Cover The Rancher's Christmas Princess

Totally in love with this one!  Feels like the holidays are coming early, somehow.

Scroll to next post down for back cover copy...

Almost Like Fall...

It is!  Almost like fall around here.  The False Solomon Seal, at left, has bloomed, shed its petals and brought out the fall berries--which as you can see, are half-eaten already by local wildlife.

It's gorgeous here this time of year.  Brisk clear nights and days warming into the '80s.  The Northwest version of paradise.

My flame maple in back is looking pretty red.  It's a big sapling, still, so it's not that showy.  But it's definitely showing me its version of Autumn.

It's been one super-busy summer around here, rushing to meet deadlines, attending the big Romance Writers of America conference in Anaheim.  Great fun.  Photos on my website, here.

I was up for the RITA award twice.  Didn't win.  But sure had a lovely gala night at the awards dessert party.  My younger son came to visit for a few days.  So good to see him.  We showed him the sites of Portland.

And now we're into our big master bath remodel.  (Pictures later) and I'm off soon to plot group to plan more books.

And speaking of books...

Two in a row comin' right up.  In November, The Prince She Had to Marry.  Here's the cover:

I love the look the two of them are sharing.  And her cute little baby bump.  She's about three months pregnant in this scene.

Back cover copy reads:

FOR HONOR.  AND FOR LOVE?

Cold, distant Alexander Bravo-Calabretti was the last man

Liliana of Alagonia had ever imagined marrying! After all,

even a princess longs for happily-ever-after. But when a

one-night fling with her nemesis led to a royal baby-on-the-

way, only a wedding would satisfy their disapproving

families. So with a fast, secret ceremony, they were joined

for life.

Alex had agreed to make an effort for the sake of the

baby, even though letting the lovely Lili close was a threat

to the barriers he’d long struggled to maintain. But the

future of the throne—and his royal honor—was at stake.

And when he and Lili posed as happy newlyweds for the

paparazzi, he found himself wishing that their marriage

could be for real after all….

Then in December, The Rancher's Christmas Princess.  I don't have the cover for that yet.  But here's the back cover copy:

A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. 

FROM THE PAST.

Arabella Bravo-Calabretti came to Elk Creek, Montana, with a secret to deliver and a job to do. Being a Bravo Royale, she was going to do it right. Before she handed her best friend's darling son, Ben, over to his unwitting father, they would all spend Christmas together. Only then could she be absolutely sure that rancher Preston McCade was ready to be a dad.

Or...was that really the reason Belle was hanging around?  She and Preston were practically from different planets, yet the attraction was undeniable.  Before long, someone was utterly in love with a rancher--and Christmas in Montana was presenting one suprise after another.

I do love the copy on both of these.  You can click on the titles to order from Amazon.

Happy Reading everyone...and now, to clean up this office a little....

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!

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!

Travels to Vegas

Back from plot group.  That would be four days in Las Vegas with four other authors.  10 plotting sessions, 2 books each.  Lots of Starbucks and way too many tortilla chips on the two nights we ate Mexican.  I love salsa.  I also love guacamole.  We had both.  That's my excuse.  Mwahaha.

The picture to the left?  Yours truly, Teresa Southwick and Kate Carlisle, three of the five of our crew.  Missing from this photo?  Susan Mallery and Maureen Child.

Now I'm home, catching up madly.  I finished the edits that were waiting for me from my publisher.  And Monday?  On to the next proposal.  That will take up to a week.  I love writing proposals because I start by listening to the tape of the plotting session from plot group.  I love not only the great ideas I get from my plot mates, but also the jokes we are constantly cracking as the session progresses.

Once the proposal is outta here, I'll write the third in the Bravo Royales series.  Title: THE RANCHER'S CHRISTMAS PRINCESS.  You'll never guess.  It's a December release.

Here in Portland, the sun is out.  Loving that.  Hope it's sunny where you are...