Cover Reveal! Autumn's End!

So the time has come for the final book in the Spirit Shifters series to come to life. Ending a series always causes such mixed feelings in me. In many ways, I'm happy to see my characters reach the end of their story, and I'm excited to be moving onto pastures new, but in other ways it's sad to say goodbye to them all.

I've been writing The Spirit Shifters for several years now, and, after this final book has been published, there will be around 400,000 words written about Autumn, Blake and the gang! That's a lot of words! I hope you've enjoyed them all, and that you'll enjoy the final book, too.

Without further ado, here's the cover for the sixth and final book, Autumn's End!

Autumn’s End Blurb

Pregnant with Peter’s child, Mia is adjusting to life as a shifter. Filled with a hunger she seems unable to sate, and with the baby growing at an unnatural rate, she and Peter seek help.

An ancient brotherhood get heed the baby might be the first of its kind—a true genetic shifter—and they will do everything they can to stop more shifters being created, including abducting Mia.

Caught in an explosion downtown, Autumn has to figure out if she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, or if someone is out to kill her. When news of Mia comes through, both Autumn, Blake, and the others will stop at nothing to get her back, even if it means waging a battle between their own kind.

Will Mia and Peter’s baby be the start of a whole new legacy of shifters, or will lives be lost?

The book will be out on January 26th 2015, and is now available for preorder! Pre-order now and you'll save 25% on the regular $3.99 price.

It's available for pre-order from the follow places:

Amazon viewBook.at/AutumnsEnd

Barnes & Noble http://ow.ly/W4rE6

iBooks  http://ow.ly/W4s09

Kobo http://ow.ly/W4stA

Avenging Autumn is Out Now!

Avenging Autumn, the fifth book in the Spirit Shifters series, is out! 

Avenging Autumn is the penultimate book in the series, which means there is only one book left. Eek! I can't believe how far Autumn, Blake, Chogan and the others have already come, but there are still a few twists and turns left in their story.

If you pre-order the book, it'll be magically arriving on your e-reader. If you haven't ordered it yet, you can get it at the following places:

Amazon: getBook.at/AvengingAutumn

Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/avenging-autumn-marissa-farrar/1122220141

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1013552599

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/autumn-s-war

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it!

In other news, I've been writing a new story on Wattpad. Wattpad is a writer/reader interface, where we authors can get feedback on our latest stories as we're writing them. I wrote Cut Too Deep this way, and really loved the process, so I've decided to do it all over again! My latest story is called Survivor, and is a contemporary romantic suspense. Here's a bit about it!

Broke and fallen from grace after her billionaire father is convicted of embezzlement, ‘It Girl’, Charlie Charleston has little choice but to accept the offer her agent makes for her to appear in the reality television show,Celebrity Survivor. 

The thought of being stranded in the middle of nowhere without so much as a scrap of makeup, and all for the general public’s entertainment, scares the life out of her. Charlie hasn’t even so much as been camping before, never mind existed without any creature comforts, and with food she has to catch and kill herself.

Upon being introduced to ex-marine and survival expert Tyler Jansen, the man who will be guiding her through all matters to do with surviving in the wild, she wonders if things might have started looking up.

The problem is Tyler seems to think she’s about as pointless as a pedicure, and nothing she does gets his attention.

But when their plane goes down in the middle of nowhere, something Charlie is sure is a set-up by the producers of the show, she is determined to show Tyler Jansen exactly what she’s made of.

You can read Survivor and follow along right here! https://www.wattpad.com/story/43724292-survivor

Plans for 2013! Ending one Series and the Start of Another...

2012 was a great year for me. I saw a number of new novels published; the last couple of books in my Serenity series, together with a couple of stand alone novels. I rode the high wave of KDP Select, and came down on it too, much like many other authors! I've met some amazing new people - both other authors and readers as well. I've had my books hit the top 100 for their genre, drop back out again, head back in, and fall back down the list again! I've learnt new marketing techniques and given up on some old ones. I've figured out that a quick flash in the pan of sales is all exciting, but the slow and steady sales are the ones that count.

I'm hoping 2013 will bring more of the same. A lot of indie authors are complaining about falling sales, but the fact is being an author has never been easy. It's damn hard work, with lots of highs and lows. Just because the traditional gate keepers have been removed doesn't mean that all of a sudden anyone who can string a sentence together deserves to be successful. It takes time and dedication, often at the expense of personal or family time. I never started this journey with the ambition of being famous and hugely wealthy (not that it wouldn't be nice!), but simply that I would be able to work as a writer and not need to do a day job. I've achieved that now, which is amazing, so my new goal is to be able to support my family completely, and get my husband out of his day job.

I'm hoping the publication of my new series this year will go some way toward achieving this. By the end of January, I should have the first draft of the final book in my Serenity series finished, which will then be put aside to 'mature' for a couple of months. I'll then turn my attention back to editing and publishing the first book in  the Spirit Shifters series, 'Autumn's Blood.' My goal, though it may be an ambitious one, is to have three books in the new series done and published by the end of 2013.

2013, for me, will be all about the new series. I know many people (myself included) will be sad to see Serenity and Sebastian go (though don't worry, Elizabeth will be getting her own YA series, which Serenity and Sebastian may be making the occasional cameo appearance in!), but I'm hoping people will come to love the characters in the new series just as much.

I hope you'll all stick around so see how this year pans out!