Category: Romance Novels

Romance Novels

What’s Next?

I’ve been getting questions about what’s coming next from me in my current series, so I figured I’d do a quick review here. I’ve grouped it by series, rather than chronologically. Model Soldier (Red, Hot & Blue, Book 8) is my next release. Coming from Samhain Publishing it is scheduled for December. You can read the blurb here. I’ve already proofed the final file so I expect it to be up on preorder any day now. I’ll let you know when it is. It is category length at approximately 54,000 words and will be released first as an eBook, and then as a trade paperback the following year. It is a standalone story featuring a new character as the hero, as well as an Army platoon in Afghanistan. However, the Task Force Zeta SpecOp characters you know and love from other Red, Hot & Blue series books play a role in the story. Though the story stands alone, you will want to grab the free 10,000 word bonus read BB DALTON to fully appreciate the back story of Model Soldier. It’s available free here at my site, from Amazon for Kindle, at KOBO, on Barnes & Noble for Nook, on […]

Romance Novels

3 Words: Mass. Market. Paperback.

Here are 3 more… Linda Lael Miller And here’s a handful more… Jill Shalvis and Lucy Monroe What’s all that have in common? I’ll tell you. I’m going to have a 20K word story in a mass market collection of beach reads headlined by Linda Lael Miller, Jill Shalvis and Lucy Monroe being published by Kensington next July! HOLY CRAP! I still can’t write that without being shocked all over again. It all happened so fast, I don’t have a cover yet but I did have to come up with and write a short summary of my story and get it to the editor this week because they are in the process of writing the book blurb now. So perhaps it will be up for preorder soon. It’s been a crazy week. On Monday, I was in the middle of writing Two Dates to a Wedding (Oklahoma Nights, Book 2), when copy edits on One Night With a Cowboy (Oklahoma Nights Book 1) arrived, then the email for the proofing on the ARC of Model Soldier (Red, Hot & Blue, Book 8) showed up, and then this opportunity came along and required immediate attention and a potential story blurb by […]

Romance Novels

Classic Romance Tropes – the marriage of convenience

Classic romance tropes, those tales that have been told and retold for centuries. The Harlequin-esqe themes that have kept that publishing house in business, and at the top of the romance world, for years. Classic themes of love are everywhere–even in that newest sensation. You know the one, the book that shall  not be named. I personally consider Voldabook (AKA 50 Shades) just another retelling of the Cinderella story, where the plain Jane meets the prince, or sheikh, or millionaire (or billionaire, to account for inflation). He falls hopelessly in love with her and moves heaven and earth to be with her. Only in this version, he’s a damaged ‘prince’ wielding duct tape and a belt and only her love can save him. Anyway, today I’m focusing on another classic romantic device, the marriage of convenience. You know the type–the love story is centered around a couple who has to get married for any number of reasons, usually because his/her family needed the money to save the family land or title or whatever. Since I write contemporary westerns, I don’t have any titled ladies in danger of losing their family castle because it’s been entailed and will go to the next […]