Tirgearr Publishing Holiday Sale!!

🎄🌟 RHYTHM OF MY HEART is on sale for the holidays! 🌟🎄

Just 99c, available on all Amazon platforms

16 December - 16 January

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Happy holidays, friends!

And thank you for your continued support.

Celebrations Galore!

The Long and the Short of It Reviews is celebrating their third anniversary in style. They're having a scavenger hunt that runs from August 2-29 and culminates in a two-day live author chat that final weekend (28th and 29th) in their Yahoo Groups, during which they'll announce the winners.

What are the prizes? THREE Nook eBook Readers that come with $50 Barnes and Noble gift certificates AND are already pre-loaded with dozens of romance and juvenile fiction eBooks, including A Piece of My Heart!

How to win? Log into The Long and the Short of It Reviews and follow their simple instructions. Click on the LASR Logo to follow the scavenger hunt on my site.

Good luck!!

Also, A Piece of My Heart (<---click here) is now available in the Kindle Store at Amazon. Finally!!

Read the excerpt for this story and the reviews on the book's page here on my website. A Piece of My Heart is currently available at a number of online retailers, including Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada and others. Also through Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million (in-store orders taken), Booktopia (AU), CoffeeTime Romance, Eason Booksellers (Ireland), and Smashwords.

Be sure to bookmark my site and come back for more information later in the month for a contest with more fabulous prizes. My contest runs the month of September and will celebrate the launch of my newly designed website AND the highly anticipated release of the short story sequel to A Piece of My Heart -- Constant Craving!

The perfect life Mick and Kate thought they had was slowly dissolving. With Mick obsessing about the farm and Kate thrown into a life of domesticity, both lose some of what they'd fought so hard to regain.

It all comes to a head when Kate suspects Mick of having an affair. Kate’s parents step in to give each of them advice from their own years of marriage.

Now, both Mick and Kate have set their own romantic plans in motion, but it could all fall through when Kate nearly blows up the kitchen.

Wow! Can you imagine? You'll have to read the story to find out how that happens.

Until then, head over to The Long and the Short of It Reviews and get winning a Nook!

As always, I love hearing from readers, so drop me an email!

~ Kemberlee

Now available at SMASHWORDS

A Piece of My Heart is now available at Smashwords for $7.49usd.

Available in electronic formats for ereaders, including --

Kindle Reader

Sony Reader

Stanza Reader

Palm Reader

HTML

PDF

Plain Text and

RTF (rich text format)

A Piece of My Heart is also available in print through --

Amazon US

Amazon UK

Amazon Canada

Amazon France

Amazon Germany

Amazon Japan

Also through --

Barnes and Noble

Books-A-Million (in-store orders taken)

Booktopia (AU)

CoffeeTime Romance

Eason Booksellers (Ireland)

Kalahari (Kenya)

Kindle (available soon, but see Smashwords)

Libreriauniversitaria (Italy)

Saxo (Denmark)

Click this graphic for more info on the LASR anniversary competition.

Celebrations start 2 August and end 29 August.

Join my one-hour live chat at 1pm EST (list membership required)

I will be participating in the LASR treasure hunt.

Come back 1 August for more details and how to play!

Let's chat!

I've created an author page on Amazon and started a discussion forum for A Piece of My Heart. If you've read the book, head over and share your comments. I'd love to hear them.

~ Kemberlee

I'm humbled beyond belief!!!

Satisfying Irish Romance , February 5, 2010

Wilma G. Walter

5 Stars

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Kemberlee Shortland has worked many wonderful elements into her novel, A Piece of My Heart.

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The novel begins with a great hook that introduces us to the major conflict between Kate and Mick, the central characters. Add the lovely Connemara setting, a shady character who provides some truly suspenseful moments, Molly the Border Collie (I dare you to *not* fall in love with her!), elements of family history, a tart with a wicked Dublin accent, some ancient Irish magic and you get a very satisfying, well-paced romantic story.

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When I sit down with a romance, I'm always curious about how the author will write the love scenes. Ms. Shortland didn't disappoint me in this arena, either. I've got to say that A Piece of My Heart contains perhaps the sweetest love scene I've ever read. There's a lovely balance between the physical intimacy and all of the emotions swirling around it. So many authors come close to achieving that balance, but fall short. Ms. Shortland gets it right. I'm sure I'll turn to those pages again and again when I need a bit of that sweetness in my day. I look forward Mick and Kate's follow-up story, to see what Ms. Shortland has in store for them.

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Willie,

I can't thank you enough for such kind words. I've had to read and reread it several times to be sure it was ME you were talking about and not someone else. Reviews like this are meant for the likes of those on the NY Times best seller list. Not little old me! I can't tell you how humbled I am. Thank you SO much!!! If you were standing here now I'd give you a big hug and a kiss...to hell with what the neighbors think ;-)

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~Kemberlee

Whoo hoo!! A Piece of My Heart is now available in six countries. I say SIX countries. Well, through Amazon anyway. But I'll take what I can get! Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, and Amazon Japan, of all places.

Things are moving right along. A Piece of My Heart is now also available at Barnes and Noble, and will soon be available at Fictionwise, Kindle, BookStrand, and Books-A-Million.

Reviewers seem to be happy with the book so far, as it's received two FIVE STAR reviews so far...

Viviane Crystal at Crystal Reviews says: "A Piece of My Heart is terrific romantic/suspense fiction to savor and share with family and friends."

Detra Fitch at Huntress Reviews says: "***** FIVE STARS! Kemberlee Shortland has written a heartwarming story that will long remain in my mind. Recommended!"

Go raibh míle maith agat, ladies!

Coming soon: Constant Craving, which is the short story sequel to A Piece of My Heart. "The perfect life Mick and Kate thought they had was slowly dissolving. With Mick obsessing about the farm and Kate thrown into a life of domesticity, both lose some of what they'd fought so hard to regain. It all comes to a head when Kate suspects Mick of having an affair. Kate’s parents step in to give each of them advice from their own years of marriage. Now, both Mick and Kate have set their own romantic plans in motion, but it could all fall through when Kate nearly blows up the kitchen."

What's up with that woman? And Mick, well, Mick's a typical bloke, so there's loads of room for misunderstanding and reconciliation. We like reconciliation :-) This story should be available soon. I'll post the publication date when I have it.

On other news: The other two books in the Irish Pride Series include The Rhythm of My Heart and The Shape of My Heart. I'm currently working on re-editing these and hopefully they will be available at some point in the future. So watch this space for more information on those. Until then, you can read excerpts at the above links.

Contest: I'll be posting a contest here in the coming days, so bookmark this site so you can enter. Lots of fun prizes, so get reading!

I love hearing from fans, so please be sure to drop me a note at the above link and let me know what you thought of A Piece of My Heart, or any of my other works.

Thanks for stopping by!

~ Kemberlee