Gone to the Beach...

Or rather, I was gone. This weekend.  It was lovely, just me and my husband.  We walked and we enjoyed the small fishing town of Garibaldi, Oregon.  This picture was taken on the beach at Oceanside.  What a great time we had.

And now...back to work. A proposal to write for book four of the BRAVO ROYALES and then on to write the mauscript for book three.

We had a week of gorgeous days here in Portland, but today we're back to rainy with clouds.  It's okay.  It's sunny in my heart!  ;)

To the left?  Driftwood on that same Oceanside Beach.

Wanted to take the train tour of Tillamook Bay.  But the tours don't start till next week.  So I settled for standing on the steps....

FFFt on New Look...

Blogger?  Hello?  Dynamic Views?  Not so much.  So I'm back to the old layout with a pretty forest background.  Yay!

And here's a forest view from out my living room window. Soooo beautiful here.  In the '80s today.  Enjoying every minute of this sunshiny week.

This is cleanup week after the big push to get the most recent book in--which was book 3 in The Bravo Royales series.

Now I'm doing the line edit for the Book 2, THE PRINCE SHE HAD TO MARRY.  And then filing and all other manner of glamorous stuff.  (not.)  And shopping.  Gearing up for the trip to Anaheim in July for the big Romance Writers of America conference.  Rooming with my longtime buddy, Susan Crosby.  It's going to be great fun.

Hope it's sunny where you are!

New Look!

Well, I'm trying the new Dynamic Blogger template.  Pretty scary....

Also, finished a book.  THE RANCHER'S CHRISTMAS PRINCESS (book 3 of the Bravo Royales) has been sent to my publisher.

Now comes all kinds of office cleanup and organizing.  And then another proposal.  It goes on...

Do you like this new format?  Hate it?  Let me know what you think if you have a moment...

Oh, and the kid in the sunglasses?  That's my baby.  He's all grown up now, but back when, he loved nothing so much as a pair of sunglasses behind which to be totally cool.

Special Edition Authors Blog Up and Running!

Our new Special Edition Authors Blog is up and running.

I'm blogging today--and always on the first and fourth Tuesdays of every month.  Click the link above and drop in.  Say hi.  When you comment, you're entered to win a signed book from my backlist.

Happy May Day everyone!  Hope your day is full of sunshine and spring flowers.

Cover for July 2012 release

I love this one!  Yum!

Back cover copy reads...



THUNDER CANYON NUGGET 

Texas Cowboy Lassoes Runaway Bride? 

Look out ladies: there's another Traub bachelor in town! Jason "Jace" Traub is every bit as gorgeous as his sexy twin brother, but rumor has it he is even more marriage-shy. There's not a woman alive who could make this restless rancher settle down.... 

Yet insiders whisper that Jace has been talking wedding plans with Jocelyn Bennings, the chestnut-haired beauty who ran out on her own wedding just days ago! Could the confirmed bachelor really be hooking up with heartbroken, headstrong Joss? Stay tuned, loyal readers, to find out if their marriage of convenience runs amuck-or if lasting passion will finally rope in the last single maverick!

Montana Mavericks…

              Back in the Saddle!

Camillias!

Oh, I am so proud of my camellias.  Not a lot of blooms yet, but still!  And I got three plants last year, all with pink blossoms.  Should have gotten a few different colors.  Ah,well.  I love them anyway!

 

On to the next book...

To the left?  Cats in the sun.  We don't get a whole lot of sun around here this time of year, so they never miss their chance to lie in a spot of sunshine when it finally becomes available.  That was last week sometime.  Today, it's rainy and gray again.  I'm glad I took that picture to remind me of the last sunny day.

It's fabulous being a RITA finalist (see previous post).  But in the end, the working life of a writer is about...the writing.

So I've moved on to the next project, for which the title has actually been formalized.  THE RANCHER'S CHRISTMAS PRINCESS will be on stands in December of this year.  This will be the third in The Bravo Royales series, the first where the heroine is one of the five Bravo-Calabretti princesses.

Princess Arabella's best friend has recently and tragically died.  So Belle comes to Montana to find the father of her best friends eighteen-month-old son.

I'm writing the scene where she tells the hero that he's a dad.  He's not taking it all that well--which makes for fast, emotion-packed writing.  My favorite kind!