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Christo Here!

Sunday, February 14th, 2010


Hey, I’m Christo.

Anne has given me free rein with her blog for the rest of the month so she can take care of her mother and so I can talk about my book and Natalie and give you a chance to win three great books (mine, of course, being one of them) in the 4th annual Here Come The Grooms contest.

So let’s get business out of the way and then we can talk.

Business:

  • What the contest is: a chance for you to win a copy of Anne’s book about me and Nat and also books from Kate Walker and Liz Fielding. That’s a pretty good deal, if you ask me.
  • What you have to do: go to all of their websites to find the answers to three questions. Answer them in an email to each of us — three answers in each email. That means you find all three answers and send them to Kate, to Liz and to Anne. Then sit back and wait.
  • When the contest starts: now
  • When the contest ends: March 1st the winners will be announced. So get your answers in before that.
  • One entry per person, please, at each email address, which gives you three chances to win if you send all three of them an email. Also a pretty good deal.

  • KAL’S QUESTION (from Her Desert Dream): Of which literary character did Kal remind Lydia? (apart from Prince Charming!)
  • CHRISTO’S QUESTION (From One-Night Mistress, Convenient Wife by Anne McAllister)
    Why is Natalie staying at her mother’s house?
  • NIKOS’S QUESTION (From The Konstantos Marriage Demand by Kate Walker)

    What name did Sadie use so that Nikos would not know his 10 o’clock appointment was her?

    Good luck!

Okay? If you have any questions that I didn’t answer, email Anne or Kate or Liz.
Don’t ask me.

I’m just the hero of a book. I don’t know anything about the contest beyond what I’ve just told you.

So, business is out of the way, yes?

Now we can talk . . .

Got questions about the book or me and Nat — I can answer those. And I’ll be back soon to tell you more about how this all got started between Nat and me. She scared my socks off, if you want to know the truth.

Talk about temptation. . .

But I don’t want to get ahead of myself. So for now I’ll just say, have a happy Valentine’s Day.

Nat and I are celebrating the birth of a very special someone who has made this the best Valentine’s Day ever. I’ll tell you about him later, too.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Well, it’s that time of year again!

I wish you and your beloved the happiest of valentine’s days. Me and mine are having cake with our 86 year old neighbor to celebrate. Also taking flowers to my mother who is in transition from the hospital to wherever she goes after she gets out of skilled nursing.

I’m going to be busy over the next couple of weeks because of that and because Sol, my youngest grandson, is coming to visit! He’s bringing his parents, too, but he’s the main attraction, as you might imagine. He’ll turn 8 months while he’s here and he’s on the verge of crawling.

As the physical therapists I’ve been talking to ad nauseum lately say, “He has all the motions.” Yes, but does he put them together? Not yet, my son says with a sigh of relief. But it’s coming. And it may be here by the time he is. So I’m scrambling to make sure the house is baby-proof again.

So it’s a really good thing that it’s also time for the 4th annual (can you believe it?) Here Come The Grooms contest that Liz Fielding, Kate Walker and I have been doing every February since 2007.

Liz has kept track. Kate and I know just that we’ve been doing it for a lot of years.

And so later today Christo Savas will be taking over my blog for the next couple of weeks while I deal with other stuff.

Christo, you may recall, is the hero of One-Night Mistress. . . . Convenient Wife. He’s a charming guy — for a lawyer — and he’s absolutely one of the most honorable men I’ve ever written about. He’s also been seriously tempted in his life — by one Natalie Ross. He . . . well, never mind. I’ll shut up and let Christo tell you all about it.

Also, speaking of prizes, the second week’s Great Book Give-Away is wrapping up today.

Winners will be notified by email. If you don’t hear from me by tomorrow, you didn’t win this week, but you might win next week. Your entry is good for the month of February. But I’d love to have you drop by and comment this week (and get another entry that way!).

Week three is posted on my contest page if you click on the 25th anniversary link. Heather will be removing lists one and two and moving three and four to the front sometime this week (she has a life, too).

In the meantime these are the books for week three and what you need to do to be in the drawing.

Week Three:
Comment on my blog this week (any post, but the post must be one I’ve made this week) and you could win a book! One of the following books will be sent to the winner (one book per winner):

  • Anne McAllister: The Santorini Bride
  • Janet Evanovich: Naughty Neighbor
  • Marie Ferrarella: Cavanaugh Heat
  • Elizabeth Rolls: Lord Braybrook’s Penniless Bride
  • Kathleen Long: Undercover Commitment
  • Julia Quinn: What Happens in London
  • Jennifer Ashley: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Please Note:

Easy Entry

To enter most of my 25th Anniversary Celebration Contests, send an email containing the correct response(s). Be sure to include your name and address so, if you win, I can send your book.

Rules, Regulations & Deadlines

The great book give-away contests will run for the entire year. While there are few rules, there are some things to note.

Prize wins are limited to one per person per address per month. That means in an effort to be fair once you enter, your entry will be good for 30 days but if you are a winner during 30 days you can only win one book. So there’s no need to enter more than once, multiple entries will not insure you win.

Unless otherwise noted, the prize winners will be chosen in a random drawing by various esteemed members of my crew (Mitch, Micah, the dogs, the dh, etc.).

Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery of your prize. Winners outside the U.S. might take longer.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

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Okay, so there we are.

Christo will be along later today. Check back. Talk to him. He’s charming. Handsome. Smart. Honorable. And not quite as fierce as Natalie remembers him. But they have a history . . .

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Getting a box . . . sort of

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

It’s that time of year again.

I’m gearing up for Demetrios and Anny and so over the past week I was thinking about the book and what I have and what I need, and I remembered Twyla Tharp’s advice: Get a box.

Well, maybe she didn’t say that in so many words. What she said was that she gets a box whenever she’s starting a new project. And she puts stuff in the box that relates to it, inspires it, makes her remember bits and pieces of it. It’s a good idea.

Some people do collages. Anne Gracie does wonderful collages. So does Jennifer Crusie. I’m not that visual. So I thought, a box. Yes, I can do that.

And I did. Sebastian and Neely have a box. The trouble with their box is, the box reflects the book I didn’t write.

Some of it is the same — the people, the conflict, the guinea pig, the rabbits, the bloodhound, the kittens.

But not the editor. And not the setting. Though there’s still water and a houseboat involved.

So the box is a container, but half the stuff on the outside of it doesn’t reflect the book. Even the hero doesn’t reflect the man Sebastian came to be.

So . . .

This time the box is going to be a file folder on my computer. It’s going to have my hero as its icon. And inside his folder I’m sticking all the Cannes photos and the train schedules and the videos I took and the mementos from the festival hall.

It’s got pictures of Anny — and Demetrios, of course. Thousands of her (because there are thousands of her photos everywhere) and two of his because he doesn’t seem to be nearly as visible. No dogs yet. No kittens. No bloodhound. No guinea pig.

There aren’t a lot of details coming to me yet. Well, there’s a yacht. And a sailboat. And a Greek restaurant. Probably a good thing I don’t have a box. They wouldn’t fit.

I’m casting off today, steering toward the horizon, wondering where the dragons are and how soon I’ll meet them. I hope I at least get out of the harbor!

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The winner of the Here Come the Grooms contest for Santos Cordero from Kate Walker’s Cordero’s Forced Bride, is Lynn of Florida. Congratulations, Lynn. I’ll get PJ’s book off to you post haste.

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There really is going to be an update to my website (and eventually the blog). Keep holding your breath. Heather has had an emergency and can’t get it finished right now. What I’ve seen, I love. It will be worth the wait.

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We’re going to play a version of I-Ching for Demetrios and Anny.

Tell me three things:

  • a weather related item (my mother will be especially good at this)
  • a color
  • a small gift

And let me see what it sparks off in my mind for Demetrios and Anny. The first three ideas that spark off something will win their submitter a copy of one of my backlist titles — your choice, provided I can find it in the attic.

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