No. 30--May 2011
Gee, it's been longer than I thought since I've written one of these
newsletters. I guess it's taken me this long to recover from the
college swim team's visit. I'm happy to say that spring finally
seems to have sprung in the D.C. area. I think it stayed cold
longer this year than I'm used to. Unfortunately with the warmth
comes pollen, so I'm admiring the beautiful weather mostly from inside.
A-choo!
May is a busy month for my family. Second son graduates from law
school--yes, thankfully he has a job, at least for next year--and fourth
son graduates from college--and, no, he doesn't have a job. This
all happens in one weekend, but fortunately the law school graduation is
on Friday and the college Baccalaureate is on Sunday with graduation on
Monday, so we can do it all. We just have to scoot from D.C. to
Baltimore to Boston with a stop coming and going in Albany to break up
the trip and see my mother-in-law. And then our empty nest will be
empty no longer. College graduate is coming home--unless someone
offers him a great job between now and mid-May--and third son is giving
up his apartment when the lease is up the end of June and coming home,
too. He's planning to follow his fiancée to California as soon as
he can find a suitable job there. It will be rather cozy here at
Chez MacKenzie, but we're used to the rotating door on the empty nest.
There's an adjustment on either end--we miss them when they leave, but
then we get used to having the house to ourselves.
May is also a very busy time for the writer me (besides the mom me.) I'm at
work on the first book of my new Duchess of Love trilogy--I'm calling
book 1 "Bedding Lord Ned." Now if the characters would just
cooperate! But I'll also be bouncing around the web this month,
promoting the last (for now) Naked book, The Naked King.
Here's a cool e-postcard that my publisher did for the Naked nobles:
If you go to my blog,
you'll see a version that is "clickable." Click on any of the book
covers and you'll go to that book's page on the Kensington site.
And don't overlook the bit about the contest!
If you have time, I hope you'll keep an eye on my blog this month. As
part of my push for the King, I'm going to be posting something
daily, Monday through Friday. I'm running a contest--the details
will be on the blog May 10--that will run until June 15. And
probably starting May 16, I'll be posting bits of chapter 2--chapter 1
is already up on my web site
here.
And, of course, if you do Facebook, please join my
Facebook fan page. I "tweet" @Sally_MacKenzie--not that I
tweet a lot. I'm still trying to figure all that out.
If you'd like to get an email reminder when I've got a new book coming out,
just send a
note if you haven't already with "Add me to your email list" in the subject line to
writesally@comcast.net and
I'll add you in. I limit the email list to book announcements, so
your email inbox won't get stuffed with messages--I promise.
Appearances
My 2011 schedule is still evolving. So far the only appearances I have
on the calendar are the Romantic Times convention in Los Angeles and the
national RWA conference in New York. Check my
Happenings page as time goes by to see an updated list.
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Sally
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