I can now announce all the details! Wheee!
Okay so Megan Hart and I just sold our jointly authored contemporary erotic romance, Taking Care of Business (formerly Risky Business) to Black Lace! It’ll release in the UK in October 08 and here in the US two months later.
This is the story of two women, Leah and Katherine, who are friends attending a conference together - each woman’s story will be told in alternating chapters. Originally we’d planned it as two separate novellas but it’ll be a single novel now.
Working with Megan is hilarious and also, we work well together. We have very different voices and our stories are also VERY different, but we share the same attitudes about writing and work so it’s just like the rest of our frienship, only with a book. Our editor, Adam Nevill really gets the stories, and erotica in general, which is fabulous so I’m so looking forward to this.
We came up with this idea while in line for a party at RT by the way - which is a sort of fun thing I think.
Anyhoodle, that’s my fab news for today (that and I wrote 2500 words on it last night)
Name:Lauren Dane
Congrats Lauren! The story sounds fab, what a great idea! Look you two owe it all to RT…
by Karen Erickson December 12th, 2007 at 10:27 amBig Congrats, Lauren!!! :)
by Jordan December 12th, 2007 at 11:08 amCongratulations, Lauren!
by Cynthia Eden December 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pmYay! Congrats, and what a fun project.
by Charlene December 12th, 2007 at 3:14 pmCongrats, ladies!!!
by Susan Helene Gottfried December 12th, 2007 at 4:24 pmOooh new sale news! Love the alternating chapters idea, too!
Congrats Lauren and Megan!
by Jaci Burton December 12th, 2007 at 4:29 pmBIG congratulations, to you both! Very exciting! I’ll look forward to this one too.:)
Black Lace was a publisher I read early on when I was trying to figure out the difference between erotica and erotic romance. I’d be interested in hearing how the project came about? Did you go through your agents?
*Tosses confetti* ~Mel
by Melissa Lopez December 12th, 2007 at 5:24 pmYay, Lauren! You’re on fiyah! This project should be a blast to write.
by Ann Aguirre December 12th, 2007 at 8:06 pmKaren - lots of fun stuff I owe to RT!
Jordan - thank you!
Cynthia - thank you so much!
Charli - I’d never really considered co-authoring before but doing it this way is really fun!
Susan Helene - thank you!
Jaci - aw, thanks! I’ll tell her you said so.
Mel - this one is definitely erotic romance! My agent, Laura Bradford handled the pitch, which originally was a bit different - two side by side novellas. She pitched it around and Adam liked it immediately but asked if we’d do it as a single novel instead.
Ann - thank you, doll!
by Lauren December 12th, 2007 at 9:06 pmSounds great. Just keep the books coming.
by Christine December 13th, 2007 at 10:26 amcongrats!
by Heather December 13th, 2007 at 3:58 pmCongratulations, Lauren. That’s fabulous news!
by N.J. Walters December 13th, 2007 at 5:43 pmWow - congratulations to you both! Fantastic news!
by Lori December 13th, 2007 at 8:47 pmChristine - thank you!
Heather - Thanks!!!
NJ - yeah, I thought so. Thanks!
Lori - thank you, hon!
by laurendane December 14th, 2007 at 12:50 pmThanks for sharing the info. :) Again, BIG congratulations to you both!
by Melissa Lopez December 17th, 2007 at 4:32 pm~Mel
Fantastic news, Lauren and Megan. Congrats to you both.
by Bonnie Rose Leigh December 18th, 2007 at 4:33 pm[...] celebrated two new book deals. The announcement of her last (latest) sale appeared on her blog on December 12th. (Big Yay!!! to Lauren). So, that’s one talented writer who got a Christmas deal.  So the [...]
by Publishing houses and the mysterious month of December… / The Bradford Bunch December 20th, 2007 at 6:01 amGood for you, Lauren. Can’t wait to see them out for us to get our hands on! Cheers!
by Laura K December 20th, 2007 at 3:27 pm