Irish Novel & Gardening Book on Sale!

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day...

On sale at Kobo!

My romantic novel The Galway Girls has been selected for Kobo Books 30% off sale! Set in the misty green hills of the west of Ireland, it's a warmhearted story of two friends searching for love and happiness in the quaint little village of Ballydara. 

There's a fun gardening subplot too. I hope you'll take a look! 

The March sale is in Kobo's US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand stores... Just scroll down to the Fiction carousel; the coupon code is MAR30.

Also selected for the sale: my lighthearted gardening memoir Little Farm Homegrown! These two books, The Galway Girls and Little Farm Homegrown have a close connection...

Lots of the gardening adventures (and misadventures) of my novel's character Kerry are based on my real life experiences in "Homegrown"!

Full of helpful tips for food gardeners, Little Farm Homegrown can be found on Kobo's 30% off Nonfiction carousel. There's a bigger cover image on your right.

2nd Little Farm memoir

Back to Ireland--and a little time travel...

When I published my first Village of Ballydara novel, my Irish romantic comedy It Only Takes Once, ebooks were still a fairly new thing. And when it came to styling your book covers, the fad was, anything goes!

Here's my first cover of It Only Takes Once. Shamrocks, because...well, it's an Irish story! I wanted a redhead on the cover, like my heroine. So I sweet-talked my niece, with her mane of naturally vibrant red hair, into being my cover model. My husband John, a graphic designer, put it together:

 Tiny step-dancing shoes from my knickknack collection 

A couple of years later, I went back to the drawing board to refresh the cover: adding a pretty face, plus this gorgeous Irish cottage...

This cottage is in Adare, Co. Limerick

By the time I was ready to publish The Galway Girls, I'd found an absolutely wonderful cover designer. When she had finished that cover, I hired her to update It Only Takes Once, with more vibrant color:

I love the blue sky!

If you're in the mood for some light Irish entertainment, It Only Takes Once is at a great price: Free at all stores! See the book at Amazon, Kobo, B&N's Nook, Apple and more.  

You can find lots of other Irish books, movies, and other fun Ireland-inspired stuff at my Susan Colleen Browne website... Here's wishing you a Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

    

Free Bestselling Garden Book and The Irish Newsletter!

The Pirate Queen of County Mayo

With St. Patrick's Day only a week away, some folks might be in an Irish kind of mood. 

If you're one of them, I hope you'll check out my March newsletter. "The Irish Issue: Jane Austen and the Pirate Queen & Writing Irish" is just out today! 

And in case you're a Jane Austen fan and wondering what on earth she has to do with the 16th century Irish Pirate, well, it's all there.

You don't have to subscribe to the newsletter to read it--it's free and open to all.

Meanwhile, over in book news: 

My new paperback of Little Farm in the Garden is an Amazon bestseller!

It's been really rewarding, that my little food-gardening ebook has been pretty popular since I published it 3 years ago... at or near the top of the Pacific Northwest Gardening category. But that's for free books.

But in the first month as a paperback, Little Farm in the Garden hit Amazon's Top 100 list (#76 here in this screenshot, sorry it’s so tiny) in the same category for print books! If you'd like to take a look inside, you can get the ebook for free right here, or shop for it at your favorite online bookstore.

Now, I know Amazon bestsellers come and go, and Little Farm's spot on the list won't last long. But for now, I'll just do a little happy dance in the garden!