J is for Joy

What am I doing this morning while drinking my coffee, you ask? I am reading this, my new contract with Amazon Montlake. I've been waiting to announce the sale since mid-February and finally can! My agent, Laura Bradford, visited Houston a week or so after submitting my proposal (crazy, right?) and got to tell me in person that Amazon was interested. There was some back and forth to work out on the book's plot, as well as the usual contract finagling, so I had to wait a couple of months for all of that to be settled before I could say anything. The Publishers Marketplace announcement which is being submitted today will say something along these lines about the plot of the first book (I sold three):

An Austin bakery owner returns to the small Texas town where she lived as a foster child, buying the old Victorian she called home, and turning it into a cafe and specialty brownie shop with the help of a carpenter who mentors ex-cons.

What this description doesn't mention is my favorite character from the book, Magoo, a ninety pound, two year old shepherd mix. Yay dogs! I'm super duper excited about these books (even if this post doesn't relay that excitement; blame that on doing taxes this week) – especially that they'll be coming out pretty quickly after I get them turned in…meaning it's very possible all three will be out next year! I don't have those details yet, so don't quote me, but be sure I'll post everything I know when I finally know it!

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