From Shari with Harper Collins Those pesky rumors that keep circulating about the death of the historical are wrong, wrong, wrong! Avon is happy to announce that romance fans resoundly have announced their support of this subgenre, as part of voting for the AvonFanLit.com story premise. Given the choice between paranormal, contemporary, romantic suspense, medieval, [...]

Now or later… Hackosphere tis a blog with help on fixing up your beta blogger template… and this is a great post showing why this will be nifty, you know once it works… if it makes any sense to you Now me, not so much. HELP!!!!!!! I want to do this. Jane wouldn’t it be [...]

It annoys me (again from Karen Fox): Audrey LeFehr buys contemporary romance, historical romance, romantic suspense, women’s fiction, thrillers and Aphrodisia. Aphrodisia is actually erotica, not romance. They are called erotic romance for the booksellers. They’re always looking for talent. You can query Audrey in email, then send in entire manuscript if requested.

But go check out Tara and Ro at RtB if you haven’t already: Don’t Feed the Sterotypes and Historicals, but not so much Have I mentioned I don’t want to go to work?

So I have emailed beta blogger again. Something I hate to do cuz I am sure they have like fifty million emails from people hating them right now. Of course there has been no response. So the side bar will still only show the last ten posts and will not move. The bastard. So if [...]

Quill Awards Nominees up for votingthey say: The Quills celebrates the best books of the year in nineteen popular categories, ranging from romance to biography to graphic novels. then give us these five books to vote on: Nominees in the Romance category Blue Smoke Blue Smoke – Nora Roberts The Masque of the Black Tulip [...]

I wanna play! So someone be my friend and go sign up! Oh and email me and let me know . Pretty please… I never win but I am odd like that.

[click the question to see answer] First up the easy question, what is your current release? My current release is ASK FOR IT, a Brava historical. There are a lot of reasons why it means a lot to me, not the least of which is that it’s the first book I ever wrote. 

My TBR pile is almost ridiculous, because I keep buying books and then I can’t read them. Stephen King says, “If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.” and I agree with him. Sadly, I truly don’t have the time. I’ve turned in three single [...]

Pleasures of the Night by Sylvia Day Aidan Cross is a Dream Guardian. In the Twilight between sleep and wakefulness, a battle ensues between his kind and the Nightmares, with the victor reaping the benefits of the energy created in slumber. Guardians recharge with various skills, Nightmares drain while thriving on distress.To keep the portal [...]

The Dream Guardian series was partly a creative construct and partly a marketing-focused one. At the time I had a futuristic on submission that was running into a problem — it was too futuristic for the romance imprints and too romantic for the sci-fi imprints. So my agent suggested that I return to the drawing [...]

We are wrapping Avon Red Week up with an author I think could win a prize for the most books coming soon…. Sylvia Day She has books coming out from Avon Red, Brava, Ellora’s Cave and even an Essay in one of BenBella’s Books. You can keep up with Sylvia on her blog, message board, [...]

Erotic Romance, Erotica and or Romantica, no matter what you label it or how you define it, you can’t argue that it is a hot market right now. HOT is an understatement, it has exploded and just about every publisher is coming out with a line or buying books to fit this market. It has [...]

Interesting RtB post, Coming Out Of The Closet, by Wendy. It sort of kind of ties in with Avon Red week…

Tales of Darkness from Delilah Devlin First up the easy question, what is your upcoming release? Into the Darkness in April. What do you think Avon Red has to offer readers that is different from the other erotic romance prints? **I’m hoping readers will discover that, as with all Avon lines, the quality of the [...]