We Have a Title!
May 19th, 2010
Just got word that the sixth Sydney Croft book has a title! Which means cover copy and a cover will come soon. Yay!
Anyway, joining the lineup of ACRO books will be TAKEN BY FIRE, and it's scheduled for late spring/early summer of next year. Now we just have to get the book finished!
Hope everyone is doing well! I'm heading back into the deadline cave…
Win The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance!
May 13th, 2010
23 passionate stories of hard-hitting love…
Stirring romance featuring the heroes of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, Air Force Pararescue, the Green Berets, the Army Rangers and other special forces: men and women who live and fight in extreme danger to preserve our freedoms, defenders and protectors of all we hold dear.
This collection includes the work of bestselling romance writers such as Shannon K. Butcher and Stephanie Tyler and Larissa Ione, writing as Sydney Croft. Sydney Croft’s special forces couple, Annika and Creed, work for the Agency for Covert Rare Operatives (ACRO), all of whose members have special powers, while Shannon K. Butcher’s hero is an ex-Navy SEAL. But these fighting men and women have a gentler, protective side; hard-edged weapons when on active duty, they can be caring lovers, of special forces teammates or the civilians they protect.
Contains Sydney Croft's story, Code Word Storm.
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Hi everyone!
If you hop over to the Access Romance blog and leave a comment, you could win a copy of The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance! Just be sure to check back tomorrow to see if you won.
Hope you're having a great week!
Free Demonica Short Story
May 10th, 2010
Yay! Finally got it posted!
If you have read Passion Unleashed and wondered how Serena and Wraith are getting along, this story is for you!
It's the first of what I hope to be many, so be sure to check back from time to time. You can find the stories in the Free Reads section of my website, or go to them directly by clicking this link.
Hope you enjoy!
Okay, back to work. Eternal Rider is so close to being done that I can taste it, and it tastes like smoky bourbon poured over a really hot immortal guy named War…
Interview/Giveaway and News!
May 7th, 2010
Just popping in real quick to let you know about an interview and giveaway at the Book-Faery blog! There are also reviews for all four Demonica books…worth checking out. Very nice reviews!
Also…the good news: Got word today that the release date for Eternal Rider (the first Lords of Deliverance book) has been moved up! It'll now be released in March instead of April. Yay! of course, that means I need to get my butt in gear!
For Nashville
May 5th, 2010
Hi all,
I'm in a serious deadline crunch right now, so I'll be scarce for a while, but I did want to pop up a quick post about Do The Write Thing for Nashville, a flood relief charity auction for the flood victims in Tennessee.
This kind of disaster always hits me hard, because my family and I went through the same thing during Katrina. We lost everything, and because hurricane insurance doesn't cover storm surge (WTF?) we weren't insured for the total loss of the brand new house and all its contents. Then, because we still had to make payments on the destroyed house, we had to rebuild in order to sell it — and the contractor stole 20K of our money.
Fortunately, I had the writing community, good friends, and generous strangers behind me, and thanks to them, we recovered our spirits, even if we didn't recover much of anything else.
So…to make a long story short, this disaster is hitting me right in the heart. I'll be making a donation, for sure.
If you are an author or industry professional who can help, here's the website. Auctions will be held soon, and it looks like there might be some great stuff up for grabs!
Here's the Facebook page as well!
The Lords of Deliverance Are Coming!
April 28th, 2010
The prophecies were there but no one listened. Until now.
They are the Lords of Deliverance and they have the power to usher in Doomsday…or prevent it.
Yep, got the official word…the Demonica spinoff series about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will launch in April 2011 with Eternal Rider, book 1!
The series title will be The Lords of Deliverance, and you'll meet the first hero, Ares (War) in Sin Undone. Very excited. The book is due to my editor at the beginning of June, and I don't have NEARLY enough done yet, so I'll be a little quiet until I get Ares wrestled into submission. (As if…the dude is called War for a reason.)
Then, after I turn in Eternal Rider, Steph and I have to rock out the sixth ACRO book by the beginning of July, so again, I'll be pretty busy. I figure all of July and August will be taken by revisions to both books, so yeah, summer is looking kind of scary, time-wise!
Hope all is well with you, and that spring is treating you well!
Have a nice week, everyone!
Hugs!
Website Update!
April 21st, 2010
FINALLY! Stephanie Tyler and I got our Sydney Croft site updated with new pages and excerpts for upcoming releases. So if you've been wondering about Tempting The Fire, the page is all set to go!
Hope you have all been well! I'm going to be a little scarce — between deadlines and some medical issues, I'm going to be unplugging a bit.
Have a great day, everyone!
Quick Question
April 18th, 2010
Totally out of the blue, but I have two questions about author promotional items.
1. What's the best promotional item you ever received from an author? (My most used favorites are a cat food can cover I got from Linda Lael Miller and a jar opener from Geri Krotow. My other favorites include a shot glass from Jacquelyn Frank.)
2. Do you enjoy the smaller items like bookmarks and pens? As in, do you use them or toss them?
Thanks, everyone! Hope you're having a nice weekend!!!!
Things I Learned From Watching Soaps
April 13th, 2010
1. It's incredibly easy to tamper with DNA and paternity tests
2. Guilty people never go to jail (or stay there,) but innocent people get arrested all the time
3. If you're a mobster, you can commit all the violent crimes you want, and people will still love you
4. The average person gets married 7 times
5. Condoms break easily
6. No one stays dead
7. All women need to be institutionalized at some point in their lives
8. If you're driving at night, you will get into an accident or run over someone
9. If you sleep with more than one man, you will get pregnant…which will require a paternity test…which can be easily manipulated
10. Children/twin siblings you didn't know you had will come into your life at the worst possible time
11. No matter how badly you're injured or close to dying in a hospital, you won't need machines to keep you alive. All you need is a nasal cannula!
12. Planes are extremely unsafe, and they crash into islands a lot
13. If you're pregnant, you'll give birth under dire circumstances, and most likely, not in a hospital
14. If you need an organ transplant, someone who is your match (and who you know) will conveniently die at the last minute
15. Complete amnesia is really common
What have you learned from watching soaps?
























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