February 29, 2008 

This month has been super-exciting! I met my wonderful editor from Red Rose Publishing and we got straight down to business. The editing process for Fox & Hound only took a few days! The following week the editor from The Wild Rose Press contacted me a month early to start edits on Denied Origin. It took a bit longer to finish, but I loved the challenge and it gave me a new look at point of view and the different ways it can be used. It also gave me an idea for an article I’m now writing for the GCC newsletter, Silken Sands. I should be getting a release date for Denied Origin soon! 

Fox & Hound was released yesterday from Red Rose Publishing!!! I’m super-excited and promoting like crazy. I’m new to the field of promo but learning. I took a class on promotion this past week, which was helpful. I did my first guest blog spots. The first was at author Allison Knight’s My Turn To Talk blog where I interviewed Todd, the irresistible hero from Fox & Hound. Click here to meet him. I was thrilled when my friend and erotica author Wendi Darlin offered a guest blog spot at Hot Southern Lovin. Stop by to see all the fun and the exclusive excerpt from Fox & Hound. I’ve scheduled a few more guest spots in March and April, which I will list on my Blog when ready.  

Now onto my WIPs: 

The third book in the Louisiana trilogy is almost completed. When it is finished, I’ll do some heavy editing for the second and third books. Still no word from The Wild Rose Press on the first. I’m still hopeful! These books have been a pleasure to write.  

I’ve decided to write a book for The Wild Rose Press’s Wayback, TX series. That’s right: I’m writing a western, something I never thought I’d get into. I purchased the first two books from the line, Rita Thedford’s Hot Night at the Blue Bug Saloon and Judith Rochelle’s Shadow of the Hawk—both awesome reads. I’m actually quite intimidated! After reading these and re-reading Nora Roberts’s historical western Lawless (which I also highly recommend to western romance fans), the cowboy bug hit me. After chatting with the delightful Wayback writers’ group, I sat down at my computer and tapped out three chapters. I hope to finish it by the beginning of April and send it in to the editors by Easter. I sent in an application for a critique partner from the new program that WritingGIAM has established so that should help with the quick editing I plan to do for this one.  

SPRING IS COMING!!!!