A New Contract!!!

Hey beautiful people

Yesterday I promised to share some good news with you... I won't drag the suspense any more. :)

So, the news... I have just contracted a new book with Noble Romance Publishing. This one is a novel and part of another series - based loosely around a theme - titled Destiny's Child. In every book in this line-up, a child brings an unlikely couple together and love blossoms through emotional struggles and upheavals. The books are mostly sweet romances with little to no sex, relying more on sexual tension and emotional drive to carry the plot along.

The book that's just been contracted is the first of the series, and here's an unofficial blurb:

Calling Home

It's the little things that keep us calling home...

Forensic pathologist Margo Nolan is described as a cold, unemotional man hiding inside a woman's body. Clinical and rational, the ice queen persona is only a facade to protect herself after she has lost the one thing she has ever longed for: Emma, the daughter she brought up like her own.
When tragedy strikes in Emma's life, Margo is the only one who can step in... to become the stand-in parent to the 11-year old! Clueless about children, family life, and anything that should involve her heart, Margo is at a loss.
But she need not worry. Sexy and easygoing - and much younger - village doctor, Jamie Gillespie, is here to help the heart-thawing process.

I don't know yet when the book will be slotted for release, but it is part of the Sweetheart Line that focuses on sweet romances over at Noble Romance Publishing.

I've been keeping this news to myself for a little while, but was waiting for the go-ahead to scream it off all rooftops! :)

So that's my (unusual) Saturday posting, peeps. Hope you're having a great weekend!

From Mauritius with love,

Zee

Six Sentence Sunday - Walking The Edge: Snippet #5

Hey beautiful people!

Sunday once again, and jumping on the Six Sunday bandwagon to present a quip from Walking The Edge. Did you know that the book was at #6 on the Noble Romance Top10 Bestseller list this past week? Thanks to all of you who bought a copy...

... and thanks to everyone who drives by every Sunday and leaves me a comment. :)

So last week's excerpt was about a dream Amelia had during one of her drug-induced naps. She saw this Frenchman in bed with her, and when he told her they couldn't keep going on, the two of them, she shushed him, and told him that when she is with him, she isn't "her". You can catch it here.

Today's six follow upon this conversation, the rest of the dream sequence. Here we go:


'... "Putain d'merde," he cursed softly in French, "Tu vas me tuer."

You'll be the death of me. Despite herself, she smiled - she held power over this man, and damn if she didn't relish the feeling: He was hers, all hers. Right now, she preferred not to think of the other meaning that could be ascribed to his words—she could literally spell his death too. If the man she was with came to know about her lover—no, she wouldn't think of that, not now, not when his mouth was claiming hers and he was pushing her back onto the mattress.


Right now belonged to them, and them alone. ...'


Catch the other amazing SSS folks and their snippets here.

And don't forget - Walking The Edge (Corpus Brides: Book One) is on sale here, at the bargain price of $1.99 for a full-length novel!

From Mauritius with love,

Zee

Progress Friday

Hey beautiful people

I'm sorry I haven't posted for the past 2 days. It's been a whirlwind here - if you think it all ends with netting a publishing contract, you're soooo far off the mark! It all starts with the contract.

So, since Tuesday, I've been dealing with the amazing folks over at Noble Romance Publishing. They're a huge, huge help with setting everything up and figuring out the lay of the land, so to speak. And... I have a release date!!

Walking The Edge, Book 1 of the Corpus Brides series, will be coming out June 27, 2011!

How awesome is that, eh? I've been alternating being whoops of joy and hyperventilating for the past couple of days. It's like, barely 6 weeks down the line, for God's sake! So much to do... But I'm calling it an investment. What I'm doing now and in the coming weeks to establish myself and my books will be worth it for the long run. Did someone say it's a labour of love? Not to mention that I've been introduced to my editor and we hit the ground running with edits and prep work. Whew!

Busy days... For once, I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend. And yes, I'm hoping that will not be an oxymoron.

What are you up to this weekend? Hope you have a nice one.

From Mauritius with love,

Zee

Tidbit Tuesday: I've Made A Sale!!

I've known about this little piece of news for a few weeks now and been dying to tell you all! It was hell to keep it bottled inside for so long, but now that I've got the all-clear, here it goes...

I just sold a story to Noble Romance Publishing!

I'm so, so excited about this! Noble is this amazing house that I kept hearing amazing things about, and I decided to take a chance and send in one of my mss titled Walking The Edge. The story overlaps a few genres, and though it can be classified as romantic suspense, it also features a mystery and escalates like a thriller. Noble's guidelines sounded perfect for this one... and seems the folks at Noble thought the story was good for them too. *grin*

Now, not only that, but I've been asked to join a new program over at the pub house called Hot New Talent. It's like an out and out full promo blitz and steamroll all rolled into one, which is offered to new authors and their first book. The minute Ms. Jill Noble asked me if I wanted in, I jumped on the offer!

So here's a little tidbit about the book. I'll share more asap as it comes (dying to get a cover now, lol!).

Walking The Edge
The next step might be the last...

A woman without a past
Left amnesic after an accident, Amelia Jamison’s instincts slowly rise from the depths of oblivion to question her life as the wife of a cold, manipulating and distant man. Wisps of a dream show her another man she may have known intimately, but is he a memory, or a figment of her imagination?

A man with too much information
After many aliases, today Gerard Besson is simply a police commissaire in Marseille. When a mysterious woman starts to follow him, he is suspicious. But things aren't what they seem, and as he reluctantly gets closer to her, dredges of his painful, buried past spring to light and make him question her identity.

Each seems to have led two different lives
But neither is prepared for what awaits them when they cross the fine line between knowing your true self and that of your alter ego.

Danger is the name of the game, and as it catches up with them in the French Provence, both know they better be ready for the inevitable fall.

From Mauritius with love,

Zee