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Book Trailer! VANQUISHED & The Men of Roxbury House Go to Spain!

As some of you may remember, VANQUISHED (Book #1 in my Men of Roxbury House trilogy) is being published in Spain. Translated into Spanish and given a gorgeous new cover, the book is now on sale. Check out the super short–two minutes!–book trailer by my fabulous Spanish publisher, Libros de Seda. VANQUISHED and my other [...]

My Hard Cover Debut: SUGAR with Jenna Jameson!

I’m thrilled to announce my latest—and until now Super Secret—project, SUGAR (Skyhorse Publishing, October 2013), a contemporary erotic romance with the incomparable Jenna Jameson! SUGAR will be Jenna’s fiction debut, and I’m over-the-moon honored to partner with her in bringing her sexy and soulful story to readers. SUGAR is a first for me as well: [...]

Suddenly Cinderella Amazon Gift Card Giveaways!

5-8-13: Congratulations to my three winners: Blake K, Ayana F & Gloria W! Your Amazon Gift Cards are en route. Many thanks to all my readers for making the blog tour so much fun and please look for the Suddenly Cinderella series finale releasing Fall 2013. To paraphrase the late great Agatha Christie, there is [...]

Release Day for THE CINDERELLA MAKEOVER!

Today was the release day for THE CINDERELLA MAKEOVER, Book #2 in my Suddenly Cinderella Series of contemporary fairytale-themed romances, and here in steamy Melbourne, Australia, I had quite a Princess-for-a-Day party! I started off with a visit to RendezVous The Romance Bookstore where the lovely and knowledgeable Mirna Denic was holding down the fort–in [...]

Greetings from Oz

Hi All! I am writing this post from sunny Melbourne, the second stage of my Australian…progress. My tour started with the third annual Australian Romance Readers Conference, ARRC2013, in Brisbane where I was honored to present our first ever overseas Lady Jane’s Salon. Four fabulous guests (Cathy Maxwell, Keri Arthur, Amy Andrews & Anna Campbell), [...]

The Three Faces of VANQUISHED, Vote for Your Favorite

A few years ago Medallion Media Group, the wonderful publisher of my Victorian-set Men of Roxbury House trilogy–VANQUISHED, ENSLAVED & UNTAMED–sold the books to publishers in France and Italy. And now there is a third foreign sale to report, this time to Spain! Libros de Seda, my Spanish publisher, kindly forwarded me the book cover [...]

Won’t You Be My Sweetheart?

Well, folks, 2013 is off to a bang up start! OPERATION CINDERELLA, Book #1 of my Suddenly Cinderella Series with publishing juggernaut Entangled — read the fabo breaking news about the company’s new joint venture with Big Six Publisher MacMillan here –  received a FIVE  Star review from The Romance Studio. But there’s more… The [...]

Let’s Stay Together in 2013!

Happy 2013! One of the ways I am launching this new year is by upgrading my newsletter system. (We began in late 2012 in prep). The new system requires all subscribers to re-confirm their membership on my mailing list. For those of you who have already done so, huzzah and thanks! If you have not [...]

Naughty vs Nice: Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey

For those who’ve read the E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy, and admit it, you so have, at least book #1,you know that the erotic romance between fictional characters Christian Grey and Ana Steele definitely weighs in on the naughty side–fifty shades of naughty. Readers seem to fall into one of two camps: those who love [...]

Celebrate the Season with A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS CAROL

A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS CAROL, my Suddenly Cinderella winter holiday novella, released a few days ago, huzzah! Think Cinderella meets the Dickens’ classic, with several storyline twists, notably the heroine, Starr, is Cinderella and Scrooge! Many of you have met Starr, Macie’s magazine editor boss, in the series launch, OPERATION CINDERELLA. The holiday novella gives Starr [...]