“Extreme sports come to Morganville and the result could be a bloodbath!  In this newest chapter of the Morganville Vampire series, Caine adds extra insight by including periodic slices of the first-person thoughts of Claire’s boyfriend, Shane.  The friendships in this series are facing formidable odds, and Caine does a terrific job of keeping the ( Read more... )

Looking for something to heat up your holidays?  Jasmine Haynes' newest erotic romance collection MINE UNTIL MORNING releases today from Berkley Heat.  Genre Go Round Reviews says, "These are three hot yet profound tales of sex, love, and acceptance (or not)."

Rather play it by ear?  A bunch of new audiobooks are out from Audible today, including:

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Thanks so much for having me, Lucienne!

It’s almost Halloween! So it sounds like the perfect time to talk about some of my favorite scary movies. I can’t tell you about ALL of them because, well, there are far too many. I love scary movies! High on the list is The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis. Honestly, I did not guess the ending of that movie! I ( Read more... )

I'll have an awesome interview up later today with Jeri Smith-Ready, whose YA novel SHADE debuts today.

In the meantime, I wanted to touch on two good causes.  First, you've all heard about the floods in Nashville (and if not, here's an article you can read for an idea of the extent of the damage).  One of my very best friends has been forced out of ( Read more... )

Thanks for having me, Lucienne!  And happy After-Valentines, everyone!

Stoking the fire in a relationship is sometimes a bit of work, perhaps even an afterthought if we’re working all day, running the kids around, or doing the umpteen million things that have to get done in our busy lives.  But I’d like to take a page out of my friend’s book of ( Read more... )

How can it possibly be that we're almost a month into 2010?! No, I'm sorry, time must stop moving quite so quickly. I have spoken. (Though I'm sure those of you out there waiting for your new releases feel quite differently!)

Speaking of which, since I'll be in New York next week, I'm jumping the gun a little bit with fantastic February releases:


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Here’s how my holiday season works.  My two brothers live back East, so my mom alternates years between the daughters and the sons, meaning, one year my sister and I get Thanksgiving with her, and the next year we, the girls, get Christmas.  This year our turn was Thanksgiving, so we’re packaging her up and shipping her off today.  But on Saturday ( Read more... )

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Migraine this morning (so much fun) so the trip report may be a bit abbreviated.

First, some pics from the Borders Los Gatos Romance Readers Group discussion and signing with romance authors Jami Alden, Bella Andre, Mardi Ballou, Jasmine Haynes, Paty Jager, Crystal Jordan, Kate Perry and Veronica Wolff and mystery author Diana Orgain.


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