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January 20th, 2008
January 5th, 2008
Today's blog includes two reviews for books by two amazing writers. If it seems that I'm mentioning these two a lot, it's because they are writing the books that I am excited about reading.
Maid for DeathAmarinda Jones
Ellora’s Cave
Buy it here
Maid for Death opens incredibly hot and maintains its burn all the way to the last. This book is one of Ellora’s Cave’s Quickies. And, yep, that’s just what it sounds like, a short story of intense, scorching erotica. Cassandra Kent is a young Aussie who is working her way through the UK. Her latest job is as a chambermaid at the Philbeach Manor Hotel. On Halloween night she gets more than just a dirty room to clean, she gets a ghost and a ghost hunter, both interested in having carnal knowledge of her body.
Jones leaves the reader panting as she moves from one sizzling scene to the next with more than enough plot to keep you intrigued as well as hot under the collar, or wherever it is you get warm.
Anny Cook delivers the next installment in the Mystic Valley series with all the style and humor we are used to from her. Though this story deals with much more serious situations, domestic violence, sexual assault and rape, she still manages to deliver a warm and sometimes funny dual love story to readers featuring the characters we’ve come to love. (You’d think by now Dancer would understand about getting caught with his sharda down.) Cherished Destinies tells the story of two very damaged people. Both were brutalized and violated, one through a particularly violent rape and one through systematic beatings, emotional abuse and sexual assaults.
Arano is the son of Jade and Merlin, brother of Eppie and Wrenna who we met in earlier stories. Arano has long been in love with Silence who is many years his senior. But Silence is bonded to Homer, a man who treats her cruelly. When Homer dies during Eppie and Dancer’s bonding storm, he leaves a terrified and confused Silence who does not know the first thing about taking care of herself. Arano slowly and carefully begins to take care of Silence teaching her to take care of herself and teaching her to find her place in their community. The couple defy the conventions and rules of Mystic Valley to have their relationship and are rewarded when the Valley itself sanctions their bonding.
But Arano is torn in his loyalties. His twin brother Arturo has recently been the victim of a brutal and vicious rape. His violators have been found and judgment delivered to them. But healing for the young warrior and judge is slow as he must also face his twin’s finding of a mate and what that means for the two of them. But Arturo’s family and the valley take steps to make sure the wounded young man finds his destiny and his own bond-mate.
The story is wonderfully told and engaging. The characters we’ve come to know and love add such rich life to the borders of these painfully touching stories. Cherished Destinies is a welcome addition to the series.
Arano is the son of Jade and Merlin, brother of Eppie and Wrenna who we met in earlier stories. Arano has long been in love with Silence who is many years his senior. But Silence is bonded to Homer, a man who treats her cruelly. When Homer dies during Eppie and Dancer’s bonding storm, he leaves a terrified and confused Silence who does not know the first thing about taking care of herself. Arano slowly and carefully begins to take care of Silence teaching her to take care of herself and teaching her to find her place in their community. The couple defy the conventions and rules of Mystic Valley to have their relationship and are rewarded when the Valley itself sanctions their bonding.
But Arano is torn in his loyalties. His twin brother Arturo has recently been the victim of a brutal and vicious rape. His violators have been found and judgment delivered to them. But healing for the young warrior and judge is slow as he must also face his twin’s finding of a mate and what that means for the two of them. But Arturo’s family and the valley take steps to make sure the wounded young man finds his destiny and his own bond-mate.
The story is wonderfully told and engaging. The characters we’ve come to know and love add such rich life to the borders of these painfully touching stories. Cherished Destinies is a welcome addition to the series.
December 27th, 2007
Spending time with the family is the perfect time to catch up on your reading. Or it is if they're my family. God love 'em.
The Warrior
Kinley MacGregor
Avon Fiction
Buy it here
Kinley MacGregor fans have been waiting a long time for The Warrior. This book does double duty as it marks the end of the MacAllister brother’s quartet whose last book appeared in 2003 and is the latest installment in the Brotherhood of the Sword series which saw its last book in 2005. A long wait for fans of the prolific MacGregor, who between her own titles and those of her alter ego Sherrilyn Kenyon usually treat fans to a tidbit or four each year. Why the wait? MacGregor told fans at 2006’s Dragon*Con that she was waiting on Lochlan MacAllister, the final brother and clan laird, to cooperate.
It seems he finally did. The Warrior tells the story of the leader of the MacAllisters. Bearing the knowledge that his brother Kieran, long thought to have killed himself over the betrayal of a woman, may not in fact be dead; Lochlan travels to find the man who may know what happened to his brother. On the way he encounters a familiar face in need of help. The gypsy Catarina, friend of his sister-in-law, has been kidnapped and though she drives him mad with her waspishness, Lochlan cannot leave the woman in peril. But rescuing her causes him more trouble than he imagined. Not only must he battle two common kidnappers, but the man who hired them. Catarina’s father. Philip Capet, King of France.
Kinley MacGregor fans have been waiting a long time for The Warrior. This book does double duty as it marks the end of the MacAllister brother’s quartet whose last book appeared in 2003 and is the latest installment in the Brotherhood of the Sword series which saw its last book in 2005. A long wait for fans of the prolific MacGregor, who between her own titles and those of her alter ego Sherrilyn Kenyon usually treat fans to a tidbit or four each year. Why the wait? MacGregor told fans at 2006’s Dragon*Con that she was waiting on Lochlan MacAllister, the final brother and clan laird, to cooperate.
It seems he finally did. The Warrior tells the story of the leader of the MacAllisters. Bearing the knowledge that his brother Kieran, long thought to have killed himself over the betrayal of a woman, may not in fact be dead; Lochlan travels to find the man who may know what happened to his brother. On the way he encounters a familiar face in need of help. The gypsy Catarina, friend of his sister-in-law, has been kidnapped and though she drives him mad with her waspishness, Lochlan cannot leave the woman in peril. But rescuing her causes him more trouble than he imagined. Not only must he battle two common kidnappers, but the man who hired them. Catarina’s father. Philip Capet, King of France.
MacGregor delivers the adventure, romance and passion her readers expect. She also delivers the answers to questions her readers have been desperate to have. Did Kieran die that day at the loch? If not what happened to him? Who is The Scot, the mysterious and reclusive member of the Brotherhood of the Sword? Could he be Kieran? The answers may not be what her readers expected or hoped for, but they will get them. And the final revelation of Kieran MacAllister’s fate will have many a jaw on the floor.
Up next?
Cherished Destinies by Anny Cook.
This is the next installment in the Mystic Valley series and I've been eager to get through my reading list to it. There is something about Arturo that tugs at my heart. I think I want his HEA more than I've wanted it for a character since Sherrilyn Kenyon's crazed and deeply wounded Dark-Hunter Zarek. Don't mistake me, the characters are nothing alike.
Up next?
Cherished Destinies by Anny Cook.
This is the next installment in the Mystic Valley series and I've been eager to get through my reading list to it. There is something about Arturo that tugs at my heart. I think I want his HEA more than I've wanted it for a character since Sherrilyn Kenyon's crazed and deeply wounded Dark-Hunter Zarek. Don't mistake me, the characters are nothing alike.
December 11th, 2007
Happy moment today when I got the cover for my first Ellora's Cave book. Mating Stone will part of the Jewels of the Nile series and will be released February 8, 2008.
Mating Stone
By Elyssa Edwards
Sarah has found the perfect man in Mark Ursine. He's sweet, gentle, attentive and deeply in love with her. But the night he
proposes and presents her with a large amethyst pendant, a
stone she doesn't realize is more than symbolic, is also the
night he introduces her to her family. Most importantly to Luke and Tarris. Tarris is charming and welcoming. But Luke is another matter. When Luke reveals the secret of who and what Mark is, Sarah must decide if she loves him enough to accept it. Will she accept the mating stone he has given her and join herself to him mind, body and spirit even if he is a Bear? Mark must decide how far he'll go and how much he'll give up to claim Sarah as his mate. Is he willing to abandon his family and the
legacy that is his? Or is he willing to kill his own brother to keep it and Sarah?
Mating Stone
By Elyssa Edwards
Sarah has found the perfect man in Mark Ursine. He's sweet, gentle, attentive and deeply in love with her. But the night he
proposes and presents her with a large amethyst pendant, a
stone she doesn't realize is more than symbolic, is also the
night he introduces her to her family. Most importantly to Luke and Tarris. Tarris is charming and welcoming. But Luke is another matter. When Luke reveals the secret of who and what Mark is, Sarah must decide if she loves him enough to accept it. Will she accept the mating stone he has given her and join herself to him mind, body and spirit even if he is a Bear? Mark must decide how far he'll go and how much he'll give up to claim Sarah as his mate. Is he willing to abandon his family and the
legacy that is his? Or is he willing to kill his own brother to keep it and Sarah?
November 13th, 2007
Very exciting news came recently. My editor has given me the release dates for the first two novellas being published through Ellora's Cave.
Mating Stone will be released on February 8, 2008. Lovers' Stone will be released on July 9, 2008. They are part of Ellora's Jewels of the Nile series that will focus on birthstones. Mating Stone features an amythest and Lovers' Stone a ruby.
These stories are the first two pieces of what is planned as a trilogy (the final part focusing on opals). I'm calling it the Stones Series as each features a stone in a prominent way.
What are they about? The Ursines.
The Ursine men are many things a woman
wouldn't expect to find walking through her door
or through her dreams. They are tall, gorgeous
and powerful -the consummate lovers. They just
happen not to be human.
Mark Ursine and his twin Luke are Weres. Shape
shifters who transform into large brown Bears,
the brothers are the grandsons of the Amar, the
leader of their clan. Twins reared and raised
together, but what they bear for each other is
anything but an abiding fraternal love. Between
these two men, one of whom will one day rule the
other, is an animosity, rivalry and hate that goes
back over a century. Neither can forgive the other
nor himself for what took place the night the
hunters last raided the Bears' compound. Not
even Tarris, an incubus rescued from death in his
infancy by their father who is more than brother
to them both, can bridge the gap that separates
them. A gap that threatens to erupt into a bloody
confrontation.
Three novellas tell the story of the Ursine men and the women brave enough to love them.
Exerpts available here.
Mating Stone will be released on February 8, 2008. Lovers' Stone will be released on July 9, 2008. They are part of Ellora's Jewels of the Nile series that will focus on birthstones. Mating Stone features an amythest and Lovers' Stone a ruby.
These stories are the first two pieces of what is planned as a trilogy (the final part focusing on opals). I'm calling it the Stones Series as each features a stone in a prominent way.
What are they about? The Ursines.
The Ursine men are many things a woman
wouldn't expect to find walking through her door
or through her dreams. They are tall, gorgeous
and powerful -the consummate lovers. They just
happen not to be human.
Mark Ursine and his twin Luke are Weres. Shape
shifters who transform into large brown Bears,
the brothers are the grandsons of the Amar, the
leader of their clan. Twins reared and raised
together, but what they bear for each other is
anything but an abiding fraternal love. Between
these two men, one of whom will one day rule the
other, is an animosity, rivalry and hate that goes
back over a century. Neither can forgive the other
nor himself for what took place the night the
hunters last raided the Bears' compound. Not
even Tarris, an incubus rescued from death in his
infancy by their father who is more than brother
to them both, can bridge the gap that separates
them. A gap that threatens to erupt into a bloody
confrontation.
Three novellas tell the story of the Ursine men and the women brave enough to love them.
Exerpts available here.
October 21st, 2007
This may be a delicate and controversial topic for a blog but the most interesting thing to appear on my radar in days is the announcement by J.K. Rowling that Dumbledore is gay. Or rather the lack of response to this announcement that came Friday at a large speaking engagement Rowling held at the beginning of a U.S. tour. I would have expected to have heard about it before late Sunday morning.
It makes some wonder in the usual cynical way of things, if she really planned it this way from the start or if this came about as an idea later. Oh, I don’t know, say about the time she decided to do the encyclopedia and began to wonder just how much more she had to tell us that she hadn’t already revealed in the podcasts and interviews following Deathly Hallows. If so, I must admit she has my interest. Rowling never gives away the biggest piece of dirt, she’s a clever one in that way. So if "Dumbledore is gay, actually,” isn’t the biggest piece of news she has to offer, what is?
We all know who Harry marries, how many kids and what their names are. Same for Ron and Hermione. We know what happens to Neville Longbottom, who he marries and his career choice. We know all about the fact that Dean Thomas’ dad is actually a wizard who left the family to protect them from the first round of Voldemort inspired purges. We know Snape harbored an everlasting love for dear Lily Potter and that he, not James, was that dreadful boy Petunia hated. We know Dudley will probably make a fair to middlin’ human being. So what is the big news?
But maybe not. As one who writes stories as well, I can tell you that yes, a writer knows things about their characters that never make it into the books. Think about it. Think about your favorite character in literature. Wouldn’t you love to be able to prod the writer for more details? Find out more about them? Or just have the writer explain something you don’t quite understand? I know I have a whole host of questions for some of my favorite writers.
Jane Austen: What did ever happen to Margaret Dashwood? That seems like one heck of a story left untold.
Sherrilyn Kenyon: Exactly why would Fury Katalakis seek out his father’s family and stay as part of the pack for so many years if he didn’t intend to let anyone know who he was or was he waiting for the old man to die? And exactly how does one mate a bear to a wolf? (Aimee and Fang)
Mo Willems: Does the pigeon ever get to drive the bus?
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October 17th, 2007
I firmly believe it is important to know your limitations. A friend of mine has as his signature: " 90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at." This is a very smart man, my friends. By knowing what you don't do well, you can avoid some of those lovely little moments in life when you end up looking like a complete idiot. Some not all. There will always be those that sneak up on you, but wouldn't be nice to be able to reduce the number?
A woman writer I know blogged today about the idea of identity theft and how could we possibly protect ourselves from this. Now Kelly Kirch has an incredibly inventive mind. If you've not read her blog or been following the epic saga she has been writing with Anny Cook and Amarinda Jones, you have missed some of the most outrageously creative work I've ever seen.
But back to my point. She included in her blog the idea that this would make an excellent plot for a story. It would. A wonderful plot. For someone else, not me. Such a story would by its very nature be a mystery. I suck at mysteries. Yep, I do. I can write action. I can write science fiction and fantasy, I can write romance and erotica. But not mystery. It's sad really, because I love mysteries. I used to devour The Mrs. Murphy Mysteries by Rita Mae Brown (until the last one that seemed like an excuse to use her new hobby of growing grapes as the plot for a book that was dull as dirt) and Lillian Jackson Braun's Koko was one brilliant cat until that series too, jumped the shark. Agatha Christie, Patricia Cornwell, Robin Cook, I love crime books with deeply logical plots and a good dab of science and fun.
But I can't write them. One of my works in progress is a fantasy piece that involves the stoic Captain of the Queen's Guard. In one chapter there is a bit of a mystery. A man the captain knows is accused of murder and it is neatly and quickly resolved. Despite this, my intrepid reviewers and workshop partners managed to rip holes in the chapter that made me want to cry.
I may one day have to write a fanfiction mystery. Yes, fanfiction. It is one of the best ways to learn elements of writing. I use it with my students. But that is a topic for another blog, and another day.
For excerpts, cool links and more information about Elyssa Edwards, visit her web page.
Mating Stone will be released in February of 2008
A woman writer I know blogged today about the idea of identity theft and how could we possibly protect ourselves from this. Now Kelly Kirch has an incredibly inventive mind. If you've not read her blog or been following the epic saga she has been writing with Anny Cook and Amarinda Jones, you have missed some of the most outrageously creative work I've ever seen.
But back to my point. She included in her blog the idea that this would make an excellent plot for a story. It would. A wonderful plot. For someone else, not me. Such a story would by its very nature be a mystery. I suck at mysteries. Yep, I do. I can write action. I can write science fiction and fantasy, I can write romance and erotica. But not mystery. It's sad really, because I love mysteries. I used to devour The Mrs. Murphy Mysteries by Rita Mae Brown (until the last one that seemed like an excuse to use her new hobby of growing grapes as the plot for a book that was dull as dirt) and Lillian Jackson Braun's Koko was one brilliant cat until that series too, jumped the shark. Agatha Christie, Patricia Cornwell, Robin Cook, I love crime books with deeply logical plots and a good dab of science and fun.
But I can't write them. One of my works in progress is a fantasy piece that involves the stoic Captain of the Queen's Guard. In one chapter there is a bit of a mystery. A man the captain knows is accused of murder and it is neatly and quickly resolved. Despite this, my intrepid reviewers and workshop partners managed to rip holes in the chapter that made me want to cry.
I may one day have to write a fanfiction mystery. Yes, fanfiction. It is one of the best ways to learn elements of writing. I use it with my students. But that is a topic for another blog, and another day.
For excerpts, cool links and more information about Elyssa Edwards, visit her web page.
Mating Stone will be released in February of 2008
September 24th, 2007
A Kind of Magic
Susan Sizemore
Cerridwen Press
Available Here
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Best-selling author Susan Sizemore dabbles in just about every sub-genre of romance there is. Her books have graced the USA Today’s best-seller’s list and been a favorite of fans for some time. For epublisher, Cerridwen Press, Sizemore created a delightful historical romance titled A Kind of Magic. This Highlander style romantic tale brings all the best of the genre and all the best of Sizemore.
Maddie McCullogh is a hard-headed modern day woman who holds her own on oil rigs in the North Sea and has all but given up on love until her mother tells her that her childhood crush is flying into Glasgow. Thinking she has one more chance to see him she boards a plane with a colleague from an archeological dig. After being talked into trying on a necklace that was found on the dig she finds herself transported back to the 13th century and directly into the path of Rowan Murray who has been told that to save his clan he must marry the first woman to cross his path. That woman is Maddie. Befuddled by Maddie’s engineering and mechanical prowess and astonished by her lack of more womanly skills, the Murray clan still bids the bride of the laird welcome. Her skills soon bring advancements to make the women’s lives easier including the introduction of the spinning wheel and more efficient looms. But adjusting to the 13th century isn’t Maddie’s biggest problem. That lies in convincing Rowan that the feelings between them don’t spell the doom of all he knows.
Hard headed lass disrupts life of handsome powerful highlander. Sound familiar? Is the story a bit clichéd? Yes, but it’s those very clichés that those who cherish the highland romance cannot get enough of. The story is told well and the characters are endearing and engaging. Add a lovely touch of magic and the interference of faerie folk and you have an enjoyable read.
September 1st, 2007
This weekend is a traditional surrendering of downtown Atlanta, GA to the worlds of Star Wars, Star Trek, Joss Whedon, all forms of anime, and such lovely entities as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies and all other things that go bump in the night. Science fiction, fantasy and horror writers, film makers, and actors pour into the area to the delight of their sometimes militant fans.
Seeing the stars of Buffy and Angel was a treat. They were delightfully fun to watch and listen to. It is obvious there was a real raport of some type between James Marsters and Juliette Landau. Marsters even remarked his girlfriend had been jealous of her during the time they worked together. Some of the best stuff comes from the side stories and the slips made by the authors and actors. Landau was telling of a project she's working on that is a behind the scenes of the filming of a music video. What makes it so interesting is that the video was being shot by Gary Oldman and it is for a Jewish hiphop group. The entire video was shot using camera phones.
My favorite writer was on hand this year as always. Sherrilyn Kenyon is not only talented but a sweet person as well. While she was signing my book I mentioned I'd recently gotten the contract for Mating Stone and Lovers' Stone. She was genuinely excited, it seemed and gave me a hug and a high five. And even if the guy she had posing as Acheron wasn't quite my image of the Head Dark-Hunter, it was still a very cool experience.
One of the best parts of this is that while sitting and listening to others in other fields talking, I started getting some really interesting ideas for future stories.
August 26th, 2007
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Vintage
Never Let Me Go tells the story of Kathy, Tommy and Ruth, three children attending what at first seems to be a fairly typical English boarding school. Differences are slowly and obscurely introduced leaving the reader a bit impatient after a while as the general plot isn’t hard to figure out in the first quarter of the book and the veiled references and secrecy at that point become annoying. As the story unfolds, the reader is able to see early and quickly that the children of Hailsham aren’t your average children. The talk of care givers and donations lead to the quick realization that the story is telling the tale of a system of clones who are created and raised up for the purpose of use as organ transplants. Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are three of these clones.
The readers aren’t the only ones frustrated by the “I told you, but I didn’t” communication as the characters find out they’ve always known their purpose, they were always told of their future but yet no one ever “told” them. As the story unfolds we see them grow from childhood through adolescence, forming friendships and relationships. The ritualistic nature of childhood is drawn well along with the tendency of children to create fantastical rationale for things they don’t understand. The degree to which the children of Hailsham go and the length of time they cling to these fantasies and rumors is exaggerated but rightly so as they lack the intervention of adulthood to chip away at this tendency and shine the light of reality upon them.
The plot and general theme of this story is excellent. Ishiguro has an good story to tell, but the lack of emotion in the characters, the stiff coldness of the reactions of everyone around them (save Tommy and that is quickly worked out of him by the children themselves) is unsatisfying. The main character Kathy is so detached that it is hard to care about her. Even when Ruth finally admits that she has kept Kathy and Tommy apart for all those years when it should have been the two of them together, no one seems the slightest bit put out. In fact, it seems hard to believe any type of relationship could develop between Tommy and Kathy at that point, but the author pushes them through into one.
The end of the story, with it’s big reveal and the final ripping away of the last hope for avoiding the donations that will eventually end their lives, is as anticlimactic as soggy bread.
July 31st, 2007
Happy Dance and Huzzahs!
I've just been offered a contract on a third novella by Ellora's Cave. This sale is the sequel to Mating Stone which was contracted a couple of weeks ago.
Lovers' Stone is the story of the second of the Ursine brothers, Were-bears. Shape shifters. It will be released in July of 2008.
I'm hoping to hit the triple crown with this series and that the final story in the trilogy that tells the story of Tarris, an incubus, will be accepted eventually as well.
Check out the synopsis and summaries on my webpage at:
http://www.jacquelineroth.com/Elyssa_Edw
July 28th, 2007
Dancer’s Delight
Anny Cook
Cerridwen Press
Dancer’s Delight is the story of a man whose life in an interesting contradiction. The face he shows to the world is that of Devereaux, a virtuoso violinist. But the reality is beneath the tux and carefully controlled persona is Dancer, who like his brother the Traveller, is an assassin, one who just found out the very people he worked for may have destroyed his family. As if that weren’t enough, Dancer has a mysterious woman named Eppie who seems to have a strange psychic link to him. They can communicate in their minds and Dancer has come to actually like her sweet and peaceful voice in his head.
Eppie was born and lived her entire life in Mystic Valley. Her soul sought out her bond-mate, only to find he was an out-valley man. Now as Dancer draws ever closer to her and the place he doesn’t realize he’s searching for, her only hope is that he will find his way to her valley in time. For if he doesn’t, if she does not mate with him soon, she will die.
Anny Cook has created a rather complex character in Dancer. So complex that it took this reader a while to get a read on his voice. Why was he reacting as he did? Why was he so angry? This seeking isn’t a bad thing. Cook has not taken the simple and one dimensional approach to her hero, but makes him stand there, glaring at you with smug indifference almost daring you to try to figure him out.
I read through this in one day because I didn’t want to put it down. To be honest the compulsion didn’t have to do with the main characters. Eppie and Dancer’s story is compelling and well detailed and the plot of this story wonderfully developed but the love between the two was so obvious it was a foregone conclusion they’d have a happy ending. I found myself drawn to the side characters as strongly as her hero and heroine. How their lives would weave around the pair and how the inevitable spilling of secrets would impact them was a powerful draw. Dancer’s brother Traveller is a fascinating character, brutal and ruthless, but with a sense of honor that is obvious. He’s one bad boy I’m hoping Cook revisits soon. The story of Eppie’s brothers Llyon and Tyger is touching and sweetly painful to watch unfold. While it’s hard to push aside social mores, it is obvious that this is a bonding of souls that defies convention.
So many threads left untied, but not in an unsatisfying way. Oh no, these threads leave us asking what about Traveller and Wrenna? What part is Bishop going to play in all this? What about Arano and Silence? And what will happen to Arturo? And most importantly, when do we get the next installment?
July 20th, 2007
A second sale! Ellora's Cave has offered a contract for a novella manuscript of mine called Mating Stone.
Sarah has found the perfect man. Mark is thoughtful, courteous, intelligent, sexy and head over heels for her. One night, just three weeks into their whirlwind courtship, Mark proposes. Only he doesn't want Sarah to answer until after she meets his family at a Mardi Gras celebration. As is his family's tradition, Mark gives Sarah--not a ring--but a large amethyst pendant. Once at the party Sarah finds Mark's family does things a bit differently and she discovers that Mark has been hiding a important secret. He's not exactly who...or rather what...she thought he was. A nasty confrontation between Mark and his brother erupts into violence. Mark's heritage, his right to rule his clan now lies in Sarah's hands. Can she love him knowing the truth about him? Can she want him enough to become his wife, his mate and help him fulfill his destiny?
The story will be part of Ellora's Jewels of the Nile series and will be released in February of 2008.
July 4th, 2007
It's been a thrilling 24 hours. I learned today that my manuscript Seeing Me has been accepted for publication by Ellora's Cave.
Seeing Me is the story of a young writer, Cara Jo Ellison who finally has what she's always wanted, a career as a writer. Now she'd been invited to participate in an author's panel that includes one of the most famous authors of her genre and Him. The actor who has been translating the author's books onto film. The subject of most women's fantasies, Cara's included, she's stunned when he invites her up for a private signing.