Friday, May 2nd, 2008
The winner of an autographed copy of What Happens in Vegas… is LindaH!
Congrats, Linda!!
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Today is the official release day for What Happens in Vegas… *butt wiggle* I hope you all enjoy this fun, sexy anthology! How cool is this??!! Fellow Bradford Bunch authors Cynthia Eden and Ann Aguirre are both holding contests for copies of Vegas! Aren’t they awesome? Go on over and enter! I’ll be doing my drawing tomorrow morning! In other news, I freaking lost my voice! I sound like a telephone sex worker on the tail end of a bender. I was going to do a video blog today, but nobody wants that. Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I have a Writerspace chat scheduled for Wednesday 4/30 at 9pm ET. Lauren Dane will be there and maybe Jodi Lynn Copeland too! I hope to see you there. It should be fun. If you haven’t entered the contest for the copy of Vegas, scroll down and enter. I’ll be choosing a winner by random drawing very soon. Sunday, April 20th, 2008
First off, I have a new author photo. This picture was not taken at RT, but right before RT by the fabulous Scott Church who resides in PA.
RT was fabulous as usual with the possible exception of the sinus infection I contracted two days in which kept me from attending one of the parties and staying late at the others. Aside from sickness, it was great to see old friends and to make new. I had the privilege of meeting Vivi Anna and the wonderful Sasha White for the first time, among others. I’m totally freaking exhausted, to tell you the truth. Here! Have some pictures…. (many, many)
The Ellora’s Cave fantasy party. Look at all the people!
Crossing the stage with a lovely man on my arm. I love this picture mostly because we both ended up with freaky white zombie eyes.
What’s even better than crossing a stage in front of lots of people? Getting OFF the stage. (Well, for me, anyway)
Me and Laura Bradford, my most awesome agent.
At the party hosted by me, Lauren Dane, Ann Aguirre, Megan Hart and Cynthia Eden.
Helllo! Come on in!
Karoke. Photo includes me, Jennifer Dunne, Lauren Dane, Ann Aguirre and Megan Hart.
Megan Hart, me, and Lauren Dane at Club RT.
Lauren Dane, me, and my husband (looking like Sexy Secret Agent Man)
The booksigning on Saturday. Oh, what is that I see? Could that be a poster of Witch Blood? Yes, it is! And here’s where I must praise my most awesome husband for schlepping, handling, managing and being an all around great guy. I don’t know what I would do without him. He took most of these pictures, in fact. I sold out at the booksigning, by the way! I was out of books a scant half hour in.
At the booksigning. It was packed, as you can see.
Megan Hart signing books.
Patrice Michelle doing the same.
The lovely Lauren Dane talking with a reader. Next year, Orlando! Good thing it’s a year away. I need time to recover. Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Okay, hold on…I’ve got lots to say. It’s almost RT time!! Because of RT and because I’m soon to have house guests, I’ve been madly preparing…and not blogging. Maybe you have noticed the not-blogging part. I apologize, if so. Will you be RT? Say hi, okay? I’m super friendly, so don’t be shy. I will have my camera with me at RT and will try to blog from there. Sometimes I can manage this, sometimes not. I’ll certainly try, though! Live in PA? I’ll be participating in a booksigning with Megan Hart and Lauren Dane on Monday April 14 from 6 - 8 pm at the Borders/Waldenbooks at the Lebanon Valley Mall in Lebanon Pennsylvania. I hope to see you there! Witch Blood received a Top Pick review from Romance Reader at Heart! Shannon says in part, “I love WITCH BLOOD! With its fantastic characters, complex plot and super hot scenes, this is most certainly a slam dunk Top Pick. Great writing, sci-fi scenery, witchery, crazed demons and so much more, WITCH BLOOD is a read that I cannot stop thinking about. I enjoyed every minute of it…. WITCH BLOOD is a read you do NOT want to miss.” ~*~ A New Release…..
Magical Seduction, an anthology with stories from Mandy Roth, Cathryn Fox and me is now shipping from online retailers. It should be stocked on your local bookshelves next week. I admire these authors so much and I’m totally thrilled to be in this anthology with them both!
Witches, werewolves, things that bump in the night…And three arousing tales of sexual delight. CATHRYN FOX Good witch Ally gets naughty when she discovers her long-lost high school sweetheart caught — literally — in a web of lust and seduction. MANDY M. ROTH When Francy shows up after five years of separation to tell her beloved Dante, a werewolf, that she’s engaged to a vampire, he seduces her with a steamy surprise of his own.
ANYA BAST Not only did Miranda just learn that she’s a half-blood fae, but she’s also got two — two! — deliciously muscular mates. She’d better adjust to all the sexy attention before a vengeful goblin tries to get in on the threesome….
You can order this title from Amazon.com or any other online retailer. ~*~ A Contest! To celebrate the upcoming release of What Happens in Vegas…. (May 1st, 2008), I want to give away an ARC! Have you taken a trip to Vegas? If so, tell me about it in the comments. What was your impression of the city? if you haven’t been to Vegas, tell me about another thrilling place you’ve visited. When I return from RT, I’ll draw a name and announce a winner. Good luck!!
Behind closed doors, the real games begin… Winning it big. That’s the name of the game at Las Vegas’s Liege Hotel and Casino, where the hottest fantasies hinge on a roll of the dice…and the tantalizing knowledge that anything could happen before sunrise. Cocktail waitress Carinna wants a man to tie her up, not tie her down. Little does she know that her most willing partner yet has something else planned for this fiery Latina bombshell. Dahlia is a burlesque dancer with a brain for business and a bod for sin. Her latest admirer may be a sweet-talking Casanova, but despite what he thinks she’s not giving anything away free. Meanwhile, Amy has the perfect plan to rob the Liege Casino blind…until the intimidating owner catches her red-handed. Now she knows she’s going to pay… with both pleasure and pain. Professional shill Cassidy is ready to experience a breathless rendezvous with her “friend with benefits.” But when he proposes five delicious nights of sexy blackjack, the stakes have never been so high.
Friday, March 28th, 2008
In fact, all three of the deadlines that made my March so, uhm, interesting have been met. WHEW! Now I’ll start going through the requests for What Happens in Vegas… that I’ve received and if you’ve been expecting a prize from me, those will be going out too. I’ve had a million emails about this…Claire is the heroine of Witch Heart. :0) Adam is the male main. As soon as I can, I’ll dig up an excerpt. Sunday, March 16th, 2008
I’m still in deadline hell and it’s crazier than ever. Everything is due at the end of this month, so that means the first week of April I’m on VAYCAY. I’m going to need at least a week to recover from this month’s crazy, hellish deadline stress. So a few evenings ago it was brought to my attention that my books are being downloaded willy nilly and in great numbers from several pirating web sites and forums. Some people are even asking for “donations” for them. I can’t even express how high my blood pressure went up as I explored these venues, saw how the thieves were scrambling author names and titles in order to avoid detection and read all of the generalizations for their bad behavior. I hesitated to write about this at all because I don’t want to draw more people to these sites and lose even more money to thievery. Because that’s what it is, plain and simple. Thievery. It’s impossible to rationalize it any other way. I waited a couple days to write about this because it worked me up so badly. The cool off period helped, but now I can feel my blood pressure rising again. I don’t make a lot of money, folks. When all is said and done, I make the same amount as your average office worker…only without the benefits. I make as much money per year as most of you. Writing isn’t a career that’s going to put you on easy street. For most authors it’s a hobby that provides a little extra pocket money. Writers write because they love it, but I have to say that when I visit these thieving sites it makes me love it a little less. I sacrifice a lot to write. When my husband has a good movie to watch at night, or a good TV show, usually I can’t watch it with him. I have to use that time in the evenings to write. I lose sleep to write. I miss time with my family to write. I sacrifice time to just relax in order to write. I do all of this for a small amount of money. This is my choice, I know, but to see people just taking my books for free and thinking that it’s okay makes me rethink that choice. What if you picked up your paycheck at the end of the week and saw that people had taken money out of it? Stolen away hours of your work just because they could? Wouldn’t it make you mad? What people fail to understand is that even a loss of a couple hundred sales to eBook thievery can harm an author’s career. It’s not hurting the publisher, it’s hurting the author. To any eBook thieves out there — Don’t steal. It’s wrong. There’s no rationalization for it, and I’m not going to waste my time addressing all the excuses I’ve seen for it. Your parents taught you better, I know they did. You should be ashamed of yourself and you know it. Do the right thing, okay? I shouldn’t have to ask. The bottom line is that if the thievery I saw a couple evenings ago keeps on at that unbelievable rate, there’s not going to be any more authors to steal from. Friday, March 14th, 2008
Hey guy, stop by Barbara Vey’s blog today and leave a comment. It’s her anniversary. This is Publishers Weekly only romance oriented blog (that I’m aware of), so go show her some love. Oh, there’s prizes to be had too! Later I’ll be back with a very rare rant about EBOOK THIEVES. Oh, man, I am revved up them today and I have a whole bunch to say just as soon as I can find some time to scream…er…say it. 
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