Sunrise in a Garden of Love & Evil is only 99 cents!

If you haven't read any of my Bayou Gavotte series, this is the time to try one.

Amazon.com has put Sunrise in a Garden of Love & Evil on special as part of their November Big Deal. It's available for Kindle for only 99 cents until November 23rd. 

Ghosts and The Christmas Knot

Today I'm over at Embracing Romance blogging about believing in ghosts (or not), and subjecting you to some photos of the ruins of Duntulm Castle on the Isle of Skye. I say subjecting because very few of the photos of our vacation in Scotland came out the way I hoped. They simply don't do justice to the spectacular beauty to be found there. Oh, well.

In the far distance of this photo, taken at Duntulm, are the Outer Hebrides. One day I hope to return to Scotland to visit there...didn't have time this go round.

Here are some Scottish mushrooms:

And a very thistly looking plant -- but it's not the kind of thistle I'm used to. I hope someone can identify it for me.

More over at Embracing Romance, including a snippet from The Christmas Knot, the novella I contributed to Captivated By His Kiss, a limited edition boxed set of Regency romances from eight authors, which will be out on January 12th, 2015. It's available for pre-order here.

While you're at Embracing Romance, don't forget to enter our giveaway by answering the trivia question of the day. Enter every day for more chances to win.

Of Alphas and Edinburgh

This is Edinburgh Castle from below:

I visited Edinburgh last month--didn't get a chance to tour the castle, but it sure was impressive from the outside.

Is this castle on a rock a good metaphor for an alpha hero? I don't know...I don't quite understand the alpha hero thingy...so I'm pondering it on Embracing Romance today. If you can enlighten me, whether a little bit or a lot, please come over and do so.

http://embracingromance.com/2014/10/20/of-alphas-and-edinburgh

There will be a chance to enter our monthly giveaway. My question is easy-peasy as usual.

Also, for those of you in the UK and Australia, the Christmas anthology, Improper Christmas Nights, is now available. In contains two of my novellas, Under a Christmas Spell and Under a New Year's Enchantment.

Isn't that a lovely cover? She's definitely harboring improper thoughts! :)

Bake, Love, Write and Loch Ness

Just a heads up -- I'm blogging today at the Pink Fuzzy Slipper Writers about Bake, Love, Write. It's a new dessert cookbook containing recipes from 105 authors, one of whom is me!

Hop on over if you're interested. At only 99 cents for the e-book version, it's a great deal.

http://pinkfuzzyslipperwriters.blogspot.com/2014/10/read-if-you-love-dessert.html


And now, just because, here's a photo from my recent trip to Scotland. This is Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness. :)

An Accidental Aphrodisiac

Today I'm over at Embracing Romance talking about what I found when I went looking for a recipe for gruel. Why gruel, you ask? Curiosity -- I wanted to find out what was so awful about it. Instead, I found out how to make artificial asses' milk.

For more, go to Embracing Romance.

And this is a castle in Sirmione del Garda, Italy which has absolutely nothing to do with today's blog, as far as I know...although come to think of it, they probably had gruel and artificial asses' milk there too, back in the day.

ADDICTED TO HISTORY

Today I'm over at Embracing Romance talking about books that inspired me to write historical romance. This time, I'm focusing on much-loved historical novels for children; later I'll do a blog about books for adults.

Hop on over to EmbracingRomance.com to read about my childhood favorites by Rosemary Sutcliff and more--and answer the trivia question for a chance to win our monthly prize.

KINK OR NOT? AND A 3-DAY #GIVEAWAY

Just a quick post -- Back to Bite You is free on Amazon for three days - today, tomorrow, and Wednesday.

Also, since Back to Bite You has not only mystery and romance but a food fight club as well, that's what I'm blogging about this week -- to kink or not to kink. Today, I'm at Embracing Romance with a recipe for Banana Cream Pie (a specialty of the club!). Tomorrow I'll be at the Pink Fuzzies, and Wednesday I'm at Sharon Buchbinder's blog. I'd love to hear your opinion of kink in romance novels. Fun and sexy or not? An improvement or a bore? This inquiring mind wants to know.