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A MOST IMPROPER GENTLEMAN has won the 2010 Golden Heart for Regency Historical
The same week, it won the 2010 Beau Monde Royal Ascot for Regency Historical, and it has since finaled in Heart of the Rockies and in the Molly Contest in both the Historical and Unsinkable Heroine categories.  

My second book, The Devil May Care, won the 2010 Beau Monde Royal Ascot in the Hot Regency category, and won the Historical category of the 2009 Golden Pen. In 2010, it has also been a finalist in the Emily, Great Expectations, and Fab Five.

Since I was a Golden Heart finalist for A Most Improper Gentleman (then called Shameless) in 2009 as well, I'm lucky enough to count myself a member of the extraordinary Ruby Slippered Sisters. I'll blog here when I can, but you'll hear more from me at the 2009 finalists' website, rubyslipperedsisterhood.com

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Really... I mean it.  Check out the 2009 Golden Heart Finalists blog at rubyslipperedsisterhood.com.  It will do your heart and soul good.

 

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Saturday, September 4, 2010

More Fun Contest News
The year I gave myself to enter contests (beyond the Golden Heart) has come to a close, and I've had some nice news to cap the anniversary: A Most Improper Gentleman has finaled in the Historical categories of both Heart of the Rockies and the Molly Contest. 

In the Molly, Octavia has also finaled in the Unsinkable Heroine category. I'm sure she's doing fist pumps in whatever alternate universe she inhabits.

You can meet her by following the excerpt link over on the left.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

I Found My Agent!!
Wonderful news: I now have an agent, the fabulous Susanna Einstein of LJK Literary Management.  I met her at the RWA Nationals Award Ceremony, thanks to my ever-lovely chaptermate Rachael Herron (whose very charming first book, How to Knit a Love Song, debuted with Avon A this past spring). I'm thrilled to be working with Susanna, and am very excited about taking the next steps toward getting my books out to the world!     
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

A Whole Life in Six Words??
Are you up for the challenge?  Join me over at the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood today and find out!
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Sludge Brain / Good News

No, those two things aren't related, except by coincidence. 

My brain is fried from processing entries for the Golden Pen Contest Single Title category, for which I'm coordinator.  Ai ai ai--I have a WHOLE new appreciation for all the volunteer work that goes into Romancelandia's vast webs of mentorship and mutual support.  (The Golden Pen got a record number of entries this year--up 50% over last year.) 

It's taken me days to sort out and copy entries and get them properly assigned to judges, and I've spent the entire afternoon just getting entries attached to emails for the individual judges. And I'm not done yet.

HOWEVAH....in the middle of all this I learned that A MOST IMPROPER GENTLEMAN has finaled in Heart of the Rockies.  (Woot!) Contest karma, I guess.  

Check out the excerpt from GENTLEMAN...the link's over to the left! 

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

I'm Posting an Excerpt from A MOST IMPROPER GENTLEMAN

Check out the Excerpts link....I'm putting in an excerpt from the book that won the Golden Heart.

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