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Beyond Control, DABWAHA & More
Beyond Control
We’re in the final stages of preparing Beyond Control for publication! ARCs have gone out and reviews are coming in, and we’re hunkering down to format books and do our final proofing passes. We hope to have both the print and ebook copies available on release day, though print can take a few days to make it through all the expanded distribution websites.
Official release date: MARCH 19th! For the truly dedicated…if you start checking Amazon or B&N Monday morning, you just might find it. 😉
Pre-Order
At this point in time, most independent self-publishers don’t have access to pre-order options on the major retailer websites. This is a bummer, totally, and we would give you the option if we could! But in the meantime we ask people who really don’t want to miss the book to subscribe to our announcement list. This is not a high-volume newsletter, and you’ll only receive emails when new books or new formats (such as audiobooks) are available.
DABWAHA
We were super excited last night to find out that we’d squeaked into the finalists for DABWAHA. For those of you who have never heard of such a thing, think of it like March Madness for romance novels. I’m a frequent smack-talker and big time loser in this contest every year, as I can’t pick a bracket to save my life. Also? I had already promised to destroy anyone who got in the path of my favorite books this year before I realized I was one of the finalists. My indecision over whether or not to wage war against my own book should be entertaining. 😉
Beyond Shame ON SALE!
We had already planned to discount Beyond Shame to 99 cents for Beyond Control’s release week, but in honor of DABWAHA, we’ve decided to go ahead and mark it down now. So you should be able to buy Beyond Shame for just 99 cents at All Romance Ebooks, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, or Smashwords!
T-shirts, Keychains & goodies!
We’ve been slowly adding products to the O’Kane store, many by request of readers. If there’s any particular type of product you’d really love to have the O’Kane logo on, always feel free to ask! In the meantime, here are some of our more popular products…the new “I’m Marked By” keychains:
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Release Day Fun
We’ll be having a release day party on our Facebook Page (The Broken Circle), so LIKE us over there to keep up with the goodies and giveaways as we celebrate Lex & Dallas and their rocky path to their happy ending. 🙂
Eight days to go…
Audio version of Beyond Shame
We’re excited to celebrate the release of Beyond Shame in audio today! And it’s widely available in a variety of purchasing formats. Including:
Digital Download: iTunes or Audible
1 MP3 CD: B&N, Amazon, Book Depository & Tantor
8 Audio CDs: B&N, Amazon, Book Depository & Tantor
1 MP3 CD: B&N, Amazon, Book Depository & Tantor
8 Audio CDs: B&N, Amazon, Book Depository & Tantor
This is definitely a new adventure for us, but if we keep seeing excitement and enthusiasm about the ebooks, maybe this won’t be our last venture into the fascinating world of audio. For now, I hope those of you who have been asking and patiently waiting for an audio version enjoy it!
50% Off Beyond Shame
Exciting news! All Romance Ebooks selected Beyond Shame for a new promotion they’re running for their customers. Anyone who checks out at ARe will have the option to buy Beyond Shame at 50% off, which is an awesome $1.99 right now!
However, you don’t need to purchase anything else to get the bargain price. So if you’ve been waiting for a chance to buy Beyond Shame, you can get it now for $1.99 at this link. But hurry–the discount expires at the end of the day tomorrow. (December 10th)
Beyond Shame: The Audiobook
We’re really pleased today to be able to announce that Beyond Shame will be coming to a store near you in the near future…as an audiobook! The lovely folks at Tantor Audio will be producing the audio version, and we’re confident that will make it both high in quality and widely accessible to all our readers.
The best news: selling the audio rights to Tantor frees us up to keep working on Beyond Control. We’re hip deep in Dallas & Lex’s story, and can’t wait to share it with you. Though that’s still a few months off, at the very least, we have hopes that you could see the audio version of Beyond Shame a little sooner–hopefully quite early in 2013.
Hopefully y’all are as excited as we are! And I’d like to take this moment to thank all of you who have tweeted and facebooked and blogged and recommended Beyond Shame to friends and colleagues. I have never witnessed the power of word-of-mouth more closely than I did with this book, and you guys have awed and humbled us. Thanks, really. Cyber drinks are on us. 🙂
O’Kane Mug Winner
Thanks everyone who entered to win one of the O’Kane mugs! We love how excited people are about them. 🙂 Alas, we had to pick one winner, though, and that winner is…
Amelia Durbin
Amelia, you’ll be getting your mug in the mail soon! 🙂
For those of you who didn’t win, Zazzle is having a 50% off sale through 4 PM today. (Friday, 10/5) With the FFHSMUGSBAGS you could get your own O’Kane mug for 50% off! Click here to see the colors available.
Get your O’Kane ink. (Temporarily)
We’ve added a new page to the website, one where you can sign up to get your own temporary tattoo of the O’Kane logo along with a signed cover flat of Beyond Shame and a few O’Kane stickers. There are also blog/website badges, for those of you who’d like to strut your stuff…or claim a man. (Or two! Most of those O’Kane guys don’t mind sharing.)
Drink (Coffee) Like an O’Kane
photo by @angelajames
To celebrate the official, pretty-much-everywhere release of Beyond Shame, we’re giving away two O’Kane coffee mugs! These are nice two-color mugs with the O’Kane logo. You can drink your morning beverage as badass as if you’d been partying like an O’Kane the night before. International entries are welcome, just fill out the form below!
And if you desperately want a mug and don’t want to wait or take a chance, you can buy them on zazzle. (The commission is bottomed out, as this is where I order the prizes from, so they’re not TOO expensive.)
Updated: Winner Posted
Got questions? We’ll answer them!
So, we’re getting ready for our “official” release week adventure next week, but with the book already out in the public we’ve been getting lots of questions. I’m getting ready to put together a sort of, “What you can expect from the series” overview for next week, along with an FAQ page to answer the questions we’re getting most often.
If there’s anything you’d like to know about the series, the books or anything else, feel free to leave a comment. With the exception of spoilers, we’ll answer everything, either here or in the post & FAQ next week. 🙂
(If you’d rather e-mail us, you can do so at kit@kitrocha.com)
Beyond Shame In Print
A dangerous world of sex, lust and violence…
All Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond–beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman’s daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier.
The sectors surrounding Eden house the corrupt, the criminal–men like Jasper McCray, bootlegger and cage fighter. Jas clawed his way up from nothing to stand at the right hand of Sector Four’s ruthless leader, and he’ll defend the O’Kane gang with his life. But no fight ever prepared him for the exiled City girl who falls at his feet.
Her innocence is undeniable, but so is their intense sexual attraction, and soon they’re crossing every boundary Noelle barely knew she had. But if she wants to belong to Jas, first she’ll have to open herself to the gang, and to a world where passion is power, and freedom is found in submission.
87,500 words | 354 pages (trade)
Digital – $4.99 (978-0-9883278-0-1)
All Romance Ebooks | Barnes & Noble | Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Smashwords
Print – $15.00 (978-1-4793275-7-7)
Barnes & Noble | Amazon
We’re still waiting on Apple & Kobo, but you can buy DRM-free epub files at All Romance Ebooks & Smashwords. Over the next few weeks, the print book should become available from more online retailers as well. But we’re getting there.