a sale

by Rain Trueax

For those of you who don't get the Rain Trueax newsletter (you can sign up alongside here), it only goes out when a new book is coming along or with a sale. This one will go out as a sale. I wanted to give readers here a chance also to get in on the free and reduced price books.

The Shaman's Daughter is free for two days as part of one of the things Amazon offers for books in KU. To Speak of Things Unseen is reduced price in what they call a Countdown. New to advertising as we are, this is an experiment and we are unsure how well it'll work out as we've never used their promotions for KU (where my books are all out in early August).  This is a bit of what was in the newsletter-- and if you haven't gotten these books, how the promotion works.

 

Adventure, Romance, Mysticism, Family, and the Arizona Desert

In ‘The Shaman’s Daughter,’ Denali, the oldest of four sisters, has been asked to find the murderer of her mother’s friend. As she looks for clues, using her natural born witch’s skills, she meets Nick, an exSEAL, successful artist, and also the police’s prime suspect. More murders follow and Denali better find the murderer, or it just might be the man, with whom she is falling in love, will end up in prison. It is free the 15^th and 16^th at: https://www.amazon.com/Shamans-Daughter-Hemstreet-Witches-Book-ebook/dp/B01GKH4DJA/

 

The next promotional is something Amazon offers as a way to try out a new writer or get more from a writer you read but maybe in a new genre. Today and most of Monday (check prices before buying always) ‘To Speak of Things Unseen’ will be 99¢. July 17th, it goes up to $1.99 before it returns to its regular price of $2.99 at midnight the 18^th. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KDCI9VG.

In Book 2, Denali’s sister, Elke sets out to convince a famous author to let his book be used in a play, which will help humans understand powers exist and some are used for the good of the humans, who too often fear witches. The author, a shapeshifter himself, has learned magic at the knee of his grandfather, an Apache shaman and before he was killed, Elke’s father, a warrior and gifted shaman himself. Mitch has been warned that to reveal these secrets is to make himself a target. He wrote the book anyway and has seen the warnings come to pass. No way will he add to the risks for others. Falling in love is part of neither of their plans.

I've mentioned before how difficult it is to fit these books into a genre. They have the flavor of the West but then I consider all of mine to have that flavor as I am a westerner. The spirit of the western ethos is in my spirit. They also have mysticism but most of all they have romance. Whether the hero is a high school principal (yes, one in one of my books he is), he will always have the soul of a cowboy in how he deals with things. Yeah, i know some consider cowboys a bad word for today. I don't and it won't ever be seen that way in my books. 

These books (there are two more, A Price to be Paid and Something Waits, with the fifth being written this summer) are difficult to put into a genre. They follow the belief that earth has more powers available than most know. A few are born with the ability to use these powers, and it’s their responsibility to use them for good. Magic is all around for those who are aware, but some spiritual powers are dangerous and aimed only to hurt and spread discontent.