Odds and Ends

Congratulations to Nalini Singh and Alyssa Day, who have both landed on some fantastic lists with VISIONS OF HEAT and ATLANTIS RISING! (And check out Nalini’s cover for CARESSED BY ICE!)

Jennifer Estep got a great review from Publishers’ Weekly for KARMA GIRL.

Also, Lenora tagged me, and I’ve autosummarized my manuscript.

From Lenora’s blog: Yet more evidence of Tessa Dare’s genius. Check out her post on AutoSummarization–the MS Word feature that allows you to distill your manuscript into ten sentences (under the Tools menu). She found it while searching for a way to make synopsis writing less painful, and it fulfilled its function by giving us all a good laugh.

Here’s mine:

Charlie’s brows rose. “Charlie?”
“Easy, Charlie. “Charlie?”
“Charlie?” Ethan nodded. “Ethan?”
“Charlie.”
“Charlie.” Charlie nodded.

But, yep, it got it right — it’s about Ethan and Charlie.

ETA: Oh Jesus! I just did it for DEMON MOON, too. This would please him all too well.

Colin. “Colin—”
“Colin? Colin!”
“Colin?”
“Colin’s?” Colin. “Colin—”
“Colin—”
“Colin!

But I swear it’s also about Savi! And yes, I have a LOT of dialogue in both books.

Also, here is the ad banner that I’m working on. Is it stupid? Too busy? Too long?