Two new novels have just been published from author Karin Ficke Cook

I am so pleased to announce Good Old Uncle Norman and Always Have - Always Will (at $2.99 each) were just published by Smashwords.com and are available in all formats for your eReader and your computer.  They join Seven Doors of Time, which is a compilation of seven independent stories available at $4.99 - a higher price but for a much larger book.  As always, there is a free 20% download to try out the novels first before you buy, just to see if you like them.  "Seven" is longer, so it has a 30% free download.

Always Have - Always Will is a departure from my usual crime/mystery genre.  This is a love story about a woman whose husband has just died from injuries sustained in a car accident.  It was no one's fault - just a simple accident.  But her heart is broken and she finds it difficult to move forward in her life.

Not wanting to face her first Christmas alone, the main character Molly O'Brien, decides to take a spiritual retreat to Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina to see if she can deal with the sadness and pain she isn't able to shake.  She finds much more than she ever expected to find there, including love - love of The Father, Blessed Mother and her Son, but also from a new man in her life.  There are new feelings to deal with and new situations, but in all, Molly finally finds the peace she's craved and a chance at another kind of happiness.

This book has been written for the Catholic/Christian market, but anyone who loves this type of story will enjoy reading it.  At this time of global conflicts, our world is in serious need of positive experiences and people and this story is proof of that.  Hopefully it will inspire you the way it inspired me to write it.

Good Old Uncle Norman is a crime story, but it has a very funny side to it - if that's possible.  Take one slightly dotty uncle, the household staff, his family and some stupid criminals and you get this story line.  Norman and his household staff devise a plan to bring two killers and thieves to justice and do it in a comical way.  The family steps in and jumps into the plan, too.  Even their goofy dog gets involved and the results are side-splitting hilarity.  It leaves the police scratching their heads, too.  Although this has a serious theme, if you want a good giggle, Good Old Uncle Norman and his friends deliver.

Just to keep you aware of all three books now published with Smashwords.com, Seven Doors of Time is the largest of the three.  At around 158,347 words, it comprises seven stories with different plots, time frames and locations.  Character development in these stories is paramount in the plots and I think you will like all of them, except you may want to punch out several of them - but not all in the same story!!!  These stories took me a little over three years to write, while I was also writing others and they make a good mix of themes.  Some stories are longer, two short and the others in between and one even has time travel involved.  They were a blast to write, so I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing their stories.

So now as I turn the corner to age 63, my feet are firmly planted in the literary world.  It's taken a lot of hard work, some imagination and even more blunders to actually publish a good book.  And quite frankly, I never understood just how hard I would have to work to get to this point.  So this is retirement?  I'm certainly not slowing down either.  Two new novels are on their way in the next two months, with another two before the end of the year.  Eventually all this hard work will pay off and my enjoyment will be the reader being entertained with my work.  That's what it's all about for me.

Just go over to Smashwords.com and pull up my page, then take a look at the book descriptions and see which ones you are interested in.  Or you can go to our web site at: http://www.thecookcompanies.com/ and get all the information you need for all seven of my books.  (The other four are paper books available from PublishAmerica.com.)  Enjoy reading and happy autumn!