Author Heather McCorkle

Here's a little tidbit you may not know about the holiday of love: Valentine's Day began as a celebration of a Christian saint named Valentinus. He was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry.  During his imprisonment, he healed the daughter of his jailer. Before his execution he wrote a farewell letter to her that was signed, "from your Valentine". Today, as with every day, I hope you're surrounded by those that you love and who love you. As my Valentine's Day gift for you: Don't forget to pick up your FREE eBook of The Secret of Spruce Knoll on Amazon ! Don't have a Kindle? You can download a FREE Kindle app for your computer at this link . 

You've probably noticed independent authors setting the price on at least one of their books as free from time to time. And if you're traditionally published, or not yet published, you may wonder why in the world they would do such a thing. An indie author friend of mine recently discussed using Kindle Select with me and she couldn't understand why someone would set their book to free. It's contradictory, she said. And she's right, in a way. However, there is a method to this madness.   When you download a book from Amazon, B&N or any other online retailer~regardless of whether or not it's free or costs money~that novel goes  up in the sales ranks. With each download, it goes farther up the ranks with the optimum rise occurring when there are many sales in one day (the entire system starts over day by day so if a book sells one a day for a month it won't rise in the ranks nearly as high as it would if it sold thirty in one day of that month. VERY impo...

Today is the final day in the Rise of a Rector tour. I'm over at my good friend and fantastic author Angela Brown's place talking about a time when someone has risen to the occasion for me, and made me thankful. To spread the thanks to all of you, my historical fantasy, To Ride A Puca, is free on Amazon Kindle today and tomorrow . Download your copy, tell all your friends to download their's, then enter this contest below to win even more books! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Want to win an eBook of The Secret of Spruce Knoll or Channeler's Choice (if you've already read Spruce Knoll? Then read on! My fellow press sister, Christine Fonseca, and I are coming together to do a giveaway to help spread the word about our novellas being free. As many of you know, my channeler novella, Born Of Fire, is currently free on Amazon . My press can't seem to get B&N to play along so if you'd like a Nook version please contact me here , and I'd be thrilled to send you a copy for your Nook. Christine's novellas, Dies Irae, and Mea Culpa are both free on Amazon and B&N right now though! If you haven't read those, trust me, you need to! Our goal is to get as many downloads as possible to see how high we can reach up the ranks. To help, we're hoping to enlist you. From the smallest shout out to the screaming from the rooftops, every little bit helps and we want to reward you for it. One winner will get a signed paperback of Bor...

My friend, and fabulous author, Magan Vernon is revealing new covers for her two novels today and I was lucky enough to be one of the revealers. Not only do the readers get hot new covers, but the first novel in the series if free right now on Amazon  and Barnes and Noble ! Here is Magan to tell us a little bit about why she switched to new covers: Magan: Now don't get me wrong, I LOVED my original covers for How to Date an Alien and How to Break up with an Alien, but to some people it was giving off the impression that it was a cutesy MG book. These new covers will be uploaded to Amazon ASAP so hopefully the rest of the world can understand the hotness of aliens. Here is a bit about How To Date An Alien: High school senior Alex Bianchi's estranged father gets her an internship at Circe Operations Center to pad her college applications. But Circe isn't your typical military base. It's an alien-run operation center and not all of the aliens are friendly, espec...

This last week my muse was inspired by the show of support for Channeler's Cause , my new campaign to raise money for the IS Foundation . I can't thank you all enough for the support you've shown by spreading the word and purchasing one of the channeler novels. But I'll try, thank you SO much! To show my undying thanks, the eBook of my novella Born Of Fire is free right now on Amazon. I'm working on getting it free on B&N and will let you know the moment they cooperate. Speaking of readers and supporters, To Ride A Puca is one of many great novels up for the Reader's Pick Award on Melissa Luznicky's blog. For those who have read and enjoyed it, I'd love a vote if you have time. Just lick on Melissa's name to go to the link. Then on her right sidebar you'll see the voting area. My reading muse last week was fed by Breathkept by Saundra Mitchell. It is fantastic peeps! Click on the title to check it out, you won't be sorry! What ...

Since my manuscript has been off to my editor this month I've been working on a very special writing goal, and I finally finished it! Well, almost finished. Now it's in the editing process. What's special about it though is that it will be my holiday gift to all of you as it will be free. It's a short channeler story, Born Of Fire, that gives you insight into Aiden's history and character that you won't find anywhere else. I was hoping to have it out by the holiday but it looks like I won't quite make it. I want it to be perfect for you all so I'm working very hard on it. I'm shooting for a January upload onto Smashwords and Wattpad, and of course I'll have a PDF file available for those who don't have ereader and just want to read on their computer. While it will be a late gift, hopefully it will be perfect for all of you who have ereaders hiding under your tree! The cover is by CP Design , hope you love it as much as I do!