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Need a little support….and advice on how to sabotage someone’s diet :)

Part of my plan to return to work is to handle my health issues on the side, but with a little fun :) A few of my author friends (L.D. Davis & Lisa M. Harley) want to lose weight, get healthy, raise money for some great charities and screw each other over for fun :) My charities are The Ronald McDonald House and The Make A Wish Foundation. I'm hoping raise an obscene amount of money for these great causes and I could really use your help and support. Below you'll find our release for this challenge that starts on May… Read More

What’s going on in the crazy world of R.L. Mathewson

Black HeartThings have been pretty hectic lately, but I wanted to give you a few updates while I had the chance. Let's see, first things first. As some of you know I took a medical leave a few months ago to take care of some of medical issues that were causing me problems and to focus on my family. Well, I got some things taken care of like a few dental problems thanks to an awesome dentist, but the other stuff like my ruptured disc is taking forever to fix because… Read More

The good, the bad and the ugly about Self-Publishing

When I first started writing back in 2009 I never even heard of self-publishing. I was all set and terrified to take my chances with  a traditional publishing house, leaving my fate to someone that I had never met who would decide whether or not my books were "In" at the moment. By the time that I was ready to start making inquiries into getting published I got scared, really scared. I found a hundred and one reasons not to even try so I didn't. Instead I put my finished manuscript aside and started… Read More

Latest news about Checkmate……

Well, Checkmate is done :) We are just working on editing it right now. Our deadline for edits is the 22nd so that we can get the paperback set up as well as be ready for the release date. There are some changes to the release dates. Originally we were going to run Checkmate for Charity for twenty days and hold off publishing the book for sale. Although we have received a lot of interests in that deal, most readers have experessed a desire to wait to purchase the book.… Read More

Here we go again….sorry

Sorry about the double posts tonight. I just wanted to announce that the prices of the books have to be brought back down to $0.99. I found out that the prices of my books vary all over the internet right now. Amazon is starting to pull the books because of a price contract break or something like that. Basically, Amazon doesn't want to have the higher price and I don't blame them. I tried to fix them, but the other sites haven't received the price change from Smashwords which distributes the books, and since I don't like drama, I am… Read More

Checkmate for Charity

The website for Checkmate for Charity is up and running. We will start our projects very soon if you are interested in helping. https://nfhcharityact.rlmathewson.com/ This is our project for the upcoming Neighbor from Hell book, Checkmate. This is also the site that we will be hosting our 20 day bartering program for the book when it comes… Read More

A Reluctant Announcement

  This past December I announced that I was dropping the price of my books to $0.99 to make the books more affordable for everyone. At the time, I had a small following of readers and didn't really anticipate a need to raise the prices. I promised that I would keep the prices low as long as I could afford it. Unfortunately, I never thought my books becoming popular would actually make everything more expensive. When I started publishing, I did it on my own with absolutely no help from anyone. I edited my books, answered my own emails, handled Facebook,… Read More

Hot Cocoa Addict makes New York Times Best Seller’s List

Well, the news came out sooner than expected and apparently the news earlier through the hack was correct. Odd. Anyway, moving on. Playing for Keeps is number 16 for Ebooks and number 20 overall. Pretty exciting news. Hasn't really hit yet. We've all been too busy editing like crazy to fix the paperbacks to really stop and think about it, but I think that I should be allowed chocolate or something for this, but Christi threatened to beat me if I didn't keep working. Slave driver. I want to say thank you… Read More

I don’t know what to say

A few hours ago, I was informed that I was named a Breakout Author at ibooks.com. For the past couple of hours I've been trying to wrap my head around that, but can't. It's amazing, unbelievable and I'm pretty much stunned. I have absolutely no idea what to say or do at this moment. So, I'm going to use the manners that I was raised with and say thank you to Apple for taking this chance on me. I'd also like to thank Apple for its program which allows authors like me to publish our work. Thank you, Apple, you… Read More

More exciting news!

Since she probably won't post this herself, I again feel obligated to share this with all of you as well. More great news about R.L. on the Apple iBookstore! Check out the article here Feel free to keep those congratulations coming! Read More