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 My release date was just a few days ago and I want to shout out to the world that Jaguar Fever is hot for you!!! This is the 2nd book in the Heart of the Jaguar series-- I just turned in Jaguar Hunt , and for readers who love David Patterson, the hero's brother, his story is next.  I'll be going to Authors After Dark soon and that will be my second readers' conference to attend. Don't you think this one is appropriate though? Authors After Dark? As in Jaguar Fever or Savage Hunger ....after dark? Not that they aren't fun during the day too, and then there's the catnap (every time I read this, it says catnip to me...that can be a riot too) that can be even hotter. You know, they don't even have to be in the jungle before Maya Anderson is causing trouble. While they're in a jaguar shifter bar, only kind there is because other shifters don't exist, right? Wade Patterson's brother, David, is hit in the head with a bott...

Eastward ho! I already had a Facebook fan email me to get together with her to autograph her books before or after the signing! That is a first for me. And so thrilling! Last year, Sourcebooks generously gave away copies of A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing at Anaheim, and you should have seen me waving at readers who were sitting down in the hotel eateries with a book in hand, saying, "You want me to autograph your book for you?" I'm an introvert, folks, so that's not the real me. Really. But hey, if someone had the book and wanted me to autograph it, all the better!  A couple of weeks ago, I was at RomCon in Colorado Springs, my very first readers' conference, and SB generously sent Savage Hunger and A Highland Werewolf Wedding for the signing. Afterward, I had some left over and couldn't take them home with me, so went to the dinner that night, wheeling my suitcase. At first, I had the notion of putting them on readers' chairs, but then a ton of ...

One of my wolf packs is from Colorado, Silver Town, a makeshift place partly based on the quaint silver mining town of Telluride where I've skied before. For RomCon, I visited Colorado Springs. I'd wished I'd seen the wolf reserve one hour from there while I was there! Unfortunately, fires were raging in parts of the area. So I managed to take a picture of the mountains in the morning. By afternoon and evening, the smoke is like a thick fog. Two people have died in the fires so they're treating it as homicide. Over a hundred houses destroyed. The wildlife and acres of trees are being lost. No one knows if they're being set on purpose or if it's carelessness or an act of nature. It's devastating for everyone no matter the reasons for the fires. They said the mountains are normally crystal clear, but with the haze of smoke, this is how it looks even in the morning at its best.  Here are the Colorado City Skies at sunset--I thought the cl...

Well, officially tomorrow. But that will be here before we know it! I've been having fun making some new cool book trailer videos--this one for A Highland Werewolf Wedding! Can't wait to make the Jaguar Fever and Savage Hunger ones because I have some terrific photos from the jungle--well, Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas, but who's telling? :) I thought the moving objects in a couple of the videos I saw were really neat and I wanted to do that too with the wolf video I took in Omaha, NE. It was a lot of trial and error and "my" wolf didn't do a whole lot in the clip, and I couldn't have very much of it because it would make the trailer too long, but I thought it added to the video. Busy writing JAGUAR HUNT now coming June 2014, but in between, I'm going to work on some more wolf and jaguar videos to upload for past and future books. They're really easy and lots of fun. The Scotland pictures I took while I was there. The chapel was the one...

Just...lazy? Want to procrastinate when work needs to be done? I'll think of it tomorrow mentality? I'll do something about it next week. And then all of a sudden the time has come and you're like what happened to the time? Do you have stuff you like to do and so that gets priority over the stuff you don't like to do? Or don't want to do? Taxes come to mind....every year I say I'll get better organized, and every year it's the same old thing. :) Though I have to admit part of it is that statements don't come in on time like they're supposed to. I did have the urge to do them one day, but didn't have all my statements in. You know what? That makes us human. See, the guy in the tree, he can afford to do what he wants because he doesn't have to do anything else. Procrastination can lead to stress and more problems--so I'm not advocating to do it--hint to self: Get to work on taxes. But on the other hand, give yoursel...

 Are you packed and ready? For this? Blue skies. Palm trees. Blue water. And this...wolves with style. Oh, sure, just ANYONE can go to the beach. But what if you were to find HIM on the beach, and when he saw you...man, you sure got his attention. And what if he needs some sun tan oil rubbed into all those muscles. I mean, Celts DO have fair skin. And what if he wants to rub all that oil on YOU next--either out of the bottle or share some of his own. And what if swimming isn't all he wants to do with you in this island paradise. Like...take a run on the wild side. What? You thought he was thinking of something else? Well, he would be...but that's private between the two of you. I would NEVER want to put that up for all to see. Not even in a book. Well, maybe in a book. Where do you think I get my ideas from? So even if you hadn't planned a vacation, this one doesn't cost a whole lot and you get a big gray Highland wolf with it too! And he's yours ...

Okay, so they may not be hot SEAL types like in To Tempt the Wolf, (but you note the playful romance going on?) A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing or   A SEAL Wolf Christmas.... A SEAL Wolf Christmas: Oct 1, 2013   But they're still cute, right?   And here's what you get when you mix up a male SEAL with a female SEAL...or seal...a baby seal. :)  Or in my wolf SEAL's cases...baby werewolves... Got that straight? BIG happening on Tuesday, Feb 5, btw! The Highland wolf hunks are back! Think, trip to Grand Cayman Island, a little fun and sun, a little snorkeling, a little playful wolf tactics, a LOT hot....he might not be wearing a kilt until the end of the book, but whatever he's wearing, or not wearing...Duncan gets attention. :)   B&N Amazon And the winner for last week is: Sherry!  It's been kind of crazy around here juggling 5 books at once--A Howl for a Highlander book release, final read through ...

Last week's winner was:Martha Lawson Between roof and plumbing problems, both leaks!!! And the blog tour, and edits on A SEAL Wolf Christmas, and Jaguar Fever and finishing up Silence of the Wolf, and dealing with a headache the size of Texas,  here is an excerpt from A Howl for a Highlander so I don't have to think too hard: He didn’t say anything more, and Shelley was too stunned to speak. Wendy broke in, dying to know all about him. “That’s him? A Scottish hunk? Who sounds like he’s already way too intrigued with you? Don’t tell me you’re wearing that string bikini of yours,” she said. Knowing Wendy, she’d want to forget her manufacturing crisis and fly to the island to check him out. She’d let him stay at the villa for free, too. Probably pay for all his meals, excursions, everything. She could certainly afford it. Forget Shelley taking in needy strays. She figured Wendy would be the one offering a free room stateside for him. Until she learned he was a wolf. Wolv...

Make a trip to Grand Cayman Island where you will snorkel with the sting rays, cruise with swashbuckling pirates, and swim with the wolves. :) B&N Amazon I actually went to Grand Cayman Island and did all that the hunky wolf and his she-wolf did. They balked about going on the submarine, and I didn't blame them. It wasn't worth the price and if you have claustrophobia, not the place to be. But otherwise, except for having all the fun with the wolf, I did it!!! :) Though I kept thinking while I wrote the book, that I needed to go back for a refresher! :) The books comes out February, but the actual guest blog tour starts on Monday! So who wants to have a chance at winning a book even earlier than that??? If you comment, I'll put you in the drawing. ******* A Howl for the Highlander (Book 10) Sourcebooks Feb 2013 Duncan MacNeill is a Highlander at heart with a mission—find gray wolf and former stockbroker, Silverman who has stolen the family fortune an...

 Amazon B&N   Have you ever had a dream that is so bizarre, you wonder what it means? Like...deadly fortunes something that is a warning of something to come...Or you think maybe you shouldn't have eaten that spicy pizza last night. Or watched a scary movie right before going to bed. Maybe you've had a lot of stress over something or mentioned people that you hadn't talked about in a good long while, some of them long since dead, and here they are, prominently in your story dream. Ever think the dream could turn into a really neat story? Make it so? Scenes do come to me, but not in dreams. I visualize two people in action and dialogue, and I've got the beginning of a scene. But dreams, that's something else. First off,  they usually are really bizarre. If I remember them...I had one this morning but can't remember, but yesterday's woke me up-- It was really weird. I was in a car with a cougar-standard poodle mix and I was stroking...

Have you any New Year's Goals??? I wrote half of the blogs for the guest blog tour for A Howl for a Highlander before Christmas as the tour is earlier than usual!!! Instead of starting Feb 1 for a Feb 1 release, it's beginning Jan 21!Which means my first New Year's Goal is to write the remaining blogs!!! And finish writing Silence of the Wolf,  start writing the next Highland wolf story and finish it, and the third jaguar story. I've also got to write my next Highland Medieval story as sales are phenomenal, and the next YA fantasy in The Dark Fae series! And I need to pitch another couple or 3 stories to Sourcebooks. And that's just the beginning. I'm going to my first RomCon, AAD and I'll be attending RWA Nationals.... Personally, I need to continue cleaning out stuff I don't need or use....I feel so great when I do that...but doing that is hard to do sometimes!!!! I have boxes of stuff in my barn. How much do you want to bet that if ...

The Crepe Myrtles in full bloom in my front yard! I couldn't resist sharing Duncan MacNeill, the new cover for A Howl for a Highlander, fierce Highland warrior who has a mission--take back the money that belongs to the clan. Only he gets a whole lot distracted by one sassy she-wolf when he arrives on the Grand Cayman Island, who's got his number. Will he be trouble? That's all she wonders, and yes, only maybe she causes more than he ever could! :) Feb 2013 Release! Wolf smelling the wildflowers of spring. Thistles grow wild out here, bringing a little of Scotland home. Wolf pup in spring and lovely wildflowers framing her. More wildflowers. Giant sunflowers that pop up year after year with a backdrop of the cornfield that's jungle high. My dad planted the seeds years and years ago and remind me of him every year. She's either planning to shift with the alpha male, or already turned back into her human form. Not sure. Which do ...