If you have a manuscript tucked away at the back of your desk, just awaiting the opportunity to catch the right editor’s eye, this might be your chance. Dorchester Publishing is holding a competition for all the unpublished romance writers in the land– at least the over eighteen ones, that is. If you’re under eighteen, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. The contest runs from June until November, with the winner’s work to be published by Dorchester in 2010.

For the official contest rules, click here.

Happy July 4th, all!

Mark your calendars. It’s official. The release date for The Betrayal of the Blood Lily is January 12th, 2010.

After all, if Amazon says it, it must be true.


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Pink the Paperback officially makes its British debut today!

Look for it at Waterstone’s and WH Smith. My spies across the Pond inform me that it’s part of their summer sales.

Doesn’t this picture just cry out for captioning?


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Come mid-month, hordes of romance novelists will be storming the nation’s capital, making the world safe for books with pink covers.

Along with about five hundred of my peers, I’ll be signing copies of my books from 5:30 to 7:30 on July 15th at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Exhibit Hall (which does rather make me feel like something out of a Victorian curio cabinet, but there you go). It should be utter mayhem and absolutely fabulous. Books, books, everywhere– and such romance greats as Eloisa James and Julia Quinn.

For the salient details, click here. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hi, all! I’m back from Illinois and the HNS and I just wanted to say a great big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to see me on Saturday. Jenna and Kayse, you two are the best. Hugs also go to Kristin, Tina, Sara and Laura for trekking all the way out to Schaumberg. It was such fun to discuss Pink past, present, and future with you all.

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Hi, all! As you can see from the sidebar, I’ll be jetting off to Illinois this weekend for the Historical Novel Society Conference. Unfortunately, the rest of the information over there to your right, concerning such small details as booksigning timing, is, alas, not so accurate. It turns out that the booksigning at the conference is only open to conference attendees.

However, since my part of the official signing doesn’t start until five o’clock, if you’re in the Chicago area and would like to have your books signed, I will plan to hang out in the hotel lobby between four o’clock and four-fifty on Saturday the 13th, pink pen in hand, ready to sign any books that come my way.

If that time doesn’t work for you, just drop a note below this post or send me an email and we’ll figure something out.

For those in the New York area, Lady Jane’s Salon, New York’s only romance reading series, will be convening tomorrow, June 1st, at Madame X on West Houston Street. Diane Gaston, Marjorie M. Liu, Amanda McCabe and Wendy Corsi Staub will be reading from their latest releases. The price of admission is five dollars or one gently used paperback romance novel. As always, all proceeds go to Share the Love, an organization that provides novels to women in shelters and halfway houses. Come have a drink, chat with fellow romance devotees, and help share the love!

Official details below….

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… and a little bit about Blood Lily in an interview with the Book Club Queen.

Hi, all! If you haven’t already put your name in the hat, today (May 30th) is the last day to enter to win a copy of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine on Kelly Hewitt’s site, Loaded Questions. Check out Loaded Questions for details!

 

New Orleans, LA
Book signing TBA
April 9th-11th

Schaumburg, IL
Book Signing
June 13th, 4:00-6:00
Historical Novel Society Conference
Hyatt Regency Woodfield
1800 East Golf Road

Washington, D.C.
Book signing TBA
July 15th-18th
Romance Writers of America Conference
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road, NW

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