Sorry For Not Updating This Page For A While...

 

My apologies for not updating this page for some time now. 

I've been busy writing, but you'll find most of what I've been writing and publishing at my weekly blog The Revolution Continues on Substack. Fresh every Tuesday morning! 

Writing about what's happening in the world and how I feel I should respond to it as a human being is important to me. I hope it is to others as well.

My fiction titles with eXtasy Books are still available for sale (last I heard) via third party online sales sites. Yes, this means they're listed at the dreaded Amazon online, which takes almost all the sales price, leaving very little for the author and publisher. 

I've thought about starting my own publishing house, but if I have to go through Amazon and lose my shirt to Jeff Bezos and wind up with nothing at the end of the day, it wouldn't be worth the stress. That's what my small publisher is doing, so I can't guarantee how much longer they'll be in business. (Amazon has destroyed more small and academic publishers than you can imagine. And yet people complain about the lack of variety in books--their buying habits via Amazon are killing the publishers who used to provide that variety. Buy from indie book stores/web sites and directly from authors whenever you can.)

Please feel free to subscribe to me at the above link and we'll keep in touch weekly. Thank you.

 

 

 

Some Book Link Updates

 

Some book link updates and other news...

I'm looking forward to see you at Cleveland Concoction in March. Fingers crossed the weather for traveling that weekend is good and the highways clear of snow!

I really hate posting links to third party sellers, but since our publisher, eXtasy Books, has stopped selling books from their web site directly, this is what we authors forced to do.

Here are the links at Amazon for my and my co-author Adrian J. Matthew's BloodDark series of books:

The BloodDark series main page:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HQWP6VB?binding=kindle_edition&qid=1736809506&sr=1-23&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin

Olivia's Escape
https://www.amazon.com/Olivias-Escape-BloodDark-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07MYL8TY2/ref=sr_1_21

Olivia's Return
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NCQSBX8

Olivia's Decision
https://www.amazon.com/Olivias-Decision-BloodDark-Book-3-ebook/dp/B07P8JKSG3/ref=sr_1_25

Fire on the Sands
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Sands-BloodDark-Book-4-ebook/dp/B07QBMBQ54/ref=sr_1_23

Here's the link for my stand alone novel (at this time--I really wanted to write more in this universe and perhaps I will some day):

Where The Bodies Lie https://www.amazon.com/Where-Bodies-Lie-Cindy-Matthews-ebook/dp/B09LTXXSS1/ref=sr_1_2 

If you see any other places where our books are being sold online, please feel free to send me the links so I can share them with others. Thank you!

My Publisher Has Stopped Direct Sales From Their Web Site

 

Update January 2025:  eXtasy Books (Devine Destinies) is no longer selling books directly from their web site. The flood of self-pubbed books online and billionaire Jeff Bezos' tactics has made it even more difficult for small publishers to compete and stay afloat in today's economy. Publisher Tina Haveman thought that selling books through the big online web sites alone would be the best thing to do at this time.

You can still find and buy my books at Amazon, B & N, Kobo, Smashwords, and other online book sellers. When I get time, I will try and update all the sales links at my pen names' sites. Until then, please search for my name and my book titles at your favorite online book seller.

Every day is a struggle for writers. Please buy our works, subscribe to our Substacks, and donate to our individual causes whenever you're able. Thanks for understanding. --Cindy

It's Time For An Update

 

 A Monarch butterfly in our backyard.

It's high time for an update here!

I'm not writing that much fiction lately, so I've had to face facts. It's just not worth paying for the domain names for my romance pseudonyms. After 20 years, I've let them go. I may regret it (or not) but that's life and poverty for you. You have to make choices sometimes you don't like but are necessary.

The good news is that my author web sites are still up, and I still do have romantic fiction for sale at eXtasy Books and the usual online retail suspects (Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, etc.) Here are the direct links to my author pages now:

For my PG-13 rated romance novels, romantic comedies, SF and historical romance:

Cynthianna https://cynthiannamatthews.blogspot.com/

For my R rated erotic-romance with contemporary, comedy and SF/Fantasy settings:

Celine Chatillon https://celinechatillonbooks.blogspot.com/

If you're reading this at cindyamatthews.com, then you've found my writings under my "real name" (or at least what I go by most days). The Blood Dark Series of YA books (co-written with my husband Adrian J. Matthews) have their own web page at       https://blooddarkbooks.blogspot.com. I hope you'll check them out. 

I'm still wondering what to do with my stand alone dystopian near future novella, Where the Bodies Lie, written under this pen name. If I win the lottery tomorrow, I might just write  more stories set in this fictional world and set up another website for them.

Most days, you can find me writing under my "newspaper pen name" of C.A. Matthews. (Yes, I've written for newspapers and magazines. I also review books and evaluate manuscripts. I get around.) My latest column can be read online at The Revolution Continues blog, now featured on Substack at

 https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/

Please subscribe to it for a weekly read on what's really going on in the world (not fictional stuff) and how I and other like minds see the future of our society/planet playing out.

If you're interested in helping me become a full-time writer, fiction and/or non-fiction, please purchase my books directly from the publisher's website. (I implore you to avoid sites like Amazon because it wipes out the author's royalties. It really does.) Or please consider becoming a paying subscriber of my weekly Substack blog or make a donation directly to the cause at https://paypal.me/camatthews   

Thank you.

My Latest Release

Where The Bodies Lie

https://www.extasybooks.com/Where-the-Bodies-Lie

Zonta’s world is turned upside down when Jake arrives at Gentle Acres to investigate the disappearance of two agents of the Authority. Can she persuade her enemy-turned-lover to switch sides before the Protectors take action?

Zonta survived the Turn Over at Gentle Acres, a communal project she helped design alongside her late husband. Her life as a master gardener is fulfilling, but she feels something is missing. The answer comes when a Protector enlists her to keep an eye on Jake, an agent of the Authority. Zonta can’t deny her attraction to Jake, but can she love an enemy while protecting all she holds dear?

Jake decides his assignment to the wasteland of Gentle Acres is more than worthwhile the minute he sees the beautiful and exotic Zonta. When he tours the commune and meets the people, he is certain the peaceniks have nothing to do with the two agents he is searching for. As Jake learns truths he never knew, he concludes that perhaps his dedication to the Authority is wrong.

Can Jake prove himself to the Protectors and his new lover? Can Zonta risk losing her home and another lover to the Authority?

 

A dystopian love story where We the People win!

Available from Extasy Books: https://www.extasybooks.com/Where-the-Bodies-Lie