Beach Read Authors

Christmas Romances!

Today on the Beach, we have #1 Bestselling Suspense Author Kim Hornsby talking about Christmas Romances. Hey, did you switch genres, Kim? I thought you were Suspense. I mean I know Christmas can be very suspenseful with everything that needs to get done to have 1 perfect day but...

Mele Kalikimaka everyone! Kim here.

And no, I didn't exactly switch genres. I've always written Contemporary Romance Novellas as my side hustle. I publish them, sometimes they're free, sometimes I write under the name Kiki Abbott and then I unpublish them. It's complicated. I write them quickly, price them at free or 99 cents and enjoy having something different to offer my readers.

Last year this time, my screenplay agent asked me if I had a Christmas Romance screenplay because she'd just pitched my book Christmas in Whistler to a producer. I took to the computer and wrote a screenplay from that. Up to that point, I'd only written a feature film thriller screenplay and was working on a TV pilot about ghosts. But the Christmas theme just rolled off my brain and so I quickly plotted another TV movie screenplay set at Christmas. That was last October. Cut to a year later and I have sold a Christmas TV movie screenplay to a producer who plans to make the film next Spring (it was my 3rd effort) and now have interest in the 2nd screenplay that I turned into a novella called Christmas at Crystal Creek. That one is looking pretty darned good for getting on film next year too. We have an actress interested in the lead and she'd be wonderful! I can't tell you any more than this right now but stay tuned for a big announcement when I can. I announce on my Kim Hornsby Beach Club site:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/188081488503196/

Christmas at Crystal Creek is available here:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L6QL15X
Apple, Nook, Kobo etc:https://books2read.com/u/3nKgDB

Christmas is such a fun time of year and I love having it in my head while I write. And, I love those Christmas Box Sets where you get 10 books for .99. Each year I compile one of those with 9 other authors and this year our set started early to get more sales and hopefully achieve USA Today Bestseller Status in late October. Fingers crossed. Christmas at Mistletoe Lodge is a set of 10 novellas, all with a Mistletoe Lodge somewhere in the story. Cute, right? I'm writing mine now and loving the story about a psychologist who hasn't been out of her house in a year but has to attend a Christmas wedding at Mistletoe Lodge.

We are donating a portion of all proceeds to St. Jude Children's Hospital, a charity we used last year, as well. Most of the authors are already USA Today Bestselling Authors or NY Times Bestselling Authors so you know the stories will be fantastic.
As well as this, I've published a Christmas Cookbook to drive readers over to the box set! The recipes are based around cold weather needs but we have mac and cheese, cookies, and lots of recipes in there that can be made in sweltering hot weather too.
I hope you'll consider downloading the cookbook to get our sales up, to get noticed, to get more people on our box set site to reach USA Today status and also send those kids at St. Judes a nice big check in January when we get paid.

Thanks ahead of time!

Christmas at Mistletoe Lodge LINKS

Amazon - www.bit.ly/MistletoeLodge

Nook - www.bit.ly/NookMistletoeLodge

iBooks - www.bit.ly/AppleMistletoeLodge

Kobo - www.bit.ly/KoboMistletoeLodge

FREE Cookbook Links

Apple - https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1477932009
Kobo - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/christmas-at-mistletoe-lodge-cookbook-and-crafts
AMAZON Coming Soon!

Ghost Meets Scooby Doo

Here on the Beach, we have author and screenwriter, Kim Hornsby!

Hello Readers! I've delved into a new series and am having a blast writing it. Finally, I gave myself permission to write 1st person, my favorite, from the viewpoint of a slightly snarky person. How wonderful is that?
Moody & The Ghost books are written from the viewpoint of a 28-year-old woman who has gone blind in a car accident but finds she can see in the presence of a ghost. The spirit just happens to be a very handsome sea captain from the 1850's and as Bryndle Moody copes with his comings and goings and the life of a blind person, she gets in all kinds of sticky situations.

The series was originally written as a TV series, the first book being the Pilot so if it ends leaving you wanting more next week, you'll know why. That's how TV is written. In the promo to try to get a producer to pick up the series, I say it's like the movie GHOST meets Scooby Doo. There's a fun team of paranormal investigators led by Bryndle and they travel around in a van called the Marshmallow. But also, there's this amazing romance that comes to fruition in Book 3 that is reminiscent of the movie Ghost with Demi Moore.

It's ghosts, suspense, humor, romance and recipes!

DEAD AHEAD - BOOK 1

Ghosts love Bryndle Moody.
Until recently.

After a car accident that took her husband’s life and her eyesight, Youtube celebrity and paranormal investigator, Moody, finds she has also lost her ability to communicate with ghosts. When she mysteriously inherits a house on the Oregon Coast, Bryn and her team set out from her Seattle houseboat to investigate. The house has many surprises and as Bryn desperately tries to restore her clairvoyance, she discovers an elusive inhabitant with the ability to salvage her business and her reason for living.
For a price.

Check out the series on Amazon.
The first book, DEAD AHEAD, is only .99.

Do You Buy Box Sets?

On the beach this week, we're doing a survey for readers. It's fast, it's easy and we'd appreciate you taking less than a minute to let us know your answers.

Survey

1. How many books do you read in a month?
2. What do you usually spend for a book?
3. Do you buy box sets on Kindle? If so, do you read all the books or only some?

List your answers in the comments and thank you for taking the time to help us!

I LOVE The Beach!!!

Today on the beach, we have Kim Hornsby, Bestselling Suspense Novelist and screenwriter. Take it away, Kim...

I love the beach!

And looking out at the ocean. That's why my brand as an author is associated with the word BEACH. I write beach reads (entertaining fast-paced, story driven) suspense books and envision people on a beach reading it in print. Or reading on a Kindle, although they can be hard to see in bright sunlight!
In THE DREAM JUMPER'S PROMISE, there are many beach scenes because the protagonist is a scuba dive shop owner and a diver.
The second book THE DREAM JUMPER'S SECRET begins on a dive but the story is quickly taken to Seattle and then on to Afghanistan where most of the country is beach with no ocean.
The third book THE DREAM JUMPER'S PURSUIT travel all over the place on a manhunt, ending up in Nicaragua and on the side of Volcano Mombacho. Not alot of beach in that one but definite adventure and high action story.
NECESSARY DETOUR has the protag living on a lake, swimming, pulling her canoe up on her beach, then the story moves to a sailboat off Seattle.

ROCKY BLUFF is set on Maui and features another scuba instructor. Beach plays a small role as they hunt for a stalker and killer in the Wailuku area of Maui.

GIRL OF HIS DREAM is all beach as the hero teaches diving and gets involved with her student while teaching him to deep dive.
DREAM COME TRUE has no beach whatsoever seeing it's a Christmas story set in a small town outside Seattle during the holiday season. But, it's a great beach read.
All books can be found on Amazon HERE.

As a person, I'm always longing to get back to the beach, the ocean, scuba. Writing about settings that make me happy, keep my mind in a happy place. See where I'm going with this? Happiness is a mindset and I'm setting my mind to a happy, sandy place!

My brand is Beach. I'm a Beach Girl. My books are Beach Reads.
My first one is free...
GIRL OF HIS DREAM

Kim Hornsby is a National Bestselling Author of Suspense who’s won numerous awards, including Chanticleer’s prestigious Supernatural Thriller First Place for The Dream Jumper’s Promise, which is currently in development for a feature film. Once a Maui scuba instructor, Kim now divides her time between Seattle and Maui where she writes overlooking the ocean.

Find Kim's books HERE

FREE BOOK WEEK!

FREE BOOK WEEK!!

eBook Giveaways from Kim Hornsby - NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

*Enter to Win eBooks*

Romantic Suspense - Necessary Detour by Amazon #1 Bestselling Author Kim Hornsby - Entry Closed Nov 26th

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Sexy Romance with Suspense Elements - Girl of his Dream - Prequel to Dream Jumper Series - Entry Closed Dec 4th

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Supernatural Suspense Thriller with Romantic Elements - The Dream Jumper's Promise - Entry Closed Nov 23rd

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Drop in Price for the Dream Jumper Series to $1.99 -

December 1-5

5 Books - Suspense! Supernatural! Romance!

AMAZON LINK http://amzn.com/B01NCMQNDP

AND, until the end of January...

ROMANCING THE HOLIDAYS

12 novels for only 99 cents!

Proceeds Benefit Breast Cancer Research

As always, if you read and enjoy, I'd appreciate a review, no matter how short. I know it's hard to write reviews so just pretend we are talking and you're telling me what you liked about the book.
Thank you for supporting Indie Authorship.

Kim

Kim Hornsby is a #1 Amazon Bestselling Author with a Book Series (Dream Jumper) optioned for film, due to begin production next year. Follow her on Amazon here and be sure to sign up for her monthly newsletter to get more info on Freebies, Giveaways and News!

Hitting the USA Today Bestselling List

Here on the hot sand is Kim Hornsby, who's gathered together a bunch of BRA authors in a Christmas Romance anthology box set. Read on to see what they are doing with this set!

Hello Readers: This month, a group of us are trying to reach USA Today Bestselling Author status. A lofty goal, I know, but not unattainable or undeserving, I believe.

I put together a box set of 12 Christmas novellas. Some sweet romance, some sexy, one a mystery, one has a Marine, one has a coffee farmer, one involves jurors, one a cowboy, another has hockey players, one a photographer. All have Christmas and happy endings.

If we sell a ton of these box sets, it might happen that our set reaches the top 150 books sold that week.

It's hard for Indie authors to achieve this because you need money to buy ads to drive sales and the big publishers have the money to buy their authors BIG ADS.

Sad but true that an author can buy their way to the bestseller lists. Money buys ads, ads sell books.

On November 14th, our box set, Romancing the Holidays, loads to Amazon and the book becomes available to the public. That's our official launch day but you can purchase your copy now and have it automatically delivered to your inbox. That's called a presale and as of today, we have 800 presales reserved by readers. We need at least 4,000 sales to hit the list and just might make it. We have $1,000 worth of ads coming out Nov 14-18 to boost sales for the week that counts our sales to see if we make the top 150 books published that week. This is the closest I've come to this strategy working. My first box set in 2015 got really close but we didn't make it. WE had a ton of fun trying and gave over $1,000 to breast cancer.

Please, please, if you can spare 99 cents, and would like to see the underdog win something, consider buying your copy of this set of 12 novellas, even if you don't read romance. We are donating a big chunk of proceeds to Breast Cancer Awareness again and that’s even another reason to buy a copy of Romancing the Holidays.

Here's where to buy your copy!

Giveaway - $30 AMAZON CARD!

The Beach welcomes Suspense Author Kim Hornsby, who just signed a deal with a production company to have her Bestselling Book made into a film. The Dream Jumper's Promise will begin production in 2018 on Maui.
In honor of that, Kim has a fun giveaway this month...

Who doesn't need a $30 AMAZON Gift Card?
Pretty much no one. So enter to win my giveaway and on Sept 1st, I'll be drawing a name and emailing one lucky person.

YOU WON A $30 AMAZON Gift Card!!!!!

How do you enter to win?

Sign up for my newsletter - a one page chit chat that comes to your email inbox every month. It's super easy to sign up, totally safe and I promise not to give your email address to anyone else. Honestly.
I talk about books, travel and sometimes include recipes or quotes for inspiration.

Everyone on the list will be in the drawing and the winner will be emailed on September 1st to hear that they have $30 to spend at Amazon.
That can buy a bunch of books, school supplies or something you've had your heart set on.

Sign Up Here

Good Luck!

Kim Hornsby
www.kimhornsby.com

And the winner is.... Margaret L.! Congratulations!