Three Years And Counting: My Beginning as a Romance Author
From the desk of romance author
Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy…..
July
arrived a few days ago with the expected amount of heat, some fireworks, a
little barbecue and sunshine. I’ll be
celebrating my 19th wedding anniversary this month but there’s
another milestone I’m marking too. Three
years ago this month I signed my first novel contract, a major event for me and
it came at a time when I’d almost given up on the idea of making the transition
from writer to author.
Three
years ago I wrote daily, one novel after another and subbed them, one by
one. One of them – Kinfolk – I had rewritten three times, had a beta read it, and
submitted it to more than eighty agents and publishers without
acceptances. I’d had a few near misses
but one day in July 2010, I sat down to check email and found a contract offer
from Champagne Books. By the end of the
year, my first eBook, Wolfe’s Lady,
released from Evernight Publisher and I had other signed contracts in
hand. My now primary publisher, Rebel
Ink Press, marks their third anniversary in August and our association began
early.
I
had to sit down and count to get an accurate total. If I count full length novels I had out,
including my just released Pink Neon,
which already earned a best seller silver star on All Romance.com, and those
under contract to debut later this year, there are fifteen from Rebel Ink Press
and a total of twenty-one. In addition,
I have eight novellas or shorts out from Rebel Ink along with others to bring
the total to sixteen or a grand total of 37 separate works available in eBook
form. Several of my novels are also out
in paperback and one is out in audio format as well. Add more than twenty-five anthology
appearances and you can see my writing world exploded from that moment three
years ago!
A
quick look at what’s coming includes Hear
The Wind Blow, Love on September 3 from Rebel Ink Press, a historical
romance set just after the Armistace in 1918, Comanche Forever, a paranormal (vampire) contemporary romance
coming November 3, Scrooge’s Song,
out for the holiday season, and two shorts, Lake
Taneycomo 1924 and Dragoon’s Bride, no
date yet.
Dreams
can come true and mine did, three years ago this month and yours can too.
Here’s
a short little snippet from Pink Neon:
- Whoever the hell this man might be,
he kissed like a pro. Cecily
reveled in his intense mouth on hers.
Her body awakened from a long dormant slumber, alive and
needy. He brought out every ounce
of horniness she’d ever possessed and increased it. Willard Bradford the Fourth never made
her body heat up like a street rod about to drag race. His attempts at kissing didn’t send
liquid fire burning through her veins or make her body limp as a discarded
dish rag. She savored the physical
pleasure but sensed something beyond, a connection she couldn’t begin to
understand. If Daniel hadn’t
stopped, she doubted she would’ve possessed the willpower to say no and
they would’ve done the deed on the floor of the pier. Probably
filthy and fishy both but damn, I’d have laid down like a street hoochie
for him.
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