Live & Virtual Author Tour for Vixen in Velvet

This is the way I like to picture myself writing, but it's a lie.

This is the way I like to picture myself writing, but it's a lie.

Since Vixen in Velvet, my newest Dressmakers book, will be out in a matter of weeks, you may find me here and there in the course of a blog mini tour and the occasional live event. This is the brief interval when I get to spend time with my readers and potential readers and maybe some curiosity seekers.

As mentioned elsewhere on the website, I'll be at Book Expo America in NYC.  Clicking on the link will give you an idea of how huge this thing is.  With Avon author Sarah MacLean, I'll be meeting with some of the BEA librarian attendees on Thursday and signing books on Friday afternoon.  I'll be at the Autographing Area Table 23 from 1-1:30 PM.  From 2-3PM, Sarah and I will be signing our books at the Romance Writers of America Booth 2551.

Then there are my internet travels, starting with Trisha Sugarek’s blog, Writer at Play, for a two-part interview on Thursday and Saturday 29 and 31 May (please look for the tabs for the dates).

And shortly before the release date in late June, I'll be visiting Heroes & Heartbreakers.

Please watch this space for further updates.

The photograph is not of me or any of my ancestors.  It's Viola Allen, in about 1903, and the image is courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

EBooks in Australia

My dear, patient readers in Australia,

First, thank you for taking the time and trouble to let me know you're not able to purchase the digital editions of my recent books.  We had assumed that they'd be made available at the same time or close to the time the books became available in the UK.  Without your emails, we would have continued in ignorance.

So, emails have been going back and forth and contracts reviewed and a lot of aggravating complications—which make international publishing  bear an alarming resemblance to Dickens's Circumlocution Office, only more circumlocutory—have worried our pretty little heads.

And now at last I have some good news:  My three Dressmakers books—Silk is for Seduction, Scandal Wears Satin, and Vixen in Velvet—will be released digitally in Australia in July, August, and September 2014, respectively.  Interestingly, the print editions will come out later, staring with Silk is for Seduction in December.

The situation with the Carsington series, which was licensed to a different publisher (thus different complications), is now going through the email and pretty little head-worrying phase.  I'll keep you updated as I learn more.

Meanwhile, thank you for caring enough about my books to inform me about these problems.  We're tackling them, I promise.  But it's a slow process, and so I can only ask for more of that wonderful patience of yours—and hope you don't give up on me.

Sincerely,

Loretta