Back in Fortune's Bed, Greece

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Vows & a Vengeful Groom in Germany. Different cover art, different title: Your Lips, Your Kisses...Irresistible. This book's also out in Spain, same cover, but with a title that translates as Scandals and Diamonds. See why I have such fun with the translations? No two are ever the same.


This one ISN'T my book, but the cover art looks oddly familiar. *g* In the UK my VOWS came out in a double with book 2 in the mini-series and they used Tessa's cover. And here's mine on a Spotlight title, Ready For Marriage, with reprints of stories by Anne Marie Winston, Beverly Barton and Ann Major.

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Very pleased to see the Diamonds Down Under series starting to appear on international Harlequin sites. Holland was first in October, with my Vows & a Vengeful Groom retitled VOWS AND VENGEANCE:


Then the UK in December:


And Germany in January. No cover yet but my title translates as YOUR LIPS, YOUR KISSES. IRRESISTIBLE. (thanks, Paula!)

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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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Just popping in between holiday assignations to say I've updated my website with a new contest and a new Behind the Book featuring the backstory to Vows & A Vengeful Groom. This is actually the opening pages to the detailed synopsis I submitted prior to writing the book and so might be of interest to writers as well as readers.

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I hope you're not suffering too much from celebrating the end of the old year and the start of the new, and may 2008 be a wondrous year filled with everything that makes you smile.

On the subject of New Year's and the start of all new things, I'm blogging today on that very topic at the Pink Heart Society. Join the discussion for a chance to win a copy of Vows & A Vengeful Groom.

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...come and visit at Diamonds Down Under and let us know your idea for a fantasy New Year's Eve. There's a copy of my new book VOWS & A VENGEFUL GROOM up for grabs.

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Vows & A Vengeful Groom will be out in Australia and New Zealand in February 08 and this is the cover. What do you think?

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Access Romance's month of giveaways is up and running with a chance to win your own holiday cheer every day of December. Today just happens to be a copy of Vows & A Vengeful Groom plus (pink) Tim Tams and a cute phone trinket. Go forth and bookmark!

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It's almost December. Yikes. As well as the whole festive holiday -- which I'm trying to ignore, because I have a book to write between now and then -- this also means the launch of our Diamonds Down Under blog. Which I'm not linking to just yet because it's not launching until December, when the first book in the Diamonds Down Under series (my Vows & A Vengeful Groom) will be available as an early release through eHarlequin.

Since that December launch is -- again, yikes! -- this weekend, I thought I'd lead into it with another backstory snippet about the series. This one is my Dear Reader letter from Vows & A Vengeful Groom.

Dear Reader

It is my great pleasure and privilege to introduce the new Desire continuity series, Diamonds Down Under. A series set in Australia and New Zealand was suggested in early 2006, and the idea of developing a six-book continuity with my friends and fellow Down-Under Desireables excited and thrilled -- and occasionally overwhelmed -- me. Over the ensuing twelve months thousands of emails blazed back and forth across the Tasman as we brainstormed and fine-tuned the underlying premise, the locations, the characters, the conflicts and storylines.

We chose diamonds as the heart of our series for their connection to wealth and glamour, to romance and commitment...and for the cold, hard qualities hidden beneath the surface sparkle. Everything is not how it first appears. We chose diamonds and we started with a rare pink known as the Heart of the Outback, a stone which built one man's wealth and rent a family in two.

For thirty years the Hammonds and the Blackstones have remained at odds, and creating causes of all that simmering animosity was almost as much fun as researching the glamorous homes, boutiques, jets, cars, clothes and jewellery. I hope you enjoy the rollercoaster of passion, drama, secrets and scandal that commences in Vows & a Vengeful Groom and continues to unfold -- with some unexpected twists -- over the next five months.

Cheers from Down Under,
Bronwyn Jameson

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Usually I don't receive my box of author copies of a new book until a few weeks before it hits the shelf in North America. Usually I hear from readers who subscribe to the series or who've bought the book at eHarlequin before I've seen the book myself. So it was a VERY pleasant surprise when my husband returned from a run to the post office yesterday with a big box of VOWS & A VENGEFUL GROOM (January 08.)

This is my 13th published book. Add to that all the foreign copies of each title and I've had scores of open-the-box, see-the-book moments. Let me assure you, it never gets old. I love seeing the cover on an actual book...and this one looks even lovelier in person. I love pulling out multiple copies and spreading them around me. I have been known to joke about rolling in them--it is a joke, honest!

More than anything, I love opening a copy and reading the Dear Reader letter and the dedication, and taking a moment to go back to that time and that story and to reflect on everything it took to get to published book. It's a time to be proud and a little awed and a lot grateful to be given this chance to fulfil my dream of being a published career author of category romance.

Back to Vows & A Vengeful Groom....

This is the front of book piece, written by the editor and printed like a newspaper column.

SYDNEY'S SCENE

In the decades-old feud between the world's richest gem dealers, nothing, apparently, is taboo. For the Hammonds and Blackstones, all's fair in love and business -- and has been since Howard "King of Diamonds" Blackstone allegedly schemed to wrest control of old man Jebediah Hammond's diamond mines and Oliver Hammond allegedly stole the world's most recognizable necklace, the Blackstone Rose.

But yesterday's gossip pales in comparison to today's 40-carat gem: Millionairess and daughter non grata Kimberley Blackstone was on the arm of Blackstone's leader, Ric Perrini. The same Kimberley Blackstone who'd defected to the rival House of Hammond jewelers in New Zealand ten years ago.

According to an industry insider Kimberley was seen entering the Blackstone estate -- a place she reportedly described as off-limits mere months ago. Rumor has it Sydney's No 1 player, Perrini, keeps a room there, too.

"If Perrini has any say," says one source, "they won't be separated for long."

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Just received the cover of my January 08 book, the first in a super glamorous new series called DIAMONDS DOWN UNDER and I love it! I'm showing the whole spread because the scattered diamonds on the back are so pretty, although the clarity of the pic doesn't do it justice.


HIS LOVER OF TEN MONTHS.
HIS WIFE OF TEN DAYS.
HIS EX OF TEN YEARS.

Ric Perrini, chairman of Blackstone Diamonds and Sydney's sexiest bachelor, still had one elusive prize to catch... Kimberley Blackstone. Luring her back to her estranged father's company, back to her birthright, would be Ric's toughest job ever. Luring her back into his arms, his most pleasurable. Ric had laid claim to part of Kim before; this time he'd accept nothing but her total surrender...

DIAMONDS DOWN UNDER
The cut, clarity & cost of family

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It seems romance readers (and writers) never tire of discussing the big, bad, alpha male. Last week's discussion at Romancing The Blog is worth a read. Warning: strong opinions abound and varied definitions of "alpha" abound. Read through to the end of the comments to get the full scope.

As for myself: I define "alpha" as first and foremost, the leader, the one other men want to be, the one women simply want...because of his charisma and larger-than-life presence and dynamic get-things-done attitude. Sure, there's an element of arrogance in this, but it's well-earned. He knows he's the best at whatever he does, but he doesn't have to advertise the fact. In a classic case of show, don't tell, it's there for all to see in his actions.

And, yeah, I don't normally attach "big and bad" to my vision of the alpha hero, but then I'm not writing the warrior alpha or the rakehell hero or even the bad boy alpha. They do come in so many different flavours, praise the Lord.

In a similar vein, Yvonne Lindsay talks about the eye-catching "bearing" that draws eyes whenever this man enters a room. That's what I'm currently trying to get across with Ric Perrini, take-charge hero in Vows and a Vengeful Groom. He doesn't see himself as vengeful, by the way (and nor do I.) Kimberley Blackstone, however, does not agree.

Best get back to my sparring soon-to-be lovers. They have a looonnngggg way to go before reaching a lasting agreement.

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