October is for Reading

That's right. October is a whole beautiful, balmy, tree-leaf changing, chilly nights, pumpkin lattes, and Halloween. And, of course, Halloween is for Witches.

We're coming up to halfway through the giveaways. Don't worry, there's still time to put the rest of the ebooks on your To-Read shelf.

Now that you all have a couple hundred copies of my books (Spellslinger and Bad Spelling), I'd super appreciate it if you started flipping pages through those books so I can collect what's called KENP (Kindle Edition Normalized Pages). At the end of the month authors whose books are enrolled in Kindle Unlimited/Kindle Owners Lending Library get a miniscule piece of a penny for each KENP readers gaze upon and flip to another page.

I hope you have your free copies of the first two books and are prepared to snag freebies of the next three up for grabs this month. When you do, please read some pages...pretty please! Otherwise, I'm taking deductions for all of you on my taxes since I won't be making any money otherwise.

Here's a bit about the entire series. I hope you enjoy the Witches of Galdorheim series. If you missed the first two freebies, you can still get them cheap on Amazon. Tell ya what. I'll make all of the books 99 cents this month in addition to the 5-day periods they're free. I can't think of anything else I can do.

SPELLSLINGER (Prequel Short Story) - Free October 2nd-6th
What does a teenage half-warlock, half-vampire do to have fun? Why build an old west town on a glacier in the Arctic. There he can play at being the good guy sheriff up against mean old Black Bart.

That things will go horribly wrong is a given. But how does Rune get into and out of the predicament? This prequel story to the Witches of Galdorheim series gives the reader a chance to get to know the smart-aleck kid, Rune, before he got his magic down pat.

BAD SPELLING (Book 1) - Free October 8th-12th
A klutzy witch, a shaman's curse, a quest to save her family. Can Kat find her magic in time?

All of Kat’s family are either witches or warlocks, depending on their sex, of course. Kat is fourteen and really ought to be able to turn a rabbit into a toad, but things just don’t work out for her. What she gets  is a slimy green hopper. That’s the good part. Unfortunately, it also has long ears and fur. That’s bad spelling.

MIDNIGHT OIL (Book 2) - Free October 14th-18th
Shipwrecked on a legendary island, how can a witch rescue her boyfriend if she can’t even phone home?

Kat discovers that an evil forest spirit has kidnapped her brand-new boyfriend. She sets out with her brother, Rune, from her Arctic island home on a mission to rescue the boy. Things go wrong from the start. Kat is thrown overboard during a violent storm, while her brother and his girlfriend are capant island tribe. The mutants hold the girlfriend hostage, demanding that the teens recover the only thing that can make the mutants human again–the magical Midnight Oil.

Mustering every bit of her Wiccan magic, Kat rises to the challenge. She invokes her magical skills, learns to fly an ultralight, meets a legendary sea serpent, rescues her boyfriend, and helps a friendly air spirit win the battle against her spiteful sibling. On top of it all, she’s able to recover the Midnight Oil and help the hapless mutants in the nick of time.

SCOTCH BROOM (Book 3): Free October 20th-24th
A magical trip to Stonehenge lands a witch in the Otherworld where an ancient goddess is up to no good.

Kat expects to have a great time on her graduation trip to Stonehenge. However, from the moment she leaves the witches’ arctic island, Galdorheim, she gets in nothing but trouble. Her younger half-brother tries to horn in on her trip, she gets lost in the magical Otherworld realm, is led astray by a supposed friend, then she has to confront a Scottish goddess who’s fallen on hard times.

While dodging the goddess’s minions and trying to find her way out of the Otherworld, Kat soon learns she shouldn’t underestimate the old has-been for one second; the crone still has a few tricks that can drain a witch’s magic in a flash. To make matters worse, Kat's brother secretly followed her into the Otherworld. Now he’s in danger, too. Kat has to go one on one with the goddess to save herself and her brother.

BLOOD TIES TESTED (Sequel Novelette) - Free October 27th-31st
Unfortunate events lead a half vampire boy into indulging his vampire side, leaving him with regret and sadness. Can dear old Dad help him forgive himself?

Following the events in the series Witches of Galdorheim, this additional tale relates what happens to Katrina the Witch's younger brother, Rune. Half vampire and half warlock, he faces life with a wisecrack and some powerful magic. Whatever happens, he does not want to be a vampire like his father. Unfortunate events lead him to fatally call on his vampire half. This failure leaves him in anguish. How can he assuage the guilt he feels? His mother thinks he needs to visit dead old dad, a vampire residing in the Tatras Mountains of Slovakia.