A Terrific Contest!

This terrific contest has resulted in many requests for manuscripts from top editors and agents, and quite a few sales. Enter today!

***Permission to forward granted and encouraged***

The 2011 Launching A Star Contest Ends August 25th!!

Don’t miss out on the chance to get great feedback on your manuscript and
the opportunity to get your manuscript before great editors and agents!! For
more information go to www.authorsofromance.com and click on the contest
links on our website.

It’s easy to enter - Just the first twenty-five pages of your manuscript –
no synopsis! --sent electronically in one of the following eight categories
– including women’s fiction! Entry deadline is Midnight Eastern Daylight
Time, August 25, 2011.

OUR FANTASTIC FINAL JUDGES:

Single Title: Editor –Emilia Pisani/Simon &
Schuster Gallery Books

(Including WF) Agent-Sara Megabow/Nelson Literary
Agency

General Paranormal: Editor-Meredith Giordan/Berkley Jove

Agent-Marlene Stringer/The
Stringer Agency

Futuristic/Fantasy: Editor-Leah
Hultenschmidt/Sr.Editor/Casablanca-Sourcebooks

Agent-Ethan Ellenberg/Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency

Historical: Editor-Amanda Bergeron/Harper
Collins Publishers

Agent-Laura Bradford/The
Bradford Literary Agency

Series Contemporary: Editor-Susan Litman/Harlequin Special Edition

Agent-Roberta Brown/Brown
Literary Agency

Romantic Suspense: Editor-Holly Blanck/St. Martin’s Press

Agent-Chelsea Gilmore/Maria
Carvainis Agency

Inspirational: Editor-Natalie Hanemann/Thomas
Nelson

Agent-Suzie Townsend/Fine
Print Agency

Young Adult: Editor-Kristin Daly Rens/Harper
Collins

Agent-Becca Stumpf/The
Prospect Agency

Diane Burke's Double Identity

Hey, if you're reading this, you're in the wrong place. You should be at Everybody Needs A Little Romance where PRO Liaison Cyndi D'Alba has posted a terrific review of my good friend Diane Burke's latest release, DOUBLE IDENTITY.

Swing by

http://everybodyneedsalittleromance.com/2011/06/24/double-identity-by-diane-burke-a-review

Leave a comment.

There's a prize drawing.

If It's Tuesday, Where Am I?

I'm at Behind The Book, of course at http://author-secrets.blogspot.com. Where my good friend Maggie Jaimeson is asking all kinds of questions about THE DADDY CATCH.

Drop by and ask your own questions. Or just stop in to say, "Hello." I'll be there all day.

Simply cut/paste this link into your web browser:

http://author-secrets.blogspot.com/

If it's Monday, I'm at Harlequin

No, not actually in the building. Or rather, one of the buildings. There are many.

But today, my post is up at the Harlequin blog where I'm talking about fly fishing and romance. It's a winning combination.

I'd love to have you stop by. Leave a comment if you'd like.

Copy/paste the following link into your web browser:

http://harlequinblog.com/2011/06/fly-fishing-and-romance-%E2%80%93-a-winning-combination/

A Blogging We Will Go...

Today, I'm talking about the Awful, Terrible, Crazy camping trip that made my kids vow they'd never camp again and led hubby to abandon bait fishing in favor of fly rods. LOL

Swing by Everybody Needs A Little Romance (http://everybodyneedsalittleromance.com) and share your experiences with the great outdoors. Have a laugh. Or just leave a comment so I'm not lonely.

The Daddy Catch Kick-Off

If it's Release Day, there must be a book signing, right? Roxanne St. Claire, one of my all-time favorite people, along with upcoming new author Linda Wright and I celebrated the release of THE DADDY CATCH by selling quite a few books at the Barnes & Noble in W Melbourne, FL last night.

It was great to greet fans like Dave (who always shows up with a list!), see old friends (Joyce, I was so glad to see you!), meet new ones (Hi, Mary!) and visit with family (I have the BEST sister!).

A special thanks to Kaori Suzuki-Fischer, RWA's Book Seller of the Year, who arranged the signing, and to all the Barnes & Noble staff, but especially Steve and Ron and Allie, who made sure every detail was perfect.

Most of all, thanks to good friends like Lara Santiago (l) and Rachel Hauck (r). Each gifted authors, their encouragement and support saw me through years of rejection. It sure is fun to celebrate with you today!

This Saturday, June 11th, I'll be signing copies of THE DADDY CATCH from 1-3 PM at The Fly Fisherman in Titusville. Stop on by. There'll be loads of fun activities, including fly tying demonstrations and a terrific display of boats. You might even pick up a book or two.

It's Release Day!

Today THE DADDY CATCH officially hits the shelves in book stores. To celebrate, I've sent all the workmen home. For the first time in for-evah, no jack hammers, no nail guns, no "Oh, fiddle-de-sticks!" ringing out through the house when someone hammers their thumb instead of a nail. Instead, there's peace and quiet at my house.

It reminds me of a calm day on the water. Like the ones Jess and Dan experience in THE DADDY CATCH. Dan Hamilton is a foster care success story whose wildest dreams are within reach when he's asked to join in building a medical center on Florida's east coast. Widowed Jessica Cofer wants little more than to help her young son grow into an honest man and preserve the natural beauty of Phelps Cove.

But when Dan costs her little boy the catch of a lifetime, Jess seriously considers stranding the interloper in the Cove where mosquitoes will carry him off… if the panthers don't get him first.