Jessica Darago lives just outside Washington DC with her partner, Mathew, and an unusually opinionated stuffed lion. Born and raised on Long Island, she’s been writing almost since she first picked up a crayon and now makes her living helping college professors create study guides and reference materials. After decades of squashing her fiction-writing urge — just barely escaping graduate school without a Fine in the middle of her Master of Arts — she rose to the challenge of the International 3-Day Novel Contest in 2005. Her novella, A Compelling Yarn, a pastiche of Austen’s Emma set at a … Read more »

I’m going to be reposting the contest rules at the beginning of each post. If you’ve already read them, scroll down for today’s post and questions.

To celebrate the release of ENTWINED, I’m giving away a BUNCH of prizes. There are two parts to this contest:

PART ONE :
Post the ENTWINED widget (below) on your FB page, blog sidebar, tweet about the contest and/or book, email your friends and spread the word…basically, any way you talk up the book or contest will enter you for one of three $25 gift cards to the online bookstore of your choice. … Read more »

It’s official. Just about two weeks until ENTWINED releases on July 27, 2010. RT BookReviews recently gave ENTWINED 4 1/2 stars and made it a top pick, saying:

“This second in Naughton’s Eternal Guardians series has wonderful characters. The combination of old-world gods and modern technology is fascinating. Violent and bloody, it’s action packed and exciting with a cliffhanger ending.”

To celebrate the release of ENTWINED, I’m giving away a BUNCH of prizes. There are two parts to this contest:

PART ONE :
Post the ENTWINED widget (below) on your FB page, blog sidebar, tweet about the contest and/or … Read more »

Today I’m thrilled to have good friend and fellow RCRW member Kendra Elliot with us!!

As a kid, Kendra read and read and read. Laura Ingalls, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden were her close companions. She was never without a book in hand. Today her taste in mysteries still exists. She loves Lee Child, Karen Rose, Robert Crais, and Tami Hoag. She also enjoy losing herself in a sweeping historical romance by Diana Gabaldon or a contemporary by Rachel Gibson.

Kendra decided to try her hand at novel writing after she read a newspaper article about NaNoWriMo. “Heck, I can … Read more »

Young adult author Erica O’Rourke reads anything she can get her hands on – including cereal boxes and train schedules. But she writes what she loves: dark urban fantasy about girls who fall for boys they shouldn’t, learn to use their loud voices, and take control of their fate.  She likes the Oxford comma, anything ginger-flavored, driving stick shift, and flawed characters who have to make hard choices. Whenever possible, she avoids iceberg lettuce, live fish, algebra, and emoticons. Erica lives outside of Chicago with her husband, three daughters, and two very, very bad cats. To learn more about her, … Read more »

So today is July 3rd (in case you lose track like I often do). Someone recently asked me if I was excited about the RITA awards at the end of the month. Honestly, I haven’t thought much about it. Between a deadline (two, really), kids home for the summer, thoughts of moving (a whole other story) and the release of ENTWINED coming up, I haven’t had a lot of time to get excited–or nervous–about the RITAs. I have ordered my dress and got the call that it came in, but I haven’t picked it up yet. And I did buy … Read more »

An 11th generation Texan, Angi Morgan utilizes her strong heritage to create passionate characters willing to risk everything.  She writes Intrigues where danger and honor collide with love. When the house is quiet, she plots ways to engage her readers with complex story lines, throwing her characters into situations they’ll never overcome…until they find their one and only. Visit Angi at www.angimorgan.com

Angi’s manuscript,  SEE JANE RUN, finaled in Category Series Romance: Suspense/Adventure. It also SOLD (Wahoo!!!!) to Harlequin Intrigue and is a September 2010 release as HILL COUNTRY HOLDUP:

A mother’s worst nightmare.  When research chemist Jane Palmer’s