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History Lovers Grand Tour and Scavenger Hunt

 



I'm participating in this awesome giveaway next week. It's a great way to get to sample authors you've never tried before. I'll be doing it via the Pink Fuzzy Slipper Writers Blog -- and will post more about it there.  The list of authors is below in alphabetical order.


 Grand
Prize


$50 Gift
Card

to the Book Retailer of Your Choice



24 Author
Prizes

—All International—



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Sunrise and Panera Bread!

I'm thrilled to announce that SUNRISE IN A GARDEN OF LOVE & EVIL, the first in the Bayou Gavotte series, is a romance pick for Panera Bread's summer reads. (I am such a fan of Panera Bread! I buy bread and pastries there. I heart their Greek salad and asiago roast beef sandwich. Panera is my first choice for lunches when traveling. It was my first choice for lunches at home, too, when I worked in

Random garden pics

Disclaimer: I'm not a photographer, and I don't really have a garden. It's more like a wildlife preserve.




It's been a cool year so far, but here at last is the first ripe blackberry. Usually they're all ripe by now and mostly eaten by birds. (Not that I don't like blackberries, but the mosquitoes like munching on me.)




It's been rainy, too, and this week mushrooms popped up everywhere.

Heart of Constantine

HEART OF CONSTANTINE, the long-awaited third book in the Bayou Gavotte series, will be out September 10th!

Tentative Cover (which I love -- isn't the owl awesome??):





Tentative Blurb:

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Monday Morning Muffins

Actually, I made these on Saturday, but I'm making more this morning by special request. They're great by themselves but go equally well with cheese or jam.

Oatmeal Apple Muffins

1 cup oatmeal
1 cup white whole wheat flour (or white or whole wheat)
1/2 cup turbinado sugar (but regular brown sugar is fine)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

Giveaway!

Today I'm visiting Cynthia Woolf's blog, where she very kindly interviewed me. Drop by for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate from Amazon or Barnes & Noble, winner's choice. (http://cynthiawoolf.com/blog/)

In other news... I'm waiting with bated breath for the cover of Heart of Constantine. I will post it here as soon as I have it.




Swans in Le Teich nature reserve, near Bordeaux, France.

Saturday Pancakes

 








We made pancakes today, so I thought I would share my
recipe. (I don't have a photo of my pancakes, so you get a stork's nest instead.)



2 cups

Release Day... was almost 5 days ago.

I'm late with this... No excuse except that in doing other blogs I forgot this one...but Bewitched By His Kiss came out on May 1st! It's Book Two of the May Day Mischief novella duet. It's available in both e-book (many places) and audio format (Amazon.com).


 



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Release Day! Giveaway!

Today's the release day for The Magic of His Touch, and I'm celebrating with a giveaway (a $25 gift certificate) over at Wicked Romance. (Isn't that a fabulous name for a blog? I love it.) There are lots of ways to enter, and I've included excerpts of both today's release and the sequel, Bewitched by His Kiss, which comes out on May 1st. (Very appropriate, seeing as both stories happen on May

Tastes of Love and Evil re-release and Round Robin!

I've been overwhelmed lately, so I forgot my blog. I seem to do that a lot. Just not my strong point...



But anyway, I have two bits of news. One, Tastes of Love & Evil has been re-released in paperback by Montlake Romance. Considering the crazily high prices out there for secondhand copies (over $100 sometimes), this is excellent news. People who prefer reading on paper can now get it at a