Historical and Contemporary Romance Author

Monthly Archives : May 2008

Release Day!


Cross-posted from the Manuscript Mavens blog That’s right! Wickedly Ever After hits the shelves (figuratively, at least) at Cobblestone Press today. If you click on over and it’s not there yet, try again later. The new releases usually get posted before noon Eastern on Fridays, but sometimes, it take a little longer! For an excerpt, hop on over to the…

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Have Query, Will Travel


My novella, Wickedly Ever After, will be released this Friday by Cobblestone Press and be available for purchase from them for the next six months. (Hurry and buy, lol!) After that, the rights will revert to me, and then I’ll turn them over to Kensington Books, which will publish this novella and two others in a single author anthology to…

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The Road Not Taken


x-posted from the Manuscript Mavens blog Earlier this week, I got a call that gave me a moment’s pause, wondering if I’d made a poor career decision last summer. You see, it was an editor calling to offer me a contract for Carnally Ever After, which I’d long-since contracted to Cobblestone Press. I submitted the story to said publisher back…

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To Contest or Not to Contest


x-posted from the Manuscript Mavens blog Beverley Kendall, MaveFave and Avon FanLitter, contacted me via IM a couple of weeks ago with the exciting news that she’d finaled in her first RWA chapter contest for unpublished writers. I congratulated her and said I bet it was the beginning of a trend. Well, color me clairvoyant, but within a week or…

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Woohoo! Cover Art!


My first contemporary erotic romance, The Gospel of Love: According to Luke, is scheduled to be released by Cobblestone Press on June 13th, and boy, was I getting antsy for cover art. Yesterday, I’m happy to say, it appeared in my inbox. Done by the amazing Frauke of Croco Designs, I think it’s hawt. Totally different feel from my historical…

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Plans and Some Pimpage


No Wednesday Word today, as I’m stumped for a word I want to talk about this week. Probably because I’ve been feeling a bit at a loss for words in general. Yesterday, I met my agent, Kevan Lyon of the Dijkstra Agency, face-to-face for the first time. She’s every bit as lovely and smart in person as on the phone…

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Performance Anxiety


x-posted from the Manuscript Mavens blog In the world of romance, heroes rarely suffer from this malady. Not only are they supremely confident gentlemen of the world, they are also so wildly attracted to their heroines that any possibility of failure to rise to the occasion is unthinkable. Would that the writers who invent these rarefied creatures shared their immunity!…

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