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October Roundup: New Books! Free Books!

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After far too long, the next 2 books in the Lazarus Hunter series are complete!

To celebrate, there’s a promo offer on all of them right now.

Blood Inheritance – Free until October 29th

Black Market Blood (book 2) and Shadows of Blood (book 3) are both on a limited 0.99 offer until 8th November 2017.

That means you can get all three books for only 1.98 if you buy them before October 29th.*

*price applies to most Amazon marketplaces

 

I absolutely love writing this series, even if it was horribly delayed because there was a sticky plot point in Black Market Blood that has taken two years for me to fix in a way I was happy with. After some much needed rest, I’ll begin the edits to book four in December – I’m already looking forward to it.

I really hope you enjoy them and if you do, then please leave a review. Not only do I appreciate it, Amazon uses it to help other readers find my books.

For those of you who enjoy my C.K. Martin books, never fear! I have a heartwarming Christmas romance coming out at the beginning of December. More details heading your way soon!

 

Why I’ve used a new pen name for an old book

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It has been absolute chaos, but I have finally completed the behind the scenes, messy task of disentangling Blood Inheritance from the author name C.K. Martin and moving it over to a new pen name, Cas Martin.

The great news is, now that the boring back-end stuff is done, I’m excited to be able to release books 2 and 3, Black Market Blood and Shadows of Blood.

Having two separate author names is a lot of effort, so why bother? Simply this: to make it easier for readers, even if it does make it harder for me.

Many of my books fall under the heading of lesbian fiction. Some are romance, some have a lesbian protagonist. For a significant number of readers, they have found my books because that is exactly what they want – a break from the heteronormative world that is 99% of publishing.*

My fantasy books won’t always give that. Don’t get me wrong, if you’re the kind of reader who only wants to read about straight white people, then you’re not going to get that either. I write my fantasy how I experience my world, and that is female and male, gay and straight, white and black. A messy walk through life, without clear-cut boundaries. If you enjoy all genres, then explore both by all means. I just wanted to make the branding visibly different.

In terms of social media, I’m not going to pretend that they’re two separate people. So my personal Facebook profile and twitter account will stay the same, but will reference both names. As will this website. Other things specifically book related, such as Amazon author pages, Facebook pages and (if I can get it to work properly) Goodreads will be separate to avoid posting things not of interest to the majority of readers.

So apologies if things are a bit messy for awhile. I would love it if you read all of my books, but if you’re looking for something specific, then this should help you get to the books you want. You can read the blurbs for all three on the Urban Fantasy page.

Quick Links:

Cas Martin’s Amazon Page / Facebook Page

C.K. Martin’s Amazon Page / Facebook Page

*not an actual statistic, but you get what I mean.