January 2024: A New Year with Monthly Treats in Store

Stuff from Ann’s Brain…

I don’t know about you, but I am sooooo ready to move on to 2024 and try my hand at a new month and a new year. I don’t like to wish myself older, but some years need to be taken out back and burned when they’re all wrapped up and done poking you.

Our holidays with our kids were nice, including some fun new traditions we started now that Beaker and Chicken Noodle are older, but Sam and I are ready to write, write, and write some more. We have several entertaining and adventurous stories planned for you this year, as well as different and exciting things in store for my monthly newsletter.

First of all, I have twelve bestselling author friends who are going to be offering a free ebook to you (one ebook per month only through my newsletter). These are all amazing storytellers with many, many books available for you if you enjoy their storytelling “voice.”

Also, Sam and I will be offering a chance to win a fun gift pack every month. We’ll collect your name via email and do a random drawing to see who wins.

I’ll continue (along with Mark & Michelle Davis’s help) to offer a monthly recipe from our Moon the Cook cookbook (which is sadly no longer available–but you can still get recipes through my newsletter).

And in addition to these monthly staples, we’ll have news about the 2024 Deadwood Fan Party (as soon as we land on a date), our new book releases, and whatever else comes to mind each month when it’s time to reach out to you and holler, “Hello!”

I hope you have a marvelous, laughter-filled 2024!
Ann

In case you missed the news last month …

TimeReaping in Deadwood is now available as an audiobook!

Caroline Shaffer is back narrating Violet’s newest book.

“Ann will keep you laughing and turning pages all night!” ~Lisa Kessler, Author of the Award Winning Sedona Pack Series

For the links to Violet’s new audiobook, check out my website and all of the LINKS listed there!

January’s Wonderful Author is … Deanna Chase,

a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author who has written enough books to keep you busy reading for a long, long time. She’s a native Californian who has transplanted to the slower paced lifestyle of southeastern Louisiana. When she isn’t writing, she is often goofing off with her husband in New Orleans, playing with her two shih tzu dogs, or making glass beads. She writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, mid-life women fiction, and more! Her book covers are super cool and she is always trying to help her author friends in one way or another.

Click HERE to head over to Deanna’s website so that you can learn more about her and her books!

January’s Featured ebook from Deanna Chase

Soulless at Sunset (Book 1 in her Last Witch Standing series)

Trouble is brewing in New Orleans. Shifters are moving in and vampires are being picked off in record numbers. And vampire hunter Phoebe Kilsen, a witch, is right in the middle of the war.

When Phoebe’s best friend goes missing along with the consort of the most powerful vampire in New Orleans, Phoebe betrays her heart and her shifter partner by teaming up with the one vampire she’s never trusted. They say all is fair in love and war, but Phoebe is putting it all on the line and she’s not at all sure she’ll make it out alive.

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Nearly Departed in Deadwood Audiobook on sale for ONLY $2.99!

Grab the audiobook copy of the first book in the Deadwood Mystery series for only $2.99 through January 31, 2024! This is a great deal if you’re interested in giving audiobooks a try. If you already have this book in audio, then you can be an awesome friend or family member and share this audiobook deal with someone who might enjoy sharing some laughs and cringes about Violet’s wild life along with you.

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Every month, I’ll be offering a chance to win a fun-filled gift pack containing different books and goodies.

January’s gift pack was a Deadwood Undertaker gift. This pack of goodies contained:

An autographed, limited edition “Rawhide” copy of the Deadwood Undertaker series book 4, The Backside of Hades. (This book was released early for the Deadwood Fan Party in 2022 and contains a few errors since it hadn’t gone through the official final editing phase yet.)
A glass tumbler starring Anubis from The Backside of Hades.
An autographed set of Deadwood Undertaker series magnets.
Several Deadwood Undertaker series stickers and patches.
A 2024 Traveling with Ann Desk Calendar and a couple of 2024 Door Hanger calendars.
An autographed Boots-N-Hat zippered tote bag.

To find out about and enter future drawings for a gift pack: “Subscribe to Ann’s Newsletter: Ann Charles | Connect

Cheesy Potato Soup

Here is another yummy recipe from the out-of-print 2020 Ann Charles MOON THE COOK cookbook, which Mark and Michelle Davis helped put together.

This month, Mark, Michelle and I decided to share a recipe from Penelope Harrison, the owner of Mule Train Diner in the Jackrabbit Junction Mystery series–Cheesy Potato Soup. Yummmm, cheese!

NOTE: This cookbook sold out in 2020, so for those of you who were unable to buy a copy from my Ann Charles online store before it was gone, now you’ll have access to some of the great recipes via my monthly newsletters.

Wrap Up

Sam is busy writing Deadwood Undertaker Book 5, Hip Deep in Bad Company. Life slowed us down on releasing this book last year, but we’re determined to plow through anything that gets in our way and have this book out this spring. Stay tuned for more on Clementine, Boone, Rabbit, Hank, and the rest of the crew.

I’m writing, too. This year I hope to release another Deadwood Mystery book and a Dig Site Mystery series book. I miss the Jackrabbit Junction crew, but those folks down in the Mexican jungle have been waiting a longgggg time for some more excitement on the page, and I can’t wait to see what happens next at the dig site!

Thank you for all of your kindness and support in 2023. I look forward to sharing more laughs and adventures with you in 2024.

Ann

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