Ici, je suis, une semaine avant la sortie de Dangereux en diamants, tout excité que ce livre sera dans les mains des lecteurs bientôt! J'aime ce livre. Mon éditeur aime ce livre. Mon éditeur aime ce livre. Sera tout lecteur aimer? Probablement pas, parce que cela n'arrive jamais. Cependant, J'ai eu un merveilleux temps à écrire cette histoire et qui porte deux de mes personnages les plus distinctifs ensemble.
Les lecteurs de Le plus rare de fleurs histoires ont rencontré deux Daphne Joyes et Tristan, Duc de Castleford tout au long de la série. Daphné est composé, recueillis, et un peu difficile à lire comme une personnalité. Les autres femmes s'en remettent à elle et dépendent de sa, mais il ya eu aussi des conseils concernant les mystères qu'elle a caché.
Et Castleford-bien, ce que je peux dire? Il est arrivé à Ravissante en rouge la façon dont beaucoup de mes personnages préférés font, à l'improviste. Il était un mauvais garçon dès le début, assez mauvais que j'ai reçu quelques mails se plaignant de son comportement. Comme la série a continué, nous sommes arrivés à en savoir plus sur lui. Il peut être un hédoniste impénitent, mais, comme un lecteur m'a dit, il a un cœur d'or surprenant, et il se lève de son ennui perpétuel de se mêler de la vie des amis pour de bonnes raisons. Qu'il est arrogant en supposant tout le monde ne sera pas l'esprit quand il fait, et que ses motivations sont également un soulagement d'avoir quelque chose de pas alésage lui-même, c'est ce qui fait Castleford qui il est.
Bien sûr, j'ai dû mettre les deux ensemble! Castleford plaisir à trouver les moyens de briser reine des glaces sang-froid de Daphné, et Daphne va inévitablement apporter Castleford à genoux. Sur le chemin, il y aura des découvertes sur deux d'entre eux, humour et d'action. Je promets aux lecteurs que Castleford Castleford reste à travers tout cela. Réforme-t-il? Bien, partiellement, mais un homme partiellement réformé est un homme encore à moitié mauvais.
Je suis occupé commençais ma prochaine série, mais comme Avril 26 approches, mon esprit est bien sur Le plus rare de fleurs et tous ces personnages avec qui j'ai vécu pendant plusieurs années. Je crois fermement que comme un écrivain que je dois continuer à avancer sur, mais dans ce cas je prends quelques jours de regarder tendrement dos trop. J'espère que vous allez donner à la série, et Dangereux en diamant un essai.
Madeline
The big news is that Sinful en satin stayed on the NYTimes list for 4 semaines. This is a first for me, so it was very exciting. I really appreciate all the notes and emails that readers and booksellers have sent to me about the book, and the series.
I have now completed Dangereux en diamants, the fourth book in Le plus rare de fleurs series, and will get an excerpt up as soon as it gets the final seal of approval from my publisher. The Duke of Castleford was a lot of fun to write about, and I think that the story reflects the same man that readers have met in the prior stories. Even when we go into his head in this one, he still has that very individual way of looking at the world, and the story ended up with a lot of humor as a result. I have had a few readers express some regrets that Castleford will have to reform in order for his book to end in Happily Ever After for the heroine, which says something about how much some readers have enjoyed his incorrigible behavior. I promise you that while he slowly realizes Daphne is worth a few sacrifices, he intends to be at least half bad forever.
So now I am planning the next book (s). This is always exciting for me too. It is world building time because I will be starting a new series. I promise that I did not leave characters hanging from the last one. By the time Dangereux en diamants ends we know what happens with Katherine and the marquess (not together, bien que). As much as I loved Le plus rare de fleurs series, and all these characters, it is time to meet some new ones. They are forming even as I write this, and I will post another note once everything has fallen into place. In the meantime I get to play with ideas, and also clean my office which, during this series, with its fairly quick succession of deadlines, has become a disaster. I may even find some time to get back on Twitter!
Madeline
It was a very busy summer for me, with lots of travel and some quality family time. I started by spending a week helping a relative who had surgery. Then my husband and I took a vacation together— a “I can’t believe it was discounted that much” cruise of the Baltic, where we visited St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Helsinki. The RWA conference in Orlando came quickly on the heels of that, and suddenly the end of summer seemed to be around the corner! Which meant that my next book was around the corner too.
Sinful en satin is the third book in Le plus rare de fleurs series, and its publication date is September 28. This story takes place mostly in London, where Celia, upon the death of her mother, the courtesan Alessandra Northrope, strikes out on her own, to build a life for herself after five years living in the country with Daphne Joyes. Her mother has not left her much, due to debts, but there is a modest house in a middle class neighborhood that might be spared from the creditors. Celia takes residence there, and plans her future.
To her shock, she learns that she will not be living alone. She has inherited a tenant along with the house. It is Jonathan Albrighton (whom readers of Perles en Provocative briefly met.) Jonathan, the bastard son of an earl, has served the Home Office as an agent for a number of years, and even with the war being over he is still given the occasional mission. Now he is on a minor one—to discover if Alessandra left records of her patrons. If so, people in power would like them destroyed, because there had been a rumor that Alessandra passed pillow talk to a French spy during the war, and no man of society wants anyone suspecting that he might have been an unwitting accomplice. Jonathan has his own reasons for wanting to learn the truth about Alessandra, and soon has his own reasons for wanting to remain very close to Celia too.
From the moment they see each other one night, there is electricity between these two outsiders. Celia, trained to follow her mother’s path, and to see sensuality as a means to an end, finds herself wanting only one man, but knows an alliance with Jonathan would be impractical in the extreme. Jonathan, whose soul has been darkened by fate and experience, first wants Celia, then needs her, as she begins to illuminate his life. And all the while, as their attraction creates first tension, then eroticism, and finally love, their histories and the world’s expectations for them keep interfering.
Even as this book goes on sale, I will be finishing up the next story in the series. Dangereux en diamants is slated for publication in May of 2011. It is time for Castleford to get his comeuppance, and who better than the cool, composed Daphne Joyes to bring him to his knees? On the other hand, Daphne discovers that maintaining her reserve and poise is very difficult when Castleford casts his eye her way. Right now in the manuscript she is finding him a dangerous attraction, and his pursuit of her overwhelming.
Dans d'autres nouvelles, I will be doing a little blog tour with Sinful en satin’s release, and the information can be found on my appearances page. I will probably get my web site redesigned in the next few months too. And I am proud to be a part of The Penguin Group’s campaign to raise awareness of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation during the month of October, as they launch their Read Pink campaign. I will post information about that in the next week or so.
I am reviving my snail mailings to fans who want to receive them. If you want to be on that list, send your mailing address in a message to me via the link on my contacts page.
Madeline
