Short stories, parties, and surgery

Hello, everyone! It has been a busy week of writing and promo planning for me. I am about to finish up A Little Harmless Fascination rough draft today and will be diving into Possession next. They are my next releases, April and May. I have some updates on some things that will be happening.

As of right now, if you win a prize from me that must be mailed, it will be at least two weeks. My wonderful PA Brandy Walker had surgery on her arm and needs some time to heal. I am sure all of you will understand:)  Email from the contact on my website will also be slow during this time.

Harmless shorts are about to change. From now on, they will be offered free individually on a members' only kind of special. I am planning on having a members' only section on my new website, but it might be months before it is ready to go. So, Brandy and I will come up with something else before then. Jocelyn and Kai need their short story and I will have it out this spring. The only way you will be able to get it outside of that is in collections. I am going to start bundling my Harmless shorts and releasing them. They will be entitled Harmless Love. I am hoping to have the first one out in the April/May time period. 

Callum is about to be put in KDP select starting March 1. Since ALH Submission was so successful, I wanted to try test it with a fairly new book in a different genre and see what happened. So, if you buy from anyone but Kindle, make sure you get it by Feb 29th as I will be pulling it down the morning of March 1.  I want to see the difference in sales and borrowing for other genres. I am still learning this business of self-publishing so please be patient with me. I plan on doing some other promotions in the coming month as I test out some of my marketing ideas.  

 If you are going to AAD, the two public functions I am sponsoring are open to everyone, but a word of caution. If you don't sign up for the tickets you could miss out on promo stuff. I am basing my promo ordering on the number of people signed up for the event. While I understand that everyone can come in and I will be happy to hang out, I will have to make sure that I don't waste money on stuff. ESPECIALLY the huge things. Little stuff I will have a lot of, and I will be happy to buy 400 of anything for readers, but I am also working on getting this stuff there. While I am driving, I will have to haul all this stuff and I want to make sure there is a reason:) Make sure you go get your tickets if you are signed up for AAD TICKETS. Registration is completely sold out for the entire con but there is a wait list. 

That's it. I am back to writing hoping I can go ahead and finish up the fugly rough draft of the book so I can dive into Deke and Sam's book tomorrow morning.

Two Bookie Nominations!

YAY! What a way to start the weekend. I was spending time preparing the lessons I have to teach next week and Eliza Gayle im'd me to go take a look. A Little Harmless Addiction was nominated for Best Contemporary Novel of the year and I was nominated for Author of the Year for the Bookie Awards through AAD! Anyone can vote, so please, if you feel that I deserve a vote for either, please give me a nod! And thanks everyone for nominating me. I sincerely mean it when I say that I am very honored to be nominated. How can I not with a list like that?

Much news Monday

Well, it has been a crazy week. And, I am not looking forward to another one, but it will probably turn out that way. I just finished off line edits for A Little Harmless Lie, and I had that...what was that...oh a RELEASE! Exciting, yes? Anyway, here are some great things that happened along with that release.

A Little Harmless Obsession got possibly one of the best reviews I have ever gotten for ANY book. Here is a little bit but Shannon at TRS had a lot more wondeful things to say.

Quite simply put A Little Harmless Obsession is a delectable, sensual and poignant romance that is beautifully written and that delightfully draws the reader into the dramatic and richly detailed plot and the compelling emotions of the characters giving them a highly memorable story. The very talented Melissa Schroeder gives her readers a romance to savor full of passion, promise, danger, deception and distress that is impossible to put down.

Is that not wonderful?! It almost made me cry. I am not lying.

For Delilah's Downfall, it is in the number 3 position on the 14 day best seller list over on Siren Bookstrand! And, it has already sold more copies than Conquering India! That just blew my socks off.  It encouraged me to double time it while I write A Little Harmless Addiction. I will also be writing Morgan's Men, Texas Temptations #3.

Oh and other exciting news. Larissa Ione has been named the Master of Ceremonies for Authors After Dark, and I am one of the co-hosts for 2011! Isn't that wonderful? I should have A Little Harmless Obsession to sign there and apparently, there is an ebook signing too. So I am sure I will do that also. I am also going to have a lot of swag there, including some Harmless bags filled with all kinds of Harmless goodies!

Just so you know, I am gone most of the day today. I am in Master Reiki Class, making that last step in my journey with that, so I will be gone until tonight.

Conquering India nominated for Bookie!

I rarely get nominated so I am always soooo excited when it happens. The Bookie Awards are from Authors After Dark, which I will be attending next August. I am so super excited. Have I said that, lol. Thanks for everyone who nominated me and the voting will commence in November! Oh, and the sequel, Delilah's Downfall, is coming this November 4th!