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February 21, 2011
The Naked King
Oops. I guess I was juggling too many balls this weekend and totally forgot to post anything here. So I'll go with a picture--the new cover for my June release, The Naked King.
Hmm. I figured how to put a box around it on my web site, but I think you'll just have to use your imaginations here.
February 14, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day and author panel
I had great fun at our author panel at a Borders in Virginia this weekend. We talked about everything from research to writing and then I got to meet some readers. Here's the crew. L to R, front row: me, Tracy Anne Warren, Grace Burrowes, Mary Blayney, Kathryn Johnson; second row: a Borders bookseller, Lavinia Kent, Josie (another Borders bookseller and the lovely woman who got us all organized), Diane Gaston (writer and moderator extraordinarie).Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. Read a good romance in honor of the season!
February 12, 2011
Romance Bandits
Here's the link to the Romance Bandits. I'll be popping in over there today along with Vanessa Kelly and Kaitlin O'Riley. Stop by if you have a moment.
February 11, 2011
Blogging and book signing
Well, the RT blog has been pushed off to next week. I don't have a date yet, but I'll post it when I do. Tomorrow I'll be blogging at Romance Bandits; I'll stop be here in the morning to post the link.
I'll be on an author panel and will be signing books at the Baileys Crossroads Borders on Sunday, so if you're in the Washington, D.C., area, please stop by. You can find the details here.
I'll be on an author panel and will be signing books at the Baileys Crossroads Borders on Sunday, so if you're in the Washington, D.C., area, please stop by. You can find the details here.
February 8, 2011
Blogging update
Hi, all. The RT blog has been moved to Friday, so I'll post the link then.
February 7, 2011
More blogging
I've been blogging like a mad woman recently...or maybe it's the blogging that's making me mad (as in crazy). I'll have something up at RT Tuesday and Romance Bandits Saturday. I'll stop by here and put the live links up on those days.
At one of the blogs we were talking about heroes, and I got a bit carried away in the comments about Larry the shoe salesman. You see, I have problem feet. Well, they aren't really a problem. They work quite well. The problem is that no company cares to makes shoes to fit me. I've walked in--and out of--more shoe stores than I care to count. Which is why you'll often see me in running shoes during the winter and flip flops in the summer. Sigh.
So last week I went to buy shoes without much hope of success. But Larry understood. Larry listened. He tried to help. He'd been a shoe salesman in the old days--he'd worked at a family shoe store that I'd gone to growing up--and he actually tried to fit my feet. I did get two pairs. I wore the one pair on our trip to Baltimore this weekend and I think they worked well. Not perfect, but I don't hope for perfection in shoes any more.
Now I'm just hoping he can find me some dress sandals.
At one of the blogs we were talking about heroes, and I got a bit carried away in the comments about Larry the shoe salesman. You see, I have problem feet. Well, they aren't really a problem. They work quite well. The problem is that no company cares to makes shoes to fit me. I've walked in--and out of--more shoe stores than I care to count. Which is why you'll often see me in running shoes during the winter and flip flops in the summer. Sigh.
So last week I went to buy shoes without much hope of success. But Larry understood. Larry listened. He tried to help. He'd been a shoe salesman in the old days--he'd worked at a family shoe store that I'd gone to growing up--and he actually tried to fit my feet. I did get two pairs. I wore the one pair on our trip to Baltimore this weekend and I think they worked well. Not perfect, but I don't hope for perfection in shoes any more.
Now I'm just hoping he can find me some dress sandals.
February 1, 2011
Change of plans
Turns out I'll be at The Season tomorrow, not today. And my web site is misbehaving again, refusing to accept my updates. Sigh. But I do have the first chapter of my June book, The Naked King, up. You can find it here.
All around the 'Net
As promised, here are links to the sites where I'll be in cyberspace today.
First, I'm at my agent's blog talking about writing novellas.
Then fellow writer Theresa Romain is featuring me this month on her site.
And finally I'm at The Season with fellow antho authors Vanessa Kelly and Kaitlin O'Riley.
Hope to "see" you there...or there...or there.
First, I'm at my agent's blog talking about writing novellas.
Then fellow writer Theresa Romain is featuring me this month on her site.
And finally I'm at The Season with fellow antho authors Vanessa Kelly and Kaitlin O'Riley.
Hope to "see" you there...or there...or there.
January 31, 2011
Blogging, blogging, blogging
As you've probably gathered, I'm not much of a blogger. I enjoy it from time to time, especially when I'm traveling like on our trip to London, but when I'm home, I think I should be doing some real writing. You know, on my books? But when I have a book releasing--the anthology An Invitation to Sin is officially out tomorrow--I feel I have to go leaping around the Internet being perky and saying--though not in so many words--Buy my book, buy my book!!
Er, you won't tell anyone that, right?
Actually, I do like meeting readers on the various blogs, and I enjoy answering the questions and coming up with the blog posts--or I would if it were only easier. But I do get rather tired of talking about myself and my books.
And here's another secret--I have to go back and remember what the story I'm discussing is about. Oh, it's not that I've forgotten. But I've gone through production on a book and written another novella since I last touched "The Naked Prince," so I just have to polish up the brain cells and remember which story this is.
Anyway, tomorrow I'm actually showing up on THREE separate sites, if you can believe it. Stop by tomorrow and I'll have the links up.
Er, you won't tell anyone that, right?
Actually, I do like meeting readers on the various blogs, and I enjoy answering the questions and coming up with the blog posts--or I would if it were only easier. But I do get rather tired of talking about myself and my books.
And here's another secret--I have to go back and remember what the story I'm discussing is about. Oh, it's not that I've forgotten. But I've gone through production on a book and written another novella since I last touched "The Naked Prince," so I just have to polish up the brain cells and remember which story this is.
Anyway, tomorrow I'm actually showing up on THREE separate sites, if you can believe it. Stop by tomorrow and I'll have the links up.
January 24, 2011
An Invitation to Sin
I can't believe it, but "The Naked Prince," my novella in An Invitation to Sin, will be out in the world very shortly. The anthology's official release date is February 1, but books often find their way into the marketplace early. Please keep your eyes peeled. I'm dying to read the other stories in the collection. I haven't yet gotten my author copies. We checked in a local Barnes and Noble Sunday on our way home from buying furnace filters (yes, I live an exciting life), but it wasn't there yet. My husband always orders a few copies from online retailers sort of as a test; we think BN.com might be shipping the book soon.
"The Naked Prince" is most closely tied to The Naked King which will be out in June. In the sort of crazy way publishing works, I wrote the King before I wrote the Prince, and then I had to go back on copy edits and try to be sure the two stories were consistent.
In honor of the anthology's release, you'll see me around the blogosphere more than usual in the next few weeks. Tomorrow I'll be over at The Romance Dish talking about whom I'd most like to sit next to at a Regency dinner party.
