April 2006 Newsletter

April already!  Hard to believe, isn’t it?  March was a very busy month for me.  We sold and closed on two houses and are now homeless until our new house is built!  My husband and I drove to San Diego for the San Diego Spring Into Romance conference and “celebrity booksigning”--I signed copies of Pleasure Beach…does that make me a celebrity?  Ha!  I wish!  It was a hoot, though, seeing all the people from my aunt’s senior citizen complex and signing their books.  My biggest fan there was a 102-year-old retired English teacher who praised Pleasure Beach as being “grammatically correct”!

I turned in the book formerly known as ALL THAT GLITTERS before I left for San Diego.  Kensington finally came up with a new title.  It is now called GIVE ME MORE.  I can only assume it will still be a 2007 release.  I’ll keep you posted.

Pleasure Beach is still on the shelf at most bookstores and doing very well, I’m told.  My next release, COWBOY IN PARADISE(in The Cowboy anthology), ISBN 0-7582-1528-2 will be an August release.  ALL FIRED UP (in The Firefighter anthology) will be a February 2007 release.  I’ll have to post the ISBN later.  My cover for The Firefighter should be coming soon--I’ll post it when I get it.

I’m currently working on my next book--a single title erotic action/adventure/romantic comedy--tentatively called HIP DEEP.  The hero is a struggling mystery writer by night, apartment manager by day, who augments his income by writing catalogue copy for a sex toy catalogue.  As soon as I figure out how to post excerpts, I’ll post some.  Please be patient--remember, I’m a techno-tard!

The first winner of my site contest was Sanjay Srinivas--congratulations!  Your t-shirt will be on its way as soon as I find my pattern.  

Happy Spring!

P.J. Mellor