Danger: Women Writing

Hey, I’m a new “Dangerous Woman” so I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Lois Greiman. (that’s my real name, my pen name, the works) I live on a little hobby farm in Minnesota where I sit around in my pjs being dangerous and telling lies. I sold my first sack of lies (aka a novel) to Avon Books about a million years ago and since then have published twenty or so more historical romances.

My upcoming book, a February release, is called Charming the Devil. It’s the third in the Witches of Mayfair series and features a coven of government witches in Regency London. Yup, you read that right…government witches, Regency London. Hey, it could happen.

I also write a fun little mystery series about a crazy psychologist named Christina McMullen. If you don’t mind being a little irreverent and like to laugh now and again, you might want to pick up Unzipped or one of the others in the series. Unplugged, Unscrewed, Unmanned, One Hot Mess; choose your poison.

As for down time–when I’m not sitting around telling lies, I’m usually hanging with the horses. I raise/show/adore Arabians specifically and just adopted a new mixed breed baby. She has contracted tendons and can’t walk very well yet, but I’m hoping to get her on her little trotters and running before I find her a permanent home.

How about you? Tell us about your furry friends. Are there any critters in your life that you saved? Any you raised? Any that drive you crazy, make you laugh or can’t live without? Animal stories are the best.

Are you ready for some dangerous fun?  Then join the Dangerous Women Readers’ Group and get ready for a dangerous party on the loop!  Spread the word–the fun starts on October 21st.

I still remember that day in November of 2005 when I opened an email with the offer to publish HIGHLAND MIST

A lot of firsts followed that email. My first contract, my first edits. My first cover. It was all so thrilling and overwhelming at times. All authors that I know worry about how their books will be received by readers. I had no idea how much loved my Druids Glen series was until the contract ended and I pulled the books.

I got so many wonderful emails from people who had begun to read the series and hadn’t finished, and others who had tried to buy them and couldn’t get them any longer. After several months of emails asking when/how they could get the books again, I decided to have the series reissued.

Its my delight to announce the first Druids Glen book, HIGHLAND MIST is now available again!

An honorable laird…

Conall MacInnes was born to a clan that for centuries has been charged with the guarding of the sacred Druids. It’s a duty he has always met with a willing heart, until the day his sister, a Druid priestess, goes missing and the very Druids he has protected refuse to help him find the last remaining member of his family. Then a three-hundred-year-old prophecy places a Druid in his hands for safekeeping. It’s the chance at revenge he’s been waiting for, but is he willing to pay the cost his revenge will demand—the loss of his mate and the future of Scotland?

A willing lass…

Glenna MacNeil wants only to be free, to find the purpose of her life. When she is told to look for the dark laird who would free her, she eagerly goes with the powerful Highlander who fights her clan, not realizing she has set in motion events that will change the course of history.

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hugs,
D
www.DonnaGrant.com

Hi, everyone!  Wow–this is it.  My first post at Danger Women Writing.  It is a pleasure to be a part of this diverse group of writers.  I’m happy to be hanging out in the Danger Zone! (Yes, sorry, had to say that…I am such a Top Gun fan.)

In case you don’t know me, I’m Cynthia Eden.  I write sexy paranormal romances (with suspense) for Kensington Brava, and I also write dark romantic suspense novels for Grand Central Publishing. I’m actually in the middle of doing revisions for my first Grand Central book, DEADLY LIES.  And, a few days ago, I finished the rough draft for the next book in my Night Watch series for Kensington (the Night Watch books are my paranormal bounty hunter books).  So, um, October has been busy for me so far.

And I LOVE October.  I adore paranormals, so, of course, it stands to reason that I love Halloween.  What a great holiday. The perfect night to dress up and pretend to be someone else…just for a little while.

What are your plans for Halloween? Taking the little ones trick or treating? Heading to a party?  Let me know…and I’ll pick one commenter to win her/his choice of any Cynthia Eden title.

Thanks!

Cynthia Eden
www.cynthiaeden.com
BELONG TO THE NIGHT–Available now from Kensington Brava
HOTTER AFTER MIDNIGHT–mass market re-release 12/1/09

Just a note: Severo blogs at eHarlequin today. Find it here.

I’ve set aside my WIP for a week to revise a proposal I’d sent in to my editor. She liked it but her suggestions were spot-on. Yes, I know the hero and heroine don’t even meet until page 85! Something must be done about that.

This story is modern and historical. I think I’m going to call it a modern historical. And as with historicals, there is much information to be given to the reader at the beginning. I recall the good old days of historicals when the writer was offered much more leisure for getting those two characters together. Now, it seems they must meet in chapter one or the readers won’t have the patience to continue. Hmm…

Well, it’s impossible with this current story. Yesterday I got them down to page 60. The readers meet the hero and heroine in chapter one, but they are going their separate ways, doing what they must to get this story started. You could say, well, start where they meet, where their lives changes. Makes sense. But their lives change before they meet, and I don’t want to gloss over it. But I will try to at least get them to meet by chapter three. Sigh…

Also, I’m having some fun with time periods. In this story the main romance takes place in 1785. But there’s also a modern-day story line that weaves in an out of it, a la Lauren Willig (I love her stuff, and she makes the two timelines seem so easy; it’s not!).

And then there’s the research. It is great fun to be back in historical Paris and I get to dig out all my France and Paris books. Dresses and shoes and carriages and the rag&bone man. Fun stuff!

If you’re a writer, do you have a particular time period you love to write about? And if a reader, what’s your fav time period to read about?