So, USA Today’s Happily Ever After blog revealed my secret today 
Go check it out and tell me what you think!
New cover on USA Today’s blog
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Category Archives: New Releases
Lonely is the Night release day!!!
Lonely is the Night releases today!!! It’s a Penguin eSpecial novella (approximately 35K) and it’s book 5 of the Shadow Force series
Recently retired Delta Force Operator Reid Cormier
utilizes his special skills by working black ops jobs all around the world with his former teammates and their wives. Reid’s career keeps him busy, but he can’t get his last job—or the woman involved—out of his head.
US Marshall Grier Vanderhall faked her own death without telling Reid of the plan first, and he couldn’t forgive her duplicity. But when Reid learns that Grier has been kidnapped by a dangerous ring of criminals, he drops everything and heads to New Orleans to rescue her. And while Reid knows that his skills make him the best option to get Grier back, he’s not sure if this mission will give them another chance—or get them both killed.
You can read Chapter One here and find the buy links here!
DIRE WANTS release day!!! (UPDATED)
**SEE BELOW IN BOLD***
Stray’s here DIRE WANTS is book 2 in the Eternal Wolf Clan series and there’s so much I love about this book! There’s lots of romance, lots of Vice…and Cain, who’s become a favorite. ****Guys, my daughter’s having emergency surgery in the next day or two – it’s an emergent situation with the rods in her back. I just wanted to update you about the ebook links – I have no fucking idea why they weren’t put up long before this. But now, with the hurricane, everything’s a problem, which, of course, I understand. So they should be up, but they’re not and I’m not going to pretend everything’s great, because it’s a major fuck-up in my eyes and it’s not my fuck-up. And I can’t get an eta as to when they’ll be up. I apologize and will let you know as soon as I know anything. I’m pissed and frustrated as hell. But my first concern at this point is with my kid. I know you guys understand***
The supernatural world is rising up against the human one. The weretrappers
want control, and only the immortal Dire wolves stand in the way of total destruction. Stray, a Dire, and his long-lost brother, Killian, emerge as the leaders of their pack. To keep themselves and the humans safe, the Dires need a witch as powerful as Seb, who betrayed the Dires to work for the weretrappers.
They find what they are looking for in Kate, a human who survived a horrible car accident that left her back scarred with a handprint no one else can see. Stray senses Kate’s abilities as a witch and recruits her to help the Dires — all the while knowing she is so powerful they will need to kill her once she helps defeat the weretrappers.
Stray doesn’t expect the powerful connection that he feels with Kate, or his irresistible need to protect her. They cannot hide their feelings for each other, and what once was taboo now seems inevitable…
You can find order info here – you can also find excerpts and soundtracks!
Surrender: A Section 8 Novel – cover reveal!!!
So, what do we think? Cause I LOVE!!!
SURRENDER: A Section 8 Novel (release date: April 2, 2013)
DESPERATE, FEARLESS, AND HUNTED 
For former Navy SEAL Dare O’Rourke, Section 8 was legendary. The son of one of its missing members, he grew up in the shadow of its secrets. All he knew was that it was a cabal of operatives discharged from branches of the military and reassigned to extremely dangerous, off- the-books international missions. And that their handler was as shrouded in mystery as the missions themselves.
NOTHING CAN STOP THEM. NOTHING CAN BREAK THEM.
Now the handler of Section 8 has given orders to kill any remaining members, along with their families. Dare must save his long-lost half sister, Avery, whom he was never meant to meet. Determined to fight for their lives and find their missing father, Dare and Avery bring together for one last mission those who are in danger because of their relationship to Section 8—to avenge their families and to survive.
Release Day for Dire Warning (& a contest)!!!
DIRE WARNING: A Novella of the Eternal Wolf Clan is available now! It’s an eSpecial, a
prequel to the Eternal Wolf Clan series that starts with Book 1, Dire Needs, next month! <——-more exclamation points!
Ahem. Anyway, this novella is about 25K (100 pages) and it centers on introducing you to the main Dire Wolf characters – it lets you into the world and is heavy on alpha male interaction What could be more fun?!
Here’s the blurb:
A breathtaking new tale of the Dire Wolves, from the bestselling author of Dire Needs…
Immortal and invincible, Rifter is the head of the last surviving pack of Dire Wolves—a band of Alpha brothers charged with protecting the Weres. But now that witches have joined forces with nefarious weretrappers, it’s a perfect storm for double trouble. When the murder of a human points to a wolf, along with the threat of the packs being outted to the world, the Dires fear that something even more dangerous is out there hiding in the dark, something waiting for the right time to show itself.
You can read an excerpt here! And you can go buy it on Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook and iBooks through the links here! <—–more exclamation points!!!
And I’m going to give away another ARC of Dire Needs here today All you have to do is
buy Dire Warning and show me the receipt!
Kidding. (What? It’s a good strategy – and there are exclamation points 
)
Anyway, seriously, to be eligible to win an ARC (uncorrected print copy) of Dire Needs, just leave a comment below and tell me how much you love Dire Warning, the SEAL books, me in general what you’re reading! I’m just starting Book 1 in Lora Leigh’s Breed Series. Somehow, I started waaay in the middle.
Dire Warning giveaway & teasers
RR@H Novel Thoughts & Book Talk Blog has started a new feature, Teaser Tuesday, and they’re featuring DIRE WARNING today! Go read the teaser and let me know what you think!
There’s a chance to win a copy of DIRE WARNING on Under The Covers Book Blog - the winner will be chosen on 2/6, so go comment! I’ll gift the eSpecial to you on release day, 2/7!
*realizes the only punctuation I’ve used in this post are exclamation points and thinks about cutting back on the caffeine*
My interview is up at the HEA USA Today Blog!
I was interviewed about SEAL of My Dreams (and other things) over at the USA Today
Blog – you can read the whole thing here. In the month of November (release month) the book earned 
about $46K for the Veterans Medical Research Foundation, so all the contributing authors are thrilled!!! Thanks for all your support - you all went out and bought and talked the antho up – it’s for such a good cause!
So, in honor of that, I’m going to give away two signed ARCs of DIRE NEEDS! The contest ends at 10PM EST, and all you have to do to be entered is to tell me what upcoming books you’re most looking forward to in the comments below. I always end up with a huge list of books to buy when I ask this question.
Updates for the new year…
Okay, a few updates before I head back to the deadline cave where I resided for the better half of the last year It’s likely not to change, which is a very, very good thing.
Obviously, my website has been revamped – it’s it gorgeous?! Waxcreative, as always, exceeded my expectations! So now it reflected the wolf as well as the romantic suspenses and I think it ties in so well.
Wax also redid the Sydney Croft page as well!
So, upcoming – and SOON – is the prequel to the Eternal Wolf Clan series – Dire Warning! It releases February 7th and then Dire Needs: Book 1 in the EWC series comes out March 6th!
For those who’ve been asking about poor Reid and Grier from Night Moves, yes, I totally plan to do something for them before the new suspense series begins in 2013 – I promise to keep you posted!
Other than that, I’m diving into the first of the new romantic suspense series – the book is currently titled Unbreakable and the series is called Section 8. I just handed in book 2 in the Eternal Wolf Clan series and I’m getting ready for a blog tour for the upcoming releases. And, I’m also going to try to blog here more.
Stop laughing. Just keep staring at Rifter over there on the left. And I’ll update here for the blog tour because there will be giveaways along the way! Hope everyone’s doing well and having a good start to 2012 – we had our first dusting of snow last night so it’s finally starting to feel like winter. I like winter. Probably because I commute from the bedroom to the kitchen and back…
Night Moves release day!
Kell has arrived! Night Moves is on sale, both print and eBook, and, on November 7th, it will also be available in audio from Tantor! Actually, all 4 Shadow Force books sold to Tantor, so they’ll be releasing between November 7th and December 26th. I spoke to the narrator, Johanna, and she’s awesome – she’s done all the Sookie Stackhouse and Kelly Armstrong books. 
NIGHT MOVES
Anything can happen under the cover of darkness.
Kell Roberts has walked the thin line between life and death for so long that it now feels like home. He is a soldier, a survivor, and a loner. Still, Kell cannot turn his back on the beautiful woman caught in his firefight against the drug lords of Mexico. She says her name is Teddie, but Kell senses there’s much more to her story—and it’s about to pull him into a mission he didn’t sign on for: keeping her alive.
Teddie Lassiter knows this lean, mean rescuer just saved her life, but the steel glint behind those soft gray eyes seem to be hiding something deep. The men after Teddie are deadly, but the man who holds her life in his hands and tempts her with his wicked touch is even more dangerous. He could make her dream about living and loving again. And if they can survive, maybe, just maybe, they can stop fighting the world and each other—and simply surrender.
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You can read an excerpt here and find character lists and soundtracks as well here! And a few people have asked if it’s the last of the Shadow Force series – the answer is no, for sure. I have a lot of plans, especially for Reid and Grier. Also, I’m not done with Romantic Suspense – I’ve got a new RS series – Section 8 – coming out with NAL. I’m excited for all my upcoming projects!
SEAL of My Dreams site up & running!
There are several upcoming projects I’m really excited about, but none means more than being part of the SEAL OF MY DREAMS anthology. All proceeds go to Veterans Medical Research and I’m so grateful to have a chance to give back to these 
heroes! I’m buying zillions of copies and everyone’s getting them for Christmas – everyone! The authors I’m side by side with are amazing and I can’t wait until release day – November 11th – Veteran’s Day! And yes, it will be available in both print and eBook format, thanks to Belle Books!
My short story is connected to the HOLD series – you’ll see Jake and Chris and Jamie and Nick and the rest of the gang. We were only supposed to write 5K and mine is close to 8K, so I cheated a little. But there was so much more I wanted to write! I’m definitely not done with this series and I’ve got plans, plans I tell you.
Anyway, as always, it’s been busy here, but Fall is always my favorite season. I think it has something to do with school starting and having taught, but I always view September as the beginning for me. I tend to get a huge bulk of writing done during this time too – I also plan for new projects as well.
I’m often asked how I write, how I stay focused, etc. In fact, Sarah just asked me on Twitter last night! If you’ve been visiting this blog for a while, you’ve heard this before, but I like to talk about my process in case there are new writers out there who think there’s only one way to do things.
There’s not. And when I first started out, I didn’t know that. I couldn’t finish a book to save my life and couldn’t figure out why. Somehow, I’d gotten it into my head that a book needed to be written in order.
The big secret? It doesn’t. You can write out of order! You can write the end first, the middle first, you can jump all around. At some point, of course, you have to pull the whole thing together, but until then, get it written any way you can. I typically see the big moments first, and I tend to write those first. I write down anything and everything that comes to mind. But the key is, I’m always writing – because I have to for my contracts, but more so because I love writing. I can’t not write.
I also write several books at once. I don’t plot much, so this definitely helps my productivity. I’m always moving forward on something. Obviously, the contracted work that’s due next is the priority, but I usually have a couple of things with close due dates, plus copy edits, etc. And somehow, the big mishmash all works for me. I’m a really organized person, and writing in a disorganized way works because I can see the bigger picture – I keep my eye on it the entire time and I know I can pull together the puzzle in the end. Is it the easiest way to write? I don’t know, but it’s the only way I can, and I’ve tried others. But I’ve written somewhere in the vicinity of 20 books or more and at this point, it’s my process and I’m sticking with it.
As we approach NanoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month in November) I’ll try to talk more about process and publishing and the like. If you’ve got anything specific you’d like me to talk about, feel free to put it in comments or drop me an email via my contact page!
