December 17, 2009 • Print This Post
Well, after almost two years of wishing and hoping and crossing all appropriate body parts and then waiting and waiting and waiting, it’s finally HERE!! My first Brava release, A STORM OF PASSION, hit the shelves in the last two weeks. I can hardly believe it…..
I’ve been having fun with it, signing it in bookstores in PA and NJ, blogging and chatting online about it, finding reviews about it and reading emails from readers about it. And I’ve been enjoying special moments, big and small, since it showed up on sale and on shelves in early December. A special moment happened at my day job this week when a coworker, not usually a reader, told me she’d blocked herself in her bedroom and finished reading my book! Another reader came up at a signing and said she recognized my name from among her mother’s favorite books! And so on and so on. . . .
I thought that since this is not my first book, or even my tenth, the thrill would be gone, but I was wrong. After sixteen Harlequin Historicals, this is my first single title romance and my first in the tradesize paperback format. It’s in places that my HHs never were – like the bookstores at Union Station.
The only bittersweet part of this is, of course, the fact that our own Kate Duffy, who asked me to write this trilogy for her and Brava, is not here to see its release. Our last conversation was when I turned the final manuscript in to her, so I know she liked it. And she chose the cover and the titles. So, her hand is obvious in almost every step of this path to publication.
So I am celebrating — getting ready for the holidays, writing the next book, planning the third and enjoying all the moments, savoring the fun and the experience and hoping that the thrill is always there.
I hope you’ll give A STORM OF PASSION a try – it’s a dark, emotional story about a man gifted and cursed and searching for a way out of his nightmare and about a woman who believes that revenge is the answer when it’s truly just the first step in her search for the courage to live.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!
Terri
Terri is thrilled to find that 2010 will see four more releases, from both Kensington Brava (May and October) and from Harlequin Historicals (April and July). Please visit her website for more info and to enter her latest “Viking World Tour” contest….and more!
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Congrats Terri,
I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while. I’ll have to look for it the next time I am out getting some new books. I love emotional love stories so I think this one is right up my alley.
Such a lovely post, Terri! Congrats on your first Brava, and may the magic be just as magical when you hit your fifth, tenth, and fiftieth and so on!
Yay, Terri!!! Congratulations on the new release
I’m very excited about this series!