Silhouette Special Edition Author BLOG

We're thrilled today to have with us USA Today Bestselling author Christine Rimmer talking about her latest wonderful Bravo book, VALENTINE BRIDE. Thanks so much for being with us!

Mawilson, you've won a copy of any of my backlist. Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com to make your selection. Thanks to all of you who gave me MORE books to read!

 Congratulations, Jennifer!  Email me at christine@christinerimmer.com to claim your choice of 

Congratulations.  Inspiremomof4, your prize is one of any of my books published in 2008 or 2009.  Those would be:  Valentine’s Secret Child, In Bed with the Boss, Having Tanner Bravo’s Baby, The Stranger and Tessa Jones, The Bravo Bachelor, A Bravo’s Honor and Christmas at Bravo Ridge.  For first chapters and back cover b

Moonwitch66, you're the winner of any book from my backlist. Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com to make your choice. Thank you to all who participated. It was a great trip down memory lane for me.

Recently I was talking to someone about a novel I’d read as a teenager called JUBILEE TRAIL. It was written by Gwen Bristow, and dealt with 19th century California. I remember reading it—a very large book—from cover to cover in record time. I’d snatched it from my mother’s bookshelf, which didn’t hold a whole lot of books.

Just wanted you all to know (DORTHY, you there?)...

Nicole (willworkforbooks - love that handle!) is a winner! Email me your mailing address at chris@christynebutler.com and I'll get a goodie box out to you!

 I’m sitting here watching “Pretty Woman” and after twenty years it’s still one of my favorite romantic movies.

An Alpha millionaire hero and feisty and independent heroine from opposite side of the tracks have an improbable first meet (he’s looking for direction on Hollywood Boulevard, she’s a hooker looking for a score) and find there’s more to who they are on the inside than what they show on the outside.Add in a black moment when you think they are really going to walk away from each and then the happily ever after moment when they realize they are rescuing each other.

Sigh.

By no means am I a fan of cleaning, but I did find myself going through paperwork and files over my time off, and I really DID feel like I accomplished something. Not as much as I would like as I still have a closet full of clothes that I rarely wear anymore to go through... But still!

January is always a weird month for me. We're socked in with cold and often fog this time of year (it's 0 right now with a high of 18 for today!) and I can definitely feel a touch of SAD kicking in after the excitement of the holidays.

Maire Aine! Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com to choose a book. Thank you everyone for your fabulous and generous participation!

Congratulations, Melinda.  Email me at christine@christinerimmer.com to claim your prize.  And everyone, here's to great reading in the New Year!

 

Just wanted to let you know I am chatting over on Cathine Mann's "Mannly Men" thread here at eHarlequin about what terrific heroes we have in Silhouette Special Editions --- here's the link if anyone would like to join us!

Bonsal --- email me your address at chris@christynebutler.com and I'll get a copy THE SHERIFF'S SECRET WIFE out to you!

When the bells all ring and the horns all blow,
And the couples we know are fondly kissing,
Will I be with you or will I be among the missing?

Maybe it's much too early in the game,
Ooh, but I thought I'd ask you just the same,
What are you doing New Year's…New Year's Eve?

Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight,
When it's exactly twelve o'clock that night,
Welcoming in the New Year…New Year's Eve…*

One day away from the big night that will welcome in another new year and a new decade! Anyone have any special plans?

The holidays are a time for family and friends.  It's a time of reconnecting with those who have moved away or who we don't see as often as we'd like.  Every year, right after Thanksgiving, I go down to the basement and pull out he boxes of cards I'd purchased the year before.  Then I get my Christmas stamps out and go to work...

I just saw a copy of my cover for my March 2010 book The Wedding She Always Wanted and wanted to see what everyone thinks. They did a great job capturing the characters, but I wish they were looking at each other... What does everyone else think?

In my first book, All She Wants for Christmas, the hero and heroine discuss presents they wanted as children but never received. It's a scene that was in the original 5-page short story I wrote and remained even as I turned that short story into a full length novel.

Minna, many congrats.  Email me at christine@christinerimmer.com to claim your prize. 

I’m a sucker for Christmas music.  The traditional carols like It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem.  The devotional songs like Oh, Holy Night.  Even the silly ones like Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.

 MarcieR,  you’ve won!  Please contact Susan at susan@susancrosby.com for your  prize.

crazyfor24, use the Contact Me form on my website, www.karensandler.net to e-mail me your address for your free book.

Hey, everyone.  Just a heads up.  If you get a chance, check out the My Favorite Hero blog.  It's a Special Edition month over there, with blogs from your favorite SSE heroes.  Heroes by RaeAnne Thayne, Karen Rose Smith, Kristi Gold, Susan Crosby and, yes, me, too.  Drop in and say hi if you've got a minute.

MarcieR, congratulations!  Email Christine at christine@christinerimmer.com to claim your signed copy of EARTH ANGEL! 

It's been an insane few weeks around my house. This time of year is always nuttier than my neighbor's peanut brittle but we're in the middle of (finally!) finishing our basement after four years in our house and it's amazing the details we have to iron out, even though we're having workers doing most of the heavy lifting.

Ellen Too, please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com to make a choice of book! Thank you all for adding to my "good reads" list.  That should keep me busy for a while.

Congrats, congrats!  Email me at christine@christinerimmer.com with your address to

HOWDY EVERYONE !!

I am your guest author blogger for today.  Hope I am in the right area!  HA! 

I've been shopping today, Black Friday.  Nothing serious, but there were some sales that I just couldn't pass up.  The traffic was awful.  Most everything was sold out.  Nothing was going right today.  When I wrote checks, I couldn't find my license.  Then I couldn't find my credit card.  Luckily, I had enough cash. Then I couldn't find my card.

Notice a pattern here?? : )  

Ever have one of those days?! 

I went to Radio Shack.  I bought one of those GPS for my husband.  He's the type who won't ask for directions!   And I'm directionally challenged.  I usually come equipped with maps and Mapquest printouts everywhere we go, but if we ever divert from the Mapquest, we are lost.  I even have two binders, one for in-state (NY) and one out of NY State, full of maps and printouts.  So I'm hoping that the GPS will help us both! 

Okay, confess... How many people are hitting the sales on Friday? The stores are just waiting for you to arrive! I have a friend who works retail, and their small music box store is going to be open from midnight until eight in the morning Friday morning!

Congrats, congrats.  Moodylady, email at christine@christinerimmer.com with your address to claim your prize!  Happy Black Friday, all.  

 

Still not sure who's recipes I am going to use, but Dorothy and Wendy's names came out of the hat! If they'll email me at chris @ christynebutler.com I'll get a copy of THE SHERIFF'S SECRET WIFE out to you!

I’ve agreed just last night to host Thanksgiving at my house again this year for family on my husband’s side (my side is scattered to Florida, Georgia and Texas!) so that means I’ll have thirteen people (and the list keeps growing!) from babies to grandparents, milling around my too small combined dining/living room in less than a week.

Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I don’t cook.

In my book, Merry Christmas, Cowboy (out on the shelves for just another week or so) Lauren (the heroine) tells Seth (the hero) that when she was a little girl, she'd asked her mother for a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas.  She never got one.  Even though that was many years ago, she still remembers not getting the doll she wanted so badly. 

Emmanuelle, you've won a copy of THE BACHELOR'S STAND-IN WIFE.  Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com with your info! Thanks to all of you for your interesting answers!

I’ve been in limbo the past couple weeks.  I finished the science fiction book I’ve been working on for months and haven’t yet figured out what to work on next.  Without a new book to focus on, I feel completely at loose ends.

Better late than never! So sorry I didn't come back to draw a winner sooner! Minna, you've won a copy of my book (or other prizes)! Email me with your address at stacyconnelly@cox.net.

 

My November, Silhouette Special Edition, Merry Christmas, Cowboy! is available this month. It seems to be selling well out of the gate (so to speak). I found out it is #77 on BookScan this week!!

Remember when you all helped me with ideas for my website redesign? 

Congrats, Tammy (tlm455) ...

Here are the winners: moonwitch66, tim455 (Tammy), nicolerko, and christa_r.  Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com to claim your copy of CHRISTMAS PRESENCE.  I hope it helps to get you in the holiday spirit!

 FF, big congrats!  Email me at christine@christinerimmer.com.  Everyone, thank you so much.  You've given me a lot to work with and ponder. 

 

Hey, everyone, just wanted to wish you a happy and candy-filled Halloween!

Happy Haunting!

I figured there would be several Halloween blogs going around right now, so I thought I’d blog about another reason why this is my favorite time of the year. As I’ve mentioned before, I live in Arizona, so October is the first of our good weather following long, hot summers. In the past few weeks, I’ve finally been able to get back outside and complete projects that came to a halt once the temperature hit 100-degrees.

One of those projects is the planter in the picture. I finished it last spring, but by then, it was already getting hot, and anything I planted would likely die. So I waited and waited and waited…

 Big congrats, Darlene.  Email me at christine@christinerimmer.com to claim your signed prize! Everyone, I am so no longer glum!  As always, you lift me up and give me such good advice!

Yenastone/Tammy, you've won a book! Please email me at susan@susancrosby.com. Thanks to all of you who participated. I really enjoyed your responses.

Every once in a while I’ll be writing a scene where I have to ask myself if what’s happening is too coincidental. Will readers buy into it or not? Or, for that matter, will my my critique partner or editor, who are my frontline readers. Because one thing I’ve learned in life—coincidences happen. I recently spent five days in Disneyland with my family, and we ran into 21 families who at least one of us knew. Twenty-one! It was so much fun seeing people who also live 450 miles away, all enjoying family time in the Happiest Place on Earth.

moodylady, you've won a free book!  Please go to my website (www.karensandler.net) and use the "contact me" form to give me your name and address.  I'll send the book your way.

 Kate...email me your address at chris@christynebutler.com and I'll get a copy of THE SHERIFF'S SECRET WIFE out to you as soon as my author copies arrive!

Yeah, the title is kinda cheesy, but it wasn’t my idea.

Hey there, Gage Steele here. I’m the sheriff of Destiny, Wyoming. Christyne is knee deep in dealing with the love life of Gina, my younger sister. It seems Gina’s got herself all wrapped up in a guy who is one hundred percent all wrong for her (speaking as both an older brother and as a sheriff) so I told Christyne I’d stop by and show off the cover to her next release, THE SHERIFF’S SECRET WIFE.

Yep…I’m that sheriff. And how did I get a secret wife? Well, that’s a bit of a long story.

It seems as if it gets harder and harder to fit everything I want to do into a day that's already too short.  I recently asked some friends for suggestions on how to fit exercise into a day that's already filled to overflowing.  Here are some of the fabulous answers I received.

I’m sitting here watching the baseball playoffs.  The Los Angeles Dodgers against the St. Louis Cardinals.  I live in Northern California, so I really ought to be a Giants or an A’s fan.  But I am a true-blue Dodgers fan and have been since I was a wee child.

 Congrats, congrats.  Wiccachick, email me at christine@christinerimmer.com with your mailing address to claim your signed book. 

If you're an SSE reader, you've most likely heard of Janis Reams Hudson.  And read and enjoyed her wonderful books.

 

 

Bec_sampson and Jessiecue--you've won! Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com. Thank you one and all for participating!

Susan 

I spent this past weekend at the coast (Pacific, that is). I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium for the first time, and it was spectacular. They have a new seahorse exhibit that is awesome. Then while eating breakfast on Sunday morning, I watched dolphins, seals and sea otters playing in the surf only a hundred feet away.