Ready for an early Merry Christmas? Take yourself on a vacation with the first book in the White Pine Island Series: Christmas at the Grand Hotel. This is the book that started the 12-book series, and it’s the perfect blend of romance, luxury, and holiday spirit. Download it for free from Amazon between December 10 and 14, and we hope you love your Christmas at the Grand Hotel!
There is no doubt: success is like sunsets, smiles, and a bottle of hooch. Best when shared. I am so pleased to share the news that ALL 8 AUTHORS in the Unforgettable Heroes boxed set have made the top #100 list of Contemporary Romance authors at Amazon. This is a huge first for me, and I am thrilled to share this experience with talented fellow authors! Our publisher at Turquoise Morning Press was so excited she took screen shots and emailed them to us! Here are a few of them showing our top 100 status as of February 25, 2014.
Thank you to the many readers who have downloaded our book from Amazon! We appreciate you and hope you enjoy hours of cozying up to 8 great heroes.
Unforgettable Heroes boxed set available now!
Sure I know it might be bad form to host myself on my own blog (is this like buying my own birthday presents?) but I have a great rationalization. If I’m going to ask my author friends a string of questions all year long, it’s only fair that I have to answer them myself. Right? In the spirit of getting to know people better–and having some fun–hence follows my maiden voyage of interview questions.
1. Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice or Mr. Knightly from Emma?
Darcy! He has more flaws. People with flaws make me look better by comparison.
2. Ranger or Morelli from Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series?
Can I alternate days of the week?
3. Favorite book you WISH you had written?
Who would ask such a hard question??? Geez.
If pressed, I would say Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. I like dogs, driving around America, and making clever observations about people.
4. Favorite movie you would star in…if you were a movie star.
I would totally be romanced by Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time. And I would be as beautiful as Jane Seymour. (we’re fantasizing here, right?)
5. Favorite escape: (i.e., wine, travel, book)?
I love a glass of Reisling and a great book, but hitting the road with a full tank of gas is pure elation. People in my family keep a suitcase packed at all times. We have wanderlust.
6. What is your favorite kind of cake? (I must ask…I’m a cake aficionado!)
Chocolate with chocolate icing, especially if it’s birthday cake. Birthday cake tastes better.
7. What is your creative outlet (aside from writing)?
I love to knit. I MUST touch all the yarn at the craft store. I have enough yarn squirreled away upstairs to last me through the next ice age. I have enough knitting needles for an octopus to knit four sweaters at one time.
And now about your books:
1. Tell me about your next book release.
My next release is a novel set on the sunny island of St. Thomas entitled Will Work for Love. The book was actually released in 2012, but is being included in a boxed set with 8 other books with the theme “Unforgettable Heroes.” I sure hope my hero, a sexy man who owns a construction business on the island, is unforgettable! I wrote his story in my very cold little writing room (an enclosed second floor porch with no heat) while snow swirled outside. Dreaming of a hot man in a tropical climate warmed up my winter!
2. Who would play your leading man if the book were a movie?
A younger Brad Pitt–the way he looked when he was in one of my favorite movies A River Runs Through It.
3. Best advice you’ve gotten as a writer?
Keep writing! Write every day, even if it’s only a few words.
4. How can readers connect with you?
Please visit my website www.amiedenman.com or send me a tweet @amiedenman. I’m also on Facebook and Goodreads and love hearing from people who love to read!
One of my favorite treats is a chocolate orange. They are easiest to find around Christmastime in my area, but I would imagine a nice candy shop would have them year-round. Ever try one? It’s fun. You smack it on the countertop to “break” the orange into slices. They come in milk chocolate and dark chocolate, both equally delicious. I have to ration them out–only two slices at a time or I think I’d eat the whole “orange” in one fell swoop.
Because I love orange and chocolate together, I made an orange flavored cake with a rich chocolate icing this week. The icing is made using Baker’s chocolate and the recipe is from the inside of the box. It’s easy and richly delicious. This cake got great reviews at my house this week!
I think my made-up name for this cake would be a great name for a restaurant or bakery, right? In this case, I called it what it was. It’s a French Vanilla cake with extra vanilla in the icing. The slightly obnoxious shade of blue I colored the icing was not entirely intentional. The cake was for my son’s 13th birthday (April is THE month of birthdays in our family) and he loves blue. However, I giddily dumped blue coloring in and flipped on my Kitchen Aid without remembering how much “blue” you get out of blue coloring. Some icing colors take a ton of colorant, some surprise you with their vitality. So that’s what happened. The cake was very blue and very vanilla, but we liked it anyway.
Can’t believe I put thirteen candles on and my “Millenium Baby” is now a teenager.
Another week, another emptied cake plate. Now that summer is coming up, I better line up some summer themed cakes. And stock the baking cabinet to continue The Year of Cake. I’m having a lot of fun, and I hope you’re enjoying a taste, too!