Dec 18, 2009
Congratulations to J.K. Coi, the winner of Susan Gee Heino’s Mistress by Mistake! I cut up little snips of paper, closed my eyes, and there she was!
The blog will be on a break until after the new year. An early resolution is to finish the current project before 2010. Or else. I’m awfully close. Right now Gemma is trapped in a house with Italian assassins. I’m pretty sure she’s going to rescue herself, and rescue me in the process. Since we’ll be going to Virginia to spend New Year’s Eve with our oldest friends, she’d better do it before I board that plane.
Happiest of holidays! How are you celebrating the new year? We’ll be staying in, eating the lobsters we’re bringing from Maine. I bet I struggle to stay up until midnight. 🙂
Dec 9, 2009
Just a reminder—if your name is in the post below or if you’ve received the first Maggie Robinson/Margaret Rowe newsletter and haven’t sent me your mailing address yet, please do so! I sent out the first wave of promo packets this week, much to my postmistress’s delight. One even went to Australia!
I’m not much of a statistician, but the new websites are connected now to a stat counter, and it’s fascinating to see where people are coming from to visit this site. Ireland. Bulgaria. France. Norway.The intertubes are a divine mystery.
Speaking of mysteries, about 5,000 words to go on Master Of Sin and I have no idea how it’s going to end, LOL. I have revisions to think about for Mistress by Midnight, the second Courtesan Court book scheduled for the spring of 2011 from Kensington Brava. Still putting on the finishing touches for Tempting Eden for Berkley Heat. Debuting on the Bradford Bunch blog on December 18, where most of the authors repped by my fabulous agent Laura Bradford muse about their muses. Starting to schedule a blog tour for the spring, buying an ad in RT. Scary, exciting stuff!
Since it’s getting close to Christmas, I’m giving away another copy of Mistress by Mistake! This time, I can hold the actual book in my hand, becasue it’s not my Mistress, but the Golden Heart-winning Susan Gee Heino’s delightful debut for Berkley that shares the same title with my April 27, 2010 debut from Kensington! Yes, 2 books, 2 authors, 5 months apart, 1 title. Leave a comment and let me know how you’re doing getting ready for the holidays and the “other woman” will be yours if I draw your name. Check back next week for the winner.
I confess I’m nowhere near done shopping, but my little fake tabletop tree is up and the pine roping is on my front porch railing. Joy to the world.
P.S. When I titled this post, the cancellation of As the World Turns had not been announced. I haven’t seen the show since I was a little girl, watching it with my grandmother. Good-bye to 72 years of romance! Watching soap operas as a kid probably put me on the path I’m on today. Hm. I sense a future blog topic. 🙂
Dec 3, 2009
Thank you all so much for celebrating the launch of my two new websites! I have goodies to send out to all who commented, tweeted, signed up for my newsletter, etc. With the greatest of trepidation, I’m going to send out my first newsletter in a day or two, so the following list only has blog commenters and Tweeple. I need snail mail addresses for Terrio, Elyssa Papa, Gillian Layne, Amber E., Limecello, Barbara Elness, J.K. Coi, Katiebabs, P.J., Reverend Melinda, Tammy D., Julie, Katie, Marsha Jones, Margay, Jana J. Hanson, Tiffany Clare, Keira Soleore, Sara Lindsey, Vanessa Kelly, Bookpassion, Tessa Dare, Joanne Kendrick, Cristen, and Lois. If you would send your address to maggie@maggierobinson.net I shall attempt to get a packet to you before Christmas. Or the New Year. Certainly before Groundhog’s Day. *g*
And now…the winner of an as-yet-to-be-published, basically invisible ARC of Mistress by Mistake…Reverend Melinda, who commented on the first official blog post!
Tempting Eden (also just a figment of my imagination) goes to katieday26 from the newsletter sign-up! As soon as I get my hot little hands on real live books, they will be in the mail to each of you.
Look for a contest coming up in February to kick off the Mistress count-down!
