novels of suspense, romance and intrigue
Three of my suspense novels are now available as audiobooks with virtual voice narration, allowing listeners to experience the stories in an innovative and accessible format. Latest releases include "Strangers on This Road," "Unrecovered," and "Down an Unknown Road," with more titles coming soon.
Kindle Direct Publishing recently launched virtual voice audiobooks, allowing creators to pick voices and modify settings. I spent many hours working with "Evelyn," my virtual narrator, and while it's not perfect, it could be a great solution for independent authors to publish audiobooks.
Emily Senecal's new novel, "Unrecovered," kicks off a suspenseful series featuring art historian Katie Evans. After an unexpected job offer, she joins a team in Paris to recover lost art and antiquities. A suspicious burglary plunges her and her new colleagues into a tangled conspiracy of lies, secrets and betrayal.
I didn't actually intend to publish under a pen name. But it felt right, to have my previous name become a fictional one, a pseudonym, as a new era in my life began. I didn't consider not continuing to publish under it. The pen name that I continue to use is one that I made mine.
Some of my favorite fiction authors are unapologetically genre-defying. It isn't necessarily why I like them, but I appreciate that they didn't allow or aren't allowing themselves to be confined to one category.
A new book by Emily Senecal is now available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. Down an Unknown Road $3.99 Kindle | $11.95 Paperback | Free with Kindle Unlimited You never know what’s going to change your life. A lucky break, a tragic hour, a chance meeting. And nothing is ever the… Continue reading NEW RELEASE: Down an Unknown Road
We need the fallow times as well as the creative and inspired, the down days as well as the up and energized. And everything in between.
Available now on Amazon! A new book by Emily Senecal is now available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. Past Damage $3.99 Kindle | $10.95 Paperback | Free with Kindle Unlimited After getting out of a toxic relationship and into a successful career in web design, Julia Wray is in a great place… Continue reading NEW RELEASE: Past Damage
Now rescheduled for Oct. 13, 2021, the 9th Annual Gifting Grandmas' Authors' Luncheon I'm excited and gratified to share that I've been invited to speak at the Gifting Grandmas' Authors' Luncheon benefiting the Sacramento Children's Home Crisis Nursery. This is a fantastic opportunity to support an organization I believe in, and to share my thoughts… Continue reading Talking About Books
I feel like many authors would agree that dialogue is both a joy and a little bit of a nuisance to write. Conversations are such critical elements in fiction, allowing the characters to meet, interact, develop, perform, discover and figure out. For all the incredibly eloquent descriptions we might pour onto a page, for all… Continue reading The Delights and Challenges of Dialogue
Available now on Amazon! The suspenseful sequel to Spiders in a Dark Web is now available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. Dark Web of Deceit: A novel of suspense It’s been raining for weeks, delaying construction on Lola Bright and Peter Owen’s new home. After almost a year together, things are looking… Continue reading NEW RELEASE: Dark Web of Deceit
"Pivoting" is one of those buzzwords you hear a lot lately, along with "new normal," "reinventing" and "intentional". They start to mean less the more you hear them, to the point that my partner and I snarkily joke how "intentional" we're going to be about various things, like laundry or picking up the dog poop… Continue reading Pivoting, Reinventing, Revisiting… Rinse and Repeat
2020 has been a lot of things... heartbreaking and shattering, upsetting and overwhelming, scary and confusing, inspirational and innovative and hopeful... giving us much to worry about and to mourn, many achievements to celebrate and embrace, and many things we're glad to leave behind. As the year winds down and our winter officially begins, for… Continue reading Brighten the darkest days of the year with two free books
Available now! Already finished season 3 of “Ozark” and looking for a new read to beat the isolation blues? Check out my newest binge-worthy romantic suspense, now available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. The Element of Truth Cal senior Sunny Quinn always trusts her instincts. So when she sees Des Merrick for… Continue reading NEW RELEASE: The Element of Truth
Toward the end of 2019, I got really productive and finished two first drafts, which was gratifying, and then started editing them, which is painstaking, and began to think about marketing, which is downright painful. And now here I am, writing a post to remind myself why this part needs to happen. After I came… Continue reading Inspiration vs. Motivation
I’d like to think that the books I write definitely work as binge-by-the-pool kind of reads, which aren’t necessarily light (though they can be) or long (though they can be), but are stories that for whatever reason draw you in, and allow you to read and read and read without becoming emotionally drained or bored or devastated. In a word, to binge.
Available today on Amazon A new binge-worthy summer read from the author of the Strangers on This Road suspense series is now available for Amazon Kindle and in paperback... The First Time We Met: A novel College junior Eva Meade does not want to be a bridesmaid. Painfully shy and socially inept, she’s well aware… Continue reading NEW RELEASE: The First Time We Met
After a December and January of intensive book marketing and back-to-back paperback releases, I fell back, somewhat exhausted, into my safe, familiar routine of writing and editing. The only downside to being an indie author, as far as I'm concerned, is that unless you hire professionals, you have to be your own marketing team and… Continue reading Inspiration from an Unexpected Place
It's a big learning curve for indie authors, doing most if not all of this on our own. Those of us who are savvy with social media—and that does NOT include me—have a big advantage in today's market, but it's only one element to book promotion.
I think you could safely call it a slump. It's a nice descriptive word, slump. It sounds like what it is. Lately I've been somewhat underwhelmed with myself as an author, besieged by doubts. Who did I think I was, that I could really do this? At some point someone will catch onto the fact… Continue reading The Downsides of Writing: Underwhelm and Self-Doubt
