Austen Addicts #2 January 2012 On Sale: January 1, 2012 Featuring: Adam Craig; Oli Wade Owen; Kay Ashton 352 pages ISBN: 1402251351 EAN: 9781402251351 Kindle: B0068N4DBU Trade Size $14.99  Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com For every Austen lover Dreaming of Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly Heroes aren’t always what they seem… Fledgling illustrator and Darcy fanatic, Kay Ashton, buys a B&B in the seaside town of Lyme so she’ll have a quiet place to finish her book, The Illustrated Mr. Darcy, and she’s delighted to discover that a film company is in town making a new big-screen adaptation of Persuasion. Kay has a history of falling for the bad boy so it’s no surprise that she’s soon under the spell of handsome actor Oli Wade Owen, who is playing Captain Wentworth. But what exactly is it that Oli is hiding from Kay? His apparent dissembling is making her nervous, so she confides her misgivings to quiet, handsome Adam Craig, who always seems to be there when she needs a sounding board. Screenwriter and producer Adam Craig hasn’t been in a relationship since he had his heart broken years ago. Throwing himself into his work, the last…

Would it surprise you to know that it’s been 18 years since the birth of the e-book forced the RWA Board of Directors to decide what the organization meant by “book”? You aren’t a published author unless you’ve published a book. As it turns out, not only do writers refuse to be boxed in by paper or even covers, but so do readers. Who knows what a book is anymore, never mind a cover? And a publisher? Can’t anyone be a publisher? One thing the writers at The Story Garden know for sure is that we grow stories. And we’re going to draw readers into our garden, come rock, paper, scissors or android. Writers and readers are all in the throes of change together. Question is, what have you learned so far? Let’s ask Gardeners Judith Arnold, Teresa Hill, and April Kihlstrom before we throw the discussion open to the WWW. What’s your experience with digital publishing? Judith Arnold: I’ve gotten the rights back to a lot of my out-of-print books, and about a year ago, I started reissuing them as independently published e-books. I currently have ten indie-published e-books for sale at Amazon, B&N, Smashwords and other e-book retailers,…

Sky’s talking about sexy loggers and is giving away a copy of DOUBLE DARE, her steamy novella available from Red Sage. I have a thing for loggers. To me they’re kind of like another version of the modern day cowboy, working hard every day from before the sun comes up until dark. All that physical labor guarantees a sexy body rippled with muscles, solid and strong. They are men who know how to work hard and love even harder. My infatuation with the profession started when I worked for a summer for the Forest Service and we would run into loggers, out in the middle of nowhere. They were always so nice to talk to, and did I mention sexy? So I had to write a story about them. And why stop at one logger when you can write about two sexy logging brothers? Ready for a little hot passion in the woods? Read a sexy excerpt from DOUBLE DARE. I “double dare” you to! Hmmm, ready to win your own copy of DOUBLE DARE? I’ll make it easy on you, just use your imagination. To win a copy of DOUBLE DARE leave your comment with the profession you find…