Contest

Happy Thursday!  I hope your week is going well. Mine has been pretty productive so far.  I finished going over Phantom Shadows proofs and will mail them later today, meeting my deadline.  Woohoo!

I'm being interviewed today on Buffy's Ramblings.  Drop by and enter for a chance to win your choice of either a signed copy of Darkness Dawns or a signed copy of Night Reigns plus Immortal Guardians swag.  :-)

Also, there are only a few hours left to bid on signed Immortal Guardians books and other goodies that have been donated to the Brenda Novak Annual Auction for the Cure of Diabetes.  Thank you so much, everyone who has participated and bid on items! 

I hope you'll enjoy the rest of your week!  I'll be back tomorrow for Favorite Quote Friday.  :-)

Dianne

Summer Fun

Hi all!

To those who commented on the Night Reigns deleted scene I posted:  Thanks so much!  I've been working on Night Reigns copyedits and didn't have a chance to respond until yesterday.  I'm so glad you liked it!  The larger scene from which I cut it is one of my favorite scenes in the whole novel.  Hopefully it will be one of your favorites, too.

And to those who participated in Brenda Novak's Annual Auction for the Cure of Diabetes:  Thank you!  I'll be mailing off an autographed copy of Darkness Dawns with a signed cover flat and mini-bookmark to a winning bidder this week.  :-)

I have various and assorted bits of news to share with you today.

I received some wonderful foreign rights news from my editor.  Kensington sold the first 3 books in the Immortal Guardians series to Germany!  Ausgezeichnet!  I'm very excited!

 

I'm also participating in the big Sizzling Summer Reads Party that's going on right now at The Romance Reviews.  The Romance party lasts through the end of June.  Then the Erotic & GLBT party begins and continues through the end of July.  They're giving away LOTS of prizes, including not one, but two autographed copies of Darkness Dawns.  I also will be chatting in The Lounge tomorrow, June 7th, so I hope you'll drop by.

Another great event currently enticing romance readers everywhere is the Bookish Haven Summer Vacation going on over at Paranormal Haven and Larissa's Bookish Life.  I'll be Guest Posting on June 14th at Paranormal Haven and hope to see you there.  The subject:  Those Brave, Beautiful Paranormal Brotherhoods.  I'll also be giving away a signed copy of Darkness Dawns to one commenter.  Yay!

When not engaged in the above, I plan to write furiously on Book 3 in the Immortal Guardians series, update my webpage, and pamper my struggling veggie plants (this heat is horrible!).  I've already picked a few habanero peppers and boy are they hot!  Seriously, if you ever try cooking with these, wear gloves.  I cut one up and handled the pieces with my bare hands once and my skin felt like I had dipped it in boiling water for hours afterward.

I do so love spicy food, though, so it was worth it.  ;-)

Have a great week everyone!

Dianne

Contest, Auction, and Edits

Woohoo!  It's Friday!  I am SO looking forward to the weekend!  I have a variety of news for you.

First, I'm In the Author Spotlight this week over at Ann Lory's Blog Bites, where I'm giving away a signed copy of Darkness Dawns.  Drop by Blog Bites and tell me what special gift or ability you would like to possess for a chance to win.  I'll choose a winner at the beginning of next week.

Second, I finished the Night Reigns edits my editor requested.  I can't remember if I told you, but I only needed to change a word here and a sentence there, so I was very pleased.  And my editor was happy with the results.  Yay!  I also enjoyed reading through the story again.  I really like Marcus.  I'm glad he's getting his HEA.  It's funny.  While I was pursuing publication, I thought my worries would end once I signed that first contract.  Then I signed the contract and worried like crazy about the release, hope-hope-hoping readers would like it.  So I thought, if readers liked Darkness Dawns, then my worries would really be over.  Well, I'm thrilled with the responses readers have had to Darkness Dawns, so much so that words just don't convey it.  And yet . . . my worries aren't over, because now I'm figuratively chewing my nails (that's actually one bad habit I don't have), waiting to see if readers will like Night Reigns as much as they liked Darkness Dawns.  :-)  I'm guessing I'll be stricken with several bouts of insomnia between now and December.

Third, I sent all of the information requested for Brenda Novak's Annual Auction for the Cure of Diabetes.  Here's the picture I took for it:

You can find my listing -- an autographed copy of Darkness Dawns, an autographed cover flat, and a mini-bookmark -- here and other listings here.   Pass the word along.  It's for a good cause and I'm very honored to have been asked to participate.  Bidding begins in a couple of days.  I plan to bid on some items myself.  :-)

That's it for now.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Dianne