Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

This was my attempt at a book tree, and I think it turned out pretty…ADORKABLE <3 ;). 

May you have the best times with family & friends, and may ALL the books be under your tree! I truly hope today (and every day) is wonderful for you! <3 <3 <3

Happy reading (and happy holidays),

Cookie O’Gorman

Good Girls & Giveaways!

Hi bookworms! How is everyone? Are you ready for Christmas in *gasp* four days? Have you been feeling the holiday spirit? Witnessed any awesome acts of kindness?

Please let me know about any or all of those! I’d love to hear from you—and let’s face it; we could all use a little more kindness.

Because it’s Christmas, and in hopes of giving you some holiday cheer, I’m doing a Kindle Countdown Deal! My latest release, The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad, is available now for just $0.99!!!

Yes, you read that right! For a limited time, from now until December 26th, The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad is just $0.99! Here are the links for Amazon and Amazon UK.

I hope you love Sadie & Colton *sigh*!!!!!

Also, there are a couple of giveaways going on now! If you’re subscribed to my newsletter, you already know about them :).

The 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway is a collaboration between a bunch of wonderful authors and myself! There will be three winners and each will get a $40 Amazon Gift card! Yay!!! Here’s the rafflecopter to enter!

Annnd I’m doing my own personal giveaway for a paperback copy of The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (aka my favorite book of 2019)!!! It’s really amazing, you guys! You can enter to win here!

Good luck, everyone! I hope you’re doing well, and I hope your holidays are filled with only the best things!

Happy reading,

Cookie O’Gorman

P.S. ADORKABLE (the paperback version that came out on Dec. 3rd and is available in Target, Barnes & Noble etc.) is a #1 New Release in one of its categories!!!!! Ahhhh, it was so cool to see that!

P.P.S. Book signing #2 is today, gah! If you’re feeling extra kind, cross your fingers for me, you guys!

Happy Release Day ADORKABLE!

Today is the big day, you guys!

ADORKABLE comes out in print today, ahhh!!! Full disclosure: I will probably be shouting this from the rooftops everywhere lol. It’s exciting and awesome, and I just want to share it with everyone!

Oh, and did I mention the paperback will be in Barnes & Noble, Target and other wonderful stores??? Now, I can finally use this cool graphic created by the awesome people at Entangled :).

And maybe I’ll get to see ADORKABLE on another shelf besides my own–though they do look gorgeous up there *sigh*

There are so many great things happening (several giveaways on the way, too, so please be on the lookout! There are a couple going on now on Instagram to celebrate the print release if you’re interested! :)). Entangled and so many wonderful people have done a lot to make this day and this release an awesome one, and I’m so thankful to all of them!

I’ll definitely let you know how everything turns out. But for now, again, let me just say:

Happy Release Day ADORKABLE!!!

I hope readers love you and that you bring them a bit of happiness and lots of laughter <3. Hope you all have an amazing day!

Happy reading,

Cookie O’Gorman

Happy Thanksgiving, Ninjas!

It’s Thanksgiving week, you guys!

And to show my thanks, I’m doing a sale :).

All this week you can get NINJA GIRL for just $0.99 on Amazon and Amazon UK!!! Hooray, woohoo and hi-yah!

I just wanted to say thank you because my readers really are the best—and that means YOU!!! <3

If you or any of your bookish peeps might like NINJA GIRL, please take advantage of the deal! I love finding new readers and book deals, and I really wanted to get into the Thanksgiving spirit.

To me, the holiday means giving thanks, showing gratitude and reminding ourselves of everything we’re grateful for—and if you’re like me, sometimes, you need that reminder.

I’m grateful for so many things: my family and friends (of which I may not have many, but it’s about quality, not quantity, and mine are awesome), my health and that of my loved ones, green bean casserole (of course), kind people who do kind things, bookish people who read and recommend great books, and dogs.

Because dogs make life better.

The holidays can be a gloomy time. But I hope with good friends, good times and good books, we’ll all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Again, I’m so thankful for all of you, and I wish you all the best!

Happy reading,

Cookie O’Gorman

P.S. I can’t believe the Entangled print edition of ADORKABLE comes out exactly one week from today!!!! Ahhhh! <333

5 Things: I Learned @ the Writers Conference

Hi everyone!

First, I want to announce the winners of The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad Audiobook Giveaway!!! Thank you to everyone who entered and helped spread the word about Sadie & Colton’s story! <3 You rock!

Without further ado, the winners are:

Alyssa C., Michelle H., Cassandra D. and Grace B.!

Congrats, you guys!!! I’ll be sending your prizes ASAP, and I hope you love The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad!

Second, since it’s Friday, I wanted to do a fun post about the 5 Things: I Learned @ the M & M Writers Conference :). (Sidenote: I learned more, but I like lists of five ha ;))

Plus, since it’s NaNoWriMo, I thought it might give some of my writerly peeps some inspiration!

Here are my 5 Things:

  1. Someone out there needs your book. Every day started with a motivational talk from one of the big authors attending. The first was Alyssa Day, and though I’ve not read her books, what she said resonated with me. Her favorite thing was hearing from readers, and if you’ve followed me on my publishing journey, you’ll know that hearing from my readers is my most favorite thing as well! She read us 10 messages she’d received, some funny, others saying her books had helped them in some vital way. It reaffirmed my belief that writing is important, and books can change the world.
  2. Market vs. Heart. I’ve heard this before, but in one class, they posed a question all writers have to ask themselves. Am I going to write to market or what’s in my heart? My answer: Both. I always write what’s in my heart, and my books just happen to be commercial. So, I don’t think you have to make a choice here. I think you can do both, write from the heart and still be successful. In fact, I don’t know how you can do it any other way.
  3. Ads, Ads, Ads! Most of the classes I attended mentioned ads; most authors were doing them (some with greater success than others), and everyone kept saying how you have to run ads now to be visible. In other words, there are so many books out there that running ads is imperative if an author doesn’t want their books to fade into oblivion or wants to build their author brand. I will tell you: I’ve only run 2 Amazon ads. Ever. For two different books. They ran for a month and were at least semi-successful…I guess. I didn’t lose or gain a lot of money. It always seems to me like a crapshoot. The problem is I don’t understand ads (there are so many factors!) or the whole putting-money-in-to-get-twice/triple/more-on-the-return etc. Also, how do you know if your book’s success is due to the ad, something else or just people organically finding the book? Anyway, I hope to learn more, maybe run ads, but for now, my books have done pretty well.
  4. Author Swag. One of the coolest things was the goodie room :). Maybe it’s because this was only my second conference, but I thought it was awesome seeing all of the author swag! Pens, chapsticks, bookmarks, magnets, all the book stuff! I’ll be having my first book signing next month for the Entangled print edition of ADORKABLE coming on Dec. 3, 2019 (YAYYY!!!), and I bought some swag for anyone who comes out! Hopefully, I’ll get to give some of it away lol!
  5. Books save lives. Again, my favorite part of the conference (besides getting to hang with my awesome family) was the motivational speeches. One of them was from Jennifer L. Armentrout!!!!!! 😀 If you just squee’d that was me when I found out she was going to be there LOL! Anyway, her speech was wonderful. She told us so much about her journey as a writer, her amazing success, as well as her eye condition that she was recently diagnosed with that will eventually end up taking her sight. I nearly cried four times while she was speaking. She told us not to listen when people say mean things about writing romance. Told us romance and books save lives. She also told us to stop denying our hard work, to stop telling people our success was just “luck” because we tend to give everyone else the credit and never give ourselves any. We diminish ourselves, all the work we put in, our achievements by doing this. Again, I nearly cried four times (“nearly” because I was in a banquet room full of people), but everything she said was so motivational, so right on. I loved hearing her and hope she writes for a very long time to come!

So, those are my 5 Things! If you’re doing NaNoWriMo, I wish you so much good luck and fantastic writing days! Hope you are all well!

Happy reading,

Cookie O’Gorman

The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad Audiobook Giveaway!

Hi everyone!

I’m holding a giveaway for 4 copies of The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad audiobook!!! Hooray! Since it’s almost Halloween, just consider this my treat to you ;).

If you’d like to enter, please use the rafflecopter below!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I love how the narrator Madeleine was able to capture Sadie’s voice and the feel of the book! Hoping to perhaps get over my fear, and do a video so you can hear a bit of the audio as well–and see my dorky reactions lol. But if not, you can check out TGGGTBB audiobook and give it a listen yourself! It’s so good, you guys!

Good luck, everyone, and I hope you’re reading (and listening) to wonderful books!

Happy reading,

Cookie O’Gorman

P.S. I wrote 2,000+ words today, woop!

ADORKABLE Book Mail!!!

Hi bookish peeps!

I have an amazing/awesome surprise to share with all of you :-D. It came in a box on Tuesday, totally unexpected, and I was going to try to do a video, but I chickened out lol.

So you get pictures instead, ha!

Entangled sent me copies of the new print version of ADORKABLE, and they are SO gorgeous!!!!! *_*

Take a look!

Inside the box…

Outside the box…

The beautiful spine…

More ADORKABLE spines….

…and me & Sally swooning over Becks! <333

Full disclosure: Way too many pics were taken, but I regret nothing LOL!

Thank you so much to the awesome people at Entangled for sending these! It was such a wonderful surprise! And thank you to all of my awesome readers for your support of Sally & Becks’s story!

I hope you’ll check out ADORKABLE in print this December—less than 2 months away, ahhh! Hope you’re all doing well!

Happy reading,

Cookie O’Gorman

Yay for 20k!!!

So, I reached 20k words on my current WIP this week! Yayyy!!!!!

This (20k) is one of the milestones/markers for every book I write, so it felt really good to hit that number :).

Just wanted to share it with you guys! So glad to be writing—plus, I am loving this story so much!!! If you would, cross your fingers for me. Really hope to keep this momentum going. I also went to a writers conference last weekend and will be doing a post about it, and there will be a new giveaway coming soon, yay!

Hope you are all having a great weekend, bookworms—and if you write as well, I hope your words flow like a river!

Happy reading,

Cookie O’Gorman

The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad Audiobook!

Today is very special!

The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad audiobook releases today, yay!!! And my best friend/favorite person of all time was born on this day years ago!

When I found out TGGGTBB audiobook would release on September 30th, I was so excited. I didn’t actually get to pick the date; Tantor Media did, and I’m so glad they chose such a great one :).

Here’s the beautiful cover <3.

I love everything about it, of course! <333

And the narration of the audiobook! Wow! Madeleine Dauer, the narrator, was absolutely perfect for Sadie!!! When I first heard her voice, I knew she’d be wonderful, but then I listened to the sample of the audiobook. Oh my gosh, you guys! Her inflection, the emotion she managed to convey with her voice, the timing, it was so right on! I laughed out loud and smiled several times. Just brilliantly done!

If you love audiobooks and YA romance, you should definitely give The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad a listen!

Happy audiobook release day to TGGGTBB!!!

And to my best friend who I miss dearly every day: Happy birthday, Aunt Pat! I love you so much and wish you were here. It’s hard even on the good days being without you. You made every moment brighter and better, and I just miss you. I hope there are books, birthday cake, and all the best things up in Heaven. I love you always. Say hi to Mema & Papa, and kiss the babies for us. Love, Your Cookie.

Happy reading (and listening),

Cookie O’Gorman

Cover Reveal: ADORKABLE (print edition)!

Hi everyone!

Today I have a very ADORKABLE cover to reveal! Woohoo!!! I apologize in advance if you get this twice. I also posted in my newsletter bc it’s just so exciting! The print edition from Entangled will be released on December 3rd and will have exclusive bonus content :D.

Ready to see the awesome cover?

Possibly for the second time today ;)?

Here is the cover of the upcoming print edition of ADORKABLE!

Ah, I love it and can’t wait for the release!

Again, there’s a giveaway on Instagram to celebrate the cover reveal hosted by MTMC Tours, and oh my gosh, you guys! If I can figure out how to insert Instagram posts into my blog posts (I’ve done it before, but I don’t remember how lol!), I will have to share them with you because wow! So many beautiful pics <3.

Here are the awesome tour hosts in case you’d like to go check them out and enter the giveaway:

@paperfury
@thereaderandthechef
@tata.lifepages
@my_heart_is_booked
@beauty_in_books17

@l.m.durand  
@ya.its.lit
@nerdy_little_julith
@the.word.traveler
@mixed_matched_socks

Hope you are well, bookworms, and having a very happy Friday!

Happy reading,

Cookie O’Gorman