Champagne ebooks 50% off at Coffeetime Romance

Champagne Books is having its 50% off sale on ebooks through Coffeetime Romance.  The link to purchase ebooks can be found here: 
http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/BookStore/index/manufacturers_id/2

Mo’s Book Buzz on March 21, 2012 at 9pm EST

Join me on Mo’s Book Buzz  at RomRevToday.com for an exciting chat about new romance authors.  I will be discussing my new book The King Maker during the chat this Wednesday, March 21, 2012 from 9 pm to 10 pm EST.  Hope you can join us.

Go to www.romrevtoday.comand click on the Chatroom link.  Sign into Mo’s Book Buzz and you’re in, or copy and paste the following link into your web browser:  http://client0.addonchat.com/sc.php?id=102122

See you then.

 

Champagne Books Blog

The Champagne Books Blog has posted my article on Dime Novels.    The link can be found here:  www.champagnebooks.blogspot.com

 

Free giveaway of ebook The King Maker

Make a comment at www.kellymoranauthor.blogspot.com and win a free ebook of The King Maker by Susan Frances from Champagne Books

Ebook for The King Maker on sale, December 16

Cover art by Trisha Fitzgerald

 

Ebook for The King Maker on sale at Champagnebooks.com on December 16, 2011.  Click here to view or copy and paste link into browser:  http://champagnebooks.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=519

The Book Vixen

The Book Vixen will be featuring Christmas blogs to ring in the Holiday Season.  Check them out here:

Romance at Long And Short Reviews

Celebrate Christmas with Romance Writers

 

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Long and Short Reviews will be posting  fun blogs from romance writers on their site about the Yuletide.  Click on the banner to take a peek.

Review of The King Maker

Writer Bonnie Regan posted her book review of my novel The King Maker.  Her article can be found here:  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12997920-the-king-maker#other_reviews

And at her own website here:  http://sweet-tidbits.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-susan-frances-king-maker.html

Behind The Scenes of The King Maker: 
The title of my new novel, The King Maker is a term that stems from English history and is steep in British folklore since many king makers cannot be proven but are merely based on hearsay. The title is widely applied to Richard Neville, the sixteenth Earl of Warwick, who was dubbed “Warwick the Kingmaker” during England’s War of the Roses in the mid 1400‘s. Over the years, the term has come to have a more general scope applied to a person or an organized group of individuals who remain in the shadows, far out of the sight of the public, but have enormous influence in placing people in a public office. Today, a kingmaker is often viewed as somebody who lacks sufficient resources to win a public seat of power, but possess the resources to place a candidate in a seat of power.

In my novel, I correlate these cloaked figures, who make leaders out of men and women, to the members of a crime ring engaged in credit card fraud. I chose credit card fraud because it was an element that I knew something about after being the victim of such a crime orchestrated by a ring of elusive thieves. It began one morning when I had received a phone call from an account representative at the bank that issued me a new credit card when my old card expired. He informed me that a batch of newly issued new credit cards had been sent out from the Newark Post Office in New Jersey and the next time any of them showed up, they were being used to withdraw large sums of currency at various ATM machines throughout London, England.

It was a surreal moment for me where unforeseeable forces had affected my life. The situation was not of my making and there was nothing I could do to prevent it. It made me wonder what kind of organized group of bandits would prey on people who did nothing to them, at least not directly. Not only had this group prey on people, but they got away with their crimes. These factors became the inspiration for my novel about a modern day King Maker, who lifted an individual to the exalted heights of having influence and power over other people’s lives, and live beyond reproach never having to pay for any sins committed.

In my novel, the knight in shining armor is Cullen Danes, an investigator for the British Aviation Ministry. When Steve McKenna, a friend of Cullen’s, unknowingly becomes involved with a credit card fraud ring, he is killed and Cullen takes it on his own to find the murderer and clear his friend’s name. Along his investigation, Cullen attends the International Aviation Convention in New York where he meets his soon-to-be lady, Nina Holt, a country girl who relocates to New York City to try to carve out a comfy niche for herself. Fate brings them together when Nina saves Cullen from being killed by the members of the crime ring. Together, Cullen and Nina discover who is Steve’s killer as the true identify of the King Maker is slowly unveiled.

Dotted with clues for readers to piece the mystery together, and added with a dash of suspense and a healthy dose of romance, I strove to make The King Maker bring old English themes into contemporary times. It is likely that many readers won’t know who is the true King Maker until the last chapter.

Profile at Goodreads.com

My author’s profile can be found at Goodreads.com here:  http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5310315.Susan_Frances

Thanks to Bonnie Regan 

Romance Novel: The King Maker

My new romance novel, The King Maker, has been published by Champagne Books and is available here:  http://champagnebooks.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=519

Design by Trisha Fitzgerald