y good friend and sometime CP Sara Lindsey just sold her debut novel, Promise Me Always. This is just in time for her to get a pretty pink ribbon at Nationals (and to accept a lot of drinks from those of us who are buying).

NAL is going to publish her trilogy in 2010. Those of you who have read Sara’s work before know that she writes funny and sassy, and she’s definitely going to go far!

  have to admit, there is nothing I like better than being right. And being able to tell someone “I told you so” makes being right even sweeter. I read the first scene of Goddess of the Hunt after it was first written, and made comments on it. Since then, I have read every scene–even the ones that didn’t make it into the book–and I have loved it all the time. I told Tessa over and over and over again that this book would be published. Going back through e-mails, I see that on January 31st, 2007, I told her that her book would sell at auction.
Tessa got the call. Not just the call–she got the auction. And everything else I have predicted for this book has come true. I can’t wait for the rest of you to be able to read Goddess of the Hunt–and its incredible two sequels–when Ballantine releases them in 2009.

I predict that you will love it. And you know what? So far, I haven’t been wrong about this book once.

he lovely India Carolina, my CP and very good friend, now has a blog and a website. You probably remember her warmth, her charm, and her lovely writing from FanLit. Visit!

In other news, I just have to wrap up a few loose odds and ends now. Whew! I’ve had time to think about Book One. I revised my synopsis and figured out how to fix a problem in the middle of the book and the end of the book. And I finally figured out what had stumped me for ages. The first meet between my hero and heroine is wrong. It doesn’t work. The mechanics of the meet are fine, even though I agonized about those for ages. But the substance of the conversation–written well before I had really let either character get into my head–doesn’t work with the two anymore. It needs to be rewritten. Not revised; rewritten entirely from scratch.

Okay, I can deal with that. But at this point I have a plan. I’ve realized that the boring little bits in the middle don’t work because they aren’t telling a story, and I finally figured out that there is a story there–an interesting and important story–that needs to be told. It’s good to finally “get” the book again.

So what about you? Do you love India’s new site? Do you have any exciting new beginnings, or ends to share? Let me know.

‘ve added a handful of links to my sidebar. I know I’m still missing people. Please post if I didn’t get you!