I received my first review for RIDING THE WAVES and YAY!!  It definitely made me smile  What do you think?

Night Owl Reviews

What a fun story, smooth, easy to read, and lots of laugh out loud moments. Oh, and add two characters that generate enough heat between them no wonder there’s global warming.

Dru is a brilliant scientist very focused on her career (Tawny has the details on this career nailed) and being a success. Her career is everything. She’s not truly a risk taker. In making her career the center of her life she has neglected such things as interpersonal skills (Actually, if you’ve watched Bones, on TV, she reminds me of Temperance).

“Blond, cool and contained, Dru knew she put off a don’t-touch-me air. She didn’t mean to, but couldn’t seem to change it.” Dru is attractive but tends to hide it behind severe hairstyles and the color beige.

Dru’s experience with sex, so far: “Drucilla wanted to love sex. Better yet, she wanted a sex life worth loving. She was a firm believer in maintaining a healthy balance between mind and body. Her mind was top-notch and she worked to keep her body the same. Good food, regular exercise. And sex, dammit. She’d read plenty of studies that claimed that regular, satisfying sex was important to good health…Maybe self-gratification would be enough if she increased her beta-carotene intake?

It was damn hard to test a theory if all the guys she dated had the sexual skills of a ninth-grade nerd with a National Geographic fetish.”

She has a best friend, Nikki, who is determined to expand her narrow world. I love Nikki’s one liners and deadpan ways of making her point. Nikki deftly maneuvers Dru (enlisting the aid of the boss) in taking a vacation with the instructions to find a hottie.

Enter said hottie, Alex, whom Dru thinks of as nothing more than a bit above average in smarts, surf-boy and perfect for a hot, no strings, fling. Sparks fly and even more when she comes home to find that her wild sexy lover, the man who gave her the most blowing sex on every available surface, is the Rock Star of the science world and her partner on a major project. Which means no personal fraternizing, much less hot sex.

I love to read Tawny’s stories. She has a way of creating realistic conflicts and setting an excellent set of characters in place to solve them. Tawny’s characters are fun and characters you truly enjoy reading about. I love the way she fashions her Happily-ever-after.

If you like a fast paced story, and entertaining plot, with a dose of hot sex you’re going to love reading this one. 4 stars

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Congratulations to Linda Henderson!! You win the copy of COVERT AGENT’S VIRGIN AFFAIR.  Drop Linda an email with your shipping info and she’ll get that sent out to you!

YAY! Silhouette Romantic Suspense author, Linda Conrad is hanging with us today!  And she’s not only celebrating another release, COVERT AGENT’S VIRGIN AFFAIR – she’s celebrating her 25th book!!! A big whoohoooo!!!! Linda is offering a copy to one commenter today too.

“The mission always comes first.”

Undercover agent Jake Pierson figures one romantic dinner will get never-been-kissed librarian Mary Walsh to tell him everything she knows about her late father’s criminal activities.  But the more Mary talks, the more Jake wants to shut her up with kisses.  Because he’s falling for his own too-trusting target—and there isn’t a damn thing he can do about it.  Well, maybe one thing…

With her shiny new lease on life, Mary has become wiser about a lot of things.  For one, she can spot a liar a mile away.  She knows her gorgeous new boyfriend is hiding something.  And she has a sneaking suspicion those secrets will get them both killed unless he trusts her with the truth.

Plotter or Pantzer?
Wish I could plot. Writing a synopsis would be so much easier for me if I could. I do character sketches and know the main characters’ backgrounds, and then I write a paragraph or two of where I would like for the main characters to be at the end of the story. That’s about it. If I’m too detailed with a plot, I lose all interest in the story. It’s like I’ve already told it once, why bother writing it again?

Historical or Contemporary?
No offense to you historical fans out there, but I’m a contemporary girl all the way. I can relate better to a contemporary heroine and her contemporary problems and setting. I’ve read a few historicals—and a few futuristics—that I liked. But when reading for pure enjoyment, I tend to read stories based in the now.

Romantic suspense or Romantic comedy?
Definitely romantic suspense. Now, that’s not to say that I don’t like a good laugh or a good chuckle as much as the next guy. In fact, Janet Evanovitch and Susan Elizabeth Phillips are two of my favorite authors. But the bulk of my reading (as well as my writing) is in the suspense genre. Give me a good ole Who Done It to figure out and I’m as happy as if I were in my right mind.

Light or Dark?
See my answer to romantic comedy above. The black moments are so much blacker with dark books. And I just love to cry. Sniff. Give me either a scary, dark book or an emotional, dark book every time.

City or country?
Well, country…if you include the beach as country. Also love the mountains and ranch lands. So, guess that puts me squarely in the country category. Besides, don’t you have to wear shoes in the city?

High heels or flats?
When I used to work in an office instead of in my pajamas, I always wore heels. Back then, we all wore nylons too. Ugh. You can have them. Now that I’m free of all that, and now that my hubby and I just celebrated a very (very) long term wedding anniversary, I’m into flats, thank you. And if the flats are sandals or open-toed, all the better. Growing up in the Miami area, my mom kept me in bare feet when I was little, and I intend to die that way if at all possible.

Back rub, foot rub, or neck massage?
All of them, please. Depends on my mood, whichever one is best for the moment. Ahem. If you know what I mean.

My either/or question: On top, on the bottom, or side by side?

Best selling author Linda Conrad writes for Silhouette. Her novels have been translated into sixteen languages and sold around the world. She’s appeared on the Waldenbooks Best Seller list and the Bookscan top 100. Winner of the National Readers Choice Award, Write Touch Readers Award, the Maggie, the Cataromance award, and the 2007 Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award Linda has been honored by many in the romance industry. She and her husband and dog KiKi live near the Florida Keys where she loves reading, boating and telling her Happily Ever After stories!

The winners of Paula Graves books are:

Laney4 and Fedora!!! YAY and congrats to both of you

Ladies, if you’ll email Paula with your shipping info, she’ll mail those to you

And I’m guest blogging today over at The Writing Playground if you’d like to stop by and talk indulgent decadence with me!  When it comes to vacations, that is.  Oh – and I’m giving away a copy of RIDING THE WAVES to one commenter there