Hi everyone!

I'm really excited to be blogging here at Cigars! Especially on a day like today. You see it's Friday, the 15th of June and that is the day my very first book is being released at Triskelion (and in print format Sept 07, at Amazon, available for pre-order now!). OMG! Someone pinch me! Okay, okay. The book is titled Right in Front of You and it's a contemporay romance with a hint of suspense.

In a nut shell, NYS Trooper Jared Blake thinks his life is about to turn perfect. He just accepted his dream job and will be moving in two weeks. Things are going along smoothly until his long time friend, Ryan O'Connor recieves a threatening note. Then her apartment is broken into. Jared has two weeks to figure out who is stalking Ryan, and in two weeks, he will loose his heart forever.

Did I tell you how much I love this story? Well I love this story. I'm proud to say that it's the first novel I ever wrote. Well, wrote, then rewrote, then rewrote again and now I get to share it with you.

One thing I get asked all the time by my non-writer friends is "Where do you come up with your story ideas?" For me, that is a hard question to answer becuase they literally just come to me. Right in Front of You came to me while I was sitting out our cottage in Centeral NY watching my children swim on a beautiful July day. The sun was shinning and there wasn't a cloud in the bright blue sky. I thought to myself, "I'm so lucky" and then I thought, "What if everything you thought you didn't want, was exactly what you needed and it was right in front of you." And then I sat up and said, "I'm going to write a book about that."

I'm not kidding. That is exactly how it happened and now, four years later, it's being published.

What's next for me? Well, in September I have an antholgy due out titled Haunt Me Baby One More Time and then in October of 2007 Dark Water is being released. Dark Water takes Frank, a character out of Right in Front You and gives him his own story.

What's on the horizon for me? Well, it would appear I'm switching genres. I've always loved a good romance and some of my favorites have been category romances. Actually, they are my favorites. I think category romances are incredible reads and I think category authors are some of the best in the business. However, when I'm looking for a different kind of book to read, I gravitate toward writers like Harlan Coben (thank you Sam!), Lee Child, Vince Flynn, James Patterson, Bob Mayer, Ridley Pearson, Clive Cussler, Tami Haug, to name a few. I love thrillers.

About a year ago, I started a book titled Death by Body Parts. I had thought it would be a romantic suspense novel. I wrote some of it, but it didn't feel right to me. Like I was missing something. I struggled with it and struggled with it, but didn't want to quit on it because I knew deep down it was a damn good idea. When out of the blue it hit me, it's not a romance. I need to go darker. I need to dig deeper and write the story as a thriller. So I did.

Currently I'm polishing the book and getting it ready for my agent to shop around. But in the process of writing this book, I realized that this is where I belong. I have ideas for at least 3 more books and I'm very excited about this switch. Scared as hell, but excited too.

I made the decision to drop out of RWA Nationals this year and now I'm going to Thrillerfest in NYC. I'm scared, but in a good way. This is good for me. It's where I need to be.

With all that said, I still have ideas for romances and I won't stop writing them. Just right now, I'm focusing my effort in the thriller world.

Thanks to everyone here for letting me come over and blog about what is going on in my writing world. Feel free to ask me anything. I'm pretty open and love to chat. I have a websit and other blogs, so I hope you will visit them and find out what is going on in my world. Finally, I hope you buy Right in Front of You and I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Thanks! Jen