GoodReads Giveaway!!!!

I've got a giveaway going over at Goodreads - three signed copies of NICE GIRLS FINISH LAST up for grabs - to enter click here!

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?

Broken Roof, Broken Blog...

Okay - so I *had* been planning to blog a whole lot more but then I got home a week ago to find a roofer in the driveway who said "I don't want to panic you BUT..."

Turns out the roof on that house was structurally unsafe due to earthquake damage - heavy snow worsened it. In the course of attempted repairs more troubles were found - and more damage ensued from another aftershock - so we've moved out super quick, tossed all our belongings into storage and gone to stay with relatives for a few weeks. I have limited internet access and even more limited time.

As the thing I need to do with that all-too-rare spare time is WRITE my books, I'm just popping in now to say I won't be online much at all for the next couple of months - I figure you'd rather have a whole other book than some random blog posts from me, right?! ;)

Stay safe everyone - keep an eye on the blog/website as I'll try to update as new releases come up. But for now, here's the schedule in the next couple of months:

September: NICE GIRLS FINISH LAST on the shelves in the UK
October: NICE GIRLS FINISH LAST on the shelves in Aust/NZ
November: NICE GIRLS FINISH LAST on the shelves in the US

Take care all and I'll be back to talk in November :)

Updating & Contests!

Okay, I've finally updated my website - it had been a while, but let me skip the excuses and say get thee over my Facebook page immediately!
I've got a promo going on there (click on the 'contest' tab) - you could win FIVE books, plus bookmarks, plus chocolate! So go on, enter - because the deadline is coming up - Saturday August 6 - so hurry hurry!
Meanwhile, for my Australian/New Zealand readers, DATING & OTHER DANGERS is on the shelves this month - I've had some fabulous feedbook:

"The verbal (and virtual) sparring from the two characters is brilliant, at times I couldn't help but laugh! There was so much chutzpah in these characters, I thought they were fantastic...The story is very original and fun and I really loved reading it."

You can read the whole review from RLA here.

Meanwhile Nas at Romance Book Paradise had this to say:

"Following Ethan and Nadia was a hilarious journey... characters come alive on the pages with the use of sharp and humorous dialogue and vivid atmospheric details that the reader is personally involved in their happiness. It is a story with real characters, inspired plot and delightful resolution... Nadia and Ethan’s story is hugely enjoyable and highly romantic tale readers will find absolutely impossible to resist... without a doubt, made it to my favorite list!"

Dating & Other Dangers will be on the shelves in the US early next year.
Those of you in the UK can grab a copy of NICE GIRLS FINISH LAST - direct from Mills & Boon from now! It's a little early for reviews yet, but here's the blurb:

Once she was bad...

After one very wild and heartbreaking affair in her past, Lena is now very, very good. She prides herself on her iron self-control - working for the hottest rugby team in New Zealand, it's all testosterone but no touching!
But he's tempting her to be wicked...

Spending day-in-day-out in the boy's locker rooms, Lena thinks she's immune to even the most honed set of abs. Then Seth saunters into her life, and suddenly her inner bad girl is back in the game!

Oh yes, people, we're talking rugby - just in time for the World Cup! ;)

The first day of March

I’m not sure how it got to be March already, but here we are. Today its a week exactly since the earthquake in Christchurch. It’s a very difficult time for so many in my beloved home city. While I currently live in a town a couple of hours down the road, it will always be my home town. Indeed, we still have our home there. That house is still standing but far more importantly our tenants are all safe. I was very lucky to have left Christchurch almost an hour before the quake hit and all my immediate family are safe. So many others aren’t. This terrible tragedy is heartbreaking for our nation as it is for so many other countries who have lost citizens in it. If you did want to help at all, here’s the link for the Red Cross appeal.


In book news I have new releases this month. WALK ON THE WILD SIDE hits the shelves in Australia and New Zealand and is available direct from Harlequin in the US (it is on the shelves there in April). You can read the first chapter here

Also, THE END OF FAKING IT is available now direct from Mills & Boon UK – it will be on the shelves in the UK in April. You can read the first chapter
here.

My seventeenth story for Mills and Boon is finished. NICE GIRLS FINISH LAST will be out in the UK in September – other dates to follow. I’m planning to do a giveaway shortly for my double April releases so keep an eye on the blog and my Facebook page for details.

Thanks so much to those who’ve contacted me over this last week, your thoughts are truly appreciated, and mine too are focused on those in Christchurch who are facing such devastation and heartbreak.

~Natalie