I’ve just arrived home after a very busy day, and as soon as I finish this post I’m going to sit down with a glass of wine and chat to my hubby.
I went into Auckland today since it was our chapter meeting for Romance Writers of New Zealand. I made a quick stop at the library to check out some books on tattoos and piercings, which I need for my current work in progress, before heading to the meeting. I did the workshop today and spoke briefly on “Knowledge is Power” and how a writer needs to keep up with the market, current needs and trends etc to help them make it in this business. That’s right - not only do you need to write a great book and have a dose of good luck along the way, you also need to become market savvy! My talk went quite well, and I won a prize in the raffle. Can’t do much better than that. One of the books I won was by New Zealander, Yvonne Lindsay, and she signed it for me. Color me happy since I like to win things, too 
And in breaking news, I’ve sold another novella to Ellora’s Cave. This one is called Last Wish and is another gay romance. The next book in the queue is a Middlemarch one - just as soon as I finish my current WIP (the one I needed the tattoo reference books for). This is for all of you out there who keep emailing me about Middlemarch. The very next book - I promise!
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Congratulations on your raffle win and your new sale!
by Kim March 3rd, 2007 at 9:44 amCongrats on winning a book. It is fun to try new authors. Congrats also on the sale.
by Cherie J March 3rd, 2007 at 11:23 amCongrats on another EC sale. What’s Last Wish going to be about?
by cathy March 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 pmOh great, are we talkin’ sexy tattoo’s here? For him or for her?
by Lee March 3rd, 2007 at 3:36 pmHi Kim and Cherie - thanks for your congrats on the new sale.
Cathy - Last Wish is another New Zealand set story and it’s about a genie who has one wish to fulfil on his contract. Once he issues this last wish he can sign another contract for 100 wishes or he can evade capture by the Grand Poohbah for ten days and earn his freedom. My genie, Zane wants freedom more than anything even though this will mean he’ll lose his genie powers. He meets Dillon when the human rubs his um…teapot (gosh - my imagination just jumped to other things then. Bad, bad, Shelley!
) Anyway, things go on from there…and we spend the next ten days with Dillon and Zane while they evade the Grand Poohbah and explore the possibility of a relationship between them.
I have to go and write a blurb as soon as I finish playing on the Internet. I’ll post it once I get the official nod on the blurb.
by Shelley Munro March 3rd, 2007 at 8:27 pmHi Lee,
The tattoo element is actually part of my plot so I can’t give away too much at the moment, but yes, both hero, Ry and heroine, Camryn have a tattoo.
by Shelley Munro March 3rd, 2007 at 8:28 pmSounds like you just came up with a pretty fun blurb already.
by Cathy March 3rd, 2007 at 10:28 pm