I’m thrilled to be the first blogger at the brand new blogsite for the Midnight Seductions Author group!Who are we? We’re a hard working group of published romance authors who first found each other during the final gasps of one of last year’s many failed e-pubs. Yup, we got handed a lemon - a bushel basket of them, in fact. Last November, fellow author Tess MacKall and I decided to seize the moment and keep one of the promo engagements booked by our former publisher - and the group was born. It’s been kind of like trying to build an airplane when it’s already up in the air, but with four months behind us we’re well launched and it’s turning out to be one heck of a fun flight!
Why midnight? To us, it captured both the finality of an ending and the dawning of a new reality, a truly magic moment. Why seductions? Need I ask? We added the phrase “Where the true power of the heart is unleashed” because we’re not just about seduction and sex (though we love lots of both), we’re about romance, about happy endings, about following our hearts and delighting yours.We hope you’ll come join our yahoo reader group, where we’ll be running a gala extravaganza the entire month of April. All our authors are already active on the loop and eager to chat with readers. We hope you’ll talk with us here on the blog and let us know what you think and what you’d like to see more of. Every day, a different Midnight Seductions author will be to blog with you. We hope you’ll friend us on MySpace. But most of all, we hope you’ll check out the enticing selection of romance books by our amazing group of authors, ranging from sweet through spicy to definitely erotic.
So maybe it’s corny to haul out the “make lemonade” metaphor, and in the middle of a harsh upper Midwest winter I’m not quite ready to reach for a tall cool glass - but the romantic in me wants to wish the same for all of you readers out there. I, for one, am grateful for this new group of author friends I never would have met if we hadn’t been through some tough times together, and I can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s author has to say!Adriana
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Just Released at Extasy ~ Through the Mirror, by Adriana Kraft
32 comments:
Wow, am I the first to post? That's exciting. Can't wait to read this story. The excerpt makes me want to have a fan and a cool drink handy to get through the reading. LOL Congratulations on the release.
Great post Adriana. You captured the spirit of our group beautifully. A wonderful introduction for all of us.
I loved it! To new beginnings, Lady!
Thanks Phyllis - hmm, maybe a tall iced lemonade to cool you off?
and thank you Tess - I am so thrilled to be part of this amazing group! To new beginnings indeed!
Adriana
Wow, you said it! What a great post :)
Thanks for summing everything up so well, and congrats on the new release!
Great way to break the ice. It's a beautiful opener.
What a great intro for our group! Now I want some lemonade, and it snowed again last night. Ha!
Thanks, all! Should I spike the lemonade? Feels like it's time to raise a toast!
Sorry you had snow, Elizabeth! We actually had a sunny day with temps warm enough (high 30s) to cause a little melting yesterday, evidence that there might actually be spring some day.
Adriana
Congrats on your release!!!
Thanks for an awesome intro, you rock! Cheers to new beginnings~
Huggers to all~
Great post, Adriana! I'll take a nice, cool glass of lemonade, please.
After all the snow comments, I'm almost ashamed to say that it's supposed to be in the low 70's here today in California (after the snowiest winter I've had since I've been here, though).
Congrats on your new release! It's another bestseller, I'm sure, after reading your others.
Woo Hoo! We're launched!
Cassidy
http://www.cassidymckay.com
Great Blog Adriana. You're going to be a tough act to follow. Good thing I have eight days to come up with something.
Ya, hear the everyone? In eight days, for better or worse, you'll hear from the Dee-ser.
A great new blog site. I really enjoyed the excerpts from Through the Mirror. They really got my imagination flowing, can't wait to read it.
Is the excerpt on the blog? Everyone keeps talking about it.
Thanks, all!
Hmm, maybe I should link to the excerpts! One is on my website, and my newsletter members have advance notice and access...
here's a link to the one on my website:
http://www.adrianakraft.com/Through_The_Mirror.html
and to the other one, posted at the Midnight Seductions reader loop this morning!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MidnightSeductions/message/1870
Now I'd better go spruce up my website - I haven't even had time to change Through the Mirror from "coming soon" to "new release!"
Adriana
Great first post for this new blog Adriana. Nice to hear how this wonderful group of authors came together to form Midnight Seductions. I'm loving all your books, you and the others. The excerpts for Through the Mirror have caught my eye and I'm wanting to read this book.
Thanks, Barb!! Isn't it an amazing group? Something for everyone, and all well crafted and delightful to read. I'm loving it!
Adriana
I'm always up for a new endeavour and so thrilled to be a part of MSA. This was a great post, honey. Clinking cyber lemondade with you. We'll all need it to cool off after reading your excerpt. Congrats on the release!!!
Hugs!
Great post Adriana,
I was so happy that you two turned a negative situation into a positive one.
I'll take that lemonade cold please *Grins* it may have been 48 here last night, but FL is back up in the 70's right now.
My great grandmother used to heat up her lemonade in the winter.
It's a real tasty winter treat.
C~
What a great way to start a blog since it IS almost spring ya'll *g*
As corny as it sounds, the lemonade idea wasn't bad. This is a year of firsts and a year of new growth so...it only makes sense.
NIce blog Adriana :)
Sascha Illyvich
White Wolf Writing Blog
Adriana,
I just want to say what a great blog. We've been through a lot since last November, but no one gave up. This shows how close everyone has become. Let's all work to stay that way.
Mary Suzanne
CONGRATS A!
I CAN NOT WAIT TO READ IT!
LINDA B
I think you did a great intro on the blog Andriana and glad to hear that great authors have banded together after having dealings with failed e-pubs. And it seems like authors are still have trouble with E-pubs who are taking down the pages where their books were being sold and not even being told about it until a reader goes and tries to buy their book and can't find it and asks them why it wasn't there and the authors can't get the rights to their books back until the contracts are up. Glad some of you have found new homes for your books. I read the excerpt of Though the Mirror and loved it. Can't wait to read it. I also would love to have a nice glass of lemonade to drink while reading the book. lol I do have a lemon tree in my back yard and get big juicy lemons off of it and fix lemonade every summer. Days have been nice here in Arizona even have the air on.
Congrats on your new release, Adriana. I really enjoyed the excerpt for Through The Mirror and will be sure to check back in.
MMM, thanks, all! Lemon tree in Arizona, that sounds wonderful about now, Loretta! Could be sitting under it in the sunshine sipping a tall one, reading an erotic romance novel...
still a foot or more of snow on the ground here, I'm afraid!
And thanks for all the comments, fellow MSA authors - you're right, we have been through a lot, kind of like the way pressure polishes carbon into diamonds instead of coal - okay, enough with the metaphors, I'd better quit!
Adriana
We are rockin and rolling...I'm so glad the blog is up ad running. You did a wonderful blog to start us off. Thank you....
Also thank you to all my fellow MSA friends..We are like one extra large family....
May today be the start of somthing amazing
Great intro, Adriana! And congratulations on the new release!
*hugs*
Paige
I am so excited about our new blog and you did an awesome introduction for all of us Adriana! Kudos to you girl. I love your graphics too...
Kissa Starling
*Beth raises her tall glass of Lynchburg Lemonade up high*
To a wonderful intro post and a great group of authors. I'm excited to be a part of MSA.
Beth Wylde
http://beth-wylde.tripod.com/
The blog looks beautiful, and great first post.
Terri Pray
Great post! It was an awesome introduction for the group.
Thanks Savannah, Paige, Kissa, Terri, Beth, and LA! This is such a great group - can't wait to see what happens next!
Adriana
Congratulations to Phyllis who has won my Newsletter Group contest!
To be eligible for my March contest check out my yahoo Newsletter Group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adrianakraftnewsletter/
Adriana
Great first post! :D :D
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