Boy, am I glad to see 2011!

Last year had its good points, but there was a lot of other stuff that went on that I could easily have done without.  I went missing here for quite a while (you may have thought I was still snowed in out in Montana!), and I’m surfacing now because I finally feel as I can raise my head above the parapet.

So, how was your year?  Better than mine, I hope.

I’m looking forward to a new one now, catching up on correspondence, cleaning up my office, working on revisions for Nick’s book (basically Edie came along months after the fact and said, "Did I tell you I was married before?"

Er, no, sweetie, you didn’t!  And thank you for sharing (the last said between clenched teeth). 

So rather than just write a couple of extra scenes and clean up a few spots here and there, I’ve gone totally back to the drawing board to make sure Edie’s first marriage (which was no small deal, believe me) is figured into the plot.

Characters! Sheesh!  Sometimes I think drowning is too good for them.

Anyway, I have a new editor now as well as a heroine with a first marriage — and my new editor said she would read my old book, and I said, "Don’t bother." So I hope she isn’t.  I have a couple of weeks left to get this sorted out. So wish me luck.

We had a lovely Christmas with half of the grandkids in attendance as well as their father.  That was fun.  AND I got a family picture of that bunch, which was pretty much all I wanted this year.  Now I have pix of all of them, and I got my Christmas letter sent  out only a week late — and so I think good things are going to happen this year.

Speaking of things that are going to happen, Kate Walker and Liz Fielding and I are going to be having our annual Here Come the Grooms contest starting the beginning of February.  We’ve been doing this for several years now — four, I think.  Time flies. And it’s always fun because our heroes come out of the woodwork and take over for a while.

My hero this year is George Savas, my sexy physicist (who knew?) who is determined to win back his estranged wife in Hired By Her Husband (which is a February release in Presents). 

It was out in October 2010 in UK, and it may have been out elsewhere too (Oz? NZ? India? Dunno.)  so some of you may already have met George.  Everyone else, you will soon!

I’m looking forward to meeting Kate’s and Liz’s heroes, too!

Presuming I show up here on a more or less regular basis (I’ll try, I promise!), what should we do this year? I feel like we need projects or something.   I could clean my office and you could participate virtually — how about that?  Or we could find photos for Yiannis Savas, George’s youngest brother, who is going to be the hero of my next book (I hope).  Or you could tell me good  books to read to replenish my well. I love reading good books.  Ideas? Suggestions?  Resolutions?

Do you make them? I don’t usually. But I think this year I owe you and myself at least one — to show up here at least twice a week, hopefully more.