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March Excitement at ARe

Check out AllRomanceEbooks.com every day in March for great deals and awesome freebies – including one from me! Here’s the official announcement:

FANTASTIC rebates this month!
- Phaze titles will be rebated 25% for the first 2 weeks
- Samhain, Loose Id, Kensington, Penguin, and Harlequin (all imprints) will be rebated 25% for the entire month
- All Ravenous Romance titles will be $2.99 for the last 2 weeks of the month.

Prizes
Daily – A free download (by the featured author) and a $10.00 OmniBucks certificate
Grand Prize – An iPod Touch, pre-loaded with 31 Books (one from each featured author) and a $100.00 OmniBucks certificate

The official line-up:
Our March 1 Featured Author is Cat Johnson
Our March 2 Featured Author is Brenna Lyons
Our March 3 Featured Author is Claire Thompson
Our March 4 Featured Author is Mari Carr
Our March 5 Featured Author is Selena Kitt
Our March 6 Featured Author is Bianca D’Arc
Our March 7 Featured Author is G.A. Hauser
Our March 8 Featured Author is Stormy Glenn
Our March 9 Featured Author is Dee Dawning
Our March 10 Featured Author is Tilly Greene
Our March 11 Featured Author is Charlene Teglia
Our March 12 Featured Author is Cat Grant
Our March 13 Featured Author is Eden Bradley
Our March 14 Featured Author is Cherise Sinclair
Our March 15 Featured Author is Shara Azod
Our March 16 Featured Author is Samantha Sommersby
Our March 17 Featured Author is Beverly Rae
Our March 18 Featured Author is Marie Harte
Our March 19 Featured Author is Zena Wynn
Our March 20 Featured Author is Marie Rochelle
Our March 21 Featured Author is Jamieson Wolf
Our March 22 Featured Author is K.F. Zuzulo
Our March 23 Featured Author is J.M. Snyder
Our March 24 Featured Author is Moira Rogers
Our March 25 Featured Author is Annmarie McKenna
Our March 26 Featured Author is Lorelei James
Our March 27 Featured Author is Eliza Gayle
Our March 28 Featured Author is Maya Banks
Our March 29 Featured Author is Jamie Craig
Our March 30 Featured Author is Vivian Arend
Our March 31 Featured Author is Lissa Matthews

Freebie for Sony eReaders!

If all goes as planned, my debut zombie novella with Kensington Brava will be given away for FREE from March 1st to March 4th on the Sony site.

I say “if all goes as planned” because this was supposed to occur a while back but some behind the scenes glitch stopped it from happening. So keep your fingers crossed! With any luck, this time it’ll actually work!

Look for HALF PAST DEAD for free while it lasts, as a little tie-in to the release of ONCE BITTEN, TWICE DEAD. Check it out!

Here’s the link to the Sony site:

http://ebookstore.sony.com/

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ONCE BITTEN, TWICE DEAD – Available Now!

New in Print!
ISBN 978-0758247292 Thrills, chills, and a smoldering sexy hero combine to unforgettable effect in Bianca D’Arc’s irresistible new novel of paranormal romance… Buy Now from Amazon	When police officer Sarah Petit investigates a disturbance in an abandoned building, she expects to find a few underage drinkers. Instead, she’s attacked by creatures straight out of a horror movie. Waking a week later in a hospital, Sarah is visited by Special Forces soldier Captain Xavier Beauvoir. The zombies who attacked Sarah are the result of military research gone terrifyingly wrong, and Sarah’s immunity to the virus makes her the perfect person to help Xavier eradicate them. But his smooth Cajun accent, whiskey-colored eyes, and dizzying kiss are risky to her in a very different way. Sarah attracts danger like a magnet—and the smart, fearless cop attracts Xavier too, instilling a bone-deep need that’s undermining his steady façade.   Enlisting her aid is a necessary gamble, but vicious undead creatures are not the only enemy they face. And the only way to keep each other safe is to trust in an instant connection that could be their greatest strength—or the perfect way to destroy them both…
ISBN 978-0758246974 There are good guys, there are bad boys, and then there are men with a danger all their own—these are the ones who take you places you never imagined… and will never forget. Buy Now from Amazon ISBN 978-1605045436 Three mortal women discover the loves of their lives… the vampires of their dreams. Buy Now from Amazon	Half Past Dead contains the novella: Simon Says Special Forces soldier Simon Blackwell ended his affair with Mariana Daniels three years ago, but he hasn’t stopped protecting her. Mariana has no knowledge of the dark, deadly creatures that lurk in the forest surrounding her clinic, or of the mysterious powers that make Simon the only one who can defeat them. But soon he’ll have no choice but to reveal the truth, and urge her to trust in an explosive passion that never faded… BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD contains all three novellas: One and Only: Vampire Atticus Maxwell stands at the edge of his own oblivion…until the faint heartbeat of a desperately wounded mortal woman calls him back. The terrible crash that almost took both their lives has brought him a woman who just might give him a reason to live again. No barrier to their love seems too great—until they learn the crash was no accident at all… Rare Vintage: Marc LaTour is drawn to Kelly when she goes to work for the newlyweds Atticus and Lissa at their vineyard. He moves into the mansion on the pretext of needing a place to stay while his own home is remodeled. Then an upstart vampire challenges him to a fight to the death. Kelly is willing to trade her life for his—but can he save her from himself? Phantom Desires: Dmitri Belakov enters the scorching hot dreams of the woman who just bought the farmhouse that rests above his secret lair. He must either bargain with her or kill her, but she is much too intriguing to dispose of so easily. When he discovers she is his One—his perfect match—he’ll do anything to keep her by his side… forever.
Come over to the D’Arc side… WWW.BIANCADARC. COM

Writing Schedule

Some of my author friends and I were recently discussing our goals for this year. I know it’s already late February, but I guess it’s never too late to try to set some goals, right? The next few months lay out something like this for me:

February: Finish writing A DARKER SHADE OF DEAD and edit WARRIOR’S HEART.

March: ONCE BITTEN, TWICE DEAD releases. Begin writing the 3rd zombie novel and do final edits on WARRIOR’S HEART.

April: INFERNO comes out in print. Continue writing the 3rd zombie novel. RT Conference.

May: Finish writing 3rd zombie novel.

June: GRADY’S AWAKENING comes out in print. Start writing something new – probably the werewolf fey story I’ve been planning.

July: Finish the werewolf fey book.

August: Start new project – probably Harry’s story for the Resonance Mates series.

September: THE BEAST WITHIN releases. DRAGON STORM comes out in print. Finish Harry’s book. AAD Conference.

October: Start new project – probably a new dragon book.

November: A DARKER SHADE OF DEAD releases. Finish new dragon book.

December: Take a much-deserved break!

Of course, this could all change if I get new contracts for other things. I think things will hold pretty well until about June. Then stuff might move around a bit, depending on what’s going on in my life and my career, but for now this is my plan. Such as it is. Fun huh? :D

New Cover: The Beast Within

Got a new cover to show off — the Halloween anthology which will contain my 3rd zombie story called SMOKE ON THE WATER. This cover is so hot, I sort of wish my story was a werewolf tale!

The novella in this book is a little side adventure featuring John Petit, the older brother of the heroine in ONCE BITTEN, TWICE DEAD. He’s a CIA operative and former Marine. (I know – there are no “former” Marines. Once a Marine, always a Marine, right? Semper Fi.) He’s been tapped to join the select team of people fighting the zombie infestation because of his CIA resources and combat experience. Plus the fact that is baby sister is involved up to her neck and she can’t hide anything from her all-too-observant older brother.

John is sent on a mission to San Francisco with a female partner who is only on the team because she was attacked by a zombie and survived. She was a graduate student in chemical engineering when her life altered forever. Now she’s part of the team and it’s up to John to take her under his wing and show her how it’s done.

She makes some mistakes along the way, but when they follow the trail to a fishing camp in Middle Tennessee, they are on their own. The team back at base has their hands full and John and Donna must fend for themselves against a small army of zombies and the insane woman who created them.

It’s kind of a fun story with a fair bit of adventure in it along with a whole lot of romance as John and Donna fall in love. John’s a total hottie and sharp as a tack – the total package of brains and brawn - and Donna is the perfect partner for him – intelligent, caring and adventurous.

So what do you think of the cover? I’m liking those abs. Yum.

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New Sale! WARRIOR’S HEART

I’m so glad to finally announce the sale of WARRIOR’S HEART to Samhain Publishing. This story was out once before, early in my writing career, with an epublisher that has since gone out of business. So I’m thrilled to have it reissuing (with a lot of refreshing, rewriting and reediting along the way) so that I can now continue the series of stories I had planned.

The story is that of a military hero who’s returned from the desert with some special powers that were given to him – and the rest of his team – in the fabeled Tower of Babel. It’s sort of paranormal/super hero stuff with a military edge and lots of adventure. It’s also a tale of the guy who comes home to finally claim the girl he loves, who just happens to be his best friend’s little sister.

I’ll share more later, but for now I can tell you that it’s tentatively scheduled for release in April.

Best Sellers & Discounts

I’m Loving the response to the print compilation BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD. It actually registered on the Amazon Genre Best Seller List yesterday. It was at:

Not so sure how they figure the categories, but it’s flattering to be on the list in a category that seems to include folks like Charlaine Harris, my friend Jacki Frank, Stephen King and the like. Cool, huh? If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, you can pick it up at Amazon for 32% off the cover price.

If you already have it – and liked it – please do me a big favor and write a review for it on Amazon if you can. I only ask because there are just 2 reviews up there right now – both from people who didn’t really like the book. I’d love to have something positive to balance the negativity if at all possible. So if you feel moved to do so, I’d LOVE to have a review or two from people who actually liked the book up there at some point. Thanks in advance, if you are able to help out.

More news: FictionWise seems to have picked up a lot of my older books again. I got an alert yesterday saying they now had all four of the first Dragon Knights books available again, as well as LORDS OF THE WERE and FOREVER VALENTINE. Because they’re “new” (on FictionWise at least), they’re on sale for 15% off. So here’s your chance if you haven’t read those already, you can pick them up at a discount.

 Oh, and while we’re talking about FictionWise, let me thank all who made both CAT’S CRADLE and TAG TEAM Best Sellers on FictionWise. Thanks, guys!!!