Just a reminder… get some books signed by me!

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I’m signing at the Turn the Page Friday… they’ve got several of my titles in, including my newest releases.  Those are listed on the page, but if you contact the store, they do have other titles on hand.

Other authors attending…

The WRW Mega Booksigning will be
Friday April 19th from 11:30 – 2

Scheduled to attend: Mary Burton/Mary Ellen Taylor,Shiloh WalkerDarynda JonesDorien KellyJane Porter,Sarah WendellGrace BurrowesSally MacKenzie,Alethea KontisAllison Leotta,  Hope Ramsay,
Nora Roberts/J.D. RobbChristine TrentWilla Blair,Rebecca YorkP. J. O’Dwyer

This is a great chance to order some signed books from me, especially if you’re international or live on the other side of the country.

Yeah, look at me being all cool and not freaking–damn it, I can’t do it.  I’m at a signing with Nora Roberts.  I need to get my freak out NOW so I don’t ditz on her Friday. Okay, okay.  I’m cool, I’m cool.

If you want to order books, go to the page here

If you live in or around the area and plan to attend, make sure you check out the signing protocol!

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Crawling back to You… MAKE UP SCENE

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I love those make-up scenes…

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Bills paid.

That ate up an hour.

Supplies ordered.

That ate up another hour.

He sketched out a couple of designs for a client who lived over at the army base. That took up forty-two minutes. The client was still debating out in the shop. Zach wished he’d make up his mind, because if he wanted the work, doing the tattoo would take up the next couple of hours and then he could go home.

But now, with his mind empty and his hands free, he found himself bent over his sketchbook and the image taking place wasn’t anything he could ever put on anybody.

It was Abby.

The way she’d been in that last portrait. Her gaze locked on him, eyes dark and full of love. Need. Like she was staring into the very soul of him.

The curve of her lip. The line of her jaw.

Her hair, the way it glinted in the light . . . even though it was just a pencil sketch, he could see the dark, rich auburn and his hands itched to feel the softness of it again.

The door opened and he kept his gaze on the portrait. “Did the guy decide on which design he wanted?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t ask.”

Dropping the pencil, he lifted his head.

Abby stood in the door, her head cocked to the side, arms folded over her chest. It was a dangerous pose, because in that dress, her breasts looked like . . . whoa. Yeah. He thought that summed it up pretty much.

As a matter of fact, the entire package was just whoa. She was wearing one of those pinup girl‑ styled dresses again: a formfitting black sheath that fit her form oh so nicely, all the way down her to her knees. Against the black, her skin glowed like ivory and he was about ready to fall down and worship her.

She had on a pair of red heels . . . fuck. Red heels. Had he ever seen her in a pair of red heels?

He didn’t know, but now it was his life’s ambition to see her in just those heels . . . and nothing else. Assuming she wasn’t going to kick his ass to the curb. If she tried, his life’s ambition was going to be getting her to forgive him….

Focus, Zach. He dragged a hand over his face and swallowed the ache in his throat.

“Abby.”

And his voice cracked.

Caris Roane
Eliza Gayle
McKenna Jeffries
Taige Crenshaw
Delilah Devlin
HelenKay Dimon
TJ Michaels
Lissa Matthews
Myla Jackson
Lauren Dane

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Do you have Qs?

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I think I need to update my FAQ page…

 

I’m getting a bunch of the same ones…

 

Are you writing a series about Zach’s brothers?

What happened to Puck?  

Are you seriously making us waiting until 2014 for Broken Blade?

Is/Why can’t the Kit books be audio?  

Why don’t you have more books in audio? Is Stolen part of a series?

These are the normal ones.

Do you have more? Leave them in comments.  If there’s a theme, I’ll send about updating or adding a second FAQ page.

 

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Today, I ask you to be a problem

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So I saw the link to this

It’s a review of Laura Vivanco’s book.  I see Laura online. I know she’s wicked smart.  That’s about all I know.  But she wrote a book…about romances, awesome, right?

And this woman reviewed it and decided readers are the problem.

But clearly there is a vast and satisfied readership out there who want to read novels written like this: they choose to buy these books, and that’s the problem.

Hey.  Cool.  I like being a problem.

So, I bought two books.

I bought…

maisey sarah

 

Chosen specifically since Doc Macdonald was really ragging on categories and I don’t think I can buy M&Bs here in the states.  So I shared my love (and was a problem) with HQN instead.

I urge you today to be a problem.  And if HQN or Mills and Boon isn’t your speed, you can always buy me.  I’m totally for sale. ;)

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There *is* only one way… my way

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I was reading Chuck Wendig’s blog.  It’s about indie publishing and I’m not following the links to the kindle boards, because I’ve done that and I refuse to go down that rabbit hole again.

I just want to say this.

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY.

For me.

I do traditional, digital and self-publishing.  My Kit books are selfpublished and they outsell a lot of my digital books.  I self published some really, and I mean really hot erotic romances…some did okay, one totally tanked.  But my UF books under another name? The ones that aren’t romance?  They outsell the romance stuff, the hot stuff.  They are probably some of the bestselling books I have.  They have more reviews than any other book I have out there.  And they aren’t even a year old.  New York didn’t want them.  Go figure.

I didn’t do anything really special with my self published books.  The erotic romance that I thought would sell really huge? Didn’t do all that great.  It didn’t suck, but it didn’t do what I’d hoped it would.  So the follow-up I’ve been planning to do just sits on the shelf.  I may finish it, I may not, but it’s not priority.

The UF titles?  I hoped they would do okay, but I wasn’t really expecting them to-to be honest, I’ve stopped hoping for things, but nothing I do seems to click, but this one is doing better than I would have let myself hope for. And it’s not romance, it’s not what I’m ‘known’ for.  It’s not…’my way’, so to speak.

The bottom line? There is no ‘way’ except the one you find for yourself.  If you’re out there screaming, or even quietly saying, traditional is best or indie is best or telling your books via figurative dance is the absolutely only way to do it?  Well.  Maybe it is.  For you.

Let everybody else find their own way.

 

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Stuff…. signed copies of WRECKED, the Kit books,etc.

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I had a great signing at Rose’s Bookhouse.  There are signed copies of WRECKED and other books, if you’d like to order.  They will mail them, just call.  She’s also on Facebook, if you’d prefer to reach her that way. (There are a few copies of the Kit books, too.)

I stopped to eat dinner at this awesome little restaurant in Poseyville, Indiana.  I think if you blink, you’ll miss the town.  The Red Wagon was the restaurant and the Cajun Bayou chicken was awesome.

I also took this picture when I stopped at the stop sign.

sunsets

We took a bike ride yesterday.  Eight miles.  Half of it in the wind.  My legs aren’t too sore, but I’m sunburnt. Awesome.

 

It’s less than two weeks now until I’m going to be signing at Turn the Page…this is like a romance writer’s dream, right?  I’m still waiting for somebody to pinch me.  (I also wanna know if I’ve got time to figure out a way to go to the battlefield.  I love Civil War history.  Love it.)  Anyway, if you want to order personalized signed books from me, you totally can.  They’ve only got Wrecked and The Reunited listed, but if you give them enough time, they can get backlist books in.  But that means…um, notify them now. Use their contact page or call them.

 

I’m still getting a lot of questions about Zach’s brothers.  I shall simply refer you to this post.  :) I can’t answer that Q yet, because I simply don’t know.  I’d love to write more, but that’s not always up to me.  Word of mouth, reviews, all of that helps;  the more people who are buying WRECKED and giving it a shot?  The more likely it will be that I have the chance to tell more stories about the Barnes brothers.  Yes, the first plan would be Keelie and Zane.  But we’ll have to see what happens.

the witness

I read The Witness this weekend.  I think it might be my new favorite by Nora Roberts.  It’s kinda awesome. The heroine is a mess.  She’s awkward and does and says things that don’t fit.  And she’s brilliant.

A snippet from Wrecked for those who are still on the fence.

 

Maybe he should be careful about the games he was going to play, Zach thought after Abby had shut the door behind her and disarmed the alarm. She shot him a nervous look. Nervous . . . and hot. There was both dismay and heat in her eyes, as though she wanted to bolt and plunge right into this.

Whatever this was.

Deciding to make it easy on her, he moved a few feet into the house and sprawled on the staircase. “So what were you going to show me?

She fingered the material of the full skirt flaring around her legs. The material was pale pink, glowing against her skin like a rose. Zach smirked to himself as he thought it. She went and made him start thinking poetic thoughts like that, turned him into a knot with just a smile. He was a mess.

The heels of her shoes clicked on the floor as she came toward him and he found himself mesmerized by her legs. The skirt was modest, just an inch below her knees, but still, the heels and her legs . . ..

“Ah . . . you know, if you don’t show me soon,” he said, dragging his eyes up to stare at her face. “I think you should have to take the panties off. Just on principle.”

“That’s a weird principle.” She smiled at him, still fingering the skirt and watching him with that hot, almost fevered look in her eyes. “But I’m going to show you. Or better yet . . . you can see for yourself.”

She caught a fistful of her skirt and dragged it up and Zach felt his heart all but stop.

That grin on her face danced into somewhere just shy of devilish. “I need some help, Zach,” she said. “The skirt and the petticoat are a handful.”

He blinked, a little dazed. “Petticoat . . . ?”

Then he looked down and saw the black slip-like thing under it. Petticoat. Yeah, he knew what that was. Peeking out from under the skirt, tangling around her legs. He swallowed the spit pooling in his mouth and started to drag it up and then his heart really did stop.

Yeah, she was wearing stockings . . . and garters. And they . . . He closed his eyes and said hoarsely, “You’re keeping the damn panties on. You need to tell me where in the hell you got them because I want to buy stock in the place.” Tangling his hands in the layers of skirt and petticoat, he held all of it up to her waist and stared.

Black silk stretched over the round curve of her hips. He could see himself gripping those hips, holding her steady as he settled between her thighs and started to ride her. She’d cradle him just perfect, all lush curves and sweet heat. Dark silk encased her thighs and those thighs . . . damn. A thing of beauty, he knew.

The straps of her garters ran down from her panties to hold up her stockings and he slid one finger under the strap lightly as he leaned in and pressed his mouth to her.

Abby gasped and braced her hand against his shoulder. “Zach . . .”

And before he let himself do anything else, he stood up.

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