Vixenwriter

Blarg, all the sudden I got hit with some stuff and had to finish it so I was in the land of deadline. But when I came up for air, I discovered several wonderful things!!

To wit - Undercover, my December 2 release from Berkley Heat is now up for pre-order at Amazon!

Here’s the blurb since there’s not one up yet at Amazon:

Journey to an erotic future universe of passion, danger and deceit…

As a lieutenant of the Federation military, Sera Ayers is more accustomed to giving orders than taking them. Now she must obey the one man she can’t stand—and can’t stop thinking about.

With the enemy Imperialists gaining ground, a new covert team is assembled by Ash Walker. Ten years before, Sera had lovingly submitted to Ash’s dominance in the bedroom. But when he was forced into a political marriage, she left him rather than become his mistress. His marriage now over, Ash wants Sera on his team—and back in his bed.

The third team member, Brandt Pela, has an elegance to match Ash’s savage sexuality. And when their undercover plan requires Sera to pose as Brandt’s lover, it ignites a passion among the three of them more dangerous than their mission…

And, Making Chase is also up for pre-order at amazon. It comes out in print June 24 and I’m totally thrilled. This one is the last Chase Brother book so I hope folks who haven’t read it yet enjoy it.

Still cooking on Sensual Magic for Spice. I’m hoping to wrap it up next week! I’m off again, more busy! I’ll be back in a moment to draw a winner for the Grimspace contest!

So back in the days when I first started writing I remember seeing the CAPA nominations and thinking, “Wow, one of these days, I would so love to get a CAPA nomination.” And last year that dream came true and I won the CAPA for Taking Chase. So I was thrilled to be nominated this year as well.

Yesterday I won two CAPAs - and I’m honored. One for best contemporary romance of 2007 for Making Chase and one for best erotic paranormal romance for Fire and Rain.

Thank you to the Romance Studio for the honor and the awards and thank you to all my readers who continue to pick my books up. Yesterday was an exceptionally good day.

I’m sitting here surrounded by Chase boys. You did know I had two releases in June right? Well on Tuesday, the very last Chase Brothers book, Making Chase, releases from Samhain. So I’m snuggling up on Matt while I can (when Tate isn’t looking) because after Tuesday he’s all hers. Too bad because he’s very cute and he smells good too. In my brain, they’re all mine. Hey, why do you think I write them anyway? Jeez.

So moving along, I thought it would be fun to oh, I don’t know, give away an ARC of Making Chase if folks are so inclined. What do you say?

So it goes like this - those of you who’ve read my Chase books, which is your favorite and why? Those that haven’t - why do you like contemporary romance and toss a few favorites my way because I’m always looking for new books.

And that’s all. I’ll toss names into the hopper at say, 6 pm pacific/9 eastern tonight and choose a winner. G’wan - you know you want to!

I’m beginning to get back into the swing of my life. I’m nearly done with edits on Fire and Rain so I hope to get those finished up tonight and back to my editor at EC tomorrow and then back to finish up my revisions on Battlefront and get that to my agent.

Megan and I brainstormed an awesome idea for an anthology while at RT and we’ve been IMing back and forth on it today. This won’t be straight romance but more along the lines of erotica - both the stories will have a romantic type resolution but the focus will be on the individual women rather than a couple. I’ll always continue to write romance, it’s my big love, but there are other stories inside me to be told as well so I’m rather excited about this one.

I also found out today that my summer quickie from last year, Sudden Desire will be in a print anthology, “Sexy Summer Fun” in June. There’s a lovely full page ad for it in June’s RT magazine and our volume has Mr. Romance, Jason Santiago on the cover - wheee! Here’s a picture of the cover…

Apparently the Autumn Animalia stories will be out in September as well!

Speaking of covers, I saw my cover for Making Chase today and it’s fabulous! I guess all that nagging at Scott Carpenter at RT worked, LOL! As soon as I get the go ahead, I’ll post it.

If you’re curious and want to see more RT stuff, Megan Hart made a fabulous little trailer with the pictures and some video and it’s up at her blog. Check it out!

That’s it for today!

It’s dark and rainy this morning but the sound of the rain last night, not torrential, not with wind so hard it threatened to blow my house down - just rain, was lovely and made for a nice night’s rest. I’m still tired though, LOL. I’ve been operating on 4 or so hours’ sleep a night for the last 10 days or so with finishing up several projects and when I go to to bed finally my mind races about whatever work I just finished and the other things on my to do list. Last night I got nearly 7 hours, which is a lot better than 4.

I finished For A Few Demons More and I have to say this first - OH NO YOU DID NOT, KIM HARRISON! Oh how I gasped, and man was I pissed off but I loved this book.

After I finished it, I couldn’t go right to sleep so I turned on my laptop and opened up Wolf Unbound and remembered how much I love Tegan and Ben so I’ll be getting back to it soon.

I got my cover for Sword and Crown and I want to post it but I haven’t heard back on my email about whether or not it’s official so I can. It’s seriously gorgeous, vivid, very sort of 1920’s film poster - I love where they seem to be going with the Torrid Tarot series so I can’t wait to put it up.

Honestly, I get the creepiest spam comments here! Suffice it to say that there are things in the world I’m quite pleased not to know about, nor do I want pictures or live camera shots of it. People should try volunteering at the local foodbank if they’ve got enough spare time they can actually film this bizarre stuff and then spam my blog with offers designed to tempt people into watching after they gobble down illegal mail order drugs they don’t have prescriptions for.

Blah, I’m babbling but I’m sleepy and my poor husband has to work today for most of the day and the kids are going to go stir crazy because of the weather but whatevah, I want to get over this “gah, I just finished a book and revisions and I feel like i need to sleep for a week” slightly nauseated exhaustion thing.

I’m off to get a cup of chai and to stop a fight over bionicles (sigh). Y’all enjoy your Saturday and stay dry if you’re here in the Northwest!

I finally finished up Making Chase last night! There was a flat point and I figured it out while I was working out so I went back, added two small scenes and bam, it worked. So I’m done and it’s printing out now and I’ll read it over, revise, send to beta and get it to my editor a week before my deadline and be very happy.

Still, I’m going to miss Petal. Although Tate’s brother Nathan is a character who doesn’t want to let go just yet so maybe next year I’ll write something for him and revisit Petal.

I also figured out yesterday what I’m going to be writing next. I’m not going to say much just yet because I’m superstitious that way but I was listening to Ministry when a scene popped into my head and it’s sort of stewing around in my brain now. So I’m hoping to start this one this weekend. It’s funny how music influences me - I’ve been listening to a lot of Ministry, Kittie and TV On the Radio and I need to write something darker, edgier. Maybe it’s the other way around and I sought out music to feed that, LOL.

Sneaky peek of Making Chase and Ascension up at my messageboard!

Enjoy your Tuesday!

I wrote 12K this weekend with the help of my dude who gave me scads of alone time holed up in the bedroom so I could finish Making Chase. I’m about 2K away at this point from finishing and I’m pretty pleased at this point. I’ll need to print it out and do a read from beginning to end on paper to see where it’s going but it feels coherent at this point. Interesting though, there’s a fist fight and nearly another in this book. I don’t normally do that and of all the brothers, this one is the least likely to plant a fist in someone’s face. Still it works for him.

The heroine is “plus sized” or “rubenesque” or as Tate says, “fluffy” and when I write fluffy heroines I try to make them approach their size from different perspectives. I don’t write self loathing heroines, it’s not something I do. She doesn’t “find her beauty through the eyes of a man” or lose forty pounds or whatever either. She’s beautiful and she knows she possesses qualities that make her special.

At the same time, Tate knows that she’s with this man who’s been with many extraordinarily beautiful women and she knows she’s not the same on the outside. There’s a struggle with this because of course Matt’s sisters-in-law, especially Cassie and Liv are really stunning and Tate is put off by it. Still, she gets over it because Matt loves her. And not in a I was awful until he loved me sort of way, but when someone looks at you like you’re the best and most wonderful thing ever, those other beautiful women out there aren’t so daunting. It’s a fine line but I hate it when a larger heroine is written and she’s redeemed through the man - like being fat is a moral failing.

I just hope I write it right! Because Tate is a fun character but she’s broken too in many ways so I want to celebrate the parts that aren’t broken and write the parts that are.