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If you haven't read it, now's a great chance to pick up for free. If you have read it, tell your friends!

Edited to add:

I've gotten quite a few emails from new readers who enjoyed Rule of Three and wonder what to read next. If you liked Rule of Three because it was M/M/F menage, you might also like:

One Wicked Night

And watch for How to Love, out June 25, 2013

Also 2 Hot 2 Handle is M/M/F menage- it is a shorter novella.

If you enjoy menage, I have other books that are M/F/M menage stories which do NOT end with an HEA for all three characters:

With Strings Attached

Lost and Found

 

Kansas City here I come!

I'll be at the RT Booklovers Convention from April 30 - May 4. If you're there, I would love to meet you! Here's where I'll be (other than wandering around lost and aimless):



WEDNESDAY:

SPECIALTY: PARSING THE SMEXY: EROTIC ROMANCE DEFINED

How do you define erotic romance? Is it all about the story, or all about the heat and kink? Is it just smut with an HFN? Should it be a subgenre at all? However you define erotic romance, even if it’s just “I know it when I see it,” join authors, reviewers and industry professionals in what's sure to be a lively, thought-provoking discussion of this hot topic.

1:15pm - 2:15pm
 Mezzanine Level
Room:  Van Horn B



READER: COVER MODEL KARAOKE

Come sing along to your favorite hits, with hunky cover models! Join the Smutketeers and the Nine Naughty Novelists, who will be your doo-wop back-up singers, for a fun-filled hour of musical mayhem. There will be gift bags, prizes — and we mentioned the hunky cover models, right?!

 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Location: Ballroom Level
Room: New York A


THURSDAY

SOCIAL EVENT: E-BOOK, INDIE PUBLISHER & GRAPHIC NOVEL EXPO

Come meet more than 300 authors whose books are available as e-books, self-published and independent press books. All e-books at this event will be available through All Romance E-Books (ARe).
This event is also open to the public. Tickets are $5.00 and you can purchase a ticket at the door the day of the event.

4:00pm - 6:00pm Location: Mezzanine Level
Room: Exhibit Hall A


SOCIAL EVENT: SAMHAIN’S SAFARI

Lions and tigers and shapeshifters... oh my! Enjoy jungle beats, tasty treats and gaming feats with the staff and authors at Samhain Publishing. This year we celebrate all things shapeshifter with food and drink, games, music and prizes including e-readers, Samhain store gift cards and plenty of books. Take a walk on the wild side with us!

6:15pm - 7:45pm
Location:  Lobby Level
Room: Gillham Hall A

PROMISE HARBOR BACHELORETTE PARTY

Join the authors of the Promise Harbor Wedding series who'll be there to play Dirty Minds and give away naughty prizes.

8:00pm - ?
"The Bar" (we hope there's only one)


SATURDAY:

SOCIAL EVENT: GIANT BOOK FAIR

Meet more than 400 authors who will autograph books, posters and bookmarks. Bring your “keepers” and have them signed!

The Saturday Giant Book Fair ticket is included in the full general convention registration fee.
This event is also open to the public and can be purchased as an individual ticket for just the Giant Book Fair. You can pre-order a book fair ticket here (Choose Day & Weekend Passes and Individual Tickets in the dropdown menu) or you can purchase a ticket at the door the day of the event. Pre-ordered tickets will be picked up at the hotel on the day of the Giant Book Fair.

You may bring in your books from home to get them autographed, however, they must be checked in and stamped (invisible ink so no damage to your books) before you enter the book fair. Also only two books from home per author are allowed.

PERK FOR FULL CONVENTION ATTENDEES:
Attendees signed up for the entire convention and who have a badge will be allowed to enter the Giant Book Fair 15 minutes earlier (at 10:45am) so they can beat the crowds of local fans waiting to get in to meet the authors.

11:00am - 2:00pm
Location: Mezzanine Level
Room:  Exhibit Hall A


FAN-TASTIC DAY: FAN-TASTIC DAY PARTY

Meet a revolving door of hundreds of authors as they make appearances every 30 minutes in this high-energy event. Be one of the first 500 to sign up and receive a goody bag filled with free books and promotional items. Choose “FAN-tastic Day Pass” when you register for a pass that includes the party, the goody bag (first 500 registrants), the workshops and the Giant Book Fair.

There will be 50+ door prizes, including e-readers, lap desks, books, gift certificates and more!

6:30pm - 7:45pm
Location:  Ballroom Level
Room:  Chicago, New York, San Francisco


Of course I'll be attending lots of OTHER social events but those are the places I know I'll be! Hope to see you there!

This is what I'm listening to over and over again today...   :-)

I announced here a while back that Rule of Three had been nominated at The Romance Reviews for  Best Erotic Romance, GLBT, Ménage or more, and hey, it won! Yay!

To celebrate, I'm going to give away a couple of signed PRINT copies. If you'd like to win, pop over to my Facebook page 
and check out the Welcome tab (you have to like my page to see it). I will be drawing the winners Saturday April 13.

Thanks to The Romance Reviews and all who voted!

Having characters that readers can relate to is important in a romance novel. We call them "sympathetic" characters. We want readers to feel what the characters are feeling and get inside their heads and their hearts.

A reader commented about my most recent release, Jilted, that she didn't like all the betrayals in the story. Part of the history for these characters is that Josh and Devon, my hero and heroine, had a past relationship that ended when they could not agree on something important to their future together. It was one of those situations that has no easy answer, but also no right or wrong. For them, at that time, things didn't work out and they went their separate ways.

The "betrayal" came when Josh, now living back in Promise Harbor, slipped into a relationship with long time family friend Allie, who is also Devon's best friend. Yeah — that would hurt, all right. There are rules about that kind of thing, right? You don’t EVER, EVER date your BFF’s ex. 

So what’s a girl to do if she cares about this guy and being with him is making both their families happy after a lot of unhappiness? Allie calls Devon to be up front with her and tell her about the relationship. And when Devon says, hey that’s fine, Josh and I broke up and we’re over...what’s a girl to do?

And what’s a guy to do in that same situation? Josh felt like he had no choice but to leave Boston and go home to Promise Harbor, and he had some pretty compelling reasons to do that. Unfortunately, he didn’t share all of them with Devon, and unfortunately Devon didn’t share some things with Josh, leaving him feeling as if he was the one being rejected.

We don’t know what kind of conversations Josh and Allie might have had about the situation they found themselves in when they started seeing each other. Maybe it was Josh who told Allie to call Devon. Maybe Josh was a clueless man and didn’t even imagine that Devon would care, since she dumped his ass. Maybe Josh and Allie made a HUGE, hurtful mistake by getting together...but stuff like that happens in life.

When characters make big, stupid mistakes, the challenge is to get readers to understand why they made those mistakes and then for the characters to gain some insight and realize what they’ve done and learn from their mistakes. It’s called a character arc and ultimately makes for a satisfying story if it’d done well. Not every reader will experience that character growth the same. Some may find themselves unable to forgive the characters for what they did, others will be able to.

Are there things you can’t forgive romance characters for doing?

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Don't forget that Meg Benjamin, Sydney Somers, Erin Nicholas and I are on a tour over the next few weeks, talking about our Promise Harbor Wedding series, and we're doing a giveaway as part of it.

3/19 Under the Covers

3/19-23 Smutketeers

3/19 My Secret Romance

3/21 The Book Tart

3/25 Ms. Romantic Reads

3/29 - Delighted Reader 

4/3 Under the Covers

4/5 My Secret Romance

4/8  Ms. Romantic Reads

4/16 Under the Covers

4/17 - Delighted Reader

4/18 My Secret Romance

4/19 Ms. Romantic Reads

4/23 - Delight Reader

4/29 Ms. Romantic Reads

4/30 Delighted Reader

4/30 Under the Covers

5/2 My Secret Romance

5/5 Scorching Book Reviews

I've been so thrilled to have already gotten some lovely reviews for Jilted, and the positive response to this story and the series has been so gratifying!

I wanted to talk a little about my heroine in Jilted, Devon. One review for Jilted commented about how poorly Devon communicated her feelings with those she loved, and that it was frustrating knowing that a conversation could have avoided all that pain and heartache.This makes it sounds like communication is easy and everyone does it well. Wrong!

Communication is one of the biggest problems in relationships. It's not as simple as just talking about things. Sure, anyone can talk. But there are right ways to say things, and there are ways to say things that can hurt and make things worse. And when it comes to talking about feelings and our deepest fears and secrets - it's not that easy. Maybe for some people it might be, but I can say for me personally it is not easy for me to share those things, to make myself that vulnerable. True intimacy and love require it, but digging that deep is hard.

Devon grew up with a father who didn't want to talk about those things, after his wife left him and Devon. A stoic, proud man, he didn't want to let on how much that hurt or humiliated him. This is true of many men -- expressing feelings is considered wimpy. Thus, growing up with her father, Devon learned that that was how you dealt with feelings -- you kept them hidden deep inside and didn't let on if you were in pain.  And yes, that reluctance to admit her fears and how she really felt was a barrier to her relationship with Josh the first time around. But to say that things could have been resolved just by talking is a superficial observation, because opening yourself up and making yourself vulnerable in that way is definitely not an easy thing to do.

Of course, a good story has character growth and Devon comes to know this about herself, difficult as it is to admit her failing to herself. It takes courage to get past those things and I hope Devon's growth is ultimately satisfying to readers. 

I'm so excited for the first book of the Promise Harbor Wedding series to be out today! We've been talking a lot about this multi-author series so you may already know a little about it, but it's a four book series that centers around a wedding that goes all wrong. Each author took a member of the wedding party and wrote their romance story. It's not a series where the stories happen sequentially, but rather they all happen at the same time. Yes it was a little trick writing them that way, but it was also fun and very exciting to work with such talented authors!



Here's the blurb for the series:

Into even the best-planned wedding a little chaos must fall...

Join the residents of Promise Harbor, Massachusetts for the wedding of the season! Or, at least, for the most entertaining wedding of the season. The groom's been left at the altar, the Maid of Honor is MIA, the Best Man is in handcuffs and the bride has been swept off her feet--literally.

There's definitely love in the air, but things are going to get a little crazy before anyone gets to happily ever after.

Jilted, Promise Harbor Wedding book one, Kelly, Jamieson, March 19, 2013

Bolted, Promise Harbor Wedding book two, Meg, Benjamin, April 2, 2013

Busted, Promise Harbor Wedding book three, Sydney Somers, April 16, 2013

Hitched, Promise Harbor Wedding book four, Erin, Nicholas, April 30, 2013

Buy Jilted here:
Samhain Publishing
Kindle
Nook
Kobo

Apology to readers:

I've been made aware that there are a few typos in Jilted and I want to apologize for that. This is a case where there was a bit of a rush to get the book edited and formatted so it would be available at bookstores like Amazon and B&N on release day, and that resulted in a few things slipping by the numerous sets of eyes that look at a book during the editing process. I want my books to be as close to perfect as they can, so I want to apologize to readers for these oversights.

I'm doing a small tour with Goddeess Fish Promotions and having a contest! I hope you'll check out some of the stops!

March 18:  It's Raining Books
March 19:  The Muse Unleashed
March 20:  Lily Pond Reads
March 21:  Swept Away By Romance
March 22:  Harlie's Books
March 22:  STOP 2  Ramblings From This Chick

Well this was an exciting surprise! I received an email today from The Romance Reviews telling me that Rule of Three has been nominated for an award for Best GLBT – Menage a Trois or More!

If you enjoyed Rule of Three I hope you'll consider voting  - click on the button below to go to The Romance Reviews site. Thank you!
 

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Jilted will be out March 19! Not only is this exciting because it's the release of that book, but it's also the start of the Promise Harbor Wedding series with my fabulous author partners Meg Benjamin, Sydney Somers and Erin Nicholas.

Promise Harbor Wedding Book 1

March 19, 2013

The wedding’s off but the honeymoon is on...

Devon can do this. She can show up at her ex-boyfriend Josh’s wedding, even though he’s marrying her ex-best-friend. She can show everyone she’s happy with her fabulous life in Boston, her great career, her amazing shoes — and she can show everyone she’s over him.

Truth is, her life isn’t so fabulous. She’s just been downsized out of her job, her Jimmy Choos won’t pay her rent, and...she’s still heartbroken that Josh chose family over her. The real reason she’s enduring this wedding is that her next stop is nearby Greenbush Island, her last hope of finding a new job.

Josh knows marrying long-time friend Allie will make everyone happy after the rough time their families have been through, and since the woman he really wanted to marry chose her career and big city life over him—why not?

But the perfect wedding turns into a perfect disaster when Allie leaves him at the altar for another man. He never saw that coming! But hey, Devon’s there, offering to help him look for Allie on Greenbush Island, where he’d planned their honeymoon. Only, all they find are their old feelings for each other and a temptation to risk their hearts one more time...

Warning: This book contains a firefighter hot enough to ignite flames, a woman who doesn’t want to get burned again, a honeymoon suite but no honeymoon, and sex not on the beach (sorry).

Add Jilted to your Goodreads shelf!

Read an excerpt at www.PromiseHarborWedding.com

 

This page features recipes that appear (or could appear!) in my books. I talk a lot about food and drink in my stories so thought I'd share some of these recipes.

Stoned Stew
From The Complete Best of Bridge Cookbook

Lance Thomson Photographic

This recipe is for Matt, from With Strings Attached. He's a brewmaster who likes to create new beers and this is a great recipe for one of his brown ales. (It's actually pretty similar to the boeuf carbonnade recipe below)

3 lbs stewing beef, cut up
1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp seasoned pepper (I LOVE seasoned pepper)
1/4 oil
2 large onions, thinly sliced
1 can sliced mushrooms (I used FRESH mushrooms, sliced)
1 can beef broth (I use Campbell's Stock First)
1 bottle beer (I used a brown ale)
2 tbsp vinegar
2 tbsp sugar
2 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp thyme
3 bay leaves
2 tbsp parsley.

In plastic bag combine flour, salt and pepper. Trim beef cubes and shake in flour mixture. Heat oil in skillet and brown meat, turning often. Add sliced onions, mushrooms with liquid, beef broth, beer, vinegar, sugar, garlic, thyme and bay leaves. 

Kelly's note:  My pan wasn't big enough to hold everything. I like to cook a lot and have leftovers, so I browned the meat and transferred it to a large casserole dish, then sauteed the onions until soft, then the mushrooms and garlic and the rest of the ingredients, then added that all to the casserole.

Simmer, covered, adding water if necessary, for 2 hours. Add parsley. Serve over hot buttered noodles. 

Kelly's note: I baked it in the oven at 350 degrees for 2 hours              
 

Chicken with Artichokes and Lemons

In "Taming Tara" family cook Nina makes this recipe when Joe comes for dinner with Tara and her family. Since the Lockhart family are olive growers in California, it makes sense that they would use olives in many of their meals.


1 chicken cut into 8 serving pieces (I use boneless, skinless chicken breasts because that's my preference - I use 4 and cut them in half)
2 tbsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup dry sherry
1 1/2 cups chicken stock
2 bay leaves
1 1/2 tsp dry oregano
1/4 tsp pepper
1 lemon
16 black olives
1 jar marinated artichoke hearts
2 tbps fresh parsley


Heat oil in large heavy skillet. Brown chicken, in batches if necessary, and transfer to plate.


Pour off all but 1 tbs fat from skillet. Cook onions and garlic until softened, 3-4 minutes. Pour in sherry, stirring to scrape up brown bits from pan. Add stock, bay leaves, oregano and pepper. Arrange chicken in pan in single layer.


Peel lemon, removing white pith. Slice lemon and remove seeds, then add to pan along with olives. Bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 30 minutes. (Note if you're using boneless chicken breasts, this will be only about 15 minutes).


Nestle the artichoke hearts among chicken pieces and simmer for about 10 minutes longer or until chicken is no longer pink inside. (Again if using boneless chicken breasts, this will only be a few minutes more to heat the artichoke hearts.) Discard the bay leaves.


Using a slotted spooon, transfer chicken, lemon, artichokes and olives to a platter. Boil the remaining liquid over high heat for 3 to 5 minutes or until thickened slightly. Pour over chicken and garnish with parsley.


Makes 4 to 6 servings.
Recipe is from Canadian Living Cooking Collection


I like this served with couscous and a green vegetable.




Sexpresso Night Pork Tenderloin

Lance Thomson Photographic

This recipe doesn't actually appear in my book Sexpresso Night, but since coffee is an important ingredient, I thought it was an appropriate dish to go with the book. Don't worry - this doesn't taste like coffee, it just tastes rich and delicious and is impressive if you have guests - very sophisticated.

Sauce:
1 tbsp butter
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1 tsp minced garlic
1/4 cup bourbon (yum!)
1 cup beef stock
6 tbsp cream
1 tsp finely chopped fresh thyme
salt & pepper

Rub
4 tsp finely ground dark-roasted coffee
4 tsp finely chopped fresh thyme
2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper

2 pork tenderloins

To make the sauce:

In a medium saucepan, melt the butter. Add the onion and cook until tender, about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent browning. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute more. Remove saucepan from the heat, carefully add the bourbon and return to heat (watch out so it doesn't catch fire!) Reduce heat to medium and add the beef stock and cream. Simmer until about 1/3 cup liquid remains, 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the thyme, season with salt and pepper to taste.

To make the rub:

In a small bowl, mix the rub ingredients with your fingers.

Bring tenderloins to room temperature. Trim all fat. Lightly brush all over with oil and spread the rub evenly over, pressing the spices into the meat. Grill until barely pink in the center. Remove from grill and let rest about five minutes. Slice diagonally. Bring the sauce to a simmer and spoon over the sliced pork. Garnish with sprigs of fresh thyme.

Steak Rub

Here's a rub for grilling or barbecuing steak (whatever you call it where you live!) that appears in my book Lost and Found when Krissa and Nate are grilling up steaks and drinking wine:

1 1/2 tsp whole black peppercorns
1 1/2 tsp mustard seed
1 1/2 tsp paprika
1 1/2 tsp light brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp sea salt
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp onion powder
1 1/2 tsp ground coffee
1 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

Grind this all up in a spice grinder (I use an extra coffee grinder for grinding spices). Brush the steaks with oil and the press the rub into the meat. It makes lots, but it keeps. Also you can use it on pork, too, I've done pork tenderoin and pork chops with it.

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The first recipe I'm posting is used in my book Dream Girl. Zach is a brewmaster, the creative force behind Surf Coast Brewery. He likes to cook and he often uses beer in recipes. This is one he makes for Ashlyn:  Beef Carbonnade. The recipe comes from Canadian Living Magazine. This makes 8 servings but you can adjust up or down. Zach used a Brown Ale in the book but you can use other beer as well. This is good with potatoes, but I also like it with noodles.

Beef Carbonnade


Ingredients:

3 lbs (1.5 kg) chuck or round steak
2 tbsp (25 mL) flour
2 tsp (10 mL) each paprika and salt
1 tsp (5 mL) pepper
1/4 cup (50 mL) butter or oil
6 large onions, sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
4 carrots, cut_into large chunks
1/2 cup (125 mL) each chopped celery leaves and fresh parsley
1/2 tsp (2 mL) dried thyme
1 bay_leaf
1/3 cup (75 mL) flour
2-1/2 cups (625 mL) beer 3 tbsp (50 mL) packed brown_sugar
2 tbsp (25 mL) cider_vinegar
1/3 cup (75 mL) finely chopped fresh parsley

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Preparation:

Trim excess fat from meat; cut into 1-inch (2.5 cm) cubes. In large bowl, combine 2 tablespoons (25 mL) flour, paprika, salt and pepper; add meat and toss to coat.

In large heavy saucepan or Dutch oven, melt half of the butter over medium-high heat; brown beef, in batches and adding more butter if necessary. Remove meat and set aside.

Add remaining butter to pan; cook onions and garlic; stirring and adding 1 tablespoon (15 mL) water if pan is browning too much, for 5 minutes or until softened. Stir in carrots, celery leaves, parsley, thyme and bay leaf; stir in 1/3 cup (75 mL) flour.

Return meat to pan; pour in beer. Add sugar; bring to boil. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours. Uncover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours longer or until meat is tender and sauce is slightly thickened.

Stir in vinegar; simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Remove bay leaf. (Make-ahead: Stew can be cooled, covered and refrigerated for up to 3 days; reheat over medium-low heat for about 45 minutes.)

Garnish with finely chopped parsley.

 

Only a few days left to vote in the Erotic Menage Fan's Choice Awards!

My book Rule of Three has been nominated in the Bisexual/Tran-sexual Category - if you liked it, I hope you'll go vote!Thank you!

So many readers have emailed me and messaged me about when the next Heller Brothers book will be out and HERE IT IS!!

I wanted to blog a little about the book so people know what to expect. This is not Matt Heller's story - I do have one planned for him, but there are reasons I didn't write his now. And here they are.

When I wrote Logan’s book, One Man Advantage, I set it in the fall, when the NHL trading deadline is, because Logan gets traded and his life turned upside down, which meant it happened close to the due date of Brianne’s pregnancy (from Breakaway). In One Man Advantage, in early December, the baby is born. Jase’s brothers are still pushing him to get a paternity test, as they did in Faceoff. But there was never a good way to work that result into One Man Advantage, which was really Nicole’s story. And so readers (and I!) were still left wondering — was Jase really the father of Brianne’s baby?

I knew I had to wrap up that story thread. And I have one more book planned, for youngest brother Matt. But at only age 19 in the first three books, I'm going to have to jump ahead at least 8-10 years to make him a hero the age I usually write. How would I work in a detail like the paternity of the baby, which at that point would be pretty old news? Especially if the baby wasn’t Jase’s? (I still didn’t know the answer at that point.) It would seem pretty obviously planted just to tie that up, and I didn’t like that. I also felt that readers would want to be there when that news was revealed, to experience the emotion of the moment, whatever the outcome, rather than read about something that happened ten years ago.

So seeing as the last story ended in early December, I decided to get all the Heller brothers home together for Christmas, and I wrote Hat Trick. Jase and Remi have just got the results of the paternity test. Tag and Kyla also have surprising news. And Nicole is meeting Logan’s overwhelming family for the first time in their new relationship, at a stressful time of year. We get to revisit all three brothers and their girlfriends and at last have the answer we’ve all been waiting for.

I never intended that thread to draw out through four stories, but somehow it did, and I find it so funny that I didn’t know the answer either until I wrote Face Off!

So now we just have to have patience as I try to find enough time to write Matt's story. Believe me, I want it done as much as anyone!

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I was recently contacted by Sarah Frantz, senior acquiring editor at Riptide Publishing, with an awesome invitation! She invited me to join their Christmas 2014 charity anthology!

Riptide Publishing is  a boutique GLBT romance publisher and for 2014 the title of their holiday project is "Share the Love" with a ménage theme. I'm so thrilled she thought of me to be part of this awesome project. And I've already started working on my ménage story!

Mary's Naughty Whispers is very happy to announce the nominees for the first Ménage Romances Fan’s Awards!

Congratulations to everyone!

Voting will close on February 28, 2013. Winners will be announced on March 1st.

 

Rule of Three is nominated in the Bisexual category - if you enjoyed it, I hope you'll go and cast a vote for it. Thank you!

 

Today I'm celebrating not just a new release of a book that I loved writing, but I'm celebrating the release of my 25th book!! I know, I'm amazed too.

To celebrate I'm doing a small blog tour and I'm giving away a special gift - a silver necklace with silver book charm - because twenty-five means silver, right?

There will also be a couple of runner-up prizes of chocolate body paint - if you read With Strings Attached, you'll know why. :-D

Here are the tour stops - I hope you'll stop by and read more about chocolate, beer, friends to lovers and Corey and Matt and Dylan!

January 22 - The Book Tart - http://thebooktart.com/

January 22 - Shh Mom's Reading

http://shhmomsreading.com/

January 25 - The Smutty Kitty - http://thesmuttykitty.com/

January 27 - Under the Covers - http://www.underthecoversbookblog.com/

January 30 -  Belle's Book Bag - http://bellesbookbag.blogspot.com/

February 3 -  Scorching Book Reviews - http://scorchingbookreviews.blogspot.com/

February 5 - Harlie's Books - http://www.harliesbooks.com/

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Back in October, the Nine Naughty Novelists (well, eight of us, anyway) travelled to New Orleans for a writer's retreat. You can read more about it here.

Today, the first installment of Nine Nights in New Orleans is out, with my story No One Drinks Alone. I hope you'll check it out!

Today's the first official day of our new blog, Romancing the Jock, and we're celebrating with a big contest! We've got great prizes including a Kindle Fire OR nook HD and lots of books! Come on by and check out all the great authors participating in the blog and leave us a comment to enter the contest.

My first post there will be January 18 and I'm excited to talk about sports...you know I love my hockey, right?

Yes I will be having a glass or two of bubbly this evening! Happy New Year everyone - thanks for making 2012 an awesome year for me and wishing you all health, happiness, friendship and LOVE for 2013!