Smashwords sale!

Happy Spring! Not as happy as last spring, probably. Like us, you're likely experiencing a distorted reality these days, but quarantine can have benefits of its own. For one, you may find yourself with more time to read.

If so, I hope you'll visit my Smashwords pages, where I've listed all my titles for 60 percent off, or for free! Smashwords is holding an Authors Give Back sale, good till April 20.

I have two Smashwords pages:

Cate Masters - romance (historical, paranormal, fantasy, contemporary)

C.A. Masterson - speculative, fantasy, mainstream and women's fiction

If you don't have an ereader, don't worry. There are various options for downloading the stories, including PDF and 

If you like quirky short stories, I've also added a few new ones to my C.A. Masterson blog. All you need to do is click on the link and read the story on your screen.

So if you have to stay in, do more of what makes you happy. Please take care of yourself and your family, and stay well.

Spam Begone!

Wow, this blog is getting hit with a lot of spam. Blogger apparently turned off the option to block certain people, so I'm going to have to go to extremes.

For now, at least, I'm turning off comments to the blog. I hate to do it, but spammers really annoy me. I've spent too much time trying to track down individual spam comments and delete them, and it's too much to keep up with.

If you want to reach me, there's a handy box on the right for you to do so.

Thanks for understanding!

Re-release of Western historical romance

Thanks to Book Strand for releasing the rights to my historical Western, A Midwest Summer Night's Dream.

I've spent the past few weeks revising the novella and creating a new cover (sorry their clothing isn't historical. I could find no good images portraying that time period).

The new title is The Taming of the Mountain Man.

You might notice that both titles are a play on Shakespeare's stories, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew. Both the hero and heroine are fans of The Bard, and their mutual love of literature is one of the many reasons they fall in love with one another.

Here's the blurb:

Open sky, Shakespeare, solitude - everything Jebediah Greene needs. Alone since his teens, he’s never known loneliness, until he leaves Winona Young in California. Worse, he fears she’ll trap herself in a loveless marriage of convenience. After acting as her guide to San Francisco, how far will Jeb go to win her heart?

Reading provides escape for Winona Young. Usually. Fleeing Philadelphia, she learns her distant suitor isn’t who he seemed. Neither is her mountain man guide, in a good way. Intelligent, but mule-headed, Jeb’s impossible to speak to, in any language. Winona falls in love with the stunning beauty of the wilderness, with the simple ways of the Osage people, and with Jeb. But books can’t teach her how to tame a mountain man.

The hero's name is a nod to one of my ancestors, who was a French Canadian fur trapper in the 1800s. His name was Peter LeVert, which in America became Peter Green. My grandmother's maiden name was Nettie Green. It's fun to include little personal details in stories.

I found it really interesting to research the Osage tribe, too.


If you read the revised version, I hope you enjoy it!

Available now on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/938323