Sourcebooks Casablanca Romance Authors

Hey everyone, Brooklyn Ann here. I don't know about you, but I am worn out from the festivities. Aside from having two huge family dinners back to back, I had to cook the second one for my mother's side of the family. It was delightful, but a ton of work. Needless to say I did not have a chance to lay back and enjoy Christmas books and movies. I didn't even have much time to announce the release of my own holiday story, Metal and Mistletoe, my first interracial Christmas romance. Here's the blurb: Fighting the darkness of their pasts, talented heavy metal musicians Curtis Scrimm and Dezra Hopkins seek holiday solitude but find each other. A HOLIDAY REDEMPTION Curtis Scrimm and Dezra Hopkins have lived both the highs and the lows of life—literally. They’ve both known the joy of performing to hordes of screaming fans and the horror of betraying all that they love and admire. They’ve both just gotten out of rehab. But things are al...

Hello, everyone! I'm Brooklyn Ann and boy I learned a lot this weekend! For my monthly RWA meeting author  Bonnie R. Paulson  and I put on a workshop about author marketing. And the first part of it was the most important: Learning your author brand. For authors who predominately write in one genre, like our fabulous historical romance author, Shana Galen , branding is easy. When you pick up one of her books you know you're going to get some awesome regency spies, sensual and touching chemistry, and maybe even some pirates and carriage races. Her website clearly depicts historical romance with eloquent pictures of a lady's fan, a horse & carriage, and a quill with a pot of ink. And I LOVE her color scheme. But with authors who write more than one genre, figuring out our brand, much less how to advertise it, can be tricky. Bonnie R. Paulson did a fantastic job with hers. Though she write apocalyptic fiction, Zombie YA, romantic suspense, AND western romance,...