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So, how romantic are you going to get on Valentine's Day this year? Do you usually sit back and wait for your spouse/significant other to do something for you? Why not turn the tables this year and do something for him/her? Maybe something he/she won't expect? Start thinking! You have almost two weeks, and this year Valentine's Day falls on a Sunday. Hmmm. Wonder what I'm going to come up with this year. After 36 years of marriage, we should both get a medal for longevity at the very least. Of course, I'm easy. The words Godiva or Ghiradelli make anything a winner on my Valentine card. Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours.
Sandi Price
This month I'M GIVING AWAY THREE
BOOKS! Last months winners are BJ DEESE IN GEORGIA, CAREN FELDMAN
IN VIRGINIA and SUANNE GIDDINGS IN TEXAS.
Congratulations, ladies--I'm sending you all copies of my new
book THE
CINDERELLA SCANDAL, which hit the book stands in January.
It's a Silhouette Desire, the first in a year long continuing
series of the Danforth family in Savannah. Lots of sex and
scandal in this series. Hope you enjoy!
With Valentine's Day right around the
corner, I'll be putting up a picture of a box of Godiva chocolates
with a stuffed bear to giveaway (with a book, of course!)
Everyone who's already signed my guest book--you're automatically
entered. If you haven't signed up, just visit my site and do so.
Who doesn't like chocolate? The picture will be on my website
tomorrow.
I've been crazy busy working on
my July Desire MISS PRUITT'S PRIVATE LIFE. It's been fun, but I
feel like the White Rabbit these days. I'm late! I'm late!
That's why I haven't been too active on my site and I haven't
gotten a newsletter out to everyone in my guest book. I'll be
getting out a newsletter very soon, though and sharing thoughts
and subjects with you all.
Thank you to everyone who has visited
my site and left me such wonderful, sweet notes. You are all
terrific!
Wishing you all a Happy Valentine's
Day
Barbara McCauley
That hum you hear is me in my new chair. Me, humming, and the chair
humming, too. My Christmas present from my husband was a massage chair
and ottoman. With the push of two buttons I get a pounding, rolling,
vibrating back rub AND a foot rub. Together they'll reduce even the
most cynical soul to a smiling blob of jelly.
This winter I'm finishing the second book in my mer-folk series. The
title is DIARY OF A RADICAL MERMAID. I found a great young cover
artist in Atlanta, so the look of this book will be a lot more fun and
contemporary than the beautiful but solemn cover on the first novel,
ALICE AT HEART. DIARY will be out in July from BelleBooks, the tiny
publishing company I co-own with several other authors. Also our new
Mossy Creek collection, which I edit.
Jill Marie is off to a
running start in 2004, finishing up, HEARTBREAK HOTEL, the third book
in the Twilight Cove Trilogy, which will be published in 2005.
After lo, these many
years of visiting Colorado in the summer and fall, I’m finally going
in the winter. All my life I have wanted to see the mountains,
majestic and snow-covered, but I’m married to a man who is not a
winter person and has no desire to ski, snowmobile, or toboggan.
Let’s face it, he doesn’t even want to risk driving on what could be
snow-packed roads to get to our friends’ lovely Breckenridge home.
But, I argued, what is life without risk? Are you going to miss
adventure because of what you think might happen? Whether because of
my sterling arguments or his moment of weakness, he agreed to our
trip. So in mid-January we are off to snowy climes!
On another note, I
received a wonderful surprise this month–my October 2003 Harlequin
Superromance,
MY NAME IS
NELL, has been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice
Award for Best Superromance of 2003. Another dream come true!
Howdy, y'all, from down on the farm.
Thanks to a recent rain--even if it was about 5 months overdue--the wheat crop
is looking considerably better and the cattle have something to eat! That's
always good news.
Happy Reading,
These weeks after
the holidays are an introspective time for me, but also an active
time. Like many people, I revel in the clean-slate, new-beginnings
atmosphere. Everything seems possible. This year I'm working on a
closer walk with the God of my understanding, and on time
management. I tend to go full tilt until I crash into a wall – so
this year, I'm determined to pace myself.
As I write this, I'm about to revise NEVER LOOK BACK, my second “Clare and Tony” book (and the sequel to DON’T LOOK NOW) that will be published in September. It's full of murder, mayhem, humor (believe it or not) and action. I'm pretty tired just now, as I live through everything the characters do as I write. Phew! Clare is a hard one to keep up with – her friend, Loretta, calls her a “murder magnet,” and it's hard to refute that. Wherever Clare goes, trouble definitely follows. Once this project is done, I’ll give SECOND-HAND BRIDE a polish. That's the third book in my McKettrick Brothers trilogy, but alas, not the final one. Holt's story, McKETTRICK’S CHOICE, will be released by HQN sometime in 2005. Look for a longer, meatier book. Instead of doing a three-book, three-story series, as I have in the past, I will now be adding subplots and lots of secondary characters. Each new historical will be just that – entirely new. What do I most want to remember this coming year? 1) Fear is a choice, and so is courage. I choose courage, no matter what happens in the outside world. 2) Hatred is a choice, and so is love. I choose love. 3) I will maintain my 95-pound weight loss. 4) I will write the best possible stories. Blessings to you and yours, in this season of starting over. What new dream can you plant in the field of your mind and spirit? What old dream can you bring up out of the cellar and refurbish? Speaking of which, watch my website for the winners of my 2003 Linda Lael Miller Scholarships for Women. I’m picking the winners now! May the New Year bring you joy, prosperity and peace. May all the dreams that are worthy of you come true. May you read lots and lots of wonderful stories this year, by lots and lots of wonderful writers. With love, Linda Lael Miller
Dear Friends,
My husband and I are
happy to announce that we’re officially SNOWBIRDS and have left the
snow and rain of the
I hope your year has gotten to a good start and if you’re out and about checking out those winter sales, then head toward the book section for a small surprise. NAVY BRAT, the third reissue from my Navy series, is out a full month ahead of schedule, and scored on the NEW YORK TIMES list --celebration time in Florida . Enjoy. Again the very warmest of greetings,
Debbie Macomber
Congratulations goes to Georgina, winner of last year's Romantic Times Best Western Romance Reviewer's Choice Award for TO TAME A SAVAGE and now has been nominated for the 2004 award with TO TAME A TEXAN. Hmmmm. Maybe this could be a yearly tradition. I'm sure Georgina wouldn't object. Georgina has finally moved into her new condo on the lake. She can look out her window and watch the Canadian geese fly in or sit on her deck and almost touch the big blue heron who is a daily visitor. However, with a new editor cracking the whip, Georgina is pounding the keys for a June deadline on next year's "To Tame" book. There's always July to look forward to.
Meanwhile, I hope you'll watch for my next book, TO TAME A REBEL. It will be on shelves in March.
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