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The Shape of Months to Come:

After running like a gerbil on a wheel for the last several years, things have now slowed down long enough to take a deep breath.  That’s largely because I have no more Young Adult novels on the schedule (though I might do a fourth book someday), which gives me more time to work on my historical romances and maybe a small play project or two. 

Lost Lords #5, Sometimes a Rogue, is scheduled for September 2013.  I don’t have the official cover yet, but I’ve seen an early version, and it’s gorgeous! 

Sometimes a Rogue features Rob Carmichael, the enigmatic and highly capable Bow Street Runner who has been a secondary character in all the prior books.  He goes off to rescue a kidnapped lady, with most unexpected results!

I’m currently working on Lost Lords #6, my historical for 2014.  It’s the long awaited story of Kirkland, and I’m having great fun with him.  He’s not having as much fun, but he’ll thank me after it’s all over. <G>

E-Books:

Not being so rushed, I can now pay more attention to the backlist books I’ve been publishing in e-editions.  (I’ve already uploaded a large number of my books; e-editions are listed here.  

I have three standalone novels that await proofing and uploading: Dearly Beloved, Uncommon Vows, and Lady of Fortune.  I even have lovely Kim Killion covers for them.  They will become available in the next few months, but no guarantees when.

I’m also trying an experiment. My friend Nina Paules of ePublishingWorks has done production on all my indie e-books, and she also distributes them to outlets other than Amazon and Barnes & Noble, which I handle myself.  She loves my three contemporary novels, and mentioned in conversation that she thought they would do well if they were relaunched with new covers and new titles that had more of a women’s fiction feel, since the books fall between romance and women’s fiction. 

That sounded worth a try, so Nina and I have been working on repackaging the books.  They’ve just been uploaded and will be available on the major sites.

If you’ve already read the books, you don’t need to buy the new versions—they haven’t changed!  You are warned. <G>

So—the Circle of Friends Series is now the Starting Over Series.

The Burning Point has become Stirring the Embers.

Kate Corsi always dreamed of working in her family's world-famous demolition business—a wish her old-fashioned father denied until his untimely death. He leaves a fortune to Kate and the business to her ex-husband, Donovan—but only if they agree to live under the same roof for a year.

Kate and Donovan married too young and stayed too long in a dangerously destructive marriage. Ten years later, surely they're mature enough to co-exist peacefully. But the embers of attraction swiftly flare into flame again.

Now they must confront the pain of the past if they are to have a chance for a future, and to save their business from a saboteur they're beginning to suspect of murder.

 

The Spiral Path is Phoenix Falling.

Though they are sliding toward divorce, Raine Marlowe persuades her enigmatic superstar husband, Kenzie Scott, to play the lead in a movie she wants to produce and direct.  Kenzie agrees, but without realizing how dangerously close the character’s dark secrets are to his own.

Then Kenzie's past explodes into a career destroying scandal. Like a phoenix, Kenzie had created spectacular success out of a catastrophic childhood. Now his carefully constructed life has shattered.

When Kenzie tries to push Rainey away, she knows only she can help him come to terms with his past—and if she fails, she’ll lose the only man she’s ever loved.

And Twist of Fate is now An Imperfect Process.  (This is actually the title I wanted originally, but the publisher preferred the very generic Twist of Fate.)

When lawyer Val Covington receives a windfall and leaves her corporate career to practice "do-gooder law," her assistant offers to come with her—if Val will look into the case of Kendra's former lover, who is on Death Row for a crime he didn't commit.

Val agrees, but she can't do it alone. She finds help in Rob Smith, her landlord, who is as capable as he is mysterious.

If justice is an imperfect process, so is falling in love. Val and Rob are drawn together as they fight to save an innocent man's life, but can they overcome their fears to build a lasting future?

The related novella was originally published as “A Holiday Fling” in the Christmas Revels anthology.  A couple of years back, I did an e-version as “A Christmas Fling.”  In the relaunch, it will return to its original title of “A Holiday Fling.”  Same story, though. <G>

British actress Jenny Lyme isn't a movie star, but she's well loved in England for her television work. Now her hometown community center is in danger of being sold. The only hope for its salvation is if Jenny can film and sell the Christmas Revels production she's directing. A really good cameraman is needed—and she knows just the one….

Greg Marino is a top Hollywood cinematographer with an Oscar in his kitchen to prove it. He also has fond memories of the fling he once had with Jenny Lyme when they worked together on a disastrous movie.

So when Jenny calls and asks Greg to film her Christmas show, he decides it'd be a fun break... and really, really nice to see Jenny again.

“A Holiday Fling”

British actress Jenny Lyme isn't a movie star, but she's well loved in England for her television work. Now her hometown community center is in danger of being sold. The only hope for its salvation is if Jenny can film and sell the Christmas Revels production she's directing. A really good cameraman is needed—and she knows just the one….

Greg Marino is a top Hollywood cinematographer with an Oscar in his kitchen to prove it. He also has fond memories of the fling he once had with Jenny Lyme when they worked together on a disastrous movie.

So when Jenny calls and asks Greg to film her Christmas show, he decides it'd be a fun break... and really, really nice to see Jenny again.

So that’s the news from me!  I hope you all had happy holidays, and that the new year is full of health and happiness and prosperity.

Mary Jo, who will attach several gorgeous Kim Killion designed covers after she pushes aside the cat tail that’s lying over the trackball… 

 

Note:

A printing error left out p 362 in some copies of No Longer a Gentleman paperback.  The e-book copies are fine  I'm very sorry that this happened to my readers.

.  Here's the text to page 362.

Missing Page 362 from No Longer a Gentleman

 

Nowhere Near Respectable made the Library Journal's list of the top ten romances of 2011

 

A Starred Review from Publisher's Weekly (May) Nowhere Near Respectable

Putney's third Lost Lords Regency (after 2010's Never Less than a Lady) is rich with historical detail and multifaceted characters. Anglo-Hindu Lady Kiri Lawford is about to accept a proposal from an English gentleman when she learns that his racist, fortune-hunting relatives secretly despise her. Stealing a horse, Kiri rides for Dover and right into a den of smugglers. Gambling club owner Damian Mackenzie aids her escape and passion instantly flares between them, but they resist, knowing the daughter of a duke and an Indian princess could never wed an actress's bastard son. When Kiri visits Damian's club, foils a kidnapping, and gets involved in a covert investigation, their romance sizzles out of control. Kiri's striking beauty, mental acuity, and martial arts training make her the perfect match for charming rogue Damian in this "splendid joining of East and West." (May)