Locke's Promotional Newsletter: June 2022
Dear Reader,
First of all, I want to thank all of you for being so gracious about accepting the new look and approach of these promotional newsletters, and a special thanks to those of you who went on to check out the StoryBundle: Visions of the Future that this last promotion featured. This offering is still available through June 16, so if you haven’t jumped on the chance to get 10 science fiction books (one an anthology that contains an additional 17 stories) for a minimum of $20, you might want to do so now.
The audiobook edition of the Caelestis Series boxed set is also still available for only $2.99 on Chirp, AppleBooks, B&N, and GooglePlay through the end of June.
The newest audiobook discount is for Uneasy Spirits, the second book in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series. This book is my longest, and it is the newest book to become available outside of the Audible/ACX store, so I have discounted it to $2.99 (from a normal price of $11.95) on Chirp, AppleBooks, and B&N.
However, the biggest savings I am announcing today comes for my Victorian San Francisco Novellas collection, which for a limited time is both Free as an ebook on all major retailers and and Free as an audiobook on Apple Books. See below for details.
Victorian San Francisco Novellas:
This collection brings together three novellas, Violet Vanquishes a Villain, Kathleen Catches a Killer, and Dandy Delivers. These shorter works contain the light romance, humor, and suspense of the novels in my cozy Victorian San Francisco mystery series and are an excellent introduction to the gas-lit world of late 19th-century San Francisco.
Violet Vanquishes a Villain: In this novella set in August of 1880, Annie and Nate Dawson’s trip down the San Francisco peninsula to San Jose was supposed to be a pleasant romantic interlude and a chance for Annie to get to know Nate’s family better. When the visit takes a serious turn, Annie races to expose a criminal who could ruin a young man’s life, getting help from an unexpected quarter. The events in Violet Vanquishes a Villain come right after Deadly Proof, the fourth book in Locke’s Victorian San Francisco mystery series.
Kathleen Catches a Killer: As 1880 comes to a close, the O'Farrell Street boardinghouse servant, Kathleen Hennessey, expects to spend a quiet week while her employers, amateur sleuths Annie and Nate Dawson, are off spending the Christmas holidays with Nate's family. However, when she agrees to help out one of her friends, Kathleen discovers that a simple case of a servant being dismissed without notice has turned into a complicated and dangerous puzzle that she is determined to solve. The events in Kathleen Catches a Killer come right between those in Pilfered Promises and the third novella in this collection, Dandy Delivers.
Dandy Delivers: It’s January, 1881, and while the grown-ups in Annie and Nate Dawson’s San Francisco O’Farrell Street boardinghouse are busy with their own affairs, two boys and a dog find their own adventure. Ian Hennessey, a poor boy from South of Market, who is trying to shoulder a man’s responsibilities, gets in trouble, and his best friend, Jamie Hewitt, does what he can to help. But it is Jamie’s young Boston Terrier, Dandy, who saves the day.
The ebook edition is Free on Kindle, AppleBooks, Kobo, Nook, GooglePlay through June 5
The audiobook edition is also Free through June 30, on AppleBooks
Monthly Audiobook Raffle
This month the two winners of the raffle will get free copies of the audiobook edition of Bloody Lessons. These free codes are now redeemable by listeners in the United States, Canada, Australia, UK, and EU. For those of you in these countries, all you have to do is reply to this email by June 9th and say that you wish to participate, and your name will be entered in the raffle. Please check your spam folders during the following week, because I am sorry to say, often the two codes are not redeemed.
For more information about either my mystery or science fiction series, check out my website. For daily information on my journey as an indie author trying to age gracefully, check out my newsletter, An Aging Author’s Daily Diversions.
Hope this helps you stock up on some fun reading and listening for the summer!
—M. Louisa Locke, June 2, 2022