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

Lynda Bailey lives in Reno, NV with her husband, Pat, her son, Will, two dogs, Cerveza and Athena, and her cat, Groucho. After graduating in 1980 with a bachelor in technical theatre from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA, Lynda moved to Reno and got a job working on Don Arden’s huge stage show, Hello Hollywood Hello. This is where she met her husband Pat. Their “cute meet” story wasn’t so much cute as it was painful – for Lynda. They were bouldering (a milder form of rock climbing) with some friends near Pyramid Lake when she … Read more »

Hey all,

Today I’m hanging with Cynthia Eden for her Deadly Days of Summer Contest. We’re talking about ENTWINED and I’m giving away a book! So hop on over to Cynthia’s blog to join in the fun.

And I keep meaning to post this but have been distracted by all the fab GH spotlights. Anyhoo…here’s the widget for my July 27th release, book 2 in the Eternal Guardians Series – ENTWINED! I’m thinking a contest is in order (I haven’t done one in a while), so if you’d like to win a $25 gift card to the bookstore … Read more »

Heather Snow is a historical romance writer with a degree in Chemistry who found she much preferred creating chemistry on the page, rather than in the lab.  She is forever trying to wrangle her left and right brain to work together (some days with more success than others!), but if her two sides had to duke it out, left would win every time—which can be a creative challenge.  Luckily, she loves challenges…she just goes about solving them analytically.

In addition to finaling in the Golden Heart, Sweet Enemy won the 2010 Chicago North Fire and Ice in the Historical Category, … Read more »

Elisa Beatty loves moving between contrary worlds: raised on the East Coast in a deeply “historic” Revolutionary-War-era town, she now lives on the West Coast, just north of uber-progressive Berkeley, California. Her parents were scientists, but she fell in love with the arts, especially theater and writing. She went on to do doctoral studies in literature, specializing in Shakespeare and gender studies, but is fascinated by popular fiction—her bookshelves have Dostoevsky, Donne, Woolf and Foucault rubbing shoulders with scads of romances.  An English teacher by trade, she spends whatever free time she can grab (including SUMMER!!) writing Regencies.

In addition … Read more »

Gabrielle Luthy spent her teen years on a mango plantation in Central Queensland, Australia. While her brother quickly got his driver’s permit so he could go play in the closest big smoke (60,000 people), she was content to stay home and write tales of people playing in other big smokes (San Francisco was a favorite, and remains so). She moved to Melbourne for the career opportunities and the coffee before heading off to Paris (where the coffee sucks). After five years of working for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, she’s back in Melbourne, sharing an apartment with 2 … Read more »