Jane Heller

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Six More Backlist Novels Get a Facelift!

April 27, 2016

Diversion Books, which is publishing my new novel, Three Blonde Mice, in August and reissued five of my previous novels last month with covers that are colorful and fun and have a freshness to them, reissued six more of my books yesterday. I really like that there’s an overall “look” to the novels now. Take a peek!

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Thanks to Diversion’s art department for tackling such a big job. Coming up with all these covers must have required a lot of time and creativity. Big hat tip to them.

Filed Under: Mainly Jane Tagged With: Best Enemies, Female Intelligence, Lucky Stars, Name Dropping, Sis Boom Bah, The Secret Ingredient

Winter Sale!

February 4, 2013

White sales are great and shoe sales are nice and who doesn’t love discounts on merchandise of any kind. So why not have a sale on my ebooks? February 1st kicked off our special “Winter Sale” on my 11 novels that were launched in ebook editions over the summer. For a limited time only, we’ve dropped the prices from $4.99 to $2.99, so there’s never been a better time to curl up with a Kindle/Nook/iPad and read.

Thanks to those who’ve been fans of my romantic comedies and have been spreading the word to others. And to those who’ve never read one of my novels, I hope you’ll get started!

 

Filed Under: Mainly Jane Tagged With: Best Enemies, Clean Sweep, Crystal Clear, ebooks, Female Intelligence, Infernal Affairs, Jane Heller, Lucky Stars, Name Dropping, Princess Charming, romantic comedies, Sis Boom Bah, The Club, The Secret Ingredient, Winter Sale

Four More Novels Go Digital!

July 17, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of reporting that six of my backlist titles were finally available in ebook editions. Today, I’m here to announce that four more novels have been converted and are available at e-tailers: Lucky Stars, The Secret Ingredient, Name Dropping and Princess Charming.

That leaves only Female Intelligence, which should be joining the others in a few weeks.

Very exciting for me to have these books in their new editions with their colorful covers and reasonable prices. Spread the word!

 

Filed Under: Humor, Mainly Jane Tagged With: ebooks, Jane Heller, Lucky Stars, Name Dropping, Princess Charming, romantic comedies, The Secret Ingredient

Sneak Peek At My New Ebook Covers

February 16, 2012

As the Pointer Sisters used to sing: “I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it!”

The reason for my excitement? The launch, possibly as early as next month, of the brand new ebook editions of my 11 novels that have been out of print and, therefore, never before available as ebooks.

The novels have gotten a facelift too, thanks to extremely talented designer Lilien Hoffman, who has created both a colorful look for my “brand” as well as eye-catching images for each book.

Want to see what will be appearing on an Amazon or BN.com page soon? Scroll down for a sneak peek…

 

Are these covers gorgeous or what?

Filed Under: Confessions of a She-Fan Tagged With: Best Enemies, Clean Sweep, Crystal Clear, ebooks, Female Intelligence, Infernal Affairs, Jane Heller, Lucky Stars, Name Dropping, novels, Princess Charming, romantic comedies, Sis Boom Bah, The Club, The Secret Ingredient

Flowers, A Restaurant, Tuna Fish….I'll Explain

February 1, 2011

It was my mother’s birthday last month. I went on proflowers.com and ordered her a dozen long-stemmed roses in pink, her favorite color. The gift was supposed to look exactly like this.

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Instead, she called to thank me for sending red roses.

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Nothing wrong with red roses. They just weren’t what I’d ordered. I called customer service at proflowers.com. They apologized for their mistake and offered me a refund.  Very nice, except that the next day my mother called to say the roses were half-dead. Proflowers had guaranteed they’d last a week. I got back on the phone with them and said I wanted another order sent to my mother asap.

“It was her 94th birthday,” I said. “Help me out here.”

“Sorry, but we already gave you a refund. We can’t send out another order.”

“But the flowers were pathetic,” I argued.

“Policy is policy.”

A few days later, I got an email from proflowers asking me if I was satisfied with their service and would I fill out their questionnaire. Oh, you bet.

I did not hold back in my evaluation of the company.

Today I got a call from the head of their customer service department.

“We’re very sorry for the way you were treated,” she said. “We want your business. We want to make this right. May we send you a gift coupon to use whenever you’d like?”

Now that’s the way to operate a business. When there’s a problem, you make it right. I will definitely give proflowers another chance.

A similar situation happened a few months ago. Michael and I went with friends to a high-end restaurant in Ventura called Watermark on Main Street.

It’s in a beautiful old landmark bank building, and we’d been there before and loved the food. This last time? Not so much. Everybody’s orders came wrong – from the fish that was overcooked to the beet salad that had exactly one beet in it. To top it off, the waiter brought us someone else’s tab when we asked for the check. Just a miserable evening. I was so disappointed that I went on the restaurant’s web site as soon as I got home and wrote to them about my experience. I didn’t expect to hear back. And yet….the next morning there was an email from the general manager.

“We want you to give us another try,” he wrote. “I’m sending you a gift certificate for another dinner.”

Wow, I thought. Of course I’ll give them another try.

I don’t consider myself a chronic complainer, but I did write to a company once before these two incidents. It was back in 2002 or so. I had opened a can of Bumble Bee tuna and found a huge bone in it. I could have choked! I taped the bone to my stationery and wrote a letter to Bumble Bee. The result? They sent me a dozen cans of tuna with their apologies. And that’s not all. I used the anecdote in my novel “Lucky Stars,” which is about a struggling actress and her pushy mother. After the mother finds a bone in her can of tuna, she visits the tuna company to inspect their quality control and ends up becoming the spokesperson in their TV commercials, which leads to stardom, which leads to conflict with her daughter, which leads to….Anyhow, the book was optioned for a feature film.

The point of this post is that contacting a company when you feel you’ve been wronged can lead to free flowers, a free meal, free tuna and maybe even a movie deal. You just never know.

Filed Under: Food, Mainly Jane, Movie deals Tagged With: Bumble Bee tuna, Lucky Stars, proflowers.com, roses, Ventura, Watermark on Main Street

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