Going Visiting!!!

I'm over at the fabulous Kylie Griffin's blog today. Kylie is a FANTASTIC Australian paranormal romance/fantasy writer who I've been lucky enough to meet at the RWNZ conferences. She's a star. So come on over and say hi :)

Go Get Lucky!!!!

May means release month for me in the US - FIRST TIME LUCKY? is available now - online at Amazon, B&N and on the shelves in a couple of weeks... here's what one Goodreads reader said about it:

Wow! Not since Adam Black in The Immortal Highlander have [I] read this good a description of a heroine losing her virginity! Jeez. If I hadn't wanted a do-over before, I definitely want one now. 

Whew! Give me a minute. 

Go on, you know you want to ;)

Food for Love

... I'm talking about it over at Tote Bags today...

I love it when someone goes to the trouble of cooking me a special meal... it is such a treat!!!

Goodreads Giveaway!!!

So the contest at Totes is now closed BUT if you're on Goodreads then there's another opportunity to win over there at the moment--just click on the widget below and good luck!!!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

First Time Lucky?

by Natalie Anderson

Giveaway ends April 18, 2012.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

If you're quick...

...you still have time to comment on my blog about unconventional weddings over at Tote Bags - there's a signed copy of FIRST TIME LUCKY? up for grabs (and this is the Australian edition that includes SAY IT WITH DIAMONDS by Lucy King!).

Get over there - I'm drawing a random winner at close of play on Wednesday 21st :)

Wedding Accessories image by Rosen Georgiev
http://www.freedigitalimages.net

Midweek Peek - My Most Brazen Virgin...

I've a little e-treat for you this week - a snippet from my next Mills and Boon release - FIRST TIME LUCKY?

I've written a couple of virgin heroines but Roxie is my favourite. She's a virgin by circumstance rather than choice - and now she's choosing to do something about it! She wants her new neighbour Gabe to help her out... so how does he react to the idea?

“I want you to be my lover,” she drew her lip in with her teeth and breathed the last. “My first.”

His eyes widened. “What?”

She waited, knowing full well he’d heard.

His hands gently shook her. “Your first?”

A different kind of tension rolled off him now.

Okay so maybe mentioning the ‘first’ had been a mistake. But she’d wanted him to know. Thought it was better to be honest. Thought it might tempt him all the more. Only a look of sheer panic scrunched his face. Now he dropped his hands and took a step back.

“Isn’t it every man’s fantasy?” she asked, suddenly a lot less confident.

“Not mine.”

“No?”

His jaw clamped for a moment, she saw the deep breath he dragged in. Then he lifted his chin “No. I don’t want some total novice who doesn’t know what she’s doing. Who’ll lie like a log expecting me to do all the work.”

Ouch. How to shoot her down. “I’m not a total novice. The actual virginity bit is a mere technicality,” she flung at him, furious that he could go cold so quick – and be so damn brutal about it. Chelsea had been right about him being harsh, he had really offensive kind of defence. But it was an act – she knew it. She’d felt the need in his body. “I know you’re interested,” she said defiantly. “I’ve seen the way you look at me.”

“How do I look at you?”

“Like you want to touch,” she moved forward, her boldness returning when he didn’t walk away. And damn it, she’d come this far, there was nothing left of her dignity to lose. So she wasn’t just flirty, she was shameless. “And I do know how to touch. Won’t be any kind of cold stone.”

“Really?”

She nodded. Hoped her hammering nerves weren’t obvious.

He stood like an immovable mountain. In fact she didn’t see any part of him move as he murmured, “Prove it.”

Roxie's story is available now direct from the Mills and Boon UK website. It'll be on the shelves in January and in the US as a Presents Extra in May.

New cover alert!

Ok, so my next RIVA is out in the UK in January - FIRST TIME LUCKY? features the gorgeous Dr Gabe from NICE GIRLS FINISH LAST - and yes, Roxie is VERY lucky with him! What do you think of the cover?

Blowing the cobwebs off the blog!

Oh dear! I didn't realise how much time had slipped since I last blogged... BAD blogger me!!!

But I have excuses, you want to hear them? No, I agree, they're really not that fascinating. Ultra short version is that moving cities with four kids and short notice = chaotic. Yes, my brain is somewhere in that room where all the unopened boxes are still piled...

But never mind. We're here now and good to get on with it!

SO the writing side of life has been a little slow during the shift time - but there's a deadline looming and motivation is needed. This week is the Romance Writers of America national conference in New York. Harlequin is having a party at the Waldorf Astoria. I got an invite... but sadly, New York is just too far for this little Cinderella this year...
However, instead of getting down about all the fun that's going on over there and living vicariously through the #RWA11 hashtag on Twitter, I decided to set up a Cinderella hashtag #cinders - so any of you writers out there who want to kick butt writing wise this week, and want some company, come and play (if that link doesn't work, just go to Twitter and search on the hashtag #cinders). We're setting own goals for the week (mine is to write 6k by Saturday, others are doing 1500 a day, others are revising) - that makes it sound like there are a zillion of us, but actually I think fewer than 10 - we're small in size, but big on friendly - and focused.
Well, trying to be focused...

I do have some exciting news - my latest book has gotten a title and release date: FIRST TIME LUCKY? will be out in the UK as a Riva in January 2012 - so big YAY. And yes, I think Roxie is pretty lucky in her first time ;)


Don't forget that THE END OF FAKING IT is on the shelves in the US in July, while DATING AND OTHER DANGERS will on on the shelves in the UK in July. Be sure to come over to the LoveCats blog this Sunday 4th July for an excerpt from Dating - and the chance to win a copy!

Meanwhile, I'd better get down and write my tally so I keep up with my fellow Cinders!

With very best wishes,
Natalie