A Huge Thank You
Thanks to all who helped me out on the title dilemma. I gave the results of my poll to my editor and she will keep them in consideration when she meets with the Historical team next week. I feel like I’m too close to the book to make any sort of decision, so I appreciate your help! 
My brain wandered south and it just occurred to me that I never announced the winner of the May contest. Oops! I drew a number from the newsletter subscribers, and Jeanne Dickson is the lucky winner! Jeanne, e-mail me your snail mail address and I’ll send you a signed copy of Her Irish Warrior and a signed copy of Julia Quinn’s When He Was Wicked. Congratulations!
I have been working on another Irish medieval idea, and I’m in that get-to-know-you phase with the characters. I don’t like outlining characters or interviewing them. I usually find out about them along the way, while I’m writing. It’s fun for me when a character suddenly does something unusual and I think–whoa! Never knew that about you. 
Last night, I went out to dinner with two writer friends, Larissa Ione and Laurin Wittig. Right before I met them for dinner, I stopped by the Barnes and Noble across from the restaurant. This bookstore doesn’t carry Harlequin Historicals, so imagine my delighted surprise to find two of my books on the shelf in the “New in Romance” section. Especially considering that Her Irish Warrior is a May release and is not really supposed to be on the shelves any more (Shhh!). I spoke with one of the booksellers and got permission to sign my books. She stickered the books and kept them at her desk to be reshelved.
After dinner, we returned to the store. (How could we not? It’s a bookstore where we can stalk our books!) I found that my books were still on a cart. I wanted so badly to grab them off the cart and put them back where they were, but the clerks were all surrounding that area. Finally, Larissa and Laurin pulled a Mission Impossible and snatched both books off the cart. I, of course, pretended that I did not know them. We repositioned them in the same section they were in before (only, er….at eye level now). 
Heh. We’re so bad. It’s why I have such fun when we do a ladies’ night out.
We did talk about our auto-buy authors. They were shocked and appalled that I’ve never read J.R. Ward. 
My auto-buy authors are Susan Elizabeth Phillips, LaVyrle Spencer (before she retired), JK Rowling, and Julia Quinn. How about you? Who are the authors that could write the phone book and you’d buy them?
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Larissa Says:
LOL! You were so funny last night! We’re such book-shelving criminals…
Kelly Says:
Isn’t Laurin Wittig the one who wrote the Pink Carnation? God I LOVED that book. I got it from the library and then halfway through it took it back to the library and went out and bought my own copy. Then I finished that and went to the book store and bought the next book. She’s now one of my auto-buy authors. Others are Julia Quinn, Victoria Alexander, Jennifer Crusie, SEP, Julianne MacLean, Deb Hale, Elizabeth Chadwick and probably a few others that I’m blanking on. Cripes, no wonder my TBR pile has taken over the back corner of my bedroom…
Kelly Says:
No wait…Pink Carnation is Lauren Willig…wow, those names are close. I just checked out Laurin Wittig’s site though and those books look gooood. I’m going to have to check her out. At least if I keep adding to my TBR file I’ll never run out of books to read!
Holly Says:
LOL! You ladies are something else! Hehe…I have a feeling if it’d been me, I would’ve done the same thing…”PUT MY BABIES BACK ON THE SHELF!!” I would’ve wanted to scream at the clerks.
My auto-buy authors…well, as of the moment I have a huge V.C. Andrews collection that I started in my teens and I still try to keep up with them even though they’re now written by the “ghost writer.” But those aren’t romance novels necessarily, but more like family sagas/children-in-peril novels.
After reading Her Irish Warrior, you will be on my auto-buy and after I read Bride of Shadow Canyon by Stacey Kayne, I’ve order her other and will follow her books as well. I haven’t really read any of Maddie James/aka Kim Whalen’s but I ordered them a few weeks ago and am still awaiting their arrival after I found her on myspace.
It’s been ages since I had auto-buy books that I just had to have, but I’m rediscovering great new authors to keep up with.
Lexi Connor Says:
My auto-buys include Suzanne brockmann, Lisa Gardner, Kathleen Givens, Jill Shalvis, Evelyn Vaughn, Julie Garwood…and I’m thinkin’ I’m going to have to add you to this list! I’m about 35 pages from finishing Her Irish Warrior and I’m blown away by your talent!
Donna Alward Says:
LaVyrle was one of mine too, only now I have them all. And Rosamunde Pilcher who I discovered late so grab them when I see them now.
There are so many authors I love that I can’t autobuy them all, but I buy them consistently. And I do have all the Harry Potters and my kids and I read them aloud every night.
Heidi Dahlquist Says:
I know this post doesnt really fir here, but on your main page I saw the new cover for book two….LOVE IT! The cover gods are being great to you and I hope it stays that way!
Heidi:cheer:
Lexi Connor Says:
Oh, yes. The cover for the next book is AWESOME! Make sure to thank your cover art people.