Michelle Cary

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I’ve had two books release and took a much needed family vacation. We went to Virginia, starting in Hampton at the Air and Space Museum and ended with a stop at Nora Robert’s book store in Boonesboro, Maryland called Turn the Page. Yep, in 5 days we crossed the state and I took more pictures than I know what to do with. As soon as I figure out how to post them I’ll share a few. I will be posting a few photos at my yahoo group Beyond the Romance if you’re interested. To be honest, the place was a bit of a disappointment. A lot of the displays were covered in plastic because the roof leaked, the outside observation deck was closed, one of the two simulator rides broke down as well as the IMAX movie they were going to show and the antique carousel was closed for renovations. I was a bit frustrated by all the issues the place seemed to have, but the kiddo’s still seemed to enjoy themselves. After that we went to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner. WOW the food was fantastic and the service was great. Talk about southern hospitality!

Come join me and fellow author’s Amanda Young, Anne Douglas, Liz Craven and Mya at our new yahoo chat group. In celebration of the launch of our new group, I’m running a contest. Join our group and you’re automatically entered to win a free download of any one of my currently available titles. Contest runs until dreaded the dreaded April 15, 2009.

Winner of Heat up your Valentine’s contest!

First I want to hand out a big thank you to everyone who entered. All of you made this contest a huge success. As you all know, there can only be one winner and that person is…

Crystal Broyles!

Congratulations!!! You’ve won a $50 gift certificate to Fictionwise, five ebooks, and so many extra goodies that according to my fellow author and head of our little contest Amanda Young we needed two tote bags to hold them all.

Again, thank you to everybody who participated. And be sure to keep checking back to this an my fellow author’s blogs for future contest announcements.

Michelle

Life for me has been more than busy in the past few weeks. Update and writing had been done in fits and spurts and for that I apologize. But here’s what’s going on in my world.

I’ve retitled my sequel to Ransomed Heart from The Price of Love to Foolish Heart. The story itself is coming along very slowly. I’d say I’m about 1/4 of the way through it, and with my crazy life, it may take some time to finish. Sorry about that to you fans of Ransomed Heart. However I promise I will finish the sequel.

New Releases:

Ransomed Heart is available now in print from amazon.com, barns&noble.com and borders.com.

Best of Intentions is available now in electronic format from my publisher The Wild Rose Press. If I have my dates correct the print version of Best of Intentions should be available the end of February. I say that with some hesitation since Ransomed Heart’s original release date was April 2009 and it’s already out. You just never know when dates will be changed.

June 2009 I will have my first release with Amber Quill Press. It’s a joint project with author Amanda Young entitled Don’t Look Back and is a romantic suspense story with erotic elements.

Then in July/August 2009 my second release with Amber Quill will be Northern Lights. NL, as I’ve called it for the last four years, is a story about a woman overcoming fear and facing her past while trying to hold onto her future. It’s an usual story that’s filled with turmoil, suspense and lots of romance, but little actual sex. I’m extremely proud of this story and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it does well.

Works in Progress

Like I said before I’m working on the sequel to Ransomed Heart, entitled Foolish Heart. Plus I’m sketching out a third story for the Ransomed Heart series, but it’s in the preliminary stages.

Sweet Surrender is a story I’ve been working on with the intentions of subbing it to my editor at Loose Id. It’s an erotic romance novella that mixed mystery/suspense with the world of submissives and bondage. If I ever mange to find time to finish it, I think it will be a great story.

Well, folks, that’s all for now. I hope to update more often so if you have questions, comments or opinions you’d like to share please feel free.

Thanks,

Michelle

An excerpt from my story Some Kind of Hero is entered in this contest. So I’m going to shamelessly plead for all of you go hop over there right now and vote for me!

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Thanks!!!

So yesterday baby doll (my youngest kiddo) had a birthday party to go to. With my husband and game boy off to see the AC/DC concert in D.C. it was just me and baby doll for the evening. Trying to think of a good way to spend the evening, I was coming up at a loss until one of my fellow moms told me about the tree lighting ceremony at the local mall.

So in the pouring rain, I scooped baby doll up and headed off to the mall. Now I have mixed feelings about the holidays. While I am one that strives to have holiday gift shopping completed before black Friday, I’m also not one who likes the idea that retailers are so damn eager to skip over holidays to get to others. Still, I managed to find a few good bargains, and much to my happiness, I’m pretty much done with all my holiday gift buying.

Still, knowing we’re not quite two weeks away from Thanksgiving yet, it was weird and a little frustrating to hear the local brass band playing Christmas music while the giant tree was lit. I mean don’t get me wrong, I’ll be outside braving whatever weather may come to put up my decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving. The weekend before Christmas I’ll be in the kitchen baking batches of cookies to the tunes of Trans Siberian Orchestra and Bing Crosby, to hand out to all my friends, but I do that knowing Christmas is the next holiday to celebrate.

At what point did we as consumers start letting the retailers dictate when the holidays started and ended. Really, I mean come on, Halloween candy is put out before school starts now and back to school shopping is pushed on us the week after the kids get out for summer vacation. And as always, Christmas trees are on display at the local K-mart before the kids have even had the chance to count all their Halloween loot.

Don’t get me wrong here. I’m not scrooge. I like a good holiday as much as the next person, but can we keep things in perspective, please?