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Which starts next week and at last count was going to last for three weeks. We have lots of shit to give away and lots of fun to be had by all :whoo:

To get a start on the festivities, I have some fun news. My new agent and I just wrapped up a deal for the next two books in my “Sweet” series with Berkley HEAT. Sweet Seduction (Nathan’s story!) and Sweet Temptation (Micah’s story!) will release in October 2009 and April 2010 respectively. I’m very happy with the way things shook out.

I also got new release dates and delivery dates for my Kelly series that I sold to Berkley Sensation earlier in the year. These books will be mass market originals instead of going the trade to mass market route which means they won’t release in trade in 2009. They’ll release in 2010 as mass markets and will have a close release schedule for the trilogy that kicks off the KGI series :woot:

So it’s been a good day and I get to settle down and do some rearranging in my writing schedule which will be fun.

Now less than two weeks until Into the Lair releases and just a month until Be With Me releases! Fun times to be had :banana:

to release day for Into the Lair :woot: I’ve re-entered the blogging world and have a post up over at Writeminded today. I’m still busier than a one armed paper hanger, but hopefully things are starting to calm down around these parts.

Starting to get some wonderful reader feedback on Into the Lair and Be With Me. Getting some nice reviews too. These were two books I was worried about for very different reasons. One was a whole lot easier than the other to write, which brings it’s own set of concerns.

Some books are hard. Really hard to write. I put everything I have into every single book I write, but sometimes they come easy and the words flow and the characters speak to me and it’s all I can do to keep up as the words spill out. Other books it’s like pulling teeth. Each and every word is agonized over, second guessed, reworked. I tears stuff up, tell my editor I quit, tell anyone who will listen that I can’t do it and that I’m currently penning the worst piece of shit ever known to man.

It’s THOSE books that are soooo satisfying when they turn out okay and readers tell me they love them. I’m always so surprised, shocked and so very grateful when a reader tells me they enjoyed one of my books, but when it’s a book that I’ve struggled SO much with, it makes me even more grateful that I fought so hard to get it right.