’m quarantining anyway.
Navy Guy: It is scary inside your head, isn’t it?
Me: You have no idea.
*Actual Conversation In My House
List of all Tiger’s Eye Mysteries in order!
The TIGER’S EYE MYSTERIES are back on track!
After two years of pandemic problems, Jack, Tess, and the gang are ready to solve crimes and make mayhem in 2022!
It has come to our attention that we inadvertently caused a glitch when we moved the release date of A DEAD END CHRISTMAS (ADEC) from a year ago until now (coming in February; sorry for all the delays). So some of you may have skipped a book or even two, not realizing that they came before ADEC.
EAGLE EYE beginning!
Hey, want to see what happens to Tess and Jack in the beginning of EAGLE EYE? Check it out HERE!!