Marianne LaCroix | Official Blog

Check it out, I got a new domain for my blog:

www.IWriteRomance.com

Okay, I have been depressed, but I am getting a med adjustment.

And for those out there who need a laugh:

I am going to take a few days off. I am so stressed over things, I need a break.

Before I go I am announcing that I’ve been offered a contract with Total E-Bound for Warrior Lover. I submitted with three other authors, Ashlyn Chase, Isabelle Drake and Sascha Illyvich, with an anthology we call (don’t laugh), SONS OF ZEUS.

Got the cover for my upcoming print book at Ellora’s Cave. You look and judge for yourself if it will end up in a cover snark at SB.

It is official, I am going to RT this year. Registration is paid and flights are booked. Now I just need my book for the Saturday signing….PIRATE’S MISTRESS from Ellora’s Cave. I am expecting it out sometime this month.

I am also going to the Jacksonville RWA Southern Lights Conference in March. Suzanne Brockmann is going to be there. Take a look at the flyer here. I am signing SEDUCTIONS, and hopefully, PIRATE’S MISTRESS.

I have been a little burned out lately on writing hot. I know some may be surprised, but its true. I can’t bring myself to write sex at the moment. I talked with my EC editor and I am welcome to give whatever I want to Cerridwen Press. I am working on a few projects in addition to my Harlequin works, but under another name, Miriam van Veen. Feel free to check out my site and my blog. I love reading erotic romance….but writing it is much harder than it should be. At least at the moment. I have 2 books planned for Cerridwen, DESERT GUARDIAN, the long awaited sequel to LADY SHEBA, and OPALESCENCE, a historical romance. Right now I am working on a book I hope to sell to Harlequin Presents, SEDUCED BY THE ITALIAN MILLIONAIRE. Just FYI to my fans out there that I am making a bit of a change.

Be sure to come and check out Passion’s Muses at http://www.passionsmuses.com I posted this morning on three words that describe me. I don’t think those will come as a surprise…

I was just informed my book Fairy Dust & Magic Kisses is listed on B&N as published by LA Media LLC. Not true. It was formerly published at Mardi Gras Publishing until I got my rights back in April 2007 BEFORE the whole crapola went down a few months later. I NEVER contracted the book with LA Media LLC nor do they have the right to change the name. DO NOT BUY COPIES OF THIS BOOK FROM LA MEDIA aka MARDI GRAS PUBLISHING.

This books is legally published by New Concepts Publishing and has been since October 2007. It is only available in ebook format. See it here. This is what the LEGAL copy of this book looks like:

Teresa Wayne aka Teresa Jacobs is up to some sort of illegal operation here. I think she is literally asking to be sued, because I am sure the other former MGP authors are not going to like this bullshit either. She is about as crooked a business person as they come. BEWARE TERESA JACOBS aka TERESA WAYNE.

Yeah, I redecorated here and at my website. I am still toying with it. I am unsure I “love” the look. I may change again. LOL

I am over on Facebook now. Come and add me as a friend. Search “Marianne LaCroix”.  I can’t send an exact link to my profile. You have to add me to see it.

I know Thursday was a few days ago, but I did a Thursday 1 for Unusual Historicals. Check it out:  Thursday 13 Things about the Daily Life in the Royal Navy during the 1700s

The drama never stops, does it? I mean, it has been an insane 2008 already in the romance world. I think the hottest topic is the Cassie Edwards plagairism scandal. I’ve kept quiet on my opinion about it other than it does look highly suspicious there have been copied text. It is a real shame. I wouldn’t wish ill of any writer in this magnitutde. I mean, it has been splashed all over CNN, AP, etc. Probably the worst of it is the chatting going on the blogs. Wow…

Note to self, do NOT ever copy anything….no wait, I wouldn’t even consider doing that because plagairism is wrong. The End.

On to other drama…Teresa Wayne (aka Teresa Jacobs) tried to come back with a new ebook company (LA Media or something like that) but promptly closed…however the few titles she had are still up for sale on Fictionwise. She didn’t pay people but a chosen few, and those are the ones there selling on FW. Kind of makes you sick to your stomach. Oh yeah, and I never got paid for any paperback copies of Fairy Dust. So guess what, I don’t like her in a big way. (Fairy Dust & Magic Kisses is in ebook over at New Concepts Publishing. I am not high in the pecking order there, so I doubt it will ever see print. If you DO want to see it in print, contact customer service.)

I do find the re-emergance of Venus Press a shocker. The site magically reappeared a few days ago with books on it that authors have taken elsewhere for publication. (The site shut down a year ago, breaking contract with all the authors and releasing their rights.) Not sure what to think about it. The site was renewed in October around a time I heard a rumor the owner of VP (and my former friend who destroyed my trust with her “I am boss, I am king, What I say is LAW and don’t you dare go against me or I will take you down with lies”) was looking to open a new place. Has she decided to revamp Venus and start over?? Don’t look to buy anything there, the cart is non operational (thank goodness). I don’t know, but SOMETHING is not right.

I have a friend who loves to gossip and talk drama all the time. I think she revels in it. Me…I have my own life and my own dramas…and I’d prefer to not be a target of gossip. I have to keep this friend at a bit of a distance anymore. I can’t take the gossip…endless drama. Hey, I can read about it over at Karen’s blog. (Who doesn’t go there? Nora does.)

On a lighter note, I bought a PSP game system on eBay. I love playing games, but sometimes, the kids want their Nick Jr. Sooo…I got a handheld. You try shooting a few digital terrorists (Syphon Filter) in the head and see if you don’t feel better. Hey, and I can read eBooks on it too.
 

UPDATE: 4:00pm - VenusPress.com has been disabled. Tracy West, former VP admin staff, contacted the host and it was disabled within the hour. Go Tracy.

Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while. I am working on a book, reworking Goal, Motivation, Conflict, etc. Yeah, I bought a copy of Debra Dixon’s book to sort of help. My characters weren’t coming off quite right. I worked on my hero’s GMC today and tonight I will work on the heroine’s. I am hoping it helps fill out my plotline better. I think so.

Next month I am giving a workshop in Jacksonville on Writing Sexual Tension and Erotic Romance. I am doing the workshop with author pal Eileen Ann Brennan (Gamble of a Lifetime, Ellora’s Cave). Should be interesting.

Conference season is coming up. I am all signed up for the Southern Lights conference in Jacksonville, FL for the end of March. I have to register for RT yet. I wanted to go to the Chicago conference, but I can’t do both that and RT. It is one or the other. Finances will tell which I will do…and if my pal Annmarie Ortega will be going to RT. Money and time away from family is hard to do, I know. So whichever she chooses, I will probably go with that. I hope RT as it is one endless good time. And our model friend Andrei will be there. And Brooks. And FABIO!!  (I still chuckle at the Fabio/George Clooney thing. Fabio would so take out Clooney!)

Oh yeah, at the Southern Lights conference I am one of the guest authors doing “cold reads”. Authors are invited to sub the first 2 pages of their MS for a panel of published authors to comment upon. You know, good, bad and the ugly…to the published! I did it back in October with Tracy Montoya and Sandra Madden, and it was a lot of fun. (Sandra and Tracy are cool ladies. Did you know Sandra is married to Dave Madden aka Reuben Kincaid from the Partridge Family? I was floored. He and Sandra cowrote his biography called Reuben on Wry. I totally want to read that.)

That’s it for now. Time to get the little ones ready for bed.

I actually made the list of CAPA nominees for 2007 . . . as “Favorite Erotic Author”. No one is more surprised than I am. I am thrilled. Thanks TRS!!

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