Saudações!

I am writing this in frigid weather, while I wait for a frozen pipe to thaw. I pray it hasn’t split from the ice. I am stressing on the mess that would make. On the other hand my heat is still working, and my mother always said to count your blessings. Além de, with single digit temperatures out there, what better opportunity to stay warm and to jot a note to friends?

I have some news to report. Os Pecados de Lord Easterbrook will be released on January 27, 2009. Esta é a história de Christian, and readers have been writing to me about him ever since he first appeared as a secondary character in As Regras da Sedução. He is one of those men, if you know what I mean. Reviews are beginning to come in, both formal (professional reviewers) and informal (early readers). I hope that their assessment—that I did well by Christian—will be yours too.

Os Pecados de Lord Easterbrook is the fourth and last book in my Rothwell brothers series. As always, all the books can be read separately.

This novel also includes my first ever Epilogue. I know some readers love them, but when a series is unfolding I prefer to show that later experience in the later books. With this final book, contudo, I really felt it needed this Epilogue. Due to the story, I wanted to display these two characters, and the others from the series, a bit later in time. It also allowed me to tie up a couple of loose ends in the series, regarding some characters who did not play big roles in the plots but whose presence threaded through all the books.

I am hard at work on the next series. Currently I envision four books, with four connected but unrelated women on one side, and four connected but unrelated men on the other. The men are all aristocrats and the women come from a variety of backgrounds and all have ambiguous respectability and, in some cases, even ambiguous identities. I will share more details later, after I get deeper into the first book.

The first of these books, as yet untitled, is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 2010. Sim, a whole year away. That delay is the result of another bit of news. I have changed publishers for the first time in my career. That usually adds a few months to the publishing schedule for the first book in the new arrangement. Contudo, I will again be working with the editor who first “discovered” me, so this change will not be as stressful as I can imagine it might be.

I have finally started blogging!! I was invited to join a group blog—A Deusa Blogs—comprised of writers I admire and know. I will have a few blogs a month, which will not interfere with my writing. So come visit us, and if you like what you see, set up the RSS feed. There is also a forum and other activities.We don’t just talk writing. We gab about whatever strikes our fancy.

I am in the middle of a video for Os Pecados de Lord Easterbrook. Some readers love book videos, and some hate ’em. I enjoy making them so I do them for fun. The hardest part continues to be finding the “face” for the hero, and Easterbrook was a particular challenge. Thanks to the wonders of an expert in Photoshopping, I have a face to die for. Seriously. So keep checking back for when it is done and I upload it on the home page.

I want to sign off now with a personal thought. No one is untouched by this economy’s problems, and I know that some of you are very badly affected. My best thoughts are with you. I pray that the new year brings better things for everyone down the road.

Madeline

Caros Amigos,

Tem sido um verão agitado para mim e eu tenho um monte de notícias para compartilhar.

Secrets of Surrender, meu junho '08 livro, era um NYTimes bestseller do seu principal, lista publicada. Este foi o primeiro de uma carreira para mim. Tive livros na sua lista estendida antes, mas não aquele com os melhores slots que é impressa no jornal.

Secrets também estava no topo, publicado 50 do USAToday lista dos mais vendidos, e no Publishers Weekly lista dos mais vendidos. Agradeço a cada um de vocês que teve uma chance em minha história e me ajudou a alcançar esses marcos maravilhosas!

Em seguida, em Julho, Lições de Desejo ganhou o RITA para melhor romance histórico de 2007. O prêmio foi anunciado na convenção anual da Escritores de Romance da América. A conferência foi em San Francisco este ano e fiquei muito feliz por conhecer alguns de vocês na assinatura de Alfabetização.

Eu também tive a oportunidade de conhecer alguns leitores no Romantic Times conferência em Pittsburgh em abril passado. Fiquei impressionado com a área geográfica ampla representado pelos fãs. Eu conheci os leitores de lugares tão distantes como a Austrália e Tailândia.

É claro que eu também passei a escrita verão! Os resultados estão vindo em janeiro 27, 2009. Ou seja, quando Os Pecados de Lord Easterbrook será lançado.

Esta é a história de Christian. Ele é o mais velho dos irmãos Rothwell que ancorou minha série atual. Os leitores têm escrito para mim sobre ele desde o primeiro livro, As Regras da Sedução, foi publicado.

O “Sins” no título referem-se a sua, mas também aos de seu pai, eo legado escuro de seus pais que tem ensombrado os irmãos Rothwell ao longo da série. Espero que você vai pensar que eu fiz bem por Christian, que é um dos personagens masculinos mais distintas e vívidas que tive de lidar com. Digo “agarrar” porque ele realmente queria assumir um par de livros anteriores e eu tinha que mantê-lo na linha até que era hora de sua história.

Fiel a essas aparições anteriores, neste romance ele é misterioso, imperioso, arrogante, mas também, por vezes, endearingly atenciosas. Os leitores também vão aprender sobre as razões de seus hábitos um tanto excêntricas, e as cicatrizes e vulnerabilidades enterrado profundamente debaixo de sua confiança e autoridade. Não, ele não é louco, ou até mesmo a metade de, como alguns na sociedade sussurro! Como sempre acontece com os meus livros, você não tem que ler a série, a fim.

No lado pessoal da vida, o verão também foi ocupado. A família levou um cruzeiro muito relaxante, visitando alguns portos do Caribe. Eu praticamente só apodreceu e voltou descansado e pronto para trabalhar. Meus irmãos e eu também tive o primeiro do que será reuniões regulares. Organizei e escolheu Williamsburg, porque há uma grande variedade de atividades na área. Poderíamos buscar nossos próprios interesses por dia e se reúnem à noite. Se alguém souber de outros lugares como esse, onde você pode manter as pessoas história / museu feliz, assim como os compradores ou esporte-orientado folks-me por favor enviar e-mail para que eu possa colocá-lo no “potencial local de reunião” piscina.

Em uma nota muito pessoal, Eu envio os meus melhores pensamentos para todos vocês. Enquanto escrevo isso, estamos em tempos economicamente assustadoras e eu sei que muitos de vocês estão sendo afetados, alguns gravemente assim. Encontro-me em busca de fuga em um bom livro com mais freqüência recentemente. Estou ansioso para colocar o mundo louco real sobre “segurar” por algumas horas, e visitar aquele em que alguém parece estar no controle!

Madeline Hunter

Saudações, dear readers!

I am writing this on April 1. No one has played any jokes on me yet. If someone does I won’t mind because the temperature has finally topped 60 and that puts me in a wonderful mood. I have spent March freezing, either here at home or when I travel. Those of you in southern climates don’t have this problem, but we northerners think winter should be done now, thank you very much, and I am thrilled to finally open my windows.

It was a hard winter in some ways, not just with the climate. My mother passed away on December 26. She had been ailing for a long time, and failing fast during her last few months. I was able to spend a lot of time with her, for which I was grateful, but it is one reason this site has not been updated much since the fall. Her name was Anna, and the book dedicated to her, O protetor, has just been reissued this month, which is a nice unintended tribute.

The heroine in O protetor is also named Anna, and in her strength and independence she embodied my nonfiction Anna’s character. Morvan, the hero, was one of those characters that readers discovered in another book and wrote to me about immediately, wanting his story. He was my very first hero and O protetor, in an earlier form, was my very first romance manuscript. I am still in love with him. (The story about how O protetor was written, and how it was published after books written later, can be found in my first ever letter, available in the archives of this page.)

The other reissue is Lord of a Thousand Nights. This is my Scottish medieval romance, set in the borderlands and revolving around a contested estate. The hero is Ian, a bad boy masking a deep inner wound, who finds purpose and direction and redemption through his protection of the lovely Reyna.

Other than dealing with “life happening” I have been writing these last months. My next book, Secrets of Surrender, will be released on May 20. It is the third book in the Rothwell series, and it is Roselyn Longworth’s story.

Roselyn was Alexia’s cousin in Regras de Sedução, the one who blamed Hayden Rothwell for her family’s ruin. In Secrets of Surrender she has learned the truth about that sorry episode, and that thread finds its final resolution. She has also embarked on a disastrous love affair that will alter the course of her life. An excerpt is up, and in it you will meet Kyle Bradwell, the self-made man who helps Roselyn rediscover herself and her true worth. This is a marriage of convenience story with a twist, and with conflicts both obvious and secret.

I am currently writing the fourth and (probably) final book in the series. Sim, it is Christian’s book! Readers have been writing to me about the unusual and compelling Marquess of Easterbrook since first meeting him. He has been an important secondary character in every story, and now he is getting his own. The tentative title has been chosen: Os Pecados de Lord Easterbrook. I can give a hint to readers of prior books— In Rules of Seduction, Alexia observes that it seems Easterbrook is “waiting for something.” As Sins opens, the waiting ends.

As always, the books in my series can be read out of order. I give away no secrets from earlier books when I write the later ones. That can get tricky, but I think that I pulled it off in Secrets of Surrender. Those of you reading the series in order will understand what I mean if you read it.

I hope that the season of renewal holds only good things for you. Thank you for visiting!

Madeline Hunter