Jan 2, 2010
I’ve had a busy busy break. Finished electronic copyedits for Margaret Rowe’s Berkley Heat debut Tempting Eden. Finished Maggie Robinson’s first draft of Book #4 for Kensington Brava, Master of Sin.Wrote 1/3 of the Kensington novella that’s due in April. Sent the page proofs back for Mistress by Mistake .(It’s almost a book! It’s mine!)
It wasn’t all work. We had a wonderful time with our family, and spent three days in Virginia to celebrate the new year. And I got the best Christmas present from my youngest daughter. She gave me a beautiful red Cross pen to sign my beautiful red books with in Nashville. I got a little weepy when I opened it. Everything is becoming so real. And a little complicated. I said to someone this whole writing thing now is like 24-hour-a-day homework in a whole bunch of subjects (juggling multiple books), plus you have to grade the papers yourself (when you edit/revise/proofread). But I’m not complaining.*g*
Were you good about doing your homework, or did you put it off until the last minute? What was your favorite gift this holiday season?
P.S. That’s my newish desk. I had to replace the printer since this picture was taken…and the dust I discovered was daunting. 😳
Dec 18, 2009
Congratulations to J.K. Coi, the winner of Susan Gee Heino’s Mistress by Mistake! I cut up little snips of paper, closed my eyes, and there she was!
The blog will be on a break until after the new year. An early resolution is to finish the current project before 2010. Or else. I’m awfully close. Right now Gemma is trapped in a house with Italian assassins. I’m pretty sure she’s going to rescue herself, and rescue me in the process. Since we’ll be going to Virginia to spend New Year’s Eve with our oldest friends, she’d better do it before I board that plane.
Happiest of holidays! How are you celebrating the new year? We’ll be staying in, eating the lobsters we’re bringing from Maine. I bet I struggle to stay up until midnight. 🙂
Dec 9, 2009
Just a reminder—if your name is in the post below or if you’ve received the first Maggie Robinson/Margaret Rowe newsletter and haven’t sent me your mailing address yet, please do so! I sent out the first wave of promo packets this week, much to my postmistress’s delight. One even went to Australia!
I’m not much of a statistician, but the new websites are connected now to a stat counter, and it’s fascinating to see where people are coming from to visit this site. Ireland. Bulgaria. France. Norway.The intertubes are a divine mystery.
Speaking of mysteries, about 5,000 words to go on Master Of Sin and I have no idea how it’s going to end, LOL. I have revisions to think about for Mistress by Midnight, the second Courtesan Court book scheduled for the spring of 2011 from Kensington Brava. Still putting on the finishing touches for Tempting Eden for Berkley Heat. Debuting on the Bradford Bunch blog on December 18, where most of the authors repped by my fabulous agent Laura Bradford muse about their muses. Starting to schedule a blog tour for the spring, buying an ad in RT. Scary, exciting stuff!
Since it’s getting close to Christmas, I’m giving away another copy of Mistress by Mistake! This time, I can hold the actual book in my hand, becasue it’s not my Mistress, but the Golden Heart-winning Susan Gee Heino’s delightful debut for Berkley that shares the same title with my April 27, 2010 debut from Kensington! Yes, 2 books, 2 authors, 5 months apart, 1 title. Leave a comment and let me know how you’re doing getting ready for the holidays and the “other woman” will be yours if I draw your name. Check back next week for the winner.
I confess I’m nowhere near done shopping, but my little fake tabletop tree is up and the pine roping is on my front porch railing. Joy to the world.
P.S. When I titled this post, the cancellation of As the World Turns had not been announced. I haven’t seen the show since I was a little girl, watching it with my grandmother. Good-bye to 72 years of romance! Watching soap operas as a kid probably put me on the path I’m on today. Hm. I sense a future blog topic. 🙂
Dec 3, 2009
Thank you all so much for celebrating the launch of my two new websites! I have goodies to send out to all who commented, tweeted, signed up for my newsletter, etc. With the greatest of trepidation, I’m going to send out my first newsletter in a day or two, so the following list only has blog commenters and Tweeple. I need snail mail addresses for Terrio, Elyssa Papa, Gillian Layne, Amber E., Limecello, Barbara Elness, J.K. Coi, Katiebabs, P.J., Reverend Melinda, Tammy D., Julie, Katie, Marsha Jones, Margay, Jana J. Hanson, Tiffany Clare, Keira Soleore, Sara Lindsey, Vanessa Kelly, Bookpassion, Tessa Dare, Joanne Kendrick, Cristen, and Lois. If you would send your address to maggie@maggierobinson.net I shall attempt to get a packet to you before Christmas. Or the New Year. Certainly before Groundhog’s Day. *g*
And now…the winner of an as-yet-to-be-published, basically invisible ARC of Mistress by Mistake…Reverend Melinda, who commented on the first official blog post!
Tempting Eden (also just a figment of my imagination) goes to katieday26 from the newsletter sign-up! As soon as I get my hot little hands on real live books, they will be in the mail to each of you.
Look for a contest coming up in February to kick off the Mistress count-down!
Nov 27, 2009
I’m expecting electronic copyedits any day now for Tempting Eden. Mistress by Mistake’s came on comforting paper with little red squiggles. As a former English teacher, I felt right at home, but this old puppy is ready for some new tricks. I also got a couple of revision suggestions from my Berkley editor, which I’m to incorporate in the copyedits. So I’m reacquainting myself with Hart and Eden, who have been with me in all their glory since around March of 2007. I keep hacking away at them, and they keep hacking right back. It seems I’ve rewritten this book a whole lot of times, and the characters never cease to surprise me. At this moment I’d almost like to start from scratch…can I be addicted to revision?*shudder*
I’ve also realized I’ve written 5 more couples since Eden’s wicked stepfather popped into my head, not counting the crazy novellas I dabbled with. But Hart and Eden will always be special to me. I was pretty mean to poor Eden, and she’ll probably never forgive me, even though she got her happy ending. But I’m a sucker for tortured characters.
Who do you prefer, the tortured hero or the tortured heroine? Who’s your favorite unhappy person cured by love?
I’ve had a busy busy break. Finished electronic copyedits for Margaret Rowe’s Berkley Heat debut Tempting Eden. Finished Maggie Robinson’s first draft of Book #4 for Kensington Brava, Master of Sin.Wrote 1/3 of the Kensington novella that’s due in April. Sent the page proofs back for Mistress by Mistake .(It’s almost a book! It’s mine!)