Reader heaven, that is.  Many of my favorite authors have had releases in the past couple weeks: Sherry Thomas with His at Night, Meredith Duran with Wicked Becomes You, Julia Quinn with Ten Things I Love About You, and Mary Balogh with the paperback of Seducing an Angel. Almost an embarrassment of riches, except that I'm too shameless for embarrassment.

But the very happiest part of all is that I managed to get hold of Joanna Bourne's The Forbidden Rose TWO DAYS EARLY!!!  I will not reveal the nefarious means by which I got hold of said volume (oh, okay, the clerks at Barnes & Noble apparently weren't paying much attention to the release date.)  Despite the fact my family seemed to think Memorial Day weekend was a time for me to pay attention to THEM--or at least provide them with burgers and corn on the cob and sliced watermelon and a couple good trips to the pool--I've managed to steal enough time to get halfway through the book, and it is JUST ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!! 

Add to this that I just won a critique from Courtney Milan from Brenda Novak's fabulous auction for diabetes research, and my weekend has been exceeding excellent!  Hope yours was as well! 

My first-ever novelist interview is up today at Keli Gwyn's site Romance Writers on the Journey. Be sure to leave a comment to have a chance at winning a $25 Barnes and Noble e-gift-certificate.

Chances are if you're here today, it's because you went there first, but hey....  social networking is so self-referential anyway.  Just keep right on visiting!!  (Speaking of which, I'm also featured today on my sister's blog, The Sublurbs...look down past the post on being a Fabricaholic.)

And while you're at it, pay a visit to the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog, where soon-to-be-published Ruby Sister Tamara Hogan is interviewing her critique partner, Brenda Whiteside, whose debut novel, Sleeping with the Lights On is out TOMORROW from Wild Rose Press.

Thanks to everyone who stops by!

I'm being interviewed today at Romance Writers on the Journey.  Come join me at http://wp.me/piVls-1nx.

I'll be over at the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood all day May 12 blogging on "Faceless Lovers and Other Cover Trends."  Come join me! rubyslipperedsisterhood.com

It's heartbreaking watching the photos and videos of the flooding in Tennessee!  My thoughts and prayers are with everybody trying to make it safely through.