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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)
December 12th, 2007 at 10:27 am · Link
Congrats Lauren! The story sounds fab, what a great idea! Look you two owe it all to RT…
December 12th, 2007 at 11:08 am · Link
Big Congrats, Lauren!!! 🙂
December 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pm · Link
Congratulations, Lauren!
December 12th, 2007 at 3:14 pm · Link
Yay! Congrats, and what a fun project.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:24 pm · Link
Congrats, ladies!!!
December 12th, 2007 at 4:29 pm · Link
Oooh new sale news! Love the alternating chapters idea, too!
Congrats Lauren and Megan!
😀
December 12th, 2007 at 5:24 pm · Link
BIG 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
December 12th, 2007 at 8:06 pm · Link
Yay, Lauren! You’re on fiyah! This project should be a blast to write.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:06 pm · Link
Karen – 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!
December 13th, 2007 at 10:26 am · Link
Sounds great. Just keep the books coming. 😀
December 13th, 2007 at 3:58 pm · Link
congrats!
December 13th, 2007 at 5:43 pm · Link
Congratulations, Lauren. That’s fabulous news!
December 13th, 2007 at 8:47 pm · Link
Wow – congratulations to you both! Fantastic news!
December 14th, 2007 at 12:50 pm · Link
Christine – thank you!
Heather – Thanks!!!
NJ – yeah, I thought so. Thanks!
Lori – thank you, hon!
December 17th, 2007 at 4:32 pm · Link
Thanks for sharing the info. 🙂 Again, BIG congratulations to you both!
~Mel
December 18th, 2007 at 4:33 pm · Link
Fantastic news, Lauren and Megan. Congrats to you both.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:27 pm · Link
Good for you, Lauren. Can’t wait to see them out for us to get our hands on! Cheers!