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Writing in the Dark

A NOTE FROM SHERRY: In honor of WICKED BECOMES YOU's release next Tuesday, Plotters and Manipulators United is running a contest. Leave a comment to this post on how much you love Meredith's books and/or how eagerly you are looking forward to WICKED BECOMES YOU, and you will be entered into a drawing. Five winners will each get a crazy-becomes-Sherry tin of organic shea butter, with the grand prize winner also getting a $25 Godiva Chocolate Gift Certificate, which Sherry just rediscovered...

Shea Butter–Or, the Extent of My Crazy

Last summer, I went to Central Market, a fabulous Austin institution.  When I was there, I saw tiny little round tins of pure shea butter being sold for $4.95.  We are talking 1/4 ounce tins.  Highway robbery, I thought to myself.

Around that time I learned about this website called From Nature with Love, a wholesaler for quality beauty ingredients.  So at some point in the following months, I decided that instead of giving out bookmarks, I would have a promo product that I would be ...

Portuguese Delicious–Squee-worthy! Now Updated with Bookmark

Squee.  This is such a gorgeous cover.  Please click on the image to see all the details.   Full of food, yum, yum, yum.  Spices at the top:  dried red chilies, star anise, vanilla beans, and I think those are nutmegs.  And on the bottom, piles of chocolate and berries.  Ahhh.  Nom nom nom.

I love the warm palette.  I love the scale.  I love the title–which I think means Forbidden Fruit.  I love everything about it.  The only possible detail that can better this cover would be if there were a ...

Portuguese Delicious–Squee-worthy!

Squee.  This is such a gorgeous cover.  Please click on the image to see all the details.   Full of food, yum, yum, yum.  Spices at the top:  dried red chilies, star anise, vanilla beans, and I think those are nutmegs.  And on the bottom, piles of chocolate and berries.  Ahhh.  Nom nom nom.

I love the warm palette.  I love the scale.  I love the title–which I think means Forbidden Fruit.  I love everything about it.  The only possible detail that can better this cover would be if there were a ...

Italian Duke! And French and Japanese Too!

I think the title is Hearts in Shadow, but I'm not too sure.  Anyway, here's the Italian cover of Meredith's debut book, Duke of Shadows.

Old-school, ain't it?    Love all that pink and lavender.

Updated:

And then of course, doing a little reading on the backlog of Meredith's twitter, I discovered some other foreign covers for Duke.

First up, Japanese version, which looks like it is called Love Like the Sun's Blaze.  Which works, consider the Subcontinent setting.

And now my fave, the French...

Mystery Cover

I love covers, and to my surprise, Spanish book club version of PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS showed up at my door a few days ago, with a different cover.

The provenance of the image, according to the info at the back of the book, was Shutterstock, a stock image website.  By going to Shutterstock and typing in "proposal"–since that's what the man looks like he's doing, though it's also possible he's a Regency Jesse James begging forgiveness, judging by the expression on her face–I found the image. ...

Chemistry 101–Mini Lesson 5

In this concluding installment, I'm going to play the role of the thought police.

It is inevitable that your H/H think about each other.  And they should.  But remember, do not duplicate real life here and write long scenes where nothing goes on except somebody reliving events that had already taken place.  We know what happened already. Move on to the next set of events.

But what about the non-POV character, you ask?  We need to know what the non-POV character's reaction was to the...

A Blast from the Past

I was cleaning out my utility room last night and discovered a shoulder bag that probably hadn't been opened in seven years, because inside were the things I brought back from the San Antonio Romance Writers' 2003 Merritt Conference. The Merritt is a great little conference.  We Austinites drive down in the morning, have fun, and drive back in the evening.  The first time I attended, I was eight-month pregnant, and went in author Kathleen O'Reilly's maternity suit.   The last time I attended ...

So…About His at Night II

Now that the page proofs are on back in New York–meaning no more tinkering, ever–I've finally posted a full excerpt of His at Night.

(Funny how prescient I was.  Everything that came after what I dared to post earlier changed.)

A quick glance at the excerpt is quite enough to illustrate the difference between this new book and my entire backlist.  All three of my already published books immediately set up the relationship: Private Arrangements plunges into a description of the perfect marriage ...

Chemistry 101–Mini Lesson 4

In fun news, Not Quite a Husband has been picked by two of All About Romance's reviewers as their top read of 2009, which quite thrills me. But even more thrilling is the news that the big winner of this year's AAR reviewers's choice award (with a grand total of four votes, which, given the diverse tastes at AAR, constitutes quite a landslide) is none other than Bound by Your Touch, by Plotters and Manipulators United's own Meredith Duran!

And I do apologize.  I completely forgot that I...