The HEA Cafe

Such was 2008.

The highs were as high as they could be and the lows were equally as extreme, but we survived it and stayed up to welcome in what we hope will be a slightly less eventful year. Nobody wants to listen to the bad stuff, so let’s talk about the good, shall we?

On April 1st, my first Devil book was released.  THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER was a twist to the ‘normal’ western historicals I write in that the heroine is, in fact, the devil’s daughter.  She strikes a deal with dear ol’ dad whereby she’ll win her freedom if she can hand over the souls he specifies.  Sounds easy enough, eh?  Yeah, well, maybe not.
On December 1, the sequel, DANCING WITH THE DEVIL, was released.  In this story, Deacon (who we meet in the first book) has come back to do something that is completely unheard of: he’s come to make ammends with a human!  Needless to say, dear ol’ dad isn’t very happy about the whole thing, and Deacon’s plan is further complicated when the woman he’s come to apologize to shoots him before he has a chance to explain.  Deacon learns fast that it’s a whole lot harder being good than it is being bad.

And since things tend to happen in three’s, we had one more exciting thing happen this year.  On November 12, we opened our very own bookstore!  The Bookshelf had been a bookstore under a different name for 30 years, but when the owner announced she was ready to retire, my husband suggested we buy it.  And why not?  It’s not like we didn’t have enough stress in our lives up to that point (cough choke wheeze), so we did it.  Can you say HUGE learning curve?  I can.  In fact, I can probably say it in several different languages now.  It’s been amazing, confusing, exciting and overwhelmingly overwhelming, but I wouldn’t change a thing about these three events.    As for the rest of the year. . .we won’t go there.

(I’ve been trying to upload pics of the covers and the store, but I can’t seem to do it.  If I can figure it out, I’ll post them later!)

Happy New Year to everyone!  I hope it brings nothing but happiness, good health and all things good!

Cheers!

Laura

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