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It's Cellmate Day!

Yay! It's June 16, which means The Cellmate is officially available! It can be found
RIGHT HERE. :D

Shae Connor was kind enough to interview me for her blog in celebration of the new release. The interview is up today: check out Seven Questions with Rachel West. Thanks, Shae!

If you need a refresher, please click here to see the cover art, blurb and an excerpt. Or follow the big link to the Dreamspinner site above!

Okay, enough exclamation points for one post. My goodness.

Have a fabulous da...

Everything Under the Sun review

Quick announcement: Everything Under the Sun has received a positive review from The Dancing Dove. An excerpt: "I really enjoyed the plot of this one....It was very well written and kept me wanting to read more.... I'd definitely recommend this book. If you like a sweet contemporary romance with a good amount of sex, this book's for you!"

Thank you! :D

The Cellmate!

It's that time again! Time to announce a new release. The Cellmate has finished the editing phase and been assigned a release date: June 16, 2010. Here is the listing on the Dreamspinner site. And look, pretty cover art!



The official blurb for the novella is as follows:

Andy Bingham got behind the wheel after a night of heavy drinking and set in motion a series of events that would change his life forever. On his first night in prison after his drunk driving conviction, his cellmate, Jesse ...

To porn or not to porn? Or how much to porn? Those are the questions.

So I was poking around over on Reviews by Jesse Wave today and discovered an interesting poll about what readers like about m/m erotic romances. The full poll can be found here, and I certainly encourage anyone who's interested to fill it out. And hey, send me a copy of your responses if you do, would you? I'm curious about all that as well!

But I was particularly intrigued by question 5(a):

Would you like more (or less) sex scenes in these books? What do you consider to be a reasonable...

Everything Under the Sun news

Everything Under the Sun has been selected as Book of the Week by Queer Magazine Online! Woohoo!

Also, a few reviews have started to come in, so I thought I'd link to them & provide a couple of excerpts. Thanks so much, everybody!

Shae Connor's blog: "In her first novel, West has drawn three strong, sympathetic main characters, making the reader's choice as difficult as Chris's.... And let's not forget the sex, which is amazing, sensual and hot, with an astounding depth of feeling (whether go...

Interview Today!

A quick reminder: there is an interview with me up today at the Moody Muses, thanks to the wonderful Barbara Wallace. Thanks, Barb!

Have a wonderful week, everybody. ♥

In which I have the best friends in the world.

So, as I may have mentioned (heh), Everything Under the Sun came out on Wednesday. And I am blessed to have some fabulous friends who, apparently, enjoyed it. This is last night's Twitter feed from two of them, edited slightly to remove names of everyone but me to protect privacy and all that. But I only discovered it when I woke up this morning, and it made me flap my arms in glee, and I can't imagine ever seeing any review anywhere that could make me happier than this. So I thought I'd ...

Everything Under the Sun Day!

May 19 has arrived! Also known as Everything Under the Sun release day! Eee yay!

There will be an official release announcement sometime today on the Dreamspinner blog -- I'll edit this entry to link directly to it as soon as it's up. Also, there's an interview with me on Roseanne Dowell's blog; this is in addition to the other upcoming interview and chat days I mentioned previously.

Everything Under the Sun will eventually be available from more than 200 online booksellers worldwide. How...

Appearances and such things

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, following Rachel's LJ is not enough. I need more ways to hear her talk about herself.

Well, you are in luck, my friend! A few upcoming dates for you:

Wednesday, May 19: Everything Under The Sun is released! Woohoo!
Monday, May 24: I will be the guest blogger at The Moody Muses. It'll be a Q&A type thing, my first-ever author interview. I'm quite excited.

Also, I'll be stopping by three themed chats, each a day long or longer:
Wednesday, May 26:...

Everything Under The Sun excerpt

Today is May 3! Which means we are two days from Cinco de Mayo! Six days from Mother's Day! And sixteen days from the release of Everything Under The Sun! How can you contain yourselves? :D

Okay, well, I may be more excited about that third one than the rest of you, but still. The traditional way to celebrate the release of one's first book being just a little more than two weeks away? A big fat excerpt. So here you go. Chapter One is below. Hope you enjoy!


Chris drummed his...