LILA'S VOW is Honored!!

Hi, Everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I know I have lots to be thankful for--the love and support of my friends and family, a good job, and...my third Civil War romance novel, LILA'S VOW, has been nominated by the reviewers at the Long and Short Reviews website as one of the Best Books.

However, getting the Best Book honor depends on the readers voting. If you will consider voting for LILA'S VOW, I would be very grateful. Voting runs from Saturday, 11/28, through Sunday, 11/29.

Here is the website:
http://www.longandshortreviews.com/LASR/recentrev.htm

Happy Holidays!!!
Diane

On to the next project!

Now that I've finished all of the edits for ADAM'S TREASURE, it is time to get serious about my next work-in-progress. I am trying something completely different from my last four historicals. This time I am writing a novel that I am calling a "paranormal with romantic elements." It is not a traditional romance and it is only partly historical and partly contemporary...unless you consider the 1960s to be historical! LOL! In that case, I am a historical myself.

I've got it about three-quarters finished. With five novels under my belt, I've decided to take it more slowly with this one and see if I can land a literary agent. Time will tell. If I am ever going to be able to retire early and make writing novels my career, I am going to need an agent.

Hmmm...do you think Santa would bring me an agent for Christmas if I asked him???

~Diane

Release Date for ADAM'S TREASURE

Hi, Folks,

I am excited to be able to announce that I have a tentative release date for ADAM'S TREASURE! Yay! It is planned for release in August 2010, just before the end of beach reading, if everything goes according to plan.

Love it!

~Diane

Conference Update

Hi, Everyone,

I've been a bit delayed in reporting back on the New Jersey Romance Writers conference from a few weeks back because I came down with the flu immediately afterwards. It took me a full week to recover and I am finally getting back to normal.

I thought you might enjoy a few pictures from the conference. I had a great time with my author friend, Dani. Except, of course, for the alarms going off in the middle of the night. We all made our way downstairs in our jammies and outside while the place swarmed with firemen and policemen. Finally they let us back into our rooms, we just settled down to sleep again and the alarm went off again! Ugh! Down we went again. This time they had us sit in the lobby while the rescue people all came back again. We found out the next day that a woman decided to take a shower in the middle of the night, left her bathroom door open, and the heat from the shower set off the alarm! Felt like a zombie the next day, but it gave us all something to talk about.

The picture at the top is a basket that I won with my raffle ticket. Amazing! Me! I never win anything, but I did this time! This was the first time in 3 years of attendance that I've won a basket. It was from the New England Chapter of RWA and is chock full of books, candy, and other goodies, including a pair of red, furry handcuffs! Hmm, I wonder what my husband will think of them! LOL!

Oh, I also went to some terrific workshops and actually learned a few things while I was there too. Hopefully my writing will be all the better for it.

~Diane