Silhouette

What's everyone reading these days?  I'm not reading anything, but I will be.   

While I've been out here in Seattle visiting my son and his family, I saw a commercial for a perfume that was one of the most romantic I think I've ever seen.  The woman (French actress Audrey Tautou)boards a train--obviously the Orient Express--and keeps running into this handsome man everywhere she goes on the train.  They never speak, but he keeps giving her these long smoldering glances.  When they reach Istanbul, she goes one way and he goes another.  End of story, right?  Wrong. 

As she's sightseeing, she takes a picture of a passing ferry and when she checks her digital camera to see if the shot was worth keeping, the man is standing at the rail of the ferry, watching her.  The ferry steams on and you think that's it, they are destined never to speak or see each other again.  But as the woman re-enters the train station to catch another train, he walks through the doorway, walks up behind her and wraps her in a steamy embrace.

Something pretty interesting happened to me last week.  I got an email from a man with the same name as the hero of my upcoming January book, Gage Parrish. 

Can you believe it’s already the end of August?  The start of school had me thinking about summer and vacations.  My husband and I just took one, the first I’ve had in five years. 

Caught By Surprise
By Samantha Hunter

Yesterday, I returned from the Romance Writer’s of America National convention and OMG, I am still tired. Still, the decided lack of sleep and making a cross-country trip in a pressurized can aka plane, was worth it. A few of my favorite moments:

Elle Kennedy joined the Harlequin family this year with a debut book BODY CHECK from Blaze in March.

There are lots of things I love about writing vampires, but one of the most interesting things is the ability to look backward into their past lives so that I can build their lives in the future.  All those years of past life experience have really helped to create some very memorable characters for me.