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5 Days to Darkness Captured! The Contests!

From now until the end of September, you have several chances

to win as part of the release party to celebrate the last of the Dark Realm books, Darkness Captured.

Newsletter Member Contest

This contest is intended for my newsletter subscribers. If you aren't already one, here's the link! DD's Newsletter

I love finding out more about your preferences, so come take a tour of my site and answer some questions. Email your answers with the subject line Newsletter Members Contest to...

Guest Blogger: S. Reesa Herberth

Space Opera and Romance

What is space opera?

Ask a few fans, and you're most likely to hear a different answer from each person. Space opera, when the term was first coined in the 40's, was meant as an uncomplimentary jab at bad sci-fi, a comparison to the radio soap operas of the time. By the 60's and 70's, space opera had come to be associated with sci-fi adventure novels, and as time has worn on, the original pejorative sting has faded away almost entirely.

A highly scientific sampling of...

Back, but never really gone…

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

~ Shelley Winters

I feel like I've been away a very long time, but I haven't gone anywhere. I tell you, I'm addicted to my blog. If I don't start the day with a new post (of my own!), it's like I woke up in someone else's bed. Icky. Disoriented. Ooh. I feel a story coming on.

So I didn't get to go to Lora Leigh's big party. Everyone who went is sending messages to each other saying what a nice time they had, and I know the experience is l...

Guest Blogger: Vonna Harper

This ihe last of the guest bloggers I had lined up for when I was supposed to be away at RAW. I'll be back with you tomorrow! ~DD

Everyone has experienced walking alone into a party or the first day at a new job, right? You're positive everyone else knows everyone while you're the new kid on the block, the unknown. Unless you do everything right, they're going to gossip about you. Heck, they're going to anyway.

That's me, new kid on the Delilah Devlin blog block. Guess there's nothing to do...

Guest Blogger: T.L. Schaefer

Multiple personalities & a contest!!

By T.L. Schaefer

Howdy, all! I'm Terri Schafer (aka TL Schaefer, aka Keira Ramsay) and today I'm hijacking Delilah's blog for a bit. As you can see from the very first sentence, I have um…identity issues. Actually, not so much, but when I started writing erotic romance as frequently as I was publishing romantic suspense, something had to give. I just couldn't write super-steamy stuff as TL…it didn't seem right, and I'd started writing as TL, so folks...

Guest Blogger: Teresa Noelle Roberts

Many thanks to my guest today for her inspiring post! ~DD

When I realized I'd be doing my guest post on September 11, I drew a blank. The usual topics about writing process or what makes a hero hot seemed inappropriate on a date associated with tragedy, grief and rage.

Then I got an email from a friend that he and his crew would be taking part in Flags on the 48 and I knew what my theme would be.

This morning at roughly 5:45 AM, my friend Randy Pierce, his fiancée Tracy and a group of hiking...

Guest Blogger: M.J. Fredrick

M.J.'s an old friend of mine from Texas. We knew each other well before either of us was published. I'm so happy for her success! Here's a note from her:

Sunrise over Texas is my first historical. 1820s Texas was a pretty wild place, and not very settled. I figured a woman living in that environment wouldn't have the same restrictions put on her as a woman living in society would, so I could make Kit pretty darned independent. THAT was a lot of fun. She knew her own mind and could hold her...

I don't need no stinkin' reputation!

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize

what a burden it was, or what freedom really is.

~ Harper Lee

I want to be like that one day. A one-line quote in The Goddess Within mini-book. Guess I better start saying pithy, quotable things, huh?

I'm supposed to be winging my way to West Virginia today. And there's supposed to be a guest blogger here, but she didn't show up. So it was fate, right? I'm not supposed to be at Lora Leigh's big party this year. Nope, instead I'm sitting in ...

Guest Blogger: Fiona Jayde

Thanks to everyone who made yesterday's release day so perfect! And although I've had to cancel my trip to West Virginia for Lora Leigh's RAW due to illness, I still have friends scheduled to take over this blog for the next few days. I might poke my head in the door occasionally, but I will be resting for the most part. Thanks again for your support and all your wonderful comments concerning Four Sworn! ~DD

Paranormal Logistics In a Semi-Normal World

by Fiona Jayde

As a writer, I love the art ...

Four Sworn is here!

I have two winners' announcements to make. Thanks to everyone who helped me get the word out about Pleasing Sir! The names of the winners are listed at the bottom of this post.

There's a wild child trapped inside her, and they're hell-bent on unleashing it…

As the pretty daughter of the town whore, Shanna Davies has always tried hard to toe the line. But she just can't help it. Her boyfriend, Bo Crenshaw, has lured her untamed spirit out to play once too often. It's time to get the hell out of...