Month: May 2009

Christy Reece Guest Blogging Tomorrow!

Please join me tomorrow in welcoming dark romantic suspense author Christy Reece to the blog. Christy’s first series, the Last Chance Rescue trilogy, is being released in back-to-back months by Ballantine. Christy is blogging on Series: Love Them or Hate Them? and is giving away a copy of RESCUE ME, her May release and the first in the series.

Back Cover copy for RESCUE ME:

A covert operative of Last Chance Rescue Enterprises (LCR), Eden St. Claire has made secrets her life’s work. Seven years ago, an evening of emotional vulnerability and pure pleasure almost destroyed her. Now Eden wears her beauty like a mask, concealing any hint of vulnerability or demons of her past.

A daring rescue of an innocent girl on a Greek island leads Eden to a new partner. Jordan Montgomery, new to LCR, has been looking for Eden—though he knows her by another name, from another time. But his search for her is overshadowed by a case that’s gone international. A powerful, ruthless, organized network is stealing women and children around the world—as a lover, a traitor, and a killer all wait for Eden’s next move.

About Christy:reece_pic

Growing up in a tiny community in Alabama boasting only one stop sign and a gas station gave Christy ample opportunity to create daring adventures in her head. When she wasn’t thinking of her story characters, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys kept her entertained and out of trouble. Later came the chills of Stephen King and the thrills of John Grisham, but the romance genre always held a strong place in her heart.

After leaving her career with a major insurance company, the characters in her head came alive again and Christy decided to write her own stories. And now, she and her characters couldn’t be happier.

A member of Romance Writers’ of America and International Thriller Writers, Christy lives in Alabama with her husband, two incredibly cute canines and one very shy turtle.

You can visit Christy on the web at www.christyreece.com.

Happy Mother’s Day!

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How are you celebrating? I’m taking my mother to brunch with Little Pisser and hopefully a niece. After, I hope to get some writing done. Then tonight I’m confiscating the monster TV! I have season finales to watch for The Amazing Race, Celebrity Apprentice, Brothers & Sisters, and then I must see Desperate Housewives, too. Sunday night is my new Must See TV. Thank God for the PVR, or I’d never manage it all.

The Joy of Writing

Warning: Could get graphic!

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Why, Cindy, why?

  1. I’m still writing the WIP. I do believe I’m in the second-to-last chapter. A couple of days ago, I thought I was in the second-to-last chapter, but now I’m almost certain I am!
  2. I have a chiropractor appointment on Friday, and I. Can’t. Wait.
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Welcome Guest Blogger Mary J. Forbes

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The scene on the cover of my May release, THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE FAMILY, 3rd installment of my “Home to Firewood Island mini-series,” makes me think of summer.  A little boy fishing, a lake in the background, trees fully leafed out. No doubt about it, I love summer, and we’re almost there if we look at the calendar.

But in truth, it’s still springtime. It’s also the season that evolves in THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE FAMILY.

Over the past few years, I’ve set a number of books on the cusp of springtime. I wondered if that held any significance to the stories and/or my characters. I didn’t have to look far to get my answer. Gazing out my window, I knew.

forbes_surprise_coverSpringtime is a sign of hope.

And hope is what romance novels are all about.

So what is it about springtime that’s so unique? What makes springtime a season of, well, happiness and love?

Off the cuff, there are several reasons spring makes me smile more, laugh more, and just…feel good.

For one, springtime is warmth. It’s sunshine and milder temperatures. It’s about chasing off cold and cloudy days and being able to go for walks without shivering.

Two, springtime is alive. Growing things are edging out of the earth. Trees turn mint green. Forsythia shrubs showcase their yellow bell-shaped flowers. Rebirth is on the horizon.

Spring is melodious. Songbirds fly up from the south and sing in the backyard. They tug worms from my garden. With a sense of urgency, they flash color here and there among shrubs and trees where they build nests. Where life moves forward.

During spring the skies offer shades of blue and cottony clouds. Eagles and hawks hang against them on the breeze, searching the ground below for food to offer their young.

In the greening woods, does hide fawns. In my backyard, squirrels chatter with gusto. Babies appear.

Everywhere I look I see spring hosting one key element: new beginnings. That evolution grew into the backdrop of THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE FAMILY. Hero and heroine, Dane and Kat, endured a great deal of heartache. In the end, they needed an omen, a sign. So I gave them nature’s forecast that love waits just around the corner.

I gave them springtime. 🙂         

Tell me about your favorite season—and win a chance to choose a copy of your choice of either THEIR SECRET CHILD, AND BABY MAKES FOUR or THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE FAMILY.  

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Entries accepted until midnight P.S.T.

To read Mary’s bio and the back cover copy for THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE FAMILY, please see yesterday’s post.

To learn more about Mary and her books, please visit her website.

Mary J. Forbes Guest Blogging Tomorrow

Tomorrow I welcome my first repeat guest blogger to Muse Interrupted. It’s appropriate that Mary J. Forbes should be my first repeat guest—because she was my first guest period. Welcome back to the blog, Mary!

Mary will blog on “Springtime Happiness” and is giving away a copy of the winner’s choice of any of the three titles in her Silhouette Special Edition mini-series, Home to Firewood Island. The stories include THEIR SECRET CHILD (May 2008), AND BABY MAKES FOUR (November 2008), and her latest release, THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE FAMILY (May 2009), which recently received a 4.5 Top Pick review from Romantic Times.

Back Cover Copy for THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE FAMILY:

YOU CAN’T HIDE FOREVER

When Kat O’Brien saw the rain-soaked stranger pull up on his motorcycle, her instincts went on red-alert. Except he was no stranger. He was Dane Rainhart, hometown war hero…and Kat’s girlhood crush. Now the single mother was more intrigued than ever by this sexy, powerful man already bonding with her son.

After being wounded in the line of duty, Dane needed a place to mend—and hide away from the world. Instead, the haunted military doctor was falling for the much-too-attractive widow and her boy. Perhaps it was time they both faced the past and took a second chance at happiness—together!

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Mary J. Forbes writes poignant and emotional stories about family and relationships for Silhouette Books. She has been on the Waldenbooks Best Sellers list, won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Holt Medallion and Laurel Wreath Award, as well as finaled in the Maggie, Aspen Gold and Golden Quill. Mary was also interviewed in last September’s issue of the Romantic Times about the NFL hero of her book, THEIR SECRET CHILD (May 08), the first of her “Home To Firewood Island” mini-series. Her current release, THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE FAMILY, is the 3rd installment of the series and received Top Pick from Romantic Times.

For more information about Mary and her books, please visit her website.

See you tomorrow!