#65 on the USA TODAY bestseller list, and #28 on the NEW YORK TIMES!!!!

And late last week, I learned that Sin's book hit the Publisher's Weekly bestseller list at #6 and Barnes & Noble mass market list at #8! That demon has stomped all over her brothers! Heh.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all my awesome readers!!!!

You. Guys. Rock!!!!!

1. If you happen to be in the Green Bay area on September 7th, I'm going to be there to sign books. I'd love to see you there! Click here for more information!

2. Okay…still hyperventilating over this, but I'm SO excited to announce that thanks to all my awesome readers, Sin Undone has hit #24 on the USA TODAY bestseller list, AND #7 on the NEW YORK TIMES!!!!!!!!! Holy cow!!!! Thank you to everyone who has supported this series. You rock!!!!!

Now, the winner of the KT Grant contest is: Colleen #11! Colleen, if you could email me and let me know your choice of ebook format, I'll get it to you. Congrats!

Also, don't forget that all over the blogosphere, there are chances for you to win copies of Sin Undone and other books! Be sure to visit the various blogs!

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Now, the original release date for Sin Undone was Sept. 1, but it was moved a couple of months ago, so I think release dates got kind of blurred. In any case, most people should be able to find it on shelves today. Me? I'm going out (with my broken arm) and signing stock at Target, Wal-Mart, and my local book store.

I also want to give a shout out to another demon author, Kresley Cole, whose 8th IAD book, Demon From The Dark, releases today. Yay for hot demon smexing! :)

Happy reading, everyone!

"Fans of the Demonica series finally get their wish! It’s time for Sin, a seminus demon with a wicked mouth, a nasty profession, a hidden heart of gold and a need for … well, sex, to get her story. She finally meets her match and it’s a wicked ride. Tense, sexy and touching, only Ione can blend such feelings into a comprehensive and complicated story. There’s a lot going on here but Ione pulls it off, giving readers another truly great read." — 4 1/2 Stars!

In other news, I'm still working on revisions to Eternal Rider…I'm getting SO close. Right now the major stuff is done and I just need to go through and fix all the Swiss cheese holes and do some layering. I'm hoping to be able to get it to my editor on Friday afternoon.

Haven't had time for reading, but I've got a gob of books just waiting for me as treats…the new Cynthia Eden, Gena Showalter, Elisabeth Naughton, Amy Knupp…yeah, I have some heavy-duty reading to do coming up, not to mention snapping up the upcoming new releases from Kresley Cole, Ann Aguirre, Lara Adrian, Jaci Burton, Shiloh Walker…man, I just hope I can find time to write! *g*

What about you? What book are you loving right now?

Hope you enjoy!

You did it! I've been begging for votes for weeks, and you guys never got tired or annoyed…at least, you didn't show it! And you voted for Ecstasy Unveiled and got me through each round of the DABWAHA tournament.

Then, tonight…you got Lore to take the whole thing!

You. Are. Awesome!

THANK YOU!!!!!!! I seriously have the best friends and readers!!!

Virtual cake and champagne all around!

(And since virtual isn't a whole lot of fun, I'll have to have a real celebration soon…once I get past this deadline. We'll have a real blog party!)

Thanks again, everyone!!!!!!

To celebrate the first anniversary of International Heat, we've set up a Global Warming blog tour and invited some friends to join the party. And what sort of party would it be if we didn't have prizes?

During the week of March 13-17, we invite you to visit our blogs as we will each post a special red-hot excerpt, cover or review for you. (I have a Sin Undone excerpt below!) Simply leave a comment at each blog you visit. Visit them all and your name will be thrown in the hat for a special drawing. Four winners will be chosen and they will be announced here on March 18. It's that simple.

What are the prizes?

Prize one:

Waiting for Wednesday ebook by Mari Carr

Autographed print copy of Dream Machine by Jayne Rylon

Only Yours ebook by J.R. Patrick

Prize two:

Choice of ebook backlist by Jambrea Jo Jones

Death, The Vamp and his Brother tote bag, plus winner's choice of Lexxie Couper ebook.

Choice of backlist title by Dawn Montgomery

Prize three:

Bath and Body gift bag courtesy of T

Choice of backlist title and a package of TimTams from Jess Dee

Rodeo Heat by Desiree Holt

Prize four:

Choice of backlist title from Amanda Young

$10 gift card to Amazon courtesy of Valerie Tibbs

Choice of backlist ebook from Vivian Arend

Blog tour (you don't need to go in order, but you do need to comment at all of them to be eligible for a prize.)

Mari Carr

Desiree Holt

Viv Arend

Pearl's House of Romance

Jambrea Jo Jones

Z.A. Maxfield

J.R. Patrick

Carol Lynne

Jayne Rylon

Lexxie Couper

Dawn Montgomery

Valerie Tibbs

Larissa Ione (That's Me!)

eBook addict

Amanda Young

Rhian Cahill

Nicole Austin

Jess Dee

Selena Illyria

Lila Dubois

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And now…my excerpt! This is from Sin Undone, which is the fifth book in the Demonica series, and will be out August 31st!

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“I’m not going home with you.”

“We’ll talk about it while I’m patching you up.” Con jerked his thumb toward the back. “Go.”

Grudgingly, Sin climbed between the front seats and ducked through the hatch-like door separating the cab from the box section of the ambulance. A dull red light illuminated the space, and the same Haven spell symbols from UG were scrawled on the walls, but other than that, it could have been a human ambulance.

Her leg throbbed as she worked her way down the narrow isle between the bench seat and the stretcher, but that wound wasn’t nearly as bad as the pain spreading through her arm. She didn’t have to look to know a large gash had split her dermoire across her biceps. The pain had struck suddenly, but she’d borne it in silence, the way she always did. As an assassin, she never gave her victims the luxury of a scream, so she figured she didn’t deserve one any more than they did.

She didn’t deserve for the gash to be treated, either. She’d allow Con to mend her leg, but her arm was off limits.

Con jerked black rubber shades down from rollers over each window. Every sliver of outside light was snuffed, obviously a necessity when transporting vamps and other light-sensitive demons during the day. “Take off your pants.”

“Wow. Not one for foreplay, are you?”

He turned to her with lethal grace despite the limitations of the cramped compartment. “I spend hours on foreplay,” he said, his voice a slow, sexy drawl. “What about you?”

Heat flooded her face. Somehow, he knew the answer, knew she’d never engaged in foreplay in her life. For her, sex was fast food, not gourmet cuisine.

“Foreplay is overrated.” The gash in her arm screamed with pain as she shed her pants and hopped up on the stretcher. She left her thigh and ankle holsters in place, though, because they weren’t going anywhere.

“Then you’re not doing it right.” Con snapped on some surgical gloves, somehow making the sound and the action erotic. “You’ve had shitty lovers.”

“You were one of my lovers,” she pointed out, but he didn’t take the bait.

“Once. And there is something to be said for a hard, fast fuck.” His voice became a mesmerizing purr. “But there’s nothing like taking the time to slowly peel off every article of clothing, to kiss every inch of your lover’s skin as you do it. To lick all the sensitive places until they quiver. To explore all the textures of your partner’s body with your fingers, your mouth.” His fangs flashed as he added, “Your teeth.”

Hunger gripped her so fiercely she had to struggle to breathe. Yet somehow, she managed to speak calmly, as if Con’s graphic words hadn’t affected her. “The end result is the same. An orgasm. So why waste all that time? In the hour it takes you to lick someone from head to toe—” God, seriously? Want. “—I could have had half a dozen orgasms.” Assuming she was with some fictional male who could come that many times too — or a Seminus demon, whose ejaculate left females climaxing over and over, even if he left the room.

“Trust me,” he murmured, “the wait is worth it. You’ll get all those, but they’ll be better. Hotter. A-fucking-mazing.”

Sin went utterly wet and achy. Even if her succubus needs weren’t creeping up on her, Con would have jumpstarted things.

“Put pressure on your laceration.” The abrupt change of tone and subject made her blink, but he turned away to paw through the glass-faced cabinets and toss supplies next to her on the gurney.

Still dizzy with the images he’d put in her head, she grabbed a paper towel from the dispenser behind her and held it to the bleeding wound. A trickle of warmth ran down her arm and into her palm, and she covertly tucked another paper towel inside her coat sleeve. Then she entertained herself by watching Con’s fine ass hugged by black BDU pants. When he swiveled around back to her, she got a kick out of the way his gaze went to her bare thighs and black silk thong that was now damp with her arousal.

The longer he stared, the faster her heart beat, the more her belly fluttered.

The hotter it got inside the damned ambulance.

When his silver eyes finally snapped up, they’d darkened to a rich, smooth pewter, the hunger in them stark and undeniable, which was no surprise given what they’d just been talking about. For just a moment, she wondered if he’d act on his need…

Now, I realize it's black and white — and pretty. But it'll be even prettier in person, because it'll have a metallic wash over it, so it'll be silver and black instead of black and white. I can't wait to see it!!!!!

HER TOUCH IS DEADLY

As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she’ll die before she’ll relinquish her freedom again. Then Sin’s innate ability to kill her enemies goes awry: She creates a lethal new werewolf virus that sparks a firestorm of panic and violence.

HIS HUNGER CAN’T BE DENIED

Half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall Dearghul is charged with bringing in Sin to face punishment for the plague. And she’s no stranger: He’s bound to her by blood, and the one sexual encounter they shared has left him hungering for her raw sensuality. Worse, Sin is the underworld’s most wanted and Con soon learns he’s the only one who can help her . . . and that saving her life might mean sacrificing his own.

Here's a link to Sin Undone's page…with an excerpt!

Also, recently Lore and Wraith have had awesome news, but I'm excited to announce that Shade is no longer feeling left out, because his book, Desire Unchained, won the CAPA award for Best Paranormal Romance 2009 at The Romance Studio!

WTG, Shade!

I just learned (I'm a little late – been down with a migraine for days, but yesterday it hit critical mass and left me curled in a ball under my covers for a good 18 hours) that Passion Unleashed won a CataNetwork Reviewer's Choice Award for 2009!

Yay!

You can check out the list of winners at each of the three CataNetwork sites:

Single Titles
Sensual Reads
CataRomance

Also, an early heads' up:

I'll be doing a blogtalk radio interview on February 17th at 2PM EST. You can call in with your questions during show time to participate in the live interview @ 646-378-0039. Listen-in or chat on the Grand Central Publishing channel on BlogTalkRadio. If you would like your questions to be read on air by the host or if you would like to give advanced notice of your participation during the live call, email anna.balasi@hbgusa.com

I'm already nervous. I always sound like a big doofus when I'm live!