Luke won an Eppie

While I was away in Kauai, I found out some awesome news completely by accident. Through a random tweet I learned that Absolution had won the EPIC Award for best romantic suspense. I was thrilled because it features my favorite hero, who is 50, and I love the reunited lovers theme. Plus I'd been waiting to tell his story for five whole books!

I didn't actually receive official word from EPIC, and nothing's come in the mail for me either, but since I'm up on their website I feel pretty comfortable in saying publicly that I'm the winner :)

Of all the books I've written, Absolution was the quickest and the most painless. From start to submission, I pumped out that 95k work in just over two months. Never before or since has any other book come out so easily for me. I'm convinced it's because I have had an unhealthy crush on Luke.

My next release is a bit of a departure from the norm for me, as it's a paranormal romance. I've got plans for another 2 books in the series, but I'm going to wait and see what the reaction to the first one is like before I think about writing the others. I'm a very practical writer, you see :) (Um, and somehow still kind of thin skinned, despite having a bunch of books beneath my belt).

Darkest Caress has no vamps or shifters of any kind, but instead features a magical race stemming from some of the ancient folklore I learned about while in coastal Lithuania. Who'd have ever thought I'd write a story like that? It releases April 23rd from Carina Press.