Happy New Year!!  2012 has GOT to be better than 2011!!  No natural disasters, please, Mother Nature!

Exciting news!!  Radiator Transmedia won a Telly Award for the video of my Atlantis series!!  Yay! Huge congratulations to their brilliant team! If you haven't seen it yet, here's the video.

And if you love the wonderful song written especially for High Prince Conlan, Every Time You Read My Mind, you can download it HERE on iTunes!  You can find Brennan's song there, too!

COMING SOON!!  I'm kicking off February with an e-exclusive novella!! (Patience, please; my team is figuring out this e-publish stuff as fast as we can.)  ALEJANDRO'S SORCERESS, an original novella about Alejandro and Maria from ATLANTIS UNLEASHED, will be out this month!! My first book of 2012l! We'd originally planned for a release last month, but the formatting and issues involved in doing an independent e-release are time-consuming, and I want it to be perfect!  Thanks for your patience.

You can find an excerpt HERE.

In other book news, the much-demanded re-release of my memoir about life as a military family during war time, EMAIL TO THE FRONT, will be coming by mid-January!  EMAIL tells the often funny, sometimes painful, story of what it's really like to watch your spouse go off to war--how hard it can be to walk the floors at 3 a.m., waiting for word, while you act as single parent, person in charge of everything, and lonely spouse. 

At the time of its initial release in 2003, Militarywives.com said:

"It was a relief to pick up Email to the Front and not find the seemingly standard sugar-coated version of how strong military spouses are and how they cope well with everything. The military spouse handles the life and stress of military service the best he or she can--putting on a happy military smile, saying everything's okay, when the truth of the matter is it likely is not.  We encourage everyone to read Email to the Front. It will not only touch your heart, but it will also give you an eye-opening true look at a typical military spouse's life."

You can find an excerpt HERE.

Also in the exciting news of e-book re-releases of books that have gone out of print, my chick lit comedies AMERICAN IDLE and SANTA BABY are back in the world and available for download!

I know you're dying for tiger shape-shifter Jack's story and Denal's story--and I promise they're coming this year!!  Right now, we plan to release them as e-books first and my team is looking into print options--they may come as a single two-in-one print volume, to save you money!  Stay tuned for details!

Later this year, the e-special re-release of my novella about warrior Bastien, Wild Hearts in Atlantis, originally released in the WILD THING anthology (so don't buy it if you already have this anthology; I don't want you to waste your money buying it twice!) will be out in the fall as a special e-book release.

And following right on the heels of Wild Hearts in Atlantis, my novella Shifter's Lady, originally released in the SHIFTER anthology, will be re-released as an e-book special the following month! Again, if you bought SHIFTER, don't buy this story again--I want to be clear with readers that this IS a re-release. But many of you didn't get a chance to read these novellas in the anthologies, and they are a wonderful, important part of the Warriors of Poseidon universe!

And finally December --and Alaric!! (Yes, the book got pushed back.  Boo.  But you'll have Alejandro and Denal and Jack!)

Finally, you won't have long to wait after that for the first book in my new series: THE LEAGUE OF THE BLACK SWAN. I'll be putting the first chapter of that up soon, and expect the release date to be in late 2012 or early 2013.

If you’re interested in the news of what I’m up to, check out my news page, or visit me on Facebook or chat with me on Twitter. (I adore Twitter and have a terrible tendency to talk about Sci Fi movies with fans at all hours of the night!). I love, love, love to hear from readers and you can email me here.

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Back to my latest story for me – those Atlanteans keep me hopping while they try to save the world! Stay tuned for more and thanks again for stopping by and for trying my books. I am so grateful for every one of you!

Hugs,

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