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#99cents until midnight tonight

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All three books in THE SUB ROSA TRILOGY are bundled and marked down but only UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

Visit Amazon to pick up this bargain: CLICK HERE

Featuring UNBIND, UNFURL and UNLEASH, this is one giant bundle of mystery, sexy romance, psychological thriller and deceit.

Chloe Harmon proves a threat to the Sub Rosa mystery when she starts a new journalist job in London and meets Cai Matthews, a photographer with a past even more complex than her own. Quickly getting close to Cai, someone seems determined to warn Chloe away from the secrets he carries. His aunt, a famous fashion editor, is definitely someone not to be trusted.

A rose is delivered to Chloe’s desk soon after meeting Cai and Chloe wonders – where might someone find such a rare rose and how might they have had it sent to her desk, in a secure building, without a florist having despatched it?

In THE SUB ROSA TRILOGY, death doesn’t always mean you’re dead and a torturous legacy is something that seems to last forever. Cai’s family have dark secrets and Chloe, being of a journalistic disposition, is determined to uncover all of them.

Chloe’s secret weapon might be her best friend Kayla Tate, a no-nonsense martial artist with her foot in the door of the fashion world. Can Kayla help Chloe defeat the curse, or will the Sub Rosa mystery remain buried forever?

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SUB ROSA EBOOK

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Tax Withholding on Amazon eBooks and Createspace books

When I first started out in the book world, I just pressed “publish” and hoped for the best. I didn’t have a clue about all the ins and outs. As I’ve moved along with the book world, it has moved on too. You learn something new every day . . .

I remember someone saying to me they sent their passport to America and got it sent back to them TWICE because they’d sent it to the wrong department to get either an EIN number or a ITIN so they didn’t have to pay 30% of their royalties to Amazon.com any longer. (That’s the 30% withholding rate unless you provided them with an EIN or ITIN.) The whole process seemed archaic to me. Anyway, I think it went around the houses that it was actually easier to just ring up, and keep ringing up, until one of the IRS officers (who didn’t ask too many questions or ask for more forms to be filled in) gave you a EIN code to plug into your Amazon tax information.

In the olden days, you couldn’t even do an electronic signature on Amazon so the addition of that function alone improved things vastly. Talk of W8-BENs and all that quite frankly left me feeling positively terrified of all the paperwork involved but now IT IS SO MUCH EASIER!

Back in the day, a guy friend of mine said he spent a whole morning (or afternoon possibly) on hold to the IRS, but luckily he was using Skype so hadn’t had to pay for long-distant calls.

ANYWAY, whether you have got an EIN or an ITIN now DOES NOT MATTER. I only found this out the other day so fellow authors… please read. NOW IT IS SO MUCH EASIER TO AVOID LOSING 30% OF YOUR PROFITS FROM AMAZON.COM.

After all, our country has a treaty with the US and we shouldn’t be paying extra, extra tax . . .

Anyway . . .

Here goes . . .

When you fill in your tax information on your KDP or Createspace account, and you’re asked for your (foreign i.e. non-US) income tax identification number, simply plug in your NI number. That’s it. That’s all you have to do. (In Ireland that is your PPS number.)

No more international phone calls. No more passports being sent recorded delivery or whatever. No more nonsense.

Anyone would think Amazon are finally cottoning on that self-publishing makes them a lot of money and therefore, to give back, they should make this much easier for authors . . . ?

Anyway, I hope this helps a UK or Irish author or two out there who’s maybe sitting there confused and wondering what the hell to do. You may not have even realised you were paying 30% of your US royalties to the US in tax. Anyway, if you are, it’s so easy not to!

N.B. Smashwords have not done this yet and still ask for an EIN or an ITIN. 

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A heart-warming new adult romance, FREE to download

Angel_AvenueAngel Avenue has a new paperback cover which I love, love, love! I found this image and knew it represented the book. Jules and Warrick meet while she’s waiting in the rain for . . . love? Saviour? Friendship? Rescue from loneliness? I’m not sure even Jules knows what she’s waiting for but Warrick turns up in her life and turns everything upside down.

Their romance is a rocky ride, full of self doubt on both sides, and a few secrets threaten to ruin Jules and Warrick’s perfect love.

(CLICK COVER TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE)

Angel Avenue has a sequel due for release on DECEMBER 22nd. Beyond Angel Avenue explores, what happens next?

In the same vein as Angel Avenue, which explores issues of bullying, abandonment and loneliness – Beyond Angel Avenue explores the circumstances in which carers are asked to intervene in a person’s care.

Jules and Warrick are my favourite characters. EVER. I found this such a refreshing series to write because it is friends to lovers and I got to explore two people in more depth and with more heart than lust. I hope if you enjoy/enjoyed Angel Avenue, you will read Beyond Angel Avenue too because it is a novel carved with loads and loads and loads of love. Beyond Angel Avenue is healing, restorative, shocking, uplifting, and will certainly put you in the mood for Christmas.

To learn more about the locations of Angel Avenue and Beyond Angel Avenue, visit my Pinterest board which is loaded with location images and my inspirations for the series: https://www.pinterest.com/sarahmichellely/angel-avenue-a-romance-series-set-in-hull/

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A heart-warming contemporary romance…

Jules waits on a street corner every Saturday hoping something or someone will take the pain away. Nothing ever does.

She once loved the area she inhabits but a heartbreaking event marred its former meaning. She fell out of love and decided to focus on her career as an English teacher.

What she does not realise is that Warrick has been watching her and wants to know why she is always there, stood on that corner. She convinces herself it is the social worker in him that thinks he can save her from the loneliness and despair so evident about her person. Little does she know just what kind of life he has led.

When true love blossoms, neither of them appreciate just how their union is not only going to change their lives, but also shake up a problem at the very heart of their community.

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#NaNoWriMo – #NoNoWriMo

Every year I see writers coming together for National November Writing Month, which challenges all writers to write 50,000 words in one month. Let it be known, I have never actually (I mean officially) signed up for this challenge and I think I know why…

I’ve never signed up and yet, something about writers coming together to avoid social media and JUST WRITE always tugs me in and makes me think you can do this, too! However, the thing is… you really have to write the equivalent of 1,667 words a day, every day, for thirty days – and it is just not as easy as you think. If you don’t have the ideas pre-formed, I think pantsing that amount in such a time has got to be hard. If you’ve also just finished one project and are working on a new one for #NaNoWriMo, that’s going to be testing because there is only so much creativity one can produce. You have to have breaks between projects no matter what anyone says. There’s only so much in the tanks.

For me, November is busy enough. Everyone wants their books edited in November because they want to give people books as Christmas presents. In the past, I was a journalist wife’s, a widow of sorts, waiting for him to emerge from the 14-hour days of November and the night shifts spent getting the Christmas magazines out of the door – so I might have had time to write every night back then. However, since he’s changed careers, we actually have date nights now in November, and it’s GREAT!

Another thing about November is that it is one of the darkest months of the year!! Truly. Everybody in the northern hemisphere is on a bit of a downer, because the seasons are changing and the jumpers are coming out. Maybe writing is the escape some people need in November, or maybe 1,667 words a day is the stress you could just do without. I personally don’t believe you can force yourself to write a structured amount every day. I either get 5,000 words out in one day, or I get nothing at all. I have to be desperate to write in order to write, that’s how it works for me.

However I do love the idea that all writers are beavering away at once and magic is multiplying across the land with all these writers casting their writerly spells everywhere. However, I just never find it practical to write like this in November. It just never works for me. Last year I did write 50,000 words in a month but it was 30,000 on one project and 20,000 on another.

This year, I’m up to my eyeballs in edits and just cannot manage it. It’s just not happening. My instinct tells me the words I’d splutter would end up scrapped in a later edit. That happened last year with Unfurl. I was trying to use #NaNoWriMo to complete this book and 75% of what I wrote got scrapped because I just didn’t have the uuuummmmppphhhh there. I was forcing words.

Goodbye NaNo, maybe next year. We do have a strange relationship, don’t we? 😉

But hey ho, while I’m not writing on the laptop, my mind is still conjuring the next projects to come…

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Trilogy #KindleCountdown #Deal #99cents

99centsBook One Unbind (99cents/pence/equivalent) – BUY HERE

Book Two Unfurl (99cents/pence/equivalent) – BUY HERE

Book Three Unleash (99cents/pence/equivalent) – BUY HERE

SYNOPSES:

IN BOOK ONE UNBIND

We should chase away from what we’re scared of, right? Run as fast as we can. Yet some of us seem to veer toward chaos and destruction…

Chloe sees anguish and despair lurking beneath the surface of Cai Matthews, the dark and dangerously handsome freelance photographer she meets on her first day in a new job. She can’t see straight in his presence—blinded by a blistering sexual attraction that has the potential to sweep her clean off her feet.

When Cai disappears from the workplace and doesn’t come back, Chloe tries to find out more about his life but all she knows is he’s set to inherit a ton of money and his aunt runs one of the most famous fashion magazines in the world.

Cai is running from a complicated past he doesn’t like talking about. Gossip columns rage with speculation concerning him and his aunt, who took guardianship of Cai after his parents died.

Conscientious journalist Chloe has a mind for details and once she gains access to his world, Cai realises she could undo every, single dirty little secret that he and his aunt have tried desperately to cover up.

IN BOOK TWO UNFURL

I’ll stab you in the heart.
I’m coming for you.
No secret dies.
But you will.

In the concluding part of Chloe and Cai’s tale of frantic, tempestuous, meaningful love…

When news breaks that enigmatic magazine editor Jennifer Matthews is dead, it irks Chloe that Cai refuses to shed even one tear. What she doesn’t know is that he was expecting it, perhaps even, hoping for it.

In this dark, romantic tale of revenge, Cai explodes the deepest, most destructive aspects of his past as he comes to terms with the tragedy at the heart of Jennifer’s downfall. With Chloe’s love and support, he must brave his demons and dodge death to finally end a bitter feud between two damaged families.

**This book is not intended to stand alone and is the second in a three-part series, concluding in UNLEASH – Kayla Tate’s story.**

IN BOOK THREE UNLEASH

Have you ever fallen for the wrong person – knowing they’re not the one for you?

For Kayla Tate, pain and disappointment are all she has ever known when it comes to love. Is it that she never learned from her mistakes? Or is there a ghost from her past she’s yet to lay to rest?

Kayla embarks on a journey during which harsh lessons will be learned and relationships will be tested. It seems to centre around the Sub Rosa mystery, but where will she begin to unpick the threads? All she knows is that something doesn’t add up . . .

Kayla’s heartbreaking story is about lifelong friendships, taking chances and finding that one person who’s willing to risk it all with you – at exactly the right time.

UNBIND REVIEWS

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The Editing Arm of Sarah Michelle Lynch

An editing arm has been added to “Sarah Michelle Lynch”, click right here to find out more. It’s all simply explained but my email address is there if you have any questions/queries. I’m not accepting any more projects this year, but I do have openings for early 2016.

I got asked the other day, “Wouldn’t you rather just write all the time and forget editing?” I guess I sometimes ask myself that, too, but my answer was, “No!” In fact my long-term goal is to embrace a bunch of writers under my wings (so to speak) and build something a little bigger than an editing business.

The thing is, just sitting down to write, write, write is too much pressure. Besides, isn’t editing just getting paid to read (that thing most if not all writers love?). Obviously, editing involves much more than just reading…

A few writers read UNBIND, the first book in the Sub Rosa Series and were so impressed, they contacted me, asking if I would edit their books. It’s crazy because that isn’t even the most tightly edited novel I’ve written, the next ones are…! I guess that just proves how each book is a learning curve and each book has its own beating heart to try and train and/or maintain.

What I’m working on right now is an anthology a writing group sent me. I’m proofreading it which makes a nice change for me. Normally I “deep edit” books which means considering how the whole thing can be tightened up. So proofing is a holiday, in comparison.

One of the books I just finished working on is Where Did Your Heart Go? by Audrina Lane. A self-published novel with an existing audience/fanbase is something I’d never worked on before. I worked to maintain the essence of the book, keeping the most pivotal scenes/lines intact, while also reshaping Audrina’s words without cutting their personality away. It was a unique book with diaries/first/third person – but in some respects I think that’s why some people choose to self-pub – because you can go outside the box and break the rules a little. Live a little, if you like. Now I’m seeing selfies of people holding her first print run of that very book and I see the smiles on her face and those of her readers. So, no, I don’t hesitate when people ask, “Wouldn’t you just rather write?” NAH! Because then I wouldn’t appreciate it when I do get to write. I might complain about the balancing act sometimes but as a good friend said to me the other day, “Don’t lie, you love your life.”

Yes, just a bit.

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Happy author Audrina Lane!!
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Revealing my 11th novel, Beyond Angel Avenue . . .

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Last week, I finished my edits on this book, Beyond Angel Avenue. I have been very secretive about it and only my husband has known I’ve been writing this book. He told me not to write this book but I went against him because I HAD TO WRITE THIS BOOK. I held off on this book until it was impossible to ignore and for the best part of this year, I have been writing it in the back of my head.

For readers already familiar with Angel Avenue – yes, you’d be right – this book is a sequel. In fact, I never thought I would write this book. To explain more, here is a note I’ve inserted at the beginning of the book which explains everything…

Dear Reader,

I wrote Angel Avenue two years ago and never, ever intended on writing this sequel. The first book was such a hard novel to get over and I suppose, in a way, that might have been because there was still more to tell. For the past year, I’ve had Warrick whispering in my ear, telling me a brand, new story – which also clears up some of the mysteries of Angel Avenue. I wrestled with whether I should tell this story because Angel Avenue is so special to me and I didn’t want to ruin that with a sequel that just didn’t measure up.

I have loved every, single second of writing these books. I’ve written many books but these ones mean so much to me and I can’t even tell you why. The story is based where I live and is imbued with the love I feel for the city I met and married my husband in. I’ve tried not to waste too many words on location because I like to think this story could happen in any town or city, in any country.

What I can honestly say is that this is “The End”. I knew it for a certainty the day I typed those words at the very end of this book. That day, a very red-eyed mother went to pick up her daughter from school, knowing Beyond Angel Avenue is the underscore of this particular chapter in my writing life. When I wrote Angel Avenue, it was one of the happiest writing experiences of my life. It was a lot of fun to write. However, Beyond Angel Avenue is a different beast and delves one layer deeper. I cried absolute buckets writing this second book.

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What I want to add to this is that Beyond Angel Avenue delves into some issues very personal to people in my life. In due course, I will be uploading the book to Amazon for pre-order complete with full synopsis.

N.B. Angel Avenue and Beyond Angel Avenue will retain these covers for the eBooks but the paperbacks will now have artistic wraparound covers instead and I’ll be revealing these in the coming weeks too.

All that is left for me to stay is stay tuned. Beyond Angel Avenue tells the story of Jules and Warrick as they navigate married, family life together. But as with many of my books, nothing is what it seems, and life throws them a curveball I never saw coming either.

COMING DECEMBER 22ND…

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VISIT AMAZON TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ANGEL AVENUE…

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