I am thrilled to death to announce this. Working with Ginny Glass, we co-authored project titled TALK DIRTY TO ME and it has been offered a contract at CARINA PRESS, a digital imprint of Harlequin Romance!!

More details to follow soon!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

And hey, take a second to check out my BOOKSHELF PAGE to see what wonderful things have been said about MYLA BY MOONLIGHT and JINXED. Excerpts and trailers are there too!

Rachelle Gardner posted this on her blog and it home so hard, I HAD to steal it.

A writer is in a terrible auto accident and while he’s on the operating table, he has a near death experience where an angel tells him, “The big man is going to give you a second chance to turn your life around by showing you the afterlife.”

“No,” replies the angel, “Here your work gets published.”

Lord almighty, do I know how this feels!!

It’s live! It’s Time!

VOTE FOR MYLA BY MOONLIGHT  for Best Book of 2009 HERE!

CoffeeTime Romance gave MYLA BY MOONLIGHT 4 cups(Outstanding Great Read)!

This is a very interesting and entertaining tale. I loved the idea of an immortal guardian who protects a prince from every danger. The opening scene is particularly illustrative of that and very exciting to boot. The plot is well written and full of action and hot love scenes. Aside from the two main characters, there is a great cast of secondary characters led by Bryton, Taric’s captain and best friend. Readers will love this action-packed fantasy adventure.

Every year, The Long and the Short of It likes to reward the best of the best, and this year MYLA BY MOONLIGHT is eligible to participate in the “Best Book of 2009″ poll.  Entries in this annual poll are limited to those books and stories which reviewers rated as “Best Book” in a review posted in 2009.

The polls for both LASR and Whipped Cream will be active beginning Monday, February 1,  and will continue until Sunday, February 14.

And JINXED is up for a CAPA (Cupid and Psyche Award) by The Romance Studio for excellence in romantic and erotic fiction.

I repeat… OMG!!

Shiloh Walker has an upcoming March release BROKEN.  Check out this fabulous excerpt!

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The hardest battles are fought within…

He opened the door—

And stopped dead in his tracks as somebody all but fell into his arms.  Somebody…a woman.  And not Theresa.

He caught her just above her elbows, automatically steadying her.

“I’m sorry,” she said, her voice soft and low.

Then she lifted her face and Quinn found himself gazing into the biggest, brownest eyes he’d ever seen in his life.  Feeling a little dazed, he studied her face while she stammered out another apology.

Quinn barely heard it.

He was too busy staring at her mouth.  A very pretty mouth, a cupid’s bow mouth slicked with deep, vibrant red.  Under his hands, he could feel silken smooth skin and unable to resist, he stroked a thumb along her inner arm.

Her skin was soft, soft and warm.  He was also pretty sure she had the creamiest, most flawless skin imaginable.  Her shoulder-length hair was a shade caught between blonde and brown, nondescript, but for some reason, he found himself thinking about tangling his fingers in that hair and holding her head still while he kissed that red-slicked mouth.

Well, hello…he could all but feet his libido kicking up as he stared at that mouth.  Every last one of his senses tuned in on her—

The way she looked…sex and sin.

The way she smelled…sex and sin.

The way she sounded…sex and sin.

The way she felt…the way she might taste.  Sex and sin. He knew it without a doubt.  She’d taste like sex and sin.

His mouth was all but watering.

“Ahhh…excuse me,” she said, tugging against his light hold.

“Uh…yeah.”  He uncurled his fingers and let go, although he hated every second of it.

She immediately backed away, putting a good five feet in between them and eying him nervously.  In that moment, he was acutely aware of the fact that he hadn’t bothered shaving that morning, or the morning before.  He was also acutely aware of the wrinkled state of his gray T-shirt and the worn jeans he wore.  He hadn’t gotten into the habit of wearing the unofficial uniform worn by most of the guys who worked for Gearing, but he’d swapped out the black T-shirt that read Bond Enforcement for a plain one. Wearing those particular shirts outside of work had ended up causing him a headache or two so when he remembered, he changed out of them before leaving the office.

She continued to stare at him, her face expressionless and her eyes measuring.  She might have just continued to stare at him indefinitely if Theresa hadn’t come bustling down the hall.   “Quinn?”

Tearing his eyes away from the unknown woman, he smiled at his landlord.  It no longer seemed so weird to smile at somebody—as in he didn’t worry his face might crack if he wasn’t careful.  Still, the smile on his face did feel odd.  “Hey, Theresa.  I didn’t know you had company.”

She beamed at him.  “This isn’t company.  This is your new neighbor.  She just moved in to the upstairs apartment. Sara…I’d like you to meet Quinn Rafferty.  Quinn, this is Sara Davis.”

Sara.

Neighbor.

Staring into Sara’s dark brown eyes, his heart sank just a little.  Great.

Some people collected books.

Some people collected knickknacks.

Some people collected coins.

Theresa collected lost souls, as evidenced by the fact that he was living in her basement after she’d charmed him into changing her tire outside Dierburg’s a few months earlier.

The last woman to stay in that apartment had ended up being a battered woman hiding out from her ex.  Before that, it had been a girl who’d been all of nineteen, with two kids and a third on the way.   When that one had left, she’d ended up stealing from Theresa and skipping out on the piddling amount of rent that Theresa had coming.

If Sara Davis was living in Theresa’s upstairs apartment, that made her pretty much off limits.  It didn’t matter that his dormant sex drive was all of sudden flaring up on him.

The last thing Quinn needed to be around was another lost soul, not when he still struggled to find his own.

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PRE-ORDER NOW! This one sounds to die for!

LOOK!!! The Romance Studio has announced their nominees for the Seventh Annual Cupid and Psyche Awards.

What are the CAPA’s? They are awards given by The Romance Studio for excellence in romantic and erotic fiction. Categories include inspirational, contemporary, fantasy, historical, mainstream, paranormal, romantic suspense, erotic contemporary, erotic fantasy, erotic historical, erotic paranormal, erotic anthology, BDSM, and the Ariana Overton Award for Best Cover Art or the Ari.

Check this out!

2009 Contemporary romance nominees:

For Love or Money by By Lavada Dee (Siren Publishing)
The Baby Interview by Robbie Terman (The Wild Rose Press)
One September Morning by Rosalind Noonan (Kensington)
Never Been Witched by Annette Blair (Berkley)
He’s No Prince Charming by LuAnn McLane (Berkley)
Past Promises by N. J. Walters (Samhain Publishing)
Hard and Fast by Erin McCarthy (Berkley)
Christmas With Sarah by Janet Miller (Cerridwen Press)
Rewriting Monday by Jodi Thomas (Berkley)
Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James (Berkley)
Love is a Four-Legged Word by Kandi Shepherd (Berkley)
The Sweetheart Dance by Patti Ann Colt (The Wild Rose Press)
Bait and Switch by Ann Lory (Linden Bay Romance)
Jinxed by Inez Kelley (Samhain Publishing)
Lucky In Love by Carolyn Brown (Sourcebooks)
Black Hills by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
Healing Luke by Beth Cornelison (Sourcebooks)

Announcements will be made VALENTINE’S DAY 2010!!

MYLA BY MOONLIGHT won! Read the review here! I appreciate all your votes.

Today is a Holiday edition of Excerpt Monday  with FULL STORY READS available from many published authors. You can start reading with THE LAST ISSUE of Jace and Dayna’s story HERE!

Happy Holidays everyone!

MYLA BY MOONLIGHT was chosen as a “BEST BOOK” by Long and Short Reviews this week AND will be on the BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK POLL this weekend! Poll opens on Saturday/closes Sunday! Please vote!  I am begging, er asking people to go read the reviews and vote for MYLA!

You can read how I am cutting back here on Mary Eason’s Blog and comment to win your choice of JINXED or MYLA BY MOONLIGHT!

Wow, I cannot believe Christmas is in just over a week. December has flown by! I wrapped up the edits on the print version of Myla by Moonlight (coming in July 2010), finished the sequel to that tentatively titled Salome at Sunrise and have been working on other projects. The last issue of JACE AND DAYNA is set to go live on my FUNSTUFF page Friday.

This year winds down and leaves me in limbo. I have three stories in submission with different editors and I just wait. Impatiently. So to distract myself… I’m going to write more!Merry Christmas everyone!