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Yesterday, Loucinda McGary got our September Launch party started with the release of The Treasures of Venice. Today, let's keep the Launch Party rolling as I celebrate the long-awaited release of HEALING LUKE! Whoot! I've brought some awesome brownies for us to munch and I'll be giving away your pick of books from my backlist (pubbed prior to August 2009) to two lucky folks who leave a comment before midnight central time tonight! So let the par-tay begin! In HEALING LUKE , readers meet the Morgan men— father Bart and his two grown sons, Aaron and Luke. The Morgans run a snorkeling and deep sea fishing tours business in Destin, Florida. The three bachelors lead a charmed life until an accident on their tour boat leaves Luke injured and the whole family grappling with the changes in their lives. Enter Abby Stanford, an occupational therapist from Texas on vacation by herself after breaking her engagement with her philandering fiancé. When Abby arrives at the snorkeling offi...

The day before I flew off to DC for the RWA National Conference, our wonderful and adorable publicist Danielle Jackson sent me the preliminary list of websites that have agreed to host me for blogs or interviews as part of the “Loving Mr. Darcy: Journeys Beyond Pemberley” launch. The official date of release is September 1, but as we all know, the blog blitz virtual tour begins several weeks prior! I thanked Danielle, but also told her that, all things considered, I refused to more than glance at the list until after the conference and family vacations were over! Well, the time has come and I can no longer find excuses to procrastinate. Well, I could – LOL – but I shall attempt to be a responsible, good little author and start writing my blogs ASAP so I shan’t be doing what I am doing at this very second, i.e. writing my essay some six hours before it is due to post! Ha!! I have thought a great deal on the themes for the bulk of my blogs when “Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy” was rele...

by Danielle Jackson So before I begin, I just want to say I have recently become OBSESSED with American ad artist JC Leyendecker. He’s often called “ America ’s Other Artist,” because he did many of the covers for the Saturday Evening Post , of which most associate with Normal Rockwell. Anyway, expect to see his art popping up in my posts for a bit. Now on with the post: A HUMONGOUS part of posting things to the internet included comments—whether it’s in a blog’s designate comment section, through a forum, a chatroom or in an email, comments is the most direct way that you, the authors, interact with us, the readers. Any guest blogs end with open ended questions for this purpose, and it is important to check back in on the guest blogs, to see what readers are saying, if they’ve asked any questions, and really, it’s a courteous and polite way to create relationships around the book blogging/reviewing community. However, what do you do when someone posts a negative revi...