Lisa is everything an Avon Addict needs to be: crazy wild over romance. Plus, she’s willing to get out there and really prove her love, as evidenced by her grand display at the 2013 RWA Literacy signing. She’s a bundle of wonderful energy and one of my favorite people to run into because her smile is infectious. And in a good way, not a scary, run-for-your-life Ebola sort of way.

So without any further ado, may I introduce you to Lisa Lin.

1) Where is the most beautiful/romantic place you’ve ever been? Spain. I took part in a study abroad program the summer before my sophomore year of high school and got to spend 11 days in Spain. We traveled all over the country and got to soak in the history, culture, delicious food, and beautiful scenery and architecture. I am determined to go back someday.

2) What are your top three favorite movies?

• The American President-I’m a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin’s writing.
• Casablanca-Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman were pure magic together.
• The 95 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. Watching the mini-series is how I first got introduced to Colin and Jane Austen and will always have a special place in my heart.

3) Favorite Place to read? I love to get comfy on the couch with a good read. I’ve also been known to read in bed and fall asleep that way.

4) If you could time travel, what time period would you most like to visit?
I’d love to visit either the Italian Renaissance or the 1940s

5) Name three books on your keeper shelf and why.

•  Tessa Dare’s A Week To Be Wicked-Laugh out loud funny with hilarious escapades but anchored with so much emotional depth and character growth. Absolutely fantastic.
• Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me-I love a good battle of the sexes book
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  , and the Pall Mall scene is classic JQ at her best.

• The MacGregor Grooms. Ian and Naomi are one of my ultimate favorite romance couples. The scene in the library gets to me. Every. Time.

You can find Lisa voraciously tweeting at: @Laforesta1

Thought I’d go with my paranormal, haunted, ghoulish, monster/Jane Austen story, Tempted by the Night, for Halloween Eve.

So many people have asked why I decided to write historicals with paranormal elements, and I have to admit that I never set out deliberately to do it, rather the story/series idea would not go away and haunted me until I wrote them.

So after writing the first one, His Mistress by Morning

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, I knew I would never escape without writing Hermione’s story (well, make that Rockhurst’s). I got so many emails about him, pleading for his story, something that didn’t surprise me in the least.

I sort of suspected that might happen when I was writing Mistress. Sometimes a character steps off the page and takes a place in your heart. Like I said last week, Temple, from my Danver’s series, was another such character. The very moment Rockhurst came striding onto the page I was hooked. I wanted to know all his secrets—just like Hermione—and I had a wonderful time coming up with his history and place in my wild, magical version of Regency London.

Now there was another challenge to writing this story that made it fun and unique: an invisible heroine. One point in my favor, I didn’t have to fuss much over what she was wearing or how her hair was arranged, (though I am sure that Hermione, clothes horse that she is, would have preferred a story around her rather, um, distinctive fashion sense.

Then again, having a heroine the hero couldn’t see made writing the love scenes, well, interesting, to say the least.

And I know you are all going to ask: Will I finish this series? I really, really want to write the rest of them. And I will do my best to find a way to do just that because I have such grand plans for Griffin and the rest of the Marlowes.

Read an Excerpt from His Mistress by Morning or Order a copy.
And take a Peek inside Tempted by the Night, and make sure to get a copy. If only for that gorgeous sexy cover!

I am so thrilled to have my dear friend, Melissa McClone on the blog today. Melissa and I had our kids like one after another, have traded mom advice through it all, and relied on each other as sounding boards when things got (and still do get) crazy. We walk a very similar path and have so MUCH in common that sometimes it’s almost scary . . .

Like our mutual need for Peanut Buster Parfaits while on deadline . . .

1) Did you have a nickname growing up?

Yes! I was Missy for the first eighteen years of my life. When I went off to college, I started going by Melissa and have been that ever since. Occasionally family and longtime friends still call me Missy.

2) How do you pick the names of your Heroes/Heroines?

I have no method. Sometimes a name comes to me out of the blue or I’ll try to match a name to a personality type. One time I asked my 16 year-old daughter for suggestions which is why I now have a hero named Ashton/Ash. Want to guess what the name of the drummer in her favorite band is?

3) Do you celebrate when you finish a book and what you do?
Not sure I’d call it a celebration, but I sleep! For hours. And enjoy every minute!

4. If you could have only 3 electrical appliances in your house, what would they be and why?

1)    A computer—I use it to write, keep in touch, listen to music. Pretty much the one inanimate thing I wouldn’t want to live without!

2)    Refrigerator—ice cream! Need I say more?

3)    Lamp—I like light. We’ve been without power enough times I know reading by candlelight gets old fast as does using flashlights so I’d want a lamp so I could see!

 5.    Name three books on your keeper shelf.

1)    The Stand by Stephen King

2)    Daniel’s Gift by Barbara Freethy

3)    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

You can find Melissa McClone at:

Her website: MelissaMcClone.com
On: Melissa’s Facebook Page
And Melissa on Twitter

One of my favorite parts of The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane is Hannibal

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, Louisa Tempest’s miscreant cat. A beast of a feline who is known far and wide for his bad manners, Louisa is always, well, you’ll see:

   “I do believe I can remedy this,” Louisa told the viscount, catching up the pot and marching determinedly toward the house when a protest arose from underneath the lilac bush.
   Rrrroew.
   All three of them turned and she reversed course, climbing down through the weeds until she spied Hannibal tucked beneath. Moving quickly, she scooped him up.
   “Bad kitty,” she chided her cat, who she swore was grinning at her. “Actually this is why I was here in the first place—Hannibal came over the wall and—”
   She left off the remainder of that sentence since it was rather redundant. And I feared he’d wrought more damage.
   As her father liked to say, “Any sentence that begins with ‘Hannibal’ always ends with an apology.”

Over on my Pinterest board for The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane, you’ll find some pictures of cats who inspired Hannibal’s tabby appearance, and his tabby attitude. But I also drew Hannibal from my own cat, Pi, a rescue with tons of attitude and like Hannibal, a questionable habit of bringing presents.

That and always being on the wrong side of the door.

Want to read more of The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane? Try the Excerpt and there is still time to Preorder your copy so it will be right there waiting for you on October 28th.

This week I would like you to meet Avon Addict Alum, Amy Valentini, the woman behind the popular blog, Unwrapping Romance and the editorial service, Romancing Editorially. But most of all, she LOVES romance. So please welcome, Amy Valentini.

1) Do you immediately start another book once you finished one? Yes. I have a mountain of a To Be Read list and I actually have to schedule my reading so I literally finish one book, mark it as read and move on to the next.

2) What is the very first romance novel that you read? The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, and I was hooked.

3) What new to you authors are you crazy about? Most recently – Laura Kaye, Codi Gary, Carey Baldwin, and Ella J. Phoenix.

4) Who are your must-buy authors? Wow

, narrowed them down to top five – Candis Terry, Lynsay Sands, Pamela Palmer, Laura Kaye, and Maya Rodale.

5) Name three books on your keeper shelf and why.

• Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey. I can read this one over and again and never tire of it.
• Dark Future by KC Klein because it’s an exceptional story and feeds my need for good science fiction/time travel.
• The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss because it inspired me to fall in love with and write romance.

You can connect with Amy at her blog, Unwrapping Romance and if you find yourself with editorial needs, stop by Romancing Editorially – Unwrapping Author Services. You can also follow her on Twitter.

Continuing my look back at the Danvers series, I cannot help but pause, make that linger over one of my all-time-favorite heroes, Temple.

I can’t even tell you how much I have crushed on this man. My one and only Book Boyfriend. And here is how Temple came to life:

Sometimes when you are writing a book, a single character sneaks up on you and boldly demands that their story be told next. When I was writing One Night of Passion, I hadn’t really given much thought to the character of Temple, Colin’s rakish cousin. But from the moment he stepped on the page, larger than life and so very charming, it was only a matter of time before this Clark Gable and Cary Grant all rolled up into one would be whispering his secrets into my ear.

So it was hardly a surprise when I wrote these paragraphs in One Night of Passion and saw Temple’s story came to life:

   Temple stepped off the curb to wave down his driver, Elton, who was waiting in the mews. Colin took the moment to glance back, still shocked by his betrothed’s abrupt refusal to marry him.

   To his surprise, he found Lady Diana peering down from a window, her eyes ablaze with a fiery passion that he had never before seen light her features. She hardly looked the hardbroken

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   But then again her gaze wasn’t on him. It was drilling into the back of his cousin’s wine colored jacket.

   Colin swallowed back what was left of his pride.

   Egads. Diana had never loved him.

   The realization hit him harder than he cared to admit, and at the same time, it made perfect sense. Her easy acquiescence to delay their wedding all these years. Her vehement refusal to marry him today.

   His court martial had only been an excuse. She’d cried off because she didn’t love him.

~One Night of Passion
by Elizabeth Boyle

Temple and Diana? What was I thinking? Suave, sophisticated Temple? Proper and orderly Diana? It was insane, it was the devil’s own match, it was perfect!

But what to do with them? Then I saw it — a homage to one of my favorite movies, It Happened One Night, a madcap, hilariously fun story of a runaway heiress and her pursuers. My version includes one very reluctant Temple.

I had the time of my life telling the story of the future Duke of Setchfield’s long-suffering and tempestuous romance with the impossible Lady Diana. If you haven’t given it a try, I hope you enjoy it!

Read the Excerpt or Order your copy today!

Okay, she had me at “Brit.” As in the title of her new book, Beauty and the Brit. Look at that cover! What’s not to love? Let me introduce you to one of my fellow Avon Authors, Lizbeth Selvig.

1) Did you have a nickname growing up? My family (started by a beloved auntie) called me LittleBit, which sounds hilarious to my mind now at my age and weight. Also, I met my husband at the “tender age” of fifteen, and from that day to this he calls me Lizard.

2) How do you pick the names of your Heroes/Heroines? Oddly enough naming a character is rarely difficult for me—it’s one of the few things that, most of the time, pops into my head. When I am stumped, I troll baby name sites. I do keep a name list, especially for last names. I keep a physical phone book at my desk, and I love to take notes during movie credits.

3) What’s your strongest/most productive writing habit? For as many books as I’ve written I still LOVE NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) where you attempt to write 50,000 words in 30 days. This translates to just under 1700 words a day-extremely do-able. Having a very specific goal with a prize (a download of a certificate of completion—not particularly valuable or even classy) turns off my internal editor and lets me get the writing flowing. When it’s not NaNo month (November)

, I love doing timed writing sprints with my author friends. Again—it puts my internal editor in the corner for a while.

4) Who is your favorite author? LaVyrle Spencer. Most young writers today have never heard about her, but in her time (the 80’s) she was as popular and revered as Nora Roberts is today. She alone made me want to write romance.

5) Name three books on your keeper shelf.

• Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Best first line ever: “It wasn’t everyday a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road…”
• Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas. Proof of what a contemporary novel CAN be!
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. What any novel SHOULD be.

You can learn more about Lizbeth at her Website or connect with her on Facebook or Twitter.

Nearly here! Only another week until The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane releases and so I thought I would tease, er, share with you a sneak peek inside.

   Damaged and broken he might appear, but Pierson was still a man.
   He pulled Louisa closer, hitching her up against him, so close, she teetered on the tips of her slippers and found her fingers winding into the lapels of his coat, if only to steady herself.
   She might have toppled him over earlier, but now he was upending her world, and she couldn’t do anything but hold on for dear life.
   Still, the closer she came, the more Louisa discovered. His lips had teased her mouth open, and now his tongue filled her, tormented her.
   Touch him.
   A shiver ran down her spine as she realized that this bit of passion was but a taste.
   A tease. A window to another world.
   And windows, given Louisa’s rambling luck, were something she generally tumbled out of.
  The real question became, would he catch her?

Want to read more of The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane? Try the Excerpt and then make sure to Preorder your copy so it will be right there waiting for you on October 28th.

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I’ve had two Contests running here recently and just pulled winners.

For the Elizabeth Hoyt drawing, the winner is: Kimberly Woodall.

For the New Website Drawing I held, the winner is: Jennifer F. of Columbus, OH!

Both winners have been notified. Thanks to everyone who entered. And watch for a Caption contest on my Facebook page next week

, as well as the post calling for the November Birthday drawing.

Meet Kim, who runs the blog, SOS ALOHA Book Blog. I’ve known Kim for years–when she was actually fortunate enough to live in Hawaii. Kim describes herself as a “romance reader and a community volunteer.” Make that a one woman steamroller when it comes to getting things done, whether it is gathering books for military wives or other military causes or just seeing a need and rolling up her sleeves. Here is Kim:

1. Where is the most beautiful/romantic place you’ve ever been? Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, England, rumored to be King Arthur’s birthplace.

2. Favorite place to read? On the beach. When I lived on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, I’d drive to the North Shore for the beautiful seclusion of Turtle Bay.

3. What is the very first romance novel that you read? Cathy Maxwell’s The Marriage Contract. I found it on a shelf in the American Thrift Shop in the Netherlands.  It called to me with its blue cover and tartan sash.   At the time

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, I lived across from a castle and I enjoyed afternoon tea with the British Delegation.  It was the perfect setting for me to fall in love with Regency romance.

4. What are your top three favorite movies? Surprisingly, all three star Drew Barrymore – Ever After, Never Been Kissed, and The Wedding Singer.

5. What is the most embarrassing app or song on your phone? I would rather change this a bit and talk about the most embarrassing movie I love: Battleship. It sunk in the theaters but I love it! It was filmed in Hawaii and pays tribute to military, past and present. In fact, the cast includes a wounded warrior and old salts (retired sailors). The story is a coming of age for a slacker – an alien invasion gives him the opportunity to make a difference. I believe the film is named for the Battleship USS Missouri – a floating museum in Pearl Harbor. But the producer includes a scene that recognizes the Hasbro game, Battleship.

This is what I adore about Kim: she’ll start off in ancient Cornwall and end the conversation with an epic battle against aliens. Yeah, she’s that kind of gal. LOL.

Go find Kim on her blogs:
SOS ALOHA Book Blog
ALOHA ON MY MIND Travel Blog

And on

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