Posts Tagged ‘To Desire a Devil’

Website Updates and More

Friday, April 30th, 2010

It’s May already and my peonies are in bud. I do hope I can get to weeding before the violets take over the garden this year. What are we without hope? ;-)

I heard just today that two of my books finaled in The Readers Crown Contest: To Desire a Devil and my Julia Harper book, For the Love of Pete.

A few website updates:

  • I have a new Book of the Month pick up on the Extras page.
  • Wicked Intentions bookmarks are in! As always, they’re free so be sure and order some for yourself and for friends.
  • If you’re a public librarian in the USA, be sure to check out the list of books in translation I can send to your library. (Scroll down for instructions.)

Enjoy!



Adventures with Google Translate

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I was most excited this week to hear that all my books have sold to a Turkish publisher and that my French language publisher has bought my books through To Desire a Devil! For those counting, this makes ten languages that my books are translated into.

For some reason I find foreign sales especially exciting. First, I usually receive copies of the foreign editions and I get to marvel at the artwork on the cover and thumb through it looking for words (if any) that I can recognize. Secondly–and perhaps more importantly–I receive foreign reader mail! Here I must confess that I was one of those nerdy school children who loved writing to pen pals–especially pen pals who lived in exotic (to me) locals. I can’t tell you how excited I get to open an email and find out it came from…Trinidad! Or Thailand! Or Switzerland!

Most foreign readers have an astonishing command of the English language and will write me in English. Some write me in their own language. This is where the internet is truly wonderful. Where fifteen years ago I might have had to hunt down a person who knew, for instance, Italian, now I can simply copy and paste an email into one of the free online translators and voila! all is made clear.

And then I began getting emails in Turkish. 2009 ARRA Finalist

I think some cultures are more interested in writing to authors than others. I’ve received email from most European countries, only a few from South America and none–none!–from Japan, despite having two books published there. (Why, Japan, why?) But the Turkish have surpassed all previous countries in writing reader mail to me, personally. And I love it! Except…there are these little squiggles (not a technical term) on many of the Turkish letters, and the squiggled letters are entirely replaced by boxes or question marks in my email. Which means that quite a lot of the reader’s letter is lost when I plug it into an online translator.

Still, an author must persevere. I reply to all my reader mail, no matter how unintelligible it might be to me. The only problem? I’m writing back in English and I have a sneaking suspicion that the translation errors work both ways. ;-)

And finally in other news, To Desire a Devil has finaled in the 2nd annual Australian Romance Readers Awards in the Favourite Historical Romance category. Woot!



Chapter 11 of THE ICE PRINCESS!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

I’ve just handed in what I’m hoping is the final revision on my next book, Wicked Intentions, which will be out in August 2010. If you read the excerpt at the back of To Desire a Devil, you’ve already had a taste of Temperance and Lord Caire’s story. Wicked Intentions is the first book in my new Maiden Lane series and I’ve already started work on the second book (tentatively!) titled Notorious Pleasures. I’m hoping that we’ll soon have a cover so I can put up a page for Wicked Intentions with the excerpt and other info. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, I’ve posted Chapter 11 of The Ice Princess! This is the second to last chapter–I’ll be finishing up The Ice Princess in December.

I’ve posted a new Real Dog page for Rue, our newest Untrained Dog on the Extras page.

And finally, I have a new website contest up featuring three of Carolyn Jewel’s books.

Enjoy!



TO DESIRE A DEVIL Hits the NYT Bestseller List!

Monday, November 9th, 2009

I’m very pleased to announce that To Desire a Devil is number 13 on the New York Times bestseller list, number 13 on Publisher Weekly’s bestseller list and number 67 on the USA Today bestseller list!

WOW!

Thank you to everyone who bought To Desire a Devil and put it on the bestseller lists!

And in other good news, To Taste Temptation is available in ebook form for $1.99 this month! If you haven’t read the first book in the Legend of the Four Soldiers series yet this is a great deal!



TO DESIRE A DEVIL is in Stores Now!

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

So it’s three days before Halloween and once again the Hoyt Household has eaten all the candy I bought to give out to cute kids in costumes. Sigh. I’m going to have to go to the store to buy more candy and there won’t be anything left but those icky peanut butter chew things in black and orange waxpaper wrappers. (I used to try and trade them to my younger brother for Snickers bars. He never fell for it.) Poor cute kids in costumes!

In other news To Desire a Devil should be in your local bookstore or big box store now (Target, Meijer, Wal-MArt, etc.) Yay! On my website you can:

And finally, I’ll be doing a blog tour for the release of TDAD all during November. You can check to see where I’ll be on my Blogging schedule on the left hand side of this page (scroll down!) Today I’m at The Good, the Bad, and the Unread and we’ll be giving away a signed copy of TDAD.

Hope to see you there!



Chapter 10 of THE ICE PRINCESS is Up!

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

It’s a lovely if chilly day here in central Illinois! The sugar maple in our side yard has turned a gorgeous orangy-yellow. I hope to get into the garden and do some fall clean up today, but for now I’m stuck inside doing final revisions on Wicked Intentions, my next book. I hope you, however, can take a minute to read Chapter 10 of The Ice Princess.

And don’t forget that To Desire a Devil officially hits the shelves on October 27th!



Bulbs, Bulbs, Bulbs

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

So, in a fit of enthusiasm I ordered over a thousand flower bulbs. True, 400 of those bulbs are species crocus (C. tommasinianus–they come up very early in the spring, appearing like pretty little lavender fairies…that is until the squirrels bite their heads off. I’m trying not to think of the squirrels whilst planting) but that still leaves quite a lot of other bulbs, mainly daffodils. My weekends are booked through November. Also, it’s probably a good thing that Mr. Hoyt never sees my flower bulb bill.

Chapter 9 of The Ice Princess is up. Yes, it is the last day of the month, but let us all keep in mind that technically it is still September and thus this month’s chapter is *ahem* not late. A little long in coming, I will admit, but not late.

And finally, I have a new and spectacular website contest in anticipation of the November release of To Desire a Devil–the prize is a one hundred dollar gift card to Borders Book Store and a box of Godiva chocolates.

Good luck!



Win the Complete LEGEND OF THE FOUR SOLDIERS Series!

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

This just in: win the complete Legend of the Four Soldiers series (To Taste Temptation, To Seduce a Sinner, To Beguile a Beast, and November’s To Desire a Devil) today only at RR@H Novel Thoughts and Book Talk.

Good luck!



The Dog Days of Summer

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

I’m back home after two weeks in beautiful D.C., first at the RWA national conference and then spending some time in our nation’s capital. I had a wonderful time at the National Art Gallery, dragging my Offspring to see Rembrandts and Vermeers and lecturing them about Boobies Through History. (They were suitably embarrassed.)

The Untrained Dogs had a vacation of their own (although they may not have seen it that way) at their doggie kennel. I think they’re glad to be home, though, and back to their ultra-soft dog beds.

Chapter 7 of The Ice Princess is up, but be warned: this chapter is for adult eyes only! Please do not read this chapter if you are under eighteen years of age.

I’ve posted the third scene excerpt of Chapter 1 from To Desire a Devil. This scene was not included in the excerpt at the back of To Beguile a Beast. I hope you enjoy it!

And I’m giving away my very last arc (advance reader copy) of To Desire a Devil in my website contest. Enter now for a chance to be the first of your friends to read To Desire a Devil!



Website Updates and News

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

The thunderstorms have been almost constant here in the Midwest, making for a very wet June. The good news, though, is that my garden is very lush from all the rain!

I’m pleased to announce that To Taste Temptation has won the Desert Rose Golden Quill Award.

Website updates for June have been made, the main ones being that Chapter 6 of The Ice Princess is up. I’ve also got new bookmarks for To Desire a Devil, and the second scene excerpt for To Desire a Devil is up as well. As always bookmarks and bookplates are free, so be sure and order as many as you’d like.

There’s still time to enter my May/June website contest–the prize is a complete Princes trilogy!

The Romance Writers of America national conference is coming up soon–this year it will be in Washington D.C. Part of the conference is a massive romance author signing on Wednesday, July 15th from 5:30-7:30 pm. This signing is open to the public–you don’t have to be registered at the conference–and will include more than 500 romance authors this year. All proceeds from the signing go to local literacy charities. If you live in the D.C. area, this is a signing you won’t want to miss–and if you do come, make sure and stop by and say hello to me!

Finally, my publisher, Hachette Book Group USA, is offering The Leopard Prince to read online for free!



 

 

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