Promotions & Freebees

It’s Happening Today in 2025 San Francisco!

on February 22, 2025

Today’s the Day! Join fellow award-winning historical fiction author Linda Ulleseit and me TODAY, Saturday, 2/22/25, for a One-of-a-Kind Book Fair at Pier 23 Café in San Francisco! 📚✨ (FUN FACT…Pier 23 is about a mile from Alcatraz Island, one of the locales in my latest historical mystery THE RED-HOT BLUES CHANTEUSE.) Love books, good… Read More


Join me in 2025 San Francisco

on February 13, 2025

Saturday February 22, I’m joining 20+ other Bay Area women authors in a One-of-a-Kind Book Fair at Pier 23 Café in San Francisco! 📚✨ Come on by and pick up your copies of THE RED-HOT BLUES CHANTEUSE and FANNY NEWCOMB AND THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER. If you’re not ready for a book, then come get… Read More


February Historical Fiction Giveaway!

on February 1, 2025

It’s February and that brings another batch of free books! Fifty-One free historical fiction novels or short stories, to be exact. None of mine are included this month, but there are some excellent stories from my PLW historical fiction pals C. V. Lee, Mari Anne Christie, Alina Rubin, Anne M. Beggs, and Jonathan Posner. Enjoy!


Download Ana’s X Marks The Spot; it’s free until January 31st!

on January 14, 2025

Are you a fan of stories featuring strong, independent women and girls? No shrinking violets! No damsels in distress! Here are 80 FREE short story downloads, including my own X Marks The Spot. If you didn’t snatch up X Marks The Spot last month, do it now, because you never know when my target girl… Read More


January Historical Fiction Freebees!

on January 5, 2025

Just in time for I-wanna-stay-inside-and-read January, it’s FREE HISTORICAL FICTION, courtesy of the Paper Lantern Writers’ promo on Bookfunnel. We’ve got an incredible cast of characters this month—including dukes, druids, governesses, horse-lovers, wallflowers, highlanders, dragon lords, and yes, even a sassenach! Check out the thirty-one novels and short stories here, before January 31st, of course!


Big Paper Lantern Writers Giveaway!

on October 31, 2024

TODAY ONLY! (That’s Thursday October 31st…Halloween, folks!) Today you can win all the stuff PLUS a mug! (And I’ve got my own mug and IT’S GREAT!) As our giveaway progresses, the prize package gets bigger! Join Paper Lantern Readers FB to enter!


Historical Fiction Update: Free Fanny Newcomb!

on August 1, 2024

Once more I’m excited to participate in the Paper Lantern Writer’s BookFunnel Giveaway, and for one month only, FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER is available for download for free. So if you’re intrigued about smart female Southern sleuths in Gilded Age New Orleans just click here…. And whether you love, hate, or are… Read More


Historical Fiction Update: One More Week for Free Books & Short Stories!

on July 24, 2024

One more week to download July’s free historical fiction, including my own short story Trust No One, where, in World War II Washington, one woman’s ambition wrecks havoc on her fellow spies. Stop by the Paper Lantern Writers’ monthly historical fiction giveaway for ALL of the historical fiction short stories and novels!


70+ Free Historical Fiction ePubs

on June 14, 2024

For almost a year, Paper Lantern Writers (and specifically our Tudor-era author Jonathan Posner) has been hosting a monthly historical fiction giveaway on Bookfunnel. This June the giveaway includes over SEVENTY free novels, novellas, and short stories! We’ve got World War II, the Elizabethan Era, and the Gilded Age covered! We’ve also got mysteries, romances,… Read More