Guest Post: Romance at Random

I’m at the Romance at Random blog today, talking about how a person who grows up without reading romance novels can wind up writing them. There may be some mention of Shakespeare.

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So that was kind of fun, after all

I won’t lie: the Literary Lions gala was every bit as draining as I expected it to be. I was the only romance author there (there were a couple of formerly-romance-now-women’s-fiction authors, but I was the lone representative of straight-up R), and it was not a big romance-reading crowd. However this just made it all [...]

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The Day of the Literary Lions has Dawned

Woke up just before 5:00 this morning and lay awake, thinking “Why did I agree to this? Why?” I’m hoping hard that at least one other Literary Lion is roiled with similar apprehension. In black-tie clothing news, I discovered my black top/black skirt combo wasn’t going to work (I had envisioned it looking chic and [...]

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Into the (Literary) Lions’ Den

To my surprise, persistent incredulity, and general befuddlement, I was invited to participate in this Notable Local Writers Fundraiser Gala Thing, put on by my county library system in conjunction with a local independent bookstore. Literary Lions Gala: A Grand Affair, it’s called. It’s next week. Lee Child (is he local to the Pacific Northwest? [...]

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Quick Round-up: New Trailer, New Cover, & Countdown to Release Day

I’m snowed under right now with my third book (due to my editor in February) and some guest spots for my upcoming blog tour, so this will be pretty quick and dirty: 1)  A Lady Awakened has a trailer!  You can see it on my website, or on its own special page at Romance at [...]

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Some Conference Highlights + Book Giveaway!

Congratulations to commenter kiwi1124, winner of my ECWC book haul! And thanks to everyone who entered.   Let’s start with the bad news: I didn’t win an e-reader. I think there were six or seven raffle baskets that had them, and I put tickets in every single one (I put 25 tickets in one!), but [...]

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Hot off the Presses: Back-Cover Copy for A Gentleman Undone

One of the weird – and kind of delightful – things about writing for a big house like Bantam is that I don’t write my own back-cover copy. There’s apparently a stable of back-cover-copy specialists there who handle that task (I imagine them all sitting in a room pitching ideas around, like the hired-gun joke-writers [...]

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Yet MORE Nice Things People Have Said About My Book

My apologies once more to the God of Polite Self-Effacement, if I haven’t already been excommunicated from that church. I’ll try to put a moratorium on “Yay! Someone likes my book!” posts, but there was no earthly way I could let this one pass. So last Friday I’m at the public library on my lunch [...]

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New Cover Quote!

Since I’m already on the outs with the God of Polite Self-Effacement – My June 2012 release, A Gentleman Undone, has its first cover quote! NYT bestselling author and all-around awesome member of the romance community Madeline Hunter says: Luscious, erotic, and emotionally intense. Cecilia Grant is a fresh, unforgettable voice in historical romance. I believe [...]

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Arrival of the ARCs

I have ARCs! Or, as Random House for some reason prefers to call them, AREs. (Advance Reader Editions rather than Copies.) Now, I know ARCs are meant to sell books (to buyers for chains like Wal-Mart as well as via reviewers), but, never having seen one before, I did not realize that the first page [...]

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