SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Paraphrased from a fellow author:

READING. AND. RETURNING. IS. THEFT. FULL. STOP.

Authors do not enjoy waking up OWING Amazon money

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Yes - Amazon charges authors a penalty fee when a book is returned. So you’re not getting back at Bezos, you’re deliberately punishing the authors themselves, despite what you may hear on TikTok.

If you want to support authors, support them.

Read their books. Keep their books. Share your thoughts on their books.

Write a quick review - even a few words, but please don’t claim you support indie authors by buying their books long enough to read only to return them immediately after. That’s theft.

Now. Want to read and return them? Great! Here’s how you can do that:

Check books out of the library.

Read books on Kobo Plus. (A subscription service)

Read books on Kindle Unlimited. (Another subscription service)

But do not buy them outright, read them, and then return them. That just hurts the same indie authors you profess to support.

Take care and happy reading! 

 - Heather 

A sassy bookstore owner - a smokin' hot firefighter - and three flirty septuagenarians. 

What more could you ever need? 

Don’t Call Me Sugar is a slow-burn, Grant’s Crossing Romance - where family and friends mean everything, and happily-ever-afters are guaranteed.

Don't Call Me Sugar is available wherever books are sold online. If it's not already there, you can request it at your local library in paperback and digital for Libby and Hoopla.

Get your copy today!

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Haven’t yet read Wayward Guilt, Heroes of Grant’s Crossing Book 1? 

No problem. Click here to find it in print and digital on Libby / Hoopla or wherever books are sold online.

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New Video for Wayward Guilt

In my quest to be more active in social media, I've made a new video for TikTok. Take a look and let me know what you think in the comments below! 

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WAYWARD GUILT - What do you do when the one friend you've always turned to is no longer there? Wayward Guilt - Heroes of Grant’s Crossing Book 1. LINK IN BIO Wayward Guilt, Heroes of Grant’s Crossing Book 1, is available at all your favorite online booksellers in print and digital formats: https://books2read.com/u/38WRM7 Safe Now, Heroes of Grant’s Crossing Book 2, is due out the end of March, 2024. Pre-order now at: https://books2read.com/u/38WRM7 Sign up for my newsletter at www.HMSBrown.com All Subscribers receive the Prologue and first three chapters of my debut novel, Wayward Guilt, Heroes of Grant’s Crossing Book 1. Wayward Guilt Official Blurb: Genres: Small-town and military fiction, LGBTQIA+ fiction ⭐️ Small town 🇺🇸 Friendship ⭐️ Military service 🇺🇸 Loss & Grief ⭐️ First loves 🇺🇸 Family ⭐️ MM love story 🇺🇸 Honor Three friends leave home to serve their country. Only two make it back. After the Twin Towers fall, Derek Mitchell enlists in the U.S. Army with two of his best friends. He dreams of helping people, whether in the field of combat or back home in Grant's Crossing, Ohio. Juan dreams of marrying his high school sweetheart and starting a family. Joey dreams of being happy and living his own truth. Together, they serve in multiple deployments until Juan and Joey are each grievously injured in separate combat missions. Thirteen years after initially enlisting, one doesn’t make it back. Four months after the funeral, friends and family gather to celebrate Derek’s return to civilian life. With each story shared, he relives their final missions together, carrying the guilt of having saved one friend but not the other. What do you do when the one friend you've always turned to is no longer there? #GrantsCrossing #Military #Smalltown #Brotherhood #family #USArmy #Grief #PTSD #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #ARMY #Militaryfiction #SmalltownFiction #Ohio #indiewriter #Library

♬ original sound - HMS Brown

Thanks, and happy reading! 

 - Heather 

WAYWARD GUILT is the first book in my HEROES OF GRANT'S CROSSING series. Click the cover below to purchase a copy via your favorite online booksellers. Available in digital and paperback. 

My companion novel to Wayward Guilt, Safe Now - Heroes of Grant's Crossing Book 2, is available for pre-order on Amazon.   

Find me online! 

Instagram - @GrantsCrossing

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