EXCERPTS…We got Excerpts! at conniebrockway.com
The countdown begins for the release of my first historical romance in four years! To (hopefully) whet your appetite, I’m posting consecutive excerpts from SO ENCHANTING over on my website---one excerpt a week until the book hits the shelves *officially* on February 3rd, 2009. BONUS ! Those who subscribe to my newsletter list will receive an extra excerpt via email (how can you resist? You can’t! Don’t try!)
ALso, while you’re over at www.conniebrockway.com be on the look-out for a very special video of celebrity-in-the-making reviewer, Elsie Lu’s, final word on SO ENCHANTING. It should be up soooooon.
Christina Gets in the Christmas Spirits!
Christmas is coming and I have already finished the decorating!
Okay, you’re right. I’m lying. The only decorating that has been done is my website, and my web designer took care of it for me. Check it out — http://christinadodd.com now sports colored lights and a Santa hat, a replay of my classic Christmas tree blog http://christinadodd.com/blog/ (which always makes me laugh), and a special present for you — the first excerpt of my March release, DANGER IN A RED DRESS. http://christinadodd.com/excerpt.php?excerptid=46
DANGER IN A RED DRESS is the next exciting romantic suspense installment in my Fortune Hunter series, and as always, the cover is gorgeous. It features those magic ingredients that guarantee I will love it — a fabulous red dress and expensive jewelry. Why yes, I am shallow and easily enticed by sparkling things. As Christmas approaches, I hope my husband takes note.
Order DANGER IN A RED DRESS from Barnesandnoble.com:
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No matter which holiday you celebrate, my prayers are for your health and happiness this season. May we all finish the decorating before the family arrives for dinner, may those of us who are shallow receive all the sparkling things we desire. God bless us every one.
Warmly,
Christina Dodd
http://www.christinadodd.com
For the wild at heart!
P.S. In January, look for my 2009 publication schedule.
“Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” - Ann Richards
Coming soon! SO ENCHANTING-- Connie Brockway’s First Historical Romance in Four Years
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It’s the HOLIDAY SEASON.
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No, no...No! Don’t go running screaming away. I am here to help.
First, sit down. Right there. Just sit. The cookie-making will wait. Now, close your eyes. Now…
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Think past this holiday season, past the post-shopping stress, past the orgy of rich food and wine, past the relatives you were sure wouldn’t show up but did (head slap), all the nieces, nephew, and grandchildren with their gooey green noses whose parents flung their children into your unwillingly waiting arms as soon as you opened the door to them, allowing those same noses to be smeared all over your chest, shoulder, collar and face. Move beyond the writer’s cramp you got addressing envelopes, the forced cheer in the words, “Yeah. But at least we’re all in this mess together!” Move even further along the timeline, past the pole-axed sensation you experience upon opening those credit card bill, the even more astonished horror of watching your scale’s dial whizz past last October’s benchmark weigh.
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Further… further… THERE!
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Stop. It’s February. It’s over. You’ve done your duty, you’ve earned your rest. And now, finally, I want you to picture something else. You, curled up with a really good historical romance. I can almost see you: It’s the afternoon, Saturday afternoon. The kids are...well, they’re gone. So everyone else. You’re tucked into your favorite chair, a soft lap rug over you, a cup of hot chocolate (or if it’s late in the afternoon, mulled wine) within easy reach. If it’s the north, a fire is crackling in the hearth. A dog is snoring at your feet. Yes, indeed, the picture is so clear in my mind (and isn’t it in yours, too?) that I can even make out the title of the book you’re reading. It’s… it’s...Why it’s SO ENCHANTING! my first historical romance release in four years.
Lookie, how content you are! There, you’re smiling, now sighing, ah...there you go! You’re laughing.
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Okay. Snap out of it. That’s February 2nd, 2009. This is December 1, 2008. You got some miles to go before then, Toots! I just wanted you to know that SO ENCHANTING is out there waiting for you. But to help you along, over the course of four weeks prior to the publication date I’ll be including four consecutive excerpts from SO ENCHANTING to those who subscribe to my newsletter. It’s as easy as writing me at
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And if you’d like to pre-order the book, here are some options: Order from Amazon.com So Enchanting
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Have a wonderful, blessed and joyous holiday! Connie Brockway
Christina Dodd Announces a Wilder Family Extra!
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Recently I was talking to Marisa at Romance Novel TV, and she asked me what the Wilders were doing on Halloween. Since the Wilders were my family from the Darkness Chosen series, and they broke the pact with the devil that allowed them to shapeshift into predators whenever they wished, the question started me thinking …
What would the Wilders do on their first Halloween after the pact was broken?
To find out, go to http://christinadodd.com/para_scene_wilder.php , and read the first-time-in-print, all original new scene starring Konstantine, Zorana, and the whole Wilder family. Make sure you take the opportunity to read this fun new glimpse of the Wilder family after INTO THE FLAME’s climactic finale!
I hope you enjoy the scene with the Wilders, and have a happy Halloween!
Christina Dodd
http://www.christinadodd.com
For the Wild at Heart
Coming March 3, 2009!
DANGER IN A RED DRESS
Book 4 of the Fortune Hunters
Teresa Marches Through Atlanta
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Dear Friends,
Just wanted to let you know that I’ve just posted some of the fun pics from the Georgia Romance Writers Moonlight & Magnolias conference on my blog. The best part was getting to spend time with some of our devoted “Squawkees” like PJ, Gannon, Buffie, Andrea, J Perry Stone and Tricia. Just click HERE to visit!
Hugs,
Teresa
CHRISTINA DODD ON SEXUAL OBSESSION
Okay, it’s really Christina on finishing a book, but sexual obsession is a waaayyyy better title and finishing a book does involve an obsession of sorts.
I just finished the last book of my romantic suspense series, The Fortune Hunters. Most books start with an exuberant burst of creativity. I always love my first three chapters because they’re so exciting. Hero and heroine meet and start their adventure. It’s wonderful! I’m amazed at my genius! Everyone’s going to want to read this book!
Then at fifty pages, I have an unfortunate realization. I need four hundred pages. My excellent math skills immediately inform me I have to write three hundred and fifty to go. I also realize there’s no way I can write so much. I’m a fraud, never mind the fact I’ve written thirty-two books, I’ve never really done this before, and it’s impossible!
So I plod along alternating moments of brilliance with long passages of absolute drivel and before I know it, I’m at page three hundred. Okay, it’s not before I know it — it’s forever. But at around page three hundred, something happens. I get this rush. I can see the end and I work long hours. I wake up in the morning with passages of text in my head (they’re frequently out of order) and I write them before I get out of bed. I write all day and late at night. Eating becomes something that involves cereal, restaurants or take-out. My eyes look like two little computer screens, square and backlit. At the beginning of the book I aim for ten pages a day. At the end of the book I have been known to write as much as forty a day. It’s work. It’s madness. It’s obsession.
Of course while I write the end moves away from me.
This is a rule that always applies. The end is never at four hundred pages. I write on and on, waiting for the bad guys to bite the dust. For the family to reunite. And most important, for the glorious moment when the hero falls to his knees before the heroine and begs her pardon for being a jackass. Because my heroes are always jackasses and they always have to beg for the heroine’s love.
Ah, fiction.
Finally, finally, when my rear has conformed to the shape of my chair and my fingers are little nubs, I write it. THE END. Those are the most wonderful words in the English language and that includes “I love you” and “Here’s your royalty check.” I smile like I’ve got a hanger stuck in my mouth. I stumble to bed because I haven’t slept for so long — and stare at the ceiling because my brain won’t turn off. It is literally stuck in high gear for about forty-eight hours.
And then, of course, I take a week off.
Ahahahahaha! Sorry, for a moment I was delirious and thought I was living a writer’s fantasy life.
Actually, I’m so far behind on everything else — fan mail, real mail, sending out contest prizes, calling to get the burner on the stove (which is only a year old) fixed, petting the dogs, petting my husband, talking to my kids, cleaning the house — that I make a list, a horrible list of Things to Do, and start desperately trying to catch up.
So that’s it. The book is done. My life will slowly return to normal. I’ll start the synopsis for the next book Monday (although I guarantee my office still won’t be clean) and I’ll start the same cycle. And really, finishing a book is like experiencing the biggest orgasm ever and the pleasure lasts for days.
So you see, it is sexual obsession.
Please don’t tell my husband.
Okay, you’re right, this is a re-run of an old blog, with a little updating because I just finished the last book of the Fortune Hunters series!!! I’m so happy!!! The title is DANGER IN A RED DRESS, and it’ll be out in March 2009.
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TERESA UPDATES HER PHOTO GALLERY
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Dear Friends,
Just wanted to let you know that I just updated my website for September, including a new September NEWSLETTER, a PHOTO GALLERY update with all of my photos from the recent RWA conference in San Francisco and a special PHOTO GALLERY dedicated to my west coast tour with fellow Avon Author Suzanne Enoch (pictured here signing her latest bestsellers AFTER THE SCANDAL and BEFORE THE KISS with me at Sunshine Books in Cypress, California). I also updated the PET GALLERY with pics of our darling new kitty Willow. (Who joins Buffy the Mouse Slayer in our menagerie.)
I also wanted to thank each and every one of you for putting SOME LIKE IT WICKED on the New York Times bestseller list for 4 weeks straight! It’s been an amazing run and I’ve especially enjoyed seeing so many of you at my signings to promote the book 
Click HERE to visit my website and check out all of the updates.
Hugs,
Teresa
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