Posts Tagged ‘WeWriteRomance’

Blog make-over up! Books on their way!

Friday, February 20th, 2009

If you are here — and you’ve been here before — you must see something different. No, you’re not imagining things. The make-over has reached the blog.

I’m so happy with my new look.

Those of you who have been dropping by have an inkling of how hard Heather Reed of WeWriteRomance has worked to get things up and running. It took her a lot of work to switch the blog over and make everything come out even, too. The blog is three years old this month. It has a LOT of pictures on it. It weighs a ton, she said — or words to that effect.

Anyway, I’m sooo impressed that she did it and that it looks so great. Yea, Heather! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

There are still things on the site itself that will continue to be updated.

So far my most recent title are up and have their own pages. But Heather has been working madly on the backlist titles, too. That’s really important to me.

Because a lot of my books are linked, even though you don’t need to read one to read another, it’s nice to have a place where people can come to find out which characters are likely to turn up in each other’s world. (Actually, that’s pretty much any of them, as it’s sort of an alternative universe where all my characters live).

Anyway, she has a mini-series page planned as a portal to the linked books, and then each page within it will have the various books that belong to the mini-series.

Of course, if you read Harlequin Presents and nothing else, you can click on the Presents page which she’ll be putting up, too, and find all my Presents there as well.

If you read Silhouette Desire and want to see which books I’ve done for them, you should be able to find all my Silhouette titles together, too.

If there’s anything else you can think of that will make access to my earlier books easier for you (yes, I know — reprint them! I’d love it!), do comment here or send me an email through the contact tab at the bottom of each website page.

Thank you, Heather! You’re wonderful.

New look on its way!

Monday, February 9th, 2009

I’ve been watching (and adding and subtracting apostrophes) while Heather of WeWriteRomance works wonders with her website magic and creates my “new look.”

It’s all coming together really well. I’m delighted beyond belief. I hope that when it finally goes live — which will probably be Friday — you will all stop by and take a look. She has worked and worked and worked to get all the material organized and to create portals to the different book lists and generally to make things accessible again.

She deserves several gold stars for all her effort (and no, she’s not holding a gun at my head and making me say this. She doesn’t know I’m saying it. She’s too busy working.)

Anyway, one of the pages she has put up is my contest page and in honor of Valentine’s Day and my “new look” there will be a contest to win a Goody Box featuring some backlist titles, some goodies I’ve picked up in the last few months with an eye to contest, several books by other authors — and a brand-new not-yet-published copy of Savas’s Defiant Mistress.

This is the cover. I am not sure where it’s supposed to be. The book takes place in Seattle — largely on a houseboat. The houseboat is not quite as glamorous as this setting. But maybe this is supposed to be a wedding. They went to a wedding. There wasn’t a boat in the wedding, but poetic license, I think, allows them to put a city, a boat and a wedding that all occur in the same book together on the cover of that book.

I’ll be introducing you to Sebastian and Neely in the next few weeks.

Anyway, please stop back here to click your way to my website or go directly there on the weekend and look around. Send me comments if you wish. I’m sure Heather would like to hear what you think, and I know I would.

I think she’s done a fabulous job. Thanks, Heather!

Coming soon!

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009


I’m back!

Refreshed, revived — and ready to report that my website is undergoing a major revamp and should be up and ready to go February 1st.

Heather at WeWriteRomance has taken the bits and pieces that were there from an earlier design that got dropped due to circumstances beyond that earlier designer’s control, and has done miracles with them. She’s got a great grasp of visuals (so not like me!) and can actually translate my babbling and gibberish into things that look great on the page (far better than I envision them, to tell the truth).

I’ve been seeing some of the pages this past week, and while they won’t all go up on February 1st, you should get a flavor of them then. The blog format will eventually reflect that, too, but it may not happen at once. So while we are in transition, bear with us.

Having a new improved website is like spring cleaning — only better. (I wonder if Heather would come and do the same to my house. Probably not. Sigh.)

Anyway, Heather is fabulous, and I have to thank Kate Walker for passing her name along — and of course, to thank Heather for being willing to jump into the breach and whip things into shape.

Eventually all the pages should be back and many of the ones that never made it into the revamp of a year ago will actually reappear if not instantly, then over the next few weeks.

I also need to thank PJ for filling in for me this past couple of weeks while I had a bit of a kick-back-and-relax time. It was much appreciated. But that’s the sort of guy he is. He stepped up and solved Ally’s problem ten years ago. He solved mine this month.

So thanks, PJ. Hope you and Ally have a great time in Hawaii. Keep us posted on the new little Antonides. Let us know when he/she arrives!

O’Kate has come back from O’Dublin and sent me the name of the winner of Santos’s share of the Here Come The Grooms contest.

She’ll be announcing it on her website tomorrow, I think. And then I can announce it here. We’re so glad to have had so many participants.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer the questions.

We’re looking forward to the 4th annual Here Come The Grooms contest next year. We love to do it together and, as Kate said earlier today, “I always look forward to hearing the groooms’ opinions of things.” Amen to that.