Sorry it’s been a week since I posted! It’s been a busy week. After the whirlwind release of Goddess of the Hunt, I needed to spend some quality time with the family and then hunker down to get some progress made on all this other work…namely the Stud Club trilogy, coming summer 2010! I’m in the middle of writing book two, working on copy edits for book one, and as of this morning looking over the cover blurbs for the whole trilogy. I’m so, so excited about it.

Over the weekend, I had my first bookstore book signing! It was so much fun. The Costa Mesa Barnes and Noble was our gracious host, and I was lucky enough to share the table with my fellow local authors DeAnna Cameron, Debra Mullins, and Jennifer Haymore (who also writes as Dawn Halliday).

All this was exciting enough, but just as the signing was starting, a mysterious man came up and gave me a gift:

If you look closely, or click on the image, you will see it is a paper boat, labeled S.S. Siren, filled with paper goats. Now, amongst my good friends, my second book, Surrender of a Siren, is affectionately known as “Goats on a Boat”. But this strange man was not one of my good friends. So I was a little bit weirded out.

But the signing was starting, and people wanted to take pictures and have books signed, and so I just sat there puzzling over it. Then a text came through on my cell phone: “You look nice in pink.”

Now I knew something was up. I jumped up, and out from the nearest bookshelf popped soon-to-debut authors Courtney Milan (who flew in from out of town!) and Sara Lindsey (who drove down from LA with her mom in tow!). I couldn’t believe it! What wonderful friends.

My other critique partner, Carey Baldwin, has a sorta kinda important job and understandably couldn’t make it, but look: she bought everyone in her office a copy of Goddess of the Hunt!

I have the best friends in the world. That is all.