Wel­come! I’ve got great news to share. I’ve signed a con­tract with Samhain Pub­lish­ing for Tak­ing Her There! It’s ten­ta­tive­ly sched­uled for an August release, but I’ll be sure to keep you informed. I’ve got chap­ter one post­ed for your read­ing plea­sure. Let me know what you think!

Work in Progress News ~ Well this week’s work in progress real­ly was­n’t writ­ing. I did work a bit on Falling Star 1.5, but I spent a lot of time work­ing on some pro­mo­tion­al mate­ri­als for this year’s Romance Times con­fer­ence in ear­ly May. I’m let­ting my inner Martha Stew­art come out, and like this blog post, my ideas always look a whole lot bet­ter in my head.

Indus­try News ~  Now 54% of U.S. chil­dren aged 2–13 are read­ing ebooks, more than dou­ble the 23% of U.S. adults who are e‑reading. Great news for the future of ebooks! I’d like to request some more mid­dle school ebooks, from all of you chil­dren’s authors read­ing this…

Favorite Song of the Week ~ YouTube real­ly is a mec­ca of tal­ent. This guy has it in spades:

Tweet of the Week ~ Mil­lion dol­lar idea:

What I’m read­ing ~ The Christ­mas Propo­si­tion by K.A. Mitchell. Because I dis­cov­ered a K.A. Mitchell book I had­n’t yet read. So I fixed that. “It’s Christ­mas in Epiphany, Pennsylvania–the busiest time of year for Mel Hal­ner. But run­ning the fam­i­ly Christ­mas tree farm has worn down his love for the hap­pi­est sea­son of all, and late­ly Mel’s been won­der­ing what if he’d said yes to a tick­et out of town with mil­lion­aire Bryce Cam­pi­on three years ago.”

Today’s Tear­jerk­er ~ A new fea­ture on my sta­tus posts. I was going to make these sep­a­rate blog entries, but I think I’ll just put them here instead, since I already have your undi­vid­ed attention:

Book Snip­pet ~ from Posi­tion Secured:

“I guess you had some cop fan­ta­sy, huh?” He gave her anoth­er one of those slant­ed, naughty grins.

Mari shook her head. “I hate cops.” His pup­py dog frown was so cute, she couldn’t resist laugh­ing. “I got a tick­et on the way home tonight. You just have bad timing.”

“Ah, now there I dis­agree.” He kissed her light­ly. “I don’t think my tim­ing could have been better.”

Have a great week, everyone!