KAREN'S NEWS

SUMMER 2009

First, the big stuff – A MOTHER’S WISH (Silhouette Special Edition, August 2008) was nominated for a 2009 RITA ™ award from Romance Writers of America in the Best Series Romance category! This is the mother of all Romance awards, so color me thrilled to bits, especially as this makes me a two-time nominee. Winners will be announced at the RWA conference in Washington, D.C. on July 18.

And yes, it truly is an honor just to be nominated.

Update July 19, 2009:  But it's even sweeter to win! Yee-hah!

Second – THE VACCAROS ARE BACK! When my editor asked me if I’d like to write a new Vaccaro/Guys and Daughters book for Special Edition’s multi-authored “Famous Families” year-long promotion this year, I said “yes” before she’d finished asking the question. (I love me some Vaccaros, sigh.) FROM FRIENDS TO FOREVER (Silhouette Special Edition, August 2009) is about Tony Vaccaro, cousin to Mia, Rudy and Kevin, a widower with three little girls who gets sucker-punched with news about his youngest daughter the very day Lili Szabo pops back into his life. Lili’s visiting from Hungary, just as she had been a million years ago, when they were teenagers. And immediately everything feels both exactly the same between the old friends…and completely different. Too bad the timing seriously sucks for either of them to even think about forever…

And the very next month, look for my third installment of my WED IN THE WEST series for Silhouette Special Edition, A MARRIAGE-MINDED MAN (SSE, Sept. 09), where Tess Montoya discovers that anger, booze and broody ex-bad-boy-boyfriends are a really bad combination…especially for a woman who doesn’t believe in forever any more.

There will also be three more Wed in the West books coming down the pike (titles and release dates TBD) -- so for all of you who asked, your prayers have been answered (as have mine! ;-)

As always, all my Silhouettes are available a month early at eHarlequin.com (paper and e-book) as well as at your favorite brick-and-mortar booksellers during the month of release, and at online retailers for some time afterwards.

—Karen