Jennifer Conner

Using travel for research. Does it help visit the places you write about? - Seattle Writing careers | Examiner.com

2011-10-22T10:07:00.000-07:00

Using travel for research. Does it help visit the places you write about? - Seattle Writing careers | Examiner.com

When does your writing become a career by Berengaria Brown - Seattle Writing careers | Examiner.com

2011-09-05T08:49:00.000-07:00

When does your writing become a career by Berengaria Brown - Seattle Writing careers | Examiner.com

How does an acting major use "method" to craft his story ideas - Seattle Writing careers | Examiner.com

2011-08-30T08:15:00.000-07:00

How does an acting major use "method" to craft his story ideas - Seattle Writing careers | Examiner.com

Are book trailers the next big thing for promoting your book?

2011-08-14T15:29:00.000-07:00

I’m a Seattle best-selling author who is based in one of the tech capitals of the world. Microsoft. Amazon. Starbucks (just had to throw that one in.) So I have to try out the new trends, right? One of the popular trends for selling books is trailers. My second installment in The Regimental Heroes series, The Reluctant Heir, released this week. I thought I would do a trailer for the series. I have made trailers for most of my stories. I think they are fun. Trailers are a great visual and done correctly, can build interest in your story on Amazon, B&N and others.

Can a few YouTube minutes do justice to your book?

As we know, we (especially the younger generation) are becoming very visually based. Book readers still pick up the paper or ebook, but how do you stand out amongst the 10’s of bazillion other books out there?

Book trailers give that back cover blurb with pretty pictures.

I have always had a bad streak of ‘How hard can it be’, so with a little help from Photoshop and Windows Live Movie Maker (on most of your computers if you have never used it), there are great free online music sites and stock photos.

Some of the pitfall problems I’ve seen in trailers: Trying to say TOO MUCH! Keep it short! My opinion is that a trailer should be no longer than 60 seconds to a minute and a half. I think most of us, I speak for myself… squirrel… have a short attention span. If the trailer goes on and on before telling me the meat and potatoes and where to buy it, I’ll probably click out.

Authors out there, you can do this. Jump in and have fun!

If you would like to receive more information on creating your own book trailer contact me at bookstogonow @ gmail.com

Regimental Heroes: The Duke and the Lost Night & new release The Reluctant Heir

The Gold Rush Series: Rush of Love and Fields of Gold

Kilt by Love

Cupcakes and Cupids

Valentine Encounter

Ignite Me

2009-08-25T09:57:00.000-07:00

Brady's a firefighter who's been roped into strutting his stuff at a fund-raising dinner. He's the last person Ivy expects to join her in the banquet hall's secluded gardens when they're on break. When flames ignite between the two of them, Ivy realizes there's only one thing they can do that will extinguish the fire she's feeling.

Kilt by Love

2009-02-28T16:28:00.000-08:00

When Sasha Nolan loses her job as an events planner, she decides to take her dream vacation to Scotland. Her plan is to find out what Scotsmen wear under their kilts, but instead, she’s stuck on a tour bus of senior citizens. When she meets Allister MacTavish, a modern day laird, all that changes.

There’s one simple rule for her vacation, kilt, conquer and leave. Can Sasha follow her rule when Allister asks for her help in creating a plan to rescue MacTavish Castle from financial ruin? Suddenly Sasha finds that she’s tempted to abandon her old life, help Allister, and indulge in every sexual fantasy she’s ever had. Because now, she’s found out what Scotsmen wear under their kilts…nothing at all.

Read the first chapter of Kilt by Love

Do You Hear What I Hear?

2009-02-28T16:20:00.000-08:00

Contemporary Category Romance/ Christmas Novella 23,000 Words

The last thing Nadia Johansson expects to find while doing a Christmas cater is Santa with a concussion in the office kitchen. After bringing him home to care for him, Nadia finds that there’s nothing on Sean Murphy that shakes like a bowl of jelly… in fact, he’s pretty much rock hard.

Nadia has spent too much time getting over her ex and working herself into the ground. What she needs is a hot fling with a six-foot three Christmas package named Sean.

But when Sean becomes serious, Nadia wonders if she has enough time for work and play? Sean must convince her to put him on her Christmas list with one sexy encounter at a time.

Read the first chapter of Do You Hear What I Hear

Dream Fall

2009-02-28T15:47:00.000-08:00

Paranormal Romantic Suspense Work in Progress

Mari Castillo planned to leave her home town once and for all, but her mother’s death has forced her to return amidst a pile of unpaid bills to care for her autistic brother. Unable to find work, Mari opens their seaside home as a bed and breakfast.

Jace MacAllister is level-four telepath and now, renegade agent of REM (the Regiment of Enlightened Militia), the place he once put blind faith in. Knowing of REM’s plan to bring these women to their labs and force them to dream, Jace agrees to help Mari to safety. Moving in as a boarder to her bed and breakfast, he must first determine if Mari’s dreams can change reality. When Jace dream-walks into Mari’s subconscious, he has her ‘wish’, but nothing happens. Jace begins to suspect that Mari may not be the dreamer REM is after.

Both being hurt in the past, Mari and Jace must learn to open their hearts to each other, as Jace fights to protect Mari and her family from REM. If he fails, and REM successfully captures a dreamer, the balance of the world could change with one dreamers ‘wish.'

Read the first chapter of Dream Fall

Sleep Fall

2008-06-18T19:21:00.000-07:00

Paranormal Romantic Suspense

71,000 Words

Isabelle Debouis is afraid to fall asleep, because when she wakes she finds what she’d wished in her dreams has now become reality.

Callum Galloway is a telepath with R.E.M. (the Regiment of Enlightened Militia) R.E.M. sends Callum into Isabelle’s dreams to determine if her abilities are real. When Cal is told by R.E.M. to make Isabelle “wish” in her dream, he sees the outside world change, with only the two of them remembering how things had been before that moment.

Darker truths surface about R.E.M., the agency Callum has always believed to be part of the government, forcing him to question their true purpose and fear for Isabelle’s safety. Cal must convince Isabelle to escape with him. The more they learn about R.E.M., the more they fear that neither they nor the rest of the world can be safe

Read an excerpt from Sleep Fall

Fighting the Fire

2008-06-18T19:19:00.001-07:00

Fighting the Fire

Paranormal Romantic Suspense 60,000 Words

With her pyrokenetic powers, Mia Koda thought she was a freak. The powers she's struggled with are starting fires out of her control.

Firefighter Cy Brennon's main goal is to make sure everyone caught in a fire comes out safely and alive. When he breaks into a burning house, the last thing he expects to find is a beautiful young woman, untouched by the flames, in what he can only describe as a “fire free zone”.

Pulled together after the fire and their similar tragic childhoods, they search to discover more about Mia's Native American roots, and the power she has always feared.

As another deadly fire breaks out, Cy fights to prove to Mia she wasn't responsible, but does this mean that someone want her dead?

Read an excerpt from Fighting the Fire

Knight's Promise

2008-06-18T19:17:00.001-07:00

Knight's Promise

The Paladin Knights have survived in secret for twelve hundred years to protect and aid innocent victims. Oliver Wallace was born into this ancient bloodline of warriors and healers but failed to save the man he was chosen to protect.

Now he has been given another chance. He now must put his trust in the Paladins once again or watch another member of this family die. Ceana MacFarlane thinks nothing ever goes right. She has a dead end job in Seattle and her fiancé just dumped her for another woman. That same night Ceana is brutally attacked for a reason she does not understand. She hears a man’s voice, in her mind, telling her to fight, to stay alive, that he will be there soon.

Now both Oliver and Ceana carry scars. Hers are on the outside, but his lay on the inside with the fear she will find out the truth about her father‘s death. As Oliver and his fellow Paladins begin a desperate search for her attacker he knows that Ceana’s safety and protection must be put above all else and that it is wrong to have fallen in love with her.

Sword's Shadow

2008-06-18T09:26:00.000-07:00

Swords's Shadow

Alana Ivory, once a cult television heroine, has come to Prague to resurrect her failing career. When a crazed fan begins stalking her, leaving her cryptic threats, a mysterious stranger appears claiming to be her hired body guard.

Illiya Alexandrov is not who he says he is. He is a Paladin Knight sent to protect Alana from the danger the Ancients have foretold. After the threats become deadly, Alana who has always had to fight for herself, alone, must learn to put her trust in Illiya.

Together they flee across icy Northern Europe, as Illiya must put Alana’s safety above his building desire for her. Will Illiya and his fellow Paladins find Alana’s stalker in time to save her life? To do this they must watch for the Sword’s Shadow.