Actually no. When I was growing up, I wanted to be a lawyer…then later a plastic surgeon (until I realized I had to take organic chemistry :shudder:)…then later an investment banker. But as it turned out, I didn't become any of those.

And when I started writing, I decided I wanted to write something that was uplifting. I don't mind really good novels with sad endings, and I read them. But I didn't have the heart to make my characters go through some super crappy conflict and problems and…end up dead. So romance seemed like a natural genre for somebody like me. And it doesn't hurt that I enjoy reading it. :)

Happy June, everyone!

A few people asked me what I’m going to be up to for the rest of the year. I think some people are wondering how much they’ll have to wait to get more books from me, especially after getting a book a month from December till March.

I honestly can't write one book a month. Most of the ones in that spurt were books I'd written in 2013.

Still…I'm writing as fast as I can, while trying to avoid burnout. So here are some tentative (very tentative!) release dates for the rest of the year:

Summer — probably around August — Four Weeks Till Forever (The Pryce Family, Book 1) — Mark Pryce & Hilary Rosenberg's romance

Late Fall / Winter — Merry in Love (Hearts on the Line, Book 6) — Meredith Lloyd & Daniel Aylster's romance

Winter — I don't know if it's going to be in December 2014 or early 2015, but the second book in the Pryce Family series will be released. No title yet.

Currently Four Weeks Till Forever is in the line editing stage, and I'm drafting Merry in Love. If everything goes according to plan, I'll send Merry in Love to my editor sometime in mid-June, take a week off to refill my well, and go straight to editing Merry in Love and outlining the second Pryce Family novel.

BTW — If you have any suggestions for, or something you’d like to see in, my books, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Another BTW — Merry in Love is going to be a holiday romance, which means a lot of previous couples are going to show up again (Alex & Natalie, Ethan & Kerri, Gavin & Amandine, Blaine & Catherine). If you have questions about their post-HEA lives, let me know and I'll do my best to answer them. (For example, a reader asked me via Facebook if Catherine's going to have a baby of her own. That question will be answered in Merry in Love.)

Thanks for reading! :)

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That's a huge red flag. Any legit e-commerce site should have it set up so that order fulfillment is automatic. There are many economical service providers that do the credit card processing and digital order fulfillment.

My guess? This site is basically a credit card phishing site. So please beware of this. And if there's a site that has deals too good to be true, check to make sure it's legit first. There are so many scammers and hackers that try to steal data.

What do you think?

Very badly!

I generally don’t have a title when I start writing. My poor cover artist! I don't know until I'm done with dev edits…or maybe in some cases until I'm done with line edits. The only book I had a title from the very beginning is Merry in Love (Meredith Lloyd's story — coming this winter), partly because it's so easy to have a little fun with the “in Love” pattern for the Hearts on the Line books, and Merry is a short form of Meredith…and the book is a holiday romance.

So…some of the tidbits about my titles. :)

Vengeful in Love was originally entitled Carnal Secrets.

Reunited in Love‘s working title was Temporarily in Love (I told you I suck at this…!).

Redemption in Love‘s working title was Anything But Divorce (I know… :sigh:)

Thankfully I have a great team of people helping me, so the final title usually isn't too terrible. :)