So am just back from a fabulous week in Anaheim for the 2012
RWA Conference... Exhausted, excited and inspired!
Lots of thrilling news to report, but easily the highlight of the week was
Sarah Morgan's triumphant win at the RITAs for Best Contemporary Series Romance for Doukakis's Apprentice. She gave a wonderfully witty speech and looked fabulous in her gold-fringed RITA-matching frock (and she let me fondle it for a minute - the RITA that is, not the frock - see below!). Can't think of a better ambassador for Presents than Sarah, she done us all proud. Incredibly this was the first RITA for a Presents book, may there be many more now.
Also on my agenda was a Riva lunch with lovely fellow authors
Kimberly Lang,
Aimee Carson, Sue Stephens and Fiona Harper. Needless to say there was much talk about the upcoming launch of Kiss which according to my ed the NA office are 'very excited' about. They're not the only ones!!
Had a fabulous brainstorming session with Aimee and Kimberly for our Kiss continuity which is starting to look completely AWESOME (if I do say so myself). My hero is going to be a nice Southern boy turned cynical and super-sexy CEO who had a steamy one-night stand in college with my sultry sassy British heroine. They meet again ten years later and the fireworks are going to be seriously hot! It's set in NYC and Savannah and that's really all I can say for now... But I'm so excited about this story and the others in the quartet.
The Harlequin Party was a dance-your-feet-off affair as usual and we had
Nora Roberts sitting on the table next to us! Not to mention free cosmopolitans all night. Having already stalked Nora at the Literacy Autographing earlier in the week (and got a signed copy of her new In Death book! Yay!) I had to refrain from doing it again. So me and Ms
Abby Green stalked the fabulous
Victoria Dahl instead. Managed to get an early read of her new book Close Enough to Touch and fell in love with it. Check out my
Goodreads review if you want to know more.
I finished off the week spending a day schmoozing with Abby Green and
Fiona Harper on Santa Monica Boulevard and hanging out at Abby's suite in a fabulously funky hotel in West Hollywood - before fi and I caught the flight home to London...
All in all, had such a brilliant time I didn't even shout at my sons when I saw the Mount Everest of Laundry waiting for me on my return!
In other news I've just got ahold of the cover for my next (and last) Presents Extra release
One Night, So Pregnant. Absolutely love the cover and the back blurb which should whet your appetite. The book's out in December in the US and will hopefully be out in the UK when Riva relaunches next year, but I will be putting up a sneak peek shortly on my website.
What to expect when you’re unexpectedly expecting
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Shock: Telling a gorgeous (almost) total stranger that he’s going to be a dad is never easy!
• Cravings: The instant chemistry that catapulted Tess Tremaine into the wildest night she’s ever had isn’t going to just go away— and no one says no to Nate Graystone when he’s determined to be involved….
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Hormones Gone Wild: Surely that’s the only reason she’s failing to keep Nate out of her bed, out of her mind…and why she keeps wanting more from the most unattainable man she’s ever met?
