Silhouette Special Edition Author BLOG

Congrats, Tammy (tlm455) ...

I’m feeling a need to get started on Christmas. I’m not usually in the mood this early, but I’m finding myself looking forward to the holidays more than usual this year. I decided not to question why, but just to enjoy it. So...I’m looking for book and movie recommendations.

 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.

Have you begun the Christmas countdown?  By my unofficial calculation, there's only 87 more shopping days until Christmas.

 Nicole, congrats! Email me at at Christine@christinerimmer.com to claim your prize.

Last year at Nationals, I told my roommate (who already had plans) that I was going to go hang out in the bar. She asked if I was meeting a friend, and I told her no, I was just going by myself.

bec_sampson, you've won a free book!  Please send me your contact details using the contact form on my website, www.karensandler.net.  You can check out the books there and decide which one you'd like me to send you.

HSheryl is the winner! Email me at chris @ christynebutler.com (no spaces ) with your address and I’ll get those wedding books out to
you!

Or even at the wedding!

My step daughter is getting married this Saturday in an outdoor wedding and thank goodness the weather Gods are promising us a beautiful sunny day with a bit of a nip in the air... ah, Fall comes to New England.

As a hopeful romantic I love weddings...the promise of two people in love who want to share their lives with each other…ah, so sweet! Of course, planning them can be a bit hectic as my step daughter has found out, things don’t always go as planned.

Aurelene and cweber, you've won a book and a prize! Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com.

Emmanuelle, you've won a free book.  Please send me your address details via the contact form on my website, www.karensandler.net

I have to admit that, despite reading and writing romance, I LOVE a good horror story. Not movies so much any more because anything rated R will likely be too gory for my taste. I'd rather stick to TV shows--like Supernatural.

Kulwicki7 you're the winner! Please email Karen at karen@karenrosesmith.com with your snailmail addy so she can send your prize :)

 Before we start chatting about how we know it's Fall...I just got the cover to my November book Merry Christmas, Cowboy!  If you go to my website www.cindykirk.com and email me (from my website)  the color of the ribbon on the cover

I've been crazy busy with deadline and could swear I updated this with a winner's name but apparently it's one more thing that's slipped through the swiss-cheese holes in my brain right now (like laundry and cleaning and ... what's the name of my youngest kid again?!?). So the winner of the free book .... drumroll ... is Chey!!! Email me at rthayne@xmission.com and I'll ship your book.

Star0925 and Shelli--you've won! Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com with your snail mail. Thanks to all of you for your great advice and encouragement. I really do feel better!

Linda Henderson (seriousreader), you're the winner of a fabulous RaeAnne Thayne book! Please contact her at rthayne@xmission.com to claim your prize! 

Before I was published, I heard all kinds of rumors of rules and regulations and laws not to be broken. Even if you don't write romance, my guess is that you too have heard some of these always/never scenarios either from published friends or on the boards.

Lou, contact me at kartempber AT aol DOT come with your snail mail addy, and I'll get your signed copy of A MARRIAGE-MINDED MAN off to you ASAP!

Tess, in A MARRIAGE-MINDED MAN, is a smart, savvy, independent
gal...who can't for the life of her figure out her multi-function
remote.

Linda Henderson and Crystal GB816, you've each won a book! Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com to claim your prize. Thanks to all of you for participating!

Every author has their own voice, their own sensibility, their own way of putting together words.  I'm always excited when I find a new author who I really like.

We're very thrilled today to welcome the wonderful Stacy Connelly blogging about her August release,  Once Upon a Wedding. Thanks so much for being here, Stacy!

Jessiecue -- if you'll send me your mailing address at chris @ christynebutler.com (no spaces!) I'll get those books out to you!

How many cooks spoil the broth? How many thoughts spoil a story?

I’ve always written from both the hero and heroine’s point of view in my stories as I am a big believer in the old saying “there are two sides to every story” (just ask my husband!) In fact, I often find myself inside my hero’s head for long stretches of time with my heroine tapping me on the shoulder, demanding her share of space on the page to get her thoughts and feelings out there.

I went to my local RWA chapter meeting on Tuesday, and the speaker was a photographer who was there to explain about her packages for photographs for website and promotions, etc.

When I start to see the Back-To-School sales at my local merchants, a sadness washes over me.  Why?  Because I love summer and having the kids go back to school signals the season is coming to an end. 

LANEY, contact me at kartempber @ aol.com with your first, second and third choices for your signed book, as well as your snail mail addy, and I'll get it out to you as soon as I can. :)

Laney4 and Tiffany W, you're the winners.  Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com for your prize! Thanks to all of you for the lovely trip down memory lane!

Big congrats, Emmanuelle!  Email me at christine@christinerimmer.com to claim your book. Everyone, as always, amazing discussion!

Kim is the winner. I've contacted her separately to let her know.

I've recently become a big fan of Burn Notice (yes, it usually takes me a couple of years to catch on to things!). I've only seen a handful of episodes, though I've got about 10 waiting for me on my DVR after Saturday's big Burn Notice marathon on USA (yay!). Now I just need to find the time to watch them ...

ChrystalGB816, you're the winner. Contact Karen at kartempber@aol with your snail mail addy so she can send you the book!

TAMARA -- please contact me at kartempber @ aol.com with your snail mail addy so I get a copy of  MOTHER'S WISH (or another of my backlist books if you already have that one!) off to you ASAP. :)

I would venture a guess that we all have guilty pleasures.  Things we love to do when we should be cleaning the house, doing laundry or mowing the yard.  For me, reading is one of those pleasures.  But it's not the only one...  

Tonight is the first night of a dog agility class I've signed up for. This is something totally new to me, and I have to say neither myself nor my dog are particularly agile. So it could be an interesting eight weeks.

I signed up because I was looking for a way to get out and be more active, and if I could bring my very social, very fun-loving dog, all the better!

I’m a pet lover, so it’s often no surprise that my books end up with animals in them.  In the first book in my Meet Me in Montana trilogy, Claiming the Rancher’s Heart, the hero, Josh, had a blue heeler.  I just happen to have a blue heeler and you can see

Congratulations to our own Karen Templeton for her RITA award for A MOTHER'S WISH!!  You go, girl.  I'm' sooo sorry you weren't there to accept in person.

Susan 

Kate Kulwicki--you've won!  Please contact me at susan@susancrosby.com! Thanks to all of you for your great recommendations. I loved THE PROPOSAL.