Hey there, everyone!

First, I’m including a picture from the booksigning I participated in Detroit last month. I had a blast, met some really interesting people, and signed a lot of books! I’m here with Allyson James and Jory Strong – that’s me on the right! Thanks to Melissa Bliss at Paperbacks ‘n’ Things for arranging it!

From Left To Right: Allyson James, Jory Strong, Delilah Devlin

I’ve been a very busy girl. I completed a novella for the next collection of ALLURING TALES: HOT SUMMER NIGHTS, which will be a 2008 release by Avon RED. My story is a steamy little number about a woman who is busted for skinny-dipping by the man she’s lusted after since high school. I also finished a Quickie for Ellora’s Cave, which doesn’t have a title yet, but which my editor accepted happily! Yay! It’s a Western about a man who undertakes to teach the “ropes” to the new owner of a brothel in a rough little Colorado town.

| So with those two short projects out of the way I’m busy shaping the first hundred pages of my next Dark Realm tale for Avon. I really, really love new beginnings, but they also scare me spitless! I have to get it right-have to suck you into my world in a few pages and keep you hanging so you aren’t tempted to close the book and forget about it. I’ll let you know how the writing goes.

One more thing, I had some good news last week I’d like to share. Pocket Books and Ellora’s Cave have entered a new agreement to publish thirteen collections of popular EC novellas. Two of my stories, ARCTIC DRAGON and RIDE A COWBOY, are among the stories selected for the special print deal. The books will be released in 2008. I’ll let you know more as the details come.

DEAR READERS,

I know it’s been forever since I sent you a letter. I haven’t forgotten you – oh no. I’ve been going through some changes lately. Life-altering ones – No! Not menopause, not yet. I’ve moved. From Texas to Arkansas. Might as well have been Mars to Venus, the scenery’s so different. I went from rocky, dry creeks, buffalo grass and wide open skies to dense pine forest that shuts out the stars. So dense I feel surrounded, even though I’m miles from a town and have a hundred acres around me.

Why the drastic change? So I can write full-time. That’s right. No day job. All the bills paid by my creativity. That’s very, very scary. Like walking a high wire without a rope. But necessary now that I have so much to do. Let me tell you what’s been happening!

First, Avon signed me for two more books in the Dark Realm series that I began with INTO THE DARKNESS (Avon RED, April 2007) and will continue with SEDUCED BY DARKNESS (Avon RED, February 26, 2008). Then just last week, Kensington offered me a two-book deal to write two single-author anthologies set in Texas! And do you think they’d let me write them after I delivered my books to Avon? Huh! I’ll be writing them in parallel. So, no breaks. No vacations. No sitting and day-dreaming. No part-time jobs. I have to write full-throtttle, pedal-to-the metal for the next several months.

In the meantime, I have some short stories already out and coming out. Read more about them here, then go support a starving artist and get your copy! I also promised you the continuation of the My Immortal Knights series – just sign up to my newsletter list and you will get to read it, one installment at a time, every month. So stick around!

One last thing. I love to reward loyalty, so every month I’ll choose one newsletter subscriber to win a signed copy of one of my books and a gift card.