Thursday, May 8, 2008

Romance Slam Jam and more

Hello everyone,
As you all can see, I have two new covers on the site. First is my Healing Hearts cover, this book is in print now. I actually ran a contest for it on the excerpt page for a free autograph print copy of the book. Well that luck read will be getting their book very soon. Next is Vegas Bites: Three of a Kind. My publisher gave me a copy of the new cover at Slam in Chi-town. Don't you just love it? I know I do. Well, it is up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The only problem is that the online bookstore confused it and placed the cover for Vegas Bites Back on its promo links. Parker Publishing staff knows about it and have contacted them, and we just hope the online bookstores get it right before the book comes out this year.
On to Romance Slam Jam. I had a BLAST with all caps. I saw and hugged old friends and met new ones. The reader workshops were amazing. I had the pleasure of doing my reader workshop with Mary B. Morrison who is outstanding as a spokes woman. It was an honor to be paired with her. The writing workshops put on by esteemed authors in the AA romance industry made the conference a learning experience, as participants was able to raise my hand and ask questions. The evening events were great. I had so much fun dancing and singing with these romance icons my face will be stuck in a smile for weeks to come. The last night was the Emma awards and as always is was a pleasure to see every dolled up in their finery. Well, let me not say dolled without adding that the men x2, Wayne Jordan and Earl Sewell were handsome as well. I got to know these to men of romance, who I might add, held their own among all us women readers/writers.
Wayne J. became a good friend of mine. As a male who reads and writes romance, he never let a moment go by to say how humbled and honored he was to be received in the romance world by writers and readers. Well, the honor was well deserved.
Okay, it is getting late and I have a lot of work to do on my next book. So, I'll talk to you all soon. ;)
Romancing you!
~Monique