Well, I wasn’t sure so I asked the Divas to come up with some questions for me and then I answered them on my Guest blog on May’s blog.

Go see the questions and answers at Milady Insanity’s blog

If nothing else, you will find out about my favourite cheese. You did want to know my favourite cheese, right?

And you could be entered to win a copy of Vampire Oracle: Harmony.

Here’s the writing info:

Unleash your story challenge is starting September 1. Our lead writer, Debbie Macomber, says she’s going to write 30K this month. See if you can keep up and sign up for the ROMANCE DIVAS team.

If you take part in the fundraiser portion of the challenge, you’ll get a chance to win some great prizes, like an Alphasmart. You can also win crits with agents such as Holly Root and Jessica Faust or Dorchester editor Leah Hultenschmidt.

Special Challenge to all RWA Chapters participating in the fund-raising challenge: Win a complete set of MP3 audio files from the 2008 RWA National Conference.

Unleash Your Story: Make a Difference challenges readers and writers to raise awareness and funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). Cystic Fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease in the U.S. Thirty years ago life expectancy for a child born with CF was only five years, but through the efforts of the CFF and others, life expectancy and quality of life has increased dramatically. Unleash Your Story aims to help the CFF continue these efforts and to someday soon find a cure!

Participants can work as a team or individually for chances to win fun prizes. We are also offering a special prize to RWA Chapters with participating members. The chapter with members who raise the most money by September 30 will receive a complete set of MP3 audio files from the 2008 RWA National Conference for your chapter library. All you have to do to be eligible for the prize is to pass the word on to your chapter members and ask them to let us know that they are members of your chapter.

All participants will still be eligible for individual prizes, but their total donations will also be credited toward the chapter for this special prize. We will need to calculate the chapter total manually, so be sure that all of your members e-mail us at info@unleashyourstory.com to let us know their chapter affiliation.

We recognize that many RWA members belong to multiple chapters. We ask all participants to select one chapter for purposes of this special chapter challenge.

The event will run September 1-30, but registration begins in August. For more information email info@unleashyourstory.com or visit http://www.unleashyourstory.com

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I’ve selected a small team goal of $1500, and am hoping as a group we can bust that fundraising goal wide open. For example if we get 300 people who can donate only $5 we have met our goal. We have over 2k members here on Divas alone. My personal goal is $150, but again, I hope to beat that. Everyone who signs up to be on the writing team can pick their own goal and will have their own donations page and all donations will combine to be a part of what our team raises.

Some info regarding CF:
Cystic fibrosis is a devastating genetic disease that affects children and young adults. Advances continue to be made in finding a cure, but your help is needed now—more than ever—to help keep up the momentum of this life-saving research. Too many young lives depend on this vital research to let it go unfunded!

Your generous gift will be used efficiently and effectively—nearly 90 cents of every dollar of revenue raised is available for investment in vital CF programs to support research, care and education. And, it’s tax-deductible.

Right now I am the only Diva registered on the team, but I know others are interested, so please join me in giving yourself a kick in the pants to write and raise money for this worthy cause. In the meantime, here is the DONATION link for my area http://www.cff.org/LWC/MgBraden

When I was at Nationals I stood in line to get an ABM (Advanced Bound Manuscript) of Eve of Darkness from S.J. Day. Signed even.

To say I have been waiting for this book, is putting it mildly. Poor Sylvia probably thought I was stalking her. I kind of was. (Sorry, Sylvia). However, as soon as I read about the Marked series, I knew I needed to read them. But the first one doesn’t come out until May of 2009. 2009!!! How is one supposed to wait that long?

Thankfully, I read her post stating that she would be giving these away at her publisher signing event so I faithfully stood in line and she was the first person I hit.

I read this book a couple of days after I returned home. A friend of mine (Ember Case) read hers on the way home from conference and loved it. I restrained myself since I wanted time to just read it with quiet all around me. OMG - it is so amazing. Seriously. Go put it on your wish list at Amazon. In fact, here’s the link why don’t you just go pre-order it. I’m telling you, you won’t be disappointed.

This is like demon hunting meets Touched by an Angel (except the angels are naughty and slightly angry, but it’s ok, because God loves them ) - ok, that statement doesn’t do the series justice, not even close LOL. Here’s the logline “Cursed by God, hunted by demons, desired by Cain and Abel… All in a day’s work.”

I love Eve and I love Cain. Abel’s ok too. They’re both hot. But Cain? Whew. I’d love to show you a cover, but I think the only thing I have I’d have to scan and I’m not entirely sure that’s the actual cover anyway.

Now I have to wait until June 2009 for the next in the series. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do that. And poor Sylvia thought she’d gotten rid of me for a while. She didn’t realise that I am a series slut. But I am. Just ask Jaci Burton (Demon Hunter series), Lara Adrian (Midnight Breed series), Allison Brennan (Evil series - not sure if that’s the right name), or any number of other authors that I urge to write faster so I can have the next book and the next one.

Anyway, go check out the website for this series and put this book on your TBR list. It’s well written, fast-paced, has great tension. the world-building is good, there are characters to hate, characters to love and some you are completely unsure about. And it leaves you wanting more. I must have more Eve.

Eve of Destruction… I await you.

Here’s a little excerpt widget for EOD:

Read my article this month at Romance Divas http://www.romancedivas.com/resources.html and you can see what this “newbie” to RWA Nationals found valuable.

Once again I need to thank Romantic Inks for making it possible for me to attend conference in the first place. For those who don’t know, I had to write an essay for and won my conference fee paid by Romantick Inks. I had to come up with my airfare, hotel and food expenses, but without the conference fee paid I would not have been able to go.

Thankfully, I had request for a partial and for a full so am busy working on those. I appreciate your support so very much!

More conference photos and stuff in the next couple of days, but first…

Vampire Oracle: Harmony by M.G. Braden

Recently engaged, Kara Staten and Marc Brodeur are in love, and Kara has a brand new business. Life is good. When things start to unravel, they struggle for the harmony they once had.

Unbeknownst to Kara, Marc’s a vampire trying to live a normal life. When her skincare salon produces a special serum that results in several fatal love bites, she doesn’t know where to turn. Hoping to keep her safe, Marc runs away. As their lives spin into separate paths, they find that what could tear them apart is the one thing that will ultimately keep them together.

Read an Excerpt

Vampire Oracle: Harmony NOW available at Cobblestone Press

Content: Erotic Romance
This title contains explicit language and graphic sex