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RT Booklovers Convention

As you may know I was at the RT Booklovers Convention last week. I had a great time! I met new author friends and new reader friends and new blogger friends. I participated in an awesome reader panel about LGBTQ romance. My Nine Naughty Novelists and I also did a panel discussion about group blogs/writing groups, sharing what we've learned over the last five years together. And I attended the Giant Book Fair - it was crazy but I was so happy to meet readers and even sell some books!

After the convention I stayed an extra couple of days with author friends Erin Nicholas and Jennifer Bernard (aka Juniper Bell) and we had some fun touring around. Here are some pics of my week:


On the swamp tour - I actually held an alligator! Okay, a baby, but still...
Big gator... Our guide was a crazy Cajun - he dove into the water and wrestled with the gators...
The bayou was exactly how I pictured it from the many romances I've read set there. Another bayou pic...
Lafayette Cemetery in the Garden District One of the beautiful old houses in the Garden District...
Another Garden District house... Me at the Giant Book Fair.
Erin and I on our way to the Samhain Saints and Sinners party... The table I sponsored - it turned out beautiful!

NOLA Giveaway!

To share the fun I'm having in New Orleans this week, I'm giving away a NOLA gift pack! This includes a print copy of Nine Nights in New Orleans ( A collection of short stories set in NOLA by each of the Nine Naughty Novelists) a box of Magnolia Company Pralines, Pat O'Brien's hurricane cocktail mix, a limited edition Nine Naughty Novelists shot glass ( ) and a bottle of Zydeco Gator hot sauce! Leave a comment to enter. Will draw the winner Sunday!

RT Booklovers Convention

It's coming up soon! I'm leaving for New Orleans next week for the RT Booklovers Convention and I can't wait to meet up with author friends, editors, and especially readers!




Here's where you can find me:

Wednesday May 15
Mardi Gras Party (walking with the Samhain float)

Thursday May 15 4:00
Menage a Blog: The Nine Naughty Novelists Talk Group Blogging
Panel Discussion

Friday May 16 1:30
Cover Model Karaoke presented by Nine Naughty Novelists, International Heat and the Smutketeers

2:45
LGBTQ: Top to Bottom, In and Out, Soup to Nuts
Panel Discussion

Saturday May 17
11:00 Giant Book Fair

6:30 FANtastic Day Party

Of course I'll be around at lots of other events and parties,or possibly in the bar :-)  but those are the places I'll be for sure. If you can't find me, send me a message on Facebook or Twitter, I'll have my phone on me at all times!

#AmazonCart

So here's a cool thing. Amazon now has a way to add things to your Amazon shopping cart from Twitter. Once you link your Amazon account and Twitter, if you see a Tweet with an Amazon link (like, say...a book!) you reply to the Tweet adding the hashtag #AmazonCart, and it adds that item to your cart. You haven't bought it - but it's there for you when you want to. Can't wait to try this out!

 http://www.amazon.com/gp/socialmedia/amazoncart/ref=pe_859730_118138820_pe_button/1

A little update from me...

I’ve been working hard but not accomplishing much. After I finished my last book a week or so back, I went back to look at the hockey book I finished back in February to get reacquainted with my hockey guys so I could start the next hockey book! And I made a few changes, adding in some things I’d thought out. THEN I ran into some $##%&( technology issues - I was working on my laptop one day then when I went to my office computer the Word doc wouldn’t open! It was corrupt. And even though I have learned my lesson and always, always save things to two places, for some reason this time I didn’t. I did have the version of it before I made the changes, but then I had to go through it again and try to remember what I changed. AND THEN for some reason it happened again. Now I’m blaming the USB drive I was using - other random docs in it are corrupt too. WTF? After the third time of making those changes I was pretty annoyed. Anyhoo…it’s done and now I’m ready to move on to book 2. I know who my hero is and thought I’d found the girl for him, but then decided no, she wasn’t quite right. So I had to take a couple steps back and give that more thought. I think I’ve got her now! Hoping to start writing tonight.

Must-Read Menage!

Well, this is pretty awesome! So amazing to be included in this list!
THANK YOU!

Q & A

 I've had so many awesome emails and messages from readers this week about Sweet Obsession! Yay! Also some questions. (Oh, and yet another email asking for more Heller brothers hockey books!) 






So in case others have the same questions I thought I'd post here too...

Book 2 in the Windy City Kink series will be out October 7 - All Messed up. We will meet up again with Jack and Sasha briefly...and Kevin.

Lots of you want to know about Kevin! Well, some may be disappointed to know he doesn't get his own book. I wasn't sure if the romance world was ready for Kevin! But we do meet up with him again more in All Messed Up and definitely in Book 3.

As for the Heller Brothers - I'll never say never...but I do have another hockey series in the works, book one is finished and books two and three are semi-planned...so stay tuned!

New contract!

It's official! The contract is signed for Playing With Fire (Windy City Kink Book 3). Release date should be January 2015 - stay tuned for cover reveal and further details!

Sweet Obsession...

Sweet Obsession has gotten some lovely reviews so far! Yay!



Cocktails and Books 5 Glasses!

Night Owl Reviews 4 1/2 Stars!














I’ve been thinking about something that was written in one of the reviews of Sweet Obsession about Sasha.

I’m kind of an old lady. My twenties were quite a few years ago, but I know in my twenties, even as a married woman, I was still figuring out a lot of things about sex. I did not know that BDSM existed. Maybe the world has changed since then. Is BDSM so mainstream now that young women in their twenties know all about it and understand it? I get that Fifty Shades of Grey may have opened people’s eyes to some things, but that wasn’t a really deep exploration of BDSM. Is it not realistic that a young woman who fantasizes about certain things tries to deny what she really wants because it’s been drilled into her head that they’re bad, wrong and dangerous? That letting a man hit you is abuse? That putting yourself into a vulnerable position with a man and allowing that is the height of stupidity?

Maybe those of us who read a lot of BDSM romances think that everyone else in the world gets this. But I don’t think that’s the case. I bet there are a lot of people who don't get BDSM and do believe it's dangerous and wrong. And I think Sasha learning to accept that part of herself despite all those years of feeling shame and guilt was a more difficult journey than just one day admitting what she really wants and needs.
I think there are all kinds of sexual hang-ups that people work a lifetime to overcome, to not be ashamed of. I bet there are things some people never overcome and live their whole lives feeling ashamed of. I don’t think it’s a matter of just snapping out of it. What do you think?

Inspiration

I posted this pic in the release party the other night, but here it is for those who missed it...my inspiration for Jack in Sweet Obsession...