Karen Foley
Lynn Raye Harris
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Welcome Guest Blogger Dana Marton!
I'm having a major cookie hangover this morning. Too much sugar last night, definitely. We were at my cousin's house for a holiday visit and stopped in at some friends' homes who live nearby. Holiday visits should never be compounded. It's too easy to overdose. Yikes. Next time I'm doing a serial visit, I'm going during lent. I'm in dire need of fasting.
But as I was stumbling through the house at the crack of dawn—so not a morning person, but the dog had to go out—I found the perfect frame for my latest cover flat. And I do need this cover up on my wall. I’m convinced that it can and will melt snow, which we have in great supply outside. This cover is so hot, it was featured on Entertainment Tonight in Canada! (Okay, all the January Harlequin Intrigue covers were.) If you want to see their feature on the cover models, watch them here.
I have all my covers up on the wall in my office. Most writers have dark moments when they think what they are writing is no good and they might never publish another book ever again. It helps to look up and see the rows of novels with my name on. Makes me think if I could do it so many times before, maybe I can finish this book, too.
Actually, I just finished Sheik Protector, which is the sequel to Sheik Seduction, my current release. The books feature two brothers, both tortured heroes, and the women who capture their hearts. I just recently saw the RT review for Sheik Seduction: "Dana Marton takes palace intrigue, wraps it in the sexy silk of an Arabian night's dream and then throttles up the suspense in Sheik Seduction. When desert bandits attack their caravan, public relations expert Sara Reese is swept along with fellow survivor Sheik Tariq Abdullah in a battle for survival. As they try to find a traitor, they flee across the burning desert, dodging drug dealers and assassins. With only each other to rely on, Tariq and Sara discover a love that may transcend their cultures." (I sooo love the reviewer, Pat Cooper.)
And I love Tariq, the hero of this book. He’d survived several assassination attempts as a child. He’d been sent away from his family at an early age. He is a very tough man, keeps himself very isolated. It’s nearly impossible for him to trust people. Then his caravan is attacked in the Arabian Desert and he and Sara Reese might become the sole survivors. If they can outsmart the bandits who are still after them. It was so much fun to write these two characters and watch them fall in love. I love a good action/adventure romance. And desert romances do tend to crank up the heat. (You can read the excerpt at my website my website.)
So my plan for the rest of the day is to:
1.—Eat no more cookies. Under any circumstances. Not even if I trip next to the counter, unbalance the plate and one accidentally catapults into my mouth.
2.—Read Talking in Your Sleep, which has the best setup I’ve seen in a long while and also a hot cover. It takes a while to open the book, actually. You can get lost just looking at that cover. If anything can distract me from cookies today, it will be Rafe.
3.—Come up with some New Year resolutions. I do this every year. My success rate with them is about 50%. I know the first one already, in 2008 I want to eat less sweets and read more books. Can’t go wrong with that.
Wishing you a fabulous New Year, full of love and laughter, hot passion, great friendships, good health, stacks of great books and the time to read them.
Dana Marton
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HI, Dana!
Hi, Dana! *waves*
We've met when you came to speak at CPRW. And man, I'm with you on the no-cookie thing....
M
Read in bed!
www.meganhart.com
Hi <waving madly>
OMG, it's so good to "see" you! I'll have to check your web site and see if you have a new book out. That was a fun chapter meeting. Can't go wrong with stripper anecdotes. lol
Dana
...lol! Stripper anecdotes?!
...lol! Stripper anecdotes?! *whistles innocently*
M
Read in bed!
www.meganhart.com
Welcome Dana!
I think trading cookies for books is a good idea -- we finished the last of our cookies last night, and like you, I am completely sugared out. I just can't take any more -- and I have a wicked sweet tooth, so it takes a lot to bring me to the breaking point, LOL.
Thanks for the kind words on my book! I enjoyed writing it. Rafe would distract me, too, though he does bake some cookies with Joy and they do interesting things with frosting... ;)
I am going to download Sheik Seduction today... I love the summary you gave, and feel in the mood for a sexy Sheik -- what is it about Sheik books, do you think? What led you to writing that particular character? What kind of research do you do to write a Sheik, or it is all imagination?
I think at this point Sheik romance really almost constitutes a genre in and of itself! They are fascinating -- I thought of trying a Sheik Blaze, but my ed and I couldn't find ways to make it work, but maybe someday...
Welcome to Cigars, happy to have you here!
Sam
Sheiks
Frosting?? Oh, now you got my immagination going. :-)
About the sheik books... The first time I wrote a sheik book, it was actually my editor who suggested it. I had a critique partner living in Saudi at the time (her husband worked for an oil company there). So she gave me lots of material. Plus I read everything I could get my hands on, especially by women who live there. But my sheik world is mostly fictional. I even made up the country.
I like it that it's a dangerous and lawless place. The hero and heroine have plenty to fight against. And then there are the sultry desert nights.... lol
Dana
Hi
Hi. Nice to see you here.
I am done with the cookies. I made my son take all of his chocolate chip brownies home Christmas night. (I ate three while they were here.) My sister brought me 4 jelly filled cookies, 4 gingerbread men and too many sugar cookies. My husband and I finished all of them. But I still have two boxes of Godiva candy that are staring at me on the coffee table. I think I will take one to my neighbor and hope my critique group can take care of the other one.
We don't have any snow here. Actually, it's fairly warm--in the upper 40's during the day. I tell people that if that want to know what the weather is like where I live, watch the newscasters standing outside the White House doing their reports. That's very close to home.
Tomorrow or Sunday we're going down to the National Gallery to see the Edward Hopper exhibit that I've been meaning to see since it arrived months ago. We're going with my daughter's inlaws, who are visiting her. Unfortunately, she has to work! If you can believe that. (She's a librarian at the DC public library, and they're keeping the branches open more days and longer hours.)
SHEIK SEDUCTION sounds good! And I love the cover.
I make posters out of my book covers. I take them to book signings and talks I'm giving. (I have a large version and a small version of each book.)
The large posters live on a shelf above the light box in my library. I don't have room for all of them, so I keep the current covers on view. Or special books.
Rebecca
Rebecca York (aka Ruth Glick) ** http://www.rebeccayork.com
RETURN OF THE WARRIOR, Harlequin Intrigue, 10/07
ELEMENTAL MAGIC Anthology, Berkley, 11/07
BEYOND FEARLESS, Berkley, 12/07
Congratulations!!
Ruth,
Congratulations on your RT nomination for RETURN OF THE WARRIOR. What a fantastic book!!! I was so glad to see your name on the list this morning.
Your museum visit sounds great. Wish I could be there. I might go shopping for curtains tomorrow for the kitchen. Anything to get me away from the cookie jar. lol
Dana
Great plan!
I feel your pain, although I'd be hard pressed to turn down a cookie that landed in my mouth under such interesting circumstances ;)
What a cover! And what a excerpt--mmm... I headed right over to your site and your backlist also sounds really terrific! I haven't had the chance to read your work before, but I think I'll be fixing that in 2008... I haven't read a sheik story in quite some time, and yours sounds really good.
May the new year bring you success, personally and professionally, and naturally, the perfect amount of cookies :)
Thank you!
What a nice birthday wish, Fedora. Thank you! I'm standing strong on the cookie front. But my neighbor just brought over a poppyseed roll. Why, oh why??? Do I look like a woman with selfcontrol?? Ruth and Megan know me personally and they could tell you, that I do not!
"Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in."
The story of my life. :-)
Dana
Holiday Eating, etc
This is a very hard time of the year for anyone who doesn't want to gain weight. I will say that I bought myself some sugar free Dove candies. One is chocolate mint and one is chocolate raspberry. They are REALLY GOOD and they are helping keep me away from the Godiva. I also bought a Cheesecake Factory sugar free cheesecake. Another treat that I don't have to feel guilty about.
Thanks for the congratulations of RETURN OF THE WARRIOR. I loved writing that book. So I was really happy about the nomination.
Rebecca
Rebecca York (aka Ruth Glick) ** http://www.rebeccayork.com
RETURN OF THE WARRIOR, Harlequin Intrigue, 10/07
ELEMENTAL MAGIC Anthology, Berkley, 11/07
BEYOND FEARLESS, Berkley, 12/07
Did someone say Cheesecake Factory??
I love that place!!! I was heartbroken when they stopped serving their barbeque ribs.
Still doing good with resisting the cookies. Did have a nasty run in with some chocolate wafers, though. They won't be bothering anyone again :-)
Dana
Cheesecake Factory
I got to like the Cheesecake Factory on trips to California and Phoenix. I really love their cob salad, their Thai chicken wraps and their fire roasted artichokes! They've opened one here, and that's where my critique group gets together every month for lunch. The factory is annoying though. They will only give us a reservation at 11:30. So we have to eat early.
We celebrate the birthday of anyone who has one that month. And if there's no birthday, we go anyway!
Rebecca
Rebecca York (aka Ruth Glick) ** http://www.rebeccayork.com
RETURN OF THE WARRIOR, Harlequin Intrigue, 10/07
ELEMENTAL MAGIC Anthology, Berkley, 11/07
BEYOND FEARLESS, Berkley, 12/07
writers groups
That is a great tradition. I sooo miss my writers group. Maybe I should join an online chapter. Are you a member of any of those?
Dana
Welcome, Dana!
Hi Dana! Wow...totally hot cover! I might need to hang it in my sunroom to help melt the snow around here, too! Whew! I am a complete sucker for Sheik stories, and it's so refreshing not to have her abducted BY him, but have her escaping WITH him! I can't wait to read it! Thanks again for joining us!
Thank you!
Thank you, Karen. I just have to say that I LOVE the cover for Flyboy. You must have been jumping for joy when you got your first glimpse of that. Wow. Hot, hot, hot.
And congrats on the RT Top Pick!!! eHarlequin is having a holiday sale. Your book is on my list to buy before their sale ends.
Dana
I, too, have had enough
I, too, have had enough cookies AND candy .
GORGEOUS cover
hubba hubba, I can so see that guy melting snow :-) What a great sounding story!
Congrats on the cookie resistance! I did really well with that over the holidays, but found myself wandering through the kitchen today thinking I should make fudge. I definitely didn't get enough fudge this season! But I was strong LOL. Now if someone had given me Sees, I'd be toast.
Thank you!
Thank you for chatting with me, Ladies! This was a lot of fun.
Happy New Year!
Dana
Hi Dana
I love Sheik stories and I am really curious about your story. Great cover, really an eye catcher.
Sheikh and romance/suspence
You amaze me! Your latest shidkh books cover is incredible! I'n going to order two copie and offer one as a contest!
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