Apr 11, 2010
A little more than two weeks, and Mistress by Mistake will be released into the wild. I’ve been having fun filling out interview questionnaires for blogs–thank goodness I can write my answers instead of speak, because I think at this point I’m one long stutter. 🙂
And I can still write some updates:
1. Three more #Mistress Mondays on Twitter to win six more books, and the monthly contest continues here.
2. Elyssa Papa wrote a funny Top Ten post on Vauxhall Vixens, highlighting some key plot points to MBM.
3. The fabulous Sara Lindsey, author of Promise Me Tonight and the upcoming Tempting the Marquess, designed beautiful banner ads for both Mistress by Mistake and Tempting Eden, and they can be found flashing on the books page of Maggie’s/Margaret’s sites. They are absolutely hypnotic, LOL.
4.Improper Gentlemen is the title of the upcoming Kensington Brava anthology in which I’ll have a novella. Love the title, and my hero Sir Simon Keith is definitely improper. And unfinished.
5. But I’ll have time to finish him, because I’ve given notice at work. Unemployment here I come! Due to a two million dollar shortfall in the school district, my position was reduced to half-time next year. I probably would have been able to keep my hours, but move to another school. I decided to get out now before word reached parents that the sweet bespectacled library clerk their kids hang out with writes scorching-hot historical romances. Huge relief, but I feel terrible for all the teachers and staff whose jobs and programs have been cut and don’t have sexy heroes to stay home and write about. 😕
So, would you quit your day job if you could? What are you looking forward to this Spring?
Apr 2, 2010
Charlotte lay in the cupid-infested room, nervously bunching the scarlet satin coverlet between her fingers. She would not unpack her own trunk but to pull out her tattered nightrail and robe later. She could not move in and assume her sister’s life. She didn’t even want to consume her dinner. But an hour later, the fresh-faced maid Irene was at the door informing her that supper was on the table.
Charlotte imagined it tasted delicious, but was too distracted to tell. Despite her earlier pledge, she gulped a great deal of wine in order that she might actually fall asleep in her sister’s bed. Woozy and warm, she allowed Irene to help her undress and bathe, then crawled under the covers, closing her eyes to the grinning statues. How her sister Deborah had born them all alone for six weeks was a wonder.
She slept as if dead, having the most delightful tipsy dream somewhere past midnight. But when morning came and she found her nightgown hanging from a fat angel’s head and a naked man in the bed, she knew her dream was now a nightmare.
Come play with me! April’s contest is supposed to be fun, as is fitting for National Humor Month. How could one find oneself in the position of mistress by mistake? Details and entry form are on the contest page, and you may enter as many times as you like.Tell me your scenario—silly, serious or scandalous! Three winners will receive copies of Mistress by Mistake. And every Monday is #MistressMonday on Twitter. Two books will be given away each week until relase day, April 27.
My alter ego Margaret Rowe has news too. Thai subrights have been sold for Tempting Eden (Berkley Heat, June 2010). It’s really exciting (and a little strange) to think of people reading my books in translation. 🙂
Have a wonderful week. Stay tuned for more information about the Reader at Home Conference.
P.S. 4/6/10 I’ve already gotten some entries for April’s contest. Keep ’em coming! Congrats to Twitter winners @sarahsreviews and @armiefox for winning this week’s copies of MbMistake. And I just discovered that Mistress by Midnight will be out December 28! It’s available for pre-order on Amazon. Holy cow. I think that means from April 27 to next January, the two of me will have released five books (Margaret Rowe’s Any Wicked Thing is also out in January). And I thought I was crazy now…
Mar 27, 2010
Nope, this is not about nuclear disarmament. 🙂 The latest: Russian rights have been sold to Mistress by Mistake! That’s Хозяйка по Oшибке according to a translating site I found. I think it’s so cool that eventually I’ll have books printed in two alphabets (Thai, too) that I am completely unfamiliar with.
Don’t forget the #MistressMonday Twitter contest. Just add the hashtag to your tweets for a chance to win MBM. Last week’s winners were @Pearl-ROOB and @shellistevens. Details of a contest right here will be posted shortly.
Brava is sponsoring a great new contest for aspiring writers. Check it out. The Brava Authors blog is being redesigned too, and eventually I’ll be posting once a month there.
Hope Spring is finding a way to you. Here in Maine we’ve dipped down into the teens and I’m freezing again. When I was a little girl, my parents always took pictures of me in my Easter bonnet in front of the brilliant yellow forsythia bush we had in the back yard. I’ve got nothing here but mud. And no new hat. Do you wear hats? The heroine of my latest novella is a hatmaker, and it’s all she can do not to stab the hero with a hatpin. 😉
Mar 21, 2010
It’s the six-week countdown to the April 27 release of Mistress by Mistake, so it’s got to be #MistressMonday on Twitter! Now, I’m not really a big Tweeter, but I do know Twitter is replacing blogging as the way to get the word out. So every Monday between now and release day, I’ll be giving away 2 copies of Mistress by Mistake to 2 random people who tweet whatever they’d like, as long as they include the hashtag #MistressMonday. That means 12 books are up for grabs (yes, I know you can multiply). You remember that picture of the lovely promo books below. 🙂 One of them might be yours.
Not on Twitter? No problem. Next month there will be a fun contest right here dreamed up by my promo princess Elyssa Papa for more chances to win free books.
And there’s more! Stop over this week at Juliana Stone’s 10 Days of Hunger to celebrate her Avon debut release His Darkest Hunger. MBM is one of the prizes. I’m also particpating in author Lucy Monroe’s Reader At Home Conference. She’s thought up a cool way for people not attending the Romantic Times conference in Columbus to experience connecting with authors anyway. There will be a ton of really fabulous prizes (including MBM) and people, and you can read all about it if you click on the above link. I’ll remind you again as it gets closer to the date. 🙂 Have a great week!
Have you ever been to a romance conference? RWA Nashville will be my first and I’m shaking in my boots!
A little more than two weeks, and Mistress by Mistake will be released into the wild. I’ve been having fun filling out interview questionnaires for blogs–thank goodness I can write my answers instead of speak, because I think at this point I’m one long stutter. 🙂
