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Guest Blogger - Monica Burns

Lucy and I have been friends for a while now, and we're like soul sisters in so many ways. So when she asked me to come visit (thank you Luce), I wasn't going to refuse to come talk hot Italian guys! I mean Lucy does them so well. And while it's hard to compete with her alpha Italian heroes, it was kind of her to ask me to chat up my Sicari heroes. They're guys who are hot, wear black leather, can trace their lineage back to ancient Rome and their ancestors were soldiers who once defended...

Prologue for The Shy Bride

I felt this prologue was needed to set up the Traditional Greek Husband's mini-series and Neo's point of view. What do you think? BTW - Zephyr's prologue in The Greek's Pregnant Lover is quite different.

The Shy Bride
Harlequin Presents
July 2010 ~ (c) Lucy Monroe


PROLOGUE

The Port of Seattle didn't look so different from some of the hundreds of other ports Neo Stamos had been in since joining the crew of the cargo ship Hera at the age of fourteen. And yet it was unique from all the others becaus...

Humpday Hottie

In keeping with today's Prologue, here is the visual hero inspiration I used for Neo Stamos in The Shy Bride :

Blog Winners for Last Week

Congratulations to last week's blog winners!

Winner of Coming Together Against H8 Autograph Book with multiple author signatures, is: Tessa Winner of miscelaneous goodies from RT and a signed copy of the special UK trade paperback edition of "The Greek Collection: The Greek Tycoon's Ultimatum by Lucy Monroe & "Constantine's Revenge" by Kate Walker, is: SiNn
Email your details to Andre, so he can get your prize sent out to you. (If the link does not work, use the contact form on this page -

Prologue for Come Up & See Me Sometime

This prologue did not end up in the book at my agent's suggestion. What do you think? Should I have included it?

Come Up & See Me SometimeKensington Zebra 2005 ~ (c) Lucy Monroe
PROLOGUE

All hospitals smelled the same.
The sterile odor of filtered air and disinfectant clung to the ICU room and Alex Trahern's eyes burned as he looked at the man lying in the hospital bed.
Would he die?
The thought left Alex cold deep in his soul.
This was his father, a man that had been a constant if not attentive pre...

To Prologue or to Prologue

...that is the question.

One of my dearest friends shocked me a couple of years ago when she told me that she never reads Prologues. What??!! I mean, really?

I just finished writing a prologue for a story when I realized it simply had to be done and no amount of tweaking Chapter One was going to replace it. This sparked me asking a question on my Facebook and the discussion that followed was both gratifying and illuminating.

No, my friend is *not* alone, but nor is she the majority...or even re...

Prologue for The Sheikh's Runaway Bride

The Sheikh's Runaway Bride
Zahir's StorySpring 2011 ~ (c) Lucy Monroe


PROLOGUE


Did love die?

Angele had asked her mother that question once, after realizing her father, Cemal bin Ahmed al Jawhar – dear friend to the King of Jawhar and her personal hero - was a serial adulterer. She'd been an extremely naïve university sophomore, so certain of her father's integrity, she had at first believed the tabloid story stuffed in her student mailbox a hoax.

To this day, she did not know who had disliked...

New (sort of) Books by Theresa Scott

Talented author of more than a dozen incredibly researched and written historical romance novels for Dorchester publishing, Theresa Scott has released two of them in eBook format. So, if you didn't get a chance to read her the first time around, now is your chance!

Bride of Desire
ebook By Theresa Scott
Published: Jan. 03, 2010
Words: 117698 (approximate)
$4.99

When Brand, a strong and handsome Viking, crosses the northern seas, he discovers that the beautiful Indian woman he takes captive on...

For Writers

I've started a class on the "11 Senses, Who Knew?" based on Marilyn Kelly's book by the same name in my free online Yahoo class group. While I'm not giving her workshop per se (though I *highly* recommend anyone attending RWA Nationals to take it), I am doing an 11 week not-so-intensive course on the use of the 11 senses.

To make it fun, I'm giving away weekly "mentoring" prizes including two copies of Marilyn's book over the 11 week course. It's going to be a very light course – no huge time ...

Contest Prizes for this Week's Blog Drawing

It occurred to me that I'd forgotten to let you all know what this week's prizes are for the weekly drawing held from the blog comments.

Again, we will have two winners this week. Though I'm not guest blogging anywhere, so there are no double counting comments. :)
A few months ago, I readily agreed to participate in an autograph book, Coming Together Against H8, which proceeds would all go to the Against H8 campaign, a now nationwide campaign fighting anti-gay and GLBT discriminatory...