I'm giving away a copy of the May 2009 UK edition of Tycoon's One-Night Revenge at To Be Read this week. This edition is a 2-in-1 with Leanne Banks' Bedded by the Billionaire. To be included in the draw, visit TBR and comment on any (or all) this week's posts. Easy as!

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Two books in one month, which is quite the novelty and treat when I'm lucky to get out two new books a year. One is the first UK release of Tycoon's One-Night Revenge, in a duet with Leanne Banks' Bedded by the Billionaire.

The second is a reprint of Beyond Control in a Spotlight Collection with Suzanne Brockmann's Scenes of Passion and Justine Davis's Midnight Seduction. The book is titled Irresistible Attraction. Sexy cover, yes?

The UK books are also available as Adobe eBooks.

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With many thanks to Maxine Sullivan for passing on the link, I've learned of some fun releases in the UK in 2009. In April my first hardcover release, Tycoon's One-Night Revenge. I believe these are printed mostly for the library market and therefore sales are limited but my mates who write for M&B London often give me one of these as an advance read and now I'm getting one of my own. Tickled pink.

Same month I'm listed in an anthology titled Irresistible Attraction with Suzanne Brockmann and Justine Davis. Yes, I know!!! Cool factor=subzero. I have no idea which of my books this is, and am playing the guessing gamne. Perhaps Quade, my irresistible one, and my bestselling book in the UK to date. Perhaps the lovely cover had something to do with that.

In May Tycoon's One-Night Revenge will have its paperback release in a duo with a fab and stylish Leanne Banks number. Leanne just happens to be one of my favourite Desire authors.

My face she is smiling.

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The Australian editorial office has treated my Tycoon to a makeover for his June release downunder. Blue shirt or yellow, which do you prefer?

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Well, I do. Love sales, love discounts, love getting wonderful stuff for a bargain price. The eHarlequin store has a 40% off sale this month on loads of "Passion" titles released in the past few months. Loads of Desire (including my Vows and Tycoon), Presents and Blaze, and some Nocturnes, Intrigue, Historicals, Kimani and Romantic Suspense thrown in for good measure. (NB: I've linked to page 3 for *cough* obvious reasons, but check out the other 2 pages as well.)

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In case you haven't heard enough about this book yet, this review just in from Debby at Cataromance.

Misconceptions, and undeniable passion rule the pages in Bronwyn Jameson's Tycoon's One-Night Revenge.

After a brutal attack, Donovan Keane lost his memory of several crucial days. Now, months later he has pieced together the missing time. He knows he spent a weekend with Susannah Horton and afterwards lost a major deal to her fiancee. He is sure she spent that weekend with him to ensure her fiance's success. Since the final papers have not been signed as yet, Van resolves to arrange a night where he can have Susannah again and ruin the deal and her engagement as well.

Bronwyn Jameson's talent as a writer shines from the pages of Tycoon's One-Night Revenge as heat becomes flames and fascination keeps us glued to the pages to see if love or pride wins.

Read the full review.

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Have I mentioned lately that I have a book out? And that you should buy it? :-)

In case you're wondering if it's your cup of tea or not, here's a review just in from The Romance Readers Connection. Deborah Hosey does a brill. job summarising the story setup.

"After a brutal mugging, millionaire businessman Donovan Keane doesn't remember the weekend he'd just spent with Susannah Horton. He has pieced together the details and he's convinced that she sabotaged his bid for The Palisades hotel he desperately wants. Susannah never heard from Van after that weekend despite the promises he made, so she got on with her life and accepted a friend's marriage proposal when he agreed to bail her business out of financial trouble. Van's summoned her to get to the nitty gritty of what went wrong with their original deal, and though he might not remember their passionate weekend, he can easily imagine taking the lovely Susannah to his bed. Now that she's engaged and The Palisades Hotel is part of the marriage contract, there's only one thing to do: keep Susannah with him and somehow stop the wedding...and try not to lose his heart once again.

TYCOON'S ONE-NIGHT REVENGE is an intense and entertaining read. It combines an amnesia plot, sexual tension, the beauty of Tasmania, and an already-familiar set up from Jameson's Princes of the Outback trilogy to make it a must-read Silhouette Desire. Bronwyn Jameson always provides compelling reading, and TYCOON'S ONE-NIGHT REVENGE is this and more!"

End of shameless self-promotion.

Labels: Princes of the Outback, reviews, Tycoon's One-Night Revenge

I am jumping the gun slightly. I admit it. It is not yet April 1 in America which is the only place TYCOON'S ONE-NIGHT REVENGE is available this week...except for the eBook version, which is available everywhere right now. But since I won't be on-line to publish this tomorrow, I took liberties and pretending it is April 1 already.

I am also taking the liberty of posting the Dear Reader letter from the front of the book, which explains a little about how this book came about. It has been a looonnnggggg time coming, the process almost drove me over the edge of sanity, and I can hardly believe it's finally out (almost.)

Also, I believe the eBook version doesn't include the letter. Which is wrong. Everyone should get the whole package. So here it is.

Dear Reader,

If you've read my PRINCES OF THE OUTBACK trilogy then you may remember Susannah Horton. Although she didn't appear on the page, Susannah played a vital, indispensable role as Alex Carlisle's intended bride. In The Ruthless Groom, she was the catalyst that brought Alex and Zara together...and one of the obstacles that kept them apart.

The possibility of creating a happily-ever-after for Susannah only struck after I'd finished writing The Ruthless Groom, and during the final edits I hurriedly added some hints of her future story. At that stage I had no idea what her story would be,
only that she'd run away from her wedding because of "a mystery man." That man
would have to be very special, I knew, and her reason for running high-stakes.
And that was all I knew.

To those readers who've been eagerly awaiting Susannah's story—here it is! I hope you enjoy her journey from a conveniently arranged engagement to a marriage based purely--and inconveniently--on love. I also hope you enjoy your reading journey to Tasmania, Australia's southernmost island state. Stranger's Bay and Charlotte Island are both fictitious but, I hope, reflective of the wild natural beauty and dramatic scenery for which Tasmania is known.

Cheers from the Land Down Under,
Bronwyn Jameson

Labels: Princes of the Outback, The Ruthless Groom, Tycoon's One-Night Revenge

I love cool, new stuff. I can't always work out how to use cool, new stuff. I don't always have the time or patience to work out how to use cool, new stuff but that never dampens my initial enthusiasm.

On that note and with appropriate fanfare, let me introduce you to eHarlequin's Browse the Book widgets, available for all April releases including my Tycoon's One-Night Revenge. As well as reading the first chapter, you can view the cover blurb, other books' by page, the dedication, dear reader letter (author note) and bio.

There is also a search facility, although I'm not sure how that might be useful to readers. Perhaps if it's a series and you want to see if characters from previous books make an appearance, you could search their name? (Example: in Tycoon, you can search for Alex and Zara from The Ruthless Groom.) Any other thoughts on that?

Is this something you'd use to check out more details on upcoming books?

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• Today at Tote Bags 'N' Blogs


• Tuesday at All-A-Blog.

And being March 1,
Tycoon's One-Night Revenge is now available in print and eBook from eHarlequin. Other stores, you will have to wait till April to see what devious deeds are on Donovan Keane's mind.

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So, she'd come. Sooner than Donovan Keane had anticipated, given the weather and the travel necessary to reach the resort's remote location. And, Van noted with satisfaction, she'd come alone.

Good.

A grim half-smile tugged at the corners of his mouth as he watched her dismiss the bellhop's umbrella and jog up the steps toward reception. Under the shelter of the portico she paused to acknowledge the doorman, and something in the swing of her red-gold hair and the lift of her hand triggered a weird flash of deja vu.

For a fraction of a second time vacillated from present to past, between dream and reality. Then she disappeared inside the building, gone in a flurry of long legs and designer raincoat, leaving Van alone and stripped of his satisfied smile.

Punching fist against palm, he searched his memory but came up blank. "Big surprise," he told a captive audience of weight stations and treadmills. He'd identified Susannah Horton the second he caught sight of her arrival through the rain-streaked window. But that recognition was due to the number of photos he'd viewed during the past weeks of intensive research--Australian society cameras loved the local hotel heiress--and not from the weekend she'd spent in his company.

Shoving away from the window, Van shook the tight grip of frustration from his muscles and circled the punching bag he'd deserted minutes earlier. He'd flown in from San Francisco the previous morning, but twenty-four hours at The Palisades at Stranger's Bay, the Tasmanian resort where they'd supposedly spent that weekend, had done nothing to fill the dark hole in his memory.

Hell, he'd come within a whisker of buying the place, yet nothing rang any bells. Not his flight into Australia's island state, not the helicopter transfer to the isolated retreat. Not even his first stunning view of the scattered villas perched high on a rocky promontory overlooking the southern ocean.

Nothing. Thud. Nada. Thud. Zilch. Thud.

Van hit the punching bag with a lethal barrage of punches that did little to soothe his frustration. The insistent internal burn came from more than the forgotten weekend, more than losing the prime property to an Australian hotel group. It stemmed from how he'd lost out.

The below-the-belt punch had been thrown while he lay unconscious in an ICU, incapable of defending himself let alone fighting back. Thud. A knockout counterbid, perfectly timed and perfectly presented. Thud. And all due to a treacherous redhead named Susannah Horton.

Thudthudthud.

Despite the veiled threat in the voicemail he'd left last night, he hadn't expected her to turn up so promptly. At best, he'd expected a return call. At worst, another don't-you-dare-call-again reply from her mother. The fact that Susannah had scurried down here without any advance warning or any entourage in tow, suggested he hadn't misread the signs.

She'd come because he'd hit a vein, and she hadn't wasted a minute seeking him out here in the resort's state-of-the-art fitness centre.

He hadn't heard her entrance, but he caught a glimpse of reflected movement in the expansive window. And a jolt of awareness travelled the length of his spine, strong enough that his next punch miscued and slid off the side of the bag. Recovering, he delivered a final combination of punches, sharp, swift, relentless, until his breath rasped in his lungs and his inner physical therapist barked, enough!

Then he dispensed with the boxing gloves and pulled on a T-shirt. Snagging his towel and water bottle he turned, and, dodging the arc of the still swinging bag, started toward the plush reception area. As he walked, he drank from his bottle and he drank in the woman.

Up close Susannah Horton packed even more punch than that first glimpse through glass and rain. She wasn't a bombshell; her beauty was more about class than flash.

Tall, willowy, feminine. Generous lips balanced by a long, straight nose. Red-gold hair and the kind of redhead's complexion that would burn in the sun. Green eyes that tilted upward and smoked with wariness.

Until that second he'd harboured a lingering doubt over how they'd spent their days, and nights, that July weekend. He couldn't recall one damn detail. All he had to go on was Miriam Horton's word--and hadn't that been one helluva phone conversation!--and his own instincts. Those he trusted. And when his eyes locked on hers, when he detected the suppressed heat in their sea-green depths, his body responded with a powerful jolt of elemental recognition. As he came to a halt in front of her, his instincts hummed like a mesotron.

Oh, yeah, she'd slept with him all right.

And then she'd really screwed him over.

From the book TYCOON'S ONE-NIGHT REVENGE by Bronwyn Jameson, Silhouette Desire 04/08, ISBN 0373768656 , published by arrangement with Harlequin Books SA.

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I now have the back cover blurb for TYCOON'S ONE-NIGHT REVENGE. Here's what it says:

REVENGE AT LAST

Amnesia has stolen millionaire businessman Donovan Keane's memory. But one look at treacherous beauty Susannah Horton and Van could picture every delicious detail of the weekend they'd spent in his bed. She'd staged their affair to ruin an important deal -- a deal about to go to her fiance. Not that Van would let that happen. During one hot night, he'd destroy her engagement, take back the deal and walk away with all the memories he'd need. Good thing, because he'd never be able to get her out of his mind.

The tycoon was vengeance-bound...but the beauty in question was truly innocent.

And if Susannah sounds vaguely familiar, she is the runaway bride from The Ruthless Groom. The fiance mentioned in the blurb? That would be Alex Carlisle.

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Have just caught my first peek of the cover of my April release. I've been wanting a hero-only cover forever (remember those Man of the Months covers Desire did for years?) and included this scenario as my first choice on the Art Fact Sheets year after year. Finally gave up when Man of the Month was scrapped but, here it is, my first hero-only cover. On my 14th book!!!


What do you think? Do you like the man only, or do you prefer to see a couple on the cover?

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I don't consider myself a particulary superstitious person, but one thing I'm inclined to be cagey about is shouting "the book is finished!" too soon. Book, in this case, referrring to one I've written. Some authors consider the job done when they complete their first draft, because they know they have a story that works (the hard part) and all that's left is the editing and polishing.

Others announce, "Book's done!" when the editing/polishing is completed and they've shipped the manuscript to their editor. Others, after the editor has read and approved it, either in its original form or after completing revisions at the editor's request.

Me, I'm in that last group. Once any revisions are done, once the manuscript is approved, once the cheque is in the bank, THEN I know my job is done. This last book, I've even waited a step longer. Now I've completed the line edits I have finally resigned myself to the notion that this book is REALLY done.

Its title: TYCOON'S ONE-NIGHT REVENGE. Its scheduled date: April 08. Its point: finally answers the question of what happened to Susannah, the runaway fiancee in THE RUTHLESS GROOM. Toughest book evah. Done. Praise be.

You can tell that Donovan's happy. Finally I've stopped torturing him and he can have his woman and his happy ever after...

Labels: The Ruthless Groom, Tycoon's One-Night Revenge, writing process