It’s the first Tuesdsy in November. What’s so special about that?

Here’s a clue…

Of course! It’s Melbourne Cup day! Lovely to see my search engine of choice getting all gussied up for the race that stops a nation (so if you’re looking to invade, now’s your chance. Everyone in Oz will be either at the big race or glued to the telly:)

Received a lovely package at the post office yesterday – the first hardback copies of my next release, His Mistress for a Million, and my first peek at the cover! Here it is…

Yes, I should learn how to crop<g>, but too excited not to post as is. What do you think?

Eleni Konstantine has been running the most fabulous blog fest through October – Eleni fest! And today I’m her special guest and she’s made my interview look fabulous (thank you Eleni!). So do drop by and leave a comment for the chance to win a copy of The Best Love Stories of 2009, which includes 6 ripper reads, all of them RuBY finalist books, including my RuBY winning story, The Italian Boss’s Mistress of Revenge!

See you there!

Great friend and SARomanceAuthor colleague Eleni Konstantine is running a great blog series through October – the Eleni-fest. I’ll be blogging over there on the 26th, and meanwhile Eleni has a copy of Sizzle Seduce and Simmer for a website giveaway.

You can check it out here!

We live in the gorgeous Adelaide Hills where we’re always being visited by wildlife. We’ve had koalas, echidnas and even the odd kangaroo thumping around the balcony (in the dead of night, that is so not a sound that comforts you!). Yesterday we found a new friend, an injured Boobook owl, very groggy and scrabbling unsuccessfully to get to his feet.

We rushed him off to the emergency vet service that treats injured native animals and birds and farms them out to specialised carers in the native animal network while they recuperate. The vet called last night to say they think he must have flown into a window and knocked himself cold, which apparently they have a tendency to do.  Hopefully he’ll come good in the next couple of days and then the carer will bring him back here to release him.

We only have a photo of him lying doggo in a cat cage (that’s a pretty neat trick for an owl:-), but here’s a shot of how he should be looking, once he’s all patched up and ready to be returned to the wild…

Isn’t he a handsome bird?

While my next Presents isn’t out until February in the UK and March in US and ANZ - His Mistress for a Million – a story that transports you from cold and wintry London, to the magical Greek Island of Santorini and then home to the arid heat of the Australian outback – I do have more good news on the release front!

Harlequin Mills & Boon are reprinting my Broome book, A Virgin for the Taking, in a special release this coming December, VIRGIN: Wedded by a Billionaire, which features two other great titles as well – Anne Mather’s Seducing the Virgin and Carole Mortimer’s An Innocent Secret.

Here’s the gorgeous cover:-

March and April also see re-releases in the UK, but more about them later.

Meanwhile, my October Bestsellers Collection is on the shelves Downunder, featuring two of my favourite stories, The Mancini Marriage Bargain and For Revenge…Or Pleasure?, so don’t miss out on that one if you missed those releases the first time around.

Lucy Monroe and I are chatting over at Writerspace at 9pmEastern time (US) about The Latin Lover. That’s in about 2 hours from now.

Maybe we’ll see you there!

I’m blogging over at www.iheartpresents.com today and you could win a free copy of The Latin Lover, simply by leaving a comment.

There’s also a fabulous post by editor Joanne Grant, about how the 2-in-1 format came about, and a great post by Lucy Monroe, all about her story, The Greek Tycoon’s Inherited Bride.

See you there!

It’s October, which means The Latin Lover is now on the shelves in North America. And not only appearing on the shelves, but debuting at Number 5 of the Borders Group Series Bestseller List!

Lucy Monroe and I will be chatting about the book and our respective stories at Writerspace on Wednesday October 14th at 9pm Eastern time US, so sometime Thursday morn here – I’ll post the time and link a little closer to the event as we’re about to go daylight saving time here and if I post the time beforehand, I’m sure to adjust the wrong way!

And just for fun, here’s Her Latin Lover, including all three novellas, out in Japan in September!

I found this fabulous vid while researching today. Truly, I was researching!

Anyway, one lovely person has kindly put together a collage of 5 gorgeous men, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Hugh Jackman,  Raoul Bova, Alfonso Herrera and <blissful sigh> old “friend”, Reynaldo Gianechinni.

Isn’t it fabulous to know that gorgeous men are gorgeous men the world over?