KAREN'S NEWS

WINTER 2011/2012

So, so pleased to announce the release of FORTUNE’S CINDERELLA (December 1, 2011 on Harlequin.com, print and e-book; around Dec. 20 in the world at large) Book 1 in the new The Fortunes of Texas: Whirlwind Romance continuity for Harlequin Special Edition. We’re talking tornadoes and life-altering decisions, tragic pasts and new beginnings. An uber-rich dude falling hard and fast for the cutest, sassiest waitress in all of South Texas. A Beagle/Corgi mix named Gumbo, short of leg and long on loooove.

And ears.

This was my first foray into the world of continuities, in which several authors work together to produce a series of books with an overarching, editor-originated storyline – kind of like how a TV show is done, with different writers taking on individual episodes. It was my great privilege (and joy!) to work with the following wonderful Special Edition authors, who wrote Books 2 through 6: Marie Ferrarella, Judy Duarte, Nancy Robards Thompson, Susan Crosby, and Allison Leigh. Please check out their websites for info on the other books in this emotionally-charged, sweep-you-off-your-feet series!

In other news…thrilled doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt when WELCOME HOME, COWBOY won the 2011 RITA award from Romance Writers of America for Best Series Contemporary Romance last summer! This makes my second win (the first, for A MOTHER’S WISH in 2009) and my third nomination. Now the first statue has someone to keep her company, share gossip, go shopping with… Sweet.

I’ve also just turned in the first book for my new Special Edition miniseries set on the Chesapeake Bay, focusing on three cousins who spent their childhood summers with their grandmother in her wonderful old Victorian-era beach house. Now the gals have inherited the house, reuniting them for the first time in ten years. While trying to decide what to do with the old place, love comes a’calling for all three. Except each woman has a secret that could seriously derail them on their journeys to Happy Ever After!  The first book – still untitled as of this writing – will be out in September 2012, the second in November.

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Happy reading!

—Karen