Carmen DeSousa

Three FREE eBooks? Why not? Think of it as me buying you a cup of coffee. So we can become better acquainted. If we enjoy each other's company, maybe you'll come back for more. And if you do, I assure you, I'll always keep my prices low--less than a latte seems fair--so you can afford to keep coming back and hanging out with me and my characters again and again. As always, thank you for your support! Carmen FREE Romantic Suspense! A tightly woven tale of love, possession, and secrets: When Jordan Monroe finds his wife unconscious, clinging to life, he must uncover the mystery of her past before it comes back to claim them both. Amazon  Add the Audio for $1.99! iTunes Barnes & Noble Kobo FREE Romantic Suspense with a Paranormal Edge! For four thousand years, creatus have concealed themselves from the humans who hunted them almost to extinction. Unwittingly, one creatus will endanger them all... Amazon iTunes Barnes & Noble Kobo ...

McDonalds.com Free Books are like Big Macs! Really! Find out how they compare.    As I wrote that line, not only was I reminded of Joe Fox's comment in  You've Got Mail  about vats of olive oil, but I also realized — and this is fitting to the post — not everyone likes Big Macs. Me, eh ... not really, I'd rather have a black-bean burger. But ... I LOVE McDonald's french fries and coffee. I digress ...    The M in McDonald's is probably the most commonly known trademark throughout the world, and yet, McDonald's advertises EVERYWHERE! Radio, TV, Twitter, Facebook, your mailbox…    Yes, even though there's a good chance that you'll go to McDonald's in the near future — umm … for coffee — they still pay millions of dollars to bring you into their lair. And one of their most popular draws is the freebie or discount, often called a "loss leader."   Yes, that lure of a fre...

The answer might surprise you... I n my case, it's because I want you to read it. In general, authors write because they love writing. Most of us didn’t just decide in college that this was our career choice; we’ve been writing as long as we could hold a pen. We were great pen pals, journaled, didn’t mind writing our grandmothers a thank you note, passed messages back and forth in school, and usually drove our boyfriends/girlfriends  crazy with our four-page love  letters .  But there’s one thing every writer I know loves more than writing, and that’s "being read." And more importantly, readers reading our writing and then letting us know it touched them. As most writers, I tend to check my book stats. But there’s something I do that proves my above assessment about myself — and I assume other authors  — is true . When I jump behind my laptop in the morning to see how my book fares in the notorious Amazon ranking system, if I see there’...