I am slightly behind in mentioning the release of Love Songs, which came out on February 1st with Blade Publishing. Unfortunately my step-father passed on January 29th and I was out of the loop for a while.

However, the release is a positive in the month and I am so excited to share:

When Cam, a former high-school all-star, comes home to deal with his father’s death, he finds a much sweeter deal.

Madison, the Cupcake Queen, hates Valentine’s and thinks love songs are a joke. Will Cam change her mind?

Here’s an excerpt:

I know that voice. Her heart started to beat faster, playing staccato against her rib cage. It can’t be.

She went down the hall into the kitchen. Yep. There he was in all his glory. Cameron Trent. The all-star from high school. He was the hottest guy in school, but also the nicest. Everyone liked him. How could you not? He was six feet tall with chocolate brown hair and eyes. The biggest grin you had ever seen and a dimple as deep as the Grand Canyon. And he was nice to everyone he met. Even to her. His best friend’s little sister.

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While I had wished to start this year off with a bang and a gung ho blogging attitude, it was not to be. Sufficed to say that there are things in my “real” life that have to take precedence right now and the bang I received was not what I expected.

However, in positive news for me this year, I do have a couple of things to celebrate.

1. I am now President of ESPAN RWA and am thrilled at what the year holds for our chapter. We have plans for several fantastic workshops, one of which is already going on right now and has been a huge success (thank you, Angela James, for being our kick-off workshop. You are doing a fantastic job! ) See our website for the list of other workshops we have planned. We are also holding our first ever contest this year – it’s going to be slightly different and a lot of fun! As well, we are going to hold our AGM/party at Nationals in Nashville, so if you are an ESPAN member you won’t want to miss that.

2. My short story, Love Songs , will re-release on Feb 1st with Blade Publishing and it has a fantastic new cover:

When Cam, a former high-school all-star, comes home to deal with his father’s death, he finds a much sweeter deal.

Madison, the Cupcake Queen, hates Valentine’s and thinks love songs are a joke. Will Cam change her mind?

I had a great time writing this story and I hope you all will enjoy reading it!

3. Love’s Blessings is out in Kindle Format. You can find it at Amazon. I don’t know why there is no cover up, but I’ve asked them about it, so hopefully that will be resolved.

4. Also on Amazon (I really do love saying that) is the print copy of Vampire Oracle: Volume III, which includes my novella Harmony.

I hope to have more great news as the year rolls along. Right now I am taking it one day at a time and am thankful.

If you want to know what I’m talking about come visit me at RTB!

I haven’t been around much this past little while. I’ve had a lot of real life things going on that have been a priority and have been busy plotting various things writerly, as well. I hope to be a more regular blogger again in 2010.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! May your day be blessed and filled with much love and joy!

Love’s Blessings is now available with Red Rose Publishing, please go check it out. They have a different excerpt on the site than I use on mine, so that will give you a little extra.

Janelle Trent has been desperately trying to have a baby. Can she surrender to God when the treatments don’t work?

Kevin Trent loves his wife, baby or not. Can he show her that they already are a family?

Can two people in love move past heartache to find each other, and possibly a miracle, again?