Jul 25, 2012

A month of celebration

This is me with my Blush version
of Cassie's Grand Plan in Big W!
July has been a big month for me! Please excuse me taking a moment to review all the amazing things that have been going on, but I feel like celebrating! And to help make the celebrations even better, I've got a book giveaway too -- so read on!

1. The first exciting thing for July was that my first SuperRomance, "Cassie's Grand Plan" came out this month in Australia under the "Blush" imprint.

It first appeared in North America in March, and I was lucky enough to be in the US then and I got to see my book on the shelves there. But there's something quite special about seeing your book on the shelves in your home town. I can't explain what the difference is. Maybe it's not a different feeling at all, just a new kind of excitement at seeing your book is really real.

2. I received the advance author copies of my second SuperRomance "In His Eyes" which is out in North America in August and Australia in September. (And having just gone to Amazon to find that link, I've just discovered it's number 5 on the SuperRomance best sellers list -- yippee!) I am absolutely in love with this cover -- it's so atmospheric and dramatic.

I worked so hard on this book and I can't even tell you how many boxes of tissues I went through when I was writing it. I'm hoping that effort and emotional energy comes through to readers. I've already had someone "complain" about me making them cry! I guess authors are kind of unique in taking that sort of thing as a compliment...

The book has obviously been blessed by the cover fairies, because I've also received the cover of the Blush release of "In His Eyes" when it comes out in September -- isn't it gorgeous? I'm thinking the art department at Mills and Boon Australia decided to take the title of the book literally and went to find a cover model with the most amazing eyes ever. I think they succeeded!

3. Last, but certainly not least, I sold book number three to SuperRomance! It's untitled as yet, but for the moment it's going by the name of "Dean and Jess's story". I can give you a very sneaky previeiw and say that it involves weddings, dogs, vampires, Twitter, muscle cars and comic books. Intrigued? I hope so.

The rest of my July is going to be filled with writing as I get stuck into Dean and Jess and get their story ready to submit. It's exciting to have a deadline. I wonder if authors are unique in liking deadlines, too?

I hope July has been an exciting month for you. Please leave me a comment to let me know about anything fun or exciting that's happened for you this month. I'll choose a commenter at random to receive signed copies of both the Blush version of Cassie's Grand Plan and an advance copy of In His Eyes.

29 comments:

  1. Congrats, Emmie, on all your good news! I am so happy for you!
    Fun or exciting that has happened to me this month? My family hosted 43 people here for a potluck 1.5 weeks ago. It went very well. Lots of food. Lots of sun. Lots of shade. Street (driveway) hockey. Ladder ball. Croquet. And lots of wine (as my daughter and I win bottles of wine - in badminton tournaments - and share them every year). What more could a person want?

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  2. Hi Laney, thanks!

    Your dinner sounds like an amazing event -- I can't even imagine entertaining 43 people, that's huge!! Just as well it's summer for you and you had good weather so people could be outside too!

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  3. Hooray Emmie - congrats on the sale of your 3rd book, brilliant news!!!!

    I'm really excited to be organising my costume for the cocktail party at the RWA conference. Since I only just booked, I'm in a happy fluster getting ready!

    PS - no need to enter me in the draw, I've already read Cassie - which was fab!

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  4. Emmie, congratulations on all the marvellous things you've experienced this July. How terrific! It's a big month for us here with several birthdays (including one today I must start cooking for) and the return of our daughter who's been studying overseas. It's all been terrific. Plus there was the news I'd sold my 17th book to Harlequin. I'll join you in the celebrations!

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  5. Congratulations on your third sale! Fabulous news! I'm jus back from a cruise fom Venice and will need about a month to recover.

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  6. Congratulations on your exciting month!!

    Every Sunday afternoon I take my daughter out for a driving lesson. She is getting very good & it's such a great time for us to chat & have a laugh. This has become our time.

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  7. Hi Emmie - congratulations on book 3! Am looking forward to reading In His Eyes - and yes, that cover is awesome :) I agree about deadlines too. Great post.

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  8. Hi Emmie
    Love the Blush cover of In His Eyes. His eyes follow you when you move. Nice. July has been a bit of a late bloomer for me. Bought ebook of In His Eyes yesterday. Looking forward to a what I'm sure is going to be a great read. Also congrats on the third book. Keep them coming.
    Dora

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  9. Congratulations, Emmie, Wonderful :)

    Btw, i hope i'm standing beside you to pick all those books in Big W ;D

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  10. Emmie, congrats on the contract!!! Lucky Super readers =)
    Enjoy your time OS!

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  11. Hi Joanne, you're good getting your costume organised! I need to give that some thought!

    Thanks for the congrats!

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  12. Congratulations on your sale, Annie! We will have to do a cheers when we get together at RWA!!

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  13. Scarlet -- I'm so jealous! A cruise in Venice? I think you have definitely had an amazing July. I hope the recovery isn't too tough... ;)

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  14. How lovely that you have special time with your daughter, Marybelle. I remember my dad giving me driving lessons -- I thought we might end up killing each other, but he turned out to be an excellent (and very patient) teacher. They are special memories to me, and I'm sure they will be for your daughter too.

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  15. Hi Helen, thanks! It's a gorgeous cover, isn't it? I'm so pleased with it.

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  16. Hi Dora -- I hope you enjoy reading it!!

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  17. Hi Eli -- I must admit it was tough on me to walk out of Big W without buying a heap of books! My TBR pile is already teetering, so although there were plenty I would have liked to take home, I had to practice some restraint... :)

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  18. Oh, you are indeed having a gorgeous month of celebration, Emmie -- sending you many congratulations and lifting cyber bubbles in your direction! We'll lift the real thing in person at the conference. :-)

    A small excitement for the month -- Mark Tredinnick (poet, nature writer and fabulous presenter) is presenting a workshop this Saturday in Newcastle and I'm going along to lap up whatever writerly wisdom I can. Such things are always fun. :-)

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  19. P.S. Mean to add -- you look fabulous in red!

    :-)

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  20. What a great month for you - brilliant!

    I'm afraid mine is lame in comparison. My highlight was to allow myself to go shopping in the sales. Being an impoverished writer, I haven't bought new clothes for nearly a year so it was big deal! I now have a lovely red tunic dress for RWNZ conference next month.

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  21. Congratulations on such a fabulous month, Emmie, and with book number three you'll have more exciting moments to look forward to.

    My July is turning out very well. I'm currently staying with my very good friend in Los Angeles which is 10,000 kms from my home town!We're off to the RWAmerica conference in Anaheim tomorrow.

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  22. Congratulations on such a fabulous month. I'm looking forward to reading In His Eyes. I hope you have lots to celebrate in the future.

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  23. Congratulations on the great news!

    Nothing very exciting happening in July.

    bn100candg(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  24. Thanks Michelle! I look forward to the conference and sharing a glass of bubbly and hearing about the poetry inspiration you learned!

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  25. Thanks Jo! I don't think going shopping in the sales is lame at all -- it's a particularly wonderful thing to do in a wintery July!

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  26. Hope you're having a fabulous time in Anaheim at the conference, Barbara!

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  27. Thanks Kaelee -- you're so sweet!

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  28. Thanks bn. Hope August brings a little more excitement for you...

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