It’s here! For a Price, my first nov­el as Olivia Brynn! I just love new release days, it’s a good excuse to eat an entire box of Tur­tles and drink way too much brandy.

You can’t get blood from a stone. That’s what Mau­reen Sullivan’s moth­er always told her, but now it’s col­lec­tion time, and bill col­lec­tors aren’t after blood; they want mon­ey. At this point, she’d do just about anything…for a price. To get her moth­er out of the red, Mau­reen packs her tiny nest egg and runs to Las Vegas, hop­ing for a miracle.

Once in Sin City, Maureen’s Aunt Lot­tie shows her that the fastest way out of a finan­cial hell doesn’t lie in Maureen’s luck at a black­jack table, but in the auc­tion of a much more con­tro­ver­sial com­mod­i­ty: Maureen’s vir­gin­i­ty. Vegas is the per­fect place to cash in. What they decide to do will not only make head­lines in the Neva­da city, but around the world.

The last thing Mau­reen needs right now is to fall for sexy Nicholas Web­ster, who’s used to get­ting every­thing he wants. Because when the time comes, she’d have to betray the man she’s come to love in order to ful­fill her con­tract. Will she be able to sell her­self? And at what price?

Click on the cov­er to go to the Liq­uid Sil­ver Books buy page where you can read the first chap­ter. I’ve got anoth­er excerpt right here and you can meet the main char­ac­ters Nick and Ree­nie here.

Today is the last day to enter the con­test to win a copy of For a Price. Just look at the post below this one (or click here) The win­ner will be post­ed tomor­row morning.

Got two min­utes? Check out this short trailer:

Okay, music’s up, choco­late is only half gone, and the brandy is flow­ing. Join me in a hap­py dance cel­e­bra­tion. We’ll let the Word­Press jan­i­tors clean up afterwards.

I like to think of myself as a pret­ty good per­son. I fol­low most rules. (Except that dumb one about speed­ing.) Maybe this is why I’m strug­gling with my lat­est Work in Progress.  There are some rules, whether writ­ten or just under­stood, about romance nov­els. Must have the rela­tion­ship as the main com­po­nent to the plot (obvi­ous­ly). Must be writ­ten in the hero­ine’s point of view for the most part. (I like a 60% 40% rela­tion­ship myself.) Must have a hap­pi­ly ever after(HEA). (Some pub­lish­ers are hap­py with a HFN-Hap­py for now though) Main char­ac­ters must be intro­duced with­in the first two chapters.

This is where I’m strug­gling with my work in progress. I just start­ed chap­ter three, and am only now intro­duc­ing my hero. Will read­ers put my book down at the end of chap­ter two, dis­gust­ed because they haven’t met Fabio? Should I care about the rules? Aren’t they tried and true, test­ed on mil­lions of read­ers? Should one romance author from Lit­tle Town Wyoming real­ly be the one to buck the sys­tem? What if I just go all out and make my hero into a pot-bel­lied home­less man who is ugly as sin?

I’ll just keep writ­ing. If it gets reject­ed for pub­lish­ing, then I guess we’ll know for sure. I’ll keep you updated.

Okay, that title makes it sound like I hate edit­ing. Real­ly with the right edi­tor, it does­n’t have to hurt.

I’m done with round one (and a half) of edits for Retreat. I do a lot of pid­dly things that my poor edi­tor Sharis May­er has to cor­rect. It seems I have an unnat­ur­al affec­tion for the semi­colon. Over­all, it’s going well, and we should be fin­ished soon, and then we start on Olivi­a’s Falling Star. Sharis is going to be sick of me before long 🙂

I start­ed a new book, still unti­tled, and the only char­ac­ters with names are the antag­o­nist and the sexy hero. I use “filler” names until I can come up with some­thing, so right now my hero­ine is Jane Doe. It’s pret­ty irri­tat­ing when I read back through a chapter.

Don’t for­get the Labor Day Blog Tour that starts right here on Mon­day Sep­tem­ber 7th 2009. Over a dozen lick­able labor­ers will be on hand for your view­ing plea­sure! I’ll post some more infor­ma­tion clos­er to the date. You can win this grand prize, which will keep you busy for quite a few gov­ern­ment holidays.

So Alan­na fin­ish­es her lat­est, I even helped her find the per­fect title: Fine Print. I get all excit­ed to get start­ed on my next project, and what does she do? She starts anoth­er project for HER! I’m real­ly start­ing to get annoyed, but what can I say? She’s already got enough voic­es in her head with­out mine in there both­er­ing her. She knows I have a sto­ry I want to tell. I’ll just be the bet­ter per­son and wait impa­tient­ly. I mean patient­ly.

Falling Star is com­ing up for edits soon. Maybe then she’ll remem­ber how much fun I am to work with.

I love the smell of new cov­er in the morn­ing. Aman­da Kelsey has done it again folks. I got the mock up for Retreat in my in box, and was imme­di­ate­ly remind­ed of a clas­sic romance nov­el. I’ll post it as soon as I get the offi­cial high res­o­lu­tion pic. I think you’ll like it!! I also fin­ished (most­ly) the trail­er for Retreat, and as soon as I insert the cov­er I’ll post it here in the Book Trail­er page.

I fin­ished my sixth nov­el titled  Fine Print. I sen­t a sam­ple in to an agent, and no one was more sur­prised than me when she replied ask­ing to read the full man­u­script! I’m a prac­ti­cal per­son though, and I won’t get my hopes up.  I also sent it in to Liq­uid Sil­ver Books as a sub­mis­sion. Let’s hope one of them likes it enough to offer me a lit­tle sumthin sumthin.

UPDATE! After post­ing this, I got an email inform­ing me that Pre­ja Vu has a release date! 10/5/09, how excit­ing is THAT? Now I’d bet­ter get busy pimp­ing it…

Got the offi­cial email today. Time to start edits on Retreat. That calls for a Yee Haawww!!

Yes­ter­day, I was cre­at­ing the char­ac­ter pro­files for Andi and Jake, and got to look­ing through that man­u­script. I’m read­ing along, thinking…did I write this? I don’t remem­ber that! Had it been that long? I even have a trail­er for Retreat, I’m just wait­ing on some music.  In my defense, I’ve fin­ished two books since then, and edit­ed yet two oth­ers. Retreat seems to be my red-head­ed stepchild. No offense to the red heads out there. (Where did that phrase come from anyway?)

Now that it’s in the hands of a very capa­ble cov­er artist (Aman­da Kel­sy, I’ve raved about her before, yes I know) and edits are under­way, maybe I should dig that trail­er out and fin­ish it up. Stay tuned!

I did it. Spent an entire morn­ing play­ing with WordPress.  If only some­one had told me about Word­Press before I got all com­fort­able with the oth­er site! The abil­i­ty to orga­nize into pages is just tasty.

I fin­ished my lat­est WIP last night, well…early this morn­ing. More info on that lat­er. Also com­plet­ed Pre­ja Vu edits (woo hoo) and got the cov­er art for Retreat assigned to my favorite artist Aman­da Kelsey (She did Pre­ja Vu for me, and Falling Star for Olivia.) Being so busy, it looks like I missed my reg­u­lar Hump Day Hot­tie post. I’ll make it up to you next week, I promise. Any requests?

So click through the place, check out my rooms…offer inte­ri­or design tips…please don’t spill wine on the car­pet, it’s new.