Chat & Giveaway with para-romance author, Michele Hauf
Today we are joined by prolific paranormal romance author, Michele Hauf. Check out her guest blog below and when your done reading, feel free to post any questions in the comments section as Michele will be stopping by to chat with our readers.
My first paranormal romance for HQN is out next Tuesday, March 30th, HER VAMPIRE HUSBAND. This isn’t my first paranormal romance. Let’s see, it’s number…12 or 13. But what is exciting is it is not a category romance (Silhouette Nocturne) but will instead be shelved in the regular romance section in bookstores. This was a fun surprise for me.
Last summer I handed the completed story in to my editor, and was told it had been scheduled for release in November (’09) in the Nocturne line. Want to know how a really exciting phone conversation with an editor can go? Something like this: “Michele, just wanted to let you know your story isn’t going to come out in November, but instead the following April.” Big sigh from me. “Why? What’d I do?” Thinking I must have done something wrong to get pushed back on the schedule. “Well, it’s been moved to the HQN line. Congrats!”
It was a very cool thing to learn my story was getting moved to a single title line, which would mean better shelf placement, more attention from marketing, and (fingers crossed) more notice from readers. Read more
