Guest blogging at Love Is An Exploding Cigar

I'll be at Love Is An Exploding Cigar today.

Stop by and say hi, leave a comment and be in the running to receive Shadow Magic, the trade paperback of the first two stories in my Magical Seduction series, Seduced by Magic and Seduced in Shadow.

Authors After Dark Paranormal Event

Save the date! October 23-25, 2009 - The Authors After Dark Paranormal Weekend is filling up fast! Sign up by August 1^st to get the lowest membership rate of $160 for the weekend. (After August 1^st, the membership goes to $175.)

The event is being held at the Suffern, NY Holiday Inn, located conveniently about 1 hour from New York City and most of the area’s major airports. Guest include:

Jacquelyn Frank

Sunny

Joey W. Hill

Stella and Audra Price

Bianca D'Arc

Rosemary Laurey

Jennifer Armintrout

Madeline Oh

Georgia Evans

Mechele Armstrong

Samantha Sommersby

Cat Johnson

Cathy Clamp

Eliza Gayle

Diana Castilleja

Leigh Ellwood

Tilly Greene

Selena Illyria

Adra Steia

Stephanie Julian

Judi Fennell

Kayleigh Jamison

Donna Grant

Robin T. Popp

Linda Mooney

Mima

Area attractions include the phenomenal shopping at Woodbury Common (http://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=7) and the Forest of Fear (http://www.theforestoffear.com/home.php), held on the site of the New York State Renaissance Faire at Sterling Forest.

The convention is limited to 200 attendees so your “face time” with your favorite authors is maximized. We’re having loads of panel discussions, parties and a fantabulous dealer’s room. We’ll also be holding a massive charity raffle to benefit the CAN and Pets Alive – a local no kill animal shelter.

Sign up now for the best rates! The conference registration is only $160 until August 1^st ($175 after August 1^st) and the hotel is $99 per night, double occupancy. Lots to do in the area will make this a weekend you will never forget!

Home Again

I just returned from RWA National in Washington DC. As always, I look forward to going but, by Saturday night after the RITA Awards, I was ready to go home. I missed my guys, my bed, my kitty girls and my regular writing routine.

After National, I always return recharged and ready to write, which I was...until I got the email Sunday morning as we were leaving that our youngest cat Blue was MIA. Had been since Saturday. Upset, I decided I can't leave my family at home alone for more than two days. Something always happens. Son No. 2 falls off his bike and gets torn up. The checkbook mysteriously disappears. Cell phones get lost and kitties go walkabout.

Blue returned this morning, tired, hungry and generally pitiful. But she's home.

And now I can write. After speaking to my agent, I've got some ideas to implement, a synopsis to revise and a proposal to work on. I hope to finish my next EC story this week. I've been dying to get back to Kyle and Tam. I left them apart and miserable. Time to make them inseparable and deliriously happy.

My paranormal research workshop with Alesia Holliday and Melissa Mayhue seemed to go really well. Big sigh of relief there. I met some great booksellers (Hi Charnell!) and librarians, made some new writer friends (Hi Laura Morrigan!) and got to dress like a girl all week. And I saw the pandas at the National Zoo!

I've got a bag of books that should keep me going for the rest of the year. Or until the new Sherrilyn Kenyon book releases in two weeks.

Back to work.

First review for SEDUCED BY TWO

The first review for SEDUCED BY TWO is in!

Night Owl Romance reviewer Chris says:

"Another trip into the magical world spun by the author, I really enjoyed that the men were the "helpless" ones in this particular installment. Not helpless as in wimps; Jensen and Tanner were anything but. But helpless in that they have no magic other than their bond as twins. Their creativity and dedication to protecting Nica, in the best way they knew how, showed that love will find a way. With cameos from a few characters from previous books to help save the day, this was an entertaining read. Hot and erotic (how could two sexy men and a woman be anything else?) the story flowed well and kept my attention. I look forward to the next installment in this series for a peak into the magical world of Ms. Julian's imagination."

Hearts: 4.00 / 5

I'm off to RWA National tomorrow. If you see me wandering around, please say hi. And if you get a chance, I'll be giving a workshop with Melissa Mayhue and Alyssa Day on Friday morning at 8:30. "Mastering Your Domain" is all about researching your paranormal world.