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Radio Show Today!

Sorry for the short notice but I’ll be calling in to the Authors After Dark Blog Talk Radio Show today, along with a few of the other authors who will be attending the conference in September. The show starts at 1pm Eastern time, but we’ll be chatting in the chat room on the site starting around 12:30 if you want to pop in.

Here’s the correct link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/booksbeyondtheboundaries

Hope to see you there!

Authors After Dark Conference Info

Just want to make you all aware of a great event coming in September… Here’s the Press Release:

Authors After Dark Is coming sooner then you think! Are you a blogger? or an aspiring author? a Reader with a voracious love of books? Well AAD is the con for you! Designed by authors FOR readers, AAD is the only con that doesn’t break your bank! Its the cheapest con around that FEEDS YOU 5 MEALS for no additional fee!

Attendees this year will be treated to over 2400 free books, over 125 door prizes, several parties, mini events, workshops, tons of swag (and the good kind too!) photo opps, and tons of surprises!

And Aspiring writers? Small press authors? How would YOU like to get in front of a NY editor without the hassle of a big con’s appointment schedule? This year we are lucky to have several editors from Ballantine, Kensington, and Harlequin, as well as some of the small presses like MLR Press, Torquere, Tease Publishing, Phaze, Total E Bound and more. A full list will be up on the AAD site soon and appointments will be taken starting August 15th. The Catch? You MUST be registered by August 1st to participate, and each editor is ONLY taking 10 appointments.

Bloggers – We have some fantastic goodies for you. Special goodie bags FILLED with books (ARC’s, signed copies and Ltd Edition US books!) as well as the ability to engage your favorite authors for interviews and Q and A!

Check out everything on our website (http://aadromanceunlimited.com) and we hope to see you with us this year. You are in for a fantastic weekend!

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New Zombie Title!

My fab editor at Kensington came up with a great title for the third and final military paranormal romance (aka “zombie”) book. It’s going to be called DEAD ALERT. What do you think of that?

So there are/will be 5 zombie stories in all – 2 novellas and 3 novels – in the following order:

“Simon Says” in the HALF PAST DEAD anthology – available now
ONCE BITTEN, TWICE DEAD – available now
“Smoke On The Water” in THE BEAST WITHIN anthology – Halloween 2010
A DARKER SHADE OF DEAD – November 2010
DEAD ALERT – 2011

I may write more zombie stories at some point in the future but I kind of want to get on to other things as soon as I’m done with this last book. I’m writing it now and it’s high adventure with a heroine and hero who are pilots. It’ll all come to a head in this book and be resolved, so there’s a lot of satisfaction in writing a book that wraps everything up.

July is nose to the grindstone time to finally finish this book. Then it’s on to other things. Right now I’m working on a proposal for a new dragon shapeshifter series – a contemporary one this time that will be a little darker and less “erotic” than the current dragon series I have with Samhain. I’ll let you know if/when anything comes of it. I’m also tossing around a few other ideas but nothing concrete yet.

As for my Samhain books… I will have more in the future, I just need time to write them. As soon as this contract is fulfilled for the last of the zombie books, I’ll probably take a little time to play with various projects I have in progress and work on whatever appeals to me at the time. I love having that kind of freedom with my Samhain books. I’m not sure what to tackle first – the last of the Resonance Mates books, a new dragon story, maybe some vamps or weres…

Best not to get too far ahead of myself. I have a zombie book to finish first. Wish me luck!

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Not So Happy Day

Portrait of Mom, circa 1960. She was always so beautiful and brilliant too. Mom was a lawyer.

Today is my Mom’s birthday. Though her age was a military secret around here, I will say that she was in her 70′s. Much too young to die. I fully expected another decade at least with my dear Mom, who was my best and truest friend. We did everything together. And now I’m very much alone.

So now I think you’ll understand why I’ve been least in sight lately. June is a month chock full of family birthdays and special occasions. When I was  younger, we ate lots and lots of cake in June. Now, I sit around lamenting the fact that my Dad and I have nobody to share these special days with.

I won’t spend a lot of time bringing you down here. I know I’ve done that enough over the past few months. I just want you to take a moment, if you’re so inclined, to remember my Mom today. Say a prayer or think a happy thought for her. And for me, if you can spare it. I could really use it. It feels like I miss her more every day.

Happy Birthday, Mom. I love you… and I really, really miss you.

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WARRIOR’S HEART Releases Today!

WARRIOR’S HEART releases today in ebook from Samhain Publishing. WARRIOR’S HEART is a new version of an old story by the same name that was published in 2006 by a very small publisher that has since gone out of business. So if you weren’t able to get the old version, here’s your chance! This new version has been spiffed up quite a bit and I’m still very proud of this tale, which was always planned to be the first in a series, but with the publisher problems, it got stalled. I’m glad to say the train is back on the rails now and hopefully more of these stories will be coming soon. Now a little bit about the story…

It’s a paranormal featuring a military hero. Here’s the blurb:

He’s home to claim the girl he never forgot…but more than war memories have changed him.

Gifts of the Ancients, Book 1

Hal’s best-friend status with Casey’s brother always meant that the one woman he wants is strictly off limits. But now that he’s back from a harrowing mission in the ancient Iraqi city of Babylon, all bets are off. The strangely mystical experience left him and his Special Forces team with a new appreciation for life—and strange new abilities they are only beginning to understand.

Casey never thought she’d have a shot with the strong, silent Green Beret. Something about him has changed, though, and old feelings have risen up, demanding an answer. And her answer is an unequivocal yes. Now, to break the news to her brother and hope it doesn’t come to blows.

Her brother’s reaction becomes the least of her worries when Hal singlehandedly stops a car from running her down, then falls into her arms, weak from some kind of strange reaction. Whatever went down in Iraq has changed Hal and made him a target of foreign agents who’ve found his one vulnerability…Casey.

Warning: This title contains dirty talk, sweaty carpentry sex and a sexy Special Forces super hero.

Get your copy today at MyBookstoreAndMore.com