Showing posts with label Central Ohio Fiction Writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Ohio Fiction Writers. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Wild about Ebooks

For a good long while my goal has been to be published in Ebooks. So when I met Rhonda Penders at our super conference in Eureka Springs, Arkansas known as Ozark Creative Writers, I was thrilled when she asked me to submit two of my manuscripts.

For the past few years my work has all been in nonfiction, but along the way that old love, writing fiction, often reared its head and I would work on something. The problem is, my reach exceeds practicality. Concentrate on one genre, we're often told, but that never appealed to me. A Jane of all trades, I wrote in a wide range.

Having been published the traditional route in the 90s, I'd settled into the western historical romance genre, and had one novel, Stone Heart's Woman, ready. Then I leaped to paranormal, Wolf Song, but still western oriented, a story about the gray wolf restoration in Wyoming at Yellowstone National Park. Going to the dark side, out came A Savage Grace. Oh, was I ever ready to submit when it became evident that Ebooks were the coming place to be.

Knowing all this, my next step was to buy a Kindle, for how could I pursue Epublishing without a way to read Ebooks? Fell in love immediately with the concept of downloading books and carrying so many around in my purse. A tiny, light weight thing I could hold up easily while reading in bed.

Then came the news that The Wild Rose Press wanted to publish Stone Heart's Woman, really liked Wolf Song but didn't find enough romance there to fit.

I can already see that this is a great place to be, and I'm eagerly awaiting the next steps in seeing my book Epublished.

Have found some great writing helps on Digital Book World and this helpful site.


Tuesday, August 26, 2008

My New Book Cover--thank you, Nicola!


As if being on vacation with my own personal hero isn't enough...I just got the book cover for Marrying Minda by e-mail. On, isn't it pretty? The amazing Nicola Martinez got it just exactly right.

I am so honored to be an upcoming part of the Cactus Rose line. Marrying Minda did very well in two fiction contests, so if you'd like to read the opening scenes, check out my website www.tanyahanson.com or my blog, http://tanyahanson.blogspot.com


I always need friends at myspace, too. Hope to hear from some of you somehow.
www.myspace.com/tanyahansonbooks

Here's a blurb...enjoy!

Mail-order bride Minda Becker arrives in Paradise, Nebraska and eagerly marries the handsome man who meets her stagecoach. His wedding kiss melts her toes. Too bad he's the wrong bridegroom. Having honored his brother's deathbed request to marry Minda, Cowboy Brixton Haynes can't deny he'd like a wedding night with the eastern beauty. But the last thing he needs is to be saddled with a wife and the three children his brother left behind. First chance he gets, he'll be back point-riding along the Goodnight. But leaving Minda proves to be harder than he expected.

Best wishes to all of you!